Chapter 574: The Battle of Tianwang Mountain (1)

Time has come to the fifth game of the West finals is about to begin, the Lakers are finally back to their familiar home court, this game is very important for them, the winner of this battle of Tianwang Mountain can often get a great psychological advantage, so as to win the entire series, it can be said that whoever can win this game, whose chance of advancing will instantly rise a notch. Unlike the previous two games, the Lakers returned to their familiar home court in this game, and I believe that the Lakers can still gain a certain advantage in their own devil's home court.

In the pre-game arrangement, the Lakers once again put Hibbert in the starting lineup, letting him use as the starting center to deal with the following scum - Pachuria, and by the way, he was able to play some cooperation with Ye Xuan in the offense.

As the referee threw the ball high, the game officially began, Hibbert used his bounce to slap the ball into Wade's hand, Wade dribbled two steps forward, and quickly handed the ball to Ye Xuan. After the last game, the other party also found that as long as they could prevent Ye Xuan's teammates, and then set them to the point where they didn't feel the right way to wrap up, then even if Ye Xuan could score fifty points, the Lakers still couldn't win, so they didn't choose to target Ye Xuan from the beginning in this game, but to guard Ye Xuan's teammates to the death.

This is not too cool for the scoring maniac Ye Xuan, since you like to let me go so much, then I will show off well, in the face of Klay Thompson's single defense, Ye Xuan easily used his body to force into the inside and turned around to jump shot to take the lead in scoring two points.

All this seems to be in the Warriors' plan, they didn't hurry to control the ball to the front court, and immediately passed the ball to the high post Durant, the schoolbag Du shook after receiving the ball and pulled it up directly to face Solomon Hill's defense A mid-range shot, also hit, it looks like Durant feels good today, which makes Ye Xuan a little worried.

But when it came to the next round, Ye Xuan smiled, after Ye Xuan received the ball, he quickly advanced to the front court, and looked up to see that it was not Klay Thompson who was defending himself, but Curry, an "amiable" elementary school student.

Seeing that his teammates had basically pulled away, Ye Xuan began to slowly control the basketball and approach Curry, and when he came to the three-point line, Ye Xuan suddenly accelerated and was about to break through to Curry's right, and the elementary school student hurriedly moved sideways to get stuck in the position, while Ye Xuan's side was a change of direction after an emergency stop, easily passed the opponent from Curry's left, and then forced the ball to score a layup under the defense of the inside scumbag Pachuria.

After throwing the ball in, Ye Xuan was very excited, and while waving to the audience, he also complained to the referee that the ball could blow 2+1. However, the referee didn't say anything, and Ye Xuan also knew what was wrong, so he just wanted to put pressure on the referee, so that when the referee encountered such a penalty in the future, he couldn't help but favor the Lakers. After all, there have just been three incidents in which the referees on duty were directly banned for half a year, and the referees are probably a little frightened.

On the Warriors' side, it is still based on steady and steady, and because it is an away game, the Warriors' offense appears more calm, after Curry controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, the Warriors began to run tactics, first Klay Thompson used the scum Pachuria's off-ball cover to run out of the gap, and then received Curry's pass to shoot.

Fortunately, Solomon Hill on the side made up the defense in time and interfered with Tang Shen's shot, but after Tang Shen saw that someone came to make up for the defense, he didn't force the shot, but quickly transferred the ball to Durant's hands.

But in the third round, Ye Xuan's side once again exerted his might, in the face of the opponent's single defense, Ye Xuan chose to break through again, and this time after breaking through into the restricted area, Ye Xuan did not choose to shoot directly, but shook a shot, deceived Green before jumping up again, the result not only caused Green's foul, but also successfully hit the ball, this time the Warriors were a little unacceptable, after thinking about it for a while, Kerr on the court took advantage of Ye Xuan's free throws to call Curry and Klay Thompson over, Then let them return to the strategy of one person leading Ye Xuan, and others making up for the defense at any time, otherwise this game will not wait for Ye Xuan's teammates to lose their shots, and their side will be defeated by him alone.

Ye Xuan naturally shot the penalty steadily, scoring seven points in a row at the beginning, and the rhythm was also very good. The Warriors' offense was not so lucky, Curry controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, ready to use the scum Pachuria's block to find opportunities, but his quick three-point shot after this block was interfered with by Hibbert, who pounced, and finally Gasol received the rebound in the backcourt.

Coming to the front court again, Ye Xuan instantly found that the opponent's defensive strategy had changed, and he returned to the familiar script of the previous games, so Ye Xuan also made a gesture decisively, signaling Hibbert to step forward to help block and dismantle, and then with the help of Hibbert's block, he killed the opponent's inside again, and Hibbert also ran inward as written in the script. Scumbag-Pachuria's already not easy brain is spinning rapidly, is it just catching Ye Xuan, or is he just staring at Hibbert, who is in charge of defense? This is a very good choice, Ye Xuan's threat is greater, but he chose the wrong one, and there were three people on the court who came together to cover Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan easily threw the ball to the rebound, and he had already begun to turn around to celebrate, and Hibbert did not disappoint Ye Xuan, jumped up and pressed the ball into the basket with one hand.

Kerr on the sidelines of the Warriors jumped like thunder, and instantly learned from his teacher Zhuge Vic to a hair dryer, but he may have only learned the skin, not the essence, so after the hair dryer was sprayed, the Warriors' offense not only did not improve, but there was a low-level mistake again, Curry and scum Pachulia blocked again, and then Curry broke through the restricted area to face the supplementary defense and distributed the ball, but the direction of the ball appeared some deviations, directly to the referee outside the court. The referees grabbed the basketball and were stunned for a second before blowing the Warriors out of bounds.

Before the Lakers could send the ball out, Kerr couldn't help it, called a timeout, and was ready to reprimand Curry, who seemed a little absent-minded today, and by the way, he replaced the scum who had nothing to do, Pachuria, and replaced it with Iguodala.

After the pause, the Lakers served on the sideline, Ye Xuan was still looking for a chance to play alone, but obviously the newly replaced Iguodala's defense was more difficult to deal with than Thompson's, and Ye Xuan could not consume a lot of energy to single him, so he decisively called Hibbert, who had not been replaced, to help block and dismantle, and after this blocking, Ye Xuan chose to pass the ball again, but not to Hibbert, but to Gasol, and the moment Gasol received the ball, he turned his back and passed Green, Then he took two steps into the box and easily hit the ball.

At 11:4, the Lakers hit all five offenses in the opening game, and although none of these five offenses were three-point shots, their tough impact on the interior and the Warriors' various fancy leaks also made the Warriors themselves lead by the opponent by as many as 7 points.

Fortunately, Klay Thompson immediately hit a difficult three-pointer under Green's off-ball cover, and the moment he received the ball, he was not facing the basket, and forced the ball to shoot in an air half-turn posture, so that the Lakers did not have the slightest chance to make up for the defense.

In the three-point shot by the opponent, the offensive end of the Lakers team was finally iron, Ye Xuan broke through the ball again and handed the ball to Gasol in the high position, Gasol was unguarded, Green went to make up for Ye Xuan, and Durant did not switch positions to pounce on Gasol, which gave Gasol room to shoot, but Gasol himself was not angry, this three-point shot finally ended in iron, and when he grabbed the rebound, Hibbert was also blown a rebounding foul, Wharton Jr. also understood, Hibbert didn't have much of a role on the court now, so he was replaced by Clarkson, who was very inconsistent in the playoffs.

At the end of the substitution, the players of the two teams didn't know if it was because the rhythm of the game was interrupted continuously, so they began to feel a little bit unable to find the feeling or what's going on, and in the next three and a half minutes, the two teams only scored 5 points, of which Clarkson hit the only one sports battle score, and then Klay Thompson hit one of two free throws, Green made one of two free throws, and Gasol also made two free throws, and everyone began to play like crazy.

The game went on for eight minutes unconsciously, the Warriors took the lead in personnel adjustments, Green who committed two fouls was replaced first, and Curry, who was also underperforming, was replaced with him, and the Lakers also took the opportunity to make personnel adjustments, Wade, Solomon Hill and Gasol were all replaced, replaced by Matt Barnes, Speights and Larry Nance Jr.

In fact, Nance Jr. has hardly played many games in the playoffs this season, and basically only plays in garbage time, mainly because the Lakers have no need for the position of second center, and when they finally need to use the second center, Hibbert began to recover again, and then instantly sat firmly on the throne of the Lakers' first center (although his playing time is actually less than ten minutes per game). )

However, Nance Jr.'s attitude towards the game was finally recognized by Wharton Jr., probably because both of them are juniors. Although Nance Jr.'s performance after playing on the court can't be said to be good, but it is also decent, after he played on the court for more than two minutes, he got 2 points, 1 rebound and an assist and was replaced and rested with Ye Xuan.

At this time, there was a superstar vacuum on the Lakers' court in an instant, but fortunately, Clarkson, who had some nerve knives, did not have a nerve today, but picked up the knife, and in the more than a minute that Ye Xuan was resting, and Wade had not been replaced for more than a minute, he used his singles and breakthroughs to help the Lakers score 6 points in a row, and he himself also sent 4 points and 1 assist, and his performance was remarkable.

In contrast, the firepower of the Warriors is naturally stronger than that of the Lakers, after losing the huge pressure on the defensive end, Durant was completely liberated, and began to show off with his school bag, Curry and Green were replaced in the four minutes, he scored 12 points alone, and instantly narrowed the gap between the two teams to 3 points left.

At the end of the first quarter of the game, the Lakers finally guaranteed to lead the opponent by three points on their own appearance, although Walton Jr.'s substitution strategy did not have any big problems in the end, but it was still attacked by Van Gundy, who was commenting on the scene today, in this kind of critical game, the team with three All-Star level players will have a superstar vacuum of up to two minutes, which is fatal for the team, if it weren't for Clarkson's outstanding performance during this period of time and saved Wharton Jr., Then the Lakers are already behind right now.

The rest time was over in a blink of an eye, and at the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers took the lead in replacing Randle, who did not get playing time in the entire first quarter, and then the old Wade also finished the rest and returned to the game. The Warriors let Durant and Thompson, who were tired for a whole quarter, go down for a rest, and replaced Curry, who did not perform well in the first quarter, and Green was ready to replace him in two or three minutes due to two fouls on his back.

Without Ye Xuan's containment, Curry played quite well, but today's Lakers aborigines seem to be a little explosive, Randle is calling for wind and rain on the inside, first grabbing the frontcourt rebound when Wade broke through the layup and dunked it, and then blocked Clark's breakthrough layup in defense, and the same is true for Clarkson, first successfully interfered with Curry's shooting on the defensive end, and then slipped to the bottom line to catch the ball and made a backhand layup when he was on the fast break. In an instant, it helped the Lakers play a wave of 6:0 small highs, if it wasn't for Kerr's quick reaction and called a timeout, it is estimated that the Warriors would have fallen behind by more than ten points.

Seeing that the situation was not right, after Kerr took a timeout, he was only able to replace Green one minute earlier, Green did protect the Warriors' interior line very well after he came on the court, and his organization on the offensive end was also very good, and the difference between the two teams was stabilized in the range of five to eight points.