Chapter 557: Two groups of tie-breaks and the grouping of the divisional finals

Soon the live game began, today's Pelicans seem to be in much better shape than the last game, in the first round after the start of the game, they were hit a three-pointer by Anthony at the top of the arc, and looking back, the Pelicans did not give the opponent too much room to shoot like the previous game, and the defense of the whole team was very desperate in today's battle of life and death, Curry's Holiday even began to force defense from just after halftime, just because he was afraid that the opponent would play any super long three-pointers.

And the Warriors obviously know that today will be a difficult battle, so the pre-game tactical arrangement, there are more singles reduced, but a variety of air cutting tactics after opening the inside line, and the ball sharing tactics after the breakthrough, etc., in the first round, Curry's defense of Holiday directly chose to break through, under the cover of Durant's blocking, Curry quickly broke through to the inside, but the Pelicans' tactics have changed, they did not change the defense, but directly let the inside Davis make up, Then leave Kaoshen still guarding near the penalty area, in the face of Brother Thick Eyebrow's supplementary defense, Curry naturally did not dare to force a shot, and could only choose to pass the ball out, and this time, after Durant received the ball, he broke through, and Brother Thick Eyebrow immediately changed the defense again, but unfortunately it was a step too late, and Durant hit the shot.

In the next few rounds, Ye Xuan found a problem, the Pelicans' offensive thinking today is very clear, focusing on the inside, and Anthony's style of play, as the core of the outside line, is not very consistent with the current tactics, so although it seems that the Pelicans have the advantage now, they should encounter some problems when they play in the middle and late stages.

And the Warriors' state today I don't know if it's because of the away game, so it's not very good, except for the first offense after Durant hit the shot, in the next few rounds they were not only unable to defend the Pelicans' interior score, but also their own scoring was also prevented by the opponent, three shots directly expanded the difference to 6 points, and when Curry turned back to the three-point line again after the three-point trial failed to shoot, Kerr decisively called a timeout, Ye Xuan saw that the Warriors were passive, Naturally, he was also very happy, and Mei Zizi applauded.

There was a timeout, and the Pelicans naturally went to rest, and Kim Terry didn't seem to be ready to make any personnel adjustments, still letting the Big Four play together on the court, and because the team was still in the lead, their atmosphere was relatively good now. The audience at the scene also seemed more excited, and the start was smoother.

At the end of the timeout, the Warriors made a direct substitution, replacing the scum Pachulia with Iguodala, obviously preparing to use the five-small lineup in advance to do things, this lineup is not very friendly to the Pelicans now, although after they made such a substitution, the interior defense was almost completely abandoned, but they were able to use the bag clamp and other ways to force the Pelicans' interior shooting rate to decline, and then use the characteristics of all five of them to shoot three-pointers, to gradually gain some advantages.

When Ye Xuan saw this substitution, he felt that things were not good, but the subsequent game process made Ye Xuan immediately feel relieved, because the Warriors actually had a collective iron today, first Curry and Klay Thompson took turns to play iron, Durant and Green could still score, and then in the second half of the first quarter, the physical strength of the two people responsible for defending the interior began to decline, so after they also began to play iron frequently, the Warriors' score suddenly began to stagnate, Fortunately, at this time, the first quarter was already seven or eight minutes old, and the rotation was about to begin, so the Warriors were not too far ahead by their opponents, only slightly less than 10 points.

Turning his head to pause, the two teams began to rotate personnel, the Pelicans replaced the thick eyebrows first, and at the same time, they were replaced, as well as Holiday , leaving Anthony who didn't play much in the first half of the quarter and the energetic Kaoshen to continue to fight against the opponent on the court, while the Warriors were very simple, directly replaced Livingston and David West and others, and began to play rotation, Durant and Green were naturally the first to be replaced, after all, they were responsible for defending two interior monsters, which consumed a lot, And Curry's recent physical condition is not very good, and there is a danger of recurrence of the ankle injury at any time, so Kerr did not dare to let him play for too long, and also replaced, leaving only Klay Thompson, who has been 1 of 6 today, to play iron on the court.

And Anthony is obviously also in great shape today, although in addition to hitting the first goal, he is basically running back and forth with several other people, but his hand is maintained well, Ye Xuan also understands the meaning of Kim Terry's arrangement of personnel to play, there are players of Anthony's level floating on the outside, and the opponent also needs to think more before carrying out the bag, which is equivalent to reducing the pressure on his own inside line in disguise. And the little Wharton next to Ye Xuan actually obviously thought that the Pelicans were going to win this game, so he originally just recorded some of the current habits of the Warriors in his own notebook, but when he saw half of it, he also began to record the Pelicans.

In fact, if you really want to say it, the Lakers should be the team that knows the Warriors the most in the league, because their head coach was the assistant coach of the Warriors at the time, and even last season when the Warriors won 27 consecutive games, Kerr was absent due to injury for a period of time, so Wharton Jr. also served as the head coach of the Warriors for a short time, so he knows all kinds of skills and tactics of the Warriors, including the personality of the players, etc., except for Durant, who has only joined now, some characteristics of other players, Little habits and so on, little Wharton is also a non-falling, all of them have been told to Ye Xuan and others, which allows Ye Xuan to always find a breakthrough when facing the Warriors and kill with one blow.

Of course, in addition to this advantage, Ye Xuan's advantage in his own position is too obvious, which makes Curry, who even struggles to play a little hard in the face of guards like Owen Weishao, every time he faces Ye Xuan, a slut who is in his early two meters and insists that he is a purebred point guard, he is eaten to death, after Curry's point is contained, the Warriors' firepower has been reduced by half, which is also the reason why the Lakers were able to lead their opponents 3:1 in the regular season, and the loss was because Ye Xuan beat people, directly expelled to lose.

Ye Xuan's thoughts on the sidelines were flying, and Anthony in the court began to let himself go, he has absolute ball dominance under this lineup, so he played very high, and his shooting rate today is also a bit perverted, hitting three three-pointers in a row, even made Ye Xuan a little reminded of the first time he played with him, the scene where he and himself soared three points, in fact, after the formation of the Big Four, Anthony's sacrifice was great, before the Big Four were formed, Anthony was able to average 22 points, 7 boards and 5 assists per game, After Cousins was traded, Anthony's average points per game dropped to only about 16 points per game, but the average number of assists per game increased by about 1.5, and the average number of shots per game was also 3.1 less. So when he hit the back, when there were comments about Anthony's serious decline, Ye Xuan was upset for Anthony, and when he saw that the old melon was starting to let himself fly again, Ye Xuan knew that my brother was still so powerful in society.

The Warriors scored only 21 points in the first quarter, while the Pelicans scored a whopping 38 points to lead the opponent by 17 points in an instant, and it was only one quarter. Of course, for the Warriors, the difference of more than ten points is not impossible to recover, but this requires them to quickly adjust their condition, and from the second quarter of their performance, they obviously have not been able to adjust, at the end of the first half, the Pelicans directly played their team's all-time high score of 77 points in the half, the Warriors only scored 53 points, and the 24-point halftime lead is also the largest in the playoffs so far.

Ye Xuan felt that there was nothing to see in this game, but he didn't expect that the opponent suddenly returned to his state in the second half, and the situation that Ye Xuan was worried about also happened, Anthony had serious physical exertion, and the efficiency declined when leading the bench, so that the Warriors continued to seize the opportunity to start chasing points, and the first quarter was almost inversely proportional to the fact that the offensive efficiency of the two teams dropped one by one in an instant, and in the third quarter, the Warriors hit 7 three-pointers in a single quarter, and the score was narrowed in an instant. Fortunately, the Pelicans' interior scoring was relatively stable, so they were able to maintain a 10-point lead into the final quarter of the game.

The sudden change in the situation on the field was really sudden, which made Ye Xuan on the sidelines stunned, because he had never experienced such a big gap between the two halves, but when the fourth quarter of the game had reached the last two minutes, Ye Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, the 24-point difference in the first half was too big, which was enough for the Pelicans to get a certain opportunity to rest and adjust in the case of intense physical exertion, and the two teams played each other again after the fourth quarter. The Warriors found that the opponent was not as easy to deal with as in the third quarter, they quickly found their state, and were not knocked out, in the fourth quarter, the two teams finally found the anxious feeling of the first five games, the score has been bitten very tightly, at this time the Pelicans have a ten-point lead after the third quarter of the game is still worth it, in the last minute and a half minutes, the Pelicans also led the opponent by 5 points, and in this offense, the thick eyebrows who played two iron in a row did not continue to miss, Steady hook hit, while consuming twenty seconds of offensive time, also expanded the difference to 7 points, seeing this, Ye Xuan knew that the Pelicans should be stable in this game.

Sure enough, nothing unexpected happened in the final moments, and the Pelicans finally defeated the visiting Golden State Warriors 123-119 on their home court, making the overall score 3-3, which means that the Lakers can continue to watch the show again, they swept the division semifinals opponents, while their Western Conference opponents need to play a tiebreaker, which is a huge advantage, both physically and tactically.

And this is actually not the first group of games that have been determined to steal seven, on the eastern side, the Pacers and the Cavaliers also fought to a 3-3 draw, although Lao Zhan's career tie-break win rate is astonishingly 100%, but there are exceptions to everything, especially this year, every game between the two teams is very anxious, so anything can happen in the last game, the only thing to worry about is some small actions in the league, as we all know, The league will prefer to favor teams with super-popular players such as the Cavaliers, Warriors and Lakers in some decisions, while teams like the Pelicans and Pacers are not very popular, so the final result of these two sets of tie-breaks can only be known after the game.

As for the East side, the Raptors still couldn't hold up to Game 7 in the end, and the garbage brothers began to sleepwalk again after playing two good games, and the Raptors could only lose their way like losing the captain's ship, losing four games in a row, and this is the end of the season for the Raptors.

And Celtics fans have said, 'I think I've seen this episode.' After all, they lost two games at home in the first round, and then won four games in a row to directly advance to the next round, of course, they now need to wait for the winner between the Cavaliers and the Pacers, and then start the Eastern Conference Finals, compared to these wonderful matchups in the Eastern Conference semifinals, maybe when it comes to the division finals, the attention of the Eastern side will be lowered by a notch, after all, the Celtics' combat effectiveness is really a little weak, and he also lost two games first when facing the eighth-ranked team, They also lost two games against the fourth-placed team, and now their opponents are either third or second, and if they still can't win at least one of the first two games, then neither of these experienced teams will give him a chance to let the second chase fourth.

After watching the game between the Pelicans and the Warriors, the Lakers did not disturb the Pelicans who were celebrating, after all, they still need to have a life-and-death matchup to advance, so the space is still left to them, but now it seems that at least the Lakers are the biggest winners now, because they can not only understand some of the opponent's tactical ideas, but also be able to take a certain lead in terms of physical strength.