Chapter 164: The Remnants of the Battle, Three Minutes Every Day (9/20)
Before the start of the game, the starting line-ups for both sides were as follows:
Warriors: Center Andris Biedrins, power forward David Lee, small forward Dorrell White, scoring guard Monta Ellis, playmaking guard Stephen Curry;
Cavaliers: Center Anderson Vallejo, power forward Yuan Shu, small forward Giammario Moon, scoring guard Alonzo Key, playmaking guard Daniel Gibson. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Williams, who had a conflict with coach Scott, still did not show up, and it is reported that team owner Dan Gilbert is very angry, believing that Williams' disappearance at this juncture is a very irresponsible sign.
At present, the Cavaliers and the Celtics, the Heat record is very close, after the last loss to the Lakers, the Cavaliers are temporarily ranked second in the East, in the front of the Eastern Conference, even if Jamison and Parker are injured, they are very hopeful to qualify for the first round of the playoffs home court advantage, at this time Williams is very much needed to contribute, but I didn't expect that at this time, Williams actually disappeared because the head coach was dissatisfied with the substitutions he made, which annoyed Gilbert greatly.
But in any case, Williams still does not look like he will play in this game, and Scott, who has always been very tough, even said in an interview before the game that he is ready for Williams to be out of the game for a long time, and he believes that with the current team lineup, he can still play well on the court.
Unless Williams takes the initiative to turn around and admit his mistake, I'm afraid his days with the Cavaliers will come to an end.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.
The tall, long-armed, bamboo-like Biedlings won possession of the ball in the jump ball, and the Warriors took the lead in attacking.
In the positional battle, David Lee is mainly responsible for the offense, Ellis and Curry are running to look for opportunities, and when switching from defense to offense, there are Curry and Ellis who are fast attacking and grabbing points, plus the team's overall good outside three-point shooting rate, the Warriors' offensive ability is still ranked in the league, but in stark contrast to the offense, it is the Warriors' poor defense.
The guard line composed of Curry and Ellis originally preferred height and poor physical confrontation, Curry's point guard position is slightly better, but the point guards that Ellis is responsible for defending are generally half a head taller than Ellis, and their bodies are also a lot stronger, so Ellis's ability to score is strong, but the ability to "be scored" is also not weak.
The same problem also appears on the inside of the Warriors, as an All-Star player, David Lee, who is the same height as Yuan Shu, is only 2.06 meters, and there is no advantage in height in this position, although there are many ways to score and rebound well, but the deterrence under the basket is too poor, and the highest single-season average of 0.5 blocks per game in his career is not qualified for the starting power forward position of any team, so David Lee's point is also a big hole in the team's defense.
If you want to improve your record, you need to make a fuss about these two positions first, and the Warriors' coach Smart has already identified the team's problems, but for the time being, he can only rely on such a lineup, and perhaps in the middle of the season or next season, the team will make a big change to these two positions.
The Warriors took the lead in attacking, Curry and Ellis ran outside without the ball in a row, Gibson and Kee followed closely to defend their defenders, when Ellis ran out of the three-point line for the second time, Dorrell White held the ball at a 45° angle, looking at the direction of Ellis, Kee and Gibson, who were on the outside, were attracted to Ellis, but White threw the ball with both hands to Curry who was standing on the far side, Gibson reacted and immediately prepared to chase after the defense, but it was blocked by Biedrins who came out of the inside, Curry was unguarded after receiving the pass, and his hand was up and down, and he hit a 3-point shot!
"Drop... After Curry hit this three-pointer, the system responded immediately, and Yuan Shu saw the system prompt from the sight of "Copy Eyeshadow": Three points every day, do you want to copy?
Does this need to be asked? Who else dares to say that his three-point shot is more accurate than Curry in these years, and Curry will definitely be the first to disagree!
After confirming with the system, the system's prompt becomes: three points a day, recognition - 25%!
After Curry hit a three-pointer, the Cavaliers' first offense was launched by Yuan Shu, who originally thought that he could easily use his strength to knock David Lee away, but he didn't expect that this white power forward, who was about the same height as himself and even a little obese, could withstand himself!
But Yuan Shu's offensive method is far more than relying on strength to resist, using the "finger soft" feel, in David Lee's defense easy throwing hit, David Lee stretched out his slightly shorter arm symbolically fluttered in the air a few times, there is still a lot of distance from the parabola of Yuan Shu's shot. The score became 2-3.
Hmph, I will bite the score with the basket offense first, once I copy the "three points every day", it is when I Yuan Shu opened the killing ring, Yuan Shu calculated well in his heart, and has made a tactical plan for this game.
With a "bang", after Curry hit the first three-pointer, Monta Ellis also found an opportunity to use his flexible running position to pass through the net with a three-point shot in the bottom corner! 2-6, the away Warriors take the lead!
Yuan Shu didn't care, and in the next attack, he made another move to "turn around with reality", shaking David Lee away, and easily wiped the board under the basket, 4-6.
After Curry and Ellis hit the perimeter in succession, Scott, who was standing on the sidelines, kept shouting on the sidelines to pay attention to the perimeter.
Scott's roar had an effect, Ellis's three-point shot was deflected out of the basket under the defense of Key's struggle, Yuan Shu was about to protect the backcourt rebound, but when the rebound ball just reached the highest point and began to fall, David Lee was instantly stuck in front of him and got the rebound, the timing of this card position was just right, and Yuan Shu didn't have time to react to the "thunder beast rebound".
After Li got the ball, he didn't rush to make up for the basket, but shook it a few times in a row under the basket, attracting the attention of Yuan Shu, Vallejo and Moon to the inside, and with a hug of his left hand, a ground pass found Curry on the outside, Curry made a quick shot against Gibson's defense, and even stopped halfway through the action, but the ball still hit through the net!
The Warriors began to hit three points in a row, feeling hot, and when Yuan Shu was still annoyed by the defensive rebound he had just lost, the replication progress of "Day and Sky Three" had reached 50%.