Chapter 568: One Elbow Determines the Country

The Warriors also seem a little helpless, on the one hand, their own defensive titan Iguodala is still resting off the court, so there is no one to restrict Ye Xuan one-on-one, they can only watch Ye Xuan pretend to be crazy, on the other hand, their own rotation can be regarded as a little problem, under the urgency of the inside, the Warriors' interior defense also has problems.

However, on the offensive end, the Warriors are still very powerful, Livingston controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and hoisted the ball to Green on the inside, Hibbert immediately stepped forward to defend, but Green is still experienced, using his footsteps to directly feint away from Hibbert, and then hit the ball in the middle of the shot. Hibbert was not very flexible in the first place, and now Green, who has made his defensive footwork agile, naturally a little difficult for him.

And Ye Xuan's side still seemed to be in a hurry, not giving the opponent a chance to breathe, and immediately rushed to the Warriors' half with the ball, this time, Ye Xuan was no longer defending him in front of Livingston or Clark, but replaced by Green with a big forward body, Kerr played a good calculation, and wanted to use a player like Green with a tonnage greater than Ye Xuan to contain Ye Xuan, and Green's defensive ability is indeed relatively good, but he still underestimated Ye Xuan's personal ability.

Ye Xuan controlled the ball and did a few crotch dribbles in a row, then suddenly started, took two steps to the left hand, and then a flower-piercing butterfly step directly shook Green's center of gravity, and by the time Draymond Green stabilized his body, Ye Xuan had already taken two steps to pass him and hit a throw against Durant's defense.

And the offense on the Warriors' side is still to let Durant hold the ball on the outside and play on his back, but Durant's back hit success rate is getting lower and lower, because Barnes does have a lot of interference with Durant's offense, and there are a few times when defending Barnes can not only prevent Durant from being able to defend himself, but also make Durant unable to find the ball for a while, so the Warriors' offense gradually began to turn to the inside line, fortunately, Green's shooting rate is not bad, so the score of the two teams is still not too big.

Time came in a blink of an eye, and almost 4 minutes into the fourth quarter of the game, the Warriors were once again broken into the interior by Ye Xuan on the defensive end, and then caused Green's foul. In the past 4 minutes, Ye Xuan's performance was simply invincible, and the seven consecutive attacks were all completed by Ye Xuan alone, and even when the final breakthrough came, the Warriors sent Green and Livingston to defend Ye Xuan, but they still let Ye Xuan and Hibbert make a wall cooperation, and then cut into the inside line and caused Green's foul.

Ye Xuan walked to the free throw line and steadily shot the second free throw, at this time the Lakers had a 7-point lead over the opponent at 103:96, and the Warriors finally made personnel adjustments again, replacing Clark, Livingston and Durant, with scum Pachuria, Curry and Klay Thompson, and the Lakers also made some personnel adjustments, replacing Hibbert, Nick Young, and Ye Xuan, and replacing Wade and others.

At this time, it is basically the last rest time before the decisive battle, and Ye Xuan's rest time should not be too long, it is estimated that it will be great to be able to rest for a minute and a half, and the pace of the Lakers will definitely slow down infinitely, in order to reduce the offensive rounds, so that Ye Xuan can get a good ear rest.

The substitutions ended, and the two teams began to enter a stalemate. In the following more than a minute, the two teams only completed a total of five shots, of which the Lakers side was hit by Wade on a mid-range shot, while the Warriors side was without Ye Xuan defending Curry, he hit a three-pointer, and Klay Thompson also hit a two-point shot from the three-point line.

There was still the last half of the game left in the last quarter, and at this time, the Lakers also took advantage of an opponent's mistake to dribble the ball and replace all the main players, including Ye Xuan. And the Warriors have also replaced all the main players, which should be the lineup for the final battle between the two teams.

The Lakers served on the sideline, Ye Xuan controlled the ball and passed the ball directly to Wade after coming to the front court, but maybe he had just been replaced to rest, and now he didn't find the rhythm of the game after being replaced, so Ye Xuan didn't go to the run, fortunately, Wade's organization was still good, and after making a simple block with Gasol, Wade broke through and passed back to Gasol to help the latter hit a long-distance shot.

And on the defensive end, Ye Xuan was obviously a little dizzy, so when he was on the defensive end, he also made stupid mistakes, after being seized by Stephen Curry and passing a few steps, Ye Xuan wanted to chase the defense, but was deceived by Curry for a foul, seeing Ye Xuan's continuous mistakes at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the audience at the scene immediately cheered.

Ye Xuan immediately felt that he was poured a basin of cold water, but this time, he also recovered from the daily offensive rhythm just now. Curry walked to the free throw line and steadily shot the first free throw, but the second free throw was ironed, Gasol protected the defensive rebound, and then passed the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Wade on the side, and he started his journey of running without the ball.

Wade took the ball to face Klay Thompson, decisively chose to force a breakthrough, and after knocking Ginobili away in a few steps, Wade turned directly and jumped and shot, but the basket hit the iron, Green grabbed the defensive rebound, and was about to launch a fast break, but he didn't notice behind him.

It turned out to be Ye Xuan, when Ye Xuan was running just now, he was preparing to slip the bottom line, but Wade had already shot, Ye Xuan was about to return to defense, but it turned out that Duncan did not directly play the ball after winning the backcourt rebound, but was looking for the position of Curry and Durant, so Ye Xuan decisively ran over and poked the ball in Green's hand directly, and then Ye Xuan hurried two steps and won the basketball, Iguodala on the side hurriedly came over to prepare to wrap Ye Xuan, who knew that Ye Xuan was very smart, A direct cross passed the ball to Wade, who ran up from the backcourt again, Wade grabbed the basketball and rushed directly into the penalty area in two big strides, and ended the attack with a one-arm dunk.

Looking at Ye Xuan, who was still celebrating with his teammates with a hippie smile while running back on the field, Steve Cole was angry in his heart, but he couldn't show it, thinking that those elbows just now didn't fall on Ye Xuan, and now Ye Xuan is still so arrogant, which makes Cole angry. And Wade, who was injured by an elbow, was able to have such an excellent performance, which also made Kerr feel that he was still not ruthless enough.

The offense on the Warriors' side seems to have some problems, Curry wants to take advantage of the opponent's foothold to play a quick offense after controlling the ball and coming to the frontcourt, but he didn't expect that Ye Xuan and Wade hit the ball over there, and before Curry was ready to attack, Ye Xuan and the two had already returned to defense.

Waiting for Green to come to the front court, Curry and Green made a block, and then broke through to the inside, Ye Xuan's defense made Curry not find a chance to shoot, he could only go around from the inside and bring the ball out, Durant responded on the outside, Curry came out and sent the ball to Durant's hands, Durant pulled it up and shot, after all, there were only two seconds left in the offensive time, and it was obviously not enough for him to do anything superfluous. Unfortunately, the ball went wide of the basket with the interference of Solomon Hill.

Wade protected the backcourt rebound, and didn't pass the ball anymore, he rushed directly to the front court with the ball, Solomon Hill and Ye Xuan also lined up left and right, and rushed over together, fortunately, on the Warriors' side, Durant and Klay Thompson and others retreated very fast, and did not give the Lakers a chance to sneak attack, and Wade saw that there was no chance of fast attack, so he was not in a hurry, and passed the ball directly to Ye Xuan, and he began to run without the ball.

Wade is buried in the running position, and the Warriors' defense has now gradually adapted to Wade's running, when Wade passed by the players of the Warriors team, they all took care of the position of their defensive players first, and only slowed down Wade's pace when they saw that there was no problem, which made Wade's running more difficult, and Ye Xuan couldn't find a chance to pass the ball to him, so he could only hold the ball and play alone.

In the face of Iguodala's leading defense, Ye Xuan was not ready to keep his hand anymore, and after dribbling directly under his crotch two times in a row, he broke through directly to the left side, Iguodala hurriedly followed, but Ye Xuan suddenly pulled back at this time, and then changed direction to break through from the right, Iguodala's defense paused, and then hurriedly followed, but he didn't expect Ye Xuan to change direction again at this time, and it was impossible for Iguodala to pounce on the defense again, and he almost didn't stand firm under his feet.

And Ye Xuan's side, after passing Iguodala, did not choose to make a stop-and-go jump shot to score two points steadily, but directly killed Green on the inside, Green also immediately pounced and prepared to block Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan jumped up against Green, then turned half a circle in the air, leaned on Green with his back and sent the ball to the basket with his backhand, and then heard the sound of the whistle, and the referee gave Green a shooting foul.

But at this time, Green didn't come up to refute or anything like that, because everyone found him squatting on the ground and covering his shoulder, while Ye Xuan was also lying next to him and covering his left elbow. It can also be seen in the playback of the big screen at the scene that after Ye Xuan turned around in the air, Green jumped up against Ye Xuan and prepared to block, but Green's right shoulder just hit the elbow of Ye Xuan's left hand, and the audience at the scene was unhappy, and they all said that they would let the referee give Ye Xuan a malicious foul or something, but in the video, it can be clearly seen that Green is moving, before Ye Xuan makes a move, before Ye Xuan makes a move, his left hand is almost relatively static, and this elbow hits the shoulder, which is equivalent to Green himself catching up, But this is another proof of a foul on Green.

So the referee made a gesture to maintain the original verdict and gave Ye Xuan two free throws, and the audience at the scene booed, in fact, only Ye Xuan knew that his elbow hit was actually intentional, and no matter from which point of view, it was Green himself who bumped into it, not Ye Xuan's hand, so no one would think that Ye Xuan deliberately elbowed this.

Only Ye Xuan himself knows that his elbow attack has actually been planned for a long time, originally Ye Xuan went in to attack Green this time, just to turn around and shoot with his right hand, and when his left hand fell, he turned around and elbowed Green on the head or neck or something, but he didn't expect that Green bumped into it himself, and if it was just bumped into under normal circumstances, Green would not be so uncomfortable, but it was bad that Ye Xuan's elbow was accumulating strength at this time, and the elbow was when it was hard, and the result was not waved down, Green bumped into it himself.

After Ye Xuan landed here, he also found that his opponent fell to the ground, so he immediately pretended that he was also injured, and fell to the ground and covered his elbow, which could show that he was unintentional, and secondly, he could also win sympathy. But it didn't take long for Ye Xuan to get up, move his left hand, and then signal to his teammates that he was fine, and Green was different over there, after he rubbed his shoulder a little, he found that his shoulder hurt to death, and finally he could only leave with the team doctor for further examination.

Ye Xuan walked to the free throw line for free throws, and after hitting both free throws, the Lakers once again took a 7-point lead, and because the opponent was missing Green, an interior defensive giant, the whole rotation defense became a little chaotic, so after playing for more than three minutes, the Warriors not only failed to narrow the seven-point difference, but was also stretched wider and wider.

With the last minute and a half left in the game, the Lakers had basically confirmed the victory of the game with an 11-point lead, and the Warriors also felt a little absent-minded at this time, after all, Green, the interior big man on their team, didn't know the injury yet. In the last minute and a half, the Warriors also tried to shoot three-pointers to chase points, but after two consecutive iron strikes, they could only give up chasing points.

At the end of the game, after the Lakers lost their home-court advantage in the last game, they snatched their home-court advantage back at the opponent's home court, and the Warriors' injury problem that the Warriors were concerned about also had a result, Green was elbowed to the tendon of his right shoulder, so he felt that the whole shoulder was numb at that time, and he didn't ease it for a while, but after going down to ice it for a while, it got a little better, that is to say, there is almost nothing, at least he should not be absent in the next game, This is also good news for the Warriors, but this result also makes Ye Xuan have a plan in his heart, and it looks like he needs to be more careful in the next game.