Chapter 133: The Return of the Ball
The Clippers' offense is high. The tide continues, the team's core inside Griffin's offensive desire is unusually strong, and the combination of mid-range shooting and back-to-back play has made Green, who is in position with him, suffer a lot, and Griffin's character can be seen from here, he doesn't like to argue about anything, but is more inclined to prove it with practical actions.
On the other hand, the Warriors lost the containment of the two guns on the outside, and the team's shooting rate dropped again and again, and by the time they entered the first official timeout, their shooting rate had fallen below 30%, which was reflected in the score of 10:21, a full 11 points behind.
The team was ahead by a large score, Reeves was a bad breath, and the mood looked very good, and he entered the rotation time in advance, and the main five people only left Griffin and Jordan Jr., Tang Shuai, Stephenson, and Reeves Jr. came off the bench.
The Warriors made some changes as well, with Ian Clarke and Festus Ezeli coming off the bench to replace the visibly out-of-form Thompson and Bogut.
Tang Shuai was also in a good mood when he heard that Reaves replaced him on the court as soon as possible, and he almost laughed out loud when he saw the Warriors replace Clark on the side.
In the rotation of the Warriors' regular lineup, the main scoring guard is Klay Thompson, and the person who is usually replaced in the first round is Iguodala, who is the master of a purple skill package, and his strength is not inferior to Thompson, but somehow, Wharton was replaced by Clarke, who rarely played before.
Clark, a 13-year rookie, relied on the summer league performance to get a non-guaranteed contract, in just 2 years, he has wandered 3 teams, after being signed by the Warriors last season, the playing time is also very limited, less than ten minutes per game, Tang Shuai has scanned his skill package before he played, except for a purple triple pack whose ability value is significantly lower than the average level, there are only a handful of blue packs, most of which are green skill packs.
However, this purple three-pack is in line with the Warriors' offensive style.
As soon as they came up, the Clippers attacked first, and the main control was Reaves Jr., who still broke through to the frontcourt, and then beckoned his teammates to come over and block the demolition.
Opposite Reaves Jr. is Livingston, a talented point guard who was once known as the successor to the Magic, because of a devastating twist of the knee in a 90-degree intensity, almost said goodbye to basketball completely, re-entered the league with great perseverance, and with excellent passing awareness and solid defense, it can be regarded as a world, although it is impossible to become the core of a team again, but it is still more than enough to play as a substitute.
Livingston's vision is very good and he has a lot of experience, and after seeing Reeves Jr.'s tactical intentions, he quickly shrank back, and as a result, Griffonty's blocking didn't work as well as it should, and instead wasted a lot of offensive time.
Unable to block and dismantle, Reeves Jr. tried to make a hard break, but the Livingston man was tall and big, he couldn't break through, and finally seeing that the offensive time was coming, he threw the ball directly to Griffin outside the free throw line.
Griffin had a great performance in the previous game time and had a very good feel, but in such a short period of time, there was no time to adjust at all, so he could only throw it with his hand raised.
Although the Warriors' offense is not good, the defensive intensity and defensive tacit understanding are still there, when Reeves Jr. is strong, others have strengthened the defensive intensity of their respective defenders to prevent Reeves Jr. from passing, as a result, Griffin's jumper this time, almost covered by Green, although the final successful shot, but has lost the crosshair, and actually smashed directly on the rebound, was taken into the arms of Azeri under the basket.
Griffin glanced at Little Reeves very unhappily, this kind of dumping behavior is really too pitiful.
Little Reeves dodged his head, and he could see that he didn't dare to do anything to Griffin.
After Ezeli got the ball, he launched a fast attack, and Barnes scored the ball with a quick turn, narrowing the margin to single digits.
In the next round of the Clippers' offense, Reaves Jr. learned to be obedient and did not break through again, but he actually signaled his teammates to pull away, and then gave Jordan Jr. in the low post.
Jordan Jr. is a talented and physical man, but this kind of thing in low-post singles is obviously not equal to him.
It's just that at this time, the other teammates are pulling away, and he has to hit hard inside.
Azeri's defensive fundamentals are still very solid, although he didn't withstand Jordan Jr., but he still managed to interfere with Jordan Jr.'s shot.
Little Jordan's shot didn't touch the frame, and he crossed the bridge, and he shook his head angrily.
Ezeli grabbed the rebound and threw the ball forward again, and the Warriors played a fast break again, and after a passing in the middle of the game, Green used the run to shoot a long-range two-pointer to chase the deficit to seven points.
With two straight rounds scoring, the Warriors seem to have found their rhythm and have a lot of momentum to fight back.
When Tang Shuai saw this, he knew that it was time to make a change, if he fought like before, it would be the familiar rhythm of substitute cheating.
When Reeves Jr. took control of the ball to the front court and was about to command the tactics again, he shouted decisively: "Give me the ball!" ”
Little Reeves was about to stretch out his hand, but when he heard Tang Shuai's words, he unconsciously withdrew his hand, hesitated, and then passed the ball over.
Tang Shuai finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Little Reeves passing, it seems that Su Mei's method really works!
Now it seems that he should be one of the things that Reeves Jr. can't mess with.
With the ball in hand, Tang Shuai's whole spirit came up at once, dribbling the ball to observe the Warriors' defense for a while, and after finding that it was a person, he first made a gesture for his teammates to pull away, and then pointed at Griffin, signaling him to come up and block himself.
After gesturing to play this again, he made an additional gesture to Griffin.
Griffin is a conscientious player, although the previous ball was a little depressed by Little Reeves, but he didn't complain, and when he saw Tang Shuai's gesture, he naturally ran up.
Livingston saw that Tang Shuai was about to vomit, and instinctively shrank back.
When Tang Shuai saw this, he pressed forward suddenly, always keeping a relatively small distance between the two of them.
Livingston took two steps back and saw Tang Shuai pressing up, looked back, and if he stepped back to get to the free throw line, he hesitated and stopped.
After a while, Griffin's blocking and dismantling was already in place, Tang Shuai dribbled the ball and directly changed direction, the prince's dribble bag was activated, and he slammed into it.
Livingston was blocked, Green saw that Tang Shuai was very resolute, and immediately shrank back, to say that although he was an inside line, he was still very flexible, and soon appeared on Tang Shuai's breakthrough route.
At the same time, Livingston also ran out of Griffin's block, and wrapped Tang Shuai in dumplings from the back.
Tang Shuai immediately fell into the situation of a dead ball.
Wharton, who was on the sidelines, saw this scene and nodded with satisfaction, there is a chance that this ball can be broken, as long as one more goal is scored, then the Warriors will be completely up, although they are now behind, but the difference of 7 points is not a difference at all for the Warriors.
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