Chapter 198: Winning

"Break through, resolutely use the breakthrough to tear apart the Knicks' regional defense!"

At the official timeout in the second quarter, Kerr sat on the Warriors' bench, holding the strategy board in one hand and sketching on it with the other, pointing out ways to break the Knicks' regional defense. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Warriors players nodded their heads like rattles, especially Curry and Green, who were humiliated in the first quarter and vowed to save face in the second.

"Wait, I'm going to make you look good."

Before appearing, Curry clenched his fists tightly, silently swore in his heart, and read.

Even if he was blocked by Ray Allen, he actually performed a smashing dunk under no defense, and was booed and despised by Knicks fans, coupled with O'Neal's merciless ridicule, Curry felt that he had lost face, and the humiliation in his heart could even be compared with the loss of the championship last year.

At the end of the official timeout, the difference was still 7 points, the Warriors took the lead in attacking, Curry dribbled, pushed Rose's defense to near the top of the arc, borrowed the cover of his teammates to break into the paint area around the right side, and went straight into the gap in the middle to kill the basket.

3-2 regional joint defense, the middle zone was originally a weak defensive area, Wang Zhuo raised the defense line to the periphery a few centimeters, which highlighted the weakness of the middle zone, Curry's ball control ability is also one of the best in today's league, and he can easily break through the first line of defense and enter the interior line.

However, when Curry broke through to the basket with the ball, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and Oden and Porzingis did not make a move in time to make up the defense, which was more like a strategy to lure the enemy deeper.

When Curry came back to his senses and tried to pass the ball out, something bad happened, as Oden and Porzingis wrapped up like a hamburger from both sides.

Facing two tall and strong seven-foot men, Curry felt like he had fallen into a wall, surrounded by mountains, airtight, and unable to pass the ball, let alone find the basket.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of it, Curry was helpless and forcibly held the basket in the air, but as soon as the ball was shot, Oden's slap as big as a fan came down.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, accompanied by Curry's desperate eyes, the ball was expelled from the three-point line.

Rose is quick to pick up a rebound, dodging Durant's block in the air, a small pull-up under the basket, throwing a shot and hitting a board, and continuing to add points to the Knicks.

The Warriors executed the offense, and Curry received another big hat under the basket, his eyes were blank, and he looked dejected, as if he was completely covered.

After halftime, Curry passed the ball to Durant in a roundabout attack, and Kerr was hoping to open up the situation on an offensive after a timeout, but the star Curry was blocked when he burst inside, and the morale of the Warriors sank again.

Fortunately, Durant is a big heart player, singled Anthony, forced a jumper, hit a mid-range shot to stop the bleeding, and pulled the Warriors back from the edge of the cliff.

Although it was just a mid-range shot, everyone understood the importance of this goal, if it didn't score, the Warriors' scoring drought would continue, morale would continue to be low, and the Knicks would definitely take advantage of the victory to chase down and continue to widen the point difference.

Now the strong hit not only stopped the decline, but also greatly improved the team's morale and the players' shooting confidence.

Next, Porzingis fed a second pass for Oden in the basket, and Oden received the ball with a powerful one-handed slam dunk, which once again detonated the emotions of the home fans.

The Warriors could only rely on the superstar's singles ability to stabilize the situation again, and it was Durant who faked on the right side to change direction and shake off Anthony, and made a quick stop and stepped back to hit a long-range shot, barely contending with the Knicks.

"The situation of the Warriors seems to be a little bad, and they can only rely on Kevin to support themselves, and if Steve can't make adjustments in time, I'm afraid this game will have to be explained!"

On the commentary bench, O'Neal passionately explained Durant's life-saving three-pointer, and commented on the situation of the Warriors by taking advantage of the gap time between the Knicks' serve.

"Stephen's breakthrough has been limited, and even the three-point shot that pierces through Yang is no longer bright, and it is difficult to win this evenly matched matchup with Kevin alone, Shaq, Steve, how to crack the Knicks' regional defense, can you give an effective way to travel?"

Miller nodded, agreeing with O'Neal's comments, and finally, asked O'Neal a question, hoping that O'Neal would give Cole advice.

"Hey, it's so difficult, it's all up to Steve and the player's tactical execution, and it's useless for me to talk about it here."

O'Neill sighed and did not give a specific answer, after all, he was also a victim of the regional joint defense tactical system, if there was a way to crack it, he would not hate this perverted defensive strategy so much, in the end, O'Neill still gave an honest answer.

Anthony responded to Durant with a turnaround and step-up jumper, continuing the Knicks' red-hot offensive momentum and maintaining a double-digit point difference.

Durant continued to go it alone, his shooting vision was interfered with by Anthony, Oden grabbed the rebound, and the Knicks launched another tidal wave of counter-attacking fast breaks.

Weakness on the offensive end led to a lack of concentration on the defense, and Ray Allen received a breakaway from Rose on the fast break, stretched out his bow from outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the left side, and hit a cold-blooded three-pointer to stop the Warriors again.

Despite the reconfiguration of the response strategy, the Warriors' offense has always been tepid, the flowing offense has completely disappeared, and it is simply not enough to form a counterattack, and the defense is completely unable to limit the Knicks' offensive frenzy.

At halftime, the Warriors were already trailing the Knicks by as many as 15 points, which was not enough to make the game suspenseful, and the Warriors naturally did not give up easily, and Kerr was still making passionate speeches in the locker room to exaggerate the emotions of the players.

After the start of the second half, the Warriors launched a crazy counterattack, but Wang Zhuo always insisted on playing the inside attack, and the twin towers of Porzingis and Oden were eager to seek under the basket, leaving the Warriors' weak interior line without a way to deal with it.

At the end of the fourth quarter, Durant, Curry and Thompson hit three-pointers one after another, narrowing the score to six points with 1:05 left in the game, dragging the game back into suspense, and the Warriors were demoralized and even clamored for a reversal.

Wang Zhuo will not let the victory in hand be handed away, call a short timeout, arrange the tactics of the last attack, Rose and Ray Allen double cover on the baseline, Anthony cut inside, fake the real pass, Porzingis followed up with a layup, hit a game-killing goal.

Although Curry hit another 3-pointer, Anthony also hit a decisive shot, leaving the game completely out of suspense with only 37 seconds left.

In the end, the Knicks won the first game at home 118-112, rewriting the score of the finals to 1-0. (To be continued.) )