Chapter 502: The game is not over, and the double-digit lead is unstable!
In the first two rounds, the Warriors' offense was all explosive dunks, and the blood-pumping images caused the fans to cheer and scream.
Such a picture is actually not uncommon in this year's Warriors, and Wang Feng and Garnett's blocking and dismantling cooperation mostly ends with empty dunks on the inside.
But this time is different, and the Warriors can still play such a smooth and gorgeous offense against the Chicago Bulls, the top defensive team in the league, which is definitely worthy of the pride of all Golden State fans.
You know, this season's Bulls are really strong and terrible.
So far in the regular season, he has averaged 105 points per game, second in the league, second only to the Warriors led by Wang Feng, and conceded only 93 points per game, ranking third in the league.
But the average points of these two teams are 91.1 and 95.4 points per game, respectively, which is completely different from the Bulls.
Looking at the Warriors, who have the strongest offensive firepower in the league, the fast-paced offense and defense make their average score per game very high, reaching 109 points, but at the same time, the fast-paced offensive and defensive conversion also makes them lose a lot of points on the defensive end, even if there is Wang Feng + Blaylock on the outside and Garnett on the inside, the Warriors have conceded an average of 104 points per game, the sixth from the bottom in the league.
In such a comparison, the Bulls scored an average of 105 points per game, conceded an average of 93 points per game, and averaged a net score of 12 points per game, which shows how terrifying the strength of this 72-win Bulls team is.
In addition, the Warriors, who won 73 in the 15-16 season, averaged 114.9 points per game, conceded 104.1 points per game, and scored 10.8 net points, which is also slightly inferior to the Bulls, and only the 74-win Warriors team crossed by Wang Feng can outperform the 72-win Bulls in this data.
Now the Warriors led by Wang Feng can take the initiative in the face of the Bulls at the beginning of the game, and they are indeed playing quite well.
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The game continued, and the Bulls' second offense finally managed to score, but the offense was not Jordan's play, but Pippen's layup.
The score came to 5:2, the Warriors attacked, it was still Wang Feng who held the ball outside and assisted, this time Wang Feng used the speed advantage of the first master breakthrough to pass Rodman, who was close to him and did not give a three-point opportunity, and then grabbed a quick stop jump shot in front of Pippen's defense in the middle distance.
6:2。
The Warriors managed to take the initiative from the start and carried the lead all the way to the end of the first quarter.
Wang Feng faced Rodman's defense in the first quarter of the game, and used 7 of 10 shots, 3 of 3 free throws, and scored 17 points alone to tell the opponent what his strength was.
Although he didn't shoot even one three-pointer from the outside in the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng's scoring explosiveness was not affected at all, especially the mid-range jumper after a breakthrough, with the blessing of 99 full value of mid-range shooting ability and the hot zone hunter badge, it was no worse than the three-point line.
On the other hand, on the Bulls' side, Jordan's performance in the first quarter of the game was much inferior, shooting 3-of-6 and 2-of-2 free throws, scoring only 8 points.
Jordan was a little intimidated by Wang Feng's performance.
Wang Feng, who has a bouncing ability value of 99, plus the blessing of the back defensive master badge, makes his defensive ability and last season's playoffs like two people, even if he is as strong as Jordan, he is a little overwhelmed for a while, although the 50% shooting rate of 3 of 6 shots is not bad, but as the main scorer of the team, it is significantly worse than Wang Feng's 17 points in a single quarter.
What's more, Wang Feng is responsible for marking Jordan in this game, but Jordan doesn't need to defend Wang Feng on the defensive end, with Rodman to help him share the pressure on the defensive end, he can obviously put more energy than Wang Feng on the offensive end, and he should be more dominant in scoring.
In the first quarter of the game, the two teams fought to 32:26, and the Warriors led by 6 points at home.
But this lead didn't take long for the Warriors fans to rejoice, and they were immediately caught up by the Bulls in the second quarter of the game.
The process of chasing points is very simple, Wang Feng, who played 12 minutes in the first quarter of the game, found a more suitable time to rest in the second quarter of the game.
Then the Bulls seized the opportunity of Wang Feng's absence and played a wave of 8:0, catching up with the 6-point difference and overtaking by 2 points in one fell swoop.
It all happened in 3 minutes.
The Warriors were called out of the timeout, and after the timeout, Wang Feng returned to the court, and the situation was finally stabilized.
There is no way, the current Warriors team is overly dependent on Wang Feng on the offensive end, and the rest of the players who start lack the ability to attack independently.
Mullin and Blayrock are degraded, Garnett is too young and has a serious lack of offensive skills, and even most of the players on the Warriors' bench are players with little offensive ability.
Therefore, once Wang Feng is off the court, the Warriors' scoring efficiency will drop sharply, in the past facing those teams with a slightly weaker level, they can still rely on their personal ability to score a few points, but now facing the invincible Bulls in the league, even if the Bulls have replaced Jordan and Rodman on the Bulls' side, only Pippen is the leader on the court, and the Warriors without Wang Feng can also be abused.
The gap in the roster is currently impossible for the Warriors to make up, and they can only wait until the end of this season to use the large number of '96 draft picks they have hoarded to turn their fortunes against the sky.
Wang Feng hasn't figured out yet, whether to choose a player like Kobe or Nash to enhance the Warriors' offensive point with the ball, Kobe and Nash's draft picks are not high, and the possibility of winning them is not low, the only question is whether their existence is suitable for the Warriors with him as the core of the ball.
Nash can't show his true strength without the ball, and Kobe Bryant will certainly not be satisfied with being the sixth man to hold the ball on a team's bench time.
Forget it, wait until the end of the season to get the headache, and the focus now is to win this game!
As soon as Wang Feng returned to the court, he immediately scored 5 points in a row to help the Warriors regain the lead.
On the Bulls' side, Jordan and Rodman also appeared one after another, and Jordan also began to gradually exert his strength.
In the final analysis, when most of his energy is put into the offensive end, Wang Feng's defense cannot be exhaustive, especially when he faces Jordan, the best scorer in history.
After the surprise of the first quarter, Jordan understood Wang's progress in bounce and low post defense, and began to change his offensive style, frequently firing and hitting in the mid-range position.
The scores of the two teams alternated and the second quarter ended.
At halftime, the Warriors and Bulls scored 58-55, and the Warriors' six-point advantage in the first quarter of the game became three.
Wang Feng played another 9 minutes in the second quarter of the game, which kept the Warriors' lead.
But as the game entered the third quarter of the second half, even though he knew that the Warriors could not live without Wang Feng, head coach Aldermon still let Wang Feng rest off the court at the beginning of the game.
In previous games, Wang Feng played an average of 41 minutes per game, with an average of less than 2 minutes of rest per quarter, relying on the full physical strength value of 99 and the blessing of three fatigue badges, which was not difficult for Wang Feng.
But the game against the Bulls was different.
The process of Wang Feng playing against the Bulls is equivalent to suffering from Rodman's stalking on the offensive end all the time, although Rodman can't prevent Wang Feng from scoring at all, but his kraft candy-style entanglement defense will indeed make Wang Feng consume a lot of physical strength, even if there is a strong Terminator fatigue badge to reduce physical consumption.
While the physical consumption on the offensive end is huge, Wang Feng also needs to defend Jordan strictly on the defensive end.
After all, he is the only one in the team who can defend Jordan, Blaylock's height is too low, Mullin's defensive ability is insufficient, and if you want to limit Jordan's scoring, you can only rely on Wang Feng.
Even in order not to let Rodman suppress the team too much in terms of rebounding, Wang Feng has to protect the defensive rebound ball from time to time under the basket, who makes Garnett too young at this time, even if he has the advantage of height and arm span, the rebounding ball is also blown up by Rodman?
There's still a long way to go before Garnett grows into the future four-time rebounding champion.
To sum up, Wang Feng, who is both a father and a mother on the court, and has a lot of offensive and defensive rebounds, has a lot of physical consumption than expected, so he must rest a little more in the third quarter of the game to ensure that he has enough physical strength in the fourth quarter of the game for the final victory.
But the risks of doing so are obviously very high.
As soon as Wang Feng was not on the court, the Bulls immediately began to attack hard and attacked again and again.
In 7 minutes, the Bulls completely took the initiative, even if the three main players of Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman on their side were also not on the court, relying on a deeper bench rotation lineup, the Bulls once again played a wave of 12:2 attack waves, from 3 points behind to 7 points ahead!
During the whole process, Alderman gritted his teeth, stubbornly resisted and did not let Wang Feng play in advance, and finally survived the long 7 minutes.
Then, with 5 minutes left in the third quarter, Wang Feng finally appeared again.
On the Bulls' side, Jordan and the others were already on the court a few minutes early.
The real battle between the two sides in the third round has just begun.
In the last 5 minutes, the Warriors led by Wang Feng fought with the Bulls, and in the end, the Bulls ended the third quarter with an 8-point lead.
"That guy really has some skills, but that's all."
At the end of the third quarter, Rodman, who was resting on the bench, muttered a little unpleasantly.
The game lasted three quarters, and Rodman stared at Wang Feng throughout the whole process, and successfully scored 32 points in the three quarters of Wang Feng's defense, with a shooting rate of 55%.
Obviously, Rodman's entangled defense did not succeed, and he succeeded in limiting Wang's three-point shot in this game, and after three quarters, Wang Feng only hit 2 of 5 shots from beyond the three-point line.
The east side is not bright, and the west side is bright.
Wang Feng's three-point shot didn't play much, but the breakthrough with the ball and the mid-range pull-up jump shot were amazingly efficient, and Rodman didn't have anything to do about it, after all, his speed was much slower than Pippen, and he couldn't keep up with the speed and agility of the double 94, as well as Wang Feng, who was blessed with the first step master badge.
was scored so many points in front of Wang Feng, Rodman's face was also a little unbearable, and it was also thanks to the Bulls that they were in the lead at this time, so that he could still harden his mouth a little.
But when he said this, he saw Jordan, Pippen and head coach Phil. Jackson's look was as serious as ever.
"The next fourth quarter of the game is the most critical." Jackson said in a deep voice: "Wang Feng's scoring explosiveness in the fourth quarter of the game is extremely fierce, especially in the last moment, without a double-digit lead in hand, we can't play as an advantage!" ”
"Michael, you continue to attack in the fourth quarter of the game, your hands should be hot in the first three quarters of the game, you must ensure the offensive rhythm of the team in the fourth quarter, don't give the opponent a chance to shorten the difference!"
"Understood!" Jordan nodded.
Rodman looked at this scene, a little confused.
What the hell is this? I don't know if I think it's the Bulls trailing by 8 points.
But unlike him, Jordan, Pippen and Jackson are all old rivals who played against Wang Feng more than once last season, and they know Wang Feng very well, and even watched Wang Feng's game footage from last season many times in the offseason to study and analyze.
Therefore, they all knew very well when Wang Feng was the most terrifying.
Normally, Wang Feng will have two breaking points in the game, the first is during the third quarter of the game or the beginning of the fourth quarter, and the second breaking point is about 2 minutes after the game.
At both points in time, Wang Feng's scoring ability will become very exaggerated, almost to the point of no bullets, and the only way to stop him is to do everything to prevent him from getting the ball.
Although they don't know what the principle of Wang Feng's outburst is and why he can do it every game, Wang Feng will definitely not be an exception when it comes to the game against the Bulls.
I have to admit that the Bulls are indeed professional.
The two breaking points of Wang Feng that they studied and analyzed were his two abilities from the system.
The first burst comes when the Juggernaut bar is full, and the second is the last two and a half minutes of play when the Key Shooter badge is active.
Wang Feng has a total of two domination skills, the main dominance skill is to lock the defender, which is the dominant skill to strengthen the defensive ability, and the secondary dominance is the marksman, which is used to strengthen the shooting offensive ability.
Usually, after Wang Feng accumulates a full dominance value in the third quarter of the game, he will choose to turn on the marksman dominance to further strengthen his offensive ability, after all, Wang Feng's defense is strong enough, unless it is against Jordan, it is rarely necessary to open the lock defender to defend others.
The Bulls analyzed that Wang Feng usually broke out at the end of the third quarter or at the beginning of the fourth quarter, mainly because Wang Feng chose to turn on the time of dominance.
Since he currently does not have a badge that can quickly accumulate Domination Points, such as the Frame Elite Badge that can increase Domination after blocking, the speed of Juggernaut accumulation is not fast, except for playing particularly explosive matches, in most cases, a game can only be opened once Domination Skill.
In this case, Wang Feng usually chooses to activate the dominance skill at the end of the third quarter or at the beginning of the fourth quarter to help the team establish an advantage.