Chapter 680
Chapter 680
During the fast break, Magic Johnson dribbled the ball and quickly broke through to the frontcourt. Worthy and Green belonged to both sides, like two bodyguards, belonging to Johnson.
There is no way for the players defending the three of them to keep an eye on everyone, and it is this fleeting moment that Johnson has already seen in his heart. After a classic no-look pass, after deceiving Richmond, will The ball was passed in, and Worthy caught the ball and dunked with one hand.
With this goal scored, the Lakers tied the score again, and the two teams once again tied at 18:18.
The Warriors requested a timeout. Although the game was fierce at this time, Nelson still let the team make substitutions according to the established rotation. It seemed that he was not worried that the team would fall behind due to the use of a substitute lineup.
Unlike Nelson's bold employment, the Lakers coach veteran Mike Dunleavy is not as bold as Nelson. In fact, he can't change even if he wants to.
On the Lakers bench in the past, the most reliable Dpoy Michael Cooper has retired this season. Now, in addition to the starting five players, the only other players who can use the Lakers are Terry Teague and Larry Cooper. Drew and Michael Thompson.
After joining the Lakers this season, Teague has become the most stable player in the Lakers' bench lineup. He currently averages more than 10 points per game, almost equivalent to the sixth man of the Lakers.
Although the veteran Larry Drew is only 32 years old, his physical function and state have already declined to the point where he cannot move.
In the first round of the series, he didn't even average 5 points per game, and he was only 185cm tall. Without his speed, he was almost a big defensive black hole on the court, and anyone could beat him.
But even so, the Lakers still can only use him.
As for Michael Thompson, let alone, at the age of 35, he has already reached the point of exhaustion. If you expect him to break out in the playoffs, you might as well count on winning the lottery!
Therefore, seeing the rotten deck in his hand, it is impossible to expect Dunleavy to play well.
This is also the most annoying thing for Dunleavy. Since Riley parted with the Lakers management last season, as a temporary replacement, he took over this seemingly beautiful team. Only after taking over, will he know how difficult this team is.
Now Dunleavy feels very regretful, why did he take such a hot potato in his head at the beginning?
However, who can turn down the opportunity to coach Magic Johnson?
Therefore, facing such a bad substitute, the Lakers can only extend their starting time, at most let Teague and Thompson replace Worthy and Perkins one by one.
Facing the Lakers with a mixed lineup of Magic Johnson, Scott and Perkins, the Warriors' substitutes were not afraid. On the contrary, Starks, who was not afraid of anything, played more actively.
For Scott's defense, Starks didn't pay attention to it at all, and forcibly squeezed Scott into the basket with his body. The person who defended the basket was Thompson.
Facing the tall and burly Thompson, Starks was not afraid at all. He stepped on the ground with one foot, rose into the air, and chose to dunk against Thompson.
Starks' take-off was indeed beyond Thompson's expectations. He took off one step later and fell into a disadvantage in timing. By the time he took off, Starks had already jumped high.
"Oops!" Seeing that Starks was about to ride on his neck, Thompson felt a chill in his heart, and a bad premonition arose.
Sure enough, as expected, Starks dunked the ball into the basket hard, and Starks dunked Thompson!
The entire Oracle Arena was silent at first, and then burst into enthusiastic cheers, the intensity of which was about to topple the roof of the entire arena.
Fans of the Warriors never expected that Starks could bring them such a wonderful buckle, which is really a surprise.
To be honest, Starks did not give the Warriors fans a good impression this season, because his performance is always incompatible with the team's bench lineup, coupled with his style of play, he often shoots 10 for 0, The shooting rate of 10 in 1 has made fans often criticize.
But tonight's performance made people seem to forget his bad performance in the past, and cheered for him heartily.
After the cheers, the game returned to normal. Although the dunk ignited the audience, it was only 2 points after all.
Worthy then tied the game again with a layup.
After that, the game between the two sides continued to maintain a entangled score until the end of the first quarter, and the two teams tied at 25.
It can be seen that the main lineup of the Lakers did not take advantage of the Warriors' substitutes. There is no way, who made Starks behave like a mad dog tonight?
After only playing 3 minutes in the first quarter, he actually scored 3 points on 3-of-6 shooting, almost taking all the points off the bench.
Such an anxious game, not only in the first quarter, but also intensified in the second quarter.
In fact, at the beginning of the second quarter, it was the most dangerous moment for the Lakers, because at this time, head coach Dunleavy had already replaced Magic Johnson, Scott, and Perkins. The decline is so severe that it can only rely on the offense of Worthy and Teague.
Unfortunately, the Warriors failed to seize this opportunity, because Starks became inaccurate again in the second quarter.
After wasting a few offensive opportunities, the Warriors quickly changed their tactics. Curry controlled the ball and Divac organized it. Only then did Starks slowly fill in the hole dug by Starks.
However, several main players of the Lakers did not rest for a few minutes. After a symbolic rest, they need to return to the game.
On the Warriors side, they still played steadily and did not make changes until the time came. This also caused the team to fall behind by 4 points when Li Weisi returned to the court.
Fortunately, for the Warriors, 4 points are not too much. After returning, Richmond first made a layup, and then interfered with Johnson's missed shot in defense. After receiving the rebound, the ball returned to the Warriors .
After bringing the ball to the frontcourt, Li Weisi successfully broke through Scott's defense with a simple cross step, and at the same time tore a hole in the Lakers' defense.
Facing Li Weisi, who broke into the paint, the other Lakers players knew that Li Weisi would have countless ways to make their help defense return in vain, but they had to do so.
If you do it, you may have a chance, if you don't, Li Weisi will surely advance!
Sure enough, for Green's defense, Li Weisi kicked off with both feet on the ground at the same time, and his entire right arm was like a spring, shooting the basketball high.
The basketball circled Green's fingertips, flew over every scalp in the penalty area, and after reaching the top of the basket, it fell slowly, and the ball was scored!
Li Weisi threw a bomb and helped the Warriors tie the score again.
(End of this chapter)