Chapter 784 On the edge of the cliff
Chapter 784 On the edge of the cliff
"Huh...huh..." Barkley panted heavily while sitting on the bench. He didn't feel it on the court at first, but as soon as his butt touched the seat, he felt tired all over his body instantly.
Overtime is something Barkley never wants, just like a social animal who has finally reached the off-duty time and asks him to work overtime.
In regular time tonight, Barkley played another 45 minutes. Since the series with the Warriors, Barkley has played more than 40 minutes in every game, and the donkeys of the production team dare not use it like this.
The previous fatigue will accumulate, but now after five games, Barkley has accumulated more fatigue than everyone else present.
Therefore, when Barkley wanted to stand up when the whistle sounded to start the game, he could only rely on Marley and Green to pull him up together.
After the players on both sides returned to the court, overtime officially began.
In the jump ball, Divac managed to win the ball.
Green, who played the jump ball with him, despite being nicknamed "Iron Man", is still human after all. He played 41 minutes tonight, and his physical strength has already reached the limit. He is completely different from Divac who only played 35 minutes. This state can basically be summed up as: can't move your legs, can't keep up.
Therefore, the Warriors successfully won the first wave of possession in overtime.
Compared with the Suns, Rodman, who played the longest game for the Warriors tonight, only played 38 minutes, and everyone has more physical strength.
In this case, their first attack was launched in a fast break situation.
The exhaustion of the body affected the footsteps and concentration of the Suns team. After Divac won the ball for the Warriors, Li Weisi directly made a long pass to Richmond in the frontcourt. The latter passed Marly for a layup. If you succeed, you will be the first for the Warriors.
Immediately afterwards, when it was the Suns' turn to attack, their offense became a little weaker, especially Barkley, who almost didn't take the initiative to ask for the ball.
Seeing that the eldest brother didn't wave, Hardaway naturally couldn't forcefully feed him the ball, so it would be too shameless.
Hardaway also played 42 minutes tonight, but due to his relatively light weight, there is still room for energy at this time.
In addition, Barkley still performed poorly on the offensive end tonight. He took much more shots than Hardaway, but he did not score as high as him.
However, Hardaway does not blame Barkley. Hardaway has seen his hard work on the court. Barkley has contributed a lot to the team's ability to compete with the Warriors until now.
But now, when the team needs him to stand up, Hardaway naturally can't hold back. Therefore, soon, Hardaway began to prepare to break through Li Weisi.
Hardaway's performance tonight is still very stable, and he has already scored more than 20 points. If you just look at the statistics, everyone will think that Li Weisi's defense is too bad, which makes Hardaway score so many points. Otherwise, look at Barkley, Rhodes How good is Mann's defense?
However, only Hardaway, who is really facing Li Weisi, can understand that Li Weisi's defense is not as bad as everyone imagined. Even in Hardaway's eyes, Li Weisi's defense is better than Stockton. After all, Li Weisi does not have so many harmful plots trick.
In addition to no dirty tricks, Li Weisi is absolutely top-notch whether it is the grasp of the defensive space, the prediction of the attack, or the timing of the strike. The reason why he gives people a weak defense lies in his speed. Pure innate things like power and strength are not enough.
But this time, Hardaway still used his advantage-speed to continue to break through Li Weisi's defense.
However, when he used the cross step to confuse Li Weisi's defensive center of gravity, and tried to use his speed to pass Li Weisi in one step, he found that Li Weisi, who should have been deceived, appeared on his offensive line.
How is this going?How is he so fast?
Hardaway didn't have time to think about it, so he braked quickly and forcibly stopped his body. After all, if it hits, a dribbler can't run away.
However, when he just stopped his body and had no time to change direction, Li Weisi took the first step to shoot off the ball he was dribbling.
Since he had just slammed on the brakes, his whole body was still in a state of stiffness, and he could not change his movements at will, so when he reacted, Li Weisi had already rushed out with the ball.
Hardaway didn't understand at all, it wasn't that Li Weisi became faster, but that he became slower.
For Hardaway's change of direction, Li Weisi had already figured out his way, but suffered from insufficient lateral speed, which allowed Hardaway to complete breakthroughs repeatedly.
Not enough, when Hardaway's physical strength declined, Li Weisi had slowly regained the initiative when defending Hardaway. In fact, in the fourth quarter, Hardaway's breakthrough against Li Weisi was already difficult to work , It’s just that the game was very anxious at the time, and the offense of both sides was not very good, so Hardaway didn’t realize this.
Seeing the back of Li Weisi gradually going away, Hardaway felt that he might not be able to catch up with him.
Li Weisi succeeded in a layup after stealing, and the point difference has come to 4 points.
In the following round, the Suns still failed to make a shot, and the Warriors immediately counterattacked. In the fast break, because the Suns focused their defense on Li Weisi, Mullin was completely missed.
Li Weisi saw the stitches and passed the ball to Mullin. Mullin made an easy layup and the Warriors added 2 points.
At this point in the game, the Suns are in a very difficult situation, and coach Westphal requested a timeout.
However, Westphal also knew that it was no longer a matter of skills and tactics, but a matter of physical strength in the final analysis, but the Suns only had so many players, and it was impossible to use substitutes as boldly as the Warriors did.
In the final analysis, this is still the embodiment of the hard power of the team.
Throughout the suspension process, Westphal had no good solution but to encourage everyone and continue to persevere. As for the result, he didn't even mention it.
Back from the timeout, perhaps this timeout allowed everyone to take a breather, making the Suns attack, and Marly successfully hit a goal. Finally, for the Suns, they scored 2 points in overtime.
But looking back, Li Weisi just made a three-pointer and hit back.
This three-pointer is more like the final judgment of the entire game. With this three-pointer, the suspense of the game gradually disappeared.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Suns 103:97 and won the battle of Tianwangshan.
Throughout overtime, the Warriors scored 11 points, while the Suns only scored 5 points.
In terms of personal data, Li Weisi scored 31 points and 7 assists, scoring the highest score in the game, but the rest averaged 20 points.
As for the Suns, as the team's top star, Barkley made 22 of 8 shots and 6 of 1 free throws tonight. He only scored 17 points, but he grabbed 20 rebounds. A game in which he out-rebounded Rodman.
However, these statistics lose their meaning as the team loses. In any case, the Suns have come to the edge of a cliff.
(End of this chapter)