Chapter five hundred and seventy-ninth: critical mistakes, death coil
The Pacers have a great advantage, but the Warriors began to accelerate on the offensive end. They immediately launched a counterattack after the Pacers scored the goal. They played relatively very team-basedly. Even when they relied heavily on the personal abilities of the superstars in the last few minutes, they didn't just give the ball to Curry or Durant.
Facts have proved that relying solely on the offense of stars can certainly tear the Pacers' defense, but that premise is that they still have enough physical strength in the first quarter, and now they are still singles. How high is the success rate? How can they recover these 6 points?
Curry pushed forward and transferred the ball to Green's pick-and-roll with Green. Green continued to act as a top dealer because Linson had switched to Curry's position. Green's pass was usually very average, but this time, his pass was beautiful and just found Durant.
The super small forward who cut in the air did whatever he wanted when the Pacers without Linson went in and easily pulled the ball into the basket after completing a confrontation with Grant who was defending him in the air. Durant was not very good at dunking on various players' heads, which has a lot to do with his physical ability to fight against him. However, he is not good at dunking. His finishing ability is not weak, for example, this beautiful layup facing Grant fully reflects this.
The 4-point difference was only 10 seconds before the Warriors completed a counterattack, and it was a positional counterattack several times. The Warriors still did not give up their hope of winning this game. They looked forward to the victory of winning this game and returned to Golden State.
Then on the defensive end, they did not give up on Lin Sen's defense. The first few pinchs did not play a good role, but they did not change their established idea of not allowing Lin Sen to catch the ball at the beginning. In this defense, Iguodala, who has always been famous for stealing at critical times, completed a key steal.
When Lin Sen received the ball, he focused all his attention on the front and defended him. Green didn't care about his 5 fouls at this time. He was extremely aggressive on the defensive end. Although Lin Sen didn't care where to catch the ball, it was obvious that his lethality in the inside was obviously a little more.
When Lin Sen was about to turn around to the other side to defend Green, he didn't expect Iguodala to appear next to him. This position is very dangerous for the defender, not to mention that Lin Sen is just a center with relatively excellent dribbling and relatively outstanding footsteps.
Stealing, counterattack, the Warriors played the counterattack they were best at the first time as the steal. Iguodala may no longer have personal attacks and three-pointers, but his passes that have always been online even when his physical fitness has declined wildly, his defense and passing have become his biggest killer moves.
Perhaps on the offensive end of positional warfare, he has completely become an offensive weakness and cancer, but this long pass against the counterattack accurately found Thompson running in front.
This chasing three-pointer is more difficult than in the past. This is a fast three-pointer shot completed after receiving a long pass. In the past, if it was a chasing three-pointer, there would be a very large-scale catch and take action after passing. A large-scale pass will definitely ensure the speed and strength of the pass to prevent this critical move from being intercepted by the opponent.
Because of the power and speed of this ball, it is very difficult for this ball to take off quickly after receiving the ball. However, for this ball that may become the first three-three-pointer with Curry in the future, as long as he feels online, it will be easy to get into this ball.
After receiving this quickly flying basketball, Thompson hardly made any major adjustments on the front, and just took a three-pointer like usual after receiving a pass from his teammate.
"The Pacers are very close to victory. They should have kept their focus and won this victory, but now the Warriors have recovered the gap to one point in one minute. Among them, Lin's mistake is hard to let go." Reggie Miller frowned, a little angry at Lin Sen's mistake just now, but there was nothing we could do.
A player holds too much ball, is very easy to make mistakes. The NBA regular season turnover king is Harden, the second one is Westbrook, and James is also a big mistake among the top ten players. Lin Sen, as the player with the most balls among the inside players, also has many mistakes, with an average of 3.4 mistakes per game, ranked first among the center and the team.
Lin Sen's mistakes were not unacceptable. As the team's first ball-holding point and the player with the most assists, it is inevitable that he makes mistakes.
But at this moment, Lin Sen's mistakes were very uncomfortable. It was like Curry's back pass at a critical moment in the 2016 Finals. Lin Sen did not make good judgment on the opponent's defense in this offense. After several consecutive rounds of attack, he relaxed a little in this critical round.
The time went from three minutes to one and a half minutes, and the score difference of 5 points and one and a half minutes was basically decided in one round. McMillan did not want to stay calm enough at the beginning, so he quickly called a timeout to relieve the Warriors' sudden appearance of the face offensive at the last critical moment.
"My problem, I'm not focused enough on the offensive end. This steal shouldn't have happened at this time." Lin Sen said gasping on the court, and he was also very angry at the mistake he had just made.
But in fact, this should not be Lin Sen's problem. The difficult game in the second half left Lin Sen not resting much in the second half. Even though his foul numbers were not very small, he still played enough defensive strength on the defensive end. Even the skills of the perpetual motion machine did not allow him to continue to maintain 100% of himself at this time.
"No, this game is my problem. I didn't pay attention to your playing time. The old fox on the opposite side planned Kevin's entire appearance time well. This is a good way to rotate. Now you are very tired. This is my problem in rotation."
McMillan did not accept this apology, not for other reasons, but for his opinion that it was his own problem and that Lin Sen did not have enough rest time because of his rotation.
Chapter completed!