One Guard

Chapter 868 : Eat and sleep playing Green

In the first game of the Western Conference Finals, Yiyang and Curry brought an earth-shattering contest for everyone. Both guards dominated the offense in the fourth quarter and both scored gorgeous statistics. Now for them, only victory can separate the two.

Curry’s hand felt hot and he hit three-pointers unreasonably many times. Yiyang’s desire to score is very high. When this guy turned on the scoring mode, no one was able to stop him.

In the last 1 minute and 34 seconds, the Warriors led 101 to 100. In the American Airlines Center Arena, no fan is sitting and watching the ball. Some female fans even covered their eyes with their hands, because they didn’t even dare to watch the game for more than a minute.

“For this game, we have already assumed a lot of situations in advance. To be honest, the score is still anxious at the end of the game, which is easy to predict in advance. But when this moment really came, we found that we did not match. Not ready. I just don’t know if Curry and Curry are ready.” Mike Brin looked at Cole and Carlisle who were setting up tactics off the court. He could experience the suffocation just by looking at it. Tension. If Mike Brin is replaced on the court now, he probably won’t even be able to hold the ball securely.

The huge sound of the electronic buzzer at the scene shocked everyone’s heart. Players from both sides stepped into the stadium one after another. The blood pressure of the fans soared, and everyone’s face turned red from congestion.

But they did not forget their responsibilities. When Yiyang started to control the ball for more than half of the time, fans throughout the US Airline Center Arena were shouting “MVP”. For a player, it is already a great success to be recognized by the fans.

Klay Thompson clapped his hands, wondering whether he was provoking Yiyang or cheering himself up. Today he has allowed Yiyang to score 40 points, which is unusual for Clay.

In fact, it is not that Thompson’s defensive ability has become weaker, but that the Mavericks can help Yiyang share more pressure. With more offensive points, the Warriors’ layered defenses and defenses will be restrained and destroyed. In this way, Yiyang can get a lot of one-on-one singles opportunities.

Being able to make the top star in the team perform one-on-one singles is actually part of the tactic. In the past, Phil Jackson’s triangle offense, to put it bluntly, also created singles opportunities for Jordan and Kobe?

In one-on-one, Thompson obviously couldn’t restrain Yiyang. There are always a few stars in this league that can’t be restricted. You can often see news that James “only” scored 32 points, and so-and-so’s defensive success restricted him. However, 32 points, is it really low?

This is the superstar, they are above anyone’s defense. Yiyang is also this type of player.

As soon as Yiyang got outside the three-point line, everyone pulled him to the weak side. The Warriors’ defensive system was destroyed, and Thompson had to rely on himself.

Yiyang kept changing hands from his hips, constantly rushing and stopping to confuse Thompson’s center of gravity. Thompson stepped back again and again, he did not take the initiative to fight, but was very passive.

Seeing Thompson defending himself like this, Yiyang simply made jump shots directly from the middle and long distances! Thompson was taken aback. He didn’t expect Yiyang would choose to shoot to end the offense. In this case, isn’t it more secure to break through?

Thompson left room for Yiyang, and he paid the price for it. Yiyang’s long-range two-pointer cleared the net, and within ten seconds, the Mavericks overtook the score!

“The 42nd point of the game! Clay is already at a loss on the defensive end. The Warriors must have defenses, even double-teams! Otherwise, the scoring will be uncontrollable!”

“Retreat, retreat, give me a quick step back!” Yiyang did not celebrate after scoring a goal, but greeted everyone to hurry back to defense. Switching offense is the strength of the Mavericks, as well as the strength of the Warriors.

Under Yiyang’s scolding, no one dared to sneer for a while. But Kerr is not nervous. Although the Warriors’ conversion offense is very powerful, their positional offense is not weak. In fact, none of the teams that can reach the Western Conference Finals have obvious weaknesses. Otherwise, they would have been killed in the first few rounds.

Thompson’s interspersed movement was still closely followed by Mitchell, Durant leaned on Gay to ask for the ball, and Curry sent the ball over.

Durant hit Gay on his back, this is definitely a sure-fire business. But even so, the Mavericks would never dare to double-team. Durant’s passing ability and passing vision are not bad. Once double-teamed, the outside line will definitely be a three-pointer!

Durant took a step back, and then turned over to shoot a jumper! But the No. 35 super scorer failed to make a shot this time, and Guy’s defensive vigor on the defensive end kept Durant from getting good fruit.

“Guy is one of the most underrated defenders,” Yiyang often said in front of the camera. People used to think that this was just flattery between Yiyang and his teammates, but now it seems that Yiyang is not flattering when he says so.

Gobert withstood Green’s collision and protected the rebound with his own height to suppress everything.

“This is your war with me, Stephen! Don’t try to let others solve the problem!” Yiyang shouted at Curry, and then received a pass from Gobert to start a new round of attack.

That guy Yiyang has gone crazy.

In the subsequent attack, Yiyang did not continue to play singles, but asked Gay to make a screen for himself and kill the basket.

After the screen, Durant switched to Yiyang. This tall and arm-length “Big Spider” is definitely a nightmare for other defenders. He raises his hands in such a way that the opponent can’t even see the basket.

If you try hard, you must be blocked by Durant. So Yiyang grabbed a jump from the bottom of the basket and slammed it under the basket, then raised the basketball with a flicking shot. Durant and Green were both fired. They didn’t expect Yiyang to use a jump, because Yiyang rarely used this action to score.

After Durant and Green both took off, Yiyang still couldn’t see the basket, but he had a chance to commit a foul.

Take the initiative to lean on Durant, the referee whistle, and the defensive foul!

“What the hell…” Durant said angrily, and it was indeed upsetting to be fouled. But he and Curry are also masters who often deliberately commit fouls. What is this called? This is called karma.

Standing on the free throw line, Yiyang remained calm and composed at the critical moment. The key free throws did not put any pressure on him, and two steady hits, the Mavericks extended the score advantage to 3 points. At this point, there are still 58 seconds before the end of the game!

It can be seen that Cole intends to use a more secure method to score points and keep the game winning. The safest way is to let Durant play singles in the low post. Today Thompson was guarded to the death by Mitchell, and Curry couldn’t keep scoring defensively again and again. Only Durant has an absolute advantage in the matchup between Kuzma and Gay.

So just now, Curry chose to pass the ball to Durant, not on a whim, but because of the tactical arrangement.

But this time, Gay didn’t even want to give Durant the chance to connect the ball. He went straight forward to defend, sitting on Durant’s knee. This is a tactic that people used to defend against tall centers such as O’Neal and Yao Ming more than ten years ago. Now, Guy has used this method to defend Durant! This shows how big the threat Durant is!

Curry raised the ball and was about to hang it, but found that the pass was too dangerous, and Guy was likely to steal it directly. No, you must not make mistakes at critical moments!

So Curry handed the ball to Iguodala, and then moved to find space by himself. As Yiyang said, this game has to be solved by the two of them!

In the past with the Mavericks, Iguodala was the second point of organization on the court. If Yiyang wants to play off the ball, then hand the ball to Iguodala to handle it.

After Iguodala joined the Warriors, Cole directly copied this tactic. Curry offensively without the ball, Iguodala holds the ball. In this way, the basketball can be delivered to Curry who ran out of the empty space in the first time.

Yiyang bypassed the first layer of Clay’s cover, and he flashed flexibly as if he were a little squirrel escaping from a hunter. But the second layer of cover, facing Green, Yiyang was not so lucky.

Green moved his position secretly, and Yiyang was directly tripped to the ground. This was originally an illegal cover, but the referee ignored it! I don’t know if the referee didn’t see it, or deliberately ignored it. In short, from the beginning of the playoffs to the present, the referee’s whistle is very towards the Warriors.

Yiyang did not complain on the ground, but immediately got up and reached out to block the shot in the library!

“What a terrible willpower!” Mike Brin and the others were dumbfounded. Even knowing that he was just trying to make up for it, Yiyang did not give up.

Although Curry made this nearly empty three-pointer, everyone still gave Yiyang applause!

“A great defender must have a strong heart! Stephen’s three-pointer once again equalized the score, but Yi’s defense is still outstanding!”

“Aren’t you going to shoot me in the face? Hahahaha! Idiot!” After Curry scored, Green smiled triumphantly. Seeing Yiyang suffer a dumb loss, this guy felt very happy in his heart.

“Is it okay? That **** is really…” Gobert leaned forward to look at Yiyang’s body, but it was fine.

“Just the clown, don’t bother about it. Serve Rudy, don’t waste time!”

Curry’s three-pointer once again filled the gap. 104 to 104 in the last 40 seconds. Curry scored 41 points and Yiyang scored 44 points. Every second from now on will determine the final outcome of the game.

Yiyang deliberately asked Gobert to cover, he wanted to force Green to defend himself. It’s not that Yiyang wants to save face for the matter just now, but facing Green, Yiyang has an absolute speed advantage. For Yiyang, playing Green is much more comfortable than playing Clay.

After the change of defense, Yiyang did not rush to break through, but took a few steps back to make room for himself to sprint. Green pressed beyond the three-point line and didn’t continue to approach. Co-defense and supplementary defense Green is the league’s top level, but in the face of Yiyang’s single defense, Green may not be able to take advantage.

Yiyang speeds up with the ball. He first changes his hand to Green’s left side with a very large arc. After Green responds, Yiyang immediately pulls behind his back and changes direction again, swaying easily. Open Green, passing him!

“A beautiful breakthrough, Drummond Green is completely missed by Yi Huang!”

Two times the speed was extremely fast and the arc changed a lot, allowing Yiyang to successfully get rid of Green. At this time, only Durant remained in the Warriors penalty area. Yiyang took a step to the left, and when Durant was about to block, he suddenly turned to the right in the second step. Europe stepped for a layup, shook the two in a row, and Yiyang stretched out in the air to prepare for the layup.

The humiliated Green naturally wouldn’t let it go. He rushed back to the restricted area and flew towards Yiyang. Chasing and risking such things, Green did not do less!

But Yiyang seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, changing hands in the air, causing Green to pounce, and the basketball went straight into the net!

Yiyang was knocked out of the bottom line by Green. At the same time, the referee’s whistle sounded and Yiyang had to be fined!

“Boom!” At that moment, the camera couldn’t even capture the scene of the stadium because it was completely obscured by the raised arms of the Mavericks fans.

Although Yiyang fell heavily , he smiled at Green while sitting on the ground.

“You almost guarded me, man, just a little too close! If you keep on doing it, one day you will know that you will always be a little too close!”

“Fuck me!” Green usually sprays others, there is no reason why others can spray him. Green ran away, and he rushed towards Yiyang angrily, but was stopped by the tall Gobert.

“You will be behind by 3 points soon. If you want to lose, I don’t mind if you leave early.” After Gobert finished speaking, he turned and pulled Yiyang up.

Green gritted his teeth with anger, but couldn’t do anything to Yiyang. Now if it is shot, it is inevitable to be suspended.

Green had to hold back aggrievedly, then turned and left silently. Seeing Green’s face that was so angry that it was like a purple potato, Yiyang felt extremely comfortable.

Tell you and me to pretend, I don’t think you can spit out trash.

In the last 30 seconds of the game, Yiyang had to take a free throw. The pressure, all rolled over to the Warriors.