Chapter 863: an early closure

The Warriors were led by their opponents to 24 points in the half at home, and this game was really impossible to play.
For most of Li Liang's time, he led the Thunder to gain an advantage and carried the Warriors' "kick egg" attack.
Then Durant and Westbrook spent three minutes falling into the rock and beating the Warriors all at once.
At the end of the second quarter, the Warriors felt unbelievable. Why was it played like this in such a short time?
Throughout the regular season, the Warriors haven't been beaten in this way, and they haven't played much against it.
This is a huge blow to the team's confidence.
At halftime, Cole used most of his saliva to boost the morale of the team and convinced the players that "the game is not over yet."
The game did not end, there is still a whole second half of the time.
With a gap of 24 points, the Celtics were behind by 24 points at halftime in the finals of the 2008 finals.
24 points is the death line of the playoffs. In the history of the NBA, if the point difference is opened to 25 points, there is no precedent for a turnaround.
The Celtics rely on steel defense. If the Warriors can't regain their defense in the second half and stop the Thunder's violent offense, their ending will be even worse than the Lakers in 2008.
But how can it be restricted?
Cole had no idea.
Three-headed monster, there is no way to limit.
For a high-quality defensive system, pinching two giant players who hold the ball is almost the limit.
Each superstar is assigned two defenders, which is theoretically feasible.
When this number is increased to three, in theory, six people should be deployed to defend against it, then it will not work.
Unless you count the referee, but you really need a referee, the referee can prevent the Big Five.
Unfortunately, the referee was not on the Warriors side tonight, and Kennedy even went a bit against the Thunder in the first half.
Oracle Arena is full of an ominous atmosphere.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the Warriors played all their spirits.
As soon as Curry came up, he got rid of Westbrook's defense without a ball. Westbrook slipped on himself while chasing.
Curry caught the ball and made a shot from the free 3-point line on the right.
In the case of open space, Curry's three-pointer is still very reliable.
This quick three-pointer gave the Warriors fans a little hope.
But the key depends on defense.
But in defense, Curry had a loophole.
High position Li Liang blocked Curry with a pick-and-roll, which caused Westbrook to easily cut in, and then passed the ball to Robertson who inserted the wing.
Robertson made an easy layup and scored two points.
Immediately after, Thompson received the ball from outside and cooperated with Bogut to make a screen. Bogut went down and Thompson passed the ball.
As a result, the ball was obviously passed and flew straight out of the bottom line, a mistake.
The ball hit the Warriors' morale not badly, but the Thunder also made mistakes immediately.
Li Liang's high-impact Nese pass hit Green's crotch, rebounded, and was cut off by the Warriors.
It can be seen that Li Liang wanted to pass a crotch but unfortunately saw it through Green.
With a clip, the ball was stopped and the ball was successfully intercepted.
The price is that his egg was smashed, and jumped to the frontcourt.
Thompson immediately hit the basket in a counterattack. After a jump and a fake move, he hit a two-pointer with a rebound.
But coming back, Li Liang once again chose a high position to handle a difficult pass.
This time he made no mistakes and directly stuffed into the hands of Durant in the three-second zone.
Durant received the ball and turned to pick a layup and hit two points.
A good pass can make scoring extremely easy.
At the same time, the big score led Li Liang to start an easy pass.
The Thunder players began to relax.
But this relaxation is not slack, but more bold to deal with the ball.
The imminent score is a dare to pass the second pass, the imminent score is a dare to do difficult moves.
This makes the Thunder's attack more flexible and natural, especially Li Liang's good head.
Klay Thompson immediately hit another three-pointer on offense.
And Li Liang was on the left side of the 45-degree line, facing the Warriors' two-side attack and defense, holding the ball back two steps, making a three-point shot from a long distance, also hit!
answer-ball, offsetting Thompson's 3-pointer against the hedge.
This kind of ball hits the Warriors quite hard.
The Warriors can attack very smoothly, but if their defense is not up, the gap of 24 points can not be smoothed.
After playing for five minutes in the second half, the Warriors played very well on offense, but when looking at the score, they were still 24 points behind.
In five minutes, they did not shrink by 1 point.
Under the leadership of Li Liang, Westbrook also began to pass some unbelievable passes. His teammates did not find him to pass.
Cole watched the battle between the two sides, and you scored one by one, the rhythm became faster and faster, which was not what he wanted.
Cole called for a timeout, he hoped that the team's defensive strength can be improved, can strangle the Thunder's offense, so that they are stuck.
After the timeout, the Warriors made a small lineup and made five appearances.
Cole is about to fight.
In the first two games of the series, the Warriors used five small hours very rarely, most of the time there were centers inside.
Because once the five primary schools are used, the Thunder will use twin towers.
Two towers plus a Li Liang, really can't afford to defend.
But now there is no way, we have to give it a go, use five small high-speed rotation and oppression, to create miracles.
As a result, the Thunder did not use twin towers to deal with it, and Donovan actually used a small lineup to deal with Cole.
Li Liang was again mentioned as the center position, and then paired with Waiters, Robertson, Durant and Westbrook, it felt like he was back to the Pacers.
Pausing back for the first attack, the Warriors were defended for a 24 seconds.
The expanded defense of the Thunder led to the Warriors' poor outside rotation. When Thompson hurriedly shot, time was not enough.
The Thunder Five Elementary didn't show up much in the regular season because they didn't need to.
However, Li Liang really has a hand in playing center.
Westbrook received a pass from the high position to make a countermeasure, pretending to pass to the Waiters running position, and returned to Durant on the wing, and then went to a cover.
Durant left the ball with his left hand to the basket, and a very easy dunk succeeded.
The basket was pulled empty, and a simple breakthrough helped the Thunder score.
Then, Li Liang defended Iguodala in the shift of the outside round, pushing Iguodala one-on-one defense into desperation, and finally had to force a three-point shot.
As a result, Li Liang rewarded Iguodala with a big hat, and then counterattack was another long pass.
Into the soul!
Magician Johnson hits the ground with a long pass, flying against the floor and giving it to Durant.
After Durant received the ball, it was another easy two-handed dunk.
The difference was 30 minutes away.
The Warriors serve quickly in the backcourt and want to rush one.
Green rushed to the basket after receiving the ball from the three-point line.
Li Liang gave up a position for him to come in. Green layup, he held up from the side, jumped, gently, Green's layup cap.
Not only covered up, but also grabbed a hand, retrieved the ball back, and controlled the ball.
At this point, Li Liang is stronger than Ibaka~EbookFREE.me~ Ibaka often has some shocking caps, but the caps go out, and the ball is still the opponent's.
Li Liang does not have that kind of volleyball cap, but he can control the ball and form a counterattack.
This time Li Liang didn't pass the ball, he dribble quickly through the half, Iguodala stuck to Li Liang, Li Liang killed all the way from the left to the bottom line, stabilized, turned back and felt like to stop to play the position.
Then suddenly a back turned, walked to the bottom line, thrown away from Iguodala, and hit the basket, who is the basket?
Only Curry.
Li Liang burst from the edge of the three-second zone, and one hand succeeded with a dunk across Curry!
The Oracle Arena was beaten silently by this wave of the Thunder Five, and there was a feeling that it was lost all season.
The point difference reached a desperate 30 points, everyone knows that the game is over.
Not only did the game end early, the entire series ended early.