warrior godfather

boom! boom! boom!
After three consecutive hits, Durant staggered and took a small step back. Leonard took the ball and turned over for a jumper. Durant controlled his center of gravity in a very short time, stretched out his long arms, and pounced.

Bang!

Leonard made a mid-range shot and the rebound was protected by Gobert. Durant immediately ran to the frontcourt, took a step and turned his head, always paying attention to the movement of the ball.

Leonard, who missed in singles, had no time to be frustrated, and followed Durant, stuck in his position, and prevented him from going down quickly.

The Warriors' retreat speed was also very fast, and did not give the Thunder a chance to play a fast break. After Westbrook quickly dribbled the ball through the frontcourt, the breakthrough route was blocked, and he could only stop at the top of the arc and fell into a positional battle.

Durant also stopped, breathing a little short of breath due to the fast running.

He raised his head and took a quick glance at the big screen in midair. At this time, the third quarter had reached 3 minutes and 12 seconds, and the score was 86:76, with the Thunder trailing by 10 points.

Although he blocked Leonard's offense, that was just an exception. In most of the previous offensive rounds, the Warriors had a high success rate, but this time Leonard did not run ahead of time. Playing Durant alone, the shot was interfered with.

As a heavy forward, Leonard consumes a lot of physical energy, especially in front of the Thunder's defense. He executed a lot of singles tactics, and the consumption was further amplified. In the third quarter of the game, he singled Durant again, and his success rate decreased. a lot.

After finally defending an offense, Durant immediately reached out to Westbrook for the ball, and he wanted to quickly overtake the score.

Westbrook passed the ball over, but after Durant got the ball, Green came over to flank immediately. Before Green's flank arrived, Durant made a hasty shot, hit the iron in the mid-range shot, and the rebound was recovered to Curry under the basket for protection down.

During Durant's retreat, he glared at Green, feeling very upset.

In the past 8 minutes or so, the Thunder has been adopting a defensive strategy to test the Warriors' singles ability.

But the Warriors are completely different. After Zhang Yu replaced Wu Xiao, as long as Durant got the ball, the Warriors would go up and attack, not giving Durant a chance to play singles calmly.

At the beginning, Durant distributed the ball to open teammates, but Robertson and Gobert's poor finishing ability quickly made him laugh.

Later, he simply stopped passing the ball. No matter how hard the Warriors pinched, he would do it himself when he got the ball. This is also an important reason why the point difference was widened.

Durant also wanted to pass the ball to Ibaka and Westbrook, but the Warriors emptied Gobert and Robertson. Zhang Yu directly asked Green to face Westbrook, put him five meters away, and see if he shot a three-pointer.

But even so, Clay gave Westbrook a step, blocking the passing route between Durant and Westbrook, and his attention was always on Durant holding the ball.

Anyway, Westbrook doesn't run without the ball. As long as he doesn't have the ball in his hand, he just stands still. Even if he has the ball, he still can't shoot. A class of players too.

Antetokounmpo also gave Ibaka a step. He is tall and has long legs. This step is nothing to him. He can return to his position at any time, and his attention is also on Durant.

In other words, the Warriors actually not only flanked Durant, but defended a one-on-one quadruple. As soon as Durant got the ball, two people immediately surrounded him, and the other three were ready to help defend at any time.

Durant didn't know that the Warriors' defense was one-on-one. He only felt that there were Warriors around him. Even if he wanted to dribble, it would be extremely difficult, let alone break through and shoot.

He was like a strong elk, surrounded by wolves, he had all his strength, but he had nowhere to use it, and his physical energy was slowly being consumed.

However, Durant is not alone.

When he fell into the Warriors' one-on-one quadruple, Donovan made adjustments, and the Thunder's offensive focus shifted to Westbrook, but this happened in a timeout before 1 minute and 23 seconds, with some lag.

If it weren't for Durant's obsession with asking for the ball this round, Westbrook would not pass the ball to him.

Looking back, Curry and Antetokounmpo picked and rolled, Gobert switched defenses, Curry crossed his crotch, making a gesture to break through, pushed Gobert back a step, and directly made a three-pointer. Gobert couldn't interfere, and the basketball went into the net , 89:76.

"Yeah!!"

After Curry made a three-pointer, a huge sound burst out from the Chase Center, and it was transmitted to Durant's ears, which shocked him and finally calmed down.

According to Donovan's arrangement, he honestly ran without the ball, looked for scoring opportunities, and completely handed over the ball to Westbrook.

Now, it's finally Westbrook's performance moment.

He first picked and rolled with Gobert, took advantage of the momentary space formed by the cover, and forced a breakthrough to the inside line. Facing Green, who was retreating and defending, he chose to break through with a European step, but Green predicted his advance route and stood in a good position in advance. One less bump and fell to the ground.

"Di-"

The whistle sounded and Westbrook was called for an offensive foul.

Green was very excited. After getting up, he punched and roared. Westbrook was very dissatisfied and found the referee to appeal, but the referee was unmoved.

Fortunately, in the next round, Curry singled out Gobert's three-pointer and missed the basket, and the point difference did not continue to widen.

Westbrook controlled the ball. This time he chose to pick and roll with Ibaka. Antetokounmpo, like Green, retreated to his position. Clay also went off the screen to give Westbrook room to shoot.

Westbrook jumped high and confidently shot a three-pointer.

Bang!

The basketball hit the rim, and Westbrook hit it angrily.

The rebound was protected by Leonard, who was recovered to the basket, and passed to Curry. The Warriors quickly switched from defense to offense and pushed for a counterattack. :91.

Looking back, Westbrook continued to hold the ball, and Durant was no longer running. He stood in the bottom corner and watched Westbrook operate in horror.

Fortunately, this time Westbrook is more competitive. Facing the Warriors' retreating defense, the mid-range zombie jumper succeeded, 78:91.

"call……"

Durant let out a long breath, and Leonard, who had been by his side all the time, cast a puzzled look over him.

Didn't you just stand at the bottom corner all the time, why did you look so tired?

Durant noticed the look in Leonard's eyes, but he couldn't explain that he was not physically tired, but mentally tired.

Watching Westbrook play is too much for the heart.

At the transition of the round, the Warriors ran a tactic to find an opportunity for Clay, but it was destroyed by the Thunder's defense switch and turned into Clay's post-up singles against Robertson in a low post. Under strong interference, he turned over and missed a jumper.

Clay's condition is still not good. After three quarters, he only scored 10 points, but took 9 shots.

The Thunder attacked, and Westbrook held the ball at the top of the arc.

Now that the ball is in his hands, don't even think about getting it out easily. On this point, the Thunder and Junior are the same.

They have become accustomed to the core style of play with the ball in their hands. Even Durant, who was born without the ball, has a little forgotten how to play without the ball. When he has no ball in his hand, he usually stands by the side.

In Zhang Yu's previous life, after Durant joined the Warriors, he picked up his off-ball skills again and integrated into the Warriors' passing and cutting system.

But after just two seasons, Durant reverted to his old ways, tired of endless running tactics, and wanted Splash to give him space, and he attacked with the ball himself.

Cole chose to compromise in order to keep Durant.

So in the 2019 playoffs, Durant had a lot of singles.

His data before the injury was very explosive, but that was the worst playoff performance of Yu Yuyong, and he was even humiliated by the Clippers who completed a super reversal of 31 points behind.

After Durant was injured, the Warriors changed back to their original style of play, immediately eliminated the Rockets, swept the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Finals, and fought the Raptors until the last minute of G6 in the Finals, only to regret losing.

Now, Durant is playing this way, without the ball in his hand, he is standing in the corner, Leonard is next to him, handing him an ashtray, and the two enjoy Westbrook's performance together.

Just now Westbrook made a mid-range shot, and his confidence has obviously increased a lot. This time, facing the Warriors' retreating defense, he directly made a three-pointer.

Bang!

It's a pity that the basketball bounced out of the frame, and the long rebound popped out, which happened to fall into Curry's hands.

Curry pushed directly to counterattack, and the Warriors' fast break swept in like a tide.

There was chaos in the Thunder's defense, and Curry was left unattended. He rushed into the penalty area, took a step, rose into the air, and dunked the ball into the basket with both hands, 93:78.

This is a relatively reluctant dunk. Curry's hands will only be a little higher than the basket, and if they are 1 cm shorter, they will hit the front of the basket.

But the fans at the scene were more excited than seeing Antetokounmpo's alley-oop dunk with both hands. This is Curry's dunk!
All the fans cheered, and many people jumped up excitedly. At this moment, the noise of the Chase Center was absolutely no less than that of the Oracle Center, and Hell's home court reappeared in the Bay Area.

Curry himself was also very excited. He opened his hands, bent down, and glided all the way back to the backcourt, grinning loudly. The gap between the two front teeth was captured by the camera.

When Curry completed the dunk, Durant was the closest to him. He was the one who wanted to win the game the most, and he was the most active in retreating. Can watch Curry dunk successfully.

He stood there watching Curry gliding back past him, eyes burning.

That's not right, that's not how the game is played!

At this moment, Durant forgot the confidence his teammates gave him before the game, and forgot that Westbrook was his best helper.

There is only one thought in his mind, he wants to get the ball back, and he doesn't want to watch Westbrook hit the iron anymore.

At this time, there are only 22 seconds left in the third quarter, and the Thunder can control the time to play the final attack, leaving no time for the Warriors.

Durant thought the same thing. He turned around, trying to get the ball from Ibaka who was throwing the baseline ball, and dribbled the ball across the half court himself.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw Westbrook running back to the baseline and taking the ball from Ibaka.

Durant's heart skipped a beat, a bad feeling arose, and he hurried after him.

But no matter how fast he is compared to Westbrook, the speed of others cannot be compared to Westbrook. Westbrook strode to the front court, and his four teammates have not passed halftime.

But it's nothing, everyone thinks that Westbrook will slow down, control the time, wait for his teammates to come up, and play the final attack on the ground-except Durant.

His premonition was right. Westbrook not only did not slow down, but exerted force with his feet. He stepped on the gas pedal and carried Clay into the three-point line. Antetokounmpo and Green immediately came to help defend.

Westbrook, who entered the enemy line alone, was full of courage. Against the defense of Clay, Antetokounmpo, and Green, he flew up, wanting to hit a violent tomahawk-style buckle.

He was half a body ahead of Clay. Green took off from the side and was a step slower, but Antetokounmpo came oncoming, raised his right hand high, pressed it on the basketball, broke out with brute force, and grabbed the ball come down!
Westbrook suffered a big loss in the confrontation with Antetokounmpo and flew directly out of the baseline, but Antetokounmpo landed steadily, took a big step, and subconsciously launched a fast break.

"Hey Giannis, here!"

Curry yelled, and Antetokounmpo stopped immediately, suppressed the idea of ​​a fast break, and handed the ball to Curry without hesitation.

Curry won't ask for the ball easily, but when he asks for the ball, no matter what the Warriors players are doing, they will give him the ball as soon as possible.

At this time, with 16 seconds left in the third quarter, Curry slowly dribbled the ball across half court, stopped at the top of the arc, and took time to make the final attack.

Westbrook has got up from the floor and returned to the backcourt, his expression is still so determined, as if he was not affected by Antetokounmpo's block at all.

But Durant's face was very ugly. He stared at Westbrook's back, and his lips squirmed twice silently with the smallest amount.

Fake!

He kept staring at Westbrook, even ignoring Leonard beside him, until Curry hung the ball to this side, and he looked back, only to suddenly find that Leonard quietly cut into the penalty area from behind him.

Durant turned around to pounce, but he couldn't match the speed of the basketball flying in the air, so he could only watch Leonard receive the pass from Curry, and he made an empty basket at the buzzer, 95:78.

Durant's face suddenly became ugly, he waved his hand and walked off the court.

Westbrook followed up and comforted:
"It's okay, Kevin..."

When Durant heard this, the black face became even darker.

It doesn't matter?If it weren't for your enthusiasm to give caps to people and give the Warriors the last chance to attack, I would be so angry that I would forget to defend?
……

In the fourth quarter, the Thunder, which was behind by a large score, rushed to catch up.

But the Warriors controlled the rhythm of the game with ease, and continued to stare at Durant's quadruple, maintaining the lead.

Although Westbrook is no longer hot-headed, his explosive mistakes in the third quarter helped the Warriors open the score in a wave, which has already determined the outcome of the game.

No team has been able to reverse the Warriors coached by Zhang Yu when they are nearly 20 points behind, not once.

In the end, the Warriors defeated the Thunder 117:102 and won the Christmas War.

With 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Donovan replaced the main force ahead of time and conceded the loss.

After Durant left the court, he sat on his seat with a sullen face, his dark complexion couldn't conceal the cold, unfriendly aura.

His eyes wandered around, he glanced at Westbrook, then he glanced at Robertson, who was emptied for the whole game, and made 4 of 1 three-pointers, then he glanced at Gobert, who was out of the three-second zone and couldn't hold the ball steadily, and then he glanced again Kanter, who was invisible during the transition period and only scored 5 points, glanced at the Thunder's substitutes, and finally looked at Clay, Green, Leonard, Antetokounmpo, Wiggins, and Olynyk on the Warriors' bench ...

With these teammates, when can I win the championship? !