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Eight hundred and twentieth chapters perfect curtain call

Although the Sixers seemed to be the stronger side, the Warriors were activated through their formation change, Stephen Curry's outside accuracy and John Wall's sudden and stable three-pointer like a rainbow rain, and the absolute advantage he should have.

John Wall's speed is the league's number one.

Perhaps only a player like Isaiah Thomas who has natural shortcomings in his body can say that he is faster than him.

When the body is fragile to that state, speed is not the decisive factor.

The reason why Wall has never been able to perform before is because the Sixers are completely using a defiant defense against him.

Now he made a three-pointer to revitalize the Warriors and keep Curry efficient, so the Warriors won two consecutive games and tied the big score 2-2.

The two teams need to return to the home court of the 76ers and play against Tianwang Mountain.

"The Warriors are the only team in two years that have allowed the Sixers to lose two games in the playoffs."

"What they bring is not only their competitiveness, but also their determination to become king."

The 76ers need to solve several problems, the hand feel of Holiday and Hayward, and the problem of Cousins ​​being frequently called by his opponent to pick-and-roll and eat raw.

The Warriors successfully caused the 76ers to be as difficult as theirs.

He is obviously a star player but he has become a breakthrough for the team.

Cousins ​​was selected for two consecutive years, but on the defensive end, he had no honors.

Even if he and Hayes studied defense for two years, it would be difficult to improve the dilemma he faced when defending the pick-and-roll.

On the afternoon of the Battle of Tianwang Mountain, Jay Wright highlighted several typical rounds in the video analysis room.

Curry called for the double pick-and-roll to force Cousins ​​to come out and decisively misplaced.

The same goes for Wall.

In order to fill Cousins' hole, Holiday and Hayward were exhausted.

Their consumption on the defensive end is the truth that the feel of game3 and game4 disappear.

"We have problems that cannot be solved, but they have them," Wright said. "It is gratifying that neither of our problems can be solved by substitutions. We will not change the starting list, we just need to play smarter."

Although Wright said he would not change the starting lineup, Weisha and Farid's positions were still changed.

Farid came to the third position, Wei Xia went to the fourth position - Wei Xia's strategy of playing four gave up a game in game 4 - Hayward went to the second position.

What Wright calls smarter is that players should judge the situation and figure out who can give up and who needs to be carefully cared for.

In the game that night, Wright gave Wei Xia a major mission: "Look at our big guys."

This is what makes Wei Xia play the fourth position.

Wei Xia’s position at the fourth position is not only about defeating the Warriors’ inside line, but also timely change defenses and rotate whenever the Warriors call pick-and-rolls to prepare to call the 76ers.

If the Warriors continue to call for the double pick-and-roll to force Cousins ​​to step forward, the 76ers have to gamble: in order to get Cousins ​​out, the double pick-and-roll will inevitably hit Green in the fourth position and Bogut in the fifth position.

Because Cousins' lack of mobility, Wright could only let him give up shooting against opponents in exchange for room for defensive breakthroughs.

Green in 2015 was not the ice shooter who later disliked fans because of his good at dealing cards on the top of the arc.

It takes a price to empty his shots.

As for the price, it depends on Green's feel that night.

In the Battle of Tianwang Mountain, the starting lineups of both sides are completely reversed in terms of style.

The Warriors are traditional.

Big center Bogut, full-scale No. 4 Green, elite-level two-way wing Iguodala, sharpshooter Thompson, and deadly ball-holder Curry.

In terms of the player's functionality, it is very traditional, very traditional. Green is a little shorter, but it is not bad.

The 76ers are like the original Warriors.

Rondo, Hayward, Farid, Weisha, Cousins.

A typical small ball with athletic ability in one, four small.

Opportunities are equal to both the Sixers and the Warriors.

Wei Xia believes that he understands the competitions of various eras, from the 1960s to the 1970s, to the 1980s, and the 1990s that were not far away, to the 2000s and 100s that he experienced personally in reality.

In his opinion, there are roughly three types of anxiety-prone games.

One is like the previous matchup between the 76ers and the Warriors, which old fans can't believe in over a hundred rounds, three-pointers and top-man shooting, dunks and breakthroughs. This is Star Wars, laser guns and star destroyers.

One is that the 76ers and the Spurs in the finals last year, with careful attacks and defenses, with layered tactics and interlocking. The shooters were each in their own right, and the superstars played freely. This was a medieval classical Cavalier duel.

There is also a kind of Stone Age biting, fur, stone, and barbarians that old fans like. The number of fairy balls appears is as many times as the number of easy scores, and it even reaches a point where people are a little confused whether defense is really good or offense is really bad.

Game5, which is a crucial battle for both sides, is very close to the third type.

The 76ers and the Warriors have common problems.

Hayward, Holiday, Thompson, and Green can maintain the three-point accuracy under high-intensity pressure.

Their three-pointers determine the situation of the stars of both teams.

76 people were unlucky.

Shortly after the start of the game, Hayward injured his hand to save the ball. The scene looked bloody. A bloody wound was torn between the gap between the index finger and the middle finger of Hayward's right hand.

Hayward was in a state of great pain and had to leave the scene to deal with it.

Robertson and Glenn Robinson III, who replaced Hayward, both had far better physical fitness than others, but their shooting ability was wide.

Holiday, who was highly anticipated, could not see the basket at all in this case.

Therefore, even if the Warriors actively gave a large number of open three-pointers, the 76ers' shooters were still cannons turned into monkeys. This cannot be explained simply by the reasons on the basketball court. This is a psychological problem.

The solution to the problem is very simple, "as long as you invest in it, it's fine", but you just can't.

At the end of the first quarter, the smooth Jinzhou people led by 13 points.

From that time on, Wright understood that this was a game they had to rely on Weisha to play.

In order to ensure the intensity of the defense and the athletic talent on the field, Wright began to shorten the rotation, and two of Weisha, Farid and Robertson were on the field for a long time.

In the second quarter, Wei Xia began to ask for the ball at the low post, humiliating Green's defense in a variety of ways. His beautiful trash words blurted out with a gentle tone, but Green's mentality exploded.

Wei Xia's single-handed challenge seemed unstoppable. The people of Jinzhou understood that to defeat the 76ers, Wei Xia's performance must be restricted.

Therefore, they used a lot of delays and contraction to attack - they chased Wei Xia first when they encountered a pick-and-roll, and then they decisively attacked him when they fell to the low position.

But Wei Xia is not a ball player who is double-teamed after seeing his teammates have a chance but is obsessed with one or two goals.

This game he may need to play 47 minutes to win, and he must save energy. Therefore, as long as he can help his teammates score, he will never be greedy for attack.

His ball was passed out, playing with the Warriors' defense in different ways.

From the second quarter, Green's mentality exploded. He could have a three-pointer rate of about 35%, but suddenly plummeted below 20%.

Green's collapse allowed Weisha to spread his defensive influence to Wall and Thompson.

He kept Green on the outside many times, and the Warriors passed the ball and Green missed a three-pointer.

Although Curry and Wall both withstood the pressure, Thompson completely forgot the feeling of shooting under the siege of Wescha, Farid, and Robertson/Robinson III.

In the third quarter, the 76ers, who were still behind double digits, found the answer to help Wei Xia reduce pressure on the offensive end.

Cousins' positional battles and offense and defense are under pressure in the penalty area, but the 76ers' space is really bad. When the static waist position is down, Wei Xia must be the bottom line of the shooter. Cousins ​​must make the mid-range shot. In the finals, his hand feels not good. Tonight, he seized the opportunity.

Medium distance is definitely not a long-term solution for a big man like him, just as the Warriors cannot expect Wall to keep scoring three-pointers.

When both sides attacked silent due to the escalation of defense intensity, they both recognized their position and turned their hopeful eyes to their designated fathers - Wei Xia and Curry.

Both teams couldn't hold it firmly, walked smoothly, and couldn't eat the opponent. Finally, they tugged their legs into the soil, began to compete for strength, fight for defense, and see who will win.

In the middle and late sections of the fourth quarter, Wei Xia and Curry both clearly felt a force deep in their hearts calling themselves. They took over the game angrily - Curry shot in front of the basket before the whistle. Next round, Wei Xia turned around and twisted the high-pitched shot at the basket.

The most popular plot of the American people who have been influenced by hero blockbusters is here - Superstar, 1     v    1.

With excellent skills, hot blood and cheers, Curry's three-point shots further and further, while Wei Xia scored 13 points in a critical moment, causing Green's sixth foul to go to the free throw line in 30 seconds before the final game.

What happened next became a legend decades later.

Wei Xia, who felt so good that the Warriors felt so sad, actually lost the first goal, and then scored the second goal steadily, and the two sides tied.

Curry's heroic performance throughout the quarter failed to last until the last shot.

At the moment of life and death, Wei Xia stood up to defend alone, Curry made continuous changes in his signature behind the back, and took action, and was blocked. Farid flew to save the ball - 11 seconds, the ball was in the hands of 76ers, and both sides tied!

"Now, wish is expected to use his experience, skills, sweat, chase the heart of glory to win the game for the 76ers!"

Michael Jordan said in "Extreme Jordan", "When the 'that moment' comes, you will notice that time is slowing down."

That is the zone that Kobe yearns for.

And at this moment, as they said, in Wei Xia's eyes, the trajectory of everything slowed down.

So he delayed the time, because both sides tied the score, he had no worries and just focused on completing the attack.

Iguodala was feeling like a roller coaster. Five seconds before the end of the game, Wei Xia took a terrible pace and stepped past him, and his mind seemed to be frozen.

He didn't know what to react.

His body instinctively kept up, but Wei Xia simply pulled the ball behind her back and stopped suddenly, shaking Iguodala's center of gravity.

Then, less than two seconds left.

Wei Xia calmly closed the ball and jumped up. His shot was not as magnificent and dangerous as Jordan, without high difficulty drifting, and even without the pressure of "going home if you lose", but it was also crucial.

His attention was gathered on the ball, and his fingers followed the muscle memory brought by millions of training, sending the basketball out of the heart of his fingers - the buzzer made a sound and rolled down the center of the basket along a graceful orange arc.
Chapter completed!
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