Super All-around Point Guard

Although the last time the two teams met, the Warriors defeated the Lakers, no one expected that this time it would be the Lakers suppressing the Warriors and quickly gaining a double-digit lead.

Over the past month, the Lakers' winning streak has been attributed to luck and not encountering a strong opponent. If the Lakers can still defeat a strong team like the Warriors today, then I believe no one will doubt the strength of the Lakers.

However, it is not difficult for the Warriors to chase points behind. Last season, without Durant, they were able to come back from defeat in countless games and easily catch up with the points difference to achieve a reversal. Now with Durant , when Durant is in good condition, he can actually chase points just by turning on his personal mode and playing singles. This score is nothing to them.

On the court, Dream Green set up a pick-and-roll for Durant. Durant used the pick-and-roll to break forward. Durant himself was out of position for anyone he hit. After the pick-and-roll switch, he did not force the Lakers inside but passed back to Green. , Green faced a very tough breakthrough from rookie Ingram. Ingram's physical confrontation was no match for Green. He was forced by his opponent and immediately attracted the Lakers' double-team defense. Green then moved the ball away, and the Lakers kept attacking. He rushed forward to defend, but the Warriors kept moving the ball. Finally, Curry got a chance and made a three-pointer.

After that, Durant still launched the offense and led the team to catch up little by little. During this period, the Lakers' scoring was not as good as the Warriors, and the point difference was narrowed little by little.

The addition of Durant has indeed made the Warriors a lot different. Xie Chen is used to the Warriors with Curry and Green as leaders. Now it is obvious that Durant's status is higher than anyone else, at least in these two games. , facing the Warriors led by Durant, Xie Chen was really not used to it.

Some old fans who have been following the battle between Xie Chen and Curry for a long time also expressed emotion.

"I used to love watching Xie Chen play the Warriors the most. Every time Xie Chen and Curry played against each other, they would have a wonderful showdown. You would shoot a three-pointer, and I would shoot a three-pointer. You would pretend to be cool, and I would pretend to be better than you. But now the game between Xie Chen and the Warriors has gradually turned into a competition between Xie Chen and Durant. I admit that Durant is also very good, but it is not as exciting as the showdown between Xie Chen and Curry."

"Logically speaking, Durant is more suitable to be Xie Chen's opponent. Curry's unsolved shooting is not as good as Durant's, and his dunks are not as good as Durant's. However, Xie Chen and Curry's three-pointers are too similar. If Durant, like Curry, frequently beats Xie Chen for three-pointers, then I think the duel between Durant and Xie Chen is better than the duel between Xie Chen and Curry."

After all, there is only one basketball. Although the Warriors are united and Kerr knows how to distribute the ball, the Warriors' offense cannot be completed by Curry and Durant at the same time. The two do not have the ability to dunk from the free throw line at the same time. With Durant's presence, Curry's influence has indeed become smaller, which is inevitable.

At the end of the half, the Warriors closed the gap to only 5 points, and the Lakers ended the first half with a slight advantage.

In the locker room, Coach Cole kept talking to the players. He also wanted to win this game because the opponent's coach was Luke Walton. He didn't want to see Walton continue to win. If this continues, Walton will win the best head coach award!

At the beginning of the second half, since Mozgov had not yet perfected his various skills under the basket, he could only occasionally use them on sneak attacks, and Ingram could not always score in front of Durant like this. The heavy responsibility for the Lakers' offense fell entirely on Xie. With Chen alone, Xie Chen also started his personal singles mode, continuing to keep the Lakers in the lead.

As for the Warriors, their scoring mainly relies on Durant and Thompson. Durant scored more points alone than Thompson and Curry combined. Curry is still a player with unlimited firepower on the court, but tonight His touch is not good and he doesn't take many shots.

The difference from last season is that if Curry didn't feel good before, he would continue to shoot. If he missed five three-pointers, he would continue to shoot the sixth and seventh until he made the shot. But with Duran After the special, Curry's unreasonable shots were significantly reduced, and he couldn't even see them in the two games with Xie Chen!

Fans miss the old duel between Xie Chen and Curry, and Xie Chen also misses the days when the two had sex.

During the interval of the game, Xie Chen, who had already scored 32 points, asked Curry, who only scored 8 points: "Man, in previous games with you, you always had some unreliable shots, even in the finals. Why can’t we see it this season?”

In Game 7 of the Finals last season, Curry was still doing unreliable things like dribbling behind his back, passing behind his back, and forcing three-point shots. With Durant this season, his game seems to be much more secure, especially When facing a strong team, if he is leading a weak team by a large score, of course Curry will still play as he pleases.

Curry smiled and said nothing.

Immediately afterwards, Curry failed another layup, and after falling, he seemed to feel uncomfortable somewhere and stopped in place for a while.

Xie Chen continued to ask Curry: "You look very bad today. You'd better get off the field and rest. It's not worth it if you get injured."

Curry himself is not feeling well and his shooting touch is not good. Now that he is stimulated by Xie Chen's words, he is in a terrible mood. In the past two seasons, I haven't seen you. Xie Chen just talks to me when he has nothing to do. Now it has become Durant's team, at least in this game, if you don't go to Durant to talk trash, what's the point of chasing me all the time!

Curry said angrily: "You want me to end the game and let you win? Stop being delusional!"

Although Curry is thin, he is a true warrior. There have been many examples of him insisting on playing despite injuries. What's more, today's physical problem is not serious. The most important thing is his poor touch and unstable mood.

After that, Curry made another mistake and was intercepted by Xie Chen. He immediately started a fast break. Curry did not give up defense. In order to make up for his fault, although he was not feeling well, especially his left calf, he still rushed to the basket as quickly as possible. Return to defense.

Seeing that Curry was so active, Xie Chen decided to scare him.

I saw that facing Curry's defense, Xie Chen decided to take off resolutely, and after taking off, he immediately made a spin in the air!

Everyone was shocked at the same time. This action, this scene, was so familiar...

"Turn 360 degrees and dunk over someone else!"

It's not difficult to think of it, because Xie Chen just used it in the last game against the Raptors! Facing Lowry's defense, he used a 360-degree turn and dunk. Now, facing Curry, who is also of average stature, will Xie Chen also be ruthless?

The eyes of the Lakers fans were excited, but Curry's eyes were full of fear. Of course he knew what Xie Chen's wonderful dunks looked like in every game in the past. When he dunked on Lowry, Curry was also shocked.

"Damn it, this guy wants to turn around and dunk me 360 ​​degrees!" Curry instantly realized that Xie Chen was going to bully Curry again the same way he bullied Lowry.

Curry will not be in the background like Lowry. He is a point guard as famous as Xie Chen and the league's MVP. How can he accept such an insult!

Therefore, Curry took the initiative to step forward, stretched out his hand to grab Xie Chen, and made a foul action in order to prevent Xie Chen from dunking successfully.

However, the reality was not what Curry and everyone imagined. They all misunderstood Xie Chen. Xie Chen had no intention of humiliating Curry with a dunk. This time, what he used after taking off was not Vince Carter's dunk ability. , but LeBron James’ layup ability!

What he has to do is not a 360-degree turn for a dunk, but a 360-degree turn for a layup!

Curry suddenly pulled Xie Chen. Since Xie Chen is now possessed by James, Curry's power does not have a great impact on Xie Chen. This means that Xie Chen can still have the strength to throw the ball after Curry pulls him. Get into the basket.

Xie Chen completed the attack with a layup.

The two commentators also gave a false alarm. Yang Jian said: "I thought Xie Chen's ball was another 360-degree dunk like Lowry did. Unexpectedly, it was a layup, which caused Curry's foul and the score was 2. +1."

Su Qun smiled and said: "Looking at it in slow motion, I don't think Xie Chen's attack was for dunking at all."

Curry also felt it. This time Xie Chen's take-off didn't seem to be very high, and he didn't have a posture to dunk. After being fouled, he calmly succeeded in a layup, as if he was just going for a layup from the beginning.

Curry also knows his own abilities. If Xie Chen wants to dunk, Xie Chen may dunk with such a painless pull just now, but there is no problem in touching the basket with his hand, and the height will not drop so much.

Curry couldn't help but ask: "Didn't you want to dunk just now?"

Xie Chen looked at the cute god and said with a smile: "I can't do anything to you."

"...This guy." Curry didn't expect Xie Chen to say such ambiguous words to him! Stay away from each other immediately!

As the game progressed, Xie Chen and Durant's scores soared. By the fourth quarter, one of the two scored over 45 and the other over 35, while Curry's score had just exceeded 10.

"It seems that Curry's touch was really bad today. Durant played well and Thompson was also normal." Yang Jiandao.

Su Qun continued: "Yes, let's see in this game, when one of the three offensive weapons, Durant, Curry, and Thompson, is not working, can Xie Chen defeat them? When these three people have the same touch at the same time, When we were here, there was nothing anyone could do. Durant played very well today, Thompson was quite satisfactory, and Curry was not up to standard. Only Xie Chen can defeat the Warriors in this situation. Only when they meet in the playoffs will they have hope. .”

Xie Chen also knew that this game was a huge test for the Lakers. Curry's score today was far lower than his normal level. This situation is too rare. You can't expect him to feel so bad in every game. And if Xie Chen can't beat the Warriors when he performs so abnormally, then if all three of them perform normally, wouldn't they definitely lose?

The Warriors put a lot of pressure on the Lakers. When only two of the three top scorers were performing normally, they all beat the Lakers like this, which shows how strong the Warriors are.

Xie Chen continued to use his personal ability to score. As long as the defensive interference was not too great, he would still make the same shot even if there were two people in front of him. Xie Chen's score quickly exceeded 50 points, and Durant's score also exceeded 50 points. With 40 points, the two aces did not disappoint the fans and kept taking over the game.

"Damn, Durant scored 40 points." Ingram, who was guarding Durant, would inevitably feel like a failure. In fact, he was very hard on Durant throughout the game. He was always learning how to be better. Defending Durant, but after all, Durant has been the scoring champion for several times, and he still scored a lot of points on Ingram's head. However, Ingram's active and tough defense also made Durant consume a lot of energy. .

With only the last two minutes of the fourth quarter left, Ingram was panting and his physical strength was about to reach its limit. Durant's expression was also not relaxed. Durant was also affected by his physical strength!

The game is about to end. The Lakers still have a one-goal lead. Every Warriors offense is important. Once an offense fails, they will be at the mercy of their opponents. If the Lakers continue to score, the game will basically be over. .

Only Durant performs best in the Warriors, so the key offense is to give the ball to him first, but the Lakers did not choose to double-team Durant. Everyone in the Warriors is terrible, even if they only score 10 points If there are too many Currys, he may not have any touch in the whole game, but in the end he hits the most critical shot.

Durant once again singled out Ingram. Ingram was already familiar with Durant's various moves and knew the timing of Durant's shot. Durant forced the shot. This time, Durant's physical fitness was clearly visible. It dropped a lot and the shot missed!

Although Ingram allowed Durant to score 40 points, he prevented Durant's most critical ball!

Unfortunately, although the ball was missed, the rebound was grabbed by Green of the Warriors!

Green's rush to grab the rebound was extremely fierce, and it was obviously a foul. However, the referee did not call the penalty. Green immediately handed the ball to Durant, but Durant lost confidence and passed the ball back to his teammate. , the Warriors reorganized the offense.

Lakers fans were very depressed. If the Lakers had grabbed this rebound, the game might have been won!

This situation is indeed very depressing, but the players on the court have no time to complain. The ball returns to Green's hands. Green sees Durant's physical decline and laments that Ingram, a rookie, can actually consume Durant. With so much physical strength, and the Warriors couldn't find a better way to attack, Green simply decided to break through on his own!

Green met Xie Chen, but Xie Chen used Artest's defensive ability to forcefully stop him. Green never expected that he would overpower Xie Chen and fail. Although he did not lose the ball, the Warriors' offense was in chaos and there was not much time left. In the end, 24 seconds ran out, and the Warriors didn't even complete the attack!

This key defense gave the Lakers their 11th consecutive victory!