You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 812 The perfect curtain call
While the 76ers looked like the stronger side, the Warriors were energized by their transition, with Stephen Curry's outside aim and John Wall's rainbow rain of sudden and steady threes and the absolute advantage he should have had.

John Wall's speed is the first in the league.

Perhaps only a player with a natural short board like Isaiah Thomas can say that he is faster than him.

When the body is so fragile, the speed is not the decisive factor.

The reason why Wall has been unable to play before is because the 76ers completely deal with him with a contemptuous defense.

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

The two teams need to return to the 76ers' home court to play Tianwangshan.

"The Warriors are the only team that has allowed the 76ers to lose two games in the playoffs in two years."

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

The 76ers need to solve several problems, such as the hand feeling of Holiday and Hayward, and the problem of Cousins ​​being frequently called by opponents to pick and roll.

The Warriors managed to make the 76ers suffer as much as they did.

Obviously a star player has become a breakthrough for the team.

Cousins ​​was selected to the first team for two consecutive years, but on the defensive end, he has no honor.

Even if he and Hayes have learned defense for two years, it will be difficult to improve the dilemma he faces when defending pick-and-rolls.

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

Curry called a double pick-and-roll to force Cousins ​​to come out, and decisively played out of position.

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 of the disappearance of Game3 and Game4.

"We have problems that we can't solve, but so do they," Wright said. "The good news is that neither of our problems can be solved by changing players. We won't change the starting roster. We just need to play smarter."

Although Wright stated that he would not change the starting roster, the positions of Wecha and Faried were switched.

Farid came to the third position, Wei Xia went to the fourth position-Weicha's strategy of playing four gave up a game in Game4-Hayward went to the second position.

Wright's so-called smarter is to ask players to size up the situation and figure out who can give up and who needs to be carefully watched.

In the game that night, Wright gave Wei Xia a major mission: "Take care of our big man."

This is the purpose of letting Wei Xia play the fourth position.

Wei Xia's No. 76 position is not only to blow up the Warriors' inside line, but also to switch defenses and rotate in time every time the Warriors call for a pick-and-roll to prepare for the [-]ers' roll call.

If the Warriors continue to call double pick-and-rolls to force Cousins ​​forward, the 76ers have to gamble: in order to call up Cousins, the double pick-and-rolls must hit Green at the fourth position and Bogut at the fifth position.

Because of Cousins' lack of mobility, Wright can only let him give up the opponent's shots in exchange for space for defensive breakthroughs.

Green in 2015, he was not the ice shooter who later disgusted fans because he was good at dealing cards at the top of the arc.

There is a price to pay for letting go of his shots.

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

In the battle of Tianwangshan, the starting positions of the two sides were completely reversed in terms of style.

Warriors are traditional.

Big center Bogut, comprehensive fourth position Green, elite two-way wing Iguodala, marksman Thompson, deadly ball-handler Curry.

In terms of player functionality, it is very traditional, very traditional. Green is a little shorter, but it is harmless.

Instead, the 76ers look like the original Warriors.

Rondo, Hayward, Faried, Wesha, Cousins.

A typical small ball with four juniors competing for athletic ability.

Opportunities are equal for both the 76ers and the Warriors.

韦夏自认了解各个年代的比赛，从60年代到70年代，到80年代以及距今并不遥远的90年代，再到他现实中亲身经历的00年代和10年代。

In his opinion, there are roughly three types of suffocating anxious games.

One is like the previous matchups between the 76ers and the Warriors, the unbelievable number of rounds for old fans, continuous three-pointers and top shots, dunks and breakthroughs.It's Star Wars, laser guns and star destroyers.

One is the 76ers and Spurs in last year's finals. The offense was full of fun and the defense was careful. The tactics were layered and interlocked.This is a medieval duel of classical knights.

There is also a stone age bite, fur, stone, and barbarians that old fans love.There are as many fairy balls as there are easy scores, and it even gets to the point where it's a little hard to tell whether the defense is really good or the offense is really bad.

Game 5, which is a crucial battle for both sides, is very close to the third type.

The 76ers and the Warriors share issues.

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

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

The 76ers were not so lucky.

Hayward hurt his hand trying to save the ball shortly after the start, and the scene looked bloody.A bloody wound was torn between the gap between the index and middle fingers of Hayward's right hand.

Hayward was in unbearable pain and had to end the game.

Roberson and Glenn Robinson III, who replaced Hayward, are far superior in physical fitness, but their shooting ability is stretched.

In this case, Holiday, who has high hopes, can't see the basket at all.

Therefore, even if the Warriors took the initiative to give a large number of open three-pointers, the shooters of the 76ers are still cannon-changing 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 will be fine", but you just can't invest.

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

From that time on, Wright understood that this was a game in which they had to rely on Weixia to perform.

In order to ensure the strength of the defense and the athletic talent on the field, Wright began to shorten the rotation, and two of Wecha, Faried, and Robertson stayed on the field for a long time.

In the second quarter, Wei Xia began to ask for the ball in a low position, and humiliated Green's defense in different ways. The wonderful trash talk blurted out with a gentle tone, but Green's mentality exploded.

Wei Xia's heads-up looks unstoppable, and the Golden State people understand that to defeat the 76ers, Wei Xia's performance must be restricted.

Therefore, they used a lot of delays on the line and shrinking flanks-chasing Wei Xia first when encountering a pick-and-roll, and decisively flanking when they are in the low position.

But Wei Xia is not a ball bully who is obsessed with [-]v[-] after seeing his teammates have a chance after being double-teamed.

In a game he may need to play 47 minutes to win, he has to conserve energy.Therefore, as long as he can help his teammates score, he will never be greedy for offense.

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

From the second quarter, Green's mentality exploded. He could still have a three-point rate of about 35%, but it suddenly dropped to less than 20%.

Green's collapse allowed Wei Xia 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 both Curry and Wall withstood the pressure, Thompson completely forgot the feeling of shooting under the siege of Wesha, Faried and Robertson/Robinson III.

In the third quarter, the 76ers, who were still behind by double digits, found the answer to help Weixia decompress on the offensive end.

Cousins ​​is attacking and defending the penalty area, but the space for the 76ers is really bad. When the static position is lowered, Wei Xia must be a shooter standing on the bottom line, and Cousins ​​​​has to shoot in the middle distance-in the finals, he didn't feel good.And tonight, he took his chance.

The mid-range is by no means a long-term solution for a big man like him, just as the Warriors can't count on Wall to keep hitting three-pointers.

When the two sides were misfired due to the escalation of defensive intensity, they both recognized their positions and turned their hopeful eyes to the designated big dads-Weicha and Curry.

The two teams couldn't hold steady, couldn't walk smoothly, and couldn't hold the opponent. In the end, their legs got stuck in the mud, and they began to compete with each other, fight for defense, and see who would win.

In the middle and late part of the fourth quarter, both Wei Xia and Curry clearly felt that there was a force in their hearts calling themselves, and they took over the game angrily-Curry's signature face-to-basket throw before the whistle sounded, and when Wei Xia turned around and twisted under the basket in the next round and hit the board successfully,
The most popular plot of the American people who have been influenced by hero blockbusters is coming——superstar, 1 V 1.

With excellent skills, hot blood and cheers, under the attention of the world, Curry's three-pointer shot farther and farther, while Weisha scored 13 consecutive points at the critical moment, and caused Green's sixth foul to go to the free throw line 30 seconds before the end.

What happened next became legend decades later.

Wei Xia, who felt so good that the Warriors felt cold, even missed the first free throw, and then steadily scored the second free throw, and the two sides tied.

Curry's heroic performance throughout the quarter did not last until the last shot.

At the moment of life and death, Wei Xia stood up and defended alone. Curry made a series of signature behind-the-back changes, shot, and was blocked. Faried flew to save the ball-11 seconds, the ball was in the hands of the 76ers, and the two sides tied!
"Now, Wish is expected to use his experience, skills, sweat, and pursuit of glory to win the game for the 76ers!"

Michael Jordan said in "Extreme Jordan", "When the 'moment' comes, you will feel that time slows 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 stalled for time, because the score between the two sides was tied, he had no worries, he just had to concentrate on completing the attack.

Iguodala's mood was like a roller coaster. Five seconds before the end of the game, Wesha stepped on a terrible step and stepped in front of him. His thinking seemed to be frozen.

He didn't know how to react.

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

Then, there were less than two seconds left in the time.

Wei Xia calmly collected the ball and jumped up. His shot was not as grand and dangerous as Jordan's, without difficult drifts, or even the pressure of "lose and go home", but it was equally critical.

His attention was focused on the ball, and his fingers followed the muscle memory brought about by millions of trainings, and sent the basketball from the center of his fingers-the buzzer sounded, and rolled down the center of the basket along a beautiful orange arc.

The sound that surpassed everything made this game a perfect curtain call!

(End of this chapter)