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Chapter 120 Pseudo-strong team certification

In early April, the Warriors first had a tough fight with the Jazz.

The league's disciplinary committee attaches great importance to this game, because Di Malong has an elbow on the opposite side, and Lin Xing here is the key protection object of the league.

But it turns out that the league overestimated Malone.

If it was before the Battle of Madison, Ma Long might still be bewitched by the New York Times and other media, thinking that Lin Xing was an empty shelf.

As soon as his mind became hot, he might think: take advantage of this game to find a venue.

But after the Battle of Madison, Malone gave up.

Not to mention looking for a place, he was terrified even when he moved his elbow on the court.

After all, Oakley was beaten up because of Lin Xing.

As for the elbow, his is different from others.

Other people's elbows are tickling.

His elbow is like a criminal!
Give Lin Xing an elbow?Isn't that looking for a fight?

The playoffs are about to begin, and Malone still wants to shine in the playoffs.

So, he counseled the whole game.

What is different from the last match is that this time, Ma Long found the touch of the middle distance.

This is also the reason why this game is in a hard fight...

Once Malone + Stockton exert their strength, the Jazz is the existence of the overall runner-up level, and their strength is still quite high.

The warriors in this game were not bad either, but Lin Xing still couldn't stop him, and Xiao Chong also broke out.

The cooperation between the two can already be praised: a tacit cooperation is like wearing a pair of pants.

The various counterattack connections in the second half of the season were directly dubbed "snake connection" by the US media.

Exactly the same as Janeway's connection, the Snake and Chong connection is usually a pass from the bug, and the Mamba dunks.

In this game, Xiao Chong also passed a wonderful goal to Lin Xing, which was enough to enter the top five goals of the day.

The pass is still a pass that penetrates the defense line in a positional battle.

Lin Xing received the ball, bypassed Tyrone Corbin who was facing him directly from the baseline, and went to the basket.

Facing Malone under the basket, it was a direct dunk.

Bang!

At that time, the Oakland Stadium was full of gongs and drums, firecrackers and firecrackers.

Lin Xing+Xiao Chong vs. Biao Malong+Stockton, this game reached the last moment.

In the last 33 seconds, the score was tied at 113 and the Jazz had the ball.

Of course, considering the remaining time of the game, the Warriors still have time for the last attack.

One attack and one defense determine the outcome, and the game suddenly became tense.

Jerry Sloan called a timeout and set up the final play.

On the Warriors side, Old Nelson also rarely emphasized:

"The key is defense. We only need to defend against the Jazz's attack, and the rest is very simple."

It is rare to emphasize defense, but the root cause is that the old Nelson is very confident in his team's offense.

Soon, the pause is over.

Lin Xing's task was to keep an eye on Ma Long, but he couldn't stop glancing at Stockton.

His sixth sense told him that it might not be Malone but Stockton who was sent by the Jazz to execute the final shot.

Lin Xing decided to take a gamble. When the Jazz took the sideline kick and Stockton wasted time in the middle circle, he had already thought about it.

"John Stockton is wasting time, and in the last 18 seconds, he's moving!"

As soon as Stockton started, at the top of the arc, the Jazz put up a double pick-and-roll.

Lin Xing is even more convinced that it will be Stockton who will stand up and end the goal.

Immediately, Ma Long's first pick-and-roll, Lin Xing took a stride and switched defenses!
In the last defense, Xiao Chong was not there because he was a defensive loophole.

Old Nelson knew this very well, so he replaced the bug with Dale Ellis, and played Stockton with the madman.

The madman saw that Lin Xing had switched defenses, and his brain went down.

Fortunately, under normal circumstances, he doesn't use his brain to play, so his body reacted, and he faced Malone first.

Then switch defenses with Chris Gatling and face Felton Spencer.

Stockton was still moving laterally, of course he saw Lin Xing's defense change.

Malone had a chance, but Chris Gatlin blocked it when he switched.

Stockton could only go further past Spencer's screen, and then, with the last 2 seconds of shot clock, stepped on the three-point line and jumped up.

In fact, the opportunity was there, and no one interfered at the moment when Stockton made the shot.

but……

Lin Xing evaded Spencer's cover in time. He stared at the rising basketball, and while stretching his long arms, he jumped vigorously.

Clap!
Lin Xing's big hand viciously sent the basketball flying.

"boom!"

The Oakland Coliseum erupted, the commentary booth, Matt Gutica was incoherent in surprise—

"Oh my God, big hat, he jumped straight into the sky and blocked Stockton's three points!"

"He jumped too high, too high!"

"So that Stockton was already waiting for the basketball to get close to the basket. Unexpectedly, Stella intercepted the ball halfway!"

A big hat that could be called covering the sky and covering the sun made Lin Xing beat his chest and let out a roar of the wolf king.

The morale of the warriors also rose to the extreme all of a sudden...

This cap directly pushed the Jazz to a desperate situation.

Because Lin Xing flew the basketball cap directly, the Jazz still had the ball, but they only had 1.2 seconds to attack.

Sloan didn't have a timeout either, so he couldn't set up a perfect catch-and-shoot play.

The Jazz could only drive the ball out at will, and then, it was Stockton, he caught the ball, directly faced the interference of the madman, and shot.

The basketball rubbed against the net and flew out of the baseline.

hum!
The timer signaled that the Jazz had run out of their shot clock.

"Oh no, the air ball, John Stockton's shot, just touched the net a little bit."

In this way, the score was tied at 113, the offense and defense were switched, and the Warriors still had the last 9 seconds.

Old Nelson called a timeout again. Who will vote for this lore?He's in trouble.

As far as this season is concerned, there are very few games where the Warriors played to the last moment.

And one of the few games was the last match between the Warriors and the Jazz. Lin Xing tipped the basket to kill the Jazz.

So if you really want to say that the big heart of the warrior is Lin Xing.

But the problem is that Lin Xing's COSCO investment really can't reassure old Nelson.

After hesitating for a long time, Old Nelson arranged a set of very ambiguous lore tactics.

"Sida, you go first, if the opponent pinches you, you pass the ball to find your teammates..."

On the Jazz side, Sloan is also thinking about who to focus on in the last defense.

He is really a bit of a headache, because the Warriors don't have many other things, but there are many ball handlers and outside shooters.

Xiao Chong, Mu Lin, Madman, Lin Xing, they are all pulled out alone, and they can shoot suddenly.

Including the last 9 seconds, there is no need to consider the issue of rebound protection, so it is very likely that the Warriors will remove the big center and put on a shooter to completely open up the space.

"We had to man-to-man, spread out the defense..."

Just when Sloan made a decision, Malone hesitated to say:
"But boss, don't forget that the last time we played against each other, it was Star's putback that killed us."

It's okay if he doesn't mention it, but when he mentions it, Sloan becomes even more entangled.

He is very clear about the level of Lin Xing's offense, and he only defended one-on-one against Gary Payton in Seattle once.

In addition, Lin Xing has no experience of being guarded one-on-one.

Even Pippen of the Bulls failed to block Lin Xing's impact.

After thinking about it: "If the Warriors choose to give the ball to Star, then the defensive players on the weak side will go up and attack, don't hesitate!"

In this way, both sides have determined the style of play for the final round.

The timeout ends and the game restarts.

The Warriors kicked off from the sideline, unfortunately, it was Lin Xing who kicked off.

It is impossible to say that he is not nervous. He does not want to make a mistake and give himself the "good name" of Jazz Lin Xing.

Corbin pressed hard, but on the far side, Worm managed to get away from Stockton.

Lin Xing didn't even think about it, he flicked the ball straight away.

Then he stepped into the infield, leaned over, and took the basketball from Xiao Chong.

Seeing Lin Xing receiving the ball, Sloan immediately became nervous.

Soon, Lin Xing told Sloan with iron-clad facts that your nervousness was wasted effort.

Outside the three-point line, Lin Xing spent two seconds and felt that it was almost done, so he accelerated and rushed.

He rushed out one step, and the countdown began at the Oakland Coliseum.

After taking the second step, Corbin was already thrown away by Lin Xing.

In the third step, Jeff Malone on the weak side came to defend.

However, Lin Xing ignored him, took an elbow step, and strode to the basket with a meteor.

At the last second, as soon as he raised his hand, the basketball flew to the basket.

At this moment, the quiet needle drop could be heard all over the venue;
At this moment, everyone held their breath;

At this moment, Lin Xing landed on the ground, looked at the basketball, and was already preparing to celebrate.

Swish!
"Om-!"

The basketball hit the net, and the sound of the timer beeping sounded.

The red lights turned on, filling the entire Oakland Stadium.

"Lore, lore, Stahl beat the Utah Jazz again!"

"The two games between the Warriors and the Jazz were played to the last moment. In both games, Star stepped up and killed the Jazz!"

"Sta is Sida, worthy of the name of Mamba Snake."

On the court, Lin Xing took the familiar bully step again.

On the sidelines, the Warriors' bench was boiling, boiling directly to the court.

Sloan shook his head on the Jazz's bench, wanting to ask: Why are the Jazz always injured?

……

In this way, Lin Xing's lore reminded people of his Mamba name.

This victory also made a good start for April.

But then, they played away against the Spurs.

He was abused by the general on the inside again, and the game was lost.

In this era when there is no defense for three seconds, big centers are subject to very few restrictions, but they are so easy to play.

Just look at the scoring list this season. The top seven and four are centers.

There are two power forwards, and there is only one small forward, Dominique Wilkins.

As of now, the highest score in a single game, the Admiral scored around 50 points three times, the Sharks scored twice, plus Dameng and Ewing scored 40 points each.

The scoring leaderboard in a single game is almost all taken by the center.

Therefore, the Warriors can't beat the Spurs or the Rockets.

Without Lin Xing, they couldn't beat the Knicks.

If it weren't for the shark-slashing tactic, it would definitely not be able to do magic.

The problem of the inside line is always in front of us.

But after this losing game, the focus of public opinion unexpectedly became——

"The real pseudo-strong team is actually the Warriors!"

After the game, Lin Xing was a little surprised when media such as ESPN and the Chicago United began to attack the Warriors as a pseudo-strong team.

After all, no one has ever linked the three words Warriors and pseudo-strong teams together.

But looking at the evidence given by these media, Lin Xing feels that the Warriors are indeed a bit of a pseudo-strong team.

"So far this season, what the Warriors have shown has always been a stable ability to abuse food."

"They rarely lose upsets, but against the Heat, they almost never win!"

"So far this season, they have been killed four times by the Rockets, three times by the Spurs, and three times by the Sonics. In the top six in the Western Conference, they are the only ones who have an advantage. They are 2 wins and 0 losses, with only two games left for the Jazz, and 2 wins and one loss, with one game left for the Suns."

"In the East, against the Eagles, against the Knicks, against the Bulls, against the Cavaliers, against the Pacers, they are all 1 win and 1 loss. The top six in the East, the only advantage they have is the Magic with 2 wins and 0 losses."

"So far this season, they have only lost 18 games. Against the top six in the East and West, they have directly lost 16 of them..."

After such an analysis by the media, Lin Xing realized that they really only lost against strong teams, not weak teams.

Although it is a good thing to stabilize food abuse, this group of media reporters and experts don't think so.

Stable abuse of food, in their view, that is only abuse of food.

Lin Xing can be sure that this is Chicago's counterattack to him calling the Bulls a fake strong team.

The Warriors quickly lost another game to the Spurs for the rest of April, and also lost Game [-] to the Jazz, but came back in Game [-].

In the last battle against the Suns, Barkley broke out with a group of Suns' shooters. The Warriors were in a mediocre state and lost again.

Losing or losing, the top six in the Western Conference, they still have the advantage, and only the Jazz with 3 wins and 1 loss is left.

In addition to losing the top six in the Western Conference, the Warriors also lost a game against the Nuggets who are stuck in the Western Conference playoffs.

The main reason is that the competition for the playoffs is very fierce, so fierce that Mohammad Rauf drew a game, and Africa Dashan grabbed 23 rebounds and robbed the Warriors.

In April, the Warriors lost 4 games directly, and the losses were still strong teams. The Nuggets, who are eighth in the Western Conference, are of course considered strong teams.

It's the same sentence, stable abuse of food, but it seems that another sentence has been added-stable loss to strong teams.

In this situation, in the last battle of the season, the Warriors went to Seattle to challenge the Supersonics, who had killed themselves three times this season.

Before the game, media analysis——

"If the Warriors lose to the Sonics again, they will be killed four times by the Sonics in the season. They will definitely and definitely be a pseudo-strong team."

"What has nothing to do with the Warriors is that if they beat the Sonics, the Sonics will be overtaken by the Rockets and fall to second in the West."

On the one hand, it is the certification of the Warriors pseudo-strong team.

On the other hand, it is the battle for No. [-] in the West.

Although this game is only the last battle of the season, the importance is directly full.

Of course, for Lin Xing and Tim Hardaway, this game is still a battle between them and Payton's brothers.

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