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Chapter 638 The Invisible Gap
Christmas Eve, Gold One Centre.

The game between the Kings and the Warriors is about to start, and the central big screen is playing Draymond Green's pre-match interview video.

"You said I would never win a title without Curry and Coach Su Yang? Are you kidding? If you're not joking, you better add that because tonight we'll prove that the Kings aren't impossible. The winning team!"

As soon as the words fell, the Kings fans booed wildly in unison, and shook the horn bells in their hands one after another, wanting to show off.

The camera turned again, focusing on the ESPN live broadcast seats.

The host Mike Breen asked: "Jeff, Mark, what do you two think of Seth Curry joining the Warriors?"

"That is a great improvement for the Warriors. They have more tactical options. I look forward to seeing the peak match between Cole and Su Yang. I bet tonight's game will have to wait until the last moment to decide the winner..." Jie Husband Van Gundy said.

Mark Jackson went on to say: "The King will definitely use unlimited defenses, forcing the Warriors to conduct a large number of one-on-one singles, making full use of the Warriors' shortcomings that it is difficult for others to attack with the ball except Durant, but Seth Curry will allow the Kings unlimited The number of defensive strikers has increased significantly, and more importantly, the Warriors have an extra Livingston in the second team, and the overall rotation will be much better than before..."

drop…

The long whistle sounded, and the game entered the final preparation stage.

Su Yang gathered the whole team to surround him, raised his finger slightly and pointed to the Warriors' bench, "I repeat, our main idea at the beginning of tonight is to storm Seth Curry, so that the Warriors are tired of protecting Seth Curry, and then form a breakthrough , open the situation..."

Cousins ​​and the others nodded again and again, and the whole team immediately raised their right hands shoulder to shoulder, punching fists and shouting 123 cheers in unison.

The short whistle sounded immediately, and the game officially started.

The Warriors start, Seth, Clay, Durant, Green, Pachulia.

The Kings start, Stephen, Brogdon, George, Antetokounmpo, Cousins.

Su Yang deliberately arranged for Brogdon to start, let George play small forward, better defend Durant, and give respect.

Cheers erupted in the arena, and the Warriors won the jump ball.

Seth picked up the basketball and was about to move forward, Stephen went straight to the defense, with the confidence to bully his silly brother.

Green hurriedly turned back to set up a wall to cover, and deliberately pushed his chest out against Stephen, as if to show his toughness.

"Come up with small moves, Green is a little too excited tonight..." Su Yang thought to himself, and suddenly recalled that the video of Green's interview was played on the central big screen. It is possible that Green really wanted to prove himself tonight, without Stephen also?
While thinking about it, Seth passed the ball to Clay on the right wing, and then used Pachulia to cover and go down to the right waist, and Clay immediately passed the ball to Pachulia who was raised up, and then Turning around and running towards Seth, making a regular screen, Seth took the opportunity to return to the 45-degree three-point line on the right, took advantage of the opportunity and then received a hand-off pass from Pachulia, lowered his center of gravity, and went straight to the top of the arc.

Cousins ​​decisively delayed the grab, Seth did not have the breakthrough ability of his brother Stephen, and instinctively stopped to find someone.

"That's it?"

Su Yang almost laughed out loud, the gap between Seth and Stephen is too big, this style of play is free, what is Cole thinking.

Just as he was thinking, Pachulia strode towards the basket, trying to bully Stephen under the basket by taking advantage of his height, while Seth hurriedly raised his hand to pass the ball. Unfortunately, the movement was too obvious, the rhythm was not good, and the position was even more biased. Pachulia Chulia missed the catch and made an out-of-bounds error.

The referee blows the whistle to whistle for a violation.

The king kicked off the ball from the backcourt and launched an attack. Stephen led it all the way to the right wing, and transferred strength as usual. Antetokounmpo, who was in charge of passing the ball at the top of the arc, stepped forward to cover George, and then took advantage of Green's defense, quickly turned and cut in to reach the left waist. A person with a back card.

George saw Durant single-handedly defending Antetokounmpo, took advantage of the dislocation, and stooped decisively to give the ball in.

Brother Antetokounmpo immediately turned to face the basket after catching the ball, with the usual formula, first pretending to release the ball in a step-by-step manner, but actually straddling and striding across, a fierce tiger attacked, knocked Durant away in an instant, and took two big strides straight to the basket, the whole person was tall Jumping up, Cole was so angry that he yelled an offensive foul.

With a bang, the basketball exploded into the net.

The arena burst into cheers.

Durant spread his hands at the referee, muttering that he was hitting someone just now, but the referee ignored it, and Green also went to reason.

Unfortunately, the referee still ignored it.

The Warriors had no choice but to attack with a kick-off. Seth passed the center line to Pachulia at the top of the arc, and ran straight to the waist on the right, pretending to cover Durant, but in fact he opened the basket ahead of time and successfully attracted To the defensive help, Durant took the opportunity to raise.

Seeing this, Pachulia passed the ball, and Durant took it in his hand, took a sideways step, stopped suddenly and jumped out of his hand to shoot.

The basketball hits the hoop and hits the net.

"A cow, a cow!"

Su Yang praised sincerely that Durant's skills and physical condition are simply every coach's dream player.

George has worked very hard on defense and didn't delay for half a second, but he couldn't stop Durant from scoring, so he could only stare blankly.

The two teams switched offense and defense.

Stephen dribbled the ball across the center line and stopped on the right side, pretending to be a strong and weak transfer, but actually asked Antetokounmpo to make a cover for a rush, and quickly broke through the sideline, while Antetokounmpo turned around and started to rush to the basket at the same time, attracting Durant from the free throw The line shrinks to help defend.

In the blink of an eye, Stephen raised his hand and threw the ball from the top of the arc to the top of the arc. George caught the ball and faced Durant back and shot.

bass!The three-pointer went into the net.

Cheers erupted in the arena, Green spread his arms and asked Durant, Su Yang could hear clearly: Why do you want to help defend?I can totally handle Giannis, I just finished the delay and I'm going back to defense, next time you don't want to help defend like this...

Durant shrugged silently.

Su Yang laughed out loud. He recalled a previous team training match, when Green executed a serve, and Gobert set up his posture to grab the rebound. As a result, Green stopped the free throw and yelled at Gobert, asking not to grab it, because he was confident that he could hit the free throw. .

And that free throw missed...

Green is so confident and conceited. Just now Durant took the initiative to help defend, which may have hurt his face a bit.

But Durant's approach is also correct. In fact, the root of the problem lies in Seth.

While thinking about it, the Warriors attacked.

The basketball was transmitted several times, and Clyde corner caught the ball and made an open shot. The action was a little hasty, and the basketball was clanging.

Antetokounmpo grabbed a rebound, Stephen took the ball to launch a counterattack, broke through to attract double-teams, and then passed to Antetokounmpo who was emptied at the top of the arc.

The three-pointer followed suit, but it was a pity that the same iron was hit.

The Warrior Green grabbed the rebound and counterattacked one-stop, reaching the 45-degree three-point line on the left. Seth first screened for Durant on the right wing, then turned around and used Pachulia's cross-block to cover, and ran an STS to cooperate. Go straight to the top of the arc.

Tactics are the same as before.

Seeing that Green raised his hand to pass the ball, Cousins ​​stepped forward, slapped the basketball off, and threw it to Stephen in a hurry.

The king's generals suddenly launched a fast attack.

Stephen rushed with the ball, but Green, who made a pass error, was extremely anxious. Seeing a three-step layup, he raised his hand and slammed hard.

The basketball fell to the ground with a bang, and the referee whistled for the thug's foul, but it was just an ordinary foul and no free throw was given.

But that once thought that Green was quite dissatisfied, chasing the referee's theory, arguing that he is a player and should give the Warriors the ball.

The referee was completely indifferent, and Green was still chasing the theory. Pachulia, who was next to him, quickly pulled him away and patted his back repeatedly to comfort him.

"Is he too excited?" Mike Brown said. "It's as if we were persecuting him before..."

Su Yang chuckled: "Imagine you are playing the MC mode of a 2K game. First, you make a bad pass that causes your score to drop, and then you get a foul that you think is a good defense, which leads to continuous point deduction. The evaluation changes from C to D-, mentality. It might be out of balance..."

"This kind of personality is a double-edged sword..." Di Brown sighed, "He still needs to grow up like DeMarcus."

Su Yang casually nodded in agreement, and suddenly thought of whether he could take advantage of Green's emotions, so he immediately got up and called for tactics.

The king and generals in the arena obeyed the order and carried it out calmly.

After two screens and conduction runs, Curry took the ball at 45 degrees to the left, misplaced against Green, who switched defenses, and opened the audience.

Seeing the heads-up situation appear, the audience in the front court shouted and cheered.

Curry made a gorgeous operation, deliberately sticking to Green to the basket, stopped to protect the ball to stabilize his figure, and raised his hand to fake.

The anxious Green took off to block the block without noticing, but Curry did not take off at the same time, but took off one step slower.

beep!
The referee blew his whistle and called Green for a foul on the cylinder.

It took less than 2 minutes to play in the opening game. After getting two fouls, he had to leave the game early for a rest. Green's mentality exploded.

"FUUUUUUUUUCK!"

Green shook his fist and roared at the referee, suddenly swearing words, the referee immediately raised his hand to signal a technical foul.

Pachulia and the others hurriedly pulled Green to the bench, and Cole simultaneously arranged for Kevin Looney to replace Green.

Su Yang laughed when he saw this, and raised his hand to give Mike Brown a high-five, thinking that the Warriors would not have Green, and their defensive strength would be greatly reduced.

The game continued in a blink of an eye.

As Su Yang predicted, the Warriors' offense has not weakened too much thanks to Durant's strong support, but their defense is too poor. Rooney and Pachulia can't defend against it. Stephen scored 21 points in the first quarter, crazy.

With a 14-point lead, the Kings entered the second quarter and maintained the situation, eventually winning 119-106.

Stephen scored 48 points and beat his younger brother Seth, who scored only 19 points, successfully staged a classic performance of the Christmas game.

After the game, various commentators pointed out that the real turning point of the game was that Green suffered two fouls in the first quarter. In fact, the Kings did not go all out in the following games. It can only be said that Green needs to pay attention to controlling his emotions. Su Yang It's just too cunning.

ESPN commented that Green's emotional control is an invisible gap between the Warriors and the Kings. Compared with the previous stabbing player Cousins, Su Yang once again beat Cole in addition to tactics and rotation, with 70+ consecutive victories The field is by no means entirely dependent on the lineup.

Amidst all the compliments, the King got a day off to prepare for the first regular season against the Lakers without Kobe.

(End of this chapter)