Basketball's best forward and guard

Chapter 74 74 [Cole's inner monologue]

What is stretched?

Maybe Steve Kerr will never understand that he can still taste this helpless bitterness in the game with four All-Star players in his prime.

Why is this happening?

Is God punishing him?To send such a strange rookie?

Is the dignified defending champion going to lose a crucial game in such a suffocating game?

The game continues, but the scene that the home fans most want to see has not yet appeared.

Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Klay Thompson, the three top scorers in the league all misfired in the third quarter, which the Warriors are best at.

Of course, strictly speaking, their misfire has a lot to do with the strong defensive pressure given by the Spurs.

Danny Green, Dejounte Murray, including Leonard, all put enough pressure on the Warriors on the defensive end.

They are like an iron wall, stubbornly blocking wave after wave of attacks by the defending champions.

As for Jiang Hao, he is still testing the psychological defense of the defending champion on the offensive end, especially after Drummond Green expanded his defensive range, Jiang Hao became more active on the offensive end. The cooperation is increasing. Aldridge, who was average in the first half of the game, has already scored 8 points in this period of time, which can be described as very efficient.

At 8 minutes and 36 seconds into the third quarter, an exasperated Green even made an illegal defensive move against Jiang Hao. Drummond Green hoped that through this kind of toughness, the Spurs No. 35 would retreat.

But Drummond Green obviously didn't understand Jiang Hao. His toughness didn't seem to make Jiang Hao retreat, but further helped Jiang Hao.

Immediately, Jiang Hao made a conclusion for tonight's game with a scoring method of Zaza Pachulia with a dunk that shocked everyone.

80: 62!

When the first three quarters were over, almost everyone did not expect that the defending champion was so humiliated by the San Antonio people in their own garden. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before they lost the first game of the Western Conference Finals.

The atmosphere in the entire Oracle Arena was unusually deep, and the home fans did not expect such a situation to be waiting for them.

Is this revenge?

Some home fans recalled bits and pieces of what happened in this arena a year ago.

As for the Warriors players, they lowered their proud heads one by one at this time. They have persisted in this posture for two years, but tonight, they are not qualified to remain proud.

In front of a first-year rookie, as the defending champion, they let him get 30+, which is simply unforgivable.

Now the way every Warriors player looks at Jiang Hao has changed.

There is hatred and helplessness.

"Maybe only God knows it's going to be like this. It's unbelievable that a first-year rookie scored 32 points in three quarters against the defending champion."

Kenny Smith felt that Jiang Hao's crazy performance tonight completely exceeded his cognition of rookies.

After so many years of commentary career, Kenny Smith has never seen a rookie like Spurs No. 35. His performance in such a critical game looks more like a veteran who has been in the league for many years.

As far as this game is concerned, he almost supported the entire Spurs' offense alone. Although the statistics of Leonard and Aldridge look good, they are obviously not at the same level as Jiang Hao.

"Greg Popovich is lucky to have a player like China Jiang"

O'Neill also became emotional. As a former superstar, in fact, O'Neill understands that Jiang Hao's various performances in the game just now can only be achieved by a team's superstar under normal circumstances.

Jiang Hao is certainly not a superstar at this stage, so he feels that this is Gregg Popovich's luck. It is no exaggeration to say that if Jiang Hao continues to maintain this level, then there is a high probability of winning the O'Brien Cup this season. It's the San Antonio Spurs.

"If China Jiang helps the Spurs win the sixth O'Brien Cup in team history in the next half a month, then he will be the most outstanding rookie in the league in the past 10 years," O'Neal said casually, and his point of view has been received Absolutely agree with Kenny Smith.

If he hadn't witnessed the performance of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and others in their rookie seasons, Kenny Smith would even directly say that Jiang Hao is the strongest rookie in the league in the past 20 years.

And even counting the rookie seasons of the 03 Platinum Generation and others, as long as Jiang Hao really won the O'Brien Cup, his ranking would not be much lower.

On the court, the fourth quarter has already begun. Although the Warriors are behind by a large score, it is impossible for the Warriors to choose to give up at this time.

On the contrary, under the leadership of veteran Iguodala, the entire team's offense seems to be becoming smoother.

After a wave of 6:0, Gregg Popovich immediately requested a timeout. He didn't want to capsize in the gutter.

Jiang Hao didn't play at this time, and Popovich handed over the offensive responsibility to Leonard.

As the leader of this team at this stage, Leonard must perform better than Jiang Hao at critical moments, so that his identity is not in vain.

In fact, for Leonard, this is not difficult. He is not leading the team's offense tonight, so his physical exertion is not serious.

In this case, he is capable of carrying the banner on the offensive end.

Swish!
After Leonard completed his 20+ points tonight, Steve Kerr closed his eyes in pain. As far as the entire team is concerned, they lost tonight.

96: 80!

Seeing that there was no hope of chasing points, with more than 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Cole took the lead in making personnel adjustments, and the main players were replaced one after another, officially announcing the end of the game.

There were boos all over the Oracle Arena. Many people said that the home fans were booing the Spurs, but in fact, Steve Kerr knew very well that the home fans were booing him, right?
beep!
Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Jiang Hao sat down on the bench.

Although he basically didn't play in the fourth quarter, frankly speaking, his physical strength has been exhausted. After all, scoring a game-high 32 points is far from as simple as imagined.

Of course, at this moment, he is very excited in his heart. It is no exaggeration to say that tonight's game will become a milestone for Jiang Hao to embark on the road to superstardom.

Before the game started, even he himself did not expect such a result.

32 point?
Well, Jiang Hao has to admit that he is very satisfied with this data!

(End of this chapter)