This season, in the previous three brave battles, the Suns had the last laugh. But this time, the results were very different......
The last time the two sides met, the Warriors not only lost regrettably, but in the game, Dream Green was also heavily punished by the league with an indefinite ban for maliciously elbowing Nurkic. Obviously, after that game, the two sides added a new feud to the old animosity......
However, when they met again after more than two months, the spirits of the two sides were very different, and the Suns gradually entered a steady upward period after finally waiting for the healthy Big Three, winning five of their last six games. The Warriors have also rebounded recently after hitting rock bottom. In the last six games, the Warriors have also won five games, and their offensive and defensive efficiency has improved significantly (4th in offensive efficiency and 7th in defensive efficiency in the last 10 games).
The recovery of the two teams also made this ball regain the meaning of a high-end game, and as soon as the game started, the intensity of the confrontation even felt like a playoff life and death battle.
The most direct manifestation of the two teams' hand-to-hand encounters is, of course, the three-second zone, when it was the dialogue between Dream Chaser and Nurkic. In fact, from the beginning of the jump ball in the first quarter, Nurkic was in a ruthless state almost every time he confronted Dream Chaser, and Dream Chaser also fought back with all his might. In addition to the violent collision of muscles, the mouths of the two are not idle at all, and trash talk runs through almost every offensive and defensive round.
In the middle of the first quarter, the crossbow machine asked for the ball in the low position, and then used all his strength to run Green into the paint area. Perhaps because the foul was not enough, after the referee stopped the game, Dream Chasing rushed forward and spoke ill of the crossbow machine...... At this point, Clay cleverly stepped forward, and he slapped the ball off the ball, eating the technical foul, but also diverted the focus of the conflict.
After the game, the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger, and the time came to the middle of the third quarter, and the crossbow machine competed with Dream Chasing in the attack. Then, he deliberately turned his back to Dream Chasing in the attack, mocking him for not having the ability to attack, but Dream also grabbed this opportunity to underestimate the enemy and completed the score with the same hook shot.
This competitive mood has been stalemate until the end, but it seems that playing emotional balls has a greater side effect on the Suns, who lack organizers and are relatively weak in regulation. Originally, on paper, the Suns completely suppressed the Warriors, but in actual combat, the Warriors became the frontrunners for most of the final quarter.
Especially Durant, on this night that should have been a pinpoint against Maimang, he was a little inaccurate on the offensive end, and in the whole game, he shot 10 of 25, and the shooting percentage was only 4%. It was only by relying on rebounding assists and relying on the addition of other statistics that his sluggishness was somewhat covered.
In the face of the old master, Durant is obviously a little soft-hearted. But for the Warriors, Booker doesn't want to get used to it. In the final quarter of the decisive period, Booker decided to take over the offense, and he replaced Durant to stage the moment of death, and in the face of Booker's sudden outburst, the Warriors' defensive dilemma was helplessly exposed, Booker scored 9 points in a row, and it seemed that he was going to completely cut off the emotional entanglement with the Warriors with a quick knife......
However, Booker's 9 points, despite the momentum of death, failed to kill the game, and across from him, Curry continued his magical touch in recent games. In the last 3 seconds of the game, Curry was not good at receiving the ball, and there were still two steps between him and the three-point line, and he found an opportunity to shoot through extreme adjustments.
At the end of the game, Dream Chasing continued to chatter, and even spewed trash talk at Durant's direction, and what was KD's heart like about the clamor of Dream Chasing, his own inefficiency and the instant reversal of the game?