Chapter 721: Watching the Warriors Win the Championship? (2/5! )
At halftime, the Nets miraculously led the Warriors by a full 20 points, 60-40.
They were defeated by the Warriors in the last game, and they are going to collapse the Warriors in this game!
At halftime, Tang Tian still reminded the players to stay focused, and also made a wave of predictions about the Warriors' possible adjustments in the half, and also sorted out the corresponding response plan.
Coming back at halftime, the Warriors did make adjustments, with Green and Iguodala playing more frontcourt for Thompson and Barnes to block opportunities from mid-range.
As the most efficient team in the league to make midfield adjustments, the effect of this adjustment was immediate.
However, the Nets did not mess up, and the Warriors' adjustment was in Tang Tian's halfcourt prediction.
The Nets' trick is to selectively put the mid-range, and it is simply unrealistic to really limit the Warriors across the board, so it is better to score more points on the offensive end than to put more defense in this area.
Playing position, scoring points, even if they are caught up with a little point, it is acceptable, and the lead accumulated in the first half is their capital.
They have already experienced the same game against the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals, and it is really handy to use it at this time.
Although the score difference is narrowing little by little, the time of the game is also getting smaller and smaller.
And there is really a gap between the scoring speed in the middle distance and outside the three-point line, and the speed of chasing points cannot keep up with the speed of time passing.
Curry was pressed down several times when he wanted to score points from the outside, and the Nets didn't give him a chance to shoot three points from beyond the arc.
120-113, in the end, the Nets outran the time and won the game by 7 points.
Deron and Gordon both scored 20+, Gordon and Butler also scored 18 points, and all six players on the team scored double-doubles to win the game.
And after winning this game, the Nets took a 2-1 lead in the big score!
The incredible result surprised everyone.
This also made fans' attention to the finals continue to rise, and according to statistics, the ratings of the third game have been close to the seventh in the West Finals.
The Nets went to the next game, but unlike after the first game, Tang Tian was very low-key, not only praised the Warriors' performance, but also bluntly said that the Nets need to play harder in the next games.
At the end of the press conference, Jones and Tang Tian walked out side by side.
"Don, I don't think your mood is very high? We're ahead now, take it easy. Jones has been with Tang Tian for so many years, and the two are both subordinates and friends.
Tang Tian smiled and nodded reluctantly.
"Trust those young people, they will live up to your expectations." Jones saw that he was not in a good mood, and said with a smile and patted him on the shoulder.
Tang Tian nodded, but didn't explain anything.
Jones is the team's general manager and he approaches the game more from a human point of view than a tactical one.
In the last game, the Nets won by surprise, saying that it was strange, just like marching and fighting in ancient times, it was something that could only be used once, and the same opponent would definitely have no effect if it was used again.
And in the second half of the last game, the Warriors have recovered a full 13-point difference, and if it weren't for the big enough advantage in the first half, the Nets would have lost.
Predictably, the Warriors will definitely go all out in the middle of the second half, and the game will be much more difficult than this one.
Attention to the finals continues to rise, and the closed training of the two teams has made the next games even more interesting.
After a three-day break, Game 4 of the series resumed in Brooklyn.
This game is crucial for both sides, and if the Nets go one more game, they will take a 3-1 lead, and unless the Warriors miraculously complete two consecutive 1-3 comebacks, the championship is nine out of ten likely for the Nets.
On the other hand, if the Warriors win this game, the two sides will return to the same starting line, and the defending champions, who have home-court advantage, will obviously have an advantage.
New York fans are still crazy, they haven't won a championship in 33 years, and now the championship is closer to them than ever.
The game started quickly, but as Tang Tian was worried, the Warriors started with an all-out output in the middle distance.
And because it's not too difficult to get a shot in this position, they have more energy to put into defense.
As a result, the Nets were passive from the start, and Kerr compressed the nine-man rotation to eight in order to maintain the intensity on the court, and the Nets' advantage on the bench was not as obvious as on the court.
The Nets worked hard not to widen the point difference, and Tang Tian also hoped to drag the game into the decisive moment of the fourth quarter and win the game with physical strength.
But the Warriors continued to attack, and by the end of the third quarter, they had stretched the margin to as many as 20 points.
Such a point difference is enough to ensure victory.
124-98, Tang Tian did not waste his main physical strength in the fourth quarter, and the Nets also lost in the fourth game.
2 to 2, after a period of tricks, the game came to Tianwang Mountain.
As a result, as Tang Tian expected, he actually wanted to take the initiative to change before the fourth game, but he couldn't find a better way.
And the incident of Casey in his previous life also shows that constantly changing tactics will disrupt the team, and it is himself who collapses in the end.
The tournament that decided the series has received unprecedented attention, with ratings alone breaking the record set by tie-break and reaching a new peak.
The Nets stuck to their strategy, and Tang Tian's adjustment to the team was to do more details and give the Warriors some proper pressure on their mid-range offense.
The tweaks worked well, as the Nets trailed the Warriors by just 10 points at the end of the first three quarters, which was entirely a trailable score.
The Warriors had physical problems in the fourth quarter, and the Nets continued to attack and keep closing the difference, but in the final moments, Curry's three-pointer near the halfcourt still allowed the Warriors to win the game 114-108.
This season's Curry is really God-possessed, although injuries prevent him from going on a rampage like the regular season, but the accuracy at key moments is still perverted.
After the Warriors won Tianwang Mountain, they won two games in a row and led 3-2 in the big score, and the game also came to their match point game.
The Nets have run out of options.
From the success of selectively releasing Warriors role players at the beginning of the series, to the next game in the third game, the Nets did no worse than the Cavaliers in the previous game without injuries, but the Warriors' death five is really an unsolvable problem.
After all the hard work and adjustments, the Nets are still a little bit close, and now the only thing they can do is to watch the Warriors win the final championship and complete the second consecutive championship.