Chapter 703: The Strongest

If the Suns were to pick one of their toughest playoff opponents in recent years, they would definitely pick the Warriors.

The Warriors are the toughest team in the West, led by the Suns countless times, and have been able to recover the score at the last minute countless times.

This alone makes Yang Di worth a thousand gold.

The Warriors' home court, with expert predictions for the Warriors to get the entire series, skyrocketed after Game 5.

Although the Warriors do not have the help of Byron Davis, they are still the top team in the league, the combination of Yang Di and Ray Allen is extremely efficient, and neither of them is a hot-headed player on the court, contributing nearly 60 points per game, including about 35 points for Yang Di and about 25 points for Ray Allen.

That's almost half of the Warriors' scoring.

So there's a reason why superstars are paid high salaries, and why they can take up 30 percent or even 40 percent of the team's salary.

However, at present, it seems that the salaries of several stars of the Suns are not too high.

Nash signed a contract with the Suns after leaving the Mavericks, not a maximum salary, and this year's salary is $10.5 million, which is the third in the entire Suns team. The Suns have Amare Stoudemire at $12.46 million and Marion at $15.07 million.

Among the Warriors, Byron Davis has the highest salary of $15.07 million, followed by Ray Allen with $14.61 million, Yang Di is the fourth salary on the team with $8.27 million, and Tyson Chandler is third with a salary of $9.15 million.

The audience saw the dawn of entering the Western Finals and even the finals again, and their emotions were excited.

Every offense, every goal, every successful defense of the Warriors can trigger a tsunami of shouts from the crowd.

At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Yang Di took the lead in attacking, and the inside attack caused Stoudemire to foul.

The Suns were forced to rotate and switch defenses between Thomas and Stoudemire, with Stoudemire defending Tyson Chandler and Thomas coming to defend Youngdy.

It was a very tough challenge for the veteran Thomas.

Yang Di played very actively, and in the third minute of the first quarter, he received a pass from Ray Allen and completed a dunk in the air.

This is Thomas's defensive problem, when Yang Di asked for the ball in the low post, Thomas moved a little to the line, Yang Di immediately seized the opportunity, turned around and ran back to the basket, Ray Allen was quick-eyed, boldly passed the air relay, and Yang Di completed the connection.

"In the league, the two inside lines who can't spare the front are the most." Cai Nan said with a smile: "One is Dwight Howard, the other is Yang Di, both of them are players with super air receiving ability, once they are spared, reflexively cut to the basket, the defender can basically only watch him score." ”

"Thomas is still a little less athletic, but I've heard that when Young is defending Dwight Howard, it's still very good, so why is that?" Yu Jia asked.

"That's right." Cai Nan continued Yu Jia's words and said: "Yang Di's athletic ability and Howard are almost the same, and the data of the two of them can be seen in the body data, and once the air relay is transmitted, with Yang Di's athletic ability, it is easy to directly destroy the attack in the air, intercept and destroy." ”

The Warriors felt good from the outside, and halfway through the first quarter, Danny Granger and Ray Allen both hit three-pointers, and the Warriors led 15-9.

The Warriors were the first to make adjustments, with Monta Ellis coming in place of Fisher.

Monta Ellis was also in particularly good shape today, and it seemed that the entire Warriors were in a very high situation, and after coming on the court, Monta Ellis hit a mid-range jumper directly to continue the firepower for the Warriors.

Subsequently, Monta Ellis forced Barbosa to foul Barbosa, and the Suns' rhythm was disrupted.

Yang Di replaced the Frenchman Dio on the court inside, although Dio was comprehensive, the defense was very average, Yang Di turned around and shook off Dio, hook shot.

At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Suns by seven points 29-22, and Yang Di had nine points, three rebounds and three assists.

For the difficulty of the Suns, they have lost a lot of unfavorable factors, such as today's home court, although Yang Di has created some difficulties, but from the perspective of the difficulty of getting fouls, the Suns are more relaxed, in the first quarter Yang Di, Chandler, Danny Granger and other teams are carrying fouls, and the referee blows the scale, the Suns are more like the home court.

Yang Di knows that the league will definitely not be biased in such a game, but it will definitely not give the Warriors a chance to win easily.

Under Nash's leadership, the Suns frantically attacked the Warriors' interior position, Montgomery restarted the veteran Foyer, and formed a blocking duo with the interior Beedlins, which is no worse than the Suns in terms of the depth of the Warriors' roster.

Yang Di returned in the 8th minute.

Yang Di blocked for Monta Ellis, received the ball from Monta Ellis and hit the basket, and under the foul of the Suns, Yang Di still scored the ball and greatly boosted the morale of the Warriors.

The Suns gritted their teeth while the Warriors unleashed wave after wave of offense.

Barbossa was inaccurate on the outside, Nash was alone, and at halftime, the Suns trailed the Warriors by 13 points 48-61, and Yang Di had already scored 22 points and 9 rebounds at this time.

In the second half, the Warriors were even more excited, as if there was such a tradition, and the more they played, the more crazy they played.

"This year's Warriors are in better shape than last year, the first round against the Spurs, it's like changing teams, and the second round against the Suns, fully playing the team's strengths."

Barkley commented on the Warriors, he felt that the Warriors were no longer a complete small-ball team, with an epoch-making big man like Yang Di, the Warriors were actually the king of positional offense in a small-ball coat, and Yang Di's destructive power was no less than O'Neal's interior siege monster, and the Warriors' offensive ability was the first in the league.

"The key is to feel good."

Yang Di was very happy, the Warriors were shooting thousands of arrows, scoring in every position, and in the third quarter, there were waves of offensive frenzy, and the Suns went from a little behind, to the end of the difference to 20 points, and at most 24 points behind.

The mentality of the Suns players is unbalanced, D'Antoni's 7-man rotation has bad results, Barbosa, Raja Bell and others can't give Nash strong outside support, and the inside line is completely blown up by Yang Di, and several inside lines can't avoid Yang Di when they see Yang Di rushing over.

At the end of the third quarter, the Suns trailed the Warriors by 17 points, 73-90.

Yang Di continued to stay on the court in the fourth quarter, and the Suns also worked hard, and the main forces were all on the court, hoping that a miracle could happen and the Warriors could be reversed.

The Warriors played almost 24 seconds on every offense, and the Suns were dragged down very uncomfortably.

In the final five minutes, the Warriors led the Suns by 23 points at 105-82, and in the final three minutes, the Warriors led the Suns by 20 points at 110-90.

Ray Allen hit another three-pointer to give the Warriors the win.

D'Antoni reluctantly replaced all his main players after a timeout, declaring a loss to the Warriors and ending all the Suns' journey this season.

Yang Di walked off the stage, and the audience cheered, sending whistles and applause.

Young fringe players such as Louis Williams and Shannon Brown took to the court to brush their faces at this time, and Yang Di high-fived every teammate and every coach to celebrate entering the Western Conference finals.