The third game of the game between the two sides was played at the Staples Center Arena, the home of the Lakers, and with the foundation of the first two games, plus the home game, both the Lakers players and the home fans were full of confidence in winning, and even looked forward to winning two more games in a row. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sweeping the Warriors with F4 is exciting to think about.

However, the final result of the game was a big surprise.

Durant ushered in a big explosion in the third game, he felt a hot explosion, shooting 20 of 31 from the field, including 6 three-pointers, scoring a game-high 58 points, setting a new career scoring record, and also helping the Warriors win 128-120 on the road, chasing the big score to 1-2.

Durant's scoring ability is historic, and exploding at such a critical moment is unexpected but also reasonable.

Unfortunately, losing Game 3 was a blow to the Lakers' momentum, but it did not shake to the root, after all, Durant scored nearly 60 points, and the Warriors only won by a single-digit point difference.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that in the crucial fourth game, Durant went one step further on the previous basis, and once again set a new career scoring record after only one day of separation, shooting 21 of 45 from the field and 14 of 16 from the free throw line, directly contributing 60 points.

The continuous high scores made the performance of Tang Shuai and the Lakers Big Three useless.

Before Tang Shuai, the most profound impact on the Chinese playoffs was the series between Yao Ming's Rockets and Jazz in the 06~07 season, when the Rockets also led 2-0 away, but returned to the home court and suffered two consecutive defeats, and were finally eliminated.

Today's Lakers and Rockets, Warriors and Jazz are not the same team, but the situation is strikingly similar at this moment.

It was the previously criticized Durant who made all this happen, and he finally found his touch at the most crucial moment, and also showed his superstar value.

If losing Game 3 is acceptable, then losing Game 4 puts the Lakers on the brink of danger, considering that the fifth game between the two sides is held in Oakland, and it will be even more difficult to win than these two home games.

The two-game losing streak has also left the Lakers in turmoil, with Cousins complaining about Mike Dermott's defense, and Ariza and Norris Kerr unhappy with their playing time.

An ominous aura permeated the sky above the Purple Gold Legion.

Tang Shuai saw all this, but he couldn't say anything at the moment, if he wanted to change the current situation, it was definitely not something that could be solved by simply pouring two sentences of chicken soup.

After the day's training, Tang Shuai took the initiative to find Billups.

"Don, you're looking for me? Is it because of some emotions in the team lately? Billups was also anxious about the game, and when he saw Tang Shuai looking for him, he instinctively asked.

Tang Shuai nodded, and after sitting opposite him at the behest of Billups, he then spoke: "Coach, the atmosphere of the team is on the verge of danger......

"I know, it's a problem, but there's no better way to solve this problem right now." Billups shook his head helplessly, then suddenly remembered something, and looked up at Tang Shuai, "Do you have any way?" ”

"I think winning is the best way to change that atmosphere." Tang Shuai said.

"And then?" Billups certainly knows that.

"I want to take the initiative to defend Durant." Tang Shuai said unhurriedly.

"What?" Billups looked at Tang Shuai in disbelief, as if he had seen a monster.

Tang Shuai's height has improved a lot compared to when he first entered the league, and his current barefoot height is 1.92 meters, and he can reach 1.96 meters after wearing shoes, barely reaching the average height of the league's scoring guards.

However, Durant is 2.11 meters tall barefoot and 216 tall in shoes, which is 20 cm taller than Tang Shuai!

Defense is a matter of height, when the opponent is 20 centimeters taller than you, and the physical talents such as speed and reflexes are not worse than yours, it is almost impossible to succeed, not to mention that Durant's scoring method is mainly shooting.

Imagine a person who is 20 centimeters taller than you and shoots in front of you.

You can't do anything but look up......

"Don ......" Billups frowned, paused and said, "Your defensive progress, I see it, your defensive ability, I am also very relieved now, but you have to know that you are a point guard, Durant is a small forward who can play the No. 4 position, your height ...... You know what I mean, it's an impossible task, and you're going to have to carry the burden of attacking. ”

"I know, Chauncey, I know that, but I believe I can do it." Tang Shuai said with a firm gaze.

Billups looked at Tang Shuai in surprise, he didn't expect Tang Shuai's attitude to be so resolute, after hesitating for a long time, he finally chose to believe Tang Shuai, nodded and said: "I know you say this, there must be your own reasons, although I may not understand, but I choose to believe you." ”

"Thank you." A smile appeared on the corner of Tang Shuai's mouth, this trust of Billups was more useful than a hundred sets of tactics.

"Well, let's defend it, I'm looking forward to another surprise from you." Billups said with a smile.

"Yes, coach, I will." Tang Shuai stood up as he spoke, and then walked out of the coach's office without looking back.

Billups looked at Tang Shuai's departing figure, his eyes stayed for a while, and then he took out the tactical manual and made adjustments in the defensive position.

Durant's outburst has given the Oaklanders hope to win again, especially under Durant's outburst, the other three giants of the Warriors are playing better and better, and the next game is playing in the Warriors, and the originally bleak prospects for qualifying have suddenly become brighter.

On May 25, U.S. time, the fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain in Huyong started as scheduled at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

This day coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival, a well-known festival in China, and Auckland is a large county of Chinese descent, and many promotional banners such as "Qu Yuan Culture" and "Zongzi Festival" can be seen on the streets.

However, even on such an important holiday, most Chinese fans did not choose to eat zongzi at home as in the past, but took their family to the Oracle Arena to watch the game.

The reason why the battle of Tianwang Mountain is called the battle of Tianwang Mountain is that everyone knows that it determines who of the two teams can finally qualify.

Not to mention the fans of the Warriors, even the fans of the Lakers, they also bought tickets through various channels, and the Oracle Arena on this day, in addition to the many yellow oceans, also had a small purple and gold area composed of about two or three hundred people.

When the Lakers arrived at the arena, the frantic cheers of the hundreds of fans quickly caught their attention.

Billups gave an impassioned speech to the players before the game, but it was as expected, but when the players saw so many fans magically appear on the Warriors' home court (such a crucial game, Warriors fans will definitely not sell tickets easily, and these Lakers fans must have paid a great price), their faces flushed, and their momentum recovered quite a lot at this time.

When the players warmed up on the field, the starting lineups of both sides were shown on the big LED screen on the scene, and both sides were the same as in the previous game, without any adjustments.

The game kicked off with the cheers of the fans.

Although Billups agreed to Tang Shuai, he did not arrange for him to defend Durant at the beginning, after all, he still had doubts from the bottom of his heart, and he also wanted to see Durant's state tonight, if Durant felt average, he didn't need to take such a risk.

But in fact, Billups was wrong.

Durant was still on fire, and after scoring eight straight points in the opening game against Mike Dermott, he quickly helped the home team lead 12-4.

Seeing this scene, Billups couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile, and after calling a timeout, he then made tactical adjustments, replacing Mike Dermott with Ariza, and then pushed Tang Shuai to the small forward position and asked him to play opposite Durant.

This tactic is arranged, and the Lakers players are all confused, which is this singing?

When the two sides came back from a timeout, the Lakers scored a goal, returned to the defensive round, and when they saw Tang Shuai go to defend Durant, the fans at home all had a look of hell.

"What the hell is going on? Hey, Chauncey, are you being funny? Not to mention the fans, even the home commentary guest Chris Webber couldn't help but exclaim when he saw this scene.

No matter how average a coach is, he knows that it is impossible to have a defensive effect with a difference of 20 centimeters, let alone that this person is still Durant.

And more importantly, the rest of the Lakers team has no intention of covering the bag at all, just one-on-one defense!

"Billups is crazy, absolutely crazy, I can't think of a second reason to explain this picture in front of me!" Webb couldn't help but shake his head when he saw Durant receiving the ball and playing alone, while the rest of the Lakers team still didn't go up to help defense.

Durant is also confused, but he will not give up this scoring opportunity easily.

After receiving the ball, he leaned against Tang Shuai with his body to prevent his ball from being broken, and then glanced at the Lakers players behind him to help defend him, he leaned on two hits, and then directly leaned back to shoot.

This shot was fast and high, Tang Shuai jumped high and wanted to cover his eyes, but his fingertips didn't block Durant.

"Huh!"

With a crisp sound, Durant's leaning back hit steadily.

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work." Seeing this scene, Billups shook his head helplessly, the height difference of 20 points is really not so easy to overcome.

"I guess that's a sign for the Lakers to give up?" Webb looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but blurt out.

The fans at the scene laughed even more, not to laugh at Tang Shuai's defense, but this counterpoint, which is really too amateurish, should not appear on the NBA stage at all.

Billups, as brilliant as he is, is still too immature and naïve!

It seems that we still have to interfere before Durant makes a move.

Tang Shuai thought to himself, completely ignoring the reactions of Webber and the fans at the scene, and continued to move forward with his teammates.

Durant is not an ordinary player after all, and he is hot now, and when he shoots and defends, it will be difficult to limit even if he is a death-wound defensive package.

The Lakers' offense advanced to the frontcourt, and Don Shuai transitioned the ball to Cousins on the inside.

Cousins hit Bogut with his back, and after a few foot movements, he relied on his strength to find a good angle to hit the board and score.

Looking back, the Warriors' offensive round, after seeing that the Lakers were still using Tang Shuai to defend Durant alone, Curry beckoned his teammates to run, and after Durant was in the right high post, he gave the ball over.

Durant received the ball, relied on hitting Tang Shuai twice, and then prepared to turn around and go to the bottom line.

The player's advantage in height is not only reflected in the shooting, but also when the layup, because the normal layup is to work at a high altitude above the head, if you jump, it really feels similar to flying, and the defense will not work at all.

That's what Durant thinks, as long as he is allowed to burst out, he is even confident that he will be able to dunk Tang Shuai to improve the morale of the home court.

"Chaunse, give up on this...... It's really not much different from suicide......" Webb couldn't help but shake his head.

"Smack!"

Before Weber's words fell, there was a crisp sound, and at this moment, what no one expected was that after Durant turned around, before he could take the ball and burst out, the ball in his hand was slapped out.

Tang Shuai!

Tang Shuai cut off Durant's ball!

"What......" Webb was stunned.

Everything happened too fast just now, and he didn't see how Tang Shuai did it at all.

But he had to accept the reality in front of him.

Because of Tang Shuai, after breaking the ball, the other players of the Warriors did not come back to their senses, and they took the ball and rode to the backcourt of the Warriors.

"Bang!"

A clean dunk sent the home fans in an uproar.

Durant was still stunned, and when he retreated, he looked up at the LED to see how the ball happened just now.

However, there was no playback on the LED screen at this time, and he could only shake his head in annoyance.

Counting Cousins' goal earlier, the Lakers played a 4-0 attack wave during this period and narrowed the score by 6 points.

In the offensive round of the Warriors, the Lakers' tactics and strategies have not changed, and Tang Shuai is still a single defense against Durant.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Durant's brows furrowed significantly.

Although Tang Shuai's strength is outstanding, it was on the offensive end, and now on the defensive end, he put a person who is 20 cm shorter than himself to defend himself, and it is obviously intentional, which is definitely an insult to him.

This time, without waiting for Curry's signal, he hit Tang Shuai twice without the ball, and then directly opened his hand to ask for the ball.

"Hit him! Hit him! ”

The fans in the front row shouted emotionally, and even though they only defended the next goal, this height contrast made the fans feel angry too.

Durant is a player with a high ball quotient, and after turning around and being cut off by a ball, he already had a guard in his heart, and this time he did not choose to break through, but chose to shake and pull out head-on.

Turning around may be cut off, but he doesn't believe that Tang Shuai can still have a way to prevent this 20-centimeter dry pull-up shot.

In fact, if Durant wants to pull out, Tang Shuai really can't help it, after all, the height gap is something he can't change.

However, he is obviously not stupid enough to really find a way to overcome the 20 cm height difference.

After Durant shook twice, he found an opportunity, took a small step to the right, and then went straight to the jumper.

"Smack!"

After a familiar business, he looked down and saw that the ball in his hand was gone again!

There was silence at the scene, and the audience was dumbfounded.

"What the hell is this...... How? Webb had watched it carefully this time, but he still hadn't seen how the ball had broken off.

Tang Shuai rushed forward directly after breaking the ball, and this time Curry reacted and pulled him directly.

The referee's whistle blows, and Curry's personal second foul.

Kerr reached out and pressed his forehead, then replaced Curry with veteran Livingston.

Although the fast break this time did not work, it knocked Curry off the court in advance, and Tang Shuai's defense this time had a greater effect than expected.

And the deeper significance is that after successfully stealing Durant twice in a row, the overall morale of the Lakers has risen at once.

Tang Shuai sent the sideline ball, Westbrook held the ball to the front court, and Cousins made a block, and after the ball was dismantled, a feint to return the ball shook off Bogut, and then accelerated to the basket, facing Livingston, who came over to make up the defense, and directly chose the overlord to make a hard bow.

"Bang!"

There was a physical confrontation in the air, Livingston was knocked away, and Westbrook pressed the ball directly into the basket with one hand.

There was an uproar among the fans at the scene, but the hundreds of Lakers fans were more excited than anyone else.

Westbrook looked extremely excited, and after landing and yelling at the audience, he turned around and had a big chest bump with Tang Shuai.

Durant's brows furrowed even tighter when he saw this scene, and this time came and went, and the momentum of the home team was completely suppressed.

As a superstar, it is very important to have the ability to dare to shoot at critical moments, as a super pitcher, the most important point is to dare to shoot in the case of consecutive misses, Durant has both, and when it comes to the frontcourt, he has no reason to back down at all.

Warriors teammates also have great trust in Durant, and when it comes to the frontcourt, even if he doesn't score the first two goals, Curry still chooses to pass the ball in.

The Lakers still didn't pick a bag.

The fans at the scene were all staring intently at the field at this time.

It's only three things, Tang Shuai still broke Durant's ball for two consecutive rounds, if this is the third time, not to mention the fans, even Durant himself is probably going crazy.

Durant holds the ball and plays it, this time he is more careful than the previous two times, although he didn't see how Tang Shuai broke his ball twice in a row, but the two failures made him realize that Tang Shuai has the ability to break his ball, so this time he chose the safest, and it is also one of the many scoring methods he is good at, the backward jump shot.

Because of his height and long arms, coupled with his excellent hand feel, although his backward jump shot does not have the absolute beauty of Kobe and Jordan, he still has a very strong grasp.

Once, twice.

Although he didn't push Tang Shuai, this distance within the three-point line is definitely sure for him to shoot accurately.

He leaned on two blows, and then he was ready to turn and shoot.

At this moment, he saw Tang Shuai's hand grab from an extremely hidden angle.

So fast! Accurate!

Because he was on guard in his heart, he was careful before making a move, and after judging Tang Shuai's broken ball, he immediately made a move to collect the ball, and then made another shot.

But what he didn't expect was that Tang Shuai's other hand was broken off from the other side.

A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, but there was no room left for him to make any more adjustments.

He took the ball early, then turned and threw his hand back.

The technique of turning around and leaning back is very rhythmic, like Tang Shuai, although he has an exclusive back pack and back pack, but he still doesn't use it much in the game, a very important reason is because there is no absolute coherence before the two skill packs, as long as you encounter high-intensity defense, it is easy to mess up the rhythm first.

That's what Durant is in right now, because of the disruption, his shooting rhythm is completely disrupted.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, Durant's shot hit the iron.

The scene was restless, and many fans couldn't help but stretch out their hands and scratch their heads.

It's only three things, and Tang Shuai has blocked Durant for the third time in a row.

"I apologize for what I said, this counterpoint is really too creative and so interesting." Webb himself is a fan of Tang Shuai, and after seeing Tang Shuai have such an excellent performance on the defensive end, he laughed heartily and slapped himself in the face.

At this time, the happiest person is Billups, although he has 100% trust in Tang Shuai, but Tang Shuai's performance in these rounds is really blind to his eyes, an absolute surprise, you must know that defending Durant means not only the success of a defensive alignment, but also the team's tactics, and even next summer's reinforcements, will bring completely different changes.

Theoretically, a height difference of 20 cm can't be prevented, but is it really uncontrollable?

Durant didn't try a fourth time, he wasn't a stubborn to paranoid player, and after playing against Don three times, he knew it would be a waste of the team's chances to go on like this.

Durant couldn't score points, which was absolutely devastating for the Warriors, and at this time Curry was sent off early, and only Thompson was left to score on the court.

But at this time, it was Ariza who defended Thompson, although his ability has deteriorated, but he eats by defense, and the restraining effect on Thompson is still obvious.

Under the domino effect, the Lakers played the Warriors in the next few minutes, and they couldn't find the north at all.

By the time the two sides entered the rotation, the score on the court had become 22-14, and this time the leading team became the Lakers.

The main reason why the Lakers lost two consecutive games at home was because of Durant's super play, and now Durant is locked by Tang Shuai, and the overall morale of the team has come back.

After coming off the bench, the substitutes such as Stephens, Tucker, Harkless and Nance Jr. all let go, and the score was further stretched on the original basis.

When Kerr saw this scene, he had no choice but to replace Durant on the court again.

Durant came up a few rounds and hit consecutive shots in the face of Tucker's defense.

Although Tucker's ability is not as good as Ariza's, he is also a player who relies on defense to eat, and Durant has hit one after another, which shows that he actually has quite a good hand.

"Huh!"

With a dry **** score, relying on Durant's excellent performance, the Warriors chased the score to 32-39.

However, at this moment, the Lakers made personnel changes.

Billups replaced Tucker with Don Shuai. (To be continued.) )