This time Curry's shot from beyond the three-point line was severely interfered by Paul, and the ball bounced into the neck of the basket.

But fortunately, Wayne jumped high after the pick-and-roll, grabbed the rebound before Ezeli, and dunked the ball into the frame before it even landed, making a beautiful putback dunk.

This extra buckle stopped the bleeding for the Trail Blazers, but it only stopped the bleeding and the wound was not closed.

The warriors attacked again, and by this time their morale had become high.

Butler responded to Wayne's call. This time, as soon as Thompson passed the midfield line, Butler directly engaged him in hand-to-hand combat.

The two of them pushed and collided with each other, and their movements were very violent. If they weren't former teammates, they would have gotten angry.

Wayne also focused his attention on Thompson, paying attention to his movements at all times.

But human energy is limited.

Just like time, there are only 24 hours in a day.

The more time you devote to work, the less time you have to rest.

If Wayne puts more energy on Thompson, he will pay less attention to others.

Seeing this situation, Paul broke through himself and made a steady jump shot from the mid-range.

Pao'er's mid-range shooting percentage this season ranks among the top three in the league, and he is one of the most stable players in the mid-range.

Because Wayne was too worried about Thompson, he couldn't make up the ball in time to help defend Paul.

Just like that, Paul made a mid-range shot, and the point difference returned to 8 points!

After scoring the goal, Paul danced a shoulder-shaking dance in front of Curry.

Celebrating a goal with someone else's celebration is a very clear provocation.

Paul's meaning is also very obvious, I won you last year, and I will win you again this year!

Curry just smiled and shook his head and did not respond to Paul.

But in fact, Curry was already furious.

I'm wearing a butt pad today, don't mess with me!

The game immediately became difficult. Seeing that the point difference was approaching double digits, Wayne stepped forward again. After receiving the basketball, he turned over and shot Green from mid-range on the right side.

However, this time, Green pushed Wayne slightly in the air, causing Wayne to lose his center of gravity for a moment, which affected the entire shot.

As a result, the basketball missed the frame and the Blazers missed their key offense again!

Wayne opened his arms and yelled at the referee. The referee really didn't see it, otherwise he wouldn't have given the whistle.

That is God Wei after all.

Green's push was very smart. It didn't directly push Wayne down, but it was enough to affect the shot.

After Ezeli got the rebound, he quickly passed the ball to Paul, who once again led the counterattack.

After running into the three-point line in the Blazers' half, Pao'er looked back. Sure enough, Wei Ge was following behind.

Paul broke into the three-second zone and jumped up, but instead of making a layup, he distributed the ball again, and the target was naturally Thompson.

Butler correctly judged Paul's passing intention. He was pushing Thompson with one hand and trying to intercept the basketball with the other hand.

Butler was like a mad dog, biting at Thompson like crazy.

But Thompson's fighting spirit was also full today. He held Butler on his back and caught the ball first.

After getting the ball, he made a fake move to pray to Buddha, then immediately broke through, gained half a body position, and shot a mid-range jumper.

Who said I can only shoot three-pointers!?

Butler reached out from the side to interfere, preventing him from finding any faults, but...

"brush!"

"Oh my God, the basketball hits again! Klay Thompson, he has scored 8 points in a row until the third quarter! Klay doesn't want the Warriors' playoff journey to end like this!"

The moment Thompson scored, Carlisle paused the game.

Thompson frantically did a three-pointer to the head in celebration, and poked his head crazily with both hands.

Wayne was really afraid that Thompson would poke his head open.

Thompson's mid-range jumper also gave the Warriors a double-digit lead.

Falling behind by 10 points in the third quarter is not a good look for the Trail Blazers.

During this timeout, Carlisle naturally asked everyone to focus their defense on Thompson.

I'm not afraid of Curry's big wind, but I'm afraid of Klay's touch!

After all, Carlisle has coached Clay for so many years, and he also has a good understanding of Clay's explosive scoring power.

But sometimes, some players can't be defended if you want to.

After returning from the timeout, Thompson was still very explosive.

Butler worked hard on defense without any slack.

However, facing an off-ball scorer like Thompson, no matter how hard you try, you can't not give him a chance.

What's more, the Warriors also have two ball-playing masters in Paul and Green.

All Thompson needs to do is just run out of the gap and then catch the ball and shoot. There is nothing else to worry about.

When he runs out of opportunities, the ball will be delivered to him in time 100% of the time.

And as long as there is a slight opening, Thompson can hit the shot.

In addition, Wayne's defensive focus was tilted towards Thompson, which also gave the rest of the Warriors several sneak attack opportunities.

In one round, after Thompson received the basketball, he saw Wayne rushing towards him. Instead of continuing to shoot, Thompson passed the ball to Green who was cutting in.

Wayne quickly turned around to catch up, but no matter how fast Wayne was, it would be difficult to get from near the three-point line to the penalty area.

Finally, this time Green completed a one-handed dunk in front of Wayne.

After the dunk landed, Green beat his chest and roared at Wayne, arrogantly and domineeringly.

This is the scary thing about shooters, not only can they score by themselves, but they can also attract defense and allow their teammates to score.

Thompson opened the game, which means the entire Warriors team opened!

Thompson hit one three-pointer after another, but Wayne and Curry failed to score in the third quarter amid the Warriors' rough defense.

The two teams continued to struggle until the end of the third quarter. Wayne played the entire quarter without stopping for a second.

But even so, it still failed to stop the decline.

At this time, there was only one final possession left in the third quarter, and the Warriors had the ball.

Paul slowly controlled the ball and passed the midfield line, slowly running out of time.

Wayne was panting. He hadn't been panting like this for a long time.

Curry did not let Paul go, but continued to interfere with the confrontation.

Although his confrontation was not painful for Paul, Curry still tried his best.

The game time passed minute by minute, and everyone knew what Paul was going to do.

Wayne watched Thompson closely and watched his movement.

However, Thompson just stood there and seemed to have no intention of catching the ball.

Paul continued to control the ball, and when there were 8 seconds left in the attack time, he suddenly started!

Curry immediately blocked Paul's breakthrough direction, but because the cannon was too powerful, Curry was knocked to the ground!

Curry sat down on the ground. Even with the protection of his little butt pad, he was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up for a while.

At the same time, Thompson finally started to move.

He first made a fake move to run to the left, and then quickly moved to the right, preparing to slide the baseline to the left side of the court.

"I'm coming, I'm coming, look at Green!"

Wayne yelled to communicate with Butler, and the defense switch was completed in an instant.

Wayne was holding on to Thompson, and Paul had already fed the ball to Thompson.

But Thompson has his back to the basket at this time, and he must turn around first if he wants to shoot.

Wayne originally wanted to go up and kill Thompson when he turned around, without giving him a chance to make a move.

Unexpectedly, Thompson, who ran outside the three-point line, jumped up, turned around in the air and threw the ball!

In other words, before taking the shot, Thompson had no time to aim at all!

"wipe!"

Wayne cursed loudly and tried hard to block it.

Thompson also increased the arc of the ball to allow the basketball to pass through Wayne's five fingers.

This kind of ball is not uncommon in the NBA, but most of the time it doesn't touch the ball or hits the side of the backboard.
To be continued...