Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 737 - 263: The God Descends Again, the Death God Does Not Retire

Madison Square Garden.

Qin Yue, who repeatedly responded to the Knicks over several rounds, has become a thorn in the side of the fans present.

However, at this stage where the home crowd most needed Durant to match Qin Yue's offensive firepower with individual performance, Durant maintained a rare calm.

Has the Death God failed to wield his scythe?

Of course not.

Durant's continually evolving Human-Ball Integration ability over the years and his inherent static talent mean that nowadays, if he wants to swing, he can fire from any angle and any distance.

Even on the stage of the finals, facing the high-intensity pressure from the Warriors' forward players, Durant can still maintain his flair as a historic-level scoring machine.

But compared to Qin Yue, the world-recognized king of hard breaks.

The stamina that Durant lacks to support him swinging madly for an entire game results in his output vacuum period being far longer than his idol's.

Therefore, during the phase where Qin Yue went berserk trying to take away the game, to win, Durant must rely on his teammates and trust them.

After all, in the more crucial fourth quarter, with his stamina running empty ahead of time, Durant cannot determine the outcome of this match for the Knicks.

That's right, the third quarter of this night was a test for the other Knicks stars.

The scoreboard reads, 88 to 84.

This was the score at the end of the first three quarters between the Warriors and the Knicks.

From the results, indeed, other Knicks players stepped up.

However, unexpectedly, the player who held up under pressure for the Knicks in the latter half of the third quarter was not Harden, who performed brilliantly in the first half.

Instead, it was Andre Iguodala, incredibly accurate in his three-point shooting in the second half, scoring a total of 16 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists for the Knicks in a single quarter.

In Qin Yue's previous life, although Andre Iguodala's FMVP was highly controversial, more like the judges trying to highlight that anyone could post star numbers as long as they matched up against James.

But it cannot be denied that Andre Iguodala was indeed a clutch player.

After all, players of the same era as James could not all seize the opportunity to play against him.

For instance, in Qin Yue's memory, DeMar DeRozan would always be intimidated before even battling James.

The heroic form of Iguodala became the X-factor in the second half of the Knicks game.

Of course, the fact that Qin Yue's rampage failed to expand the lead for the Warriors this night was also related to the Knicks performing various non-basketball confrontations against the Warriors players in the second half with the referee's indulgence.

The high-intensity and high-standard physical confrontations inevitably caused a decline in shooting touch among the other Warriors players.

And among them, Curry, directly defended closely by Iguodala, found even getting shots off to be an immensely difficult task.

TNT TV Station, Reggie Miller spoke a fair word for Curry: "In my view, if Stephen can adapt to the Knicks' defensive intensity in the fourth quarter tonight, those criticisms about him not being able to shoot threes like now in the 1990s should come to an end."

As a senior, Miller did not believe that Curry, with his staunch three-point capability, could not adapt to the so-called iron defense of the 1990s.

Only, what Miller did not know was that even though Curry subsequently made those physics-defying threes again and again, this baby-faced assassin always had to prove himself in the next turn.

Fortunately, today's Curry was lucky.

Because if the GOAT's teammates were too weak, it only highlighted how strong the GOAT was, playing alongside Qin Yue, Curry not only did not need to prove himself repeatedly as he did in Qin Yue's memory, but he also always benefited from being Qin Yue's teammate.

For example, in this game.

In the fourth quarter, as Qin Yue continued to stay on the court, during the phase of resting while playing, he unhesitatingly handed the basketball to Curry.

And with "off-ball Curry" switching to "on-ball Curry,"

Iguodala's attempts to limit Curry's off-ball runs through tight defense like in the third quarter, and thus use physical pressure to lower Curry's shooting percentage, became an impossible task.

Because all along, Curry's one-on-one prowess was merely overshadowed by his overwhelmingly strong three-point shooting ability.

Although the pre-travel Qin Yue did not know that a thirty-seven-year-old Curry could do "if you dare give me one-on-one, I dare score" against the suffocating defense of the Houston Rockets,

On this night of star-level competition, a twenty-four-year-old Curry rewarded Qin Yue's trust with the 11 consecutive points he scored for the Warriors at the start of the final quarter.

And on the Knicks' side, as long as it isn't the Celestial King Mountain battles and Game 7 showdowns, you could always trust Harden as he sets the stage with Curry for the upcoming duel.

With the home-court advantage, the Knicks successfully witnessed this ultimate form of Qin Yue, this night's boss.

5:48 remaining in the game.

The Warriors' coach Ma Long, who proactively called for a timeout, changed the team's on-court lineup after the timeout to — Brown, Qin Yue, Wallace, Green, Curry.

This substitution adjustment signified Ma Long's intention to free Qin Yue from defensive duties. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Seeing this, TNT TV Station, Barkley said: "The decisive moments for the Warriors are always so lacking in novelty."