Nature of the game: NBA regular season opener
Against both sides: Lakers VS Warriors
Competition Time: October 19, 10:00
Venue: Chase Center
Competition Background
As one of the opening battles of the regular season in the new season, the first shot in the Western division will be the defending champion Golden State Warriors at home. They will welcome the California rival Los Angeles Lakers in Chase Center.
Last season, the Warriors took the third place in the regular season to the first half of the playoffs. After that, the Warriors, led by Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson, Raymond Green and igodadala, who were the most successful veterans, reached the end with a total record of 16 wins and 6 losses, got the fourth O’Brien Cup in eight years.
This is also the harvest year of curry. He personally won the first western decision MVP and the final FMVP in his career. In the regular season, curry also reached an important milestone. In the total number of three-point goals, curry surpassed ray allen and ranked first in history.
In the same way, the protagonist of the Western opener last season was also the Lakers against the Warriors. At that time, the Warriors started the season with 121-114 away games. Since then, the Warriors have become the most powerful team in the season, winning 18 wins and 2 losses, in young pioneer team history, it was second only to the 2015-16 season with 20 wins and 0 losses (the best in history).
Last season, he played the lakers four times and the warriors won three times. The two battles were after Clay Thompson returned to the team after he was injured. Clay performed well in the face of the Zijin army and scored 33 points in each of the two games.
In the new season, warriors basically saved the winning team last season. However, due to the salary cap, they still lost Gary Peyton II, the second rebounder in the team, including Otto PROTONIC. During the off-season, the Warriors introduced jiemai Kerr-Green and dent-divencenzuo with similar positions, looking forward to making up for the role of the second general.
Near the beginning of the regular season, the Green Boxing & poor’s incident broke out in the Warriors brought a big impact to the entire NBA. At present, it seems that Warriors have basically solved the contradiction between Green and Poole, and Poole and Wikins have also ushered in the renewal of big contracts one after another.
Compared with the Warriors who spent money on tool nose, the Lakers’s salary in the lineup last season also exceeded the tax line, but the result was a sharp drop of glasses, they missed the playoffs with a regular season record of 33 wins and 49 losses.
On paper, the lakers of last season will be at least a playoff-level team. Unfortunately, the injury became the biggest obstacle. James and Anthony Davis, the two cores, missed 68 games last season. However, the newly introduced giant Westbrook seems to have never integrated into the team’s chemical reaction.
During the off-season, the Lakers fired the champion coach Vogel’s and handed the handsome flag to the former stag assistant Davin ham.
Now the healthy heavy eyebrows have been waiting, and he said that he and his teammates will launch an impact with the positioning of the inferior (underdogs).
In 2020, Davis was an important member of the 17th championship of the Lakers. Now this number ranks first with the celts. The seven championships in the history of warriors are second only to the zijin army and the green army.
On the basis of last season’s lineup, the Lakers also made some reinforcement during the offseason. Beverly’s joining and Schroder’s return stabilized the rear guard line. However, Schroeder will be absent from the regular season for 3 to 4 weeks due to thumb surgery. Meanwhile, kendrick nunn, who was absent from the past season, will have a real “first show” in the lakers. He did well in the previous preseason.
As of the afternoon of the 18th beijing time, wei shao was in a state of high probability to play, and thomas bryant was unable to play because of his thumb injury.
In terms of warriors, igodala was absent due to thigh injury, and baldwin was expected to play.
Initial prediction
Lakers: weishao, Beverly, Walker, James, Davis
Warriors: Curry, Thompson, Wikins, green, Luni
(Arthur)