The Warriors played one section and a half good goals and were as happy as a group of children, but their former coach refused and almost overturned the table with the young Kings.
Against the king’s game, the Warriors finally won 130-125-they were up to 26 points ahead. The reason why they said they would win was that the Kings were only 4 points short of the last minute.
This gave the Warriors a serious wake-up: Although they are defending champions, although they are particularly strong, the Warriors of the new season are not the original men to defend their titles, they have a lot of hard work at the beginning. If they are too generous when they are happy, there will still be dangerous things to happen.
Never repeat the 2016 year, when they were very happy.
In the second half, Corto was big, because they played too happily in the second quarter and scored 50 points on the king’s head.
Warriors and Curry seemed to return to 2016, when they scored a single-season win record kingmax. It was still the idyllic age of warriors. Durant had not come yet, and the happiness brought by all the way made them unable to themselves. They were also hesitating about whether to hit the record of the Bulls with full power. They wanted to rush but did not dare, and did not dare to be reconciled, so they held a meeting to discuss collectively. Cole couldn’t beat them and agreed to hit the record.
Looking back now, they still have no regrets, but the price is heavy. In the middle of the playoffs, they encountered the tenacious blocking of Thunder, and finally the 3-1 lead was overturned by the Knight. This is happiness and sorrow.
Playing the King’s game made them seem to have returned to the Invincible time of that year. How happy! Wikins took the lead and played 10-0 with Thompson, but the King followed closely, with the first 39-36 leading 3 points. He changed the second group to play the second quarter. Poole led the game. After playing for 5 minutes, he didn’t shake off. Unexpectedly, 58-57, so Curry came out.
The first two curry games were not smooth in the first half, and they didn’t open until three points in the second half, but this one was different. The Mike Brown faction didn’t come up with special means to let Fox defend against him as usual. As a result, he entered a three-point and a three-point against Fox, and this section entered five three points, three of them are facing Fox and two are facing Barnes.
Curry has not tasted the taste of 5 points in 6 for a long time. He seems to have returned to his childhood time on his father’s basketball court and played basketball with his teammates and staff. He scored 21 points in this section, 28 points in the first half, 6 out of 7 three-point goals.
Driven by Curry, the main force of the first group of warriors fought back to 2016. Although Wikins did not experience that era, he felt the same joy and fought back easily again and again. By the end of the second quarter, the warrior 89-71 took the lead, and the advantage expanded to 18 points-equal to that in a short period of 7 minutes, the Warrior beat the King 31-14, and the single warrior took 50 points.
Curry and his old comrades had this experience. Four years ago, he scored 92 points against the bull in the first half, and now he scored young pioneer team history second in the first half with 89 points, and the NBA scored 107 points in the first half, warriors ranked seventh in history in 89 points.
Wikins scored 18 points in two sections and completed the task ahead of time.
As usual, the main starting game started in the third quarter. The joy continued, and the score difference expanded to 26 points.
This is the state of the first group of warriors, which is exactly the same as that of the 2015-16 season. At that time, they also just got the champion, as if the king was on Mount Tai, and all the mountains were small.
Because they just lost to the Nuggets, the Warriors are also ready to deal with Mike Brown’s defense. After all, the Warriors’s defense in the past few years has come from Brown’s design and arrangement. I didn’t expect that the Kings team, which Brown took over, played as fast and urgent as before, and the defense was full of loopholes. Warriors are fast, so are they. In the same high speed, Fox and his teammates are certainly not warriors.
Curry likes this kind of counterattack so much that he and his teammates seem to use this kind of attack to tell their former coach: this is the enjoyment of playing basketball. Let’s join us!
But Brown didn’t want to watch his team run with the Warriors. His task of taking this handsome position was to transform the king who lost the last season’s defense points into a defensive team.
So he made some changes in the second half. Although Fox is still the main defense library, he often lets Herter with higher figure to defend, increasing his shooting difficulty. Once he breaks the defense, under the basket, the rookie Keegan Murray took precautions. This is really limited to the library, section 3, Library 4, 1. However, the advantage of the Warriors was still there, until 40 seconds left when cuminga came out, the Warriors were still 23 points ahead.
However, in the fourth quarter, Brown sent guards David Mitchell and Terence Davis. One of them was 193 tall and the other was only 183. They frequently hit rim, and then Kukës and Monk also scored one after another, warriors only fight with Poole alone, and the score advantage is reduced to 15 points.
Cole always thought that the game had entered rubbish time. In fact, Fox of the Kings had been on the court all the time and they did not surrender. The first group of warriors did not come back for a long time. By 5 minutes 18 seconds, the score difference was reduced to 12 points.
In the last 5 minutes, Curry came back, but it felt cold. Brown also abandoned Sabonis and used Meitu relieve a garrison curry, which was more flexible to move. As a result, none of the three balls dropped after Curry came back, and the layup was illegal. Even Green had no feeling. The pass was broken and wikins’ three-point ball was thrown out.
At this time, Cole’s replacement plan had been disrupted. Thompson played overtime. He let Moody stay on the court, while the Kings of Vietnam fought with Yue Yong. At 1 minute 4 seconds, Mei Tu’s dunk was 126-122, only 4 points behind.
The Kings had a chance to turn over, but they didn’t have enough time left, but it was enough to scare the Warriors. On the night of 89 minutes at half time, if it is turned over, how shameful it is. Fortunately, this did not happen as it did in 2016.
At present, the lineup of Warriors is not as good as that of 2016. At that time, they were integrated from the first group to the second group, from the first group to the substitute, and experienced. At present, the Warriors only have the first group to look at the heroes. The second group is too young to connect seamlessly with the first group.
The first major difficulty for warriors to defend this year is the integration of young players. They must adapt to the system in the shortest time and play as confidently as the first group started.
This plan is quite bold, but Warriors have to take risks to implement this plan for the future and for the “back Library era. Several of their young people, such as Poole, Wiseman, cuminga and Moody’s, all have good talents. The newly joined dicenchinzo has also seen big scenes in the bucks. However, now Cole still dare not let them form a team with the first group of old people for a long time, except Poole.
The first step now is to let Poole take the other four young people to form a team to play the second and fourth half of the festival. In the last game lost to the Nuggets, it was the second group that did not perform well and spent all the advantages saved by the starting. Today’s match against the king is the same. The positive and negative values of the starting line are at least +14, and the substitutes are all negative. The lowest is Poole’s-18, which is the same as the performance of the Nuggets.
This is a grim reality. Young players need enough playing time, but they cannot do nothing on the court with the first group. They need to play the characteristics and advantages of the second group in order to have the opportunity to mix with the first group slowly.
In this process, what is most likely to happen is that the two groups have opposite effects. Cole must also trust them and let them perform and make mistakes. But if you endure to the point where you want to be turned over, the cost may be too high.
Therefore, the present warriors are far from the time to play happy basketball.
Su Qun column