Chapter 373
Chapter 373
After defeating the Lakers, on the 7th, the Warriors challenged the Supersonics away and defeated the Supersonics 123:108.
The No. 9 Warriors played away against the Suns and bloodbathed Phoenix 141:103.
On the following 12th, the Warriors played against the Trail Blazers at home, and finally won 117:100.
After this campaign, the Warriors won all five games, and every game was a big victory, and there was not a single game that was not spent in the fourth quarter. Such a record made the entire league pay attention.
At first, everyone thought that the Warriors just started the game hard, but now they suddenly realized that this guy is going to keep going hard!
Is this okay?
Originally, everyone had already given a very high evaluation of the strength of the Warriors, otherwise they would not have put the Warriors in the first position, but now everyone finds that they were still conservative at the beginning.
Faced with such a situation, everyone focused on the Warriors' next game, because the Warriors' opponent in that game was the Celtics. As for the next game, no one took it seriously. After all, no one thought that the The Nets can cause any trouble for the Warriors.
And if even the Celtics can't stop the Warriors, the Warriors are likely to start a 10-game winning streak.
Sure enough, on the 14th, the Warriors started their road trip to the Eastern Conference. Facing their first opponent, the Nets, the Warriors beat the Nets 113:96 and won 6 consecutive victories.
It is worth mentioning that the former Warriors team Joey Barry Carroll was traded to the Nets by the 76ers during the offseason. Obviously, the 76ers have given up on Carroll as the No. [-] pick.
In this campaign, Carroll scored 13 points and 7 rebounds. In just over a year, he has completely lost his former 20+8 star demeanor.
After defeating the Nets, the Warriors felt Boston overnight as a guest at the Garden Arena.
However, after arriving in Boston, there was bad news. In the game against the Heat on the 15th, Bird only played 16 minutes and left the arena due to physical discomfort. Although the Celtics scored 84: 65 beat the Heat, but no one on the team celebrated because everyone had a sense of foreboding.
Sure enough, after returning to Boston, on the second day, that is, the morning of the Warriors' match against the Celtics on the 16th, news came from the hospital that Bird underwent surgery to remove heel spurs and announced that he would be reimbursed for the season.
The news made Boston wailing all over the place. Bird, who is already 32 years old, it is hard for people to believe that Bird can return to the top after a year's comeback.
And the entire league is even more disappointed. Without Bird, the Celtics, what can they do to stop the Warriors from winning streak?
Just as they thought, the Warriors scored 20+ points that night. Li Weisi had 20 points and 9 assists, Mullin had 22 points and 6 assists, and Price had 21 points and 4 assists. In addition, Richmond had 15 points and Malone had 19 points. , Schramff 13 points, a total of 6 players scored in double figures.
The Warriors also beat the Celtics 124:107, continuing their 7-game winning streak.
Subsequently, the Warriors came to Miami on the 18th to face the Heat.
As the newly joined NBA big family this year, the Heat's strength is of course at the bottom of the league, worse than the previous big team.
Most of the team's players, except this year's own draft, are picked from other teams in the league.
For example, Larry Smith, the former teammate of the Warriors, has now become the starting power forward of the Heat. In addition, Roy Sparrow is from the Bulls, Bell Washington is from the Nets, and of course there is an old friend of the Chinese people, Song Tao's lifelong enemy, Scott Hastings, has now been drafted to the Heat.
Therefore, the actual combat effectiveness of the Heat depends more on the rookies selected by the team, such as Ronnie Sekali, the No. 9 pick this year, Kevin Edwards, the No. 20 pick, and Grant Lang, the No. 8 pick in the second round. etc.
The rookies selected by the Heat have good abilities, but unfortunately none of them are cornerstone players, so the Heat's performance this season is destined to be very difficult.
This can be seen from the last game against the Celtics. They actually scored 65 points in the game and only scored 9 points in the fourth quarter. Such an offensive ability is really worrying.
The fact is as people think, the Heat did not pose even the slightest threat to the Warriors. From the beginning of the game, the Warriors firmly grasped the initiative on the field. The score has been leading the Heat, leading by 69:53 at halftime The Heat scored 16 points.
Then in the third quarter, a wave took away the game, making the fourth quarter garbage time, and the final score was fixed at 123:117. The Warriors continued to maintain the tradition of scoring in double figures with 6 players and moved to Atlanta.
The Warriors' trip to the Eastern Conference has two strong players and two weak players, and time is tight, so people will pin their hopes of ending the Warriors' winning streak on the Warriors' next opponent, the Atlanta Hawks.
However, for these people, the Eagles are actually not a qualified candidate, because compared with last season, the main center of the Eagles this season, Kevin Willis, was reimbursed early due to injury, and the lineup is not complete. During the offseason, Randy Whitman was traded to get the Kings' Reggie Seuss, but the increase in offensive firepower from the outside could not make up for the loss of the team's inside strength.
In addition, in the Hawks' last game against the Bulls, Doug Rivers sprained his ankle and left after only playing 3 minutes, so he was unable to attend tonight's game.
This makes it difficult for the Hawks with a disorganized lineup to resist the Warriors.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that the remnant Eagles actually fought the Warriors until the last moment.
One is that the Warriors performed poorly tonight, with four consecutive visitors from the Eastern Conference and today's back-to-back game, they were already exhausted, and this back-to-back Malone was rested again.
Secondly, tonight the Eagles star performed extremely well. Dominique Wilkins and the team's new aid Reggie Seuss scored 60 points to help the Eagles maintain the suspense of the game.
It wasn't until 3.2 seconds left in the game that Li Weisi broke through John Battelle who was defending him, made a throw, and completed the lore, which allowed the team to narrowly beat the Eagles 112:111.
In this campaign, Li Weisi played 34 minutes and scored 34 points and 7 assists.
In addition, there is something very interesting here. Due to the absence of Rivers, the Eagles finally ushered in his first game of the season. Locked up, and on the defensive end, Li Weisi took whatever he wanted, which directly led to Webber being abandoned in the second half, and the Eagles chose John Battelle, which eased the situation of the game.
However, in the end, it was still impossible to escape the fate of being killed by Li Weisi.
In addition, Song Tao also got 4 minutes of playing time tonight, scored 2 points and 2 rebounds, so he did not continue to be on the bench.
After defeating the Eagles, the Warriors finally ended their road trip to the East, and the Warriors also continued to maintain their undefeated golden body this season, starting the game with 9 consecutive victories.
(End of this chapter)