Chapter 406
Chapter 406
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, burn the door god paper.
On February 2th, the Warriors came to Los Angeles to host the Lakers.
Although the record of the Lakers this season cannot be compared with the Warriors, they still rank second in the Western Conference with 32 wins and 14 losses. It seems that the foundation of the defending champion is still there, and they are challenging their three consecutive championships.
However, most fans today are not optimistic about the Lakers, especially after the fiasco at the beginning of the season, they think that the Lakers have no chance this year.
But the entire Lakers team was not discouraged. On the contrary, they played extremely tough tonight. From the very beginning, they played against the Warriors.
Obviously, tonight's game is a battle for the Lakers.
In the first quarter, the Lakers' offense was very strong. James Worthy and Magic Johnson jointly contributed 20 points.
Not only that, Richmond sprained his ankle just 7 minutes into the game and was unable to continue the game.
However, despite this, the Warriors still withstood the pressure of the Lakers. Li Weisi played very proactively tonight, and he usually focused on organizing the team's offense to sort out. 13 points.
Except for these two scorers, the other starters of the Lakers didn't play well. Instead, they were substitutes, which were even better.
This is because the Lakers' Scott played as a substitute due to injury, and the starter was replaced by Michael Cooper, so the other starters of the Lakers had to stand up and make up for the lack of Scott's offensive firepower.
But at the same time, on the bench, Scott's presence undoubtedly gave the Lakers rotation lineup an offensive ability that can compete with the Warriors' bench.
Not only that, in addition to Scott, Orlando Ulrich on the bench also performed very well.
As the most important signing of the Lakers this season, Ulrich has undoubtedly proved that this signing is a success. With an annual salary of only 50 US dollars, he has played more than 80 US dollars on the bench this season. Thompson is even better.
It has to be said that this signing by the Lakers management can be described as picking up the loopholes.
When Ulrich was in college, he and his teammate Bill Lambiel led the University of Notre Dame to the NCAA Final Four. Yes, it is hard to imagine that a university named Notre Dame can teach such a demon as Lambiel. How ironic it is How ironic.
After entering the NBA, Ulrich averaged 20+ per game for three consecutive years, but unfortunately he was traded because he was incompatible with Jordan.
And last season, Ulrich was suspended for violating the league's anti-drug policy. Therefore, this season, Riley was able to sign Ulrich as a role player with a two-year contract. Big deal.
Therefore, it was the joint efforts of Scott and Ulrich that made the Warriors' substitutes, who had been chasing points in the past, not take any advantage tonight, and even took a faint lead.
At halftime, the Lakers had led the Warriors by as much as 66 points 59:7.
After entering the second half, the Warriors still failed to find a good way to limit the Lakers' offense. Therefore, although the Warriors' offense was still excellent, the point difference could not be closed.
Until the fourth quarter, the situation finally turned around.
Shortly after the opening of the fourth quarter, Hornacek received an assist from Price and hit a three-pointer. Then Lewis made a successful steal, and Hornacek assisted Price to hit a three-pointer in the fast break.
The two are here to assist each other!
Subsequently, the Warriors completed another successful defense. Anthony Mason blocked Ulrich's dunk and forced a fast break. Lewis dunked Michael Thompson. A wave of 8:0 not only overtook the score, but also directly Stopped the Lakers.
Afterwards, the Lakers made adjustments so that the Warriors could not continue to play such an offensive wave, but this still made the efforts of the Lakers in the first three quarters come to naught, and the two teams returned to the same starting line in the fourth quarter.
In the second half of the fourth quarter, it became a match between Worthy + Johnson and Li Weisi + Mullin. A large number of ball rights of both sides were concentrated in the hands of these players.
In addition, the Warriors inside, although Malone has the upper hand against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but the Lakers have already defended against this move.
The two teams played until the last moment, the Warriors led by one point, and the Warriors still held the ball.
After Li Weisi handed the ball to Mullin, he pulled the Lakers' defense by running without the ball. Seeing that there was no chance, Mullin immediately chose to play a pick-and-roll with Malone, and then gave the ball to Malone.
Malone went down and then assigned to the help defense to Rodman, and Rodman didn't even aim at the basket, and passed the ball to Li Weisi who had just ran out of the open space with the basket on his back.
Li Weisi did not hesitate at all, and directly chose to hit a three-pointer!
The whole team's offense is smooth and smooth. Although according to the tactical requirements, the final offense should be completed by Rodman instead of him passing to Li Weisi. Fortunately, it is Li Weisi outside. Passing him to shoot a three-pointer is not a bad one. choose.
However, in the next round, facing Curry, Johnson directly chose a dry three-pointer, made a strong shot, once again narrowed the point difference to 1 point, and at the same time fouled the Warriors.
Because, at this time, there are only 8 seconds left.
In the end, the Lakers committed the crime to Mullin.
Mullin, who made 89.2% of his free throws this season, will naturally not disappoint. He made two free throws steadily, so the Lakers finally had to choose to fight for three-pointers.
It's just that the miracle didn't happen again this time. It was still the same place and the same way of shooting. This time Johnson failed to hit again.
And this also declared the Warriors' victory. They finally defeated the Lakers 121:118 and achieved 13 consecutive victories.
The day after the victory over the Lakers, the Warriors returned to Sacramento to play the Kings back-to-back.
In this game, Richmond continued to be absent due to injury, so Malone did not take a rest and continued to participate in the game.
I thought that the Kings, who were waiting for work, could cause some trouble for the Warriors, but I didn't expect that the Kings could only withstand two quarters against the Warriors who fought the Lakers for four quarters last night.
By the end of the third quarter, the Warriors had a 21-point lead over the Kings.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Kings 142:117, continued to maintain the team's winning streak, and once again launched an impact on the NBA team's winning streak.
In this campaign, 5 Warriors scored 20 points, which is too cruel. Li Weisi scored 20 points and 15 assists, Mullin scored 25 points, Malone scored 20 points and 9 rebounds, Price scored 34 points and 4 assists, Hornacek scored 22 points and [-] assists. Scored [-] points.
After defeating the Kings, the Warriors also ended all the games before the All-Star break, ranking first in the league with 41 wins and 5 losses.
Not only that, what makes Warriors fans even more happy is that the league's All-Star lineup has also been announced, and the Warriors' unprecedented three players were selected to the All-Star at the same time.
(End of this chapter)