You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 642 The future I once expected is now (966)

6 Chapter Fifty The future that was once expected is now
Halfway through the third quarter, Weixia held the ball from the outside, and John Wall originally wanted to defend alone.

As soon as his idea came out, he felt ridiculous.

Anti-death scoring champion for three consecutive NBA leagues?Is that something he can do?

Wall has only one advantage over Weixia, and that is his speed.

This advantage does not bring some rewards every time, if it is not as good in all aspects except speed.Then the advantage of running fast may just keep him close to the defender to increase his foul rate.

Letting go is also a choice.

Wall doesn't understand this, just like he doesn't understand why the Sixers dare to disdain his offense.

Wei Xia scored on the basketball, 77 to 70.

The 76ers have a seven-point lead.

Before the start, both the 76ers and the Warriors were promising teams in the future.But the Warriors were still struggling in the lottery last season, and the 76ers were actually a team that fought against the Big Three of the Heat in six games.

The Warriors showed some unusual qualities tonight, but they were a little short of turning them around.

The biggest problem is Wall.

As the No. 2010 pick in the [-] draft, as a magician, Rose, and then another genius who was elected as the No. [-] pick as a point guard, he has also entered the third year of his career.

Moreover, even if the Wizards have a poor record in the past two seasons, it can still be seen that Wal is better at finding open teammates after breaking through than the Kentucky brother (Evans).His ability to push and counterattack is the best in the league.He still has what it takes to be a great guard and could explode within a year or two.

What he has to solve is the details. Last season, he only made 42 of 3 three-pointers and scored 3 goals in one season.

In an era where projection is more and more pursued and the restricted area is getting more and more empty, it is an outrageous number.You know, even Rajon Rondo, who is a ghost outside the three-point line, shot 26 of 6 in his rookie season.And Wall has played for two seasons and is in an era of more pursuit of three-pointers. Compared with his college days, Wall's three-point shooting is still in a state of stagnation, which makes people worry about him.

After most of the half, his long-range shooting still didn't seem to have improved.Maybe he didn't feel good tonight and didn't reflect the results of his special training. Maybe he didn't practice three-pointers seriously at all.

Due to injury problems, Curry and the Warriors signed a four-year 4 million-plus contract extension. As long as he stays healthy, he is the darling of the Warriors and the Bay Area. His current style of play is completely tailored for Wall, who is not good at shooting. If the ball is handed over to him, his performance will be even more exciting.

In most of the half against the 76ers, all the Warriors' best moments came from Curry on the ball.

Everyone wants Curry in that state to be the norm, and for that to happen, the ball needs to be taken away from Wall,

Wall's contract has a player option in 2013, and he will usher in his third year.His senior brother Derrick Rose also broke out in the third grade and became the youngest regular season MVP in history; his senior brother Evans had a very unhappy life in the third grade and almost lost his qualifications as the king's chief.

These two are good references.

Even for their undoubtedly talented guards, heaven and hell are just a thin line away.

Wall no longer holds the ball, the 76ers bullied him for not being a threat to shoot, and the outside space was wide open.

And Wei Xia, like a haunted evil spirit, persecuted Curry non-stop.

At that moment, Curry felt that he was not only guarded, but also severely cursed.

At the beginning, he wished Wei Xia good luck. Looking at it now, maybe he should wish himself better luck.

How can he survive this defense?
Hold the ball!

Holding the ball is the only way. If he doesn't hold the ball, he will be worn to death by Wei Xia.

In 2006, ESPN launched an anonymous poll on "Who is the most difficult matchup you hate and encounter most".

Wei Xia in his rookie season can enter the top five.

In the second season, he was elected as the "No. [-] most hated opponent".

In the 2007-08 season, Wei Xia was elected first in the two anonymous votes of "the most hated and most difficult" for the first time. If he hadn't been reimbursed in the 2008-09 season, he might have won the vote until the lockout season was cancelled.

Curry has deeply realized why Wei Xia is known as the most difficult opponent.

His off-ball defense is not the toughest, not the most confrontational, not the dirtiest, not the one with the most small moves, not the most powerful, not the most skilled, and probably not the most experienced.However, he is above 90 points in everything.

That said, his defense is top-notch in every way, and he loves to use those skills to torment his opponents.

No one who has won three straight scoring titles wants to expend that kind of energy on defense.

he will.

He took pleasure in torturing his opponents, in sarcasm—which he himself did not perceive as sarcasm.

The moment Curry touched the ball, the Warriors were finally reborn.

However, the rebirth of the offensive end does not mean that there will be a chance to score.

Curry called Drummond's pick-and-roll, the latter hooked Wecha with his front foot, and Cousins ​​​​behind him stepped forward to lead the defense with his back foot.

Today's Curry already has a Steve Nash-level outside offensive threat.

He is more willing than Nash to suddenly pull up and shoot cold arrows. Therefore, as long as he calls for a pick-and-roll, as long as he goes in the direction of the pick-and-roll, the insiders will step forward to help defend against delays, and his opponents will double-team immediately, forcing him to pass the ball.

Drummond's shooting is not a threat, so he only cuts in.

The Warriors' response is within the control of the 76ers.

Curry gave the ball in, with a good idea, but the rookie was easy to follow the opponent's way.

The moment Curry hit the ball, Wei Xia looked back and knew it.

His next reaction was to run a fast break.

Someone in the Warriors saw his intention and wanted to stop him, but he had already moved two or three meters away from everyone.

Curry's pass, destroyed by Chuck Hayes, is now paired with Cousins.

Hayes, relying on his precise prediction of the pass, cut off the pass from the Warriors and then gave Wei Xia a long pass.

Wei Xia received the ball from his teammates and released his talents to his heart's content. A long-distance one-handed gliding Tomahawk dunk with a small step inside the free throw line landed in the Oracle Arena.

The Warriors responded to the 76ers with an alley-oop effort.

However, Cousins ​​took the ball on the weak side and turned to meet Drummond.

Cousins ​​played in the NBA for a few years, but only in junior year.And the offensive skills he mastered in third grade, Drummond may take a lifetime to learn.

He pretended to shake a few times, but Drummond barely reacted, and suddenly jumped up and shot.

Play cricket.

The Warriors' alley-oop was broken by Cousins' meek response, and now they are in a stalemate again.

The Warriors need to score consecutively, and they are behind. If they don't score, the 76ers will go to double digits if they catch a few counterattack opportunities.

The pressure fell on Curry. This time, Wei Xia's defense gave him no chance to connect the ball.

Each of them was under Wei Xia's cover, and Wall was put two meters away. The unparalleled speed advantage was not important at this moment.

Curry was guarded to death, Wall was embarrassed on the outside, and the Warriors' offense was like an unlucky guy who got stuck in his throat with a fishbone but was not sent to the hospital for treatment in time, choking himself to death.

"The Warriors have a good roster on paper."

Oracle's announcers repeated this sentence, but the difference in points widened.

They saw Wexia's dominance on both ends of the offense and defense, they saw Cousins ​​blasting Drummond, they saw Wall's misalignment, and they saw Thompson disappear because he couldn't catch the ball.

The 76ers are better than them in terms of strength and performance, but they only have one sentence: "The Warriors' lineup looks better."

It's undeniably good.

Compared with last season, the Warriors have two more Drummond, Green and O'Neal, plus Curry and Wall who are running in every day.

With a stronger starting lineup and a deeper rotation, the Warriors are significantly stronger.

But compared to the changes in the Warriors themselves, these are small things.Last season, the Warriors had 6 wins and 27 losses before the All-Star, 13 wins and 20 losses after the All-Star, and finally ended the season with 6 consecutive victories.

If you look at their last six-game winning streak, it's surprising to find that they played like a college team: defending, pushing the fast break like crazy, and seriously denying the pass lane.Before Sanders was in office, the Warriors played lazily, and there was no room to stretch or move without the ball.

Sending away some unnecessary role players and finding a new coach in Mark Jackson is a half-rebuild for the Warriors.

There have been too many young teams with no shortage of talents, who have thrown away their years in the long-term rotation toss, lineup deployment, and mutual adaptation, and then because of resentment against the coach, they became more and more lazy.For the Warriors, one and a half of the past two years have been wasted.But at least, when both Curry and Wall return healthy, they should be on the right track.

As for tonight, what their opponents, the Philadelphia 76ers, want to teach them is, don't use youth and experience as an excuse. From the first game of the new season, the future that people expect of them has already come.

Any performance that lives up to this expectation is unforgivable.

The 76ers beat the Warriors. Wall had 4 points in a single game, and Curry had 22 points and 6 assists. If the two best players on the team only had this kind of performance, it would be impossible to defeat Wesha and Cousins, who scored 59 points and 20 rebounds together.

　Although there are two updates during the Chinese New Year, I am not idle. I have saved some manuscripts, and I will try to make more as soon as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)