Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 647 Keep Your Position
That night, Li Weisi did not leave Los Angeles, but stayed in the hotel with Marisa that night, spending a rare time in the world of two people, doing some things they love to do.

The reason why Li Weisi didn't leave in a hurry was because the Warriors also came to Los Angeles the next morning, and today their opponent was the Los Angeles Clippers.

The result of the whole game was almost uneventful. Although the Clippers worked hard, they only avoided the fate of being beaten in three quarters and delayed the loss of the game for a while, which did not have any substantial effect on the result of the game.

On the contrary, because of the persistence of the Clippers, Richmond scored a career-high 40 points. In addition, Mullin also played extremely well, scoring 32 points. As for Li Weisi, although his performance on the court did not seem to be affected by last night The impact of the movie premiere, but obviously he didn't exert much effort, only scoring 24 points and 12 assists.

Of course, facing two teammates who scored 72 points together, he really has no reason to exert himself.

The end of the game against the Clippers can be regarded as the end of the entire January game. This year's All-Star Weekend is on February 2th and 8th, so the Warriors still have 9 games before the start of the All-Star Game. Among them are still hard stubble.

On February 2, the Warriors played away against the No. 1 Trail Blazers in the West.

However, although the Blazers are still number one, the number of wins is only two games away from the Warriors. Therefore, this head-to-head matchup between the first and second is very important, and one game can be used for two games.

Therefore, for this game, both teams attach great importance to it.

After the start of the game, the two teams played very tightly. There was a lot of physical contact between the two sides, and the shooting percentage was always low. Moreover, for the two teams, conventional tactics could hardly achieve good results, and they had to use star players in the end. Singles, to complete an inefficient offense.

In this way, the scores of the two teams have been very anxious. From the starting to the bench, the two teams are compared in almost every level.

Compared with the beginning of the season, the Blazers' bench strength has been further strengthened again.

First of all, they took advantage of the changes in the Nuggets lineup, and directly traded from the Nuggets to the core of the Nuggets' bench, the former six-time All-Star selection, Walter Davis.

Although Davis is now 36 years old, he was still able to score 18.7 points when he was in the Nuggets.

Now traded to the Trail Blazers, although the time has been greatly reduced again, and the tactical position has become more marginal, resulting in a cliff-like decline in data, but he can still bring some help to the Trail Blazers on the bench.

In addition, the Blazers also traded for the former Warriors veteran, Rod Higgins, from the Mavericks.

Higgins was traded by the Warriors for Schramf. When he first arrived at the Mavericks, Higgins played pretty well. He played well for a year, but unfortunately, this performance did not last. The turn fell to the edge player of the rotation.

This season, the Mavericks are ready to play badly, so the Blazers also got Higgins without spending a lot of money.

The Blazers recruited so openly that the ambitions of the whole team were clearly revealed.

As the team owner, Paul Allen, after seeing Frank's scenery, he couldn't bear his inner desire for a long time, so the investment in the team in the past two years was regardless of the cost.

The advantage of getting money to open the way is that the results are quick. In just a few years, the Blazers suddenly grew to the championship level.

Although the NBA championship cannot be bought with US dollars alone, the NBA championship does not belong to you without US dollars.

Therefore, with the new Davis and Higgins, plus the Blazers' original Danny Angie, Danny Young and Christopher Robinson, it can be said that the Blazers' bench lineup is quite gorgeous.

Facing such a trailblazer with the same deep bench, the Warriors' game tonight is really difficult, and the substitute stage can't take advantage of it at all.

Not only that, Mullin and Richmond, who performed brilliantly in the last game, were also lost in the Blazers' iron barrel formation tonight.

It has to be said that although Coach Adelman's later generations gave the impression that he was mostly an offensive coach, the Trail Blazers he trained at this time also had a good defense, which made it very difficult for the Warriors to score.

Fortunately, apart from Li Weisi's normal performance tonight, Moses Malone's performance was surprising. Perhaps it was because he played Duckworth so well that Malone played very efficiently tonight.

Relying on the performance of Li Weisi and Ma Long, the Warriors clung to the score and continued the suspense of the game until the last moment.

In the end, relying on Drexler's mid-range jumper, the Blazers struggled to kill the Warriors and won this extremely critical game.

After this battle, the Trail Blazers continued to sit firmly at the top of the Western Conference, and with the second-ranked Warriors, the record once again stretched to three wins.

On the other hand, for the Warriors, with the Lakers defeating the Clippers tonight, their record is only 0.5 games away from the Warriors. That is to say, as long as the Warriors lose another game, they will fall to third place in the West again.

Although the failure of the Western Conference No. [-] battle with the Trail Blazers ended in failure, the Warriors were somewhat frustrated, but fortunately, they adjusted quickly and quickly invested in the following games.

After just one day off, the Warriors came to Houston again to face the Rockets.

For the Warriors, the good news is that Olajuwon still did not come back in this game, but the bad news is that the Rockets' performance tonight still exceeded the expectations of the Warriors.

Although Olajuwon was not on the court, the other players played well, especially in the second quarter. The Rockets beat the Warriors 35:23, leading the Warriors by 12 points in a single quarter.

Fortunately, with the Warriors' offense, 12 points is not such a big difference. In the second half, the Warriors fired frequently from the perimeter. In the third quarter, they hit 7 three-pointers in a single quarter and completely defeated the Rockets' defense. After a quarter of time, the difference will be evened out.

After entering the fourth quarter, Moses Malone also took advantage of Olajuwon's absence and the Warriors' great accuracy from the outside to overwhelm the penalty area. The inside line composed of Larry Smith and Otis Thorpe made it difficult to guard Malone.

In the end, the Warriors fought hard and defeated the Rockets 129:123, retaining the second place in the Western Conference.

In this game, both teams played well. For the Rockets, Kenny Smith scored 26 points and 10 assists, Jeff Malone scored 25 points, Thorpe scored 24 points, and Vernon Maxwell scored 23 points , The four of the team scored 20+.

The Warriors did not give up too much. Li Weisi scored 25 points and 14 assists, Moses Malone scored 23 points and 13 rebounds, Mullin scored 23 points, Richmond scored 21 points, and the same four scored in double figures.

　Thanks os for the reward!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)