Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 656 The Winning Streak Ends
On the second day after returning from Stanford, Li Weisi returned to the normal rhythm of the game.

After all, games are just a hobby. No matter how much money is invested, they are just an adjustment of life after all. Unlike basketball, this is his career.

Li Weisi is very clear about this point, not to mention, in the basketball world, he is the winner, as for the game... Forget it, don't mention it!

The next day, the Warriors played against the Dallas Mavericks at home.

The Mavericks, who have been severely injured this season, are now stretched out in terms of personnel, and it is also difficult for the team to win. No, there was a problem when they came up to attack today.

Originally, the Mavericks could only rely on Derek Harper and Rolando Blackman's offense. What made them worse was that the team leader Blackman didn't feel good.

In contrast, the Warriors' offense can be called smooth.

After half a season of running-in, the Warriors have gradually become quite mature, whether they are starting or substituting, and the state of the entire team has also improved significantly. Watching their games makes people feel that they are worthy of being the defending champions. The temperament of the team.

When the point difference was the largest in the first quarter, it was once stretched to nearly 20 points. The Mavericks scored single digits for a long time. It was not until the Mavericks came off the bench that the score rose to double digits.

Thanks to the performance of the Mavericks' substitute veteran English, at the end of the first quarter, the score was chased to 15:29, 14 points behind.

Although the point difference is still very large, it at least gave the Mavericks a hope of chasing points.

Sure enough, after adjustments, in the second quarter, the Mavericks' offense improved. In addition to Harper and English who had been playing steadily, Blackman also found his touch.

However, the Mavericks had nothing to do with the Warriors' offense at this time. When the two teams scored against each other, the point difference could not be reduced.

In the end, after catching up for three consecutive quarters, the Mavericks still failed to overtake the score and lost the score 107:114.

In addition to the Warriors who scored 20+ from the Big Three, Malone also scored 16 points, and no one else scored in double figures.

It can be seen that the Warriors' substitutes did not perform very well tonight, which also forced the Warriors' starters to take on more offensive responsibilities.

In fact, this kind of thing has happened more than once this season. Although the Warriors have reintegrated the team now, there is still a long way to go to achieve the depth of the lineup that they once had, or maybe they will never reach it. arrive.

After defeating the Mavericks, the Warriors ended their four consecutive home games. The next stop, they will go to Minnesota to beat the Timberwolves.

However, what is somewhat inconsistent with the imagination is that the Timberwolves were not beaten in this game. On the contrary, they have been playing inextricably with the Warriors, and even entered the fourth quarter, leading by two points.

But it can only stop here. In the final decisive moment, the Timberwolves were a little short after all. They did not have a final star. Therefore, facing Li Weisi and Richmond hitting key goals one after another, the Timberwolves were still a bit behind. , lost the game.

The Warriors also beat the Timberwolves 108:105, winning the team's three-game winning streak.

After the game with the Timberwolves, the Warriors flew overnight to the Denver Plateau, where, after a day of rest, they faced the Nuggets the next day.

The reason why we have to come one day earlier is mainly to adapt to the environment of Denver. As a city with an altitude of more than 1600 meters, altitude sickness plagues every visiting team that comes here.

But even so, the Warriors also failed to escape the troubles of the Devil's home court.

Although the record of the Nuggets this season has reached a terrible 14 wins and 37 losses, tonight's contest with the Warriors actually has the upper hand.

The Nuggets lost points this season, ranking first in the league, reaching an astonishing 130 points. Of course, they also scored 120 points. easy.

In this way, facing such a Nuggets team, in addition to using offense to defeat the Nuggets, it is difficult to defeat him with defense.

But when the Warriors faced the Nuggets tonight, they actually fell into a disadvantage in fighting offense. The main reason for this was that the Nuggets' outside Michael Adams and inside Ulrich broke out at the same time.

Adams, who is only 178cm tall, has soared in statistics this season. As a player who could not even start in the past, he can average 26.5 points and 10.5 assists per game this season, which is higher than Li Weisi.

Of course, there is no way to compare the two in terms of efficiency, so don't use real efficiency to bully others. Li Weisi's 53% shooting rate alone is much higher than Adams' shooting rate of less than 40%.

As for the help to the team, there is no way to compare.

Therefore, even if Adams averages more points per game than Li Weisi, no one will think that Adams is a better player than Li Weisi.

However, in tonight's game, Adams controlled the situation, and once started a confrontation with Li Weisi and did not lose the wind.

In addition to Adams, Ulrich also ushered in an explosion tonight.

When I signed with the Lakers at the beginning, I originally planned to hold the Lakers' thigh to complete the comeback, and by the way, I won multiple championships. I didn't expect the Lakers to be so useless. They couldn't even make it to the finals for two consecutive seasons.

Not only that, the Lakers actually traded him directly to the Nuggets without even hugging his thigh.

Fortunately, Ulrich is only 31 years old now and is at his peak, so this season he is also scoring for the Nuggets, averaging 25 points and 7 rebounds per game.

But facing Malone tonight, his shooting percentage was even higher than that of Adams, completely ignoring Malone's defense. It seemed that he scored almost all the goals and never missed a shot.

Under the performance of the two humming generals inside and outside, the Nuggets finally miraculously defeated the Warriors 150:145, ending the Warriors' three-game winning streak.

Adams scored a game-high 41 points and 10 assists, Ulrich scored 34 points, and the two scored 75 points together, which was the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

Although Li Weisi scored 37 points and 8 assists, he could only score in vain.

In addition to Li Weisi, Mullin and Richmond also scored 20+. Starks performed well tonight and contributed 14 points.

But no matter how well your teammates perform, you lose if you lose. After all, competitive sports still focus on winning and losing.

In addition, although they unexpectedly lost to the Nuggets, there was no time left for the Warriors to be sad and introspective. They had to fly from Denver to Utah that night, from one devil away to another devil away.

Moreover, compared with the Nuggets, the Jazz this season is much stronger. In order to avoid a losing streak, the Warriors must hurry up and recuperate as soon as possible, and then defeat the Jazz who are waiting for work in this league's rather devil's home court.

(End of this chapter)