Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 836 On the Right Track
Finally ending the three-game losing streak, this is something worth celebrating, but the Warriors did not want to celebrate, because after the game, there was news from the hospital that Mullin ruptured his Achilles tendon and needed surgery, and the sentence can basically be pronounced Reimbursement for the season.

This news undoubtedly poured cold water on the Warriors' desire to win the three consecutive championships, and it was the kind of winter when the snow outside was one meter thick. They were now in the snow wearing only a pair of socks, and then they were poured from head to toe. A big basin of water was poured, but not a drop was spilled.

This news undoubtedly brought the goal they had just set to an end before they had time to implement it.

This kind of frustration is not to mention the Warriors players, even the whole San Francisco, when they heard the news, they were all wailing.

No one believes that under such circumstances, the Warriors can still win the championship, especially at this stage of the season when the Bulls and Rockets played so well!

In the face of monstrous public opinion, the entire Warriors team was as immovable as a mountain. They have experienced too many of them and encountered all kinds of difficulties. The difficulties in front of them could not hit them. Difficulty, on the contrary, inspired their inner fighting spirit, and their spirit became concentrated.

Under the leadership of the backbone Li Weisi, the team played the game step by step, as if nothing was affected.

On the 11th, the Warriors played against the Lakers at home.

Since Magic Johnson retired, the Lakers have become half-dead, and when Worthy retired and Scott left, the former "Showtime" completely disappeared in the long river of history, and the team officially entered the rebuilding period .

However, as one of the most famous giants in the NBA, the rebuilding time of the Lakers is not long. In just a few years, the Lakers have accumulated a group of powerful players.

In the past, Jordan's substitute, Cedric Ceballos, became the scoring leader of this Lakers team. In addition, there are also powerful masters such as Nick Van Exel, Elden Campbell, Eddie Jones and so on. Returning to the powerful Western Conference is only one superstar away.

Facing the balanced Lakers, the Warriors are not easy to play.

As a master of chaos, Ceballos beat the master to death with his fists as soon as he came up, and began to rush towards the inside of the Warriors.

The Warriors' starting small forward tonight is not Kukoc as everyone imagined, but Jaylen Rose, who rarely played in the playoffs last season.

After all, Jaylen Rose is better defensively than Kukoc.

It's just that no matter how good Rose's defense is, it's still difficult to defend against Ceballos who is running away tonight.

In addition, Anthony Peeler, who is a shooting guard for the Lakers, also turned into a three-point shooter, hitting 3 three-pointers in the first quarter.

Anthony Peeler, who was selected with the 92th pick in the first round in 15, was an all-around scorer in college. He once became the third in the history of the University of Missouri Tigers in scoring and the first in assists and steals.

However, after arriving at the Lakers, he gradually degenerated into a shooter, averaging around 10 points per game.

But no one expected that such a blue-collar role player who could no longer be blue-collar would score 11 points in the first quarter tonight.

Fortunately, the Warriors' shooting rate tonight is also not low, especially Li Weisi, facing Nick Van Exel's defense, completely ignored it, and directly pulled out against the 185cm Van Exel, and pulled it out. Van Exel had no temper.

Therefore, at the end of the first quarter, the Lakers still led the Warriors by 35 points at 33:2.

Entering the second quarter, the Lakers' offense began to drop. Peeler, who had an amazing shooting rate in the first quarter, also began to miss his shots. On the Warriors side, Li Weisi was still accurate. Two or three people flew into the sky.

As a result, Li Weisi's breakthrough became extremely easy, and he often entered the Lakers' inside line unimpeded with a fake move.

Letting Li Weisi break through so easily will inevitably bring huge troubles to the Lakers. Due to Li Weisi's extremely high shooting percentage, the Lakers' defensive formation began to change. During the changes, Li Weisi seized the Lakers' flaw , Using Paoding to solve the cow-like pass, easily tore through the Lakers' defense and helped other players start scoring.

For a time, the entire team was driven down.

At this time, the Lakers, who had taken the lead, were completely passive on the court. By the end of the half, the Warriors had already overtaken by 64 points with 60:4.

This point difference does not seem to be a big difference, but the key lies in the performance of the court. Compared with the Warriors' dazzling passing and cutting cooperation, the Lakers almost fight on their own. Being pulled away too much, but this style of play is destined to have a lower error tolerance rate and make it more difficult to win.

Sure enough, after entering the second half, under the leadership of Li Weisi, the Warriors set off a series of offenses, while the sporadic resistance of the Lakers was completely submerged in the Warriors' offensive tide.

If it weren't for the presence of Fred Roberts and Saidal Streiter, two veterans on the Warriors' bench, who jointly contributed 13 points in the transitional period, the Lakers would never have ended in three quarters, only trailing 81 points with 94:13. point.

However, that's all the Lakers could struggle with. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Warriors played a wave of 8:0 off the bench, directly expanding the point difference to more than 20 points, completely killing the suspense of the game.

After that, neither side changed their starters. After all, Lakers coach Del Harris is very aware of the gap between his team and the Warriors. It's not very good, but at this point in the game, facing the situation where the hard power is still stronger than the Lakers, Coach Harris decisively conceded.

In this way, the Warriors beat the Lakers 123:105 at home and finally won their second victory of the season.

So far, the Warriors have finally recovered a little bit of what they used to be, and climbed out of the quagmire of failure.

After getting rid of the shadow of failure, the Warriors are now away and defeated the Clippers 118:106, and then returned to the home court again, beating the Nuggets 113:98. With four consecutive victories, everything is finally back on track.

Of course, the Warriors can quickly get rid of the shadow of defeat. In addition to the adjustment of their own state, it is very important that these teams are all weak teams, and none of the east and west teams are strong.

Therefore, in the eyes of many fans, the Warriors achieved such a victory only because of the advantages of the schedule, and their true strength is far from as strong as their record shows.

Even this kind of thinking is not only popular among fans, but even many players see it this way, including some players on the Warriors' next opponent, the Magic.

(End of this chapter)