I have to say that Irving's offensive ability is still very strong.
Especially when your opponent lets their guard down.
Deng Fang did not make any special preparations for Irving, which made Irving like a duck in water.
Facing the Warriors made Irving full of fighting spirit. He used all his energy to break through and score three points one after another!
That's the defending champion!
That's a two-time MVP!
Being able to win against the Warriors and gain the upper hand in the competition with Curry will give Irving great confidence!
It doesn't matter whether the record of leading the team is good or not, winning one game with the Warriors in a season is enough!
Needless to say Irving, almost all Cavaliers players think so!
With 100% hard work, Irving feels hot in the hand, no matter how hard he shoots!
The Warriors fell behind by 10 points as soon as they came up!
But Deng Fang didn't care.
If you can win, win, if you can't win, it doesn't matter!
Deng Fang said before the game that the Cavaliers without James are very powerful and Irving is a superstar. This game will be very difficult for us.
It doesn't matter whether he wins or loses, as long as he adds some trouble to James!
Taking the lead right from the start made the Cavaliers even more energetic. They fought harder and grabbed more fiercely.
The Warriors didn't have much luck either. There were a lot of open spots on the outside, but they couldn't make any shots.
In the end, the Cavaliers won the game 113:101!
Irving made 10 of 15 three-pointers, scored 42 points, and led the team to defeat the defending champion!
This was also the Warriors' first loss of the season.
Although he lost, Deng Fang didn't take it seriously.
It's impossible to win completely. There will always be times when a team doesn't feel good, and it's easy for things to go wrong if they keep winning.
Even from a player's perspective, winning all the time is not a good thing.
No one can stay in a state of excitement all the time, otherwise it will be very annoying if they lose.
It’s not bad to lose once in a while!
Especially when losing to a non-competitive team like the Cavaliers!
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The loss to the Cavaliers made the Warriors players very depressed. They all held in their anger and wanted to let it out.
The unlucky ones are the Knicks!
On January 17, 2012, the Warriors visited Madison Square Garden to challenge the Knicks.
The Knicks have made a lot of changes this season. They introduced defensive center Tyson Chandler, which has improved their defense to a certain extent.
However, due to the presence of Anthony and Stoudemire, two stars who focus more on offense than defense, the Knicks' defense is still in the middle and lower reaches of the league.
Deng Fang would not be polite when dealing with such a team!
You are not a bad team!
Even if it's a bad team, you're not a knight!
There is only one knight in the alliance!
Although it is not a good thing to win all the time, it is even worse to lose continuously!
Deng Fang released Curry and others after a break, and the Warriors went on a killing spree again!
The Knicks only resisted for a quarter and a half before surrendering.
There was no way, it was just a loss of more than ten points in the first game, and the point difference continued to widen when the substitutes came on in the second quarter, so that the Knicks fell behind by 32 points halfway through the second quarter!
How to fight this?
D'Antoni is not a stubborn person, and he quickly gave up resistance.
The Knicks admitted defeat and put on a substitute, and the Warriors also put on a substitute.
Although they are substitute players, the Warriors are not soft-hearted, and the players who come up are still very powerful.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Knicks by 36 points 145:109!
Curry only played one game and scored 18 points, 10 assists, and 3 rebounds!
Klay felt hot, played 31 minutes, made 7 three-pointers, scored 32 points and 5 rebounds.
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After the Knicks were the Raptors, Bucks and Pistons. These three opponents were not very strong, and the Warriors won without any effort.
Four consecutive victories are achieved again!
On January 25, 2012, the Warriors faced the challenge of the New York Knicks at Oracle Arena.
This time the Knicks held on longer than last time, and they didn't give up resistance until the middle of the third quarter.
There was no way, Curry turned on the day-to-day mode, scoring 5 three-pointers in three minutes, directly opening the point difference to more than 20 points!
Looking at Curry running on the court, Knicks coach D'Antoni is drooling!
Turning his head to look at Deng Fang on the Warriors coaching bench, D'Antoni's face was full of envy and jealousy!
What do you have to say?
It’s just good luck!
Give me a Curry and I can still achieve impressive results!
Give me another Clay, and I can rule the entire league!
Although I am not convinced, the result of losing is unavoidable.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Knicks 138:101, doubling the Knicks this season!
Two days later Oracle Arena welcomed the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers have always been a strong team in the Western Conference in the past few years. No matter whether the Warriors or the Spurs are number one, no matter how the situation changes, with the efforts of Kobe Bryant, Gasol and others, the Lakers have always been a force that cannot be ignored.
strength.
However, the Lakers are also in an awkward situation, unable to go up and down, and unable to go down!
If you want to go up, there are stronger teams such as the Warriors, Spurs, and Mavericks in front of you; if you want to come down and win the draft picks, it is impossible. After all, the team has Kobe, Gasol and others, and the strength does not allow it!
The biggest problem for the Lakers is that they are too aging.
Fisher is 38 years old, Artest is 33 years old, Kobe is 34 years old, and Gasol is 32 years old!
Boxing is afraid of young people, this sentence is still no problem!
In addition to the age of the leader, another problem for the Lakers is that they have no reliable pitchers!
Under the leadership of the Warriors, the league is now paying more and more attention to outside shooting, but the Lakers' outside shooting is still not good.
The Lakers' most accurate outside shooter this season is Ramon Sessions, but he only takes 1.5 three-pointers per game and can only make 0.7!
He averages less than one three-pointer per game!
No matter how high the hit rate is, this number is useless!
A small number means you invested less, and the credibility of the data is not high!
Except for Sessions, there is no other player on the Lakers outside who can shoot more than 40% of their three-pointers!
Kobe's three-point shooting percentage was 30.3%, Artest's three-point shooting percentage was 29.6%, Blake's three-point shooting percentage was 33.5%, and even Fisher, who has always been very reliable, only shot 32.4%!
This kind of outside shooting would have been fine two years ago, but it is no longer the case in this era.
You know, the Warriors' entire three-point shooting percentage is close to 40%!
Even Lopez, who had never shot a three-pointer before, started throwing three-pointers after arriving with the Warriors!
Although the hit rate will reach 30%, it is already very difficult for a defensive center.
Facing a team like the Lakers, the Warriors are a complete dimensionality reduction attack!
The Lakers' interior offense can't break through the Warriors' defense, but the Warriors' outside shooting can penetrate the Lakers!
If you can't score and can't defend, how can you win the game?
Eventually the game turned into a bloodbath!
The Lakers fell behind by more than 30 points before halftime!
Kobe has been fighting on the court, and he works hard, but today his touch was not good. He took more than a dozen three-point shots and only made two.
The younger brother is unreliable, and the older brother is also out of shape. It is only reasonable that the game ended like this.
The final score was fixed at 136:89, and the Warriors won by 47 points!
Six consecutive victories achieved!
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After losing a game to the Cavaliers, the Warriors silenced the doubters with six wins.
Although they continue to win, and although they win every game, every game for the Warriors is not easy, at least not as easy as the final score seems.
The Warriors are the defending champions and the No. 1 team in the league. When facing the Warriors, every team will give 100% of their energy!
Especially at the beginning of the game, the Warriors have to fight hand-to-hand with their opponents in every game!
Fortunately, the Warriors' main players don't play much time in each game and are physically fit enough.
Fortunately, the Warriors have many players who can play, they have many soldiers and generals, and they have strong substitutes!
Fortunately, the Warriors have Deng Fang in charge, and the players are not afraid of injuries, dare to play hard, and have a tenacious style.
If you fight hard, you will get injured easily, and warriors are no exception.
With less than 20 games played this season, several Warriors players were injured and retired.
Fortunately, no player suffered serious injuries, and they were all minor injuries.
This kind of injury only requires 10 to 20 ability points in the regular season, which is not a problem for Deng Fang.
After the finals of last season, Deng Fang had a total of 140 ability points. Winning more than a dozen games allowed Deng Fang to gain dozens more ability points.
After the player was injured and used a few times, Deng Fang still had more than 100 ability points in his hand.
This number of ability points is enough!
Deng Fang's presence allows players to go out on the court with confidence and boldness to fight, which is of great benefit to the Warriors' morale and cohesion.
Of course, the most important thing is to choose the players well!
If James was replaced as the leader, the current result would not necessarily be achieved.
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The Lakers' next opponent is the Rockets, which is a very special team.
What's special is that the Rockets don't have a star player, but they are still very tenacious, like an invincible little team.
In addition, the relationship between Yao Ming and the Rockets is very special.
Since entering the NBA, Yao Ming and the Rockets have been closely tied together.
Yao Ming represents the Rockets, and the Rockets represent Yao Ming!
Many fans will feel excited when they see that red jersey.
No way, this is difficult to change.
The same is true for Deng Fang.
Of course, the one who feels the most complicated is Yao Ming himself.
Deng Fang knew this, so he rested Yao Ming, Curry and others in this game.
Give the Rockets a chance and see if he can grasp it.
The result was pretty good, the Rockets were very powerful, they all worked together and performed very well.
The Warriors' substitute players also played very well, and the two teams fought until the last moment.
With 2 seconds left in the game, the Rockets trailed by 1 point. Kevin Martin came around and missed a shot. At the last moment, Scola grabbed the frontcourt board and made a tip-in, beating the Warriors.
The Warriors also suffered their second loss of the season.
Seeing his former teammates jumping together happily, Yao Ming also showed a knowing smile.
This game is insignificant to the Warriors, but it is of great significance to the Rockets.
The Warriors are currently ranked first in the league, and their record is several points ahead of the second place. Losing a game will have no impact.
But the Rockets are different.
The Rockets are currently ranked tenth in the Western Conference, only one game behind the Mavericks, who are eighth in the Western Conference!
Every game is very important to the Rockets.
Although the dream of reaching the playoffs is a bit far away from the Rockets, salty fish also have dreams, right?
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The loss to the Rockets had no impact on the Warriors. They immediately shattered the doubts with a ten-game winning streak.
A 30-point win against the Grizzlies!
A "small victory" against the Suns by 21 points!
Against the 76ers, the Warriors won by 28 points.
Against the Mavericks, the Warriors beat the Mavericks by 51 points!
Against the Spurs, the Warriors defeated by 35 points!
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After ten consecutive victories, the Warriors' record has become 27 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the league!
Ranked second is the Bulls in the Eastern Conference. Their record is 22 wins and 7 losses, and they are also first in the Eastern Conference.
Rose's performance is still explosive, and his statistics are even better than Curry's.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Curry often clocks out in three quarters, or even in one...
Rose's average fighting time per game is more than 35 minutes!
The Spurs are ranked third with a record of 21 wins and 8 losses, and are also second in the Western Conference.
In fact, the Spurs are not worse than the Bulls at all. They are just in the Western Conference and have played two games with the Warriors and lost both times.
If you exclude these two games, the Spurs would have a better record than the Bulls!
Second in the Eastern Conference is the Heat, which has the Big Three. Their record is 20 wins and 9 losses, just behind the Bulls.
The third place in the Western Conference is the Thunder. Their performance this season is very explosive. Durant and Westbrook have performed many wonderful performances and led the team to a record of 20 wins and 9 losses.
If the Warriors' record wasn't so bad, the performance of these teams would have received more attention.
But in front of the Warriors, these teams are all younger brothers.
After defeating the Lakers again and winning ten consecutive games, the time came to February 20, 2012.
In fact, the craziest performance in February was not the Warriors, nor the Bulls, nor the Spurs. In terms of personal performance, it was not Rose, James and Curry, but Jeremy Lin!
Jeremy Lin was originally a Warriors player, but was traded by the Warriors to the Hornets when they traded Ariza.
The Hornets don't want Jeremy Lin, he is just used to cooperate with the trade.
Since Jeremy Lin's contract was a non-guaranteed contract, the Hornets waived Jeremy Lin after acquiring him.
Afterwards, the Rockets signed a short-term contract with Jeremy Lin and waived him within a few days.
Jeremy Lin is a good defender, with good athletic ability and agility, and sufficient field vision, but he has a fatal flaw, which is that he is not good at shooting, especially three-pointers.
Even in the Warriors, Jeremy Lin's three-pointers have always been at the bottom.
The three-pointer is inaccurate and the shot is slow. It is difficult for a guard like this to get playing time in the Warriors.
Jeremy Lin was sent away precisely because his three-point ability has not improved much.
Of course, it's okay for Jeremy Lin to be a backup point guard.
But with the Warriors having Lowry, even Livingston doesn't have much playing time, let alone Jeremy Lin!
That's why the Warriors sent Jeremy Lin away.
This is also good for Jeremy Lin. If he stays with the Warriors, he can only get a minimum salary contract and won't have much playing time.
On December 27, 2011, the New York Knicks signed Jeremy Lin, who was waived by the Rockets. This was an opportunity for Jeremy Lin. Fortunately, Jeremy Lin seized this opportunity!
