Chapter 738: Desperate Spurs(1/2)
The opening game of the NBA regular season of the 2013-2014 season started on October 29, 2013, US time.
There were 2 games on the opening day, with the defending champion Spurs facing last season's finals rival Heat.
The other game was the Warriors' home game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
On the evening of October 29, Oracle Arena.
Looking at the first game of the season, the Warriors fans were so passionate about cheering for the Warriors. The boss Ke who led the team away was really complicated.
There is no doubt that everything about the Warriors is a team that is rising and full of expectations for the future.
Therefore, both fans and experts are extremely optimistic about the future of this team.
Therefore, the team's high-spirited and upward situation is visible to the naked eye.
Compared with the Warriors' high spirits, the Lakers seem to be an old team.
Although Kobe wants to change the Lakers' decline, sometimes he is really powerless, even if he is the boss behind the Lakers.
He wants to introduce young and energetic superstars, but these young and energetic superstars are not so willing to come to the Lakers to play with their old veterans.
He also thought about cleaning up the elderly All-Star players in the team and completely rebuild them, but he couldn't make such a decision.
This is different from the winning goal on the court. He is now over 35 years old. Although he could continue to average more than 25 points last season, he once said that when he can't average 20 points on the court one day, he will choose to retire by himself.
He felt that this time was actually approaching slowly.
He didn't have enough time to rebuild it.
So, even if the Lakers are indeed an old ship now, he can only expect this old ship to create some different miracles.
Now he has put all his expectations on miracles.
This is a symbol of a team's mentality getting old.
After all, when you are young, you always feel that my destiny is in my hands.
Once upon a time, the Lakers were an existence that the Warriors could not reach no matter what.
The Warriors, even one of the teams that someone despises the most.
But now, the Warriors have gradually become the team he envies.
The Warriors have even surpassed the Lakers and have already widened the gap with the Lakers, so that the Lakers can no longer catch up with them.
In this game, the Lakers, who are in a slow state, faced the Warriors who are now fighting spirit and are uplifting, lost 10 points 20-30 as soon as the first quarter came. At the end of the first half, they were already 19 points behind the Warriors.
After the third quarter, the Lakers were already 67 to 100 and 33 points behind the Warriors.
In this game, in front of the young and energetic Warriors, the Lakers' aging and heavy weight can be said to be fully reflected.
After the game, the Lakers lost 35 points 95 to 130 away. The Lakers allowed the Warriors to make 20 three-pointers in the away game.
These veterans in the Lakers who are slow to warm up can't keep up with Chen Xiao, Clay and Bill at all.
In this game, Clay played for 31 minutes, made 15 of 19 shots, 5 of 7 three-pointers, and scored 38 points in the whole game.
Bill made 9 of 18 shots and 5 of 11 three-pointers, scoring 25 points in the game.
Chen Xiao made 7 of 10 shots in the game, 4 of 5 three-pointers and 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 22 points, 10 rebounds and 16 assists in just 30 minutes of playing.
The three brothers of Langhua made a total of 14 three-pointers in this game and scored 85 points together.
Well, remember, this is the data for three people and three quarters, and the three people didn't play in the fourth quarter.
The Lakers have Gasol brothers and are very strong inside, but in this game, the Warriors didn't even play the Lakers' inside, so they directly defeated the Lakers.
The Gasol brothers' heavy steps are now shot into a sieve by the Warriors' outside.
So, after the game, when a reporter asked Boss Ke whether the Lakers' current style of playing is already against the NBA trend and whether he and the Lakers are completely out of date, Boss Ke's face looks very ugly.
I can only say that the NBA is indeed getting faster now, and this is why Yao Ming retired after only playing this season.
If Yao Ming wants to, he can average very beautiful data per game next season, but he may become a person named by many NBA teams, just like in this game, Chen Xiao and Bill crazily named the Gasol brothers.
It’s not that they are not strong, they are still very strong. When they meet a team that fights positions, the Gasol brothers can still be very strong.
However, they are now very good and their shortcomings are very obvious.
Even if the Gasol brothers were named in the whole game, there was no burden on their idols and no moral burden on the team.
But Yao Ming is different. Yao Ming is one of the Heat's dual cores. If he is always beaten as a weakness on the court, he will be psychologically burdened. And as one of the greatest centers in NBA history, if people see him being humiliated by outside players like this, isn't this weakening the reputation of a center star?
At that time, some people may say that the center will be an outdated position.
Yao Ming didn't want this, so he chose to retreat bravely.
To be honest, like James in history, he only cared about his own data and ignored the team's old career in defense. No matter how beautiful the data is, he is not that decent. Yao Ming hopes that he can have a decent end.
In fact, the boss of the science department and Chen Xiao both hope to have a decent end.
So, Ke Boss said that if he can't average 20 points per game, he will retire.
Chen Xiao also said before that if he loses his dominance in the game, he will choose to retire.
Even Durant, who is only 25 years old, said that he would retire at the age of 35.
Decent, for an NBA superstar, is indeed very important.
On October 31, the Warriors challenged the Los Angeles Clippers away.
The Clippers this season have changed a lot. Howard exchanged for Tyson Chandler and Sir, which seems to fit the way Xiao Cannon plays very well.
In this season's preseason, Xiao Pao led the Clippers scored 7 wins and 1 loss.
The pick-and-roll of Tyson Chandler and Xiao Cannon, and the pick-and-roll of Xiao Si and Xiao Cannon seem to be born with nature and does not even need to be run-in.
This is very incredible.
This Clippers seem to have become stronger than last season.
In this game, the Warriors fell into a tough battle as soon as they came out.
At the end of the final game, the scores of the two teams were very close. The Warriors defeated the Clippers 128-126 in the last away game.
The Clippers even had a chance to tie the game at the last moment, but unfortunately, after Xiaopao and Chandler picked and rolled, they faced Chen Xiao's block and made a middle distance.
You know, Xiao Cannon and Chandler dribble through one mid-range emergency stop shot after pick-and-roll in this game was quite accurate.
In this game, Xiao Cannon made 12 of 20 shots, 2 of 6 three-pointers, 16 of 17 free throws, and scored 42 points, 15 assists and 6 steals in the whole game. It can be said that he is super magic.
After leaving the Bobcats, Xiao Pao never played such data or performance every time he met Chen Xiao. Last season, he met Chen Xiao and was even killed by eight.
In this game, Xiao Cannon played such data against Chen Xiao and Bill's defense. It can only be said that the pick-and-roll effect of Tyson Chandler and Xiao Si was too good.
With Tyson Chandler, he can block the outside defender and make Xiao Cannon crazy name the Warriors' inside. In this game, Lopez was sent off for 6 fouls, and both Davis and Ibaka both made 5 fouls, and even Gobert, who only played 10 minutes, got 3 fouls.
In this game, the Warriors' inside players won a total of 22 fouls, and the Warriors' team fouls 35 fouls in the game.
This is Tyson Chandler's pick-and-roll effect.
As for Xiao Pao and Xiao Si, the pick-and-roll effect of Xiao Si is not that good, Xiao Si can shoot. He and Xiao Si are slightly pick-and-roll and pass in the horn position, which is an assist.
The pick-and-roll with Chandler can score points, and the pick-and-roll with Xiao Si can score assists. This is why Xiao Cannon can score 43 points and 15 assists in this game.
The offense was so smooth, his mentality became active, and his defense became more outstanding and aggressive, which made him win 6 steals in the game. In this game, Bill's crazy output avenged his own shot in the playoffs.
To be honest, if Chen Xiao had not made 19 of 31 shots, 10 of 17 three-pointers, 7 free throws, and 55 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists in this game, the Warriors would have explained directly in this game.
So, even though the Clippers lost in this game, Xiao Pao was very happy at the post-match press conference.
"We almost lost the Warriors. They are one of the strongest teams in the league. I know that although we lost, we still have a lot of room for growth in the future!"
Indeed, if the Clippers' running-in is better in the future, this team will indeed be a very competitive team in the West.
Of course, before the Clippers showed their competitiveness, the Warriors, who had won both Western powerhouses in the first two games of this season, were already impressive.
As soon as this season started, Chen Xiao, Clay and Bill performed very well.
The inside combination of Thick Eyebrow and Lopez has also become more and more tacit and more combat-oriented.
The Warriors' improvement can be said to be visible to the naked eye.
So, in all the games in the following November, the Warriors only lost to the Spurs away on November 8, and won all the remaining games!
You can say that the Warriors' schedule for November is too simple. Apart from the Spurs, the playoff teams are only Timberwolves, Jazz and Mavericks, and they haven't even encountered an Eastern Conference playoff team.
But even so, you can win all the victories against weak teams, which also represents stability.
The Warriors last season were the team that lacked the most stability because they had many rookies and young people.
During the entire October and November game, the Warriors won 16 wins and 1 loss, and their record was directly parachuted to the top position in the league, which made Chen Xiao undoubtedly win the Western Conference Best of the Month in November.
Chen Xiao’s data this month is 29 points, 9.5 rebounds and 13.5 assists per game, no triple-double per game, but this data is still terrifying.
The best month in the East is Durant, who led the team to lose only 2 games.
By the way, although Chen Xiao did not average triple-double per game, last month, the Knicks' new player Westbrook averaged triple-double per game.
With 31 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds per game, Westbrook's data can be said to have shocked everyone.
Not only his data was shocked, but also his shots, hit percentage and ball usage rate, as well as turnovers and record.
He averaged 26 shots per game and scored 30 points, with a shooting percentage of less than 42%.
To be continued...