The Jazz lost another high-end game, ending a six-game winning streak; DeRozan went on a straight streak, the Bulls won seven straight; lost 116-120 to the Clippers, and the Nets made their fans laugh bitterly.
The Jazz scored 20 points on a four-man basis, nearly reversing the Warriors
The Warriors' game against the Jazz is perhaps the most normal and highest-level matchup of this game day. Poole had just returned from a health deal, and the coaching staff did not put too much offensive pressure on him, but chose to let Payton and Curry partner in the backcourt.
Andrew Wiggins is not the Warriors' highest-scoring player, but he is the Warriors' strongest single-player offensive card. Throughout the game, Wiggins made 19 shots and scored 25 points on 4-of-6 three-point range. The Jazz's lineup is nothing to do with players like him and Leonard who are both athletic and tall. The Warriors coaching staff is well aware of this, giving Wiggins the highest playing time in the team to help the team maintain its advantage.
Three-pointers are the magic weapon for the Jazz to survive, shooting only 32% of the game. The Jazz have been like this since the first few seasons, they rely too much on three-pointers, even if they don't shoot well, they can't find other stable ways to digest the offense, and the team is often prone to a dead loop. And the opposite of the super 50% three-pointer, so that Gobert is very uncomfortable, originally Curry's high block demolition, has already made DPOY headache, the role player's three-point shot opened that how to play.
The Jazz's small-ball lineup doesn't provide enough power. Their number four position is still not enough in the athletic ability, and in playing this kind of high-end innings, it still seems to be insufficient. In the end, relying on the offensive wave of Curry and Wiggins, the Warriors defeated the Warriors 123-116, ending the opponent's six-game winning streak.
Lavin scored 35 points, and it was hard to hide DeRozan's starlight
The Chicago Bulls have not been idle these days. In the Chinese New Year's Eve of American time, they defeated the Pacers in the Indiana slaying, and on the first day, they narrowly defeated the Washington Wizards 120-119 at the First Capital Arena in Washington.
Although the Washington Wizards didn't win the first game of the year, their performance was still commendable. Beal's return boosted the team's confidence, and the other players played more freely, with the Wizards delivering 26 assists throughout the game (three times higher than the season average), and players who played more than 25 minutes across the team all had double-digit points.
Kuzma is not a player known for his stability. However, in the last three games, he has scored 20+ points, and the shooting rate has gradually increased. In particular, the last 7 seconds of the kill almost made him the biggest contributor to the Wizards' victory.
He was blocked by DeRozan, who used a very "Lakers celebrity" move on the three-point line to shatter Kuzma's highlight performance. Let the gorgeous performance of the opposite double star become meaningless. Continuous back-to-back away games obviously depleted DeRozan's physical strength, and he did not play a shooting efficiency comparable to that of the "god of basketball", and the effective shooting rate and true shooting rate were far below the season average.
However, he still has a strong pulling force, +12 plus-minus perfectly shows his court value, he seems to have promoted himself to the level of superstar, even if the scoring efficiency is dismal, opponents do not dare to slack off you a little, because they do not know when the lion will wake up. The penultimate goal, he faced the tall forward's defense, hit the back mid-range, the last goal, he shook the Wizards player's defense, under the defense of another Wizards player to complete the shot, creating two classic scenes for himself for two consecutive days. DeRozan, there's yours!
Even the remnant Clippers lost, the Brooklyn Nets, there's really yours!
At the Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets lost an inevitable game. Almost all the main players on the opposite side can not play. The Nets, on the other hand, had a neat lineup except for Irving, but they gave up their advantage again and again and played an ugly game.
The Nets have more reliable pitchers, more tall interior lines, stronger offensive cores, and both offensive cores have stretched their playing time to 40 minutes, and none of the los Angeles Clippers on the other side have played more than 35 minutes. This led to the Clippers' poor attack, their staff shortage, unable to play more tactical routines, sudden points, shooting is one of the few things that can be done.
The Nets strolled around, they had many opportunities to kill the game early, but they missed out again and again, they missed too many painted must-score goals, they had more abundant fast-attack resources, but they scored 16 fewer fast-attack points than the opposite side. Judging from the results, it may just be Winslow, Mann and Bradsoe's outbreak in the fourth quarter that caused the Nets to bury this game, but the hidden dangers that belong to the Nets have always existed, every minute of this game, every regular season game in this season.