Although Curry was not in good shape in the last round of games, only 9 points were scored, but the overall state of the Warriors in all the past games, it is still difficult to match the team in the league, which also ensures their 29-7 record. If they can win the game in the new round against the Lone Rangers, they will become the first team in the league to win 30. However, although the significance of this campaign for the Warriors is not small, and the head-on battle between Curry and Doncic is also a major attraction of the game, the biggest attraction of this campaign is not here, and the significance of the game to the Lone Ranger is even more significant. That's because the Lone Ranger is retiring Nowitzki's No. 41 shirt after this game. Here, we also let us pay our respects to Nuo Tianwang, who has played 21 seasons in the NBA, played 1522 regular season games, won an MVP and a finals MVP and a championship.
Back in the game itself, the Warriors' starting lineup, before Klay Thompson's official return, was still made up of Stephen Curry, Gary Payton II, Wiggins, Draymond Green and Kevin Looney. The Lone Rangers' starters were also more fixed: Doncic, Jaylen Brunson, Finney Smith, Kleber and Powell. At the beginning of the game, Wiggins used a dragon basket to help the Warriors open the record, and the score was 2-0. Jaylenson's dry jumper helped the Lone Ranger score 2 points as well. Doncic's own steals of his own attack, coupled with Powell's layup, Doncic's basket 2+1, allowing the two sides to reach 10-4 after playing 4 minutes. Curry, Looney and Wiggins each reached 12 draws by breaking through the scores of both sides. The two teams then tied 14, 17 and 19 respectively, and finally the two sides ended the first quarter with a 21-21 draw.
In the second quarter, Damien Lee's out-of-the-box shot helped the Warriors break the deadlock first, and his three-pointer helped the team take a four-point lead, but Tim Hardaway immediately responded with a three-pointer. In 2 minutes, the Lone Ranger rebounded 27-26. Both teams' offenses made the opposing defense difficult to overwhelm, and the score was also alternately led, and after 5 and a half minutes in the second quarter, the Lone Ranger in turn was 34-30, surpassing the Warriors by 4 points. Powell's 2+1 and free throws also helped the Lone Rangers take an eight-point lead of 40-32, and Sterling Brown helped the team take a 43-34 lead with a long three-pointer. After the point difference was further widened, the Warriors' offense was a little anxious, which also gave the Lone Ranger more opportunities, and by the end of the first half, the Lone Ranger was 50-39, 11 points ahead of the Warriors. The Lone Ranger also played the Warriors in a single quarter a 29-18. Throughout the first half, Doncic contributed 15 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals to the Mavericks, with Brunson and Hardaway scoring 9 and 8 points, respectively. On the Warriors side, Mimian Lee contributed a team-high 7 points, and Stephen Curry was still not in good shape, and only 5 points were scored.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Curry adjusted through the midfield, and finally the projection of the outside line picked up, and also hit his first three-pointer of the second half, And payton II's three-pointer also narrowed the gap between the two sides to 47-53, but then Doncic played 2+1 to help the Lone Ranger stabilize the situation. The Warriors' outside projection group, which began to find a feel, continued to use three-pointers to help the Warriors maintain the momentum of chasing points, Curry played fast attacks in the middle of the road twice in a row, and Payton II's inside dunk helped the Warriors play a small climax, 61-56 to surpass the score. But the Lone Rangers were very angry, and in the last 4 minutes of the third quarter, they continued to kill on the inside, not only smoothing out the point difference but also re-overtaking the score to 66-63. Thiem Hardaway's dry-pull jumper helped the Lone Ranger take a 70-67 lead at the end of the third quarter. Although the Lone Rangers lost by 8 points in the single quarter, the lead of the score is still in their hands, which is also good news for the Lone Rangers.
In the decisive fourth quarter, Reggie Bullock opened with a shot from outside the three-point line to help the Lone Ranger further extend the score to 73-67. Stephen Curry's offense was a consecutive miss. Instead, it was Payton II's inside shot that helped the Warriors continue to score, bringing the difference between the two sides to 71-73. The two teams played for more than five minutes, and the Lone Ranger had already taken an 81-75 lead through constant scoring from the inside. The Warriors called a timeout adjustment, but the effect was not ideal, but the Lone Ranger had both an inside free throw and an outside three-pointer, and Finney Smith's three-pointer brought the score to 88-75. The 13-point difference also makes the Lone Ranger play more steadily and healthily, and the difference between the two sides has always hovered between 8 and 13 points in more than 3 minutes. In the final two minutes of the game, Nilikina had already given the Lone Ranger a 96-80 16-point lead with a steady three-point shot. Curry's slump outside the three-point line continues in this campaign. Seeing that the chase points were hopeless, the Warriors also gave up the final struggle in advance, 99-82, the Lone Ranger played a 29-15 warrior in the single quarter, and finally won the final victory of the game with a 17-point advantage. Arguably, the Entire Lone Rangers team also paid the final tribute to Nowitzki's No. 41 jersey in the best possible way.
Finally, let's look at the statistics of the main players on both sides: the Warriors side of the 3-man double-double, Curry got 14 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, including 5 of 24 shots, 9 of 1 three-pointers, and the outside slump also made his score still not high. Wiggins and Payton II scored 17 and 11 points respectively. On the Lone Rangers' side, it was a four-man double-double, with Middle East Cic contributing a team-high 26 points, seven rebounds and eight assists, Finney Smith having 17 points and nine rebounds, and Brunson and Tim Hardaway contributing 15 and 14 points, respectively.