Curry was sidelined due to injury, and the Warriors were beaten back to their original form and became a fish-belly team. In the away game against the Pelicans, the youth teams of the two teams staged a young storm. But on the roster, there was no one left to match Ingram, which gave the Pelicans the upper hand.
At the beginning of the second quarter, 19-year-old Warriors rookie Cuminga staged a bizarre performance of "brushing" data. After he missed the basket, he continued to grab the basket at the basket point, but he could not score, and the last time he scored hard. The data shows that he grabbed 3 rebounds and shot 1 of 4. However, judging from the course of the game, the number of times he touched the ball is far better than this. (The stats only gave 3 frontcourt rebounds)
Cumminga is only 2.01 meters tall, but he flipped the Pelicans' interior line and continuously competed for rebounds in the frontcourt, which became the most exciting shot of the game. Perhaps it is this fight that makes the Warriors bench lineup at this time, but it helps the team curb the momentum of the collapse. Throughout the game, the Warriors scored as many as 22 points on the bench to lead 49-27.
However, the Warriors were not in good shape as a whole and suffered a rout. Poole, known as the "big curry", played a miserable game, once shooting 0 of 10, 0 of 6 three-pointers and only 1 point. It wasn't until the final 61 seconds of the game that Poole made a layup and scored a three-point long-range shot, which barely hit three athletic goals.
The Warriors' offensive efficiency across the team was at a low point, shooting only 42.5 percent from the field and 21.2 percent from three-point range. If it weren't for the hard struggles in the final garbage time, the Warriors' stats could have been even more bleak and humiliating.
In the final 2 minutes of the final quarter, the Pelicans still scored in double digits with a 92-82 lead. The Warriors' youngsters didn't give up lightly, Cumming plus the basket scored, Andrney shot out, and they once chased the gap that only one round could be equalized, giving the Pelicans a cold sweat. But the Pelicans, with a steady free throw, ended up winning at 101-96.
Throughout the game, Poole made 3-of-14 shooting and 2-of-9 three-pointers with 11 points, five assists and three steals; Cumminga shot 6-of-14 and 2-of-2 three-pointers to get 13 points and 6 boards. These young people want to really succeed the Splash Brothers, and there is still a long way to go!