On January 7, Beijing time, the Warriors suffered a second consecutive defeat against the Pelicans 96-101. After this game, the Warriors have fallen to the second place in the West to the top again. In this game, the Warriors' Curry, Green, and Anderson are all off, Kerr put up the starting lineup of Poole, Payton Jr., Wiggins, Porter, and Rooney, the Warriors led by 5 points in the first quarter, but the second quarter was overtaken, the third quarter after the point difference stretched to 4 points, the Pelicans have maintained a slight lead in the last quarter, and it is too late for the Warriors to start chasing points after entering 51 seconds.
Just as the so-called "cheng also pooler, defeat also pool", 42 seconds before the final game to create fouls two free throws, the final 3 seconds into a three-pointer, but the Warriors are still behind 3 points, 3 seconds to reverse than the sky is more difficult, so Poole still failed to become a savior, the whole game 33 minutes, 14 of 3, 3 of 3, three points 9 only 11 points, 5 assists, 3 steals 0 rebounds and 3 mistakes, shooting 21.4%, three-point shooting rate of 22.2%.
Warriors reporter Anthony Slade also teased Poole after the game, Jordan Poole shot 11 from 14 and made the team 8-of-33 from three-point range, the first time they suffered a second-game losing streak this season.
Although Wiggins shot 7-of-17, 1-of-6 from three-point range and 6-of-7 from the free throw line to have 21 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 1 block, shooting 41.2 percent from the field, he was blown up by Ingram. Yingge played 35 minutes in the game, 12 of 20, 1 of 4 three-pointers, 7 of 8 free throws, 32 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, shooting 60%, he performed much better than Wiggins, and Wiggins did not help the team take the victory.
Poole was verbally criticized after the game, and Poole became a real Curry substitute because he himself went down a low (Curry was 8-of-41 + 2-of-19 from three-point range in his last two games), Poole was 6-of-22 in his last two games and 2-of-13 from three-point range
Warriors local media outlets have written: "I tell you Jordan Poole has the worst/most explosive first step in basketball.
After two consecutive defeats fell to the second place in the West, but this is only the beginning of the Warriors' pain, Stephen Curry suffered a left quadriceps contusion, this battle is due to injury rotation, Kerr also said before the game that Curry still feels very sore, do not know if he can return to Sunday's game, everyone also saw this Warriors without Curry how weak curry is, even if Curry 24 of 5 He attracted the defense he attracted on the court can also create opportunities for Poole, Wiggins, without Curry This Warriors is scattered.
Text/Yan Xiaobai