On January 10, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Warriors sat at home to meet the challenge of the Cavaliers. The significance of this game is not small, because the Absolute Hero of the Warriors' four-year triple crown, the playoffs scored 11 three-pointers to save the team, and even let the team owner kneel in public, the first 3D player in history, who had suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and torn ligaments, which was enough to deprive him of a career injury, and finally returned to the court after 941 days. At the entrance ceremony before the game, the audience raised their arms and shouted to welcome the hero's return, and Green, who injured his leg before the game, also insisted on jumping the ball to celebrate the return of his good brother from injury.
At the beginning of the game, the warriors' offensive focus of the whole team should of course focus on Thompson's body, and I thought that Tang Shen would use the familiar three-pointer to shoot the first goal of return, but what he never expected was that he actually used the change of direction after getting rid of the defense to break through, hitting a difficult throw in the face of the Cavaliers' two-man defense, which is indeed a very uncommon defense for Clay. But the subsequent scene shocked the fans on the scene and in front of the TV, Thompson actually completed the attack with a partition, completely announcing to the world: I am back full of blood! You know, this kind of attacking style is rare before he is injured, and it is a surprise to give back to the fans with a breakthrough plus explosive deduction in the first game today!
After hitting a three-pointer, Thompson also set his own new regular season scoring record, breaking the 12,000-point mark, and he played 8 minutes in the entire first half, scoring 7 points on 3-of-9 shooting, although the shooting rate is not high, but it is enough to have this explosive dunk, which is enough to prove how good his recovery is.
In fact, in addition to increasing the breakthrough, Thompson's three-point shooting power has also changed, perhaps the leg strength and the impact of the Achilles tendon injury, the shooting arc is significantly lower, the jump is not as powerful as before, but this is a normal phenomenon, even if there is no injury, so much time has not played, for the official game is still strange, as the season progresses, Thompson's state will also rise. He scored 17 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block in the game, perfectly ending the 941-day performance.
In addition to Thompson's play, Curry and Rooney also played well. Meng Shen opened with 4 three-pointers, completely getting rid of the bad state of the previous 15 games, Rooney even left the Cavaliers double tower burst even slag, continuously grabbed offensive rebounds, consecutively helped the team get two offensive opportunities, although there was not much scoring performance, but Rooney really deserved the name of "rebounding idiot", and won 18 rebounds in the whole game, more than the total number of rebounds that the Cavaliers started.
In fact, the current Warriors do not need Thompson to recover to 100%, and being able to play 60% is a bonus for the team! With the existence of Tang Shen, it is not only as simple as the depth of the lineup, the space between Curry and other pitchers will get better and better, and with such a terrifying three-point battery, the opponent can not be as unscrupulous as before, and his performance will definitely get better and better. But through today's game, the current Thompson seems to have recovered to 80% of the peak, and the defense is still not left behind, according to this game, the Warriors may not have a rival in the West.