On February 2, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, the Warriors challenged the Spurs on the road, this game the Warriors' four cores were absent, and the team used a set of residual teams to play. In the game, the Warriors were at most 17 points behind the Spurs, and the overall performance of the team was not good. However, in the final quarter, the Spurs' offense suddenly muted, and the Warriors seized the opportunity to blast out a 28-10 offense to successfully overtake the Spurs. In the end, the Warriors defeated the Spurs 124-120, successfully reversing 17 points and winning seven consecutive games on the road.
In this game, the Spurs' play has ups and downs, and in the face of the Warriors, which have a very incomplete lineup, the team's performance in the first three quarters is very good, they have always suppressed the Warriors' play, and at most they have led by 17 points, and the advantage is still relatively obvious.
But interestingly, in the first three quarters of the performance so well, the Spurs in the fourth quarter of the crotch situation, the team in a row of shots missed, but also a lot of mistakes, so that the Warriors got a lot of easy scoring opportunities, when the opportunity, the Spurs can not grasp. With 2 minutes left in the game, the Warriors managed to overtake the score with Damien Lee's three-pointer from the outside. After being overtaken by the opponent, the Spurs did not respond, the team did not play well, and finally the Spurs suffered a 17-point reversal by the Warriors at home, and had no chance to win at home.
The Warriors' roster for this game is very incomplete, with a number of players unable to play, including Curry, Klay, Wiggins and Green, and the four core players have not appeared in the away game against the Spurs due to injuries and rotations. The absence of these four cores has greatly affected the overall strength of the Warriors, making them lack a strong enough competitiveness in the game, which is the main reason why the Warriors are behind for most of the game.
Fortunately, such a set of remnants found the feeling of the game in the final quarter, and with the help of players such as Moody, Poole and Cuminga, the team exploded a wave of 28-10 offense in a short period of time, successfully surpassing 3 points. The Spurs then recovered and scored some points, but in key moments, Poole's three-point shot also helped the Warriors seal the victory. In the end, the Warriors relied on a group of role players to play, and they successfully reversed 17 points on the road and won seven consecutive games.
In this game, Poole became the key to the team's victory, he had 31 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, hit three points at key moments to help the team seal the win, and in the absence of the four main players, Poole ushered in the outbreak.
For the Warriors, the team's focus on training young players while also giving the core players time to rest is also an adjustment they made in the middle of the season. And this adjustment also has a very good effect, in this game, the Warriors' young players have more opportunities, they also ushered in the game after they also ushered in the game. Among them, rookie Moody started this game, he shot 6 three-pointers on the outside, and got 20 points and 7 rebounds in the whole game, and his personal performance was very outstanding, 20 points in a single game and 6 three-point shots, both of which created a new career high. And Cumminga also scored 19 points in this game, two rookies selected in the first round of 2021, this campaign ushered in an outbreak, for the Warriors, the team not only won the game, but also the young players got the opportunity to exercise, and let the main players get a break, the team killed three birds with one stone.