Stephen Curry slashed another 30+, and the Knicks played an inside advantage; high-intensity confrontation! Gun Brother 19 assists Ayton crazy eating cake; Irving single core led the team to lose again! The Washington Wizards narrowly won at home.
The winning streak is over! The Warriors lost 114-116 at home to the Knicks
The penultimate opponent of the new York Knicks West's five-game game is the Golden State Warriors, who recently won nine straight games. In the first three games, the Knicks played very badly, and the New York Giants lost as many as 11 points per game in three games. In the just-concluded deal deadline, the New York Knicks did not reach any deal, most likely because there were too few chips to give, and people were reluctant to trade with him.
Before the game against the Golden State Warriors, Knicks starting point guard Kemba Walker mentioned that he felt that the Knicks' players were of a high calibre and that they were doing well mainly because their teammates hadn't found a common rhythm.
The second half of Kemba Walker's sentence, we can't prove it right. But at least the first half of what he said still makes some sense. In this game, the Knicks had a total of 5 people scoring in double figures, 2 of whom scored more than 20 points. Moreover, the Knicks' players made the most of their advantage in the paint area, grabbing 13 more rebounds and taking 9 more free throws than the opposite side throughout the game.
The Golden State Warriors also had five players in double figures, and Stephen Curry scored his highest score since Feb. 2 — 35 points. But in this game, the Warriors' three-point shooting level is really too bad, the shooting rate is just over 30%, Klay, Curry's three-point shooting rate is just over 30% of this level, the Warriors in the paint and three-point line, can not occupy a significant advantage, the last 2 points difference regrettably lost.
Last year's Finals repeats itself! Sun 131-107 Revenge Bucks
After a gap of seven months, the defending champion, who has won four consecutive games, is finally going to compete again with Phoenix, who has just won three consecutive victories. Both team coaches expressed their expectations for this game before the game, but without thinking about it, Suns coach Monty Williams must be the one who is more looking forward to this game and is more fully prepared.
It is true that as soon as the game began, the Phoenix Suns, who played at home, took the lead in entering the state, and they came up with a different offensive and defensive intensity than the regular season, a small 6-0, and hit the opponent with an unstable foothold.
Both teams in this game, both pulled up their own defensive ratio, which is a very test of the core of the two teams of hard solution ability. After a brief period of unsteadiness, Middleton and Holliday quickly entered the form, the former shooting 4 of 5 in a single quarter, scoring 9 points, and the latter shooting 5 of 7 in the first half, plus 3 assists.
A key reason the league won was that their role players attacked the Bucks' switch strategy well, supporting players increased their singles percentage, and Ayton finally stiffened, shooting 12 of 14 to hit a season-high 27 points. Johnson and Bridges scored 33 points, half of which were done in areas within the three-point line, which is really rare for two 3D players.
Not only did the Phoenix Suns put a lot of focus from the beginning, but more importantly, they also made a lot of improvements in terms of lineup. They have scaled back the rotation and drastically reduced the playing time of The Little Payton's unreliable rotation, with Elfrid Payton, 27, averaging nearly 18 minutes in his last three games, and this one has been on less than 10 minutes.
League no. 1 also put in a lineup with a higher average height, they tried to use mcGee & Ayton's double tower, further stretching the rotation time of the three forwards, and when Paul and Booker were resting, the Suns would put reliable forward players, or interior players, on the court as much as possible to make up for the height disadvantage.
110-113, Brooklyn lost ten in a row
In the first game of James Harden's official departure, the Brooklyn Nets lost again, losing three points to the eleventh-ranked Wizards at Capital One Arena and swallowing up a ten-game losing streak.
For most of the game, the two teams played back and forth, with Brooklyn taking a nine-point lead in the opening half of the second half before being filled in minutes later by the Wizards. It wasn't until the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter that the Wizards really began to take the initiative on the court, a wave of 10-0 offense, completely holding the initiative in their hands.
Irving was very isolated in the fourth quarter, and no one in the team except Thomas could provide him with reliable firepower support, only he broke through one by one. Kyrie Irving is very good, but it is really difficult to chisel the Wizards' front line one by one, and Carey can almost help the team get out of the haze of losing streaks. However, Pop's free throw in the final moment completely ruined the Nets' hopes of victory.