In the 19-20 season, the Warriors, under the leadership of Green + Russell (Wiggins), completely changed from a five-year triple-crowned championship team to the bottom team in the league. And although Curry returned in time last season, even if he played a personal performance comparable to that of the 73-win season, he failed to lead the Warriors to successfully squeeze into the playoffs.
That is to say, since the disintegration of the "Five Star Warriors", the Warriors, who once reached the Finals for five consecutive years, have not played a playoff game for two consecutive years...
21-22 season: Although not optimistic about how much can be done, the Warriors have the second record in the league
After missing the playoffs for two consecutive years, the expectations of the outside world for the Warriors can be said to have fallen to the lowest. Even if it is known that Thompson is about to return in the new season, coupled with the blessing of Curry, Green, Wiggins and others, the Warriors' lineup is not as luxurious as the Nets and Lakers' super three lineups, but it also has a lot of competitiveness.
However, under the lineup of "Curry + Thompson + Green + Wiggins", in the eyes of most people - the warriors' new season ceiling is at most the sixth + playoff round of the West, and they cannot return to the championship ranks.
Even many people believe that before Thompson's return, the Warriors can only linger in the play-off area and re-enact the "tragedy" of last season. But what people did not expect is that in the case of the Nets and Lakers have "overturned", the warriors in the new season have stood out among a number of strong teams...
In the new season, the Warriors relied on Poole, Wiggins, Damien Lee and others to exert their strength, and Curry's own super-huge offensive firepower + containment, and once played the league's first record. But just when the outside world thought that the Warriors were likely to end the season with the league's first record and re-play the championship strength, the Warriors' overall record began to decline...
Four defeats in the last five battles! The Warriors continue to be in a slump and have struggled to win
Curry's form began to decline in December last year, Thompson's return to the lineup needed to be re-integrated, and Green's injury absence, a series of unfavorable factors added up to the Warriors completely withdrew from the league's first title.
Especially in the recent past, the warriors, who are in poor overall condition, have lost to the Jazz, Knicks, Clippers, and Nuggets; even when facing the ninth-place Lakers in the West, they have to rely on Thompson to "break out" to win the game 117-115.
In fact, judging from the pre-All-Star Warriors vs Nuggets game, the Warriors as a whole really want to win. After recent defeats to the Knicks and Clippers, Kerr removed Cumminga from the starting lineup to replace Peyton Jr.; and also followed the Example of the Lakers, DNP's recent underperforming and unactive Attitude Damien Lee and Anderson.
Judging from the two changes made by Kerr, the Warriors are not indifferent to the two teams that have previously lost to the Knicks and clippers, and completely pin their hopes on Green's return. Instead, they are still actively searching for the reason for the team's loss and hope to end the recent relative slump with a win before the All-Star vacation begins.
But even against the Nuggets, the Warriors as a whole played well enough — Payton Jr. 12 points, Looney 13 points and 9 boards, Porter 10 points and 7 boards, Poole 15 points and 5 assists, Cuminga 12 points, 3 boards and 3 assists, and even Curry scored a quasi-kill in the final moment.
It can be said that when they were still two points ahead in the last five seconds, the balance of victory had tilted in favor of the Warriors, but in the end they let Morris find a chance in the last five seconds and complete a three-point shoot-off...
Although the overall record is good enough, the Warriors are still far from the championship
Although the Warriors have lost many games in the past two months, due to the strong accumulation in the early stage, they still have a record of 42 wins and 16 losses in the league, and the overall record is still good enough compared to most teams in the league. Judging from the recent state of the Warriors' five-game four losses, they are still far from the championship.
1. The disadvantage of the fifth position has become the warrior's life. Judging from the Warriors' roster in the new season, guards: Curry, Thompson, Poole, Damil Lee; fronts: Green, Wiggins, Cuminga, Belitsa, Iguodala.
In the new season, the Warriors' outside line and forward line have accumulated good immediate combat strength and depth, but only the depth of the center position is not enough. Originally, Green could make a cameo appearance as a small lineup center, but now with Green injured and Wiseman absent, the Warriors center position is only available to Looney...
In the end, due to the serious lack of interior height and frame protection ability, the Warriors basket in recent games has almost become a breakthrough for each team to win. Especially in the games they lose, the offense and rebounding performance of the opposing big man or front line are quite good.
Jazz: Gobert was absent, but Whiteside easily cut 9 points, 17 boards and 7 hats; Knicks: Randle stormed the inside line, slashing 28 points, 16 boards and 7 assists; Clippers: Zubac shot 10 times, got 18 points and 8 boards, Halten shot 4 of 4, got 9 points and 6 boards; Nuggets: Jokic blasted 35 points, 17 boards and 8 assists.
Judging from these games, whether it is the data level or the actual perception, the Warriors' internal line has been easily "pinched". But the Warriors have nothing to do about it, after all, now that the trading market has closed, they can only hope to buy out the market (the opportunity is not big), or count on the comeback of Green and Wiseman...
2, the splash brothers state ups and downs too much, resulting in the Warriors offensive firepower decline. Since Curry broke the all-time three-point record last December, his offensive form has declined considerably. I thought that after breaking the three-point record, Curry's offense would return to normal, but in the past two months, although Curry has occasionally had a good offensive performance, the overall offensive performance is still not up to his regular level.
After His return, Thompson played his peak offensive performance against the Timberwolves, Kings and Lakers. But his overall offensive performance after his comeback is more than a little bit worse than the stability of his peak.
Although the Warriors' second record so far in the new season is good enough, with the offensive stability and flaws they have shown so far, it is difficult for the Warriors to beat them in the series, whether it is against the Bucks, who are more physically talented overall, or the Nets with higher offensive stability.
Even if the splash brothers' offensive state cannot be restored in time and the team's fifth position defect cannot be effectively compensated, the Warriors will not be able to play against the Lakers, Nuggets, Suns and other Western teams. So, even though the Warriors have achieved a good record now, from the playoff level, the Warriors are still far from the championship...