Luca and CJ played against each other, with the Lone Rangers winning two straight; the Wizards scored in double figures and the Nets beat their opponents by 14 points; the East clashed strongly, and the 76ers avoided a losing streak.
Doncic continued his fiery state, defeating his opponents 49+15+8
A week ago at the American Airlines Center, 22-year-old Luka Doncic led the Lone Rangers to a 112-105, seven-point margin over the Los Angeles Clippers. In that game, Luca was like a god, he used 26 shots, 51 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, setting a personal high score so far this season.
A week later, on the bench, he led the team in a 125-118 win over the Pelicans. Doncic continued his fiery state, firing at full speed, nervous 19 points in the first quarter, shooting 7 three-pointers, and cutting 49 points, 15 rebounds and 8 assists (all three of which were the first on the team).
The excellent performance of these two games was not a flash in the pan for Doncic. To be precise, it has been the norm in recent times. If you look at the nearly four games as a time unit, Lucas has cut 45+ three times, tied for first place with Stephen Curry, becoming the player with the most 45+ cuts in the league so far. And if you start from the day the All-Star starter was announced (January 28, Beijing time), Luca can average 34+10+10 per game in this period of time, while shooting 48% of the shooting rate, and 43% of the three-point shooting rate....
It wasn't just Luca who performed well in this game, but also CJ McCollum on the other side. After the deal was made, CJ quickly integrated into the new team. In his first five games as a Pelicans player, CJ averaged 28 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game, including 30+ performances in 3 games. In this game, CJ did not exert much effort in the opening stages, and the second and third quarters gradually entered the good situation, but it was not crazy (CJ scored 8 points in the second quarter, and 7 points on 3 of 4 shooting in the third quarter).
In the fourth quarter, CJ McCallum's scoring explosive power trained by the Blazers was finally summoned, scoring 18 points on 9-of-6 shooting in the full 12 minutes of the final quarter, leading the team to narrow the point difference from 20+ to less than 10 points. Unfortunately, the pit dug in front of us is too big, and it is really difficult to fill it with the time of the fourth section alone.
In fact, Valanciunas is also likely to play his career masterpiece in this duel. Because, since the Lone Ranger traded Porzingis, the interior line is extremely empty, and the ability to protect the frame is far less than before. In the first quarter, Varan showed his due dominance on the inside, scoring 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting in the Paint District, the Pelicans' most point-scoring player in the first quarter. However, Mavericks coach Kidd quickly made targeted defensive adjustments in the back of the game, limiting Varan and making the Lithuanian center only eight points in the last three quarters....
The Nets' "new big three" combined to score 54 points, losing at home
When the tide recedes, it is only then that we know who is really swimming naked. This sentence is perfectly suitable for today's Wizards and Nets showdown. The main players of the two sides are absent from the game for various reasons, and whoever wants to win the game depends on which side can stand up to more players and whose supporting players are stronger...
The Nets' "new big three" — Thomas, Mills and Curry Jr. — played very well, with three players with salaries combined in their early 16 million years, scoring 54 points in this game and giving the team more than half of the assists.
However, the Washington Wizards in this game are indeed all soldiers, in the case of the two "Lakers veterans" total scores of no more than 12 points, the Wizards have a total of 7 people to score double-figures, of which the bench scored a total of 65 points, nearly double the 76ers and Bucks' bench points today.
In the first three quarters of the game, both sides showed a scorching trend of coming and going for most of the time. In the first few minutes of the final quarter, Washington took the initiative of the game with a wave of sharp 9-0, and the point difference between the two teams was almost always hovering around 10 points, and finally the final whistle sounded, and the Nets lost 103-117 at home to their opponents, reaping two consecutive losses against the Washington Wizards.
The 76ers narrowly beat the Bucks on three points, and Embiid cut another 40+
The showdown between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Milwaukee Bucks is one of the most eye-catching showdowns ahead of the 2022 All-Star start. James Harden, who "pretended to be injured, was nothing" came to Milwaukee with the team to cheer on the new owner.
On the Bucks' side, Grace Allen, George Hill, DeAndre Bembley and Pat Connaughton were all unable to play due to injury problems, and Milwaukee's backcourt rotation became stretched. Two nobodys, Wiggington, and Jordan Walla, got more opportunities to play, and although the latter scored 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting, it was difficult for us to be satisfied with the performance of these two newcomers in such a high-intensity game. They often make some wrong choices in the game that the basic data does not reflect, and it can only be said that if they really want to be of great use, they still need time to practice.
The two top five players in the MVP list, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo, both played very well in this game, giving the audience a taste of the super high technical level of the modern big man. Embiid's personal offensive skills are very comprehensive, using a lot of ball-holding shots, face frame breakthroughs, a very impressive shooting rate, and 4 three-point shots in the account. Giannis is also online in this game, shooting 2-of-4 from the three-point line and 3-of-5 from mid-range. However, his most lethal is the transition offense and the end of the card deep position in the paint.
The former took 37 minutes to cut 42 +14+5, and the latter 40 minutes to cut 32+11+9, which is comparable. The biggest reason for the Bucks' defeat is due to the poor performance of his bench players, who scored only 10 points of tension on the bench in the whole game, 15 points less than the 76ers whose bench strength ranked in the bottom ten of the league. Moreover, Middleton, as the core of the team, did not perform well enough, shooting 2 of 12 from three-point range and 6 of 20 from the field, scoring 19 points with a shooting rate of less than 30%.