The Warriors challenge the Trail Blazers
The All-Star Weekend is over, but the NBA regular season continues, and the Golden State Warriors are on a journey to tear up the city of Portland to challenge the Blazers, the tenth-placed Blazers in the West. The Splash Brothers have joined forces again, Curry has just won the All-Star MVP, Klay has gradually integrated into the team, although Green still has not returned, but the strength of this Warriors is much higher than today's Blazers. With Lillard unable to play, Nurkic suffered another injury, which was really worse.
Without Nurkic, the Blazers could only have the just-signed Ubanks as the starting center. Ubanks is a good player, but this is good in terms of his quality of players, as for the ability on the field, it is true that the talent is limited. So in this game, the Blazers want to win, can only rely on Simmons Jr. and Hart.
At one point, he led by 20 points
At the beginning of the first quarter, Klay Thompson showed excellent offensive status, shooting 3 of 4, 3 of 3 three-pointers, and got 10 points and 3 rebounds, and Steven Curry was 5 points, 1 rebound and 4 assists, but the team's three-leader Wiggins, 4 shots and 0 points did not score, so the Warriors only scored 31 points in the first quarter, while the Blazers bombed 32 points, of which Simmons Jr. had 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on 4-of-5 shooting, Hart also had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist on 4-of-4 shooting, two major backcourt players. Enough help to the team.
After returning from the second quarter, Curry did not score in the athletic game, but continued to send assists, the Warriors bench began to show strength, Poole and Cuminga joined forces to completely suppress the Blazers' bench, the Warriors once took a 20-point lead, Hart was dissatisfied with the penalty, and also received a technical foul. Then Simmons Jr. began to exert force, leading the team to narrow the point difference to 15 points, at this time, Curry's three-pointer finally opened, but Simmons Jr. immediately responded with a three-pointer, and Curry broke through to the layup and returned to color.
Hart turned to miss the basket, Cuminga took the rebound and drove straight in, killing until the basket was fouled, two free throws and one shot. Winslow also has three points, Curry has two free throws, Winslow scored under the basket, Simmons Jr. also made fouls, and both free throws were made. The Warriors gave Curry the final touch, pressed the whistle three points missed, and the half ended, and the Warriors led the Trail Blazers by 13 points at 70-57.
Wiggins pulled his crotch again
As the third core of the team, Wiggins is very crotch-pulling, 0-of-5 shooting without a point, only 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 1 block data, plus-minus -6 is also the second lowest in the team. Fortunately, Stephen Curry is in excellent form, becoming a master of organization, with 18 points, 4 rebounds and 10 assists on 5-of-10 shooting, and Klay also has 13 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. The Warriors bench had the complete upper hand, with Cumminga and Porter Jr. both scoring 10 points, Poole also having eight points, two assists and one steal, and the bench scored 30 points.
Simmons Jr. really tried his best, 6-of-10 shooting, 4-of-6 three-pointers, 21 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, what else could you ask for? But in addition to him, the team only has one person to score in double figures, that is, Winslow, with 11 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, and Hart has 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. As for the new signing Ubanks, he played only one shot in 13 minutes and got 2 points and 3 rebounds, but the plus-minus value was +6, the second highest on the team. If the Blazers want to turn the tide in the second half, more people must step up to help Simmons Jr.