Injured the core of the inner line, the eastern fresh force has lost 9 defeats in the past 12 games; 38 points + 8 three points in the whole game, is the "Buddha" finally coming? "Big White Side" had 21 rebounds in a single game, a new season high.
The return of the "Ka-Huang" was immediately effective, and the knight's back-to-back state was sluggish
After nearly two months of absence, Alex Caruso finally returned to the Bulls' home stadium - United Center, without too much discomfort, "Car king" brought a great positive contribution to the team from the beginning. According to the Statistics of the Bulls reporter, this game against the Cavaliers is the only game in which the Chicago Bulls have limited the number of points to less than 100 points since Caruso was injured. In addition, in this game, Caruso is also the second highest plus-minus among players who have played more than 25 minutes in the whole team.
Their opponent, the Cleveland Cavaliers, had just fought the Heat's intact the day before the game, and their physical strength was clearly affected. The Entire Cavaliers' shooting percentage and three-point shooting percentage were 42 percent and 21 percent, respectively, well below their average. Garland's shooting feel, the core of the team's offense, plummeted, and he only hit 2 shots outside the paint zone, but his basket impact was still quite effective, and the paint area shot 6 of 13, scoring a total of 25 points, but still failed to help the Cavaliers avoid their ninth defeat in the last 12 games.
The simultaneous absence of two interior lines (Allen and Markkanen) dropped the Cavaliers' defense a big notch. They were unable to form an effective protective frame in the retreat round, allowing their opponents to score 10 more points than themselves at this point, and they were also robbed of 6 more rebounds by their opponents. Bulls center Vucevic played well on the inside, making 4-of-9 shooting in the paint and grabbing a full 14 rebounds.
The warrior completes his revenge, and Lian Keqiang comes out of the haze
The last time they played against the defending champions, the Golden State Warriors were completely beaten by their opponents on the road, and in the 48 minutes of the game, they did not take a single second of the lead, and the point difference was once stretched by the home team to nearly 40 points. None of the second-place players in the West at the time scored more than 17 points, while three bucks on the opposite side scored at least 20 points with more than 50 percent shooting. Arguably, that game was the Golden State Warriors' worst rout of the year.
Two months later, the Third Western Conference returned home to play the defending champions. Through the grind of the first two games, the Golden State Warriors gradually got out of the slump. Klay Thompson, Jordan Poole and Cumminga scored 38, 30 and 14 points respectively to lead the team to a 122-109, 13-point victory and revenge.
Although the "Alphabet Brother" game cut 31 + 8 + 3, however, from the perspective of the content of the game, the two consecutive MVPs actually did not play well, and they got 2 fouls in the first quarter of 6 minutes and were forced to leave the court early. In the later games, the Warriors are taking a single defense of the "alphabet brother", while shrinking the strategy of the penalty area, forcing the "alphabet brother" to attack more with the ball, facing the restricted area full of Warriors players, the "alphabet brother" actually played very well.
In addition, due to Ibaka's injury leaving, "Alphabet Brother" had to go to the only center on the court for a period of time. Considering the Warriors' excellent projection performance in this game, the "alphabet brother" had to take the initiative to attack the outside line to do some interference with the Warriors' shooters, however, as long as the Warriors' players can pass the ball from the outside to the inside, the empty players can often have easy scoring opportunities.
The Bucks had a very strong pinch on Curry this game, so that the latter only shot less than 8 times in the whole game, scoring 8 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists. However, the excellent performance of the rest of the Warriors has paid a huge price for the Bucks. Klay Thompson contributed his best scoring performance of the season so far, scoring 38 points on 24 shots, including eight three-pointers. In particular, in the second quarter of the game, he hit three consecutive points to push the atmosphere of the audience to a climax.
Cumminga and Wiggins are not in a good state of projection this game, they are more focused on impacting the basket and fighting for rebounds, and the two men in the whole game have a total of 17 rebounds, including 8 frontcourt rebounds, which enhances the Warriors' offensive aggressiveness.
Fox vs Clarkson, jazz hold fourth in the West
In the last game at home to the Spurs, the Utah Jazz lost to the 12th place in the West by two points, giving Bobo the last help to the first coach to win the NBA. This one back at home, the Jazz took on the challenge of the Sacramento Kings, who desperately needed to win as they were now less than one win away from the fifth-placed Lone Rangers. The Jazz still hope to have home-court advantage when they enter the first round of the playoffs.
The main center of both sides could not play today, and both teams played very high shooting rates in the paint area. But in comparison, the Jazz's interior reserves are obviously the more generous side, and the "big white side" alone can grab 21 rebounds on the heads of Kings players, a number that has set a new personal high for the season.
In addition to playing the Spurs last week, Fox's three-point shooting form in recent times has been excellent, and this game he has made a total of 11 shots on the three-point line, shooting five of them and shooting nearly 46%. The sixth man on the opposite side, Clarkson and Fox, formed a confrontational trend, scoring 14 points on 5 of 6 shots in the first quarter, scoring 5 free throw opportunities in the final quarter, cutting 15 points, and cutting 45 points in 35 minutes of the whole game, leading the team to complete the reversal. It is worth mentioning that the 45-point score is also the highest score scored by a player who has come off the bench this season.