The NBA regular season continues, the Warriors challenge the Magic away, in the eyes of fans this is a game without suspense, although Curry is absent, but there are Wiggins, Green and Thompson the big three, the overall strength of the Warriors is still throwing magic a street, the opponent is only the Eastern Fish Belly, is a team in the reconstruction. Surprisingly, in the first quarter of the game, the Magic played a 12-2 start, and then played a 9-1 offensive climax in the middle of the quarter, the point difference opened to double digits, although the Warriors rose to catch up at the end of the quarter, but the end of the first quarter was still behind by 8 points, in the second quarter, both sides played half a quarter of good balls, you came and went to fight into a draw, the first half of the battle, the Magic led by 8 points, it is worth mentioning that the two sides played a 48-36 score, the feel is particularly poor. In the third quarter, the Warriors offense improved, playing a 17-6 counterattack, however, the mid-season rookie Wagner Jr. responded with an 11-2, warriors with a 9-point advantage to attack the fourth quarter, the final quarter of the battle, the Warriors suffered a 5-minute scoring drought, the Magic seized the opportunity to chase the point difference to one point, Bamba shot a winning three-pointer, and blocked Poole's layup, and finally the Warriors lost 90-94 to the Magic burst out of the big cold.
In this game, the performance of the Warriors' Big Three was not satisfactory, Thompson scored 15 points on 6-of-15 shooting, Wiggins scored 13 points on 5-of-19 shooting, and Green only scored 2 points. It is worth mentioning that Cuminga on the bench did well, scoring 14 points, porter got a 14+15 double-double, and he is also the only player in the Warriors to get a double-double. While the Magic aren't offensively efficient, they're better than the Warriors, with Wagner Jr. scoring 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting, Carter scoring 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting and Anthony Jr. scoring 14 points on 5-of-12 shooting. Although only three members of the team scored in double figures, the Magic won with a defensive battle.
The Warriors lost to the Magic, not only because the fans couldn't accept it, but also because of the players. Green said that we did not look down on the opponent, but in fact lost to the worst team in the league, and Looney also said that we played hard, but not smart enough. Poole, who scored the highest score in the team, also said that next we must find a way to play well at key moments. What's even worse is that in the last 18 games, the Warriors have only achieved a record of 6 wins and 12 losses, which is the fifth-to-last in the league. If you only look at the performance of this period of time, the Warriors are no longer among the strong teams. This game also proved that the Warriors could not do without Curry, two quarters of the four quarters did not score 20 points, and the whole team except Pooler, no one scored 20 points. If the Warriors don't get out of the slump in time, the playoffs will be difficult. Curry reportedly needed to miss 3-4 weeks due to injury, and the Warriors had to find a way to solve the problem.