On April 2, Beijing time, the Lone Ranger was ended with a 103-135 defeat to the Wizards, and after this game, the Warriors returned to the third place in the West. The Wizards have decided not to qualify for the playoffs this season, and they have played very relaxed without record pressure, leading the Lone Rangers by 11 points in the first quarter, pulling 14 points in the second quarter, the Wizards in the third quarter stretched to 26 points and were narrowed to 16 points, and in the last quarter Pop broke out to pull the point difference directly to more than 30 points, Kidd was also expelled, and the Lone Rangers gave up the game early.
This game was completely played into a situation of "three British vs Lü Bu", the lone ranger's Luka Doncic was 'Lü Bu', and the Wizards' Porzingis, Pop, and Yamura were "Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei" respectively. Doncic hit 12 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist on 5-of-9 shooting in the first quarter, but the team trailed by 11 points, and the Lone Ranger's offense did not have much problem with 30 points in a single quarter, but the defense lost 41 points like an hourglass.
In the second quarter, Doncic had 7 points and 2 rebounds in 6 minutes, 19 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist in the half, Doncic averaged 8.5+ assists per game, and only 1 assist at halftime was enough to show that his teammates really couldn't shoot; and the Wizards hit more than 55% of the shots at halftime, Porzingis broke out in the half with 12 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, Pope 17 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal at halftime, and Hachimura 10 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist at halftime.
After the third quarter of the Lone Ranger or net negative 2 points, Doncic played a full 12 minutes in this quarter, 4 of 8, 3 of 6 three-pointers, 13 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds, and 30 minutes in the third quarter has bombed 32 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. But the Wizards side of Boshin 22+7, Pop 23+4, Yamura 18+4+3. The Wizards led by 16 points into the final quarter.
In the last quarter, Kidd or the regular season rotation let Doncic rest for about 4 minutes, the point difference has been stretched to 18 points, and then the Wizards Poole took 12 points to stretch the point difference to more than 30 points, Kidd was dissatisfied with the referee's blow penalty was expelled, the Lone Ranger replaced the full main force to abandon the game, Doncic scored 36 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 block on 11 of 22 in the whole game.
Porzingis had 24 points, nine rebounds and four assists, Pope had 35 points and four rebounds (13-of-19, 6-of-11 three-pointers), and Yamura had 21 points, five rebounds and four assists on 8-of-14 shooting, all three of which combined 80 points and 18 rebounds.
Text/Yan Xiaobai