10-2 in the last 12 games! The current Warriors are indeed different from the beginning of the season

The Jan. 27 double-overtime loss to the Lakers at home now looks like a turning point for the Warriors throughout the season.

Since then, they've won 10 of their 12 games, losing only to the Hawks and the Western Conference favorites Clippers.

Although there is one thing to say, among the 10 opponents defeated, the 76ers are missing the Emperor, the Lakers are missing Lao Zhan, and the rest of the opponents are only the Suns and Pacers as playoff teams, and the rest are all East and West fish belly.

But it's much better than before, and in the first half of the season, the Warriors have lost count of how many times they have capsized in the gutter and the big score has been reversed.

Take down the opponents who should be won, fight the competitors of the same power level (Suns, Lakers, Pacers), and fight to the last minute with the superior strength (Clippers).

Now the face of the warrior has indeed taken on a new look.

After that game on the 27th, Coach Steve Kerr made two important changes.

(1) Kuminga finally made it to the core lineup with the main force present.

(2) He began to give consistent playing time to Dominican second-year defender Quiñones, a two-way contract player on the team.

As the current "crown prince" of the Warriors, Kuminga has been expected for two seasons, and his outstanding talent and fierce playing style have always been urgently needed by this aging Warriors, but the lack of ball quotient and the problem of not keeping up with the beat of the big brothers on both offensive and defensive ends have also hindered him from reaching the next level.

He was a starter in the first half of the season when Dreamers was suspended and Wiggins was out of form, but Kerr still has some reservations about his trust.

Quinones, on the other hand, has been teetering on the edge of the roster since joining last season, and Kerr has a preference for smart defenders. But before that, Paul, Podemsky, Payton Jr., and even Joseph were in the rotation order ahead of him.

Prior to his first game with the Lakers, he played just nine 67-minute games this season, and in the next 12 games, he played 201 minutes.

Young, smart, fast enough and physically strong, he ate up the playing time of Joseph and the injured Payton Jr. to become the main substitute in the guard line.

In that game, Curry scored 46 points, Klay hit a shot, Kuminga and Wiggins scored 44 points, and the core team of the Warriors was officially established.

After that, with Klay exiting the starting lineup, the most powerful starters on the Warriors' current roster came out:

Curry and Podzemski are paired in the backcourt, chasing the dream of the fifth position, and Wiggins and Kuminga are teamed up front.

On the bench were Clay, Looney with young TJD and Quiñones, as well as Saric Jr., Payton Jr. and Moody waiting for an opportunity to come in.

For the first time since winning the championship in 2022, the Warriors' squad looks so vibrant, old and new, no longer a guard or a seven-dwarf.

The tall and talented Kuming strengthened the starting line-up and brought vitality to the team along with Podemski and Quiñones.

And with that came the quality of the Warriors' performances in the last 12 games.

10-2 tied for first place in the league with the Celtics,

122.8 points per game tied for third in the league (behind the Lakers and Hawks),

Averaged 31.4 assists per game, first in the league,

The 108.8 per 100 rounds are second only to the Timberwolves.

Tournament rhythm is fourth in the league (101.7 rounds per game).

Plays the fourth-fastest offense in the league and the second-most scorers, but contributes to the league's second-best defense.

At the peak of the Warriors, the mercury offense was just the surface, and the aggressive defense was the foundation (when they won the championship in '15 and '22, they were the first defensive in the league).

The recent warriors have rediscovered their familiar victory code.

The first game after the All-Star break against the Lakers three days ago was like a recalcitrant student's report to a demanding teacher.

In the playoffs, the Warriors have been 2-8 against the Lakers since the opening game of last season, including four consecutive defeats in the regular season.

In the past two years, facing the Lakers led by Zhan Mei, the most helpless thing for the Warriors is the gap in height and confrontation, adding up to more than 100 years old Iron Triangle, plus Looney, Wiggins and other teams that are also young and no longer young, facing the tall Zhan Mei, as well as the equally strong Hachimura and Fan Debiao, they are obviously short of breath.

No matter how hot or cold the Warriors feel, no matter how many free throws they make, the difference in size and confrontation makes them extremely poor in the game against the Lakers.

But in the Lakers rematch, both Lakers and Warriors fans will be surprised to find that the difference between victory and defeat is also different.

Of course, this is due to the absence of tall strikers such as LeBron, Van der Biao, Wood, and Reddish. But the thick eyebrows of "Optimus Pillar" are still there, Reeves and Russell, who had outstanding singing effects last season, are also there, and Dinwiddie is also a big-size No. 1 position.

But throughout the game, the Warriors were undoubtedly superior in confrontation and energy, and the Lakers were passive in almost all other positions except for thick eyebrows.

(Curry Vs Kassel, Pojam Vs Reaves, Wiggins Vs Prince, Kuminga Vs Hachimura).

This is unheard of in the search for Hu Yong in recent years!

Because of the absence of LeBron, the Lakers resisted less than two quarters and couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the new Warriors.

Curry scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 4-of-5 three-pointers in the first quarter to lay the foundation for his teammates, and before the end of the first half, Pojam's two three-pointers and Wiggins' buzzer-beating layup helped the Warriors open the score with a 15-5 spurt.

In the second half, the Lakers once played so that the Warriors couldn't raise their heads, pressed the defense and broke through strongly, and there was no longer a killer like Lonnie Walker who stepped up.

You can say that the Lakers didn't do their best this time, but they can't ignore the qualitative transformation over this period of time.

Yesterday, the Warriors once again easily defeated the second-to-last Hornets in the East, and once overtook the Lakers to jump to ninth in the West (the Lakers later took out the Spurs to overtake again).

Now that they have four wins away from the 11th Jazz in the West, they have almost locked a play-off spot, and now it depends on how much they can win in the next games and where they can finally counterattack.

Although many people expect Hu Yong to repeat 2021 and meet again in the play-offs.

But for now, the fate of the Warriors is still in their own hands, and their ambition is by no means to compete with the Lakers for the only bone in the playoffs.