Curry scored 18 points on 21 shots and won by lying down! The two old men of the new Xuan Ming were too strong, combined for 34 points and 10 assists, and the bench won by 44 points
On February 28th, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and today the Wizards sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Warriors, before this game, the Warriors lost to the Nuggets, and they urgently needed a victory to stop the decline, and in the face of the previous 11 consecutive defeats of the Wizards, the Warriors were also favored to win, and finally relied on Klay's play, the Warriors finally won the victory, and then we will talk about the game process first, and then talk about the performance of the players.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Kuzma scored two points to take the lead for the Wizards, Kuminga responded with an inside kill, Kisbot and Kuzma scored successively to help the team establish the lead, Kuminga and Podzemski responded with 5 points, Poole hit three points, Klay and Kuminga scored in response, the two sides played very close in this quarter, and the Wizards led by 2 points in the first quarter. The two sides were still inextricably linked in the second quarter, and at the end of the quarter, the Warriors relied on Paul's three-pointer to overtake them by two points to end the first half.
Curry finally found his groove again, he scored five points in a row to help the team extend the lead, and then the game entered the rhythm of Klay, he hit three consecutive quarters, 13 points in a single quarter, and under his leadership, the Warriors also extended the lead to 23 points to end the third quarter. Although the difference was huge, the Wizards did not give up, they fought back with all their might in the fourth quarter, although they narrowed the gap to 9 points, but the opponent had many stars after all, they withstood the Wizards' counterattack, and finally the Warriors won 123-112.
Try your best, Poole played too badly
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' performance, this game Wizards Kuzma shot 12 of 21 in the whole game, 1 of 3 three-pointers got 27 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists, although Kuzma is still far from a first-line star, but he does have the level of a star, but around him to build a team, it is difficult for the Wizards to succeed, Kuzma's ceiling is a three-level player.
And Poole who was traded from the Warriors before, judging from the current point of view, the Wizards did lose money in this deal, Poole faced his old club in this game, and the team also gave him enough opportunities and balls, but Poole's play was very spicy, 5 of 17 shots, 2 of 8 three-pointers, 12 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 6 turnovers, he still has a 3-year 95 million big contract, and it is difficult for the Wizards to send him away!
Tyus Jones continued his excellent performance in the past few games, he scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 17 assists on 5-of-9 shooting from the field, and in the past 5 games, he had four assists in double figures, and many teams wanted to take him at the trade deadline, probably because the Wizards' asking price was too high, so they couldn't send him away, Kispoult played well in this game, scoring 20 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks, Bagley got 20 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, and Shamet scored 16 points.
Clay continued to run wild, and the warrior Xin Xuan Ming was too strong
Curry won this game, his performance in this game was very bad, 6 of 21 shots, 4 of 16 three-pointers got 18 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, three games in the past four days, it can be seen that Curry's physical fitness has bottomed out, in fact, he showed this problem in the last game against the Nuggets, Curry is 36 years old after all, not every player is James, it stands to reason that the Warriors should let Curry go to the rotation, but in the current situation in the West, the Warriors do not dare to let Curry take the rotation.
Although Wiggins was absent in this game, after Paul's return, the team played better team basketball under his tandem, Kuminga got more opportunities to eat cakes, and got 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists on 10-of-13 shooting.
The Warriors can win their bench is the key, Klay continued the stable output of the past few games, he shot 9 of 15 from the field, 6 of 11 from three-point range and got 25 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, it is true that Klay will be targeted when he starts now, but he is indeed playing on the bench to reduce the dimensionality, Paul came off the bench and scored 9 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists on 4 of 6 shots, the two led the Warriors to play a very good performance off the bench, and the Warriors scored a total of 59 points off the bench.
They scored 44 more points than the Wizards' bench, and friends who often read my articles should remember that I said before that when Paul returns, the bench combination of him and Klay will be very worth looking forward to, after all, the two are all-time playmakers and shooters, although the peak is gone, but the habit and experience are still there, and the two of them relied on excellent play to lead the team to victory in Curry's slump.
Looking at the current Paul and Klay, this can't help but remind people of the previous Iguodala and Livingston, who sacrificed their data and playing time for the stars to help the Warriors win the championship, so the two are also jokingly called the two elders by fans, and the current Klay and Paul are the new two elders of the Warriors.