Doncic exploded with 47 points, the Rockets ended their 11-game winning streak, and the Mavericks moved up to fifth!
On April 1, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, involving two key matchups in the Western card battle, one is the Warriors away to challenge the Spurs, and the other is the Rockets facing the Mavericks at home. Previously, the Warriors had a 39-34 record and ranked 10th in the West, the Rockets had a 38-35 record and ranked 11th in the West, while the Mavericks had a 44-29 record and ranked sixth in the West. Start with Rocket and the Lone Ranger. The Rockets previously won 11 consecutive wins, and throughout March, Jalen Green led the team to 13 wins and 2 losses, with a plus/minus of +192, the first in the league! But the Mavericks are even more unreasonable, with 10 wins in the past 11 games, and when Doncic + Gafford started at the same time, the Mavericks were 12-0 and never lost! And the other game, the Warriors won't be easy!
The Rockets lost by 18 points, and Ston moved up to fifth in the West
Statistics show that when it comes to key moments this season (the last 5 minutes or overtime, the difference is within 5 points), the Mavericks have an overall record of 21-8, with Doncic and Irving, and the Mavericks are the best team at playing decisive moments. On the Rockets' side, since Shen Jing fell, the team has accelerated, Jalen Green has exploded, averaging 30 points per game during the 11-game winning streak, which is already a step into the ranks of supergiants! Before the game, the Rockets ushered in a good thing: Whitmore, who had missed 9 games due to a knee injury, returned and played less than 20 minutes. However, a decision-making mistake by the Rockets led to this fiasco! Although Xiao Jia hit three points at the beginning and Amen made a basket, the Rockets did not pinch Doncic and kept letting Doncic play alone!
Doncic continued to attack, Amen committed 2 early fouls, although Xiao Jia felt hot, but Doncic fed the cake and Fafford and Washington blossomed inside and outside, Doncic finished training Jalen Green, and then trained Xiao Jia, the Rockets were directly stunned! At the beginning of the second quarter, Washington and Gafford led the Mavericks to hold the lead, and when Doncic came back, Exum and Washington rained three-pointers, Doncic trained Landale and Jr. in a row, and then combined with Irving to rain three-pointers!
In the first half, the Mavericks led by 21 points, and Doncic scored 32 points alone! In the third quarter, Doncic was still unstoppable, Xiao Jia and VanVleet chased 8 points in a row, but Doncic's fast break + Irving chased three points and stopped the Rockets! In the middle of the game, Doncic named Jalen Green, and the Mavericks led by up to 29 points! In the second half, the Rockets relied on Landale and VanVleet to barely support, but the difference was always around 20 points. Doncic has scored 47 points in the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, Irving and Hardaway Jr. rained three points again, and the Rockets bench under the leadership of Whitmore and Holiday beat Doncic back, but after that, the Rockets were unable to turn the tables, and finally the Rockets lost 107-125 at home to the Mavericks, ending an 11-game winning streak! The Mavericks ushered in seven consecutive wins and rose to fifth in the West.
Rocket statistics, Jalen Green 12 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, VanVleet 10 points and 7 assists, Jabari Smith 28 points and 7 rebounds, Holiday 16 points and 6 rebounds, Whitmore 13 points, 5 rebounds and 3 steals, Landale 11 points and 4 rebounds. Mavericks statistics, Doncic exploded 47 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists, Irving 24 points and 7 assists, Washington 12 points and 6 rebounds, Exum 13 points, Gafford 6 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks.
The Warriors beat the remnants of the Spurs in a thrilling way
The Warriors can't afford to lose, Popovich knows it. Sochan ankle injury + Johnson foot injury + Vassell heel injury, all of them didn't play, and Wembanyama took a group of substitutes. But throughout the first half, the Warriors were still very passive! Curry and Green hit early three-pointers, but Branham and Wembanyama led the team to bite the score. In the second half, Collins blossomed inside and out, and Champagnie's three-pointer, the Spurs once led the Warriors by 11 points! Paul and Klay stopped the bleeding with three points at the end of the quarter. After Moody's two three-pointers caught up with the score in the second quarter, Osman and Wembanyama also responded with a three-point rain, and whenever the Warriors chased the score in the first half, the Spurs could always pull away! The third quarter was the turning point, Greenley took turns to make layups, Curry hit a three-pointer, and the Warriors overtook 12-0! After that, Curry and Bojie took advantage of the victory to chase after it, and played a 25-9 climax in a single quarter.
After the Warriors overtook the Warriors, the Spurs played very tenaciously, and by the middle of the fourth quarter, the Spurs chased all the way to only 4 points, but at the decisive moment, Dream and Davis took turns to make layups, Wembanyama hit key free throws, Klay's three-pointer was key, and Green made one of two free throws to seal the win. In the end, the Warriors defeated the Spurs 117-113 and ushered in a four-game winning streak, Curry had 33 points and 8 assists, Klay had 13 points and 3 assists, Green had 21 points, 6 rebounds, 11 assists and 6 steals, Podzemski had 12 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, and Paul had 9 points and 4 rebounds. On the Spurs side, Wembanyama had 32 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks, Osman had 18 points, and Branham had 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists.