In the upper and lower divisions of the Western Conference playoffs, the Lakers defeated the Pelicans to lock up the seventh playoff ticket. The Warriors suffered a heavy defeat to the Kings in a tiebreaker in the lower zone. The score was 118-94, and Kerr surrendered in the final quarter, raising the white flag early. At the end of the day, it's better to have one more resurrection armor. Although the Pelicans lost, they could still compete with the Kings for the final playoff ticket, and the Warriors went straight home. After today's game, Curry mentioned Dream Green and Thompson that he didn't want the combination to disintegrate.
But today is obvious enough, and the referees will help you, but the current lineup of the Warriors is really not good. The Kings simply crushed the Warriors from beginning to end, Murray and Fox were on fire at the beginning, and the Warriors could only rely on Dream Green to cut points, Thompson didn't score, Curry was also sluggish, and then the Kings ended the first quarter with a 31-22 lead of 9 points. In the second quarter, the Kings had a 7-0 lead of 16 points, and who did the Warriors rely on? It was not the Splash Brothers, but the rookie Kuminga who scored 8 points in a row to lead the team to 4 points.
If there is still a little hope that the Warriors will chase down 4 points in the first half, the second half will be a carnage. The Kings came up with the trident firing all the power, Murray, Ellis and Barnes hit three points in a row, and the Kings quickly opened up the difference, and at the end of the quarter, as Ellis and Fox continued to hit three-pointers, the Kings had a 15-point lead. Although Curry scored 3+1 to stop the bleeding, it was too late. In the last quarter, the morale of the Warriors was low and he had no intention of fighting, Barnes scored 7 points to lead the team to a wave of 12-1, and the Kings had a lead of 24 points.
Looking at the data, Sabonis on the King's side scored 16 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists under the Warriors' basket, Barnes scored 17 points from the outside, Keegan Murray, a rookie, scored 32 points and 9 boards in the key game, Fox scored 24 points, and Ellis became a wonder soldier with 15 points, 3 steals and 3 blocks. For the Warriors, Green scored 12 points to cover the fig leaf, Thompson scored 0 points in 10 and didn't score a single point, Wiggins scored 12 points in 4 of 11, Kuminga had 16 points and 7 boards, and Curry had 22 points and 6 turnovers.
Do you say that it is useful for Curry to keep the old roster now? The boss will listen to your advice? This year, the owners of the Warriors may be mad, paying the highest luxury tax in the league and being beaten the heaviest, the luxury tax of $176.9 million, and you didn't make the playoffs? Who do you say will explain this? It's not surprising to say that it's hard to hear Kerr get out of class. The Warriors owner spent $382.5 million on the entire roster in order to compete for a championship this season. And most desperately, the Warriors are overtaxing again next season.
The current Warriors roster salary is $205.6 million and the luxury tax is $176.9 million. And the NBA's luxury tax line for next season is 171 million. In other words, the Warriors, a super giant, are facing the problem of retaining the dream splash lineup in the offseason, but completely rebuilding. The first is that the Paul Warriors won't let his final year's 30 million annual salary become a guarantee. Then the team will also trade Wiggins, and the Thompson Warriors will just let him go. Maybe in the end, the Warriors' business will be to stay with Curry and bind them, and then find a way to renew Kuminga's contract, and then rebuild the veterans while retiring in the next few seasons, don't think about paying the luxury tax, it's similar to throwing money into the sea.
To be honest, the Warriors might as well let the Rockets enter the play-offs, at least the young people still have something to watch. This went around and around, Dream Green and Ethan sprayed each other, and as a result, the Warriors played one more game than the Rockets. If the Rockets make the playoffs, they really have a chance to get a ticket to the playoffs. Because this season's Rockets style of play is very restrained by the king, it is the existence of the king every game. The Rockets' 41 wins in the season represent the hope of youth, and the Warriors are like overripe apples that have fallen to the ground and begun to rot, so why bother to compete with young people for this opportunity?