Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 427
On April 4, the Warriors rested Li Weisi. Unexpectedly, it was precisely this game that the Clippers beat the Warriors at home in an upset.

This is indeed beyond everyone's expectations. Despite Li Weisi's rest, the overall strength of the Warriors is still not comparable to that of the Clippers.

For the Clippers, in the last second of the regular season, Cary Grant, who performed very well in this field, hit a mid-range jumper, dragging the two teams into overtime.

Then in the overtime game, the Clippers used their lives even more. Until the last moment, Cary Grant stepped forward again and hit the most critical shot to kill the Warriors. In the end, the Clippers beat the Warriors 128:126. Let Mullin's 47 split into empty cuts.

This defeat was mostly ridiculed by the outside world. Let you take turns to rest and make you look down on others. Is this a disaster?
Not only that, although the coaching staff was not affected by the ridicule from the outside world, the players were somewhat affected.

After all, seeing the best record is close at hand, it would be a lie to say that he was not moved.

Not only that, but this time, Li Weisi also stood on the side of the players and resolutely opposed the rotation, because he couldn't accept it, and he watched the team lose from the sidelines.

Faced with the players' dissatisfaction, the coaching staff naturally attached great importance to it. After an emergency consultation with Frank, they finally forced Frank to let go and cancel the rotation plan. However, they still did not let go of the players' load guarantee time.

In this regard, the players said that they are already satisfied with being able to play, and there are no more requirements. After all, they also know that Frank is for their own good.

And through this incident, Frank also discovered that the players are human beings after all, not NPCs without thoughts. Everyone has emotions and desires, and it is impossible to do things completely according to their own ideas.

Even Li Weisi, who believed in him so much, decisively put forward different opinions this time. This out-of-control situation made Frank a little annoyed, because he didn't like such unpredictable things to happen.

No matter what Frank thinks, when he played against the Kings at home on the 15th, when he saw the long-awaited five starters play at the same time, he was still warmly cheered by the fans.

However, the process of the game was not as easy as the fans thought.

The Warriors, who led by 15 points in the first quarter, were once chased by the Kings by only 5 points in the second quarter.

Fortunately, Li Weisi and Mu Lin each scored a three-pointer, which stabilized the situation, so that at the end of the second quarter, they still maintained a 15-point lead.

After entering the second half, the Kings' offense was still fierce. Fortunately, Richmond stood up in this quarter and scored 5 points on 5 of 13 shots, helping the team stabilize the point difference.

After the game entered the fourth quarter, the Kings started chasing points again. At one point, they started the Warriors who were about to clock out of work, and then played back again. When there were 3 minutes left, they saw that the point difference had reached 20 points. Completely gave up resistance, and finally the Warriors defeated the Kings 130:114, avoiding a losing streak.

In this campaign, Richmond of the Warriors scored a game-high 28 points, and Li Weisi, Mullin, and Malone all scored 20 points. It can be said that the starting five of the team performed at a normal level. should not.

After winning the Kings, the Warriors will have consecutive home and away games against the Sonics on the 17th and 18th.

This is extremely tragic for the supersonic speed.

At this time, the Sonics are competing with the Rockets and Nuggets for the playoff rankings, which is the most critical time.

A two-game losing streak is likely to cause the Supersonics to slip directly from fifth in the West to seventh in the West. According to the record ranking at this time, this will determine whether the Supersonics will face the Suns or the Lakers in the first round?

A normal person knows how to choose!
Therefore, in these two games, the Supersonics faced the Warriors, it was really desperate!As if the playoffs were staged ahead of schedule.

The first game was the home court of the Warriors. The two teams played until the last moment to decide the outcome. In the end, because McMillan fouled Li Weisi, Li Weisi went to the free throw line and made two free throws. This made the Warriors win 119:116 game.

In the second game, after returning to the Sonics home court, Ellis, the core of the team who performed poorly in the previous game, ushered in an explosion. He and McDaniel jointly hit 7 three-pointers and scored 70 points together. At the most critical moment, because of a controversial penalty, Richmond dribbled the ball and charged someone, causing the Warriors to miss the chance to tie the score. In the end, they lost to the Sonics 118:122, and the team gained 12th loss of the season.

In this way, the Warriors were pushed to the forefront. In the next two games, if they lose one game, they will tie the Lakers in the 71-72 season for the best record in regular season history.

Lose two games, and they will miss the opportunity to make history.

Only by winning both games can they achieve an unprecedented 70 wins and occupy the first place in league history.

For countless NBA fans and insiders, 70 wins have always been believed to be the ceiling of the regular season record, and it is impossible for any team to break through. Now the Warriors can get it, which has led to a new level of popularity for the Warriors. Some fans who did not pay attention to the NBA or other teams began to pay attention to the next game of the Warriors.

On the 21st, it was the first game of another back-to-back game against the Denver Nuggets.

Although the Warriors are stronger, the Nuggets have won the Warriors once this season, so the fans are also very worried that the previous plot will be staged again.

The game was held at the home court of the Warriors, causing more than 9000 people to pour into the old Oakland arena. Just outside the arena, there were still more than 5000 fans who could not buy tickets. Everyone wanted to witness The Warriors make history.

Under such tremendous pressure, the Warriors did not disappoint the fans. They fought against the Nuggets for three and a half quarters. It was not until the last 3 minutes of the game that the Nuggets saw that they had no hope of chasing points, so they replaced all the starters and declared defeat.

In the end, the Warriors defeated the Nuggets 139:121 at home and won 69 wins in the season, which also marked that the Warriors successfully tied the best historical record in the NBA regular season.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the game, the fans in the arena and the fans outside cheered together and shouted "Long live the Warriors!"

At this moment, the winner does not only belong to the Warriors players on the field, but also to Warriors fans like them!
However, this is not the end of the journey. Although they are very excited, the golden number of 70 wins has been stinging their nerves.

They hope that their team can achieve what their predecessors could not do. The number one position in history is too small, too small to accommodate two teams, and they want to occupy the number one position exclusively.

(End of this chapter)