Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 480 No One
Since Li Weisi joined the NBA, it seems to have become a tradition to play the opening game against the Suns. I don't know if the league did it on purpose or just a coincidence, allowing the Warriors to play the opening game against the Suns for three out of four years.

But no matter how many times they play, the Warriors are not disgusted, on the contrary, they like it. After all, they are acquaintances, and they are not far away. Whether it is home or away, the distance will not be tossed, let alone win!
But compared with the Warriors, the players of the Suns are not so happy, especially Tom Chambers, who used to catch up with the Warriors in the Sonics to play an opening game with the Warriors, and finally came to the Suns. After encountering warriors in succession, this warrior almost became a shadow in his heart.

Especially this time, not only to play the opening game against the Warriors, but also to witness the Warriors awarding the championship ring, if you say so, give it away, the ring is so good and so expensive, Chambers felt like he was beeping.

This was just a blow to the Suns before the game. After the game started, the Suns were beaten up by the Warriors again. The start of 8:0 was really a big beating.

In fact, the strength of the Suns this season continues to improve. They traded to get the No. 14 pick and selected Tim Hardaway, the best player in the Western Sports League and the winner of the Naismith Award for the best college student in the United States.

Although the point guard is only 183cm tall, his ball-handling skills are superb, and his unpredictable crotch dribble is second only to Li Weisi in the league.

However, this rookie, who performed well in the preseason, turned into another look when facing Li Weisi tonight.

It can be said that the main reason why the Suns fell behind so much in the opening game was because he was intercepted consecutively by Li Weisi when he faced Li Weisi.

This seriously hit Hardaway's self-confidence, so that in the next game, facing Li Weisi, Hardaway didn't even dare to do his signature crotch dribble, for fear of being intercepted by Li Weisi again.

Li Weisi didn't know that his two steals at the beginning had such a profound impact on Hardaway. On the contrary, he actually asked during the game, "Strange, why didn't you change direction with your crotch? I thought the ball just now You will change your crotch to break through me, how did you pass it?"

Listen, is this a human language?The angry Hardaway is itching, are all the current stars bullying people like this?
Because he was abused by his alcoholic father since he was a child, Hardaway still has a high tolerance for trash talk, but the trash talk like Li Weisi, which directly touches the soul without a single dirty word, almost breaks Hardaway's defenses. It's murder.

So in the next game, Hardaway played extremely cautiously, never made a shot without a good opportunity, and basically didn't dare to make big moves against Li Weisi, which made his presence on the field drop sharply.

Suns coach Fitzsimmons noticed this and called a timeout to ask what happened to Hardaway.

Hardaway just shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just want to play more cautiously, so as not to repeat the same mistakes at the beginning."

In this regard, Fitzsimmons also thought that Hardaway was a little nervous because it was his first game, so he didn't think much about it, but he quietly shortened his playing time and increased Winston Garland's time. playing time.

The whole game was like Li Weisi crushing Hardaway, and the whole game was also a crushing game.

Regardless of shooting percentage, turnovers, defensive efficiency, rebounding, etc., almost all the Warriors are better than the Suns. As a strong team in the Western Conference last season, they have no power to fight back against the Warriors.

If the Warriors' starting lineup is due to the five players' strength and tacit cooperation, which can play a normal championship level, then the performance of the Warriors' substitutes tonight is also impressive.

Although the Warriors' sixth man Price left the team, the Warriors' bench tonight sent out the old lineup of Hornacek, Curry, Lewis, Schrempf and Duckworth.

Nelson didn't use three rookies tonight, but chose to trust old players, which is also the result of his last resort.

Due to the cancellation of the preseason game, Nelson lacked the opportunity to observe new players and try out new tactics. After all, tonight is the opening game, so it should not be too turbulent and stability must be maintained, so Nelson still chose the old players.

The five substitutes have been working together for many years, and they have a good understanding with each other. Although the organizational skills of Hornacek and Curry cannot completely make up for the vacancy left by Price, they are still no problem in ensuring the team's offensive needs. of.

As a result, the Suns fell into a disadvantage regardless of facing the Warriors' starters or substitutes. At halftime 74:45, they trailed the Warriors by as much as 29 points.

This also led to the Warriors starting for only 7 minutes in the third quarter before they were all replaced by Nelson. In the fourth quarter, both Petrovic and Divac were replaced, which completely reduced the game. garbage time.

Seeing that the Suns had no hope of chasing points, Nelson was also very bold, and actually started to try new tactics at this moment.

During the pre-match training camp, Nelson was very interested in Divac. Although this big man has average physical talent, he has great passing skills and shooting ability. It seems that he can only practice three-pointers. time issue.

In the hands of other coaches, such a player may appear to be very weak, but in the eyes of Nelson, this is definitely a treasure, because many of the tactics in his mind require special players to achieve, such as the control with super range. Defender Li Weisi, such as the small forward Mullin who has the ability to organize, or the Divac in front of him.

Never doubt Nelson's ability to develop tactics and his advanced consciousness. In the original time and space, he once let the 231cm tall big center Manute Ball shoot three-pointers from outside the three-point line. Now he has such a shooting ability. Nice Divac, who knows what he's up to.

In this way, although the Warriors regained some points due to Nelson's "blind command" in the fourth quarter, they still couldn't change the fact that they were defeated by a big score. In the end, the Warriors scored 136:106 at home, with a big difference of [-] points. Victory over the sun.

Li Weisi's performance in this game was mediocre. After playing 26 minutes, he scored 20 points and 6 assists, but this is already the team's highest score.

What's more, the scores need to be compared. Then look at Hardaway who played against Li Weisi. He played 20 minutes and made 5 of 0 shots. He scored 0 points, 3 assists, 1 rebound and 5 turnovers. In an instant, Li Weisi's data was much better.

Poor Hardaway, after just one game, he was dubbed a parallel importer. Those fans don't care who you are playing against, they only care about how you perform. They are the masters who stand up and talk without back pain .

In short, through such a big victory, the Warriors announced that they are still the most powerful contenders for the championship this season, and there is no one.

(End of this chapter)