Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 708
People never expected that the new NBA season would start in such a way.

First, Li Weisi was seriously injured and is expected to miss most of the season. Then the generation of superstar Magic Johnson retired early because of AIDS. In addition, Bird played intermittently due to injury. Among the top four players, Jordan is the only one left.

However, Jordan is indeed worthy of the title of the current league's number one star.

Before winning the championship last year, he was a popular candidate to compete for the strongest player in the league, but after winning the championship, his performance was even more impeccable.

After the start of this season, the Bulls have won consecutive battles and achieved a good result of 14 wins and 1 loss, and the only loss was to the Warriors without Li Weisi.

This season's Warriors were generally not favored by people before the game. It's no wonder that after all, after a team lacks a head star, its strength will inevitably decline significantly, and it will be difficult to continue to maintain the top level of competition.

Yet the Warriors did.

After the start of the game, the Warriors didn't seem to be affected by the loss of core stars at all, and they played extremely fiercely.

Especially when facing the Kings in the second scene, they played a disparity of 153:91, and the 62-point difference really shocked the entire league.

Facing the Bulls tonight, the Warriors also played extremely tenaciously.

Although Jordan was full of firepower from the beginning of the game, the Warriors also played well and withstood the Bulls' offense.

Among them, it is Mullin who has shown the mainstay role.

For a long time, the outside world's evaluation of Mullin has generally been low. Although he has become the most undisputed No. [-] player of the Warriors, his brilliance has always been suppressed by Li Weisi.

Even until now, some viewers who watched the game thought that the second in command of the Warriors was Moses Malone!

It can be said that in this Olympic selection list, the most questioned are Mullin and Pippen.

From the audience's point of view, Pippen is under the influence of Jordan, and Mullin is under the influence of Li Weisi and Nelson.

Of course, these are just the views of the outside audience. In fact, people in the circle generally have a high opinion of the two. After all, only by personally fighting each other can they know how terrifying these two are.

After the start of this season, Mullin scored 30+ points in a row. His performance made people feel very emotional. Mullin's strength, let alone the second leader, is completely fine even if the team is the leader.

The two teams tied at 33 in the first quarter. Jordan scored 15 points and Mullin scored 11 points. The performance of the two teams was almost evenly matched.

As for the substitute stage, although Starks left the Warriors this year, after Curry topped the starting lineup after Li Weisi was injured, Divac also increased his playing time because of Malone's further aging, which almost made Malone an extra starter. The team's roster depth is reduced.

But compared with most teams in the league, the Warriors' bench lineup is still deep, and they can still send Steve Kerr, Matthews Onis, Brian Shaw, Anthony Mason and Divac's lineup.

And this lineup still does not fall behind when facing the mixed lineup of the defending champion Bulls.

The game between the two teams has been very anxious. In fact, until the end of the third quarter, the Bulls still led by 5 points, but all this changed in the fourth quarter.

Malone, who is 36 years old, has continued to decline this season. After the start of the season, his average data has dropped to 10.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, and his scoring average has even been surpassed by Divac.

Not only that, but his role on the court is becoming more and more embarrassing. On the offensive end, Divac is obviously better than Malone, and in terms of rebounding, Rodman's rebounding ability is now very mature, and he can completely guarantee the team's rebounding.

So this made Malone somewhat uncertain about his position after the start of this season, and he played awkwardly, as did the Warriors.

So in the fourth quarter, facing a backward situation, Nelson decisively let Divac play with the Warriors' starters, and abandoned Malone in the fourth quarter.

Although it is cruel to do so, competitive sports are so cruel. Once you decline due to age, young players will step on your corpse and climb on your head.

The Warriors may not be so bloody, but in Malone's mind, this situation will not be much milder because of the form.

Nelson's substitutions worked so well in the fourth quarter that the Bulls' suffocating defense, as Divac's high ball dominance combined with the Warriors' unrestricted off-ball cuts, allowed the Warriors to play a Wave 10:0 offensive high towards.

It wasn't until Jordan went inside that Divac fouled and won two free throws, which interrupted his team's scoring drought, but at this time the score had been overtaken by the Warriors.

But in the final stage of the game, the momentum of the Warriors has been fully displayed. They are in the Bulls' home momentum like a rainbow, mainly against the guests, and finally fixed the score at 118:110. , Continuously gave the Bulls their first defeat of the season, and at the same time allowed themselves to maintain a four-game winning streak.

The result of this game shocked the jaws of all the fans. People never expected that Jordan, who seemed to be invincible, still lost to the Warriors, and it was a Warrior without Li Weisi.

Although everyone has always known that the Warriors are very strong, but no one thought that the Warriors would be so strong?

Also surprised, in addition to the fans and the media, there is also Li Weisi who is recovering at home.

The cast was successfully removed after three months in place.

Although the bones have grown back now, it does not mean that Li Weisi will be able to return to the game immediately.

Due to Li Weisi's ankle sprains many times, the doctor is very conservative about Li Weisi's physical condition, and the team must fully ensure Li Weisi's recovery before he can be approved to return to the game.

Therefore, in addition to actively cooperating with the doctor's treatment, Li Weisi also needs to exercise.

Nearly 5 months without training, the leg muscles of Li Weisi's right leg lost rapidly, and now even the two legs are not the same size.

It is foreseeable that the entire recovery process will take a long time.

So while recovering, Li Weisi still pays close attention to the Warriors game, especially this time the opponent is the Bulls.

But the result of the game made Li Weisi both sad and happy.

The team's victory is naturally something worthy of people's joy, but it is not terrible to win, and it is embarrassing to miss anyone!
Now the team can still defeat the Bulls without him, which makes Li Weisi have no sense of accomplishment at all, and can't appreciate the joy of lying down and winning at all.

(End of this chapter)