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In this game between the Pelicans and the Warriors, you can guess the process of the game.
It is nothing more than the collective sluggishness of the main players, chasing points from the bench, but they are still powerless. Coupled with head coach Kerr's daily "illness" blind substitutions, the game entered garbage time early and ended early.
With the Warriors in the background, the Pelicans players played exceptionally bravely. Eight people scored double-doubles in the game, scoring 141 points in a single game.
On the Warriors' side, they only scored 105 points in the game, and the starting five scored only 49 points. As far as today's game is concerned, the starters are nowhere near as good as the substitutes. The Warriors suffered a heavy defeat today, which is understandable. The Pelicans are the front team, and players such as Zayn, Jones Jr., and Ingram have a fairly obvious size advantage against the Warriors, let alone against them. Against the small lineup of the Warriors, it is basically crushing, pushing all the way. However, knowing that the lineup was not good, Kerr still put on a starting three-guard lineup such as Curry, Klay, Podzemski, Kuminga, and Looney, with an average height of only 1.98 meters. If you want to win with such height, unless the Splash Brothers have an explosive hand and make up for the shortcomings on the defensive end on the offensive end.
It's a pity that the Warriors haven't opened up on the offensive end yet, and the Pelicans have come first. These big men who are more than two meters tall are happy to see the small men of the Warriors, and almost every time they attack, they are misplaced. The confrontation between the two teams is like a weasel entering the chicken pen, one bite here and one bite there, and the opponent has no power to parry. The Warriors didn't find their form offensively, and their defense was even more sparse. The inside line is powerless to parry against the heavy inside line like Walan. The inside line can't be prevented, resulting in excessive defense, and the outside line is full of loopholes, and it is quickly shot through. In the whole game, only Moody seems to be the team's last fig leaf, and the rest of the players are called a slump.
It's a pity that Moody's didn't make it to the end. After the game, Kerr said Moody suffered a calf strain in the game and is now undergoing an MRI. This also partly explains why, at a rather crucial moment of chasing points, Kerr replaced Moody, who played his best. At 105-141, the Warriors lost by 36 points, the largest margin of loss this season. At the end of the quarter, the camera showed Curry resting on the sidelines, and I saw that he had been smiling and shaking his head. To be honest, although the Warriors have often lost games when they were bad before, today's game really made people feel desperate. Curry is not playing well, Klay is in flux, Wiggins continues to be in a slump, and young players are unhappy with the head coach's ......
Now, the only way for the Warriors to get out of this situation is to trade. Just like the Knicks, the previous record was also more struggling, and after getting Anunoby, there has been a qualitative improvement. According to Shams, the Warriors are interested in Siakam, but they plan to wait until Green returns to see how the team performs overall. One of the reasons why the Warriors think this way may be that their current chips simply can't meet the Raptors' requirements, after all, the Warriors are really not at the top of Siakam's potential next home. Secondly, some league executives revealed that there is an inexplicable trust in Green within the Warriors, and in their opinion, Green is very important to the team.
So, as of now, the Warriors management may still have the illusion that the team's recent poor record may be because Green has been suspended, and when Green returns, everything will be fine......
But the question is, what if Green returns, and still hasn't changed? What should the Warriors do?