The last time the Warriors won five games in a row at the start of the regular season, we don’t know how long ago it was.
At least as most Warriors fans are familiar with it, in the past two decades, the Warriors have never started the regular season with a clean start of five consecutive victories.
Prior to this, their best performance was in the 1991-92 season. They won four consecutive victories at the beginning of the regular season, and finally ranked third in the Western Conference with 55 wins and 27 losses.
At that time, the Warriors' number one star was Chris Mullin, who was still in his prime as a young man. He averaged 25.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. Third-year Tim Hardaway also averaged 25.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.
23.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 10 assists.
Time flies, a few years have passed, and the Warriors have changed. Mullin, who had high hopes, was destroyed by injuries, and Tim Hardaway was also traded away from the team.
However, the Warriors won five consecutive victories, and their performance was so good that it was completely unbelievable.
Is Wang Feng really so good? With his performance and dominance on the court, it is completely reasonable to say that he is better than Jordan at his peak.
Of course, Jordan is not that easy to surpass. Without Wang Feng winning substantial honors in terms of championships and regular season MVPs, no one would think that Wang Feng is really much better than Jordan.
But honors are the accumulation of daily games. If Wang Feng can really maintain the current 30 10 10 quasi-triple-double data, the Warriors' record will also be among the top in the league. It is not certain whether they will win the championship. Regular season MVP
It must be Wang Feng!
On November 12, the Warriors finally suffered a defeat in their sixth regular season game.
In this campaign, the Warriors challenged the Phoenix Suns away from home. Barkley scored 31 points, 19 rebounds and 5 assists. He taught the young Garnett well in the paint and completely defeated the Warriors' weak inside line.
In this game, Wang Feng did not choose to directly confront Barkley. On the one hand, unlike when he was with the Knicks, Wang Feng had to take on more responsibilities during the Warriors period and did not have the free time to compete with Barkley. On the other hand, Wang Feng was in terms of strength.
He is indeed no match for Barkley. Unless he exhausts his opponent with his physical strength, there is no way to change this no matter how hard he works.
The digitized body brought to Wang Feng by the system allows him to ignore the upper limit of talents and abilities that players should have, but at the same time it also completely limits Wang Feng's upper limit. The strength of 88 cannot be compared to Barkley, and the opponent has to take advantage of this.
There is no way to defeat Wang Feng.
Although Wang Feng did not face off against Barkley, his performance was not inferior to his opponent at all, and even performed better. He scored a super triple-double of 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists.
However, his teammates' performance in this game was really mediocre. Mullin made 2 goals in 6 shots, 5 of 6 free throws, and only scored 9 points.
Blaylock made 2 of 7 shots.
As for the two inside players, Garnett and Sekali, they performed very poorly under Barkley's pressure. Garnett made 6 of 16 shots and 1 of 3 free throws. He only scored 13 points and 7 rebounds, and committed 6 fouls early.
Off the court, this was Garnett's worst game since the start of the regular season.
Facing the old man Barkley, the young Wolf King was completely manipulated.
The loss to the Suns brought the Knicks' winning streak to five in a row, but a regular season loss was of no consequence to the regular season that had just begun...
It is worth mentioning that the Bulls' winning streak also stopped at 5 consecutive victories, and they stumbled against the Magic in Game 6.
The partnership of O'Neal and Hardaway is indeed not easy to mess with.
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After losing to the Suns, the Warriors then defeated their opponents at home against the Los Angeles Clippers on November 14.
The Clippers were also one of Wang Feng's strong competitors during the summer offseason, but Wang Feng considered that the other party had a stingy and racist boss and wanted to avoid being disgusted, so he rejected the other party.
Facing this weak team at the bottom of the Western Conference, the Warriors decisively struck hard. Garnett also swept away the decline when facing Barkley and scored a double-double with 23 points and 12 rebounds.
After 7 games, the Warriors achieved a record of 6 wins and 1 loss, ranking first in the Western Conference.
And the Warriors next
8 games are also a battle of focus.
The Warriors will face the challenge of the New York Knicks at home.
As Wang Feng, who played for the Knicks last season and helped them win a championship, is having a successful season with the Warriors this season, it's impossible to say that Knicks fans don't have any ideas.
But in the 1990s, most fans had not yet reached the point where the fandom culture would be rampant in the future and they would blindly rant without thinking. Everyone could still be reasonable.
Wang Feng played up his worth and wanted a big contract, so he chose to leave the Knicks. This is understandable.
After all, Wang Feng only played for half a season with the Knicks, and the Knicks never trained Wang Feng.
New York fans, who had nowhere to vent, could only direct their grievances at Ewing. Who made this guy's vanity expand after winning the championship? He insisted on signing a contract with an annual salary of up to 18.72 million US dollars, directly depleting the Knicks' salary space.
Lock it down, what are you waiting for if Wang Feng doesn’t leave?
The Knicks' results since the start of the regular season are actually pretty good, with 5 wins and 2 losses before this game, which is much better than last season.
But seeing that the Warriors are leading the Knicks with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss, naturally I will feel unhappy.
Therefore, in this game, the entire Knicks team worked hard to defeat the Warriors led by Wang Feng and prove that their championship last season was not entirely due to Wang Feng.
As for Wang Feng, he has long lost interest in the Knicks.
Don't look at their current 5 wins and 2 losses, their record is pretty good, but it won't be long before their true colors are revealed.
In Wang Feng's memory, the Knicks' final regular season record this season was 47 wins and 35 losses, ranking fifth in the Western Conference. Although it was a good record, compared with the previous two seasons, the 57 wins in the 1993-94 season
, the 55 wins in the 1994-95 season was definitely a cliff-like decline.
Wang Feng's only goal this season is to defeat Jordan's Bulls, and other teams are naturally not considered.
But Wang Feng also saw the Knicks' desire to win in this game, especially Ewing, who frequently asked the Warriors to score at the basket from the beginning of the game.
Obviously, the newly promoted FMVP is very unhappy with being sprayed recently. He believes that he is worth 18.72 million US dollars. Wang Feng's departure has nothing to do with him, and even without Wang Feng, the Knicks can still win the championship.
"If you think so, it can only make you see the reality clearly..."
Wang Feng shook his head helplessly, and then began to exert force.
In the new Knicks season@, this small forward who is 2.01 meters tall and weighs 113 kilograms, much heavier than Wang Feng, is indeed pretty good. He averaged 9.9 points and 8.4 rebounds per game as a substitute last season.
This season he became a member of the team, but he is obviously no match for Wang Feng. His weight of 113 kilograms does not allow him to gain more strength than Wang Feng, and in terms of speed, especially lateral speed, he is far behind Wang Feng.
Facing the opponent's defense, Wang Feng can easily get to the basket every time, or step back and take a calm shot from outside the three-point line.
In just the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng hit 4 three-pointers from beyond the three-point line, scoring 17 points in a single quarter.
Ewing was able to score 12 points in the first quarter, but he began to feel inadequate in the subsequent games.
Although the center's scoring method is stable and efficient, his explosive power is obviously far from being comparable to that of outside players.
More importantly, at this time, the head coach of the Knicks has been replaced by former assistant coach Jeff Van Gundy.
There have been slight changes in history. Originally, the Knicks hired former Warriors head coach Don Nelson as head coach after Pat Riley left, and then fired him in the middle of the season due to the team's poor record.
Don Nelson was hired through assistant coach Van Gundy.
But the current Knicks are different. The team's general manager did not find Don Nelson, but directly chose to promote assistant coach Van Gundy to become the team's head coach.
Is Jeff Van Gundy a well-known coach? There is no doubt about it, Van Gundy
Both Dee brothers will be very famous coaches in the future, but their coaching abilities...the winning rate of 57.5% in their entire career is not low among coaches, but they do not have Don Nelson's thousand-win coach and 3 best coach awards.
In terms of honor, there are not as many championship honors as Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.
As a famous coach, Jeff Van Gundy has a serious lack of honors as a coach. His best achievement is that he led his team to the finals once.
Throughout Van Gundy's coaching career, whether he was with the Knicks or the Rockets, he was a typical example of old-fashioned thinking and inability to adapt.
Advocating the concept of iron-blooded military management in the 1990s, he regarded the big center tactics as a classic, allowing Dayao to gain weight, and excessively used Dayao on the offensive end, which indirectly led to the shortening of Dayao's career.
In fact, in the later period of the Knicks, a similar situation to Yao happened to Ewing in advance.
Only three seasons after Van Gundy took over as coach of the Knicks, Ewing began to suffer from injuries frequently, becoming the first player among the four major centers to decline.
Of course, Van Gundy is not without merit. His defensive system has always been excellent. Although the offensive rhythm is very bad, all the teams he coaches are among the best defensive teams in the league.
The current Knicks have clearly shown such a trend.
Starks and Harper, who were able to provide good scoring last season and shared the pressure for Ewing on the offensive end, have seen their points per game shrink to varying degrees in the new season. Many times on the court, everyone is
Standing outside the three-point line, he watched eagerly as Ewing dug deep into the paint with his back...
Van Gundy doesn't think there is anything wrong with this kind of offense. If there is a super center, why not maximize the use and play of the super center's offensive capabilities?
It's just that Ewing is not O'Neal after all, and he can't have the invincible super lethality in the paint like O'Neal.
Entering the second quarter of the game against the Warriors, Ewing was already feeling a little tired.
Although Sekali is not a high-quality defensive center with outstanding defensive ability, after all, he is an old man who has played in the league for seven seasons and has rich experience. At his peak, he averaged a double-double of 17 points and 11.8 rebounds per game in a single season.
Completely for free.
Moreover, Ewing often faced not only Seikali.
Garnett's strength is not his strong one-on-one defense ability in the interior. In fact, due to his weight and tonnage, Garnett's effectiveness in one-on-one defense against interior players is not very good, and it is easy to suffer losses.
But at the same time, he also has his own advantages, which is the mobility that ordinary insiders don't have and can rival outsiders.
Garnett has a positive defensive attitude and excellent awareness of assisting defense. He often steps forward to assist Sekali in assisting defense.
His hand was already declining and he still had to go 1v2, which resulted in Ewing making 3 of 8 shots and 1 of 2 free throws in the second quarter, scoring only 7 points.
At the same time, the offense of other Knicks players was also not smooth.
The Warriors are more difficult to deal with both offensively and defensively than expected.
On the offensive end, with Wang Feng as the starting point, there was no way to stop him.
On the defensive end, Wang Feng and Garnett both have strong defense capabilities, both inside and outside. Coupled with the overall bonus effect of Wang Feng's defensive core badge, the defensive intensity is also considerable.
In the second quarter, the Knicks began to collapse across the board, scoring only 17 points in a single quarter, while the Warriors scored 30 points.
Originally, the Warriors relied on Wang Feng's 17 points in the first quarter to suppress the Knicks. After the second quarter, the score of the two teams at halftime had reached 44:60. The Warriors scored 16 points at halftime.
Leading advantage.
At this time, another shortcoming of Jeff Van Gundy was also revealed, that is, his ability to adapt when the team is in a backward stage.
Already trailing by so many points, Van Gundy could not come up with any solution throughout the halftime break. All he could do in the locker room was to instill chicken soup for the soul.
"We were the championship last season and one of the strongest teams in the league. The opponent is just a newly formed team with a serious lack of game experience. Moreover, we also have an absolute advantage in the paint. Don't give up.
Work hard to catch up with the score and win this game!”
Obviously, this chicken soup has no real meaning.
In the third quarter, relying on a slightly deeper bench than the Warriors, the Knicks managed to draw with the Warriors 28:28 in this quarter, but this obviously did not solve the problem.
As the game entered the fourth quarter, Wang Feng began to work hard to make the final touches.
Wang Feng, who made a series of sudden shots and scored like chopping melons and vegetables, led his team in a 12:2 attack wave, directly widening the point difference from 16 points to 26 points, and the game completely lost suspense.
The second half of the fourth quarter was completely reduced to garbage time.
In the end, the score between the two teams was fixed at 120:97. The Warriors defeated the Knicks at home by 23 points.
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