In the Warriors' away game challenging Suns , they lost 105-134 to the Suns 29 points, suffering the second defeat of the season, and currently ranks second in the West with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses. As the defending champion, the Warriors are destined to be the target of public criticism this season, as Curry said: "No one will be polite to the defending champion."
Warriors know that each team will show 200% of their fighting spirit when facing them, but the Warriors themselves are obviously not ready to deal with the challenges. Since the start of the game, their condition has fluctuated. Although their offensive firepower is still sufficient, the defense that was once proud has become paper. Statistics say that the Warriors have scored a total of 382 points in the last three games.
After the game, Warriors reporter Anthony Slater tweeted that the Warriors have lost 114.8 points per 100 rounds so far this season, ranking 22nd in the league. As the team's defensive core, Draymond Green is very dissatisfied with the team's defense. After the game, he bluntly said in an interview: "We are not committed enough in defense, and this starts with me, and I will make sure we do it."
causes the Warriors' offense and defense ups and downs, especially the defensive end is not strong enough. One is the aging of the core lineup. Curry and Thompson are no longer able to defend, Green is also a bit unstoppable. NBA commentator Barkley said in the show: "This team has become older... I love Clay (Thompson), but he is sleeping, so is Draymond (Green). They are different from before. They have not been like this for two or three years. When I watched the Warriors play basketball, what I wanted to say was that the old man of time came to them. "
As Barkley said, this season, it can be clearly seen that the Warriors' Big Three will be weak for some time. Thompson has not been in shape for a long time. Green is on the defense, but the offense is not as good as before, including Curry when facing high-intensity games, he always lacks successors. In today's game, he played 29 minutes in the game, made 7 of 17 shots, including 4 of 9 three-pointers, 3 of 5 free throws, scored 21 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal.
looks good, but Curry made 3 of 10 shots in the entire second half, and the garbage time in the fourth quarter , He also made 7 crazy shots, scored 2 goals, and scored 5 points, barely making his score 20 points. However, Curry was criticized by many fans for only daring to fight in garbage time, and deliberately scoring points to make his data less ugly.
Whether Curry really scoring points on purpose is difficult to prove, but one thing is certain, that is, this Warriors need more young people to stand up, Barkley also said: "Stephen (Curry) has a lot of work to do now, and their young players need to stand up... If those young players cannot lead this team, then this team cannot win the championship. "
Warriors themselves are actually very clear that this team has gradually changed from old to old. This is why they chose to support Poole in the conflict between Green and Poole , rather than when Durant and Green clashed, they knew that Durant was the rational, but the Warriors stood on Green's side. The Warriors knew very well that Green was the key core of the Warriors at that time, and Poole now was the future of the Warriors.
Because of this, the Warriors chose to renew Poole's contract in advance without hesitation, clearly showing their attitude to support Poole, but this also aroused Poole's arrogance to a certain extent. This season, Poole's mentality and style of play have obviously changed. In this game, Poole played 25 minutes, made 6 of 12 shots, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 3 of 4 free throws, scored 17 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists, and the score was still good, but you will find that Poole basically does not defend now, and he takes the ball by himself, completely looking like he is the boss.
Perhaps Poole is not so bold that he openly competes for the boss position with Curry, but from the time he dares to fight against Green, to the time he is only attacking but not defending, and the Warriors are tolerating him, it is actually tantamount to slowly make Poole become more and more inflated, and the final result is even the Warriors backfire. Therefore, how to make young people such as Poole return to the same hardworking, humble, down-to-earth and diligent as last season is something the Warriors need to think about.
