"God, this is the best game of the year!"

In the commentary seat, Kenny Smith, who had always negotiated, couldn't help but exclaim.

The two teams fought with real knives and guns on the field, and the viewing was too high!

"Yes, there will be more and more games like this, and the NBA will get better and better."

O'Neill also sighed on the sidelines.

As the strongest center at the beginning of the century, it is now the confrontation on the field that gives him a primitive desire to watch the game, instead of imitating Barkley to make a pretending pompous expression like before.

The first quarter lasted about 10 minutes, and the two sides entered the rotation one after another.

At this point, the score was 26-16 and the Pelicans had a 10-point lead.

Both teams played an absolutely high-quality offense and defense, but under the high-intensity confrontation, the Warriors' offensive efficiency was obviously low.

This is also a reasonable thing, the Splash Brothers and the Warriors themselves are products of the small-ball era.

The penalty scale has changed, and after the confrontation comes up, the game is more dependent on the individual offensive ability of the star, and the Warriors are slightly inferior.

And after the tide receded, Tang Tian's personal scoring ability was fully displayed.

He also scored a game-high 12 points in the first quarter under a high-intensity bag defense.

The Warriors trailed by 10 points before the end of the quarter, and the odds were stacked against them.

The only good news was that Durant also scored eight points in a single quarter, and he didn't back down like the Olympics, but carried the team on his shoulders.

The game went into a rotation, with both teams in an eight-man rotation.

On the Pelicans' side, Holiday and Davis stayed on the court and were replaced by Brogdon, Bojan and David West.

On the Warriors' side, Curry and Green stayed on the court and were replaced by Livingston, Andre Iguodala and Maris Speights.

After Durant went off the court, Curry became the main point of attack, he ran off the ball to receive a pass from Livingston, waited for Brogdon to make a shot, and caused the latter to foul on a three-point point.

Curry's three-pointer missed his crosshairs, but he was smart, used his experience to create damage, and taught Brog a lesson.

You're a mature rookie, but at the end of the day, you're just a rookie, and there's always going to be a process of gaining experience.

Curry hit all three free throws as the Warriors cut the deficit to seven points.

Back to Davis' low ball back shot.

Bojan made a weak side off the ball and West and Speights collided with a back-to-back flip, and he struggled to get his chance.

Davis' pass was timely, but unfortunately his shot was missed, smashed into the basket and bounced high, and the rebound was protected by Green.

In high-intensity confrontation, not only the defense encountered at the moment of shooting, but also the previous confrontation will affect the final shooting result.

This is also the reason why everyone in the small-ball era was a sharpshooter with a high shooting rate, and at the beginning of the century, even the top three-point shooters only had a shooting rate of just over 40%.

For catch-and-shoot scorers like Bojan and Thompson, they need to work hard to adapt.

Green took the rebound and dribbled two steps forward, and the backcourt long threw it to Curry, who squeezed away Holiday for a defensive layup and a pull-up rebound in the air.

The difficulty of the ball is very high, but Curry's ability is shown, and the difficult rebound is still motivated!

Curry went on a 5-0 run to narrow the gap to five points.

Stevens walked to the sidelines and looked up at the time, the quarter was over in a minute, and there was no point in calling a timeout.

He shouted at the field and made a new tactical gesture.

After Holiday arrived in the front court and signaled to pull away, he gave the ball directly to Davis' low single.

At the beginning of the century, basketball was the stage of superstars, and it depended on whether Davis had grown up in the past four years.

Green has a very low center of gravity behind his back, which is also one of his defensive characteristics, and he is stable in the lower handicap.

Davis didn't have a hard chisel, and he chose to hit the board after a series of turns.

The ball didn't get rid of Green, Green reached out and interfered, and the basketball smashed out of the frame!

But before Green went to get the defensive rebound, Davis was one step ahead of him and directly added the ball to the basket with one hand!

Height, reach, talent, crushing!

Davis, the first shot he thought about making a basket!

With the crucial two points, the Pelicans broke the scoring drought!

Curry continued to run without the ball in the frontcourt, and although he stumbled against the lower body, he still used his excellent mobility to get an opportunity to go straight to the basket.

Green made a beautiful shot through the defense, and Curry received the ball and threw it from close range.

But at the moment when he shot, Davis jumped up and slapped Curry's shot directly to the rebound!

Pegboard hat!

Davis also took advantage of the situation to get a defensive rebound!

The scene erupted in cheers.

Davis's performance in this offense and defense is quite impressive!

Although his strength has not reached Tang Tian's level, he is not bad!

In the final attack of the first quarter, Holiday pressed the time to about 10 seconds.

He was about to call Davis to block and attack, and after looking up and seeing that it was Speights defending, he hoisted the ball directly to Davis.

Davis received the ball and saw that Green was about to be trapped, and after a fake pass forced Green back, he hit Speights directly to the basket.

Speights was tough and pulled Davis down directly.

The foul was thorough, and the baseline referee blew the whistle quickly.

But Davis made a shot with a fold in the air after the whistle.

A high-board shot, the ball grazing the rebound and bouncing into the net pocket!

2+1！

His second 2+1 of this section!

With only 2 seconds to go until the end of the quarter!

The cheers of the audience erupted again.

Tang Tian also stood up from the bench at this time and waved his fist in the direction of Davis.

The cute little boy three years ago, the boy who cried about being eliminated by the Grizzlies two years ago, and the unwilling people a year ago because he was eliminated by the Warriors.

Davis has come all the way and is finally able to grow up to be able to take charge on his own!

His Pippen has finally grown!

Davis adjusted his breathing and hit a steady shot, and he personally played a wave of 5-0 offense, once again helping the Pelicans widen the gap to 10 points!

Curry's last long-range three-pointer was ruined by Holiday .

At the end of the first quarter, the Pelicans continued to lead the Warriors by 10 points, 31-21.

When Davis was off the court, Tang Tian went over to bump fists with him, hugged him, and then reached out and touched his hair.

"Your moxican is handsome."

After touching it, Tang Tian said with a smile.

Duncan also said this sentence to him at the beginning, but he didn't say the latter sentence of Duncan, it was a bit of a waste glue.

Davis smiled and nodded, not knowing why it felt so good to be touched this time.

In the second quarter, the two sides rotated closely, with Holiday being replaced by Stephenson on the Pelicans' side, and Curry being replaced by McCaw on the Warriors' side.

However, in addition to McCaw, there is also a substitution on the Warriors' side.

Kerr brought Pachuria, who had just rested for two minutes, back on the court.