Chapter 12: The Battle of Sir Warriors
On May 7, 2007, the Warriors challenged the Utah Jazz away, which was the first game of the second round of the Western Conference playoffs, this game was difficult for both teams to solve, and in the last 33 seconds before the end of the game, Jason Richardson made two free throws to lead the Warriors to chase the score to 112: tie, and in the last 19 seconds, Memet Oku missed three points, Carlos Boozer grabbed the precious frontcourt rebound and played an offensive basket, and the Warriors fell behind by 2 points. In the final 7.7 seconds of the game, Stephen Jackson missed a three-pointer and Richardson had to foul Matt Harprin, who hit both free throws to give the Warriors a 112-116 loss.
In this game, Baron Davis scored 24 points, 7 assists and 3 turnovers on 8-of-17 shooting, slightly inferior to Deron who scored 31 points, 8 assists, 2 steals and 6 turnovers on 11-of-21 shooting, Richardson scored 21 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals on 8-of-19 shooting, Matt Barnes scored 20 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals on 8-of-15 shooting, Al Harrington found his feel on the bench, he scored 21 points on 8-of-15 shooting, and Carlos Boozer alone on the Jazz side blew up the Warriors' interior line, He finished with 17 points on 6-of-15 shooting and grabbed 20 rebounds, including a full 10 frontcourt rebounds, in addition to contributing 3 assists and 3 steals, and Matt Halprin also played well off the bench, scoring 21 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists on 7-of-11 shooting, and Andrei Kirilenko once again put up demon stats, he finished with 13 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and a game-high 7 blocks on 3-of-8 shooting.
In the second game, the Warriors fought an overtime game with the Jazz, and finally lost 117-127, in fact, the Warriors had a chance to win the game, in the last 16 seconds of the regular season, the Warriors held a three-point advantage with 112:109, and the Jazz's Gordon Kirisek could only foul Michael Petrus, who decisively gave the Jazz a big gift and missed two free throws! Deron assisted Oku to shoot 2 points, and the Warriors still led by one point at 112:111, when there were only 9.8 seconds left in the game, Derrick Fisher's Baron Davis fouled, and then gave another big gift, one of two free throws! At the critical moment, Delon hit the basket and scored two points with a small throw! With Baron Davis' last-2.3 seconds of a three-pointer scoreless, the two teams tied at 113 and went into overtime!
In just 5 minutes of overtime, Carlos Boozer and Derrick Fisher were successful, the former hit the basket in a row to cause damage, and scored a two-point shot in 4 of 4 free throws to score 6 points in overtime, with 1 minute 06 seconds left in overtime, the Warriors trailed by 3 points at 117:120, and at this time, Derrick Fisher received a pass from Deron and decisively hit a three-point shot in the left rib position outside the three-point line! At 117:123, the Warriors trailed by 6 points, and the tide was over.
Carlos Boozer once again played a dominant performance in this game, scoring 30 points and 13 rebounds on 9-of-14 shooting, Memet Oku played the role of a center, scoring 23 points and 18 rebounds on 9-of-15 shooting, Kirilenko scored 20 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and a game-high 6 blocks on 7-of-18 shooting, Deron Williams scored 17 points and 14 assists on 6-of-13 shooting, Paul Millsap played well and scored 10 points, and 4 of the 6 rebounds he grabbed were frontcourt rebounds. It is worth mentioning that in this game, Derrick Fisher was still in the hospital because of his daughter's surgery, and Fisher was still in the hospital at the beginning of the game, and only after learning that his daughter was unharmed did he rush to the stadium, no preparation, no warm-up, and even too late to explain the tactical cooperation, he went straight out, and in the end he only played 10 minutes, scored 5 points and 3 assists on 2-of-2 shooting, and hit a three-pointer that was enough to kill the game, Derrick Fisher, a player born for the big scene!
On the Warriors' side, Baron Davis played 46 minutes and scored 36 points, 7 assists and 4 steals on 13-of-22 shooting, and his performance was perfect, Jason Richardson scored 27 points and 4 rebounds on 9-of-20 shooting, Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes played a very bad game, the former scored 18 points on 4-of-18 shooting, and the latter scored 12 points on 3-of-12 shooting, but contributed 7 rebounds, including 4 frontcourt rebounds, Al Harrington hit a critical hit again, He had 17 points and five rebounds on 7-of-15 shooting, but unfortunately he didn't give his team a win.
The Warriors lost 0:2 in the first two games of the series, and if they lose in the third game, then there is basically no hope of promotion, so the Warriors who returned to Oakland's home court were extremely excited and developed their offensive means to the extreme, which was specifically reflected in the second quarter, Jason Richardson scored 10 points on all 4 shots, and substitute Michael Petrus hit 2 three-pointers and scored 11 points on 5 of 5 free throws from the free throw line, and the Warriors played a crazy attack wave of 40:22 in this quarter, In the second half, the Warriors relied on Baron Davis' performance of 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the half to preserve the victory, and finally the Warriors ushered in a hearty victory of 125-105.
The Jazz's Carlos Boozer scored 19 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists on 8-of-10 shooting, Kirilenko scored 15 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks on 6-of-14 shooting, Oku and Delon both shot 5-of-12, the former scored 15 points and 6 rebounds, the latter had 14 points and 6 assists, and the Warriors' side Baron Davis was still the team's anchor, with 32 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 6 steals on 12-of-20 shooting, Jason and Richardson scored 25 points and 5 rebounds on 10-of-17 shooting, Andris Beedrins had 13 points and 13 rebounds on 5-of-7 shooting, while Michael Petrus had 14 points.
The fourth game is still in the Warriors' home of the Oakland Oracle Arena, the first three quarters of the game, the Warriors led by 3 points at 78:75, but after entering the fourth quarter, the situation changed abruptly, Derrick Fisher scored 14 points in a single quarter of 6 shots 4 of 6, Memet Oku 8 free throws 7 plus a layup and a three-point shot scored 12 points in a single quarter, the two led the Jazz to score **, and finally the Warriors fell behind in a single quarter with a score of 23:40 in the fourth quarter, and the Warriors lost 101:115 in the whole game.
Carlos Boozer once again dominated the interior, scoring 34 points and 12 rebounds on 13-of-19 shooting, Fisher scored 21 points and 5 assists, Deron scored 20 points, 13 assists and 6 rebounds on 6-of-18 shooting, Stephen Jackson scored 24 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block on the Warriors' side, but the shooting percentage was not high, only 5-of-15 shooting, and the turnovers were as high as 6, Al Harrington, who played well in several consecutive games, was promoted to the starter in this game, and he scored 24 points on 8-of-16 shooting, In the final minute of the game, Baron Davis scored 15 points, 7 assists and 4 steals on 6-of-16 shooting, and Monta Ellis finally played a playoff stage, scoring 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting in 22 minutes of playing time, 3 rebounds and 2 steals.
After four games, the Warriors are down 1:3 and go home or equalize the score in the next game!
On May 15, 2007, the fifth game of the second round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Warriors played against the Jazz away, the final result of the game was that the Warriors were sent home by the Jazz 87:100 to fish, the Warriors played more and more in this game, the more they had no confidence, which can be seen from the score of the two teams in a single quarter, the first quarter Warriors led the Jazz by 32:29 by 3 points, the Warriors fell behind by 1 point in the second quarter, the Warriors trailed by 6 points in the third quarter, and the Warriors trailed by 9 points in the last quarter, Carlos Boozer scored 21 points and 14 rebounds in 9 of 16 shots, Andrei Kirilenko scored 21 points, 15 rebounds and 3 steals on 8-of-12 shooting, Derrick Fisher started with Delon in this game, but the effect didn't look very good, Delon couldn't find the feeling at all, and he only scored 2 points, 7 assists and 5 turnovers on 1-of-11 shooting, but Fisher, who can always perform at critical moments, broke out in this game, scoring 20 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists on 7-of-10 shooting, Memet Oku had a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds.
On the Warriors' side, Baron Davis played the worst game of the series, scoring 21 points on 5-of-16 shooting, but he also had 8 assists and 6 steals, Stephen Jackson was even worse, scoring 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 3-of-17 shooting, Jason Richardson scored 13 points and 8 rebounds on 5-of-12 shooting, Monta Ellis was pushed to the starting position in this game, and finally he scored 12 points on 5-of-11 shooting,
Although the Warriors didn't make it to the end, this season's Warriors are enough to make people take off their hats and pay tribute, their passion, their hard work, and their never-say-die spirit deserve the respect of every fan! Black Eight is not a symbol, but a spirit!
In the 2007-2008 season, the Warriors' roster remained basically the same, except for the addition of rookies Brandon Wright and Marco Bailineri, the former is a jumper with excellent physical fitness, and the latter is an outside shooter with good three-point ability, and Baron Davis continues to perform in the league's top three point guards this season. In 82 games, he averaged 21.8 points, 7.6 assists and 2.3 steals per game, Stephen Jackson averaged 20.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, and Monta Ellis was promoted to the starter, averaging 20.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.9 assists per game and 53.1% shooting percentage. Biedrins started playing as the team's starting centre-forward, Averaging 10.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, last year's average of only 15 minutes per game in the regular season and only 3 minutes in the playoffs had a chance to perform, and Marco Belineri became the main force in the team's bench, the Warriors won 48-34 this season, but in the perverted West, they still failed to make the playoffs, one of the most eye-catching things for the Warriors this season is that Chris Webber signed with Golden State as a free agent, of course, with his current physical condition is no longer suitable for the fierce physical confrontation in the NBA, he played 9 games, including 8 startsOn March 27, 2008, Webb officially announced his retirement, and the excellent power forward who played in the NBA for 15 years chose to leave the league at the beginning of his career.
As soon as last season ended, the Warriors ushered in a huge change, the core of the team Baron Davis announced that he jumped out of the last year of his contract worth $17.8 million, and announced that he signed a five-year contract worth $65 million with the Clippers. Golden State sent Al Harrington to New York in exchange for the current "Super Six" Jamal Crawford. At the same time, he signed goalscorer Anthony Morrow with a base salary, and guard CJ Watson, who signed last season on a ten-day contract, had time to play after Davis' departure and became the team's first-choice substitute. The Clippers stole the core of the Warriors, and the Warriors did not relent, and a big five-year, $48 million contract poached Corey Margety, the offensive arrow who played for the Clippers for the previous eight years! It has the meaning of fighting against the Clippers.
Corey Margetty You can imagine it as a combination of James and Harden, he has a very strong, not inferior to James's upper body strength, so the ability to attack with his back is very strong, like Harden, Margeti is more sticky to the ball, and basically does not run without the ball, with the ball in hand is an All-Star, without the ball in hand is the five scum of the war, he takes the ball and rushes into the interior line either to score or cause the opponent to foul, and his free throws are also very accurate, very similar to Harden, but not very similar, the same is to touch porcelain, Harden is a tricky porcelain, Use the change of tempo to create the opponent's foul, and Margeti is real, using his strong body to resist the foul! The most important point is that Margeti has a strange personality, basically does not get along with his teammates very much, and he is always the first to jump out when there is a conflict in the locker room, so his leadership ability is still a lot worse than James.