Chapter 372: Victory over the Warriors
For Zhang Yi's words to provoke Curry Jr., the rest of the Lakers players were taken aback. Because isn't this pulling out a tiger's whiskers and asking for your own death!?
And now that the game has finally stabilized at a double-digit advantage, if Curry Jr. suddenly goes berserk and hits a few three-pointers in a row, then the previous comeback will not be wasted.
"What the hell are you doing, don't you have to provoke him?" The most anxious one is definitely the experienced defender Oscar. He doesn't care what he doesn't know, it's all that makes history and beats the defending champions.
Seeing the appearance of the other players on the Lakers, Curry Jr. suddenly laughed. Because in his opinion, others are normal. Even if Zhang Yi can really resist a wave of counterattacks now, isn't it something that only a madman would do to provoke the opponent's core at such a moment?
Who cares about the process in the current game, everyone looks at the result. No matter how well the Warriors played, if today's news is that the Lakers' victory over the Golden State Warriors continues their season-opening streak.
Who cares if the Warriors are at their best and competitive in the final moments. It's a regular season, not a whole series, so everyone laughs it off whether they win or lose.
No one really cares, are the Lakers really stronger than the Warriors right now? Because in any case, only the championship is the only criterion for a winner.
The current Lakers are still 108,000 miles away from this trophy. Although in this game, Curry Jr. really has no desire to win. Because Zhang Yi didn't play the performance he expected.
It's not physical, it's not that the Warriors are causing some infighting. It's that Curry Jr. has little interest in the regular season rankings right now.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have often chosen to take turns off. Age has not taken away Curry's abilities, but it has changed many of his thoughts and desires.
Since winning or not does not affect the Warriors' progress to the next stage, it does not make much difference in essence. Because with or without home advantage, no team in the league can claim to have won four games in a row.
Including the now newly rising Lakers. What's more, Curry Jr. showed a normal performance at the beginning, which is why Zhang Yi quickly committed three fouls.
But Zhang Yi didn't play a real counterattack, and it would be more accurate to say that he didn't play that quality. Since he faced off against the in-form Zhang Yi once in the preseason, Curry Jr.'s interest in the general game has greatly diminished.
So no matter how provoked he was, he would just laugh and act as if it hadn't happened. Of course, the three points are still normal. Although the margin is now in double digits and has been maintained for several minutes, it is very bad for the Warriors to continue like this.
But as Oscar said, Curry Jr. has the kind of ability to change the tide of battle in an instant. Let's not talk about his ability to play four-point play, let's just say that improving defense to carry out defensive counterattacks is enough for the Lakers to drink a pot.
After being provoked by Zhang Yi, of course, Curry Jr. also played this kind of offense, and the last unlucky person was of course Oscar, who was directly opposite him.
So after a few rounds, the difference instantly returned to single digits, but two or three goals could be reversed. Oscar's heart is like ashes, because Zhang Yi has to make stupid provocations when he can end the game normally.
Now that the results are on the table, people didn't perform well before, it doesn't mean that they don't have the strength. When Curry Jr. played a superstar performance, the entire Lakers offense was on the sidelines.
On the contrary, the Warriors played a delicate match, and all the outside shooters were revitalized.
People don't know what's going on, they think the Warriors are just playing their game again. And that's what they really have.
It was only after the climax of the Warriors' offensive wave that Zhang Yi stepped up. First, a basket and a strong two-strong attack will add free throws. Then in the next round, he made a steal against Lauf, and the last dragon fought back.
The hope that the warriors saw again was instantly extinguished by Zhang Yi. Curry in this state is still not his strongest appearance, because when Zhang Yi counterattacks quickly after a steal, if it is normal, he should have chased it back with all his strength and then defended.
But Xiao Curry didn't, and Zhang Yi couldn't figure out what was going on. The only thing he understands is that the current Warriors don't have the desire to win. As if this game didn't matter.
Originally, it was the battle of the century that everyone was optimistic about, and there was also a game in which the new and old cores of the league were handed over, but Curry Jr. did not have this idea. is even deliberately waterproof, God knows what he thinks, anyway, no matter what the final result of the game is, Zhang Yi is a little disappointed.
He was already ready to do his best, but Xiao Curry was in a state that I was just here to paddle, of course Zhang Yi was not convinced, so a sentence did not work, and then provoked.
An even more bizarre situation has appeared, it was supposed to be the final showdown, and the Warriors actually replaced Curry Jr.? The audience couldn't understand this operation either......
Because it's obvious that Curry Jr. has no injuries, there are no problems with his performance, and there are no fouls, and everything the Warriors head coach does is completely out of the box.
While the league doesn't have a rule that superstars can't miss the decisive moment when there's no unforeseen circumstances, it's been a common practice for a long time.
Just like everyone will habitually try a few rounds at the beginning of the game, who would have thought that the Warriors would have a situation where the league's first man would be pressed to the bench at a critical moment.
If Curry Jr. was directly invited back to the locker room, then there is still a reason to explain everything, after all, there are all kinds of problems in the human body, even if outsiders can't see it, but everyone will only care.
However, now Curry Jr. is sitting on the bench without any problems, not only did the team doctor not come forward to ask and help him solve the problem, but even the head coach did not communicate with him at all.
So everyone has no idea what's wrong with Little Curry. The on-site commentator who speculated that Curry Jr. might have had some kind of injury is now more sure of his thoughts, but he doesn't know why the superstar doesn't have to accept the help of the team doctor.
"What's wrong with Curry Jr.? Or what are the Warriors playing? This topic instantly became a hot topic on social media.
On the one hand, because Curry Jr.'s popularity is too high, even the head coach has to weigh his own weight if he wants to press him on the bench.
With the game over completely, the Lakers miraculously turned the game around and defeated the defending champion Golden State Warriors to continue their winning streak in the opening season.
It's just that for Zhang Yi, he is not happy at all to win this ball.