The Warriors, who are speeding up under the Death Five, have very strong offensive firepower.

But in today's league, any team that plays against the Nets is killing itself.

Seeing the Warriors change their lineup, the Nets also decisively chose to change the lineup, replacing Jokic, who lacked mobility, and Durant directly at the center position.

Originally, it was reluctant to let Durant, who weighed only 109 kilograms, play center, but the problem was that the Warriors' inside center in the death of five small states was 2.01 meters, and Green, who weighed 104 kilograms.

Even this guy can make a cameo as a center, why can't Durant?

The player who replaced the original Durant's power forward position was Harrell on the bench.

Although the standard brutalist forward Harrell is only 2.03 meters tall, his arm span reaches an astonishing 2.24 meters, which is almost close to the 2.28 meter Durant, and longer than Leonard.

It's this reach, along with his dynamic talent, that underpins Harrell's ability to play in the league.

In the original 16-17 season, Harrell, who played as a substitute for the Rockets, only played an average of 18 minutes per game, but he could get 9.1 points and 4 rebounds, shooting 65.2% from the field, and the efficiency was quite good.

However, the Rockets did not choose to keep the brutalist power forward, opting instead to trade him to the Los Angeles Clippers.

As a bench player, Harrell can contribute 16.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 18.6 points and 7.1 rebounds in two seasons respectively.

Of course, Harrell also has weaknesses, first of all, the height of 2.03 meters is still a bit unsightly as an interior player, like Green, who is only 2.01 meters but can mix on the inside, is a very small number of players in the league, Harrell does not have the defensive ability of Green, and at the same time, the offensive end is too dependent on the empty dunk after cutting without the ball, lacks the ability to shoot outside, and the pace of the interior is also very bad, and he does not have the ability to attack independently at all, which makes Harrell's strength can only be played in the chaos and is very easy to target.

What's more, with the increase in the time of playing in the NBA, the accumulation of injuries and age will make his athletic ability to survive continue to decline, once he has no athletic ability, it will decline rapidly, and by the 22-23 season, the 28-year-old Harrell is close to the point of no ball to play, and can only serve as a bench player in the 76ers, playing little time, and averaging only 5.6 points and 2.8 rebounds per game.

Regardless of Harrell's development prospects and shortcomings, one thing is undeniable, Harrell at this stage, with his young and strong and impactful style of play, is very suitable for the image of charging in the small ball lineup.

With Harrell on the court, the Nets and Warriors, who also changed to a small-ball lineup, staged an offensive battle in the second quarter of the game.

The result was self-evident, and the Warriors were defeated again.

In the second quarter of the game, the main offensive point revolved around Curry and Thompson, the two splash brothers, and on the Nets' side, it was Wang Chao who began to exert his strength, allowing Durant, who made a large number of shots in the first quarter, to breathe a sigh of relief.

With one enemy and two enemies, it is naturally not a problem for Wang Chao at all, and he is not alone, there is still Devin by his side. Booker, Bogdanovic and Harrell, who has just made his debut.

In fact, Wang Chao didn't shoot many times in the second quarter, scoring 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting, but he delivered 5 assists in a single quarter, including 3 for Harrell alone, and each time he scored by blocking and covering the basket and catching the ball and eating cake.

The result of the offensive confrontation was that the Nets beat the Warriors by 6 points at 35:29 in the second quarter, and at halftime, the score of the two teams was 71:57, and the Nets led the Warriors by 14 points.

"If the Warriors want to win this game, they must not play against the Nets, and no team in the current league can win against the Nets, their offensive firepower is too strong! Both the starting lineup and the bench have players who can score efficiently, and even the Warriors, who are known for their super offensive ability, are no opponent. ”

"In the second half of the game, the Warriors had to replay the power of Cousins, an All-Star level player on the inside, Cousins didn't play very well in the first quarter, and failed to help the team take the lead, if it was still like this in the second half, then the Warriors lost this game at all."

After all, the Nets' current lineup, Wang Chao + Durant alone is enough to play more than 95% of the league's teams, plus other players play normally, it is not surprising to beat the Warriors at their own home court.

In the third quarter of the game, the Warriors, who were unwilling to fail like this, began to launch a ferocious counterattack, Cousins frequently attacked on the inside, and finally suppressed Jokic to improve his offensive efficiency, while Curry also made a threat outside the three-point line, hitting 3 three-pointers in a single quarter.

Relying on the combined power of Curry Cousins, the Warriors once chased the difference to single digits, but that's all.

Wang Chao, who had been in a half-stroke state in the first half of the game and only scored 15 points, chose to start to exert his strength at this time, first with the help of teammates to block and cover the outside line and hit two three-pointers, and then successfully steal the Warriors' pass and score quickly, and finally broke through the basket with the ball to cause Cousins to foul the defense and score 2+1 and make free throws.

A wave of 11 points in a row opened the gap between the two teams again, and this time it will be difficult for the Warriors to catch up with the score.

121:109, this is the final score of the two teams at the end of the game, the Nets beat the Warriors by 12 points at home, the difference is not particularly large, but the Nets have always been in the lead from the beginning of the whole game, and the difference has basically not narrowed to less than 5 points, the game is basically a one-sided situation, and the Warriors have no chance to fight back at all.

The highest scorer in the whole game was Durant, who scored 37 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, and scored 19 points in the first quarter alone, helping the team quickly establish a score advantage at the beginning.

Wang Chao was as always, contributing 31 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists to a triple-double.

In addition, the Nets had a total of 6 players score double-doubles throughout the game, in addition to the 68 points scored by Wang Chao and Durant, Jokic, Booker, Bogdanovic and Harrell who came off the bench all scored double-doubles.

On the other hand, on the Warriors' side, the team's highest score was Curry's 27 points, followed by Cousins' 25 points and 10 rebounds, but unlike Curry, who shot 9-of-18 from the field with a 50% shooting rate, Cousins' 25 points were 23 shots, and he barely scored 25 points on free throws.

Clay. Thompson's performance was mediocre, with 21 points that could only be considered mediocre, and the Warriors were the only three players who scored double-doubles, and the remaining players, including Iguodala and Green, failed to score more than 10 points.

In this case, it is natural to lose, and Cousins is the biggest war criminal of the Warriors' loss, and there is no way to have the absolute upper hand in the confrontation with Jokic, which makes the only advantage of the Warriors against the Nets disappear.

After the game, there was a lot of media criticism of Cousins.

"As the Warriors' current highest-paid team, although Cousins' performance in the regular season so far is excellent, his performance is still not stable enough, as a center, only 45% shooting, even better than Curry, especially against key opponents, will always drag the team back because of poor performance."

In the previous game with the Cavaliers, Cousins did not take much advantage of Embiid, which led to the loss of the Warriors. Jokic's second-round pick is really a bit unreasonable. ”

There is no way, any time you lose, you have to have a back-to-back existence.

Curry, as the leader of the team, did not have much problem playing in the game, Thompson and Green also did their jobs in the game, who can still carry this black pot if Cousins does not take the blame for the loss?

This is the same as the Heat Big Three era is always the one who bears the blame, and Kevin Love's nickname in the Cavaliers 2.0 era is a reason, no one can blame this kind of thing, who makes you the worst player in the team, who does you not take the blame? ——

After beating the Warriors at home, the Nets didn't have time to rest when they boarded a plane to Cleveland to prepare for the next big opponent, the Cleveland Cavaliers.

It's not easy to deal with two strong opponents in a row, and it can be clearly seen that when he was playing against the Cavaliers on the road, Durant showed fatigue in the game, and it was obvious that the previous game with the Warriors was quite expensive.

Although Durant only scored 37 points in the last game, which is just an ordinary performance compared to his scoring ability, after all, Durant played against Green during the whole process, and it still took Durant a lot of energy to break through the opponent's defense, and more importantly, the Nets' previous schedule was also relatively intensive, which led to Durant's fatigue.

With Durant feeling poor, the Nets were behind at the beginning of the game for a while, and the Cavaliers took the lead.

However, the out-of-control situation was quickly stabilized by Wang Chao, who shot in time, through a few three-point shots.

When the game entered the halftime break, the scores of the two teams were close to the same score, and the game was difficult to solve.

Wang Chao has realized that in terms of real combat effectiveness, the Cavaliers are stronger than the Warriors, although the Warriors' regular season record is better, but they are not like James who can carry the whole team on their shoulders to attack, Curry is limited by his height, and his offensive ability is lacking after all, which is why he has only one FMVP in four championships, and it should be Kevin who originally supported this for the Warriors. Durant, but now Adu has chosen to join the Nets.

The Cavaliers revolve around James as the main core tactical point, with Irving and Embiid on the left and right, and Paul on the role players. Gasol, Tristan. Thompson and others, this lineup is really much stronger than the original version of the Cavaliers version of General Guofu.

Although Lefu had an average of 26+12+4 luxury data performance per game when he was in the Timberwolves, the data brushed out in a bad team like the Timberwolves has no reference value, and the registered height is 2.10 meters, but the actual height is similar to James's Lefou, the main tactical play is more biased towards outside small forwards, and the shooting rate is only about 45%, no matter how you look at it, there is no Embiid suitable for the Cavaliers.

also likes to float in the middle and long-range shooting on the offensive end, and Embiid, who is 2.13 meters tall, is much more troublesome to defend than Lefou, and the Cavaliers also have a Gasol on the inside that can be linked with Embiid to form a twin tower, which is naturally more difficult to deal with.

Even compared to the current Embiid and the Warriors' Cousins, the former is not much inferior.

And Cousins' play will cause the Warriors to lose, but if the Cavaliers Embiid performs badly, the Cavaliers will not necessarily lose the game, because they still have James and Irving.

In this way, the question comes back to the original point, Curry + Thompson and James + Irving, under the high-intensity and high-pressure defense of the playoffs, which team do you think has more stability?

Wang Chao even thinks that although he has won two consecutive regular season MVPs, it should be difficult for Curry and the Warriors to get an NBA championship, and they are definitely not opponents of the Nets this season, and no matter which team Wang Chao joins after that, as long as the Cavaliers' lineup is basically not scattered, and it is still James and Owen Embiid's three-top combination, then it will be difficult for the Warriors to win each other.

The topic is a little further away, and let's get down to business.

After the two teams were tied in the first half, the situation changed dramatically in the second half.

Originally, the Cavaliers planned to continue to play steadily and steadily when the scores of the two teams were tied, relying on the inside advantage to accumulate advantages little by little to win the game.

Unexpectedly, in the third quarter of the game, a player on the outside of the Nets broke out. Booker.

As the saying goes, the east is not bright, and the west is bright.

When Durant didn't feel good, Wang Chao chose to give more opportunities to Booker and Bogdanovic and others.

Then Booker actually seized the opportunity, hit 2 three-pointers from outside the three-point line, and then hit 3 mid-range shots, scoring 12 points in a row, just like the future super scorer Booker.

The Cavaliers didn't calculate that they actually made a trip to bite the gold halfway, Durant did not play at the level he should have, but popped out a Booker, who was in a hurry and difficult to deal with for a while, and was led by the Nets in the third quarter of the game in the blink of an eye.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, throughout the fourth quarter, Wang Chao took over the game, no matter whether James or Irving on the Cavaliers' side tried to launch a counterattack, he would stand up and crush the opponent's purpose with scoring.

As a result, the Nets defeated the Cavaliers 113-108 to win the first meeting between the two teams in the regular season on the opponent's home court.

Slaughter the Warriors first, then kill the Cavaliers, the Nets won all the two key battles, and what is even more desperate is that not only Wang Chao and Durant played well in the game, but even many role players of the Nets also had highlight performances, such as Booker.

Even the role players can play so well, so how can other teams still play?

(End of chapter)