Seventy-Five. Advance to the Top 8!
A wave of 22 to 26 scores was played in seven minutes.
Watson must have been unable to hold back the rhythm. A group of physical fitness men accumulated by the Knicks, a bad team for many years, ran crazy, but at least they didn't let the score go ahead. Watson had tried his best.
Although they don't like this teammate, both Sun Ce and Curry don't want to disappoint their teammates' hard work.
It can be seen that Watson is not as strong as Douglas. Both of them are the kind of immediate combat power with comprehensive skills but no proficiency, that is, the type of role player strength and core player style of play, but Douglas needs to A little bit stronger.
However, in this level of competition, this slight gap in strength has been made up.
During the few minutes of rest off the court, Sun Ce, Curry and others did not idle in vain. Through the actual combat in the first quarter and the observation of the first half of the second quarter, they had a deeper understanding of the Knicks' poor defense.
Using Watson to bring the opponent's style of play back to the habit of running and playing, the lineup of Sun Ce, Curry, Morrow, Randolph, and Hunter immediately slowed down and caught the opponent by surprise!
Passing has been upgraded to B-, and Sun Ce's passing is more confident. Confidence does not mean making a few blind passes, but more confident, able to grasp the opportunities he thinks more confidently.
In the last three minutes of the second quarter, the Warriors' abrupt rhythm caught the Knicks by surprise!
After a small climax of 11 to 4, at halftime, the Warriors led the Knicks 60 to 52 by 8 points and entered the intermission!
With a teammate like Curry who can maintain a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, it is too easy for Sun Ce to organize the offense. The defense in the summer league is already average. Due to multiple factors, Sun Ce scored 7 points and 6 assists in the halftime!
Originally, Sun Ce planned to break through and score more points before the start of the summer league, but changed his goal to connect the whole team by organizing offense. Although it is the summer league, this way of organizing offense helps the team win. Sun Ce likes the feeling of the ball very much.
And...after playing in the summer league, Sun Ce became more self-aware of his strength.
Except for breakthroughs, he is useless and relies on passing the ball to support the scene.
But relying on Sun Ce's speed and passing, relying on Curry and Morrow's three-pointers, relying on Randolph's physical fitness and pie-eating awareness, and relying on Hunter's ability to play low singles from time to time, he is more aware of the opponent's defense. After the question, the Warriors suppressed the Knicks!
Originally, the Knicks' star strength advantage did not reach the point of difference. The Warriors played better and better.
In the third quarter, Sun Ce and Randolph's pick-and-roll attracted the opponent to shrink. Curry seized the opportunity and scored 13 points in a single quarter. Randolph and Coby Carr, who came off the bench, scored 10 points together. The score of 29 to 22 in a single quarter widened the point difference to 15 points in one fell swoop!
After three quarters, the Warriors entered the intermission with an 89-74 lead.
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At this time, Booker, the head coach of the Knicks summer league, is no longer struggling. The overall performance of the Knicks is too poor, and the individual ability of the players is not enough to break the overall suppression of the opponent. After all, it was useless to increase the speed. On the contrary, it only increased the number of offensive and defensive rounds, allowing the opponent to score 89 points in 30 minutes of game time.
Booker looked at the "three-and-a-half-point Alan Houston" that the team's head coach Mike D'Antoni was very optimistic about, and was very sad!
During the trial training, D'Antoni saw Curry's talent, but because he was not confident in himself due to his college experience, although Curry did not participate in the Warriors' trial training in Oakland, several players before the Warriors' draft The team and several teams after the Knicks draft went to tryouts. When they were in Los Angeles, they were spotted by Jerry West, the Warriors team consultant and chief member of the executive committee...
Now seeing Curry scoring 7 three-pointers in three quarters,
Easily scored 25 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists to help the Warriors play a beautiful team offense, and look at the insiders who did not get Curry's selection... Booker felt very sad and melancholy.
In the final quarter, the Knicks did not send out contracted players or selected rookies. The free agents used for trial training played in the final quarter to see if they could find any immediate combat power.
Obviously, it is rare to pick up a baby in an undrafted pick, and the Knicks have no luck.
After the Warriors stopped struggling on the other side, Smart also replaced Watson with teammates who had no contracts and were not drafted rookies to play garbage time.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Knicks by 111 to 97, 14 points, won the group stage with a record of victory, and locked in the quarterfinals!
Sun Ce scored 9 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists, Curry scored 25 points, Randolph scored 21 points and 11 rebounds, Hunter scored 12 points and 5 rebounds, Watson scored 17 points in 16 minutes, and his efficiency was also very high.
When the final whistle sounded, Sun Ce, Curry and others also got up to celebrate with their teammates on the field. Of course they were happy to win, at least at this moment, as teammates of the same team, everyone forgot about the contract. Let's celebrate together.
Except for Watson, who won't be happy if he wins...
But at this time, Sun Ce didn't bother to take care of the stinky Watson. Apart from winning, he had another happy thing!
"Congratulations to the host for completing the second stage event of the D-level event Summer League Wind and Cloud: bravely entering the finals. Reward: a D-level lucky draw card.
The third stage of the Summer League event: Dominate the Summer League has started. "
"Dominate the Summer League: Goal 1: Win the championship in this summer league; Goal 2: Win the MVP of this summer league; Goal 3: Win the MVP of the finals of this summer league. Event rewards are judged based on the completion of the event."
Sun Ce is very excited now. Although it is the summer league, his goal is to win the championship!
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"Stephen, you go, kill him!"
"Why don't you keep up, you can keep up with his speed."
"Will he still look for you if I can kill you? You are the No. 7 pick! You are a genius!"
"I can kill him, will I still be the No. 7 pick? Even Evans and Harden can't kill him!"
"Hey..." Hearing this, Sun Ce was also depressed: "Stephen, why did we have such bad luck to meet them? It must be because of your bad character!"
"Yes, yes, my character is not good, so I met you as a teammate, God, are you torturing me?" Curry sighed resentfully.
The day before yesterday, the group of young players of the Warriors and the free agents who were trying to fight for contracts were very excited to reach the quarterfinals, but yesterday, the fourth and last day of the group stage, after the group stage, the Warriors had a hell of a draw. It's time to hit the rocket!