basketball kingdom

Chapter 146 Arriving in Oakland

The shooting team can't win the championship!This is the consensus of the old fans. In everyone's point of view, defense can win the championship.

The 11-year Mavericks broke this stereotype.They counterattacked all the way when they were not optimistic all the time. In the finals, they defeated the Big Three of the Heat and successfully won the championship of the season.

The fans don't care, thinking that this is just a situation that cannot be met.Then the NBA entered the dominance period of the Spurs and the Heat, which made the fans very fortunate. Fortunately, their understanding of basketball was not a problem, and they happily returned to their previous understanding of basketball.

However, the Warriors won the championship last season, and this problem was presented to the fans, and the leader of this team is Curry.

Stephen Curry was the No. 2009 pick in the first round in 7. He is 191 centimeters tall and weighs 84 kilograms. Not to mention his excellent bounce and fragile ankles make people not expect much from him.It wasn't until last season that he turned out with an extraordinary skill and won the championship that most teams based on point guards could not win.

If you ask fans before the start of last season, who is the best point guard in the league.Some people will say Chris Paul, some people will say Russell Westbrook, and maybe some people will say Tony Parker who just won the championship.No one will mention him except Curry fans.

After the Warriors won the championship last season, Curry's reputation has undergone earth-shaking changes. The competition for the first point guard is no longer fierce, and he became synonymous with Curry overnight.Correspondingly, Chris Paul's former No. [-] point guard title became a black spot, which was repeatedly used by the sunspots.

This situation is not unreasonable.There is a saying in China that it is not the strong who wins, but the winner who is strong.When you lead the team to win the championship, you naturally become the strongest.

The Lakers' passenger plane arrived in Oakland, California on the afternoon of the 23rd, preparing for the game against the Golden State Warriors in advance.

Founded in 1946, the Warriors were one of the first 11 teams to join the NBA. The team has a long history.It was originally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named the Philadelphia Warriors, and moved to California in 1962. Later, because California was called the Golden State, the San Francisco Warriors were renamed the Golden State Warriors.

The Golden State Warriors were the championship champions in the year the NBA was founded. As of last season, they have won 4 championships, which is a bit shabby compared to its long team history.But after all, most of the championships were won by Hu Kai, and this status quo is understandable.

Wilt Chamberlain can be said to be the star of the history of the Warriors and the star of the history of the Lakers. He won a championship in both teams.But this star is too dazzling, so I will explain it when the Lakers introduce it.

Except for the famous Wilt Chamberlain, the Warriors don't have many stars with cards. It wasn't until the 90s that the bug Tim Hardaway appeared.

Tim Hardaway is a well-known master of ball control. Changing the crotch dribble to this technique has been carried forward in the NBA. He is known as the godfather of the crotch dribble.

Tim Hardaway was selected by the Warriors with the No.1989 pick in the first round in 14. After playing a substitute in the regular season, he immediately secured his starting position and became the captain of the team.Xu Tian is similar to him in that he has only played as a substitute so far.

Hardaway is not considered a superstar, and in the period when the Pistons and Bulls ruled, he has never been able to go further. In the 1995-96 season, he was traded to the Heat by the team because he could not integrate into the new head coach Adelman's Princeton system, which ended his Warriors career hastily.

In the following years, the Warriors were always regarded as underdogs and failed to take advantage of Yao Ming's opening up of the Chinese market, so there were not many fans in China at first.

The bearded Baron Davis is regarded as the biggest star of the Warriors in the first decade of the 21st century. His career masterpiece is under the head coach Don Nelson, who is known as the mad scientist. He led the team in the 2007 playoffs and will be the season The Mavericks led by regular season MVP Nowitzki were eliminated and achieved a brilliant feat of black eight.

Nowitzki was reversed by the Heat in the 06 finals, and the No. 07 in the Western Conference in the 11 playoffs was eliminated by the black eight, which really made the star embarrassing.But after winning the championship in the [-]th season, these things are not a problem.

Monta Ellis was the boss of the Warriors before Curry came. He is not a big star, but he is very interesting and worth keeping.He once said in an interview that he was the second-best player in the NBA and that the only person he put above him was Kobe, but other than that big claim, he failed to leave any footprints.

In the 12-13 season, in order to strengthen Curry, the Warriors sent the then team boss Monta Ellis to the Bucks in exchange for Bogut, Australia's No. 05 pick in the [-] draft, which completely ended the Warriors' career.

After Curry became the boss of the team, he changed the training program and changed the way of exerting force to hip force, miraculously avoiding the ankle sprain, an injury that has plagued him for many years, and instantly entered the ranks of top stars.

Mark Jackson led the Warriors to make great progress, leading the team to the playoffs twice in the three seasons of 11-14.However, in the 13-14 season, the Warriors failed in the first round of tie-breakers and were eliminated by the Clippers. Mark Jackson also failed to complete the task of "reaching the Western Conference Finals" assigned by the team owner, and stepped down as head coach after three seasons of coaching.

In the 14-15 season, Steve Kerr intends to come out as a coach. Phil Jackson wanted him to go to New York to lead the triangle offense and recruited him.However, he had his own basketball philosophy and eventually joined the Warriors as the coach.

Cole was an excellent role player during his player period, and people don't know his coaching strength.In this case, he boldly removed David Lee's starting lineup and took the risk of letting Draymond Green be the starting power forward. This change immediately brought qualitative changes to the team.

The Warriors, who were eliminated in the first round of the previous season, had a record of 67 wins and 15 losses in the regular season.It was the Warriors' first championship since the 1974-75 season, and the first for any player on the team at the time.

This season, Curry has evolved again, hitting 48.2 three-pointers per game with a 5.2% three-point shooting rate, leading the team to a record of 10 wins and 1 loss, and taking the best of the Western Conference in the first three weeks.

Xu Tian has already realized the performance gap with Curry, but he still hasn't given up on the goal of competing for the MVP of the regular season. As soon as he arranges his luggage, he can't wait to take a taxi to the Oracle Arena to step up the routine training.

After Kobe came to the hotel, he had officially received permission from the team doctor to come back. This news made him very excited, and he couldn't help but want to go to the arena with Xu Tian for training.But he knocked on Xu Tian's hotel room door for a long time, but didn't get any response.

(End of this chapter)