Chapter 868 Brave Irregularity (Second Update!)

At the same time, other teams also completed layoffs.

Of China's three players, Guo Ailun was waived halfway through the preseason, Ding Yanyuhang was also waived by the Mavericks at the last moment, and Zhou Qi successfully stayed on the team.

Just like what he said to Tang Tian, ​​after Ding Yanyuhang was laid off, he signed a one-year contract with the Dallas Legends, the NBDL team affiliated with the Mavericks, to continue chasing his dream.

On October 26, after a long rough period, the NBA 2016~2017 regular season finally kicked off.

There are a total of 10 games on this day. There is a focus game in the east and west. The Cavaliers face the Raptors and the Warriors face the Spurs.

Among them, the game between the Warriors and the Spurs attracted much attention.

The Warriors signed Durant in the summer and are the favorites to win the championship this season. The Spurs traded Bogut to fill Duncan's vacancy and still maintain their championship strength.

This is a head-to-head confrontation between two powerful players.

The Pelicans' game will be a day later because the two teams are major competitors. He also took Davis with him to watch the live broadcast of the game in the training hall.

League commissioner Adam Silver also appeared at the game.

With Duncan retiring, Ginobili aging, Parker's team's status declining, the Spurs' GDP era has basically come to an end.

The Spurs now have a two-German core with Kawhi Leonard and Marcus Aldridge.

The game fell into a stalemate after it started.

Leonard, in the sixth season of his career, has already shown great potential.

No matter whether the Warriors use Iguodala or Green to match up, they can't restrict him well.

He and Durant went into attack mode after the game started, and neither could guard the other.

After the first quarter, the two teams were tied at 30.

The turning point of the game occurred in the second quarter. Aldridge led the Spurs bench to play a wave of flow in this quarter.

Thompson, who led the Warriors, had a bad touch, and the point difference quickly widened to double digits.

When the main players from both sides returned, the Warriors' running-in problems began to arise.

The Splash Brothers plus Durant, the three super shooters together can be called the tsunami brothers, but the priority of the three's shots is a problem.

Curry relies on feeling and shoots very casually.

Thompson is just the opposite, the kind of player who strictly runs tactics.

The two complemented each other before and worked well together.

But Durant's positional warfare ability is stronger than both of them.

In the first quarter, Durant felt good because he was mainly attacking. In the second quarter, he may have felt that he took too many shots, so he began to be humble.

As a result, Curry and Thompson knew that Durant had good touch and were passing him the ball.

The three men's attack was unclear and hesitant, but the fight was not smooth.

At the end of the half, the Spurs pursued the victory and had opened the point difference to 18 points.

Durant added 73 wins to the Warriors. Before the season, fans were optimistic that he would break the regular season record, but he got a sap in the opening game.

Fans on the hotline collectively climaxed.

The Warriors formed a four-star lineup. Although there was no behind-the-scenes operation, it made fans of other teams very unhappy.

After all, signing Durant after already winning 73 games is like the feeling of a billionaire winning the world's biggest lottery again. It's quite hateful.

It's really satisfying to be beaten like this by the Spurs now.

However, Tang Tian and Davis are relatively calm. They have played with the Warriors for two years and know that this team is not easily defeated.

The third quarter, in particular, has always been the Warriors' strength.

Sure enough, when he came back in the third quarter, Aldridge's touch dropped, and he failed to score consecutive back shots, and was counterattacked by the Warriors.

The Warriors started the third quarter, which they are good at, and quickly brought the score to single digits.

However, the Spurs are not soft persimmons. Leonard began to show great potential at critical moments.

He first successfully defended Durant alone, then attacked Thompson and succeeded, and then stole Green's pass and dunked, directly igniting the ATT Arena.

Leonard's strong rise has allowed San Antonio fans to gradually come out of the shadow of losing Tang Tian.

Spurs owner Holt was smiling from ear to ear in the VIP box.

Everyone's eyes are on the Warriors and Pelicans, but no one has noticed that the Spurs after Leonard's rise are better than these two teams!

Leonard's consecutive scoring helped the Spurs stabilize their position, and the Warriors' third quarter flow came to an abrupt end.

At the end of the three quarters, they were still 15 points behind the Spurs!

Seeing that the game was about to be one-sided, Curry stepped forward at the critical moment.

He hit consecutive big three-pointers at the beginning of the fourth quarter and went on an 8-0 offensive, closing the gap to 7 points.

Popovich can suppress Cole in tactics, but Curry's unreasonable scoring makes him unable to cope.

The 7-point difference remained for half a quarter, and the two sides entered a stalemate.

At the decisive moment, Curry and Durant continued to work hard to close the point difference to 2 points.

Leonard was still on the Spurs' side, hitting 2+1 against a double team, scoring his 35th point of the game and widening the point difference to 5 points.

At this time, a controversial penalty appeared on the court.

Curry made a mistake in his return pass. When Green reluctantly caught the ball, one foot fell in the backcourt, but the referee did not blow the whistle!

Just when the Spurs players were yelling at the referee and making gestures to return to the court, Durant took the opportunity to hit a key three-pointer.

Popovich was furious, but the referee did not change the penalty, and it would not be changed after the goal.

Not to mention, after the two teams tied, Green moved the pick-and-roll screen without calling it, and Curry directly hit a three-pointer to kill the game.

In the end, the Warriors achieved an 18-point halftime reversal and narrowly defeated the Spurs 123-118, getting a good start to the season.

In the post-game interview, Popovich directly cursed the referee in front of reporters.

"They can't see as clearly as a 70-year-old man like me. They are either drunk or have eyes in their buttholes!"

The old man was almost angry to death.

Tang Tian and Davis looked at each other after watching the game, and then both smiled bitterly.

The league obviously wants to continue to support the Warriors.

But this is to be expected.

Xiao Hua was not interested in Tang Tian and the Pelicans to begin with, but now that Durant has joined the Warriors, he has even more reasons to praise them.

But after laughing, Tang Tian and Davis began to practice more.

Davis knows that defending the title in the new season will be more difficult, and Tang Tian has already made up his mind to find an opportunity to attack Xiao Hua.

Tang Tian and Davis are training, and fans on social media are already going crazy.

"Following last season's brave not to go out of bounds, this game is brave not to return to the field and brave not to foul..."

"You successfully summarized the rules of bravery! Warriors championship!"

"This kind of penalty is really stupid. A clearly exciting game turned disgusting in the end!"

"And it is indeed very easy to work. When a strong team plays against a strong team, the outcome may only be determined by those few rounds."

"This reminds me of last season's finals again. If it weren't for Tang Chaoshen, the finals might have been influenced by the referee again!"

"I hope tomorrow's game between the Pelicans and the Cavaliers will not have this kind of factor again. The league, what we need is a wonderful game!"

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