Chasing dreams and "going crazy", warriors don't break or stand?

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Nurkic was beaten up in an ordinary card position, can you think of this scene?

When there were 8 minutes and 23 seconds left in the third quarter of the battle between the Warriors and the Suns, Nurkic caught the ball in defense of Dream Chasing, and the "Crossbow Machine" did not have unconventional defensive movements, but Dream Chaser lost control of his emotions for some reason, and directly smashed Nurkic to the ground with his fist.

After watching the video replay, the referee gave Dream a second-degree malicious foul and sent him off.

Kerr replaced Looney and Wiggins with Kuminga and Podemski in the second half, directly expressing his dissatisfaction with some people in the championship meritorious group, and Dream Chasing once again "went crazy" and slapped the meritorious players again.

The Warriors, who have been consumed in infighting for two consecutive seasons, have lost 12 of their last 17 games after losing to the Suns, and are in 11th place in the West, and if the regular season ends at this time, the Warriors will not even have a chance to play in the playoffs.

Is it really time for this former dynasty team to not break or stand?

 Dream chasing was expelled again 

To say a lukewarm knowledge, Nurkic's father is a police officer, 2.13 meters tall, and once singled out 14 gangsters and knocked them all down during a duty.

Nurkic inherited his dad's tall stature and powerful appearance, and when he first arrived in the NBA, his teammates were afraid to joke with him, and when the coach asked, he found that Nurkic looked brutal.

Nurkic is actually quite friendly, he once helped difficult families in his hometown buy a house, and he is a very gentle big man.

This time he was boxed by Dream Chaser, Nurkic did not overreact, but continued to play honestly, and Dream Chaser was purely bullying honest people.

This game is the 15th game of the season, he has been expelled 3 times, the last time he locked Gobert was banned by the league for 5 games, and only played 6 games after the ban was released.

Dream chasing is very important to the Warriors' tactical system, high card handling drives passing and cutting, and indiscriminate defense boosts the "five small deaths", but on the other side of these gorgeous scenes, from the "groin killer" of the year, to today's throat locks and punches, Dream chasing uses the basketball court as a fighting arena.

It's normal for professional basketball to have physical confrontation, but chasing dreams is either going to the lower body or hitting the head, which is very dangerous, and it is a big deal to kick and hurt it, and this kind of behavior should be severely punished.

Dream chased the game without discrimination, not only against opponents, but also against teammates, and punching Poole last season caused the atmosphere in the Warriors' locker room to drop to a freezing point, and they did not recover from the out-of-control infighting until the end of the season, until Poole was sent away.

Dream chaser's character is a double-edged sword, he has a tough side, but also a dirty side, not only beating people, but also hurting people, the sentence "We were champions before you came" broke Durant's heart.

The words and deeds of chasing dreams are not only the factors of natural character, but also the self-aggrandizement after success, and the more this season plays, the dirtier it becomes, more like the impetuous and annoyed anger after the glory has passed.

In a sense, Dream Chasing is an amplified version of the state of mind of the Warriors team, who are in an anxious environment, but Dream Chasing is more crazy.

 Pros and Cons of Meritorious Groups 

On the Warriors' plane, there was a table, and every time a Warriors player boarded the plane, Curry, Klay, and Dream sat around that table.

Before Game 6 of the 2022 Finals, the Warriors went to Boston, and Myers, the team's general manager at the time, saw that Kuchaitang was still chatting at that table, and said with emotion: "Ten years later, you still haven't changed." ”

Starting with the reunion in 2012, Kuchai brought four championships to the Warriors in ten years, created the Warriors dynasty, and became the team's decorated trio. For the 2022 championship, Looney and Wiggins also joined the small group.

A dynasty-level team needs the stability of the core lineup, such as Jordan's Bulls era, the first three-time champion Jordan, Pippen, Cartwright, Grant, and Paxson are the core five, and the second three-time champion Jordan and Pippen are Longley, Rodman and Harper.

Warriors head coach Kerr was a player in the Bulls' second three-game winning streak, and he has personally participated in and witnessed how veterans have overcome injuries and infighting to protect the throne, and he has even been beaten by Jordan without affecting the championship.

At that time, Bulls general manager Klaus wanted to change the lineup, and had already negotiated a trade plan to exchange Pippen for draft picks to pick Maddy, and Maddy went to Chicago for a physical examination, and it was Jordan who terminated the trade with the threat of retirement.

The old injury of the bulls, but they still ended with the championship, which can not but be said to be a very strong thinking impact for Cole, and the meritorious group can use it well and can continue the life of the dynasty.

However, the Warriors are not that bull.

After two major injuries, Klay's defensive ability has irreversibly deteriorated, and the failure to negotiate an early contract extension with the Warriors has brought him psychological pressure, and behind the lowest shooting percentage of his career this season is his poor shooting selection, in order to prove his worth, the number of reluctant shots has been seriously exceeded.

Against the Suns, Klay shot 2-of-10 from 3-pointers and 1-of-8 from three-point range, which would have been incredible before, but it has become a Xi operation this season, after all, there are still 10-of-10 shots, and 2-of-10 is not the worst.

If it is understandable that Klay is weakened by injury, Wiggins' plummeting form is even more incomprehensible. "Brother Zui" is the best 3D in the 2022 championship season, and now the defense is still online, but the shooting scope is lost, the three-point shooting rate is at the bottom of his career, and other offensive means are ineffective, hitting the Suns with 7 shots and 1 shot, and the last 3 games have a total of 30 shots and 8 shots, with a shooting rate of 27%.

Wiggins has been rumored to have not practiced much in the offseason, which is the root cause of his loss of form. If Wiggins has a valid reason for not being able to practice, it's understandable, but if he doesn't, it's the mentality of lying on the credit book and sleeping soundly, and he has no desires.

The Warriors' meritorious five, chasing dreams are becoming more and more irritable, Klay and Wiggins are competitively leveled, and Looney is a blue-collar style of play, and the pressure of the game is on Curry's shoulders. James has thick eyebrows around him, Jokic has Murray by his side, Booker has Durant by his side, Adu is injured and Beal is on top, and Curry's old buddies are still on the team, but their form has flown away.

In the second quarter of Curry against the Suns, he was hit by the opponent's three-point attack and kicked the bench angrily, which was a kind of emotional catharsis in desperation.

 The turning point?

In the midseason group stage against the Kings, Moody scored 11 points on 4 shots in only 7 minutes in the fourth quarter, but at the moment of deciding the outcome, Kerr replaced Moody, and the result was that the Warriors were reversed.

Former Warriors general manager Myers, who had planned to gradually inject new blood into the core roster after winning the 2022 championship, brought a clash between veterans and youngsters, and escalated to chasing dreams to punch Poole.

A source said that at that time, Dream Chasing was so impulsive because Poole said that he was an expensive burden to Curry's side, and at that time, Poole and Dream Chasing were both facing the problem of contract renewal.

The battle for status ended in a merit group victory, with Wiseman and Poole both sent off, but the Warriors were not at ease, they failed to defend their title, and now their record has slipped all the way to the play-off zone.

Only a quarter of the regular season was played, and it can't be said that the Warriors are hopeless, but the overall state of the Warriors' core five is really worrying. They used to be small, fast, and accurate as nirvana, but now they are only "small", and the Warriors have not averaged the top 10 rounds per game in the league this season, and the offensive efficiency is 15th, which is neither fast nor accurate enough.

If this continues, the Warriors' prospects this season will be dangerous, and it will be time to think about the poor. The second half against the Suns may have been a turning point for the Warriors, with Kerr starting Kuminga and Podemski and putting Looney and Wiggins on the bench, Wiggins had a plus/minus of -16 on 1-of-7 shooting in the first half, and Looney had only 3 rebounds and 2 assists for no shooting or scoring, with a plus/minus of -10.

In the fourth quarter, Kerr played Podzemski for 11 minutes, Kuminga for 8 minutes, Moody and Tress Jackson-Davis for 7 minutes, Wiggins and Looney both went to the bench, and Klay didn't give up for the last five minutes, and only Curry was a starter on the court for those five minutes.

After the game, the reused Podemski had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists, with a plus/minus of +18. Kuminga is 16 points and has a plus/minus of +13. Four of the Warriors' starting five have a negative plus/minus, and four of the six players who come off the bench have plus/minus above +12.

'I felt like I had to keep the players who played well, I've been patient, but I didn't have that much patience in this game. Cole said.

A game is a small sample, and Kerr's unconventional approach may just be a spur to the sluggish starters, but it may also be that the point in time.

After all, basketball is a fight and kill in the arena, not an endless world of human feelings.

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