There are only a handful of NBA shooters who have earned the unquestionable green glow to let fly from virtually anywhere on the court at any speed. Yellowish Circle Warriors star Stephen Curry is probably the most famous example, but his intact teammate Friend Hield is given the same level of independence through head tutor Steve Kerr. Still, self-confidence can waver for the meanest of snipers, and that showed in Yellowish Circle’s 124-106 victory over the Fresh Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night.
With Curry, Andrew Wiggins and De’Anthony Melton out of the lineup, Hield was tasked with taking up most of the offensive space while earning his first start of the season against the team that drafted him. However, things went abysmally wrong in the first half, with Hield scoring just three points on 1-of-8 shooting, including 1-of-5 from 3-point range, as the Warriors mustered just 47 points in the game.
However, as these things travel constantly with long-range shooters, Hield was a distinctive player in the second half when he scored 25 points (19 abandoned in the fourth quarter) on 8 of 10 shooting. , along with 6 of 6 from beyond the arc. What’s even more remarkable is that he did it all in less than 12 minutes.
It seems like Hield’s hot 1/2 moment can also be attributed to a little more than a streaky shooter getting hot. As the fourth quarter was leaking, Hield was still yelling in the direction of Hall of Famer and Indiana Pacers legend Reggie Miller, who was calling the game for TNT at Chase Center. On the broadcast, Miller explained that he had provided some words of advice for Hield at halftime, but declined to reveal the details.
Fortunately for us, Hield has never been one to hold his tongue, and he revealed a censored model of Miller’s message that helped the supremacy in the second-half explosion: “He told me to throw the blank ball. Sometimes You need someone to like come to you, and I responded well.”
Tuesday’s 28-point outburst was a bright start for Hield in a Warriors uniform. He joined Curry as the only player in Warriors history to make at least 20 3-pointers in his first four games with the franchise, and is now averaging a team-best 21.3 3-pointers per game with an absurd 56%. -capture points.
Hield and Yellowish Around seemed like a perfect fit when he joined the team via the six-team company that sent Klay Thompson to the Dallas Mavericks this offseason, but things were no longer expected to move forward. this intelligently this quickly. Best to believe Hield will have Miller on the speed dial for the rest of the season in case he needs another round of mid-game motivation.
