super small forward

Chapter 283 283. Little Beast Randall
On October 2014, 10, the Lakers ushered in their second preseason opponent in Las Vegas.

In a place like Las Vegas where local tyrants gather, the ticket price is naturally quite expensive, almost catching up with the ticket price of the playoffs, but it was still [-] a few hours after the schedule was announced on the day the training camp started. Tickets are sold out.

Playing the Warriors, D'Antoni took the game seriously.

For a team that needs to adapt to the system, the opponent has no routines to attack. It is actually more difficult to adapt than to play against a strong team, because there is no way to know how the opponent will play.

Brian Shaw can only copy George Karl's style of play to make the Nuggets play run and gun, but he himself is not the material to coach run and gun. Although running and gun seems so simple, he can use running and gun So far, only George Karl, Kim Terry and D'Antoni have achieved good records.

In the last game against the Nuggets, D'Antoni had expected early on that this opponent would not be able to use it to run in. If you want to beat them, you don't need any routines, just a burst of attack. The Lakers' offense ranked first in the league last season, and no one is afraid. !
But it's just a preseason game. D'Antoni would rather let a few young players play more, especially the two rookies to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA. If they lose, they lose.

This game is different. The Warriors are a strong contender for the playoffs, and it can even be described as having locked in the playoffs before the season.

Although Mark Jackson has left, the Warriors' lineup is there. With such a pair of backcourt combinations, it is too difficult not to make it to the playoffs!
D'Antoni really doesn't know the level of the Warriors' new head coach Steve Kerr, but the Warriors have such a phenomenal player as Curry, and they are not a bad opponent anyway.

After Curry's phenomenal performance last season, his status in the eyes of fans and coaches has soared. Both Sports Illustrated and ESPN ranked him in the top ten, marking that he has entered the ranks of the league's top superstars.

The five to eight Warriors in the playoffs just became D'Antoni's ideal practical opponents.

Lakers starters: Jeremy Lin, Kobe Bryant, Liu Ren, Gasol, Green.

Nash continued the truce.

Warriors starting: Curry, Thompson, Iguodala, David Lee, Bogut.

jump ball!

Bogut won the jump ball and the Warriors went first.

As soon as the game started, the Lakers startled the Warriors!
Gasol guards the inside, Green and Liu Ren are ubiquitous defenses within the three-point line, Jeremy Lin and Kobe guard the three-point line, and the two guards guard the pitcher in both inside and outside of the Warriors. Although the two often stood there without moving, the Warriors felt very uncomfortable.

Last season, the Lakers were just a defensive team that barely reached the average level. The defense was all about momentum and there was no routine team. Now it is still the same group of people, but suddenly there is a fairly routine defense, which makes the unprepared Lakers actually become a system. The defensive Warriors were at a loss.

Now the defensive enthusiasm of the Lakers seems to have declined. It is much worse than last season when everyone ran around to defend, but in fact it is making the defense better while saving energy!
Last season, he was active and active, but when he encountered a team like the Spurs, being too active became a weakness that was exploited by the opponent.

The Warriors' regular offense at the beginning was stopped by the Lakers. Instead, the Lakers played a wave of defensive counterattacks and started 8-0.

Conventional offensive tactics are contained!

Kerr called a timeout and replaced David Lee with Randle.

Kerr is very dissatisfied with David Lee. Not to mention the poor defense all the time, the offensive end is also so bad now.

From the beginning of the training camp, David Lee has not had a good day. The guy who averaged 18.8 points and 9.3 rebounds per game last season seems to have changed. In the first game against the Jazz, he was defended by the Jazz's Derek Favors and only scored 2 points and 4 rebounds.

The game lasted more than two minutes. David Lee didn't even take the initiative to ask for the ball.

Cole, who has experienced the player era, knows that David Lee is over 30 years old, and his state has declined in an avalanche!
This is the normal state of most ordinary All-Stars. There are only a few top superstars in the league who can maintain their state all the time. They can stand No.30 in their respective positions for a long time after the age of 1. O’Neal has been the only one since the new century. , Kobe, Duncan, and James.

Stronger than Iverson, McGrady, and Wade all declined rapidly after the age of 30. Wade last season is the best example.

It is normal for David Lee to decline from an ordinary All-Star to an ordinary 31-year-old veteran. Kerr understands it, but David-that annual average of 1500 million and two years of big contract, for the Warriors who are aiming to win the championship It's too big!
Randall, who replaced David Lee, didn't know what it was like when Cole saw him. Then Cole turned his head and glanced at Green who was explaining the position to his teammates on the bench next door. In Cole's eyes Full of resentment.

"Stephen, Julius, Andre, the three of you are responsible for organizing the offense. The core of the organization is Julius. You give him more balls so that Julius can adapt to the rhythm of the NBA..."

Back from timeout, Warriors attack.

In the past two days, Curry and Liu Ren have faced each other several times. The record is 5 wins and 5 losses. The two still maintain a record of heads-up with mixed results.

Therefore, Curry did not have that much desire to play against Liu Ren for the time being. The coach wanted to train Randall, and Curry simply handed the ball to Randall after halftime.

If you want to ask what Randall's biggest impression on Curry is, Randall's offense with the ball, that fierce gouging...

Just gouging!

After Randall received the ball, he was like a stunned young man, dribbling the ball and digging inside!
"boom"

Randall's beast-style two-handed hanging frame dunk!

Green and Gasol never thought that the rookie replaced by the other party would be such a role!
When Randall dribbled the ball to the inside, Green and Gasol were already squatting inside. Their eyes were already on whether the opponent's running player would make an air cut. What they thought was that they were both standing in the arc of the reasonable collision zone. Now that it's online, the other party won't come and fight alone, right?

Then Randall hit blindly, throwing himself in the air before thinking about his next move.

Randall's ferocious dunk, looking at the rookie's explosive muscles, Gasol and Green looked at each other and said in unison: "Blake Griffin!"

(End of this chapter)