super small forward

Chapter 599. Chapter 599.

After Kobe also ravaged Curry for two goals in a row, the Warriors had to shift their defensive attention to Kobe and Antetokounmpo, and Barnes and Curry switched defenses.

When Liu Ren took the ball, it didn't matter whether Curry retreated or not. Just when he was thinking about whether to stick to the defense or defend against a breakthrough, Liu Ren directly crushed Curry...

The Lakers are targeting Curry, the weakest part of the Warriors' defense today, so Liu Ren took the ball and singled Curry.

When Liu Ren hit a three-pointer, forced a dunk inside, and crushed a breakthrough, Curry went berserk, hitting three-pointers and long-range shots in a row!
D'Antoni's original purpose was to irritate Curry, make Curry lose his mind and go it alone, and then use Liu Ren to stick to the defense, allowing Curry to play a bad game when his emotions collapsed.

But I didn't expect Curry to be terribly accurate today!In the first quarter, he made 5 of 4 three-pointers and made all kinds of strong shots against Liu Ren's defense, forcing the Lakers to double-team, but Curry was still inaccurate under the double-team. When the Lakers' defensive attention was all on Curry At the time, Randall directly took the ball, used his physical advantage to break through the inside brutally, attracted the defense and created opportunities for his teammates, and Curry attracted most of the outside defense. Barnes and Thompson had a lot of three-pointers. Divide the opportunity.

Although the three major outsiders of the Lakers repeatedly scored on Curry, the Warriors scored 32 points after the Lakers scored 41 points after the first quarter!
The Warriors scored 11 three-pointers in the first quarter!
You must know that before last season, most teams might not be able to score 11 three-pointers after a game!
Wharton perfectly demonstrated his courage in this focus battle that attracted worldwide attention. If he said he wanted to fight for offense, he would fight for it.

In the second quarter, the Warriors began to defend to the death. Livingston, Thompson, Iguodala, McAdoo, and Bogut played five people.

It's a bit different from Steve Kerr's coaching. When it comes to Wharton, Iguodala's coping ability is not very attractive to him. Wharton is more willing to use Iguodala's defensive and counterattack ability.

Perhaps it was because I felt that I played very well in the first quarter, but the result was still nine points behind, which made the Lakers a little flustered, and D'Antoni and Bickerstaff didn't know why they didn't make special instructions, but used normal The team sent a lineup of Clarkson, Nick Young, Korver, Gasol, and Blake, but was targeted by the defensive strategy prepared by the Warriors. In the second quarter, the Lakers not only did not reduce the score, but half At the end of the game, the Warriors pulled the score to 64 to 53, 11 points behind!

The 11-point difference has become a seemingly close, but very far distance.

The scene looked like the two sides were actually on par from the very beginning, with back and forth, but from the point of view of the score, the Warriors have been leading since they scored the first goal.

In the end, the Lakers played a very good offense, but failed to defend against the Warriors. Instead, they were prevented by the Warriors' long-prepared strategy during the rotation!

112 points, the Lakers scored in this game is actually not bad, but the Warriors scored 127 points, and finally defeated the Lakers by 15 points...

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It's strange that Walton felt very strange from the beginning to the end of this game. It's not that the Lakers played abnormally, but that the Lakers played too normal today. This is what Walton thinks is the strangest.

Today, the Warriors played extremely aggressively, attacking to the death, and defending to the death. Compared with the previous dozen or so games, they seemed extremely unsettled.

But the Lakers played too calmly. The players saw that they were still ten points behind in the last quarter. They wanted to work hard, but D'Antoni replaced them with calm players. This made Walton feel too strange up.

After the Spurs were eliminated in the playoffs last year, the working relationship between Walton and the Spurs ended. He returned to Los Angeles to watch the Lakers playoffs. Barnes, the third scorer, achieved unexpected results. Barnes directly dragged down the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals last year.

Originally today Walton thought that the Lakers would continue to use some strange tricks, such as letting go of Barnes again, trying to make Barnes play abnormally again under pressure.

Walton has established a very good relationship with Barnes, no matter what he hints to Barnes that he can do it, he is the future of the Warriors, and instills confidence in Barnes.

Although Barnes does not have the talent of a superstar, he still has the talent of a first-class scorer. He has improved a lot in the fourth year of his career, and his mentality has improved a lot after being recognized by the coach. He will completely fall into Wharton's trap.

But Wharton didn't realize that this trap was useless at all, and the game was won.

The Lakers have used the most normal style of play from beginning to end, that is, the style of play when facing ordinary teams. They have never thought about changing their tactics. Of course, the Warriors have studied the regular style of play of the Lakers for a long time. , It was easy to find a way to target, and easily won the first game with the Lakers this season.

Walton is very upset. He didn't feel thrilled to win at all. He has already made a lot of preparations to deal with many possible changes of the Lakers. He wants to further prove his coaching ability, but the result is so easy. It's easy to win. It feels like when you go downstairs, you thought there was still a step, but you went directly to the next level. Although the goal was achieved, it just felt uncomfortable.

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On the Warriors side, the players were happy to win, Curry scored 45 points, the Warriors won a big victory, and the coach felt uncomfortable.

On the Lakers side, the players lost their temper and the fans felt that the loss was inexplicable, but the coach was there.

The Lakers players may have won too much last year, and this year they feel very uncomfortable with losing.

Especially Liu Ren, he felt that D'Antoni obviously found a way to deal with the Warriors in the playoffs last year, why didn't he try this game?And in the middle of the fourth quarter, when he couldn't help but take the ball and go it alone, D'Antoni replaced him on the grounds that he was not calm. Liu Ren felt very good today and scored 37 points in a little over three quarters. He chose to go directly Find D'Antoni for an explanation.

When Liu Ren found D'Antoni holding his fire, he found that D'Antoni and Bickerstaff seemed to be waiting for him.

"Bernie, I said the boss will come to me. I guessed right, you paid for the drinks tonight." D'Antoni laughed.

"You know that the boss will be dissatisfied and still do this. It's really your fault." Bickerstaff smiled and shook his head. As the league's highest-paid assistant coach, he can still afford a little wine.

Liu Ren was stunned for a moment and said, "Coach, do you know that I will come to you?"

"Of course, you want to ask me why I didn't use the same method as last season to defend against the Warriors?" D'Antoni asked rhetorically.

"Yes..." Liu Ren felt that he was a little weaker.

"What do you think of Barnes' shooting performance today?" D'Antoni continued to ask.

"Very accurate..."

"That's right, it's very accurate, so we can already know the answer without experimenting with the Warriors' defense. We don't have a better way for the time being, so I want to see if the Warriors can attack with all their strength. Neil looked carefully at what the Warriors were going to do when they went all out on offense."

"Then why didn't we fight hard in the fourth quarter?"

"Okay, boss, the game is over, do you want to go to the press conference with me today?"

"No." Liu Ren said angrily.

D'Antoni smiled helplessly at Bickerstaff, and then took Antetokounmpo and Whiteside, the second-best performers of the Lakers today, to the press conference.

As for Kobe, he seems to intend to reduce his role and chose to give young players the opportunity to participate in the press conference as much as possible.

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After D'Antoni left, Liu Ren found it strange to see Kobe enjoying a therapeutic massage without seeming to be affected too much.

This is Kobe!After losing a game against his biggest enemy, he didn't react at all. Kobe wasn't among the players who were so angry because of the loss just now.

"Zha Ke, why don't you seem to care whether you win or lose the game, or you should just retire." Liu Ren said angrily.

Kobe was not angry, and responded: "NONONO, I still have to win a lot of championships, and who said I don't care about winning or losing, I just lose if I lose, can I start again if I get angry? It's just a regular season That's it, our goal this year is no longer to break records, and I don't want to do it again for a regular season win."

"But in this case, we are very likely to be thrown away by the Warriors, and we will not be number one in the Western Conference." Liu Ren is very concerned about this. He bragged to Curry yesterday that he would definitely solve the Warriors in minutes, but But found that the firepower is indeed inferior to the Warriors, the Warriors are too powerful.

"No.1 in the regular season? It doesn't make much sense." Kobe curled his lips. He found that even though Liu Ren had been playing for four years, he was still immature.

Kobe is also an Internet addict now. After being exposed to electronic technology for two years, he read a lot of things on the Internet that he didn't see when he didn't know how to surf the Internet or use electronic products.

For example, Liu Ren in Kobe's eyes is a new species he knows called home control. This kind of person will do a good job when he has the opportunity to do something, and he will do everything he can, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to mature psychologically.

"Is it meaningless to be first in the regular season?" Liu Ren asked in disbelief.

"Yes, but it doesn't have that much meaning. In fact, before I partnered with you, I won the championship only once in the regular season. In many other times, I was not even the first in the Western Conference, especially when I partnered with Shaq for three consecutive championships. At that time, there was another time when we were only third in the West, but we were still invincible in the playoffs and easily won three consecutive championships. At that time, I... tell you, I am much better than now..." Kobe began to recall the eventful years. ...

"Stop, stop, I understand, I know you want to say that the regular season record is not as meaningful as I thought, but today's problem is not here, but that we were defeated without even resisting today. When I came here, the coach emphasized to play according to the tactics, why not go all out?" Liu Ren was still angry.

He started to think hard again, and Kobe thought of when he was young, he loved to think hard like Liu Ren... When he thought about it, Kobe looked at Liu Ren, thought for a while and said: "Maybe Mike has his own ideas. Sometimes we just play well, follow the arrangements, and trust the coach."

Kobe actually seems to have trust in D'Antoni?Liu Ren said hell, and even threw aside his own horny thoughts.

You must know that the only coach Kobe trusted throughout his career was Zen Master. He might not listen to the words of other coaches.

Liu Ren began to feel depressed again. He was not concerned about the fact that he lost the game without struggling, but he was concerned about where D'Antoni gave Kobe a sense of trust.

Liu Ren despises many things about Kobe, such as narrow-mindedness, black belly, etc., but his respect for Kobe has not diminished. Kobe, a guy who has only served as a coach of Zen Master, trusts D'Antoni very much. Liu Ren is very natural I have trust in D'Antoni, after all, D'Antoni just led the Lakers to the championship.

Liu Ren began to wonder what D'Antoni wanted to do today...

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At the post-match press conference, Kobe and Liu Ren didn’t come today, and both of them played. Liu Ren didn’t say anything. He didn’t come often. Come to the press conference, which makes the media seem to smell some gossip.

Is Kobe not coming because of the loss, or because the Lakers have weakened his role on the court?

Decisively, the first question was asked by the reporter. In other words, the media focused on the Lakers, and the Warriors, who had won the game, were left out in the cold.

"Excuse me Coach D'Antoni, why didn't Kobe come to the press conference?"

D'Antoni replied: "This is very simple. Kobe is not satisfied with his performance today. In fact, I am not satisfied. If he has better running ability, such as the running ability of Barnes of their Warriors And open shooting ability, our offense will improve a lot."

The eyes of the media brightened, and the attention-grabbing headline "D'Antoni slams Kobe's inability to move" entered their brains.

And D'Antoni's answer also gave the reporter the next question: "Do you think Barnes is very good? If I remember correctly, Barnes in the playoffs last year was the breakthrough for you to beat the Warriors."

"Well, I have always thought that Barnes is very good. You have seen it today. He can make shots as long as he is given a chance. As for last year's playoffs, I think it is a matter of employing people. Now they have a younger man who is more daring. Instead of only using coaches who are already superstars, Barnes has completely improved. I originally planned to use the same defense as last season’s playoffs against the Warriors today, but the boss discussed with me before the game However, after seeing Barnes' outstanding performance this year, I had no choice but to give up last season's tactics." D'Antoni said serious nonsense.

Walton on the side was stunned. This was his first time as a head coach this year, and it was still a temporary one. He also won the previous game with ease.

Wharton should refute this, as if he is saying that he can't do it, how can a man not do it?Admit it, it's too arrogant, which makes Wharton embarrassed and can only keep silent.

Next, D'Antoni praised Barnes and Walton to death, as if he didn't even lose the game. He was very happy to see the rise of a young small forward and the strong entry of the young coach.

Wharton also began to be as depressed as Liu Ren, what is D'Antoni doing!
　It is unlikely that there will be Chapter 2. I get off work early today, and I will leave work before [-] o’clock. I will go to drink with the company’s leaders at [-] o’clock. If I don’t drink fragments, I will continue to write a chapter when I come back in the evening. .I'm sorry if I drink a broken piece, I'll make it up later~
　　
　
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