After losing the opening game of the preseason to the Pacers, the Pistons will face the Atlanta Hawks, a wrestling team in the East.

If he loses to the Hawks in the preseason, Richard will probably die of pain.

On the afternoon of the matchday, Richard brought in the team's current starting quarterback, Ragabel, and he felt the need to do some mental work on the young player.

When Bell walked into Richard's office, his heart trembled......

Because of the first game of the preseason, his performance was really not good, and he took six shots on the offensive end, but only hit one three-pointer and one mid-range shot, which was quite inefficient.

As for the defensive end, his Reggie Miller is also quite bad.

Now Bale is afraid that Richard will be disappointed in him and take away his starting position......

"Sit down, young man." Richard's voice was calm, and he said to Rajabel.

Ragabel sat nervously in front of Richard, waiting for Richard to continue talking.

"Young man, what do you think of this contract I gave you?" Richard asked, frowning.

"It's a big contract, it's a sky-high contract I never dreamed of!" Rajabel became more and more nervous.

When Richard mentioned the contract, it was certainly not a good thing.

In fact, this four-year, $10 million contract, in Bell's view, is really a sky-high contract.

Every day after signing the contract, he was grateful to Richard all the time.

"Looks like you're realizing it's a pretty big contract."

"But do you think your on-court performance deserves this contract?"

Richard's voice suddenly quickened, and he questioned Ragabel.

Ragabel looked stunned and tensed, the horror of Richard's anger was something he had seen with his own eyes.

"I'll give you a contract of 10 million yuan, just to let you be a spectator on the field?"

"Don't tell me that Reggie Miller is strong, you can't prevent it!"

"He's a strong fart, an old man in his thirties, how strong can he be?"

"What about the confrontation on the field? What about physical contact? Have you seen Bowen's defense? Have you seen Artest's defense? ”

"What about your desire to win?"

"To tell you the truth, I gave you such a contract in the hope that you could play the role of Bowen or Artest!"

"And now you're disappointing me......"

Richard stared into Rajabel's eyes and said word by word.

He is indeed a little disappointed with Ragabel at the moment, the young man is tied up on the field and the defensive end is completely unproductive.

Even if he doesn't ask him to be a throat locker, there must be at least physical contact when defending, right?!

An outside defender who doesn't dare to fight, doesn't dare to make physical contact, what's the difference between that and a staring master.

After listening to Richard's words, Ragabel realized the purpose of Richard's search for himself today.

At the moment, he is actually quite confused about his position.

Although he has been in the league for two years, he has not found his place.

In a season with the Spurs, he didn't play a game, and Popovich naturally didn't find any position for him.

As for a season with the Philadelphia 76ers, the situation is basically the same, Carlisle is not idle enough to give a fringe player who has basically no chance to play, to find a position.

At the moment, Richard has helped him find his position.

It's about growing in the direction of the kind of outside defensive gate that Bowen or Artest has.

You don't need too much offensive firepower, the most important thing is to have outside defensive strength.

"Coach, I know what to do, tonight's game, I won't let you down again!" Ragabel said solemnly.

Although Richard's tone was a little harsh, he also knew that Richard was doing it for his own good.

If he doesn't find his position on the field, Ragabel will be like a headless fly on the field.

Now Richard has asked him to focus on the defensive end, which can be regarded as showing him the direction to work on.

"Well, that's good, but don't fall behind on the offensive end, usually practice your open three-point shooting ability, run up as much as possible on the court, and look for open three-point opportunities!"

"Nash is a master passer, as long as you can get out of position, his ball can then get to you!"

Richard pointed out Ragabel's offensive end again.

In fact, in the years when Bale was in his prime, he was on the Suns and was teammates with Nash.

As the Suns' starting quarterback, he averaged close to 15 points per game by relying on his aggressive running and waiting for Nash's pass.

In fact, speaking of the Suns, any player has benefited from Nash, and without Nash, they are afraid that the data will shrink a lot.

Richard didn't want Ragabel to completely waste his offensive prowess, and this guy's open three-point ability is quite strong.

He averaged 40.2 percent three-point shooting per game in his career, and even reached about 45 percent three-point shooting in the Suns' peak year.

This three-point shooting percentage is quite terrifying!

Ragabel is arguably the top 3-and-D player in the history of the league.

At least in Richard's impression, there may not be three 3-and-D players who have been selected for a defensive period and whose three-point shooting strength can reach Bell's level!

If this guy can improve his defensive prowess and off-ball three-point prowess, Richard feels like he could play a big role in his lineup.

Even if it is not as good as Klay Thompson in the Warriors in the future, the gap will not be too big.

Thompson is strong in a terrible scoring explosion, and although Bell does not have that scoring explosiveness, his defense is more stable than Thompson.

If he had reached the peak level earlier, Richard could even have won an All-Star spot!

"Do a good job, young man, trust me, as long as you work hard enough, your name Ragabel will appear in the All-Star lineup in the future!"

As soon as he heard this, Ragabel's face turned red, and Richard said that he had a chance to be an All-Star?!

Oh, God! Now Ragabel just wants to call out to God......

For himself, a small transparent in the league, being selected as an All-Star is an unattainable dream for him.

If someone else said this, Ragabel would never take it to heart.

But now it is Richard who is saying this......

How many All-Stars has Richard produced since he entered the league?

I can't count them!

At the beginning of Richard's first wave of the Purdue nine-star lineup, he once said that these nine players would become All-Star players in this league in the future!

For this, Richard also tore up with Larry Brown......

Ragabel knew about this, but he didn't believe Richard at all.

But now a few years have passed, and more than half of the original Purdue nine-star team has been selected for the All-Star team, and the remaining few also have All-Star level strength, and it is only a matter of time before they are selected as All-Stars!

Now Richard said that as long as he works hard, he can become a member of the All-Star team in the future, and Ragabel believes it directly!

Extremely believable!

Thinking that he might become an All-Star, and even that he might be a member of West Lafayette in the future, Ragabel trembled with excitement!

"Coach, in tonight's game, I will let the opposing backcourt players play a nightmare game!"

Ragabel clenched his fists and said solemnly at Richard.

……

At eight o'clock in the evening, the Pistons continued to sit at home, this time against the Hawks.

The Eagles began to rebuild the first two seasons and have reaped some results.

For example, they got Fathead from Green Kai, and then Raheem from the Grizzlies, plus Jet Terry, who was selected in the team's draft, and their roster has become quite impressive.

However, this lineup has just been put together, and no one knows what kind of effect it will be.

Raheem was sold to the Hawks by the Grizzlies this season.

The Grizzlies have groomed Raheem for five years, but in those five years, the Grizzlies have never set foot in the playoffs.

Looking at the data, Rashid's stats are really gorgeous, since he entered the league, his average points per game has never been below 20 points in a season!

He was also selected to the All-Star team last season......

But Raheem actually still has problems, and the Grizzlies also discovered these problems, so they simply sold him without breaking it and began to do their best to cultivate Pau Gasol.

Not only did they sell Rahim, but they even sold Bibi.

Anyway, it sold quite simply and thoroughly......

Raheem's problem is that he is not strong enough in rebounding and defense.

With an average of 40 minutes per game, Raheem only had eight or nine rebounds, which is really too low.

Among the interior players, it is almost a relatively mid-to-lower level existence.

Don't look at some interior players who have five or six rebounds, but that doesn't mean that their rebounding strength is weak, maybe give them 40 minutes of playing time, and they can easily cut down more than 10 rebounds.

In addition to the lack of rebounding strength, Raheem's defense is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

The defensive data can be seen, and the average of 1.4 steals and 1 block per game is absolutely reasonable.

But this is only low-level data, if you look at the advanced data, Raheem was around 107 in the first two seasons.

In other words, the player against him can score 107 points in 100 rounds!

That's a bit too embarrassing for an inside player......

You must know that the top interior defenders, such as Duncan, Big Ben or Garnett, can sometimes reach a level of about 95 in defensive efficiency, which is not a star and a half better than Rahim.

In this case, the Grizzlies made the decisive decision to sell the core of their five-year team and begin a new rebuild.

Anyway, this team is either rebuilding or on the way to rebuild......

……

"Doot toot!" The game on the field began.

Richard didn't particularly care about winning or losing tonight, what he cared about most was whether Ragabel would make a difference after his own conversation!

If Ragabel could be made to make a difference, the win or loss of this game would not matter to Richard's eyes.

The starters from both sides began to take the field.

Raheem looked at Richard in embarrassment, his face flushing slightly......

He didn't actually expect the Grizzlies to trade him this offseason, and now that he was traded, he saw that Richard was a little embarrassed.

Iverson, Big Ben......

Well, don't be embarrassed, at least among the West Lafayette brothers in the same class, there is a Brad Miller who is worse than himself.

……

Raheem got the ball for the Eagles, and Jet Terry was driving with the ball.

After the ball reached the frontcourt, Terry transferred the ball to the hands of the fat head outside the three-point line, who did not even hesitate and made a three-point shot.

Do you really dare to vote, and you really dare to enter......

When it was the Pistons' offensive turn, Nash played a pick-and-roll with Oku again, but in the end the ball was assigned by Nash to the crazy running Bale.

The Hawks player opposite Bell is named DeMar Johnson, a nobody, who is five big and three thick, and looks like a short center instead of a point guard.

Ragabel's frantic off-ball run had a good effect, and Nash watched Bale run out of space and passed the ball as soon as possible.

Bell made a direct three-point shot and hit a hollow shot.

Richard stood on the sidelines and shouted frantically to encourage the young man Ragabel.

……

Nash's passing, after several years of hard work, can almost be regarded as a master.

With no defensive ability at hand, and just relying on accurate shooting ability, Nash can't get a contract with an annual salary of five or six million from Nelson Sr.

As soon as Ragabel ran out of the open space, Nash's ball had already arrived, and this passing skill made Richard nod secretly.

In terms of passing, Nash is much better than the beard......

……

The two sides fought fiercely, and the situation was better than Richard had thought.

Except for the three-pointer that the Hawks hit in the opening game, the rest of the time felt a little bad, and with their awkward defense, it is certainly unlikely that they want to lead the Pistons in the score.

The Pistons aren't so good at the moment, but the Eagles are a bit worse......

A look at the defensive strength of the Hawks' three core players shows just how bad their overall defense is.

Rahim aside, Fattou's defense is almost well known, so don't expect him to brace himself to defend it.

As for Terry, he is defensively aggressive, but he is also quite a typical player who is strong in attack and weak in defence.

With his small body, he can compete with Nash......

With these three core players, you can imagine the defensive level of their team.

……

Richard is still watching Ragabel's defensive performance, but the embarrassing thing is that Johnson, who is opposite him, has never had a chance to hold the ball.

Finally, in the fourth minute of the opening game, the Hawks' starting point guard got a chance to attack with the ball.

His body is actually more than enough to play small forward, and after holding the ball, he hit Ragabel directly.

Bale saw that the opportunity for his performance came, and Richard on the sidelines must be paying attention to his every move, and couldn't help but post it.

To confront, to make physical contact, this is what Richard asked of him.

Just pasted it, Bale did not rush to pick up the ball, but stubbornly carried the opponent's charge without taking a step back.

It may be that he has not found a chance to shoot until now, and Johnson directly pulled out his shot.

Seeing that the opponent had the momentum of jumping, Bell continued to exert force with his body, directly causing the opponent to lose his balance.

The hasty shot that was out of balance was directly hugged by Bell in mid-air, and then quickly passed to Nash.

He still has the eyesight to know that Nash is the main controller of the team handpicked by Richard, and not passing the ball to Nash at this moment is definitely a dead act.

Nash's speed is still quite good, otherwise, it would not be possible to have the nickname of the Son of the Wind.

After receiving a pass from Bale, he drove straight into the field and rushed towards the front, with Gerard Wallace and Ragabel on either side also quickly following up.

At this moment, the role of Gerald's explosive physical fitness was reflected, and the fat head looked at Gerald's speed and directly gave up the idea of returning to defense......

When the ball reached the frontcourt, Nash threw it high, and Gerrard stepped into the paint area, jumped directly high, received Nash's pass in the air, and dunked it into the basket!

Richard watched from the sidelines......

How do you look at this offensive round, it's a bit of a run to the sun......

The Suns team with Nash as the core in later generations is almost this style of play.

Nash controlled the ball and advanced quickly, and once the ball reached the frontcourt, Ragabel was responsible for the outside shot, Smalls was responsible for the inside shot, and Marion was able to play inside and out.

Several people did not give the opponent the opportunity to calmly arrange the defense, and the ball went to the front court to catch the opportunity and shot, which is the famous seven-second run-and-bomb tactic for the Suns.

Richard frowned, and some thoughts came to his mind......

Why don't you try your hand at run-and-gun tactics this season?

Anyway, I didn't plan to use any tactics this season, so now I am experimenting with run-and-bomb tactics and practicing first.

Once the idea took root, it immediately grew wildly in Richard's mind.

At the moment, Richard's lineup can really try to run.

Nash and Ragabel already have it, Gerard Wallace can completely replace Marion, and as for the lack of a physical interior lineman, Clark seems to be able to do it.

It's just that Clark can't play at the moment, but he can make do with Anderson first.

……

The game on the field was going on, and after Bell was called over by Richard for a cup of tea, the whole person was enlightened a lot.

On the field, he has already taken the initiative to find a physical confrontation, and Johnson, who is now on the opposite side, really has no ball, which leads to Bale's defensive strength cannot be maximized, otherwise, Bale's defense tonight will definitely give people a surprise.

Now that Bell has opened his mind, Richard feels that it will be much easier to do next, and calls over for tea one by one......

In fact, even if it is a seven-second run-and-bomb tactic, the defensive end must not be left behind.

Later, the defense of the Suns team was not bad, look at the few people in the starting lineup of the team, Ragabel, Marion, Xiaosi and French Magician Dior, how bad this defense can be.

That is, Nash dragged a little bit back on the defensive end......