What made Richard hurt was that his side had just adjusted his defense, and after motivating Thompson and Leonard, when the timeout ended and the game restarted, the Mavericks directly switched to a pure bench lineup......

Last season, the Mavericks' bench lineup was actually quite good, and this season is completely unwatchable.

For a while, the Clippers directly turned the situation around, although the offense was still not smooth enough, but the defensive end was eye-catching.

Especially Leonard, who Richard got with the 13th pick this year, showed quite strong defensive talent, and the long-arm out-of-hand was simply very useful on the defensive end, and in just a few minutes, Leonard relied on his long-arm hand to make two turnovers for the opponent......

And Thompson's off-ball ability on the offensive end is also remarkable, at least this guy dares to shoot.

Since the opening, Thompson has made 7 shots, basically as long as he runs out of space and his teammates pass the ball to him, Thompson will never hesitate and immediately open his hand to shoot.

With a 3-of-7 shooting percentage and a score of 7 points, Richard was quite satisfied anyway.

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers still trailed by one point when the old man of the Mavericks only played half a quarter.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the old man played another half of the game, further stretching the difference to 7 points.

Then Carlisle went up and down again, and switched to a pure substitute lineup......

For a team like the Mavericks, because there are too many old men, Carlisle naturally can't let these old men play too much, not to mention that it's a preseason game right now, and the meaning of playing is over.

In the second half, Carlisle was no longer ready to put his main players on the field......

Richard was a little helpless, and originally wanted to make the Mavericks the whetstone of the Clippers, but they were really not able to use the whetstone, and the main forces added up to only play for one section.

In the second quarter of the game, seeing that the opposing old man was all off the court, Richard also began to change the lineup.

Monroe continued to stay on the field, and the remaining four were all substituted off the court, replaced by Da Ma Monkey, Dazhi, Maddie and Sun Yue.

When Maddie appeared on the stage, there was immediately applause and cheers from the scene, Maddie's popularity is still quite good, and he has had a lot of outstanding performances in his career, which is why he can still be inducted into the Hall of Fame without too many gold honors in hand.

There are many fans at the scene, in fact, they are rushing to Maddie, they know that this season is likely to be the end of Maddy's career, before Maddy retires, they are looking at the demeanor of one of the four quarterbacks.

At present, the era of the four quarterbacks is almost over.

Iverson has already retired, Maddie is also facing retirement, although the old Carter can still play as a starter, but the state has declined greatly, it is estimated that it will only be two or three seasons to survive, and the old Carter will gradually begin to enter the bench.

There is only one Kobe Bryant, who is still holding on to the death, and he is still in good competitive condition.

The reason for this is not that Kobe Bryant is more durable than the other three, but that Kobe Bryant is younger......

Iverson and Carter are both older than Kobe, and although Maddie is one year younger than Kobe, he is actually a big surprise that his career can last until now because of congenital spondylitis.

……

In this new lineup, Richard directly designated Sun Yue as the point guard.

Sun Yue is a brick, where you need to move, I have to say that Sun Yue is actually quite versatile, at least there is no problem in playing the No. 1 position to the No. 3 position.

……

"Doot toot!" The referee blew the whistle for the end of the match.

This preseason opener was finally won by the Clippers who played at home.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and even if the strength of the calves is weakened compared to last season, the strength is not comparable to the current young Clippers.

If it weren't for the Mavericks and the old men who only played for about ten minutes in the whole game, the Clippers would definitely have been difficult to win this game.

……

In any case, winning the preseason opener was a good start.

Leonard's performance on the offensive end tonight was not excellent, with only 12 points scored on 12 shots in the game, which was relatively inefficient, but his performance on the defensive end was completely faulty.

It's hard to believe that a new melon egg has such a strong defensive awareness, good defensive talent, and good defensive attitude, just like a seedling of an outside defensive gate.

12 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, which is the data contributed by Leonard in 29 minutes tonight.

As for Richard's most optimistic newcomer on the team, that is, Thompson, he played 26 minutes and scored 21 points, 3 rebounds and 0 assists......

Assists are zero, which is also Thompson's norm, because he doesn't play with the ball, so he doesn't have any chance to share the ball and assist, as long as the ball is in his hands, that's basically the time to shoot.

Thomas Jr.'s performance tonight was okay, because he has been playing sudden points on the offensive end, he has a lot of assists, and he got 14 points, 3 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal tonight.

Such a statistic must be worthy of his draft pick of 60 in the second round......

Because of the reason why he was arranged to start by Richard tonight, Thomas Jr. was even more grateful to Richard.

He knows very well that no matter which team he puts in such a pick, even if it is the most rubbish team in the league, it is impossible to start as soon as he comes up......

Now Richard has come up and given himself a chance to start, and this treatment definitely makes other rookies who are at the bottom of the second round red.

It is precisely because he knows that this kind of opportunity belongs to the rare level, so Thomas Jr. on the field played quite hard.

All kinds of rushing to the basket, using some quite dangerous moves, in order to create damage, even if the ball does not go in, you can also mix up the opportunity to make free throws.

For Thomas Jr.'s desperate style of play, Richard did not stop it.

In Richard's opinion, with Thomas Jr.'s physical condition, if he doesn't work hard, how can he stand in the league in the future.

Since you are congenitally insufficient, you can only work hard.

The performance of the three newcomers in the starting lineup is remarkable, of course, this performance is not very outstanding, at least compared to Griffin's hot geek, it is really not enough.

The newcomer who joined the team this year on the bench, Oma Monkey, said that tonight's performance was a bit good.

After 20 minutes on the court, the guy went straight to shoot 6-of-7, including three three-pointers, and two free throws, scoring 17 points......

After the game, the Malaysian monkey looked at Richard with anticipation, and he felt that if he could keep up his good performance, he might be put in the starting lineup by Richard in the future.

Once in the starting line-up, the big horse monkey feels like he's almost on the rise.

can play the starting role under Richard, and you can't go to any team in the future.

……

If Richard had known what the monkey was thinking, he would have told the monkey that he was thinking too much.

In Richard's team building plan, the horse monkey has never been included, and Richard doesn't dare to ask for such a player who just takes money and doesn't do anything.

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The Clippers won three of the next five preseason games, and the entire preseason schedule was 4-2.

Of course, this is also because Richard has more playing time for his main players, and it is rare for other teams to let their main players play 30 minutes in pre-season.

If this preseason schedule is the regular season, Richard feels like it would be nice to win two games.

In the face of this situation, if Richard, who was left in his youth, is afraid that he is already anxious now, and will try his best to improve the strength of the team and strive to stand among the top giants in the West as soon as possible.

However, Richard is now in his forties, and he is no longer the stunned young man he was at the beginning, even if he is faced with the team's poor combat strength, he is not impatient......

If the combat power is not good, then practice? Anyway, with so many potential players on hand, if you train crazy, you are not afraid that you will not be able to practice.

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The regular season schedule is in full swing, and the Clippers played a total of 22 games in the first month and a half of the schedule.

As a result, he only won 9 games, and the winning rate was not even 40%, which was quite an embarrassing record.

However, despite the poor record, Richard can see the improvement of this Clippers team.

In 22 games, they only won a pitiful four of the first 12 games, which means that the Clippers started with only a 33.3% win rate, ranking third from the bottom in the West, which is not much different from last season.

After the first 12 games, the Clippers won 5 of the next 10 games, and the winning rate reached 50%!

This is a visible improvement, so even if the current record is not satisfactory, Richard is perfectly acceptable.

It's good to have an improvement, and Richard didn't think about it as soon as he came up, which was definitely unrealistic.

With a 9-13 record, the Clippers are currently ranked 10th in the West, two places away from the top eight in the West, and Richard feels that before the All-Star start, with the increase in their Clippers' combat power, it should be very likely to reach the top eight in the West.