At the press conference, D'Antoni highlighted Klay Thompson. "He's a good three-point shooter, he's aggressive defensively, he's perfectly adapted to the pace of the NBA game, and he's a good starter to help the team defend their title."

Originally, the coaching staff was going to control Thompson's playing time to less than 25 minutes and slowly accumulate experience, but as a result, he was excellent both offensively and defensively, and D'Antoni couldn't help but let him play 30 minutes.

The reporter also asked D'Antoni to evaluate Guo Xu's performance, feeling that he scored a little less today.

D'Antoni said: "There's nothing wrong with Jason's form, he just wants to help the newcomers settle into the team as quickly as possible, so it's a sacrifice to take fewer shots. ”

When Guo Xu was interviewed, the reporter asked him about weight gain.

Guo Xu said seriously: "There have always been many people who question my defense, since entering the NBA, because of my poor defense, my team has been eliminated in the playoffs twice, and I am very painful when I think of this, I can't sleep at night." So I've been trying to gain weight over the summer, and I want to improve my ability to play better on the defensive end this season. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the venue, God worked so hard to gain weight, you obviously just ate too much.

In 12 seasons in your career, you have only been eliminated in the playoffs twice, are you boasting?

The Warriors' press conference was very quiet, and with the exception of Kobe, he was very unhappy with the team's defense.

Kobe Bryant's roaring art was seen in the last playoffs, and he was often unhappy with Curry's defense on the court.

As the boss of the team, yelling at teammates is nothing new, and Kobe Bryant is such a boss. If something happens that he thinks is wrong, Kobe Bryant will be emotional, not only facing opponents and referees, but often pointing directly at teammates and coaches. Among them, the most terrifying is his death glare.

Curry is like a child who makes mistakes, he doesn't dare to refute it at all, and the media broke the news after the game that Kobe and Curry have long stopped communicating in the locker room, and Curry is avoiding him.

Online Warriors fans set off another wave of proposals to trade Curry, although Guo Xu only scored 14 points this time, but the loss must be Curry's fault, no need to analyze at all.

In fact, the biggest problem for the Warriors is the head coach, and the "little general" Johnson is the Achilles' heel.

Johnson has a very good reputation in the league as a player and as a coach.

As a player, Johnson's humility and studiousness, his outspokenness on the pitch and in the dressing room made him the manager's favourite player and the most respected dressing room boss of the players. Popovich likes to refer to him as an "assistant coach on the court" and Tim Duncan calls himself a "little brother" in front of him, which is why the Spurs are retiring his No. 6 jersey.

As a coach, Johnson cared deeply about his players, once saying in an interview: "The most important thing is that I have a good relationship with the players. We eat together a lot, I care about their family situation and I want to be able to reach out and support them in life, not just when they are throwing a goal. I have my own way of coaching. We all felt that this would work, so when I kept yelling at them, they always took it right. ”

But perhaps too merciful to the players, Johnson's team has always been unbrave in the face of difficulties, with a good regular season and repeated heavy defeats in the playoffs. Nowadays, many people say that he is a puppet coach and can't control Kobe.

On the 26th, the Suns faced the Hornets back-to-back at home.

Guo Xu is mainly passing, rarely breaking through positional battles, attracting defense outside the three-point line, and occasionally playing alone.

The matchup between Guo Xu and Irving was the focus of media publicity, but it was the Suns interior players who stole the show, and the substitute Whiteside played 21 minutes and scored 16 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks.

The game entered garbage time in the third quarter, and the Suns bench got a lot of opportunities to perform, and Thomas Jr. also cut 12 points and 4 assists on the outside, and he was suitable for blocking and pick-and-roll tactics.

Guo Xu played 30 minutes, shooting 5-of-10, 3-of-6 three-pointers, and 2-of-2 free throws, scoring 15 points and 12 assists.

Gasol Jr. also had an eye-catching performance, shooting 8-of-12 from the field and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line to finish with 21 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.

The Hornets' interior Carman and Hayes are not suitable to play together, one is strong in attack and weak in defense, and the other is weak in defense.

Irving's career debut was disappointing, he dared to challenge Guo Xu, held the ball many times, played 26 minutes of 2 of 12 shots, 1 of 5 three-pointers, 1 of 1 free throws, and scored 6 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists.

Guo Xu taught the new champion a good lesson, using his closeness again and again to make Owen unable to break through, and to stay in front of him to interfere with the shot. Guo Xu will also use small actions to disrupt Owen's offensive rhythm, not seeking a block, just interfering.

Irving looks very rough, forcing a breakthrough into someone's arms and then splitting the ball, he is not a good playmaker, and the Hornets must poach stars to partner with Irving if they want to enter the playoffs again.

Owen feels that the media's poor defense of Guo Xu is pure nonsense, he has no way to take the opponent at all when he is in the position, the technical breakthrough does not work, and the speed and confrontation are at a loss.

He was very helpless when defending Guo Xu, Guo Xu protected the ball to find his teammates, he couldn't break the ball, and he couldn't block the passing route. Guo Xu passed the ball behind his back, behind his head, and hit the ground, and he often passed the ball out without reacting.

He couldn't relax yet, as long as his reaction was a little slower or the pace of lateral movement was bigger, Guo Xu immediately changed direction in the opposite direction of him, as if he knew what he was thinking, which was very terrifying.

Irving is not as strong as Curry, he has to practice for years to become a star, and his style of play is more like that of a shooting guard, and he needs to learn to control the tempo.

The Suns rested for two days and won by 23 points in Game 3 away against the Magic.

Guo Xu scored another double-double, played 34 minutes, and scored 21 points, 2 rebounds and 14 assists.

The Magic's roster has become a mess, and last season they traded to Arenas and were severely pitted by the Wizards. Arenas couldn't get his scoring feel back anymore, shooting less than 40 percent from the field.

He averaged 21.8 minutes per game, eight points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 34.4 percent from the field and 27.5 percent from three-point range. He was nowhere near as good as Jameel Nelson, starting just two games with the Magic.

The most terrifying thing is that Arenas' contract is about the same size as Guo Xu, and the Wizards paid 6 years and 125 million when they renewed his contract in 2008, and the Magic traded him to save the Wizards.

Even in 2014, Arenas was only 32 years old, which is still considered a fighting year, and no one expected him to decline so quickly.

As soon as the free market opened, Arenas was laid off by the Magic using the amnesty clause. This result will not be surprising, in the previous predictions of many media Arenas on the list, some media, reporters even laughed that this clause can be named "Arenas Clause".

You know, Arenas is currently on a three-year, $62.3 million contract, and his salary this season is as high as $19.27 million, and his contract will not expire until the summer of 2014. The Magic previously traded away Marion for nothing, and threw away another 60 million for nothing, and they were unwilling to give O'Neal 60 million back then.

Then, the Magic dug a new hole, and they sent Brandon Buss to Glen Davis and Vaughan Weaver from the Celtics. Howard likes to defend the restricted area and protect rebounds, and the management keeps saying that they don't want Howard to go, but they trade a fat man who can't defend and pick and roll to cooperate with him, and the manager's brain circuit is obviously different from that of a normal person.

Guo Xu only scored 20 points once in three games and began to play health basketball.