Don Nelson (later known as Nelson Sr.) was a head coach with a very special style, as you can tell from the nickname he was given - "Mad Scientist"! Nelson Sr.'s brain is indeed different from ordinary people, he subverts the traditional configuration of traditional basketball 2-2-1 (two guards, two forwards, one center), and instead asks for all 5, what does this full 5 mean? It is that the players are not divided into guards and centers on the court, but five people of average height and fine life to play, everyone can control the ball and advance the offense, everyone can wear a good ball, everyone can grab rebounds, and even everyone must have a good three-point shot! The team's rhythm advocates continuous and fast attack, even requiring the attack to be completed within 7 seconds, playing fast, emphasizing fast tempo, this style of play is also called "running and shooting".

If you want to play the run-and-shoot, the candidate for the fourth or fifth position on the inside line is the key to the whole system, because a point guard can complete the basic requirements of the run-and-shoot, although the rebounding ball is not dominant, but it can also go to the card position to help others grab the rebound, but the interior player can't dribble the ball and can't hold the ball to advance, which is the biggest difficulty in the operation of this system.

At the beginning of the 1989 season, the original team center, Larry Smith, who had been with the team for nine years, switched to the Houston Rockets, and is currently the top player in the Warriors' team history with 6,440 rebounds! In that year's NBA draft, the Warriors selected the talented guard Tim Hardaway from the University of Texas with the 14th pick in the first round, and also signed Lithuanian guard Sarunas Matthew Leonis, who had been selected two years ago but had not yet landed in the NBA. averaged 14.7 points and 8.7 assists per game, and Matthew Leonis was the thirteenth rookie in the sixth round in 1987, he was the pioneer of European players to the NBA gold rush, and Mullin is also a left-handed player, cautious shots, high shooting percentage, and now the popular "European step" is the brother introduced to the NBA, as early as the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as a Soviet player Matthew Leonis hit 19 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, beating his players - It just so happens that Richmond, who is also playing for the Warriors now, only scored a pitiful 5 points, and the assists and rebounds were all zero, and the Americans had no choice but to lose.

In 2014, Matthew Leonis was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame.

Matthew Leonis did not disappoint Nelson Sr. either, after coming to the Warriors, he played a bench for his former defeated Richmond, averaging 12.1 points per game and shooting 51.9% in 22.6 minutes, Mullin averaged 25.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, Richmond averaged 22.1 points, 2.9 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game, and Manute Ball averaged a whopping 3.2 blocks per game in 17.5 minutes of playing time!

In the whole season, the Warriors only won a measly 37 games, as I said before, the old Nelson mainly plays running and shooting, with strong offensive firepower but poor defense, and more importantly, the old Nelson has not yet found a suitable player who can be qualified for the inside axis of the running and shooting tactics.

In the 1990-1991 season, with the continuous growth of young players and unconventional style of play, the Warriors became a strong team, in which Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin formed the famous "RUNTMC" group, "RUN" means to run, "TMC" is taken from the initials of each of these three players, and the "RUNTMC" group is also the group name of a famous rap band at the time. Manute Bol was traded to the 76ers, and the team's interior line was completely emptied, and the "TMC" three have all averaged more than 20 points per game this season, and under their leadership, the Warriors have won 44 games this season and led the team back to the playoffs!

The Warriors' first opponent in the playoffs was David Robinson, who had the "Admiral", but the other players were still some distance away from Robinson, so in the entire round of the playoffs, although Robinson averaged 25.8 points, 13.5 rebounds, 3.8 blocks per game and an incredible 68.6% shooting rate, the Spurs only won one game, and after the Spurs defeated the Warriors 130-121 in the first game, they lost three games in a row and saw the Warriors advance, "TMC" Continued stable and productive performance, with the three contributing as many as 70 points per game! Matthew Leonis became the team's explosive factor, averaging 17.3 points per game and shooting 58.5% from the field!

In the second round of the playoffs, the Warriors' opponents were the powerful Los Angeles Lakers, Elvin Johnson, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Byron Scott AC Green, Verratti Divac, these players were gathered in the Lakers lineup at that time, and they were undoubtedly championship-level teams, but the Warriors also had a "TMC" combination, before that, the Lakers had maintained their peak form for nearly a decade, and they were strong candidates for the championship almost every year, But the Warriors haven't reached the Western Conference Finals for nearly 15 years, and they were once a small sufferer, these two teams with completely different cultural backgrounds and completely different tactical systems meet in a narrow way, what kind of sparks can be sparked?

On May 5, 1991, the first game of the Western Conference semifinals officially started, Golden State Warriors VS Los Angeles Lakers, the score was very anxious, and finally the Lakers relied on Alvin Johnson's 21 points, 17 rebounds, 10 assists triple-double and a perfect performance without a single mistake in the whole game to win the first game, Hardaway also performed well, scoring 33 points and 9 assists on 15-of-25 shooting, but in the end he was still defeated by the too perverted Magic.

If the first game of Magic is to play support, then the second game of Magic is the incarnation of bullets of the bullet charge, he shot 13 of 23 from the field and scored 44 points and piggybacked on a quasi-triple-double performance of 12 rebounds and 9 assists, Sam Johnson and James Worthy both got 20+ but in the end it was the Warriors who had the last laugh, Mullin played the peak battle, and scored 41 points on 16-of-21 shooting! Hardaway also contributed to his team's narrow 125-124 victory over the Lakers, scoring 28 points and displaying 14 assists and eight steals.

In the third game, it was the Lakers' turn to shoot James Worthy, who scored 36 points on 17-of-26 shooting in this game, Johnson had 15 points and 15 assists, leading the Lakers to a 115-112 victory over the Warriors, although Mitch Richmond and Tim Hardaway both scored 24 points, but Chris Mullin, who exploded in the last game, did not play well in this game, scoring only 13 points on 4-of-14 shooting.

In the crucial fourth game, Richmond scored 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting, and Matthew Leonis scored 20 points in 18 minutes off the bench, but the Lakers were more ferocious, following Johnson and James Worthy's outburst, Sam Perkins and Byron Scott both stepped up, the former was 10-of-13 from the field, and scored 27 points and 9 rebounds with great efficiency, and the latter scored 21 points and 11 rebounds on 8-of-13 shooting, and the Warriors lost another game 107-123, falling behind 1-3.

In the fourth game, the Warriors lost to the opponent 119:124 and were eliminated 1:4, there is nothing to say about this game, the Warriors just lost in rebounding, their weak rebounds made the Lakers burst out, the Warriors only had a total of 42 rebounds, 10 rebounds in the front court, 32 rebounds in the back court, and the Lakers rebounded as many as 65 in the whole game, and grabbed 21 rebounds in the front court! Knowing that an offensive rebound is a valuable offensive opportunity, Hardaway scored 27 points, dished out 20 assists and made only one turnover, becoming a lone hero in this game.

After the season, the Warriors ushered in a big change again, the old Nelson sent Mitch Richmond to the Saramento Kings, in exchange for the 1991 and this year's flower show, Billy Owens, this trade successfully destroyed the good chemistry that the Warriors had already built, Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond not only worked together seamlessly on the court, but also became very good friends off the court, although they lost to the powerful Los Angeles Lakers last year, but they are still young, There is still a chance to grow and struggle, but Nelson Sr.'s trade without warning made the Warriors a fringe team in the playoffs for a short period of time, and Richmond, who was traded, played for three years with the Warriors, and then gradually entered the peak, averaging more than 20 points per game for eight consecutive years after leaving the Warriors. Billy Owens, who was traded, averaged only 14.3 points per game in his first season with the Warriors, and what made matters worse was that Owens never worked the defensive end, and his personality was very different from Richmond's, and he didn't fit into the circle of Mullin and Hardaway at all.

1991-1992 Chris Mullin averaged 25.6 points per game, Tim Hardaway averaged 23.4 points per game and handed out 10 assists, Matthew Leonis in the bench averaged a career-high 18.9 points per game, and was once the favorite for the best sixth man, last year's first-round rookie Dillon Hill became the starting forward in the weak Warriors on the inside, averaging 8.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, this season, after Richmond left, the Warriors actually played an all-time high 67.1% win rate of 55 wins, 27 losses! Nelson Sr. was also voted Best Manager! What the? Again, the Warriors are a strong team right now? Is the team better after Richmond is gone? …… Well, in this year's playoffs, the second-seeded Golden State Warriors faced the Seattle SuperSonics, who were seventh in the West led by Gary Payton and Sean Kemp, and after four games, the Warriors were eliminated by the SuperSonics 1:3, and the old Nelson's style of play that only attacked and did not defend did not work at all in the more competitive playoffs, and after four games, the SuperSonics had as many as four players who played quasi-20+ performances.

In the 1992-1993 season, Billy Owens only played 37 games due to injury, Mullin and Hardaway only played 46 games and only 66 games, Matthew Leonis only played 30 games due to serious injuries throughout the season, and the piggyback was directly reimbursed for the next season, and in two seasons, Mullin, Hardaway, Matthew Leonis and Owens played at the same time for only 2 minutes and 37 seconds. The lavish team that was once painstakingly assembled is dead in name, with the Warriors winning only 34 games all season and missing out on the playoffs. The team's only bright spot was Ralliel Sprewell, a powerful guard who was picked with the 24th pick in the first round of the 1992 NBA Draft, played in 77 games and averaged 15.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.6 steals per game, which earned him a selection to the NBA's All-Rookie Second Team.