"You're gambling!" Shashewski is cautious by nature and does not dare to make decisions lightly when facing a Warriors team with the best record and strength in the league.

"Fight, bicycle into motorcycle, bet, motorcycle into jeep, fight, jeep into Martin! Why don't you drive an Aston Martin, coach? Hougist said half-jokingly.

"There are two players on the roster who have scored 81 points, so what else do I have to worry about? Since you are so confident, of course I choose to believe in the team! Shashewski decided.

"We will never fail your trust!" Hoggist assured confidently.

Hoggist is not blindly confident, after all, he still has the biggest killer weapon, although the way to concentrate on local reinforcement used against Leonard last summer is to kill a thousand enemies and lose a thousand at the same time, but at least he can make the opponent fall before himself, as for the extent of his joint damage after this game, it is not in the scope of Haugist's consideration at present, he believes that being able to beat the Warriors is far more important than his own health.

Of course, it would be best if they could beat the Warriors in a regular state, after all, if they want to compete for a championship this season, the Warriors are a big mountain that they can't avoid no matter what. With four games against the Warriors in the regular season and at least four more in the playoffs, Hoggist can't sacrifice his health for a win in each of those eight games. Therefore, this game is also regarded as a self-test to see if there is a gap with the Warriors, how big the gap is, and only by knowing the gap can we establish the goal and direction of catching up.

During afternoon practice, Shashewski made it clear that he wanted to open up a fight with the Warriors, and the Lakers players were young and vigorous, but not as cautious as him. Yang also begged Coach K for a starting position.

Haugist put Nick. Yang hugged aside, "SaggyP, do you know that you are the second best offensive and defensive outside core on the team?" ”

Nick. Yang was surprised when he heard this, and asked flatteredly, "Do you think I'm really that powerful?" Is it better than Kobe? ”

Hoggist glanced back at the crowd, turned his head and lowered his voice and said: "Kobe Bryant is old after all, his athleticism is already declining, and your defense this season has been adjusted by me, and you are no longer under Kobe." ”

"Yes! I also think that my strength is already very strong, so you can help me talk to the coach well, and let me play as a starter! "Nick. Yang pleaded.

"Your strong core overlaps with me playing at the same time, and when the bench lineup is dueling, if our team doesn't have a core like you on the field, we will definitely not be able to do the Warriors' bench, we can't start with an overflow of attack power, and the bench has no attack power at all, right?" Hougist flickered.

"What you said is quite reasonable, it is true that the substitute lineup is not led by me, and the offense must be constipated!" Nick. Young's praise of Hoggist was very useful, and he climbed up the pole.

"It's a 48-minute matchup, every minute counts, the starting and substitution rotation doesn't make any sense, working together, playing better than the other side in every minute, and winning the game in the end, that's the most important thing, and you're the winner of whether we can lead on the bench, so it's strategic to let you play on the bench!" Hogist exaggeratedly analyzed.

"Is that so? It turns out that it is so significant for me to play as a substitute! Then I'll continue to stick to my post and lead the substitutes! "Nick. Yang nodded and muttered to himself thoughtfully.

Hoggist turned around and patted Shashewski on the shoulder, "Saggy, I've got it, congratulations on a strong contender for the Sixth Man of the Year!" ”

"You're too fantastical, just now you were rolling around for a starting position, you muttered a few words to him and are now willing to be the sixth man?" Shashewski expressed disbelief.

Hogist smiled smugly, "Man! It is inevitable that when there is an iron drill on the tip of the horns, it is good to enlighten and enlighten, where is the score enough to play the starting ball? With a second team, he can show his talent on the offensive end, and there will naturally be a trade-off between the more important for someone who is paranoid about offense like him. ”

"I see, then I'm going to wish him good luck here!" Shashefsky laughed too.

The next day, everyone took the team bus to Auckland, close to the 5-hour drive is indeed a torment, even if we slept all the way over, everyone felt some back pain, Fan Xiaohong played the role of a physiotherapist at this time, and gave everyone a Chinese medicine massage "horse kills chicken" one by one, and everyone recovered their state.

Nearly 15,000 of the nearly 20,000 seats at Oracle Arena belong to season ticket holders, and there are less than 5,000 tickets, so it is understandable that tickets are expensive, but the high price of tickets does not dampen the enthusiasm of fans, and tens of thousands of fans still flock to the stadium door in search of a ticket.

The Lakers' bus did not cause a commotion among onlookers, in the hearts of Warriors fans, the best team in the world is the Warriors, and the other teams are a grade worse, how can people who eat foie gras caviar and black truffles every day look at ordinary barbecue fried chicken?

During the pre-game preparation meeting, Coach K repeatedly emphasized the importance of grabbing the start, "Take the Spurs as an example, last season the Spurs won two of the three games against the Warriors, and the two games they won were because the Warriors were caught off guard at the beginning, and they had to maintain a high degree of vigilance throughout the whole process to prevent the opponent from counterattacking, so guys, you have to show your best state at the beginning and strive to score every goal!" Keep the speed of the cover change and don't give Curry a chance to shoot! Hey Kobe Bryant, today's game is different from what it used to be, what if ...... If you really can't keep up with your physical strength, please let me know in time, okay? ”

Kobe Bryant replied with a look of disgust: "Just kidding, I'm a tireless iron man, as long as I'm on the field, I'm the strongest one." ”

"Iron Man is a fact...... "Horgist muttered quietly.

"How do I hear the buzzing of flies?" Bryant countered without thinking.

"It's still your mouth hurt, big brother, drink ice Coke!" Hougist took the initiative to admit it.

Shashewski smiled and looked at Haugist and Kobe, and had the energy to argue, indicating that they were in good spirits, "Okay, okay, you better leave the trash talk to the opponent!" I heard that Green is very good at verbal provocation, you might as well fight with him! ”

After the appearance ceremony, the light of the whole court gradually brightened, and you can see that the scene is a sea of blue, and only sporadic Lakers fans are sitting in the crowd, "Those who dare to come to Oracle Arena to cheer us on today are real warriors!" Hougist sighed at the atmosphere of the scene, but inadvertently uttered a pun.

"And the one who cheers for the opponent is also the real 'warrior'!" Bryant teased with a smile.

Hoggist scratched his head, looked at the defending champion opposite, and couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, we are about to start a war with Team Cosmos, can we really beat the opponent as I imagined?

The Warriors discharged Curry, Klay, Barnes, Green, and Bogut's regular lineup, and the Lakers also discharged Jeremy Lin, Kobe, Hoggist, Randle, and Turner, a more commonly used starting lineup.

Hougist thought that it would be "North Carolina Condor" Barnes who would defend him, but it was Green who came to his side.

"I heard you're good at scoring!" Green attacked first.

Hougist doesn't know his depth yet, and he doesn't plan to fight back for the time being, and if Green's defense is really tough enough to crack it, then the bickering will be even more ridiculous.

"Today you're going to catch up with Kobe Bryant on the iron rankings!" Green continued to provoke.

"Sorry, but you have a enoki mushroom between your teeth!" Hoggist smiled and moved sideways from the flank to the free-throw line while reaching for Jeremy Lin's pass.

It was the first time Green had encountered this way of responding to trash talk, and he had really thought that he had enoki mushrooms stuck between his teeth, and he had even started rummaging in his mouth with his tongue, when the sudden activation of Horgist woke him up, and it turned out that the boring joke was also a way to affect the opponent's mentality. However, Green prides himself on being an expert in psychological warfare on the court, and will never let himself be played by such a small trick as Hougist, so Green quickly raised his arm and followed.

After receiving the ball, Hougist dribbled and retreated to outside the three-point line to collect the ball and pretend to shoot three points, Green immediately came up, although Green's height was less than 6 feet 7 inches, but his lower board was full of power, and it was difficult for Hougist to jump calmly under his defense, so he turned around and handed the ball to Jeremy Lin, who cut to the basket from his side, and Jeremy Lin did not live up to Hougist's trust, broke through quickly with the ball, and hit a layup with Curry to help the Lakers open the scoring.

Curry dribbled to the top of the arc and gave it to Green, and he went around the figure 8 run, and didn't get a chance when he ran back to the top of the arc, and after receiving the ball, he gave the ball again to Bogut who was on the strategy and then cut to the basket, Curry's air cut attracted everyone's attention, but this was a feint, Green also cut to the basket from the wing, Bogut's long pass was transferred directly into the arms of Green who came in from the side, Green received the ball and made a backhand layup, wanting to rebound with a rebound, but he didn't want someone behind him to follow him closely, After he made a shot, Randle stretched out his arm to easily destroy the ball, and Horgist easily picked up the rebound with his long arm in the paint area, dribbling the ball to launch a fast-break counterattack.

The Warriors' return speed was really not slow, and Horgist passed the ball to Kobe Bryant who broke through the middle, but Klay and Barnes had also returned to occupy the favorable defensive terrain in the half, and Bryant's attack in the middle was blocked, and he was forced to go to the left low post, pull the defense and return the ball to Hoggist on the same wing.

Hougist was about to shoot with his hand raised, Green was struggling to chase back, and Barnes saw that Green couldn't get there in time, so he reflexively pounced on Hougist. But Hoggist is used to being treacherous, and he knows that he must maintain a high shooting percentage in front of the opening game, so he plans to shake out an absolute point guard and shoot the ball to boost his confidence. So the result can be imagined, Hougist dribbled sideways and took a step directly past Barnes, who pounced, and raised his hand again to prepare to shoot.

At this time, although Hoggist got an open opportunity, after Barnes's delay, Green also chased back, jumped up from the side and back of Haugist to continue to prepare for the block. Howgist heard the wind in the back of his head, hurriedly withdrew his hand again, and let go of Green flying from the sky, this time he calmly threw the ball out, and the calm Hoggist never missed, and the ball fell into the basket accurately.

Here, the Lakers advanced and retreated, but they didn't expect the Warriors to kick off and convert at a similar speed, and the ball was transmitted to the hands of Klay in the front court in an instant, Klay is also a firm pitcher, and he shook a little space in the face of Kobe Bryant on the wing, and then directly returned a three-point shot. However, this kind of waste investment usually ends in iron.

Randle accepted the rebound and gave the ball to Jeremy Lin, Jeremy Lin came to the front court and gave the ball to Hougist without any suspense, Hougist received the ball and faced Green again, Green kept interfering with Hougist's holding of the ball with small movements, and muttered in his mouth: "Coward, there is a kind of playing inside!" Is it because you are afraid that your mother will worry that you will get hurt? ”

Hougist still replied politely: "I'm sorry, I was wrong just now, it's not enoki mushrooms in your teeth, it's cabbage leaves." ”

"Put away your childish jokes! This is the NBA, not a kindergarten in your community! Green took the opportunity to taunt, hoping to provoke Hougist.

It seems that Green's verbal stimulation worked, Hougist dribbled from the middle to break through to the basket, Green stuck to him so that he couldn't lift the speed, the Warriors in the paint area had already set up a net waiting for Hoggist, but Hoggist just entered the paint area and distributed the ball to the weak bottom corner, everyone noticed that Kobe Bryant was waiting for an opportunity there, at this time it was too late for the Warriors' defense to expand out, Kobe Bryant scored three points with a knife in his hand.

The first three rounds were tied at 8-0, and the Lakers' offense did a good job, and the Warriors needed a goal to appease the nearly 20,000 spectators at the scene. Curry dribbled to the top of the arc and passed the ball to Klay in the bottom corner, Klay dribbled up, switched positions with Green, and then gave the ball to Green in the low post from the wing, Green hit Randle with his back, although Randle has an advantage in height and reach, but his strength is slightly inferior, and Green is about to force an attack on the basket when he pushes Randle.

Turner hurriedly came up to make up for the defense, Turner's arm span was even more obscure, Green adjusted his stance in the air and tossed the ball high, although the arc of the ball crossed Turner's fingertips, but lost the crosshair, but there was also a Bogut who was let go by Turner in the back row, and the Australian champion lightly stretched the ball into the basket.