Chapter 364: Blair

For Blair Bowman, Wang Lei, the head coach who has brought great changes to the team, is not yet fully trusted.

Although in terms of the current situation, the situation of the Runners is good, the team's style of play is passionate, and it has a high degree of ornamentation and attractiveness, which makes the Runners, who were originally very average in the ball market, become a popular team in the league now, but Blair has always had some resistance to Wang Lei in his heart, which comes from Blair's experience in the NBA over the years, and he has never seen an easy-going coach like Wang Lei.

It is said that the nature of the country is easy to change, Blair is stubborn and stubborn, although he accepted Wang Lei's current primary transformation of the team, but seriously, Blair is actually still suspicious of Wang Lei's tactical concept, he is now twenty-nine years old, and Blair's physical condition will decline when he is over thirty, which is an inevitable trend, and Blair is worried that he will not be able to win the championship in his lifetime.

And Blair's distrust of Wang Lei also comes from his lack of performance in these games after the start of the regular season.

This is not that Blair deliberately closed the play, but he felt that if he attacked strongly, it would change the smooth operation of the team's tactics, which made Blair have some doubts about Wang Lei's tactics.

As a veteran who has played in the league for ten years, Blair has suffered a lot of ridicule, although he has been recognized by many people in the league personally, but it has not been of much help to the previous Kings team, many commentators ridiculed Blair as a cancer, he can not win a championship in any team, and some people question that Blair's style of play is not suitable to be the core of the team at all.

So now Blair is more eager for success, more eager for the team's outstanding results, and more eager for the team to be led to the championship by himself, and he wants to prove to all those who look down on him that Blair Bowman is the core of the championship team.

Blair, who is not good at communication, has not expressed these doubts in his heart, and at the same time, these doubts have also made him begin to have a lot of doubts about Wang Lei's employment.

The first quarter of the game against the Golden State Warriors was tepid, with Turgun controlling the pace of the game well, and the Runners continued their perimeter-based style of play, but the pace was indeed much slower than before.

The difference between the two sides has been maintained within 10 points, and the Runners have always occupied this slight lead by relying on team cooperation, which also makes the Golden State Warriors not play with their passion.

Halfway through the second quarter of the game, Wang Lei made it clear when arranging tactics for the team that the next game would be played with Blair as the core and according to Blair's rhythm.

"Blair, I need you to step up in the next game, play in your way, control the rhythm, and Turgun will cooperate with you."

These are the words of Wang Lei in front of all the players of the Runners.

So when the game resumed, Blair took over the team's offensive and defensive responsibilities, Turgun passed the ball to Blair as soon as he arrived in the frontcourt, and then the other players all pulled away, allowing Blair to direct the team's attack.

Now that he has Wang Lei's explanation, Blair no longer cares about anything, and directly lets go of all kinds of breakthroughs.

Blair's speed is not particularly fast in the second and third positions, but if you add his strong physical fitness and very good combination of man and ball, this makes it difficult for the Golden State Warriors team to defend, and more importantly, the players of the Golden State Warriors also know how good the Runners' pitchers are, and they don't dare to wrap Blair too closely.

Wang Lei actually sensed Blair's doubts in his daily training.

Blair used to play as a core player, he needed the ball in his hands to feel it, and in the previous games, Blair existed at most in the nature of a deterrent weapon, and there were very few opportunities for him to really exert his strength, which would be worrying and doubtful for anyone.

So now Wang Lei must give Blair peace of mind in a timely manner.

The Runners can't do without Blair now, he is the team's most powerful offensive weapon, maybe Blair seems to be of little use in the regular season, but Wang Lei knows very well that Blair will be the most threatening person on the team in the playoffs.

In the second half of the second quarter, both sides sent their starting lineups, and the Golden State Warriors originally wanted to try to catch up with the score, but then they were hit by Blair's unscrupulous breakthroughs and strong attacks.

The difference between the two sides quickly stretched to double digits, and Blair's breakthrough and strong attack were very effective, and the success rate of the attack was greatly improved compared to last season.

This is actually what Wang Lei expected, although the previous Kings team also played with Blair as the core, but at that time, Blair had so many helpers around him now, so the previous Blair offensive efficiency was very poor, and the shooting rate was in a low position among the league's scorers.

And now just one Turgun is enough for the Golden State Warriors to not dare to be too reckless in containing Blair, not to mention that the Runners also have Salehi, Stephen Chambers, Francis Leonardo and many other players with good shooting ability.

So Blair himself feels that playing is much easier now, and he is no longer the same as before, dragging one on the left and one on the right to make a layup.

With the score at 59-44 at halftime and the Runners leading by fifteen points, Blair Bowman was finally showing what he could do as the league's top scorer.

After entering the second half, the Golden State Warriors picked up some momentum, they defended Blair a lot tighter, and the team also decisively used joint defense in defense.

However, after the second half of the second quarter, Blair's doubts at this time were greatly reduced, and he was not worried that his core position would be lost, so the cooperation with his teammates gradually became tacit.

For a long time, Blair Bowman's image of the league is that he is physically strong and then more independent, but in fact, Blair Bowman has never been the kind of person who has time not to pass the ball, but he didn't have a helper at all before, after many times the ball was wasted by his teammates, Blair began to be alone, and now how can Blair, who is playing very enjoyable, let the Golden State Warriors casually wrap him up.

So when the Golden State Warriors began to pack Blair in the second half, he began to assist his teammates to score, and at this time, the Runners' outside "artillery group" finally showed the Warriors and the league their powerful firepower.

In the entire third quarter of the game, the Runners scored 46 points, including eight of the fourteen three-pointers in this quarter, although the Golden State Warriors also maintained a good offensive efficiency, but when the game entered the fourth quarter, the Golden State Warriors quickly gave up the game, because they were already more than thirty points behind at this time, and when the regular season had just begun, the coaching staff of the Golden State Warriors felt that there was no need to go head-to-head with the opponent, so they gave up the game directly.

In the end, the Runners defeated their opponents again by a big score and still maintained their first place in the West.