After Bryant also ravaged Curry on two consecutive balls, the Warriors had to shift their defensive attention to Kobe and Antetokounmpo, with Barnes and Curry switching guards.

Liu Ren took the ball, Curry didn't retreat, he didn't retreat, just when he was thinking about whether to stick to the defense or prevent the breakthrough, Liu Ren directly crushed Curry......

The Lakers played against Curry, the weakest part of the Warriors' defense, today, so Liu Ren took the ball and singled Curry.

When Liu Ren scored three points, a strong dunk on the inside, and a crushing breakthrough, Curry went on a rampage, hitting three points and long-range shots in a row!

D'Antoni's original purpose was to provoke Curry, make Curry lose his mind and go it alone, and then use Liu Ren to defend, so that Curry can play a bad game when he is emotionally broken.

But I didn't expect Curry to be terrible today! In the first quarter, he made 4 of 5 three-pointers, and all kinds of strong shots against Liu Ren's defense forced the Lakers to wrap up, but Curry was still not accurate under the double bag, when the Lakers' defensive attention was all on Curry, Randle directly took away the ball, used the advantage of physical fitness to brutally break through the inside, attracted the defense and created opportunities for teammates, Curry attracted most of the outside defense, Barnes and Thompson had a lot of three-point opportunities.

Although the Lakers' three major outside lines repeatedly scored on Curry, the Lakers scored 32 points in the first quarter, and the Warriors scored 41 points!

The Warriors made 11 three-pointers in the first quarter!

Before last season, most teams couldn't make 11 threes after a game!

In this battle of the world's attention, Wharton perfectly showed his courage, saying that if he fights for offense, he will fight for offense, even if the opponent catches their defensive dead end, it is the same as fighting for offense.

In the second quarter, the Warriors began to defend to the death, with Livingston, Thompson, Iguodala, McAdoo, and Bogut on the court.

A little different from Steve Kerr's coaching, Iguodala's playmaking ability doesn't appeal much to him when it comes to Wharton, who prefers to use Iguodala's defensive and counter-attacking abilities.

Maybe it was because I felt very good in the first quarter, but I was still nine points behind, which made the Lakers a little flustered, and D'Antoni and Bickerstaff didn't know why they didn't give special instructions, but used normal play to send Clarkson, Nick Young, Korver, Gasol, and Blake's lineup, but they were targeted by the defensive strategy that the Warriors had prepared for a long time, and the Lakers not only did not narrow the score in the second quarter, but were pulled the score to 64-53 by the Warriors at halftime, 11 points behind!

The difference of 11 points is a distance that seems close, but very far away.

It looked like the two sides were on par from the start, and there were back and forth, but in terms of score, it was the Warriors who had been leading since they scored their first shot.

In the end, the Lakers played a very good offense, but they were not able to defend against the Warriors, but were prevented by the Warriors' long-prepared strategy when they rotated the lineup!

With 112 points, the Lakers scored a lot in this game, but the Warriors scored 127 points and finally beat the Lakers by 15 points......

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It's strange, Wharton's game feels strange from beginning to end, it's not that the Lakers are playing abnormally, but the Lakers are playing too normally today, and that's what Wharton thinks is the strangest.

Today, the Warriors played unusually unrestrained, attacking to the death on offense, and playing desperately on defense, which was extremely uncalm compared with the previous more than ten games.

But the Lakers played too calmly, and the players saw that they were still down by more than ten points in the final quarter, and they wanted to play hard, but they were replaced by D'Antoni with a calm player, which made Walton feel too strange.

After the Spurs were eliminated in the playoffs last year, Wharton's working relationship with the Spurs ended, and he returned to Los Angeles to watch the Lakers playoffs all the way.

Originally, today, Walton thought that the Lakers would continue to use some strange tricks, such as letting go of Barnes again, trying to make Barnes play abnormally again under pressure.

Wharton has already established a very good relationship with Barnes, and no matter what, he hints to Barnes that he can do it, and he is the future of the Warriors, instilling confidence in Barnes.

Although Barnes does not have the talent of a superstar, he still has the talent of a first-class scorer, and he has improved a lot in the fourth year of his career, and his mentality has improved a lot after being recognized by his coach, and if the Lakers continue to let him go, he will completely fall into the trap of Walton.

But Wharton didn't think that the trap would be useful at all, and the game was won.

The Lakers have used the most normal style of play from beginning to end, that is, the style of play when facing ordinary teams, and have not thought about any changes or anything like that, of course, the Warriors have studied the regular style of play of the Lakers for a long time, and it is easy to find a way to easily win the first game of the season with the Lakers.

Wharton is very unhappy, there is no thrilling feeling of winning, he has made a lot of preparations, dealing with many possible changes of the Lakers, wanting to further prove his coaching ability, and the result is so easy to win, this feels like when you go downstairs, you thought there was a step, but it turned out to go directly to the next floor, although the goal was achieved, but there was a feeling of unhappiness.

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On the Warriors' side, the players won the cool, Curry scored 45 points, the Warriors won big, and the coach was not happy.

On the Lakers' side, the players lost so badly, the fans felt that they lost inexplicably, and the coach was in a god.

The Lakers players may have won too much last year, and this year they have a very uncomfortable feeling about losing.

Especially Liu Ren, he thinks that D'Antoni obviously found a way to deal with the Warriors in the playoffs last year, why didn't he try this game? And in the middle of the fourth quarter, when he couldn't help but take the ball alone, D'Antoni replaced him on the grounds that he was not calm, Liu Ren felt very good today, and scored 37 points in a little more than three quarters, and he chose to go directly to D'Antoni to ask for an explanation.

When Liu Ren finds D'Antoni with a fire, he finds that D'Antoni and Bickerstaff seem to be waiting for him.

"Bernie, I said the boss would come to me, I guessed right, you paid for tonight's drink." D'Antoni laughed.

"You know that the boss will be dissatisfied and still do this, you really have you." Bickerstaff smiled and shook his head, as the league's highest-paid assistant coach, he could still afford a little drink.

Liu Ren was stunned for a moment and said, "Coach, do you know that I will come to you?" ”

"Of course, you're asking me why I didn't defend the Warriors the way I did last season?" D'Antoni asked rhetorically.

"Yes......" Liu Renmo felt a little weaker.

"What do you think of Barnes' shooting performance today?" D'Antoni continued.

"Very accurate......

"That's right, it's accurate, so we can already know the answer without experimenting with the Warriors' defense, and we don't have a better way for the time being, so I want to see if the Warriors can handle it with all their might, and let Bernie carefully observe what flaws are in the Warriors' all-out offense."

"Then why didn't we fight in the fourth quarter?"

"Alright, boss, the game is over, are you going to join me for the press conference today?"

"No, no." Liu Ren said angrily.

D'Antoni smiled helplessly at Bickerstaff, and then took Antetokounmpo and Whiteside, the Lakers' second-best performers today, to the press conference.

As for Kobe, he seems to be deliberately reducing his role and choosing to give up the opportunity to participate in the press conference to young players as much as possible.

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After D'Antoni left, Liu Ren felt strange to see Kobe Bryant not seem to be too affected by the physiotherapy massage.

This is Kobe! Lost a game against the biggest enemy, and there was no reaction at all, and there was no Kobe Bryant among the players who were so angry because of the loss just now.

"Zake, why don't you seem to care if you win or lose the game, or you should retire." Liu Ren said unhappily.

Kobe Bryant was not angry, and responded: "NONO, I STILL HAVE TO WIN A LOT OF CHAMPIONSHIPS, AND WHO SAID THAT I DON'T CARE IF I WIN OR LOSE, JUST LOSE IF I LOSE, CAN I DO IT AGAIN IF I AM ANGRY?" It's just a regular season game, and our goal this year is no longer to break records, and I don't want to do that for a second time. ”

"But in this case, we will most likely be left behind by the Warriors, and we will not be number one in the West." Liu Ren is very concerned about this, he and Curry boasted yesterday that he would definitely solve the Warriors in minutes, but found that the firepower is really not as good as the Warriors, and the Warriors' firepower is too fierce.

"First place in the regular season? This stuff doesn't make that much sense. Kobe Bryant pouted, he found that even though Liu Ren had been playing for 4 years, he was still not so mature.

Kobe Bryant is also an Internet addict uncle now, and after two years of exposure to electronic technology, he has read a lot of things on the Internet that he has not seen before when he couldn't go online and couldn't use electronic products.

For example, Liu Ren in Kobe's eyes is a species he newly understands called home control, this kind of person will do a good job when he has the opportunity to do something, and will do everything he can, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to mature psychologically.

"Isn't it pointing to be first in the regular season?" Liu Ren asked unconvinced.

"Yes, but it doesn't mean that much, in fact, the championship I won before I partnered with you, only once was first in the regular season, and many other times I wasn't even first in the West, especially when I partnered with Shaq for three consecutive championships, and one time was only third in the West, but we were still invincible in the playoffs, easy to win three consecutive championships, and I was ...... at that time Tell you, it's much more powerful than now......" Kobe Bryant began to recall the eventful years again......

"Stop, stop, I understand, I know you want to say that the regular season record is not as meaningful as I thought, but the problem today is not here, but we didn't even resist today, we were defeated, whenever we want to come by ourselves, the coach emphasizes playing according to tactics, why not fight?" Liu Ren is still puffed up.

began to drill his brain again, Kobe Bryant thought of his youth again, and he loved to drill his brain as much as Liu Ren...... Thinking about it, Kobe Bryant looked at Liu Ren, thought for a while and said: "Mike may have his thoughts, sometimes we just play well, follow the arrangement, and trust the coach." ”

Kobe Bryant actually seems to have faith in D'Antoni? Liu Ren said that he was hell, and even threw aside the idea of drilling his own horns.

You must know that Kobe Bryant's trusted coach throughout his career is only the Zen master, and he may not listen to the words of other coaches, and he will beat himself when he goes up, only the Zen master can make him trust, but I didn't expect D'Antoni to make Kobe trust.

Liu Ren is starting to be depressed again, he is not now struggling with the fact that he lost the game without struggling, but he is struggling with what made D'Antoni feel trusting Kobe.

Liu Ren despises Kobe Bryant in many places, such as careful eyes, black belly, etc., but his reverence for Kobe has not diminished, Kobe, a guy who has only served as a coach of a Zen master, trusts D'Antoni very much, and Liu Ren naturally trusts D'Antoni, after all, D'Antoni just led the Lakers to win the championship.

Liu Ren began to wonder what D'Antoni wanted to do today......

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At the post-game press conference, Kobe and Liu Ren didn't come today, and both of them went on the court to play, Liu Ren didn't say anything, he often didn't come, everyone was used to it, but Kobe Bryant played on the court but didn't come to the press conference, which made the media seem to smell some gossip.

Was Bryant not coming because he lost, or was he unhappy because the Lakers weakened his role on the court?

Decisively, the first question was asked by the reporter about this, or the media's focus was on the Lakers, but the Warriors, who obviously won, were left out in the cold.

"May I ask Coach D'Antoni, why didn't Kobe Bryant come to the press conference?"

D'Antoni replied: "It's very simple, Kobe Bryant wasn't happy with his performance today, and I'm actually not happy either, and if he had better running ability, like Barnes of their Warriors, and his open shot, our offense would have improved a lot." ”

As soon as the media's eyes lit up, the attention-grabbing headline "D'Antoni slammed Kobe Bryant for not running the position was good" entered their brains.

And D'Antoni's answer led the reporter to the next question: "Do you think Barnes is good?" If I'm not mistaken, Barnes was the breakthrough you had in last year's playoffs against the Warriors. ”

"This, I've always felt that Barnes is very good, today you all saw it, as long as he is given a chance he can shoot, as for last year's playoffs, I think it was a problem of employing people, now they have a younger and more daring coach, instead of only using a coach who is already a superstar, Barnes has completely improved, originally I was going to use the same defense today as last season's playoffs to deal with the Warriors, but the boss discussed it with me before the game, and then watched Barnes's excellent performance this year, So I had no choice but to give up last season's tactics. "D'Antoni is serious nonsense.

Wharton on the side was dumbfounded, he was the first time to be a head coach this year, and it was temporary, and he had won the previous game easily, and it was the first time he had encountered such a divisive opponent head coach.

Wharton retorted this, as if saying that he couldn't do it, how could a man not do it? Admit it, it's too arrogant, which makes Wharton embarrassed and can only keep silent.

Next, D'Antoni praised Barnes and Wharton to death, as if they didn't even have to lose, and expressed his pleasure to see the rise of a young small forward and the strong entry of a young coach.

Wharton also began to be as depressed as Liu Ren, what is this D'Antoni going to do!