Chapter 107 Scorching First Section
Osborne slept all the way, and the team finally arrived at the hotel in Oakland, California, where we know the Golden State Warriors as we know them.
At this time, the Warriors are not the championship team that is hanging in the sky now, but a quasi-fish belly team with many problems, the team's players can be said to have no star temperament, and the team's offensive efficiency is low, almost all rely on individual work.
So no matter how you look at this game, the Pistons have a better chance of winning, unless the Pistons have a collective convulsion, or the Warriors collectively go against the sky, but it also happens that the Warriors are really good at creating miracles. once staged the Black Eight Miracle in the 06~07 season, which made the Mavericks, the top seed team in the West, frightened, and made Dirk Nowitzki have the reputation of being a soft egg, becoming the most embarrassing regular season MVP in NBA history.
However, as far as the current Warriors are concerned, there is really nothing to praise, the offense is lackluster, and the defense is disorganized. Larry Brown thinks it only takes one or two shocks for the Warriors to lose, and doesn't take the Warriors seriously at all, because Larry Brown is now concerned about the next game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
If the New Jersey Nets are the rivals of the Pistons in the Eastern Conference, then the Los Angeles Lakers can be regarded as the rivals of Larry Brown in the Finals, because Larry Brown led the 76ers with Allen Iverson and Deacon Bemutombo to meet the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals, and finally the 76ers lost to the Lakers 1:4. So Larry Brown has always wanted to beat the Lakers, and it has to be a team without a superstar to beat the Lakers to prove that even without a superstar, he can still win the O'Brien Cup.
So Larry Brown was still thinking about starting to build his team system, and his mind was not on the game against the Golden State Warriors at all, so he decided to treat today's game as a training game to train the team's offensive and defensive system.
On November 13, 2003, at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, the Golden State Warriors hosted the Pistons who lost to the Sacramento Kings.
Larry Brown in order for the team to go further in the playoffs, it was a major reform as soon as it came up, allowing Osborne to directly play the role of super sixth man, and putting Tysian Ann Prince as the starting small forward, when Osborne heard this decision, he felt really incredible, Larry Brown is not crazy, but Osborne does not have so much power, he can only suppress the anger in his heart, and watch coldly how the Pistons failed under Larry Brown's tutelage.
At the beginning of the game, there were sharp-eyed commentators and commentators who saw Osborne actually sitting on the bench, which was really big news, and it seemed that Osborne really fell out with Larry Brown, and Larry Brown had abandoned Osborne, which was really a crazy decision.
"At the beginning of this game, the Pistons changed players and threw Osborne on the bench, Larry Brown really didn't know what he was thinking, to know how much Osborne helped the Pistons team with weak offense, it seems that Osborne has no place in the Pistons, after all, the contradictions between Osborne and head coach Larry Brown are becoming more and more public, I don't know what chips the Pistons have to keep Osborne, after all, Osborne's trade value is very large, and players like him will definitely have a lot of teams needing."
In the first quarter, the Pistons jumped the ball successfully, and Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton teamed up to contribute 7 points at the beginning, the efficiency was good, and the Warriors were not to be outdone, Warriors scoring guard Nick Van Exel, even shot 8 points, Jason Richardson also shot, and hit Tyshire Springs, a 2+1, the two teams are not compatible, you play back and forth is very anxious.
Then the Pistons collectively lost their touch, missed the iron in a row, and was directly hit by the Warriors with a small climax of 11:3, and then Richard Hamilton stood up and hit three shots in a row, Billups also put a cold arrow on the outside, a three-point shot, and then assisted center Memiteoku to score two points, the Pistons suddenly approached the score, and the Warriors stood up at this time Eric Dampier, and shook Ben Wallace under the basket in a row, and cut 5 points in a row, The first quarter ended with Richard Hamilton's iron strike, and the Pistons trailed by four points at 21-25 in the first quarter.
The Pistons' state of play made Larry Brown very embarrassed, he originally thought that this game was supposed to be a competition between strong men and weak women, but he didn't expect it to become as fierce as Mars hitting the earth, he originally wanted to tell Osborne through the game that even if there was no him, the Pistons would still not be a weak team, but unfortunately, the performance was not successful.
Not to mention that Larry Brown doesn't understand what the hell the Pistons are playing, even Osborne doesn't understand it off the court, when the Pistons can't even do the fish belly team, you must know that the original Pistons team is very tough, even if there is no Osborne as an outlier, it is also the existence of dominating the Eastern Conference and abusing the whole league, what is wrong with the current Pistons, is it because of the butterfly effect.
In the second quarter, Larry Brown had no choice, so he directly replaced Osborne, and pretended to be nothing, and said to Osborne: "In the second quarter, you play as you like, and the offensive combing task of the whole team is handed over to you." ”
Osborne didn't expect Larry Brown to dare to be so casual, but Osborne didn't dismantle his stage, after all, Osborne is still a player under him, and the county official might as well be in charge of it now, so it's better to endure it during this time, and then Osborne pretended that nothing had happened and went up to the game.
However, although Osborne played, the position was not the small forward position he was familiar with, but the position of replacing the scoring guard Richard Hamilton, Osborne was going to give Nick Van Exel to match, although Osborne is not very familiar with Van Exel, but he has heard that he has shown good potential in the NBA, but unfortunately he ruined him, making him from a very favored and finally reduced to a data brush, and Van Exel's defense is also notoriously bad.
So it means that Osborne doesn't have to worry about defense, he just needs to score, but Osborne has a task, how can he score honestly, and he has to continue his triple-double record.
Van Exel's is an improvement on Osborne, a rookie on the court, but he is not weak in terms of self-conceited scoring, and he also knows that Osborne's defense is also notoriously bad, so he can set a new personal scoring high. In this way, the two people with their own hearts began the contest in the second quarter.