Richard did not attach much importance to the preseason game, and this was most evident in the preseason record.

The first two games were lost, and Richard still didn't pay attention to the next games, and then lost one game after another, when Rasonestrovic was on the floor, the Warriors lost the most points, but Chauncy Billups's progress satisfied Richard, Chauncy has slowly found the feeling Richard wants.

However, Rasonestrovic could not adapt to the tactics, and the tactics that Richard wanted to see could not be perfectly presented.

It's just that Richard can't let Rasonestrovich find the feeling of moving in the high post as soon as possible, so everything can only go with the flow, anyway, after a long time, Lasonestrovich will always adapt to the Warriors' tactics, it's just a matter of time.

In the preseason, the Warriors' final record was 1-7, and they faced the Lakers, Kings, SuperSonics, and Trail Blazers in a row.

ESPN's prediction before the start of the regular season moved the Warriors up several spots in the rankings, which was proposed by J.A. Adander, and ESPN predicted that the Warriors would finish ninth in the West at the end of the regular season, just shy of making the playoffs.

Sports Illustrated and Hoop maintained their previous judgment on the Warriors, still predicting that the Warriors will be around the top 10 in the West.

However, the United States Today is the media that downgraded the Warriors in all the media in North America, and they lowered the Warriors to 13th in the West in their predictions before the start of the regular season, and they believe that with the strength of the Warriors in the preseason, they may still be a strong contender for the bottom of the West.

For today's United States prediction, Richard does not agree with it, although as the first game of the season approaches, Richard is also a little nervous, but Richard still feels that the Warriors will not fall to the bottom of the West, after all, even if the record is too poor, Richard still has a killer weapon in his hand.

The killer feature is that once the Warriors' record is really bad enough to displease Richard, then Richard can revert to last season's style of playing where speed is king, and then let Chris Anderson be the team's main center and win with speed.

Last season, the Warriors had a 63.4% win rate with that style of play, and with the Warriors' more neat personnel lineup this season, the win rate will surely increase, so the Warriors still have a chance to hit the playoffs.

It's just that now Richard wants to see a Warrior who can compete with the Lakers and Kings, so he naturally has to treat the team with high requirements.

The Warriors' opponent in the first game of the season is the Portland Trail Blazers, in the preseason game, the Warriors lost to the Trail Blazers twice, and this game is still the home of the Trail Blazers, so there are very few people who are optimistic about the Warriors.

The Warriors' performance in the preseason still worries or underestimates the Warriors, after all, the 1-7 record is relatively poor in the entire league, and the Grizzlies, Nuggets and Cavaliers have a 0-8 record that is worse than the Warriors.

So, in the San Francisco area, most people don't want to talk about the Warriors' season opener, and they feel that this season is going to be another losing season, so they don't expect the team's performance.

On October 30, when the new NBA season began to open, Richard rushed from San Francisco to Portland with the team, and at this time, the Portland media and the San Francisco media were already arguing.

Before the start of each game, the media will always be the front of the opposing team, sometimes the team uses the media to fight, and sometimes the media provokes the team war, and now, the San Francisco and Portland media war is a spontaneous battle between them.

This battle had nothing to do with the Warriors and the Trailblazers, and before Richard even spoke out in front of the media, the media on both sides quarreled.

In the Portland media's outlook for the new NBA season, Portland Oregonian reporter Joe Freeman said that for the Trail Blazers, there will be no suspense in the first game of the season, and they only focus on the performance of new coach Morris Cheeks.

Such a sentence quickly annoyed the San Francisco media, and Rusty Simmons, a reporter for the San Francisco Documentary, started the media war directly, noting in a subsequent article that the Warriors had a good chance of winning against the Trail Blazers, as Mr. Richard Cohan would achieve a total victory over Morris Cheeks.

"In the first game of the preseason Warriors vs. the Trail Blazers, Mr. Richard Cohan almost completely suppressed Morris Cheeks in the first half of the game, which is why I said that the Warriors might win, and in the last game of the preseason, the Warriors won against the Lakers, which shows that the strength of the Warriors cannot be seen at the surface, maybe the Warriors will beat the Trail Blazers in the first game of the season......"

Rusty Simmons' article was quickly picked up by Joe Freeman, who has always been fond of stirring up trouble, and immediately gave his latest opinion in the pregame report: "Rusty Simmons said that Richard Cohan will take the Warriors to win the Trail Blazers? All I can say is a joke, the Warriors lost two games to the Trail Blazers in the preseason, and that's what we saw! ”

Joe Freeman's response quickly led to more people joining the fray, with the San Jose Mercury's DiClough and Marcus Thompson, and ESPN's Warriors reporter Remona Shelburn joining the fray.

In Portland, Sports Illustrated's Ben Griff was the first to support Joe Freeman.

When Richard got off the plane with his players, he heard about the media war on both sides, which left Richard speechless for a while, he had wanted to spend the first game of the season in peace, but now it seems that it should be impossible.

Because of the media war on both sides, the smell of gunpowder in this game has come out, and Richard was still hiding from the media, but on the evening of October 30, Richard learned about the situation on the Trail Blazers' side from Larry Foster's mouth.

At the pre-game press conference of the Trail Blazers, in the face of Sports Illustrated reporter Ben Griff's question "Who is stronger than Richard Cohan or you", Morris Cheeks didn't know if it was his brain or what's wrong, and actually replied directly: "Of course I'm stronger, is there any doubt about this?" ”

And according to Larry Foster, Morris Cheeks still had a look of underbeating on his face at the time.

Because it was Larry Foster who said it, Richard still believed it, and Richard laughed directly at Maurice Cheeks' remarks that he thought he was stronger, and in the preseason game, it was a fact that Richard comprehensively suppressed Maurice Cheeks.

Although Richard did not dare to say that he could win against veteran coaches such as Phil Jackson and Greg Popovich in the game, Richard was still confident that he could handle a new coach like Morris Cheeks.

Therefore, Richard is already holding back his strength and is ready to teach Maurice Cheeks a lesson in the first game of the season!

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