Chapter 19: Breeding
During this time, Larry Hughes has always felt that he was very unlucky, he was originally the second leader of the Warriors, but the team changed the owner, and then the head coach was changed, and the head coach was changed, and the new head coach was still the owner of the team, if it was just like this, it would be okay, but the new coach's tactics did not fit him perfectly.
The team also exchanged for another scoring guard - Michael Reed, this scoring guard didn't pay attention to Larry Hughes when he first arrived, but I didn't expect it, what I didn't expect was that the new coach Richard Cohan's tactics were actually tailored for Michael Reed! Michael Reid took the starting point guard spot as a result.
Larry Hughes was upset, he started to be perfunctory on the field, and then managed to attract the attention of head coach Richard Cohan, the head coach changed his tactics, and Larry Hughes found that he had become the absolute core of the team, so he was relieved and happy again.
But a few days after being happy, the team came with a new assistant coach, and after the new assistant coach came, he directly changed the team's tactics, canceled his possession, and then gave himself a few singles tactics, although these sets of singles tactics are very suitable for him, but Larry Hughes is still unhappy, because his status has dropped again, from the superstar-level status at the beginning, directly to the status of role players, and it is not even as good as before Richard came to the Warriors.
On this day, the Warriors did not play, but Richard arranged training, so the players came to the training hall early, Larry Hughes came late, when he entered the locker room, most of the players had already changed their clothes and went to the court to warm up, and Larry Hughes walked into the locker room and found that there were only two people left.
Michael Reid and Richard Cohan.
Larry Hughes narrowed his eyes and looked at Michael Reed, Larry Hughes felt that the reason why he became like this had a lot to do with Michael Reed, if it wasn't for Michael Reed, the Warriors' tactics wouldn't have become like this, and he Larry Hughes wouldn't have changed from the team's second leader to a role player. And Richard, who kept talking to Michael Reed, also made Larry Hughes's mood a little complicated.
It can be said that the arrival of Richard made Larry Hughes lose his position in the team, Larry Hughes still doesn't understand, why does Richard play such a set of tactics, before the team did not implement this set of tactics, Larry Hughes is the team's main scoring guard, the second scorer, the team's outside defensive core, but after the implementation of this set of tactics, the rookie from the Bucks Michael Reid inexplicably got a lot of opportunities, and Larry Hughes in the same position naturally lost a lot of opportunities.
Larry Hughes quickly finished changing his clothes, and before he left the locker room, he glanced at Richard and Michael Reid again, and he seemed to hear some words to attack with the ball, which made Larry Hughes feel more and more anxious, is that skinny man going to start attacking with the ball? Why does the manager think so highly of him?
Larry Hughes left the locker room, Richard continued to talk to Michael Reed about some technical and tactical play, Larry Hughes heard right, guessed right, Richard is indeed asking Michael Reed to add some ball-handling offense, this is the small-ball whirlwind tactics after being familiar with the first stage, a promotion stage, increasing the ball-handling offense means that the Warriors' blocking and pick-and-roll can have more changes, from a single point guard to take the ball, hand-to-hand cooperation or the catch after the block and shoot upgrades, there are all kinds of ball-holding breakthroughs, throwing off the defender by blocking and dismantling the jumper directly, or holding the ball to attract the bag, and then passing the ball, etc.
After Michael Reed slowly became familiar with the first phase of play, Lee sensed it was time for Michael Reed to move on to the next stage.
And Larry Hughes, he went straight to the court after coming out of the locker room, and saw his players warming up on the other side of the court, he took a basketball, ran to the center of the court, and began to slowly dribble and shoot.
"Hey, morning, Larry."
"Morning, Eric."
Eric Dampier and Larry Hughes said hello, and they both looked at each other and smiled, but it was obvious that Larry Hughes's smile was a little forced, as if he had forced his face to tear his face away.
Eric Dampier also understood why Larry Hughes was like this, and he asked with some concern: "Did the new Frank coach yesterday come to you about the new tactics?" ”
Larry Hughes looked at Eric Dampier, who didn't speak, just nodded.
Seeing Larry Hughes nodding, Eric Dampier showed an embarrassed expression, in this Warriors, there is also a small circle, Eric Dampier and Antoine Jamieson, these young players who have always been in the Warriors are a small circle, so Eric Dampier was a little indignant after guessing what happened to Larry Hughes, but he didn't dare to go to the team to theorize anything, because after Richard took office, Eric Dampier benefited.
In the four games after Richard took office, Eric Dampier was the team's starting center, and there were good and bad games in the 4 games, but he averaged 8.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, which was considered an explosion, so although Eric Dampier was not angry, he didn't dare to say anything.
He glanced around, and then whispered: "I really don't know why the team reused that Michael Reed, that guy is just a rookie, and he played well in the last game, is the team trying to mess up in this way?" ”
Larry Hughes snorted coldly, he felt that Eric Dampier said it very well: "By the way, what did Antoine say?" ”
The Antoine in Larry Hughes's mouth is of course Antoine Jamison, and the three of them form a small circle within the Warriors, and at this time, Larry Hughes naturally hopes that Jamison can be on his side.
"I'll call him." Eric Dampier walked towards Antoine Jamison in the distance.
After a while, Jamison was in front of Larry Hughes.
"Antoine, the team has lifted my ball, what do you think?" Larry Hughes cut straight to the point, his eyes fixed on Jamison. Hope to get the answers you want.
Antoine Jamison was silent for a moment, then spread his hands and said, "I think you have to talk to Mr. Cohan, I can't do anything." ”
This answer obviously did not satisfy Larry Hughes, who frowned: "No, Antoine, you have a way, you can help me, deal with that kid named Michael Reid in the game!" ”
"In the game?" Antoine Jamison was obviously unhappy with Larry Hughes's suggestion, he raised his voice, and then flatly refused: "Larry, I can't help you, the team is on its way to success, I can't spoil Mr. Cohan's business at this time!" ”
Antoine Jamison was dissatisfied, and Larry Hughes must also be dissatisfied, he was very dissatisfied with Antoine Jamison's attitude, but Antoine Jamison turned around and left after rejecting him, and Larry Hughes didn't want to ask Jamison for anything anymore, he patted the basketball hatefully, and thought in his heart: "If you don't help me, then I'll do it myself!" ”
What Larry Hughes did secretly, Richard didn't know, after he taught Michael Reid one-on-one, he pulled Antoine Jamison to give a few words, and then let Frank Vogel take the team to start training.
With tomorrow's home game against the Lakers, Richard is thinking about how to make the Warriors play a spectacular performance, but he ignores the problems that are slowly growing on the team......