Chapter 56: Tacit Understanding

Richard was a little surprised and surprised by the opening two consecutive wins, and Lee sensed that their three consecutive victories were just around the corner.

Because the team's next game against the Los Angeles Clippers, a team that has been in a rebuilding period for the past two years, such an opponent looks much easier to deal with than the Suns and Trail Blazers.

As a result, Richard appeared relaxed, and on November 2, the team did not play, and Richard even followed the games of other teams.

The Knicks challenged the New Orleans Hornets away, Richard watched the whole game, the Knicks won the Wizards in the last game, and in this game, in the face of the Hornets, the Knicks didn't seem to be able to play, and Jeff Van Gundy was roaring all the time.

But it didn't work, Marcus Camby on the inside was injured, and they didn't seem to be very good at defense, and in the end they could only lose to the Hornets by 10 points.

The reason why Richard pays so much attention to the Knicks is actually only because the Warriors have the Knicks' first-round pick next year, and Richard has the impression that the Knicks have failed to make the playoffs this season, and even Jeff Van Gundy announced his resignation after only coaching more than 20 games.

So Richard wanted to know more about what kind of changes would happen to the Knicks who got Bob Soula, and the Knicks game against the Hornets told Richard that the Knicks didn't change, and maybe the Warriors could get another first-round pick in the lottery area after the season.

On November 2, the Warriors did not play, so Richard organized daily training.

Now that the Warriors no longer train for physical fitness, the training is divided into two parts, one is tactical training, and the other is the most important shooting training.

Jerry Stackhouse showed up in the gym early in the morning and started shooting in earnest, and now he doesn't question the coach's decision to practice shooting, because Jerry Stackhouse can already feel his progress in shooting.

In previous seasons, Jerry Starkerhouse's shooting percentage has always hovered around 4 percent, never exceeding 41 percent, and although the scoring is high, the shooting percentage is really miserable.

Two games were played this season, the first of which was Jerry Starkerhouse's 15 shots, but he hit nine of them to score 23 points, and the second game was a little more shooting, hitting 11 of 18 shots to finish with 29 points.

Combined, the two games were combined to shoot 33 times and hit 20 shots, a whopping 60.6% shooting rate, although such a shooting percentage is only two games and may be temporary, but it at least shows that Jerry Starkerhouse has improved a lot in shooting this season.

Richard also arrived at the training hall early, and although the team has improved a lot these days, there are still real problems, and Richard still wants the team to play the kind of attack he wants.

The team's biggest problem is that Rasonestrovic is not able to adapt to playing in the high post at the moment, which has led to the team's inability to play the high post of the central striker, but in reality there is more to the problem than that.

On top of that, the team lacked coordination in many ways, which Richard knew very well.

The so-called cooperation here is similar to the cooperation between Michael Reid and Antoine Jamison, and it took Richard nearly half a month to train every day last season to train such a tacit partner.

And now, the team has changed a lot of players, and the result is that this tacit understanding is not as high as imagined, so far, the team has not found a real partner except for Michael Reid and Antoine Jamison.

In Richard's opinion, this is the team's shortcoming, so Richard will arrange some training sessions to promote chemistry these days.

Richard wanted to get Jerry Stackhouse, Chauncy Billups and the rest of the players to work together with some skill, so within a few moments of Richard's arrival, he arranged a novel way of training.

"Foot-tied shooting drill, Chauncey's right foot is tied to Jerry's left foot, Antoine's right foot is tied to Michael's left foot, and the two groups do pass and shoot drills with each other, that is, Chauncy passes the ball to Michael, Antoine passes the ball to Jerry, and then Michael and Jerry shoot!"

Richard designed an extremely complex training session that tested the players' coordination, as they were not fighting alone......

Richard asked the players to start a special training session, and at the same time, he naturally began to prepare for the game against the Clippers.

The game against the Clippers was another away game for the Warriors, but the Warriors didn't travel to Los Angeles until the next day, so Richard decided to hold the team's pregame press conference in San Francisco.

From last season's reluctance to attend press conferences to his absence this season, Richard has been able to adapt to the media.

In this press conference, because the Warriors had won two consecutive victories before, there was still no criticism at the press conference, but most of it was touted.

What is the Warriors' goal this season is the playoffs? It's a question of how confident you can win this game.

Such questions were clearly provocative, so Richard chose to answer them in an ambiguous way.

"Is the Warriors' goal this season to be the playoffs?"

A: "No, our goal is just to play every game, the season has just started and we haven't thought about it that much. ”

"Playing the Clippers, are you confident that you can win the game? The Clippers have lost two in a row, and you're on a two-game winning streak. ”

A: "The Clippers have Elton Brand and Lamar Odom, and they're not underdogs, so we've got to be careful in this game against them, and we have to pay attention. ”

"You only mentioned Elton Brand and Lamar Odom, do you think the other players are not a threat?"

Answer: "Of course not, can't you hear it?" I'm just giving an example, in the NBA, even a role player can explode at any time. ”

Richard's last answer was a bit of gunpowder, and Richard would not be too gentle on such an obviously provocative question.

And this pre-game press conference ended quickly, because the Warriors started the game really well, a 30-point win, and a 9-point small victory, both of which were very valuable victories, plus there was one game the next day, so Richard left the players early.

The training didn't last long, and as night wore on, Richard began to study the next opponent, the Clippers.

The Clippers have brought in reinforcements this season, and Richard can see that the Clippers are also working towards the playoffs, so even if the media looks down on the Clippers, Richard can't look down on them.

Richard looked at the information of the Clippers all night and ended up sleeping with red circles under his eyes......