Chapter 6: A Shit Race

The rebuilding of the Warriors' management has been carried out in an orderly manner, and after the establishment of a partnership with the University of California, San Francisco, the Warriors' team medical team has been rebuilt, and the transfer department and the athletic department have also begun to recruit specific talents for the public according to Richard's requirements.

For example, in the transfer department, Richard asked the team to recruit data analysis experts who know how to use data to judge players, or retired stars like Chris Mullin who have some connections in the league. For example, the sports department has recruited some management talents, as well as the public relations department, and Richard requires new employees in the public relations department to have experience in the media industry in order to deal with various media.

Such requirements are very strict, so that important departments like the transfer department have not yet found their director, but for the time being, Richard has no time to deal with these things, on the one hand, the transfer talks with the Rockets are in full swing, and the Rockets have proposed a variety of plans, seemingly unwilling to take even one first-round pick, and on the other hand, Richard has also begun to pay attention to the Warriors' game.

In the regular season, the Warriors have lost 16 in a row, and the poor record has kept Richard reluctant to go to the Oakland Arena to watch the team's games, and although he has been in charge of the team for two or three weeks, Richard has not even watched a home game of the team.

On February 7, 2001, before the All-Star Game, the Warriors welcomed the challenge of the Chicago Bulls at their home Oakland Arena, facing the league's bottom-to-bottom team, the Bulls who were worse than the Warriors, Lee felt that the Warriors were likely to achieve their first win since he took over the team, so in this game, he chose to go to the scene to watch the game, and after the previous training turmoil, several old fritters who had negative training would no longer appear in the team's squad, so Richard was still in a good mood when he went to watch the game.

The Oakland Arena is located on the outskirts of Oakland and is on the San Francisco side, so every game day, the Oakland Bay Bridge, which connects San Francisco and Oakland, will be filled with cars rushing to the Oakland Arena. At this time, the Auckland Arena had not yet been renamed Oracle Arena, and the title cooperation from Oracle had not yet begun, so when Richard arrived at the arena, he began to wonder if he should talk to some friends in the IT industry about cooperation.

The right to use the arena belongs to the Warriors, and the naming rights are naturally also the Warriors', so if Richard sells the naming rights, he may be able to make a profit.

The Auckland Arena can accommodate about 20,000 fans, and when Richard arrived at the stadium, the game was about to start, and the players of both teams had finished their warm-ups.

In the 2015 finals, Richard can be said to have paid attention to the whole process, when the yellow sea appeared in the Oracle Arena directly shocked him, the design of the vertical stands of the Oracle Arena, allowing 20,000 Warriors fans to stand up and cheer for the team, directly let the camera in the center of the court feel a tsunami, the feeling of overturning the sea, at that time, the Warriors' ball market can be said to be extremely hot!

Although Richard knew that it was the scene that would later appear in the Oracle Arena, the desertion in the Oakland Arena still made Richard feel uncomfortable for a while, and he was even more desperate to make the Warriors better.

By the time Richard took his seat, the game had already begun, with the Warriors fielding a starting lineup led by Eric Dampier, Antoine Jamison, and Larry Hughes, while the Bulls had their starting lineup for this year, with first-round picks Elton Brand, Ron Mosser, Artest, Brad Miller and Fred Hojborg.

This lineup seems to have Elton Brand and Artest and Brad Miller, but you must know that at that time, Brand and Artest were only second-year rookies, and Brad Miller was an undrafted rookie who had just entered the NBA for a few years.

So, halfway through the regular season, the Bulls only won eight games, two games short of the Warriors, who won 10 games.

It should be said that whether it is state or strength, the Warriors are above the Bulls, after all, several of the main forces of the Warriors have been playing in the NBA for several years, like Antoine Jamison and Larry Hughes, they are all experienced NBA players, and Artest They are different, Jamison and they have already reached the time to make results, but the problems within the Warriors make them have to follow the Warriors.

Winning this game and ending the team's losing streak was what Richard was hoping to see.

However, the process of the game made Richard frown, judging from the situation on the court, it seems that the Bulls with worse records have a stronger fighting spirit than the Warriors, at least the Bulls are more active than the Warriors, constantly running, tearing apart the Warriors' already very weak defense, coupled with the Warriors' inactivity on the offensive end, the game was quickly controlled by the Bulls!

You know, it's the Warriors' home court! After encountering a Bull who is worse than the Warriors, it is the Bulls who play better! Richard knows very well that this kind of confrontation between the bad team and the bad team is actually fighting spirit, and it is obvious that the fighting spirit of the bulls is more vigorous, and it is natural that the bulls are ahead!

On the court, Ron Artest came to a breakthrough with his signature carrying man, carrying the Warriors' starting small forward Steve Mills rushed into the three-point line, and then a quick stop, mid-range shot, the aging Steve Mills had already been shaken by Ron Artest's set of technical moves so that he couldn't find the center of gravity, and when Artest made an emergency stop, Steve Mills could only wave his hand helplessly.

Beyond one's power! After all, Steve Mills is already a veteran close to retirement, and his own ability is not enough to be a starter, and now facing the young Artest, it is normal to be blown up.

But when Richard couldn't stand it, when Artest forced Steve Mills, the Warriors didn't even have a person to help defend!

Obviously, Artest has completely fallen into individual singles! Steve Mills was surrounded by four of his teammates! But no one is willing to move their own steps and go up to help defend! If you do what Richard thinks, the result of this ball must be that Artest was caught by a double, and finally made a hasty shot and shot iron!

But alas, they didn't do what Richard thought, and Richard couldn't help but start thinking, is this a problem with the players, or a problem with the coach!?

The few Warriors fans in the stands were still shouting and cheering, and when the Warriors were on the defensive side, the cries of "Defense" were as deafening as the rest of the arena, and the Warriors fans didn't give up, but it seemed that the players on the court were close to giving up!

Richard's side is Larry Foster, Larry Foster looked at Richard, whose face was dark and seemed to have a violent tendency, and suddenly felt a little worried: "Boss, it's normal for the team to play like this, after all, we have always been like this......"

Larry Foster's comforting words immediately changed in Richard's ears, and Richard became more and more angry, and he began to shout angrily in the private room in the stands: "It's always been like this?!" No! Larry! I'll teach them a lesson later, and you'll know that this shit is going to become! This shit-like game is going to become! ”

Larry Foster's face immediately changed, he seemed to have guessed what Richard wanted to dare, teach them a lesson, what does this mean?

"Hey, boss! Don't be impulsive! ”

"No, Larry, you don't understand, sometimes, some players, you just can't get used to them!" When the whistle blew at the end of halftime, Richard stood up from the private room of the stands, dropped a word and walked to the locker room step by step regardless of Larry Foster's dissuasion, behind him, far in the center of the court, the two numbers on the big screen were quite dazzling, 77:57, the Warriors had fallen behind by 20 points at halftime!

However, the Warriors fans did not leave the game, and these Warriors fans who insisted on coming to the scene to watch the game are real die-hard fans of the Warriors!

On the way to the locker room, Richard thought a lot, he felt that he couldn't let the team go on like this, even if he couldn't make the playoffs this season, he had to put the team on the right track and win game after game! It's hard, but Richard needs the Warriors to play every game as hard as they can, not just mix it up like they are now!

He gave these players a million annual salaries, and there are so many die-hard fans who support the team, even for himself, for the fans, Richard can't allow the Warriors to rot like this! He wants to cultivate a temperament for the warriors from today, a temperament of a giant, and a temperament of a strong team! Perseverance and never give up!

Standing at the door of the locker room, Richard paused, the door of the locker room was ajar, so Richard could hear the movement in the locker room, faintly, Richard heard the noise in the locker room, and also heard a few laughs, Richard was not familiar with the Warriors' players, although there were a few loud voices, but he didn't know who made such a sound.

However, this did not stop Richard from getting angry, he is now even more angry, and the team is already 20 points behind! There was even a joke in the locker room! What does this mean? This shows that the team didn't take the game to heart at all! To them, losing a game seemed like a common thing, and it was something that Richard could not tolerate!

With a loud "boom", the door of the locker room bounced open, hitting the wall in the locker room, and then there was a thud, and finally it bounced back!

Such a huge movement directly quieted the originally noisy home team's locker room, and then what appeared in front of Richard's eyes was a group of faces looking at each other with shocked expressions.