Chapter 18: The losing streak continues

"Hum!" A timer beeps and the game is over!

"At the end of the game, the Warriors' home game against the Hornets ended with the Warriors losing by 5 points! The Oakland Arena was booed against head coach Richard Cohan throughout the game, but in terms of game alone, the Warriors did their best, and they ...... in the final stages of the game.

The commentator's evaluation of the Warriors' defeat on the radio, Richard didn't know, he only knew that the Warriors lost again, three consecutive defeats, and his first win in charge still didn't get it, and when he returned to his home court again, in the face of the boos of these home fans, Richard's mood was very complicated, but fortunately, Richard had seen the team's progress.

In this game, as the commentator said, in the first half of the game, the Warriors have been able to resist the pressure and bite the score, Richard's several adjustments can be regarded as cutting the key point of the Hornets, but at the last moment, the problem of inexperience on the Warriors' side was highlighted, several waves of ball handling errors in a row, coupled with the arrangement of key balls, Richard also took it for granted, so the Hornets played two waves of fast break in a row in the last minute, and finally lost by 5 points.

Lost, fortunately, only lost by 5 points, Richard still saw hope, but the first win had to be delayed for a while.

Richard never thought that his coaching career would be so miserable, starting with three consecutive defeats, and if the team still can't find its form, it is estimated that he will have to continue to lose until he tries his luck to win the next game.

However, for Richard and the Warriors, it is not without good news, there is a lot of good news, first of all, Frank Vogel has reported, and he can go to work the next day after the game, and then Richard can ask Frank Vogel to help him and complete the transformation of the existing tactics.

The second good news is that Michael Reed has finally adapted to the Warriors' tactics, Michael Reed still made 15 shots in this game, 11 of the 15 shots were three-pointers, Michael Reed hit 6 of them, plus two other two-pointers and 4 free throws, Michael Reed scored 26 points in this game, and from the data alone, it can be seen that Michael Reed has found his place in the Warriors' tactics.

Judging from the performance of the game scene, Michael Reed has also found a way to play, and all 11 three-point shots are all catch-and-shoot shots, plus a few preparations or shaking actions at most, which is enough to meet Richard's primary requirements, Richard's primary requirement is to have a three-point shooter in the team who can catch the ball and shoot, and to turn the three-point shooting into his regular scoring weapon, and now Michael Reed can do this.

After three consecutive defeats, Richard naturally still won't go to the press conference, and even when he sees a reporter Richard, he will hide away, this group of uncrowned kings will always think that they are the protagonists in sports games, and then take all kinds of problems to be the real protagonists in sports games, and finally enjoy themselves. Now that Richard has been caught by this group of media, it is even more unlikely that he will attend the press conference of the Bobcats.

As for the criticism of these media, Richard didn't care, because Richard knew that it was not surprising that the Warriors had lost three in a row, and the Warriors had won 17 consecutive defeats before he became head coach! The Warriors are still the bottom team in the West! Before Richard took over, he lost to the Bulls, who were at the bottom of the league! Is it strange to lose to the Raptors and Hornets? Strange?!

Certainly not surprising! The Warriors are a bad team, but Richard knows that even if the Warriors are a bad team, they can't stop this group of reporters from beeping wildly on the side, so Richard simply ignores this group of reporters, and when the Warriors slowly enter their own state and get rid of the name of the deputy squad leader, this group of stupid reporters will know how powerful they are, and now, what Richard has to do is to write down the names of those crazy beeping reporters and media.

The day after the game, Richard was piled up with a large pile of newspapers and periodicals in front of him early in the morning, and the smell of ink was still exuding.

"Sports Illustrated, it's you again, Taylors Frank......" Richard muttered behind his desk, "And this, ESPN's Kevin Pelton, also an old acquaintance......"

At this moment, there was a bang, and the office door was pushed open, and Richard looked up at the door, and a strange young white man also looked up at Richard at the same time, and the two looked at each other, and they knew each other's identities at the same time.

"Hello, I'm Frank Vogel." That's right, this strange young white man is Frank Vogel, who greeted Richard first.

Richard also responded with a smile, Frank Vogel is here, then this warrior team can also tend to be perfect.

The two exchanged a few words in the office, and then it was time for practice, and Richard began to talk about Larry Hughes's problems that he had been unable to solve: "By the way, Frank, have you watched our game in the past two days?" ”

"Of course, I watched the last game against the Hornets before I came." Frank Vogel looked at Richard and nodded.

"So do you think there are any problems with our tactics, and I think there are still some problems with the team's use of Larry Hughes."

Frank Vogel nodded again: "It's true that Larry Hughes is not suitable as a player in possession, he doesn't have that kind of organization, so ......"

"But we've got to fix Larry Hughes' presence on the team, and we can't just put him on the bench, so do you have any good ideas?" Richard asked his question directly, and he hoped that Frank Vogel would give him some ideas.

"I think the problem with Larry Hughes is very simple, we just want him to play his regular performance, not to want him to play at a star level, so we don't need to develop any tactics specifically for him, just design a few sets of singles tactics for him that fit our tactics." Frank Vogel thought for a moment and then gave an answer.

Richard nodded, the method that Frank Vogel thought of should not be the best method, but Richard really doesn't have any good methods now, so the method proposed by Frank Vogel is the best method.

"Then I'll leave that to you." Richard directly handed over the whole problem to Frank Vogel to deal with, and when the next game came, the perfect Warriors would appear, but Richard still didn't dare to say victory, because Richard, who turned over the schedule, knew that the next game of the Warriors' opponent was the Lakers, the Lakers who only lost one game in the playoffs in 2001!

Only one loss in the playoffs is a more terrifying thing in Richard's opinion than 72 wins in the regular season, and the OK combination is obviously not something that this Warriors can stop, even the perfect Warriors! Therefore, Richard can only passively accept the bleak reality that he started with four consecutive defeats at the beginning of his coaching career.