Devin George and Ralph Alston did bring some changes to the Warriors after they came on the court, Devin George did more on the defensive end than Larry Hughes, while Ralph Alston only added a layer of run-in to the team's offense.

The Warriors' offense is a little more normal, but their offensive firepower is far inferior to that of the Grizzlies, Devin George shot 1 of 3 after coming on the court, and Ralph Alston played a lot of balls, all kinds of breakthrough layups, pull-up jump shots, etc., which he is good at, but the shooting percentage is not very good.

So at Richard's request off the court, the Warriors began to let Antoine Jamison, who was in better shape, play more.

Devin George and Ralph Alston on the field, so many reporters and experts watching the game on the sidelines were puzzled, from Richard reusing Michael Reed, to Michael Reed's bad state, Richard replaced Devin George and Ralph Alston, and gave these two players a very high tactical status, all of this, all of which made these expert reporters puzzled.

"I really don't know what the owner and head coach of the Warriors think, Michael Reed, who played off the bench in the Bucks, has become an absolute mainstay with him, as well as Ralph Alston and Devin George, who are also bench players on their original team, right? How can it be so reused? A local reporter in Auckland was depressed, and when Richard announced that he was the team's head coach, the reporter named DiClough was already depressed.

Now, when he saw Richard's hiring plan, he couldn't help it even more: "Why don't you play Steve Mills?" Although Steve is older, at least in this opening collapse, Steve has a better experience, right? ”

Dicrow's words, Richard couldn't hear, but the situation on the field did not change much, and it did attract Richard's attention, Richard thought carefully for a while, and began to reflect on the mistake he had just made: "I'm still too anxious, but it's still too late." ”

Richard glanced at the score, and with 2 minutes left in the first quarter, the Warriors trailed by 11 points at 17:28, and Richard decided to make a remedy.

Once dead, Richard replaced Kenny Thomas, who was traded from the Rockets, and replaced Bob Sula with Larry Hughes, increasing the height of the backcourt, and at the same time, replacing Kenny Thomas also lowered the height of the Warriors' frontcourt, and having outside firepower Kenny Thomas can make the Warriors have more offensive points on the court. In this stage of chasing points, it is clear that Richard's adjustment is the best.

"The Warriors have come on with Kenny Thomas and Larry Hughes, it's a small lineup, and it looks like they're going to start chasing points." Stuart Scott said, looking at the Warriors' substitutions.

And Doon Cosswell on the side also rarely praised Richard's hand adjustment: "Replacing Kenny Thomas and Larry Hughes, this substitution is obviously the right one, Kenny Thomas's firepower and speed can make the Warriors chase points faster, and as the Warriors' No. 2 scorer who can score 16 points per game before, although Larry Hughes's state was not very good at the beginning of this game, but in this stage of chasing points, it feels very good to replace Larry Hughes to find it, What's more, the defensive combination of Larry Hughes and Devin George will go a long way in delaying the Grizzlies' offensive momentum. ”

However, as soon as Doon Coswell's voice fell, there was a problem on Larry Hughes's side, and Eric Strickland, who had just been replaced on the Grizzlies' side, directly passed Larry Hughes!

Even Eric Strickland himself didn't expect that Larry Hughes, who has always been known for his defense, would be passed by him like this.

Eric Strickland made a jumper on the spot and hit it successfully.

Richard stood up directly off the court, and his intuition told Richard that Larry Hughes seemed to have a problem, but what the problem was, Richard didn't know, anyway, from this goal, Larry Hughes didn't try his best on the defensive end.

Richard decided to observe for a while, but in Richard's heart, he had included Larry Hughes in the list of key observations, and Larry Hughes played really poorly in this game, whether it was a matter of state or not, Richard wanted to know what happened to Larry Hughes.

The offense on the Warriors' side finally picked up, with Ralph Alston's breakaway disrupting the Grizzlies' already messy defense, and then his split ball gave Antoine Jamison a comfortable shot from the mid-range position, and Antoine Jamison, who was already in good form, scored easily.

Then on the defensive end, Mike Bibby broke through Ralph Alston, but Larry Hughes on the side just opened his hand and did not step forward to make up for the defense, Richard suddenly frowned, Larry Hughes is really strange today, judging from his defensive attitude, it shouldn't be a problem with the state, is it an injury?

Richard hurriedly called a timeout, and after everyone was gone, Richard turned to Larry Hughes and asked, "Larry, are you hurt?" ”

Larry Hughes was stunned for a moment, then he shook his head and didn't make a sound, Richard was helpless: "Forget it, you go down for a while to rest, Michael, you go on, continue to stick to our style of play." ”

Richard reintroduced Michael Reed, for Larry Hughes, Richard was ready to wait for the game to find out what happened to him, and for the Warriors, this game was too bad for them, Larry Hughes was confused on the defensive end, and Michael Reed's state on the offensive end can only be considered average.

After replaying, Michael Reed finally regained his touch in the medium and long range, and he was finally able to hit a few open shots, but compared with the Grizzlies, the Warriors' offense was much worse, Mike Bibby was already superb, and under the defense of Larry Hughes, the Grizzlies' starting small forward Brian Reaves was also in explosive condition, and in this way, the Warriors fell behind by 16 points in the first half.

At halftime, Richard reflected on himself again, he found that he seemed to be in a little too anxious, judging from the team's performance in this game, the team's problems were not ordinary, such as Michael Reid obviously not adapted to this style of play of catching and shooting, and Larry Hughes, a very important player in Richard's plan, this game was a sleepwalking performance, which made Richard very puzzled.

In the locker room, Richard looked at Larry Hughes again, he only saw a Larry Hughes with a normal expression who was laughing with his teammates, and he didn't look like he was injured, Richard knew that the most elusive thing was the human heart, maybe what happened to Larry Hughes was the problem of the human heart, and Richard suddenly understood what might have happened to Larry Hughes.

"Does the tactical position still have the status of the team?" Richard was thoughtful, he didn't go to Larry Hughes again to dwell on the state of the first half of this game, but was thinking about whether Larry Hughes was a good fit for the Warriors.

Throughout the halftime, Richard didn't make any adjustments, because he knew that the second half of the first half was already the best performance that the Warriors could play, and now no matter how much they adjust, it will not play a role, fundamentally speaking, the strength of this Warriors is still limited, although in Richard's opinion, the Warriors' talent is extremely high, like Antoine Jamison, Larry Hughes and Michael Reed are all players who may become All-Stars in the future, but now, Jamison may have reached the height of an All-Star, Larry Hughes and Michael Reid are far from each other!

In the second half, Richard could only continue to use the same lineup as in the first half, occasionally making two substitutions due to fitness issues, and then Richard began to think about how to deal with the problem of Larry Hughes.

Larry Hughes had a tricky problem, and Richard was suddenly a little distressed, and he now even regretted that he didn't send Larry Hughes away before the trade deadline.

Because of the overall consideration and self-analysis, Lee perceived that Larry Hughes may really not be suitable for this Warriors, because Larry Hughes's main offensive means is to break through with the ball, and if Larry Hughes is allowed to play the tactic of catching and shooting, it will obviously make Larry Hughes extremely uncomfortable, and even make Larry Hughes become a third-rate scoring guard, and he can't even find a stable breakthrough.

But now for the Warriors, a trade is also impossible, and all Richard can do now is to help Larry Hughes find the right position, so that Larry Hughes can finish the second half of the season, or at least finish the second half of the season with excellent form data, so that Richard can sell Larry Hughes for a good price after the season.

Richard thought about a lot of methods, and the game slowly drew to a close, and the Warriors played quite well in the second half, they recovered a little point, but in the end, the Warriors still lost by 8 points.

When the final whistle blew, Richard reluctantly stood up from the bench, listened to the insults behind him, and accepted the fact that the first game of his coaching career ended in failure.

The Warriors' invective against Richard at home has not stopped, and Richard has no face to argue anything, after all, the game is lost.

As soon as the game ended, Richard hurriedly shook hands with Grizzlies head coach Sidney Niroway, and then left the arena, on the way home, Richard thought of a way to solve the problem of Larry Hughes, but it was too difficult, the Warriors' tactics were a projection tactic, and it was not difficult to integrate a breakthrough player like Larry Hughes into the tactics.

At this time, Richard felt that it would be great if he could have a good level of assistant coach, in contrast, Del Nigro, who is now a part-time assistant coach, would not be able to help Richard at all, and if Richard could now have an assistant coach similar to Mike Budenholzer, the assistant coach of the later ** Vic, maybe the problem could be solved.

Richard immediately started thinking about finding an assistant coach.