At the Warriors' pre-game press conference, Richard was still very restrained, because of the pre-game media war and Morris Cheeks' inexplicable cannon, this press conference unexpectedly came to a lot of media.

Even Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wonarowski was on the scene, and a Martian game was what these reporters wanted to see, but because October 30 was the opening day of the NBA regular season, most of the games were played yesterday.

On October 31, the day the Warriors vs. the Trail Blazers away game was held, there were only 5 games in the NBA at the same time, but there was no heavyweight game like the 76ers vs. the Timberwolves and the Lakers vs. Mavericks.

"Coach Richard, Trail Blazers head coach Mr. Morris Cheeks said before the game that you are stronger than him, so what do you think about this issue?" After a few unnutritious questions, the question that sparked a lot of discussion before the game was finally brought up by Adrian Wonarowski.

Richard knew that someone would ask such a question, but on this question, Richard was not prepared to refrain from it, after all, it was a fact that he suppressed Morris Cheeks in the preseason, there is no doubt about it!

"I just think that facts speak louder than words, and I'm not a man who likes to talk about it, and that's not the same thing that I do with Mr. Morris Cheeks."

"You mean Maurice Cheeks is a guy who likes mouth cannons?" Hearing Richard's answer, a reporter's eyes lit up, and then hurriedly asked.

However, Richard ignored the other provocations, he just wanted to wait until the game started to teach Morris Cheeks a lesson, so the Warriors' pre-game press conference ended quickly, which seemed very uninteresting to the reporters, after all, they didn't dig more out of Richard's mouth.

The pre-match press conference finally only gave reporters the material to continue to hype up the battle between Morris Cheeks and Richard, but even so, the gunpowder smell of this game was unexpectedly strong.

On October 31, 2001, at 7 p.m., the Warriors' 2001-2001 season opener began in Portland.

At the Rose Garden Arena, in the visiting locker room, Richard was making the final call for his players.

"Boys, it's going to be our first game of the new season, we didn't make the playoffs last season, so this summer, we changed a bunch of players and left some players, so we have a squad of you guys and in my opinion, you guys can make the playoffs! So, our goal has always been to make the playoffs! ”

When Richard talked about the playoffs, old players like Michael Reid and Antoine Jamison showed surprised expressions, after all, the Warriors' record last season couldn't be worse, they couldn't imagine and didn't dare to think that this season Richard would set his goal in the playoffs!

"In this game, our opponent is the Trail Blazers, who were seventh in the West last season, and seventh in the West means that they are on the last train of the playoffs, so as long as we beat them, we can prove that we have the strength of the playoffs!"

Richard slowly raised his hand, then slammed his arm down!

"So! Do you have faith? Beat them! ”

"Yes!"

"Defeat them!"

Everyone shouted in unison, and the momentum was high.

Richard nodded in satisfaction, then pointed to the door and shouted again, "Then let's go to the field!" Give them a good look! ”

The players shouted and walked out of the locker room as the game was about to begin......

The Rose Garden Arena has long been full of fans, and the Trail Blazers have had good results in the past two seasons, especially the 2000 playoffs Western Conference Finals, which played seven games with OK, which made the ball market in Portland hot.

The smell of gunpowder from the pre-game media war had already spread to the fans, and when the Warriors walked out of the players' tunnel, the Rose Garden Arena actually sounded earth-shattering boos!

This surprised Richard a little, because there are obviously not many teams that can make the Trail Blazers boo at the beginning, and perhaps only Kobe Bryant and O'Neal's Lakers can do this.

"It's a lot of boo, but this kind of atmosphere is the most suitable for playing!" At the end of the Warriors, Gilbert Arenas, who appeared in the NBA regular season for the first time, muttered a few words.

The boos were so loud that Richard, who was standing next to Gilbert Arenas, didn't hear Arenas's somewhat confident words.

But if Richard had known that Gilbert Arenas would have said it before his first regular-season game began, perhaps Richard would have appreciated the young point guard even more.

The Warriors are young, which means they will be very aggressive, but at the same time, they have not experienced such a scene of boos, such as Joe Johnson, the later Eagle King, who turned pale in the midst of this earth-shattering boo.

Richard also noticed this, but he knew that it was just a way for NBA players to get into the NBA, and he didn't need to interfere or help Joe Johnson.

Before the start of the game, Richard announced the starting lineup for this game, in order to be able to win this game, Richard decided to let Danny Fortson as the team's starting center, the power forward is still Antoine Jamison, the small forward is Jerry Stark House, the scoring guard Michael Reed, and the point guard Chancey Billups.

Having Deny Fortson as the team's starting center should be a lineup that Richard can use at the moment to allow the team to adapt to the new style of play as soon as possible.

Danny Fortson's passing is not very good, but in comparison, he can adapt to the tactics of moving in the high post, and Danny Fortson has a lot more experience than Chris Anderson and is a little better at protecting the basket.

In general, Richard's arrangement is obviously to win!

"Defense, the most important thing for us in this game is defense!" The warm-up was over quickly, and Richard sat down in the coach's seat and spoke to the coaching staff next to him.

Frank Vogel nodded: "That's right, Lasso hasn't adapted to the team's offensive tactics yet, so we can only rely on our defense!" ”

"But the head coach of the Trail Blazers is Morris Cheeks, and he hasn't shown anything good in a few games in the preseason, so maybe we don't have to worry too much about this game." Richard was still a little worried, he was afraid that Morris Cheeks would cover something up in the preseason.

[This chapter seems to be crowded together, everyone refresh it and re-read it, it should be better.] 】