Summer league was soon over, and the acquisition of a Major League Soccer team was still being negotiated, leaving it all to Larry Foster as he had to prepare his training camp for the new season.

Chris Anderson has received a two-year contract from the Warriors, and he is also being retained by short point guard Earl Boykins, who received a one-year contract from the Warriors, most of which he signed before was a ten-day contract, and this time he got a one-year contract from the Warriors, which is also a good result.

The addition of Earleboy Eggins completes the Warriors' 15-man roster, and the final roster is as follows:

Point guards: Chauncey Billups, Gilbert Arenas, Earle Boykins

Shooting guards: Michael Reed, Joe Johnson, Morris Evans

Small forwards: Jerry Starkerhouse, Gerard Wallace, Devin George

Power forwards: Antoine Jamison, Kenny Thomas

Centre-forwards: Rasonestrovic, Danny Fortson, Chris Anderson, Luke Longley

Richard's pre-season training camp will start on September 3, and it will be less than a month since this time, so it is important for Richard to gather the team's coaching staff and set up a pre-season training camp.

In fact, since the beginning of the summer league, many coaches of the team have understood the tactics that Richard wants to play, so when it comes to the task of preseason training, everyone has a lot of opinions.

Frank Vogel, who knows the Warriors best, and Chip Engelland believe that since the team will stick to last season's style of play next season, the most important thing is two points of training, one is shooting, although most of the players selected by Richard are shooters, but this does not mean that they do not need to practice shooting, the Warriors' shooting requirements are always the highest in the league, even Michael Reed, they have to continue to practice their shooting.

Another point is fitness, in the new season, the Warriors will choose to slow down for defense, so whether on the defensive end or on the offensive end, they have to use more runs to complete the team's tactical intentions, and fitness becomes especially important in this case, before the start of the season, physical reserves must obviously be done.

And the newcomer Mike Malone will be responsible for the construction of the team's defensive system, in his opinion, the preseason training must focus on his defense, leaving the field also feels that Mike Malone is right, since Mike Malone has been found, the defense naturally cannot be left behind.

In this way, Richard set the content of the preseason training camp, physical fitness, shooting and defense, before the start of the season, the Warriors need to complete the above three tasks, reserve enough physical fitness, and shoot to the point of meeting the tactical requirements, of course, in Richard's view, the most important thing is the last one, defense! Now that Mike Malone has been brought in, the defensive system must be adjusted before the start of the season. Teach molding.

On September 3, 2001, the Warriors' training gym, which had been deserted for a month, was revived, and according to the previous plan, the team's trainers began to give the players a pre-season fitness test, which is related to the physical training plan of the pre-season training camp, so everyone is meticulous in testing.

As a result, Richard had nothing to do, and from time to time he looked up at the ceiling of the training gym, then at the basket frame, then at the floor, and then suddenly said to Chris Mullin on a whim: "Maybe we can change the training gym." ”

But as soon as this sentence came out, Richard regretted it, because he still hadn't thought everything through, Chris Mullin shrugged his shoulders, and then heard Richard say the second sentence with a wry smile: "Okay, it's better not to change it first, if you want to change it, you have to change it directly to San Francisco, but then it will be far away from Google Arena, so let's wait for the new arena to be built." ”

Chris Mullin shrugged his shoulders again, and Richard could only sigh, he is really short of money now, to be precise, it should be a lack of liquidity, just half a month ago, the San Francisco city government has demarcated the land required by Richard, which is about seven or eight blocks in size, which can be developed at any time according to Richard's requirements.

However, this piece of land still directly cost Richard more than 100 million yuan, plus the acquisition of a major football league team cost another 35 million, the plan to build a 100,000-person football stadium has to invest 200 million in advance, and it needs to continue to invest 2 to 3 billion in the later stage, and the commercial center around the sports city has also begun to plan, and it is expected that the early investment will also be about two or three billion. In this way, the remaining four or five billion yuan of working capital in Richard's hands has been used up, and he will even have to take out a sum of funds amounting to billions in the future to complete the construction of the commercial center.

For Richard, perhaps before 2004, he couldn't afford to build a new basketball hall, let alone a new training center.

Soon, while Richard was observing the training hall that was a little backward in the league, the results of the physical fitness test also came out, and the situation was generally very good, after all, the Warriors roster made up the majority of young players, and even if they did not participate in the summer league, they must have participated in various amateur leagues or private training camps in the summer, seeking to improve themselves.

There are even international players like Rasonestrovic, who not only play in the summer league, but also in the national team, and the physical aspect is certainly not much of a problem.

In this way, there is no big problem with the team's physical training, but the shooting training is a little special.

After the fitness test, Richard gathered all the players and began to set the tasks for the first ten days of pre-season training.

Richard clapped his hands and waited until the arena was completely quiet before saying: "The new season started in a blink of an eye, we played well in the second half of last season, but this season, we have some new teammates, everything has to start again, in order to let the new players integrate into the team as soon as possible, the first ten days of pre-season training, we will focus on shooting training, of course, even the veterans who were in the team last season can't relax, this season, we will train your shooting in a new way." ”

Hearing that Richard was going to practice shooting, several new players showed strange looks, such as Jerry Starkerhouse, although many teams in the league have shooting classes, but it is the first time they have encountered someone like the Warriors who emphasize practicing shooting.

"This season's pre-season training camp, the first ten days, we will have physical reserve training in the morning, shooting training in the afternoon, and at the same time, we will have tactical classes, tactical classes are mostly defensive tactics, this season, we will be coached by Mike Malone to build a new defensive system for the team, so whether it is an old player or a new player, you have to listen carefully."

Richard's expression was a little serious when he said this, he had just arranged the main task for the first ten days of pre-season training, but when he saw that some of the new and old players showed expressions that they didn't pay attention to, he still decided to remind everyone.

Serious, Richard became more serious, his voice even louder, he said: "In the new season, what I want to see is a series of victories, remember!" It's a winning streak! Then if we want to get back-to-back wins, we have to train! You have to practice my tactics well, practice all the tasks I have assigned, and from today onwards, as long as it's training time, don't be lazy! If anyone is lazy and I find out, then you may not be able to play at the beginning of the new season! ”

Hearing that he couldn't play the ball, there was a strange noise in the queue of Warriors players standing below, Richard immediately swept over with a cold face, and then continued: "I'm not joking with you, before you, there were examples, maybe Antoine and they knew, you can ask!" Of course, if you train hard, then maybe you can get more opportunities in the new season, and in my case, the playing time you get is not based on your ability, but on your attitude! ”

The example Richard said was actually last season, after he got angry in the locker room, he banned Kerry Blunt and Adam Kiefer, and after such a big call, Richard announced that training had begun, and the first training was running!