Chapter 15: The Last Persistence

D'Antoni's arrival is also officially announced, and the Warriors will continue to walk the offensive line. Continuing the Warriors' crazy style. I have to say that in fact, the Warriors are also a team worthy of respect, and in the context of the current league defense to win championships, the Warriors can still firmly support the offensive line to win the game, which is really commendable.

However, it may also be the Warriors' last chance. The Warriors can be said to have spent a lot of money on the renewal of several of the team's main players, and signing D'Antoni can also be a gamble, they are also betting that the offense can win the game, and they are betting that the Warriors can win the championship this season. If the Warriors fail to win a championship, this may undoubtedly be the last season for this Warriors.

Will the Warriors win this gamble? Don't forget, at this moment, the Heat and Lakers have also made reinforcements, and it can be said that the strength of the teams that really pose a threat to the Warriors is increasing. The Warriors are a bit more difficult.

Soon the league announced the schedule for the new season.

At the first glance of the schedule, people wondered if the league was deliberately at odds with the Warriors. The Warriors have more than a dozen back-to-back games for the next season. You must know that most of the games that the Warriors lost last season were lost in back-to-back situations, that is, games that were lost on the basis of physical problems with the players, and according to this probability, the Warriors lost more than half of the games this season There are nearly 9 games, and it is almost impossible to surpass last season's record.

At the same time, perhaps because the league wants to attract more attention, the Warriors will play the defending champion Heat in their first game. There is no doubt that the Heat and the Warriors are still the two hottest teams in the league today, and the league will certainly send such a showdown in order to gain popularity, and people are also looking forward to who will be more powerful after the star-studded Heat team and the Warriors led by D'Antoni who has just taken the helm, and who will be more dominant in the new season such an MVP-level matchup between James and Lin Fei.

With the regular season fixtures announced, the next step is the preseason. The so-called preseason is actually a warm-up for the regular season. This kind of game doesn't have much practical significance, that is, for the players to warm up, or for the players to return and run in a little. Of course, for a lot of coaches, they don't really value this kind of game. However, this is very informative for coaches to choose their players, so a lot of the time, players tend to play hard, especially for some teams' role players.

The Warriors have six games in the preseason against the Spurs, Lakers, and Thunder, each with two games.

A few days before the game, D'Antoni made it clear that Lin Fei would not play in the preseason due to recuperation from injury. At this time, Lin Fei's injury has basically recovered, which is actually just an excuse for the team to preserve Lin Fei's physical strength.

Compared to the Warriors, the Warriors' first opponent, the Spurs, seems to be even more unconcerned. In order to allow his core GDP to fully rest, Popovich actually said that in the first game, GDP will not play a single game, is this a little sorry for the Warriors audience? Undoubtedly, yes a little. Popovich is a well-known veteran fritter in the league, and his calculation of victory is really not ordinary.

The Warriors also missed Lin Fei in the preseason, and the other main players are all in place, but in place, how much time they can play in the preseason is another question.

D'Antoni asked Curry to replace Lin Fei into the starting lineup, obviously, such a Warriors team may be more than one notch stronger than the Spurs' second echelon, but don't forget, the Spurs have Popovich in charge, isn't that enough? Popovich is particularly adept at digging out young players, and one player even has the ability to bring back to life under his men. …,

At the same time, many people have a general idea in their minds, that is, Popovich's tactics seem to be a bit restrained by D'Antony's style of play. This view may have been left over from D'Antoni's time with the Suns.

However, as soon as the game began, the Warriors' performance rejected all doubts. In the first quarter of the game between the Warriors and the Spurs, they scored 45 points like crazy, and the entire Warriors team became a machine for brushing data, Keynes scored 18 points in a single quarter, and Curry also unceremoniously brushed 8 assists in a single quarter. This disgraced the Spurs, who have always been known for their defense, and also made Popovich directly dumbfounded. The Spurs team in the absence of GDP is not a real Spurs team, at best it can play 50% of its strength, but can the Warriors team without Lin Fei be considered a real Warriors? Perhaps the Warriors are playing 70 percent at best. However, the Warriors scored 45 points in a single quarter, directly leading the Spurs by 21 points.

It was absolutely accidental, and people didn't imagine that the Spurs would be in such a situation.

But in the following time, the Warriors directly withdrew their main lineup and replaced them with players like Cook and Smith, and the entire Warriors team was directly the second-tier player. The result still didn't change, the Warriors still scored 40 points in the second quarter, and Curry directly brushed up 5 assists again in the half quarter of the game, which directly left Popovich stunned. Although this is not the regular season, even in the preseason, the Spurs can't afford to lose so badly! And the Warriors' starting lineup is just that, but the Warriors almost just use their full bench lineup, which is the kind of lineup that makes the game free of any suspense from the beginning. The Warriors almost broke the league's record in scoring, which was an absolute shame for Popovich and the Spurs.

They're really getting stronger. Popovich said to himself secretly. He definitely didn't expect that his team would have such a big gap with the Warriors.

Compared to Popovich's shock, D'Antoni was clearly all excited.

"Incredible! I've never come across a team with such talent and fighting qualities. When it came time to play, I was shocked by the performance of our team. I'm looking forward to Lin Fei's return, and if he can fit into the lineup, it's undoubtedly the most attacking lineup I've ever seen in my life."

It looks so good.

Even so, many people still believe that the Warriors are a bit exaggerated, because they can't imagine that there is such a team that can easily score the Spurs by more than 30 points in the first half. If it exists, such a team may have already surpassed the imagination of these people