The loss was a blow to the Clippers, but they were much better than last season.

In the end, the loss was really inferior to the opponent in terms of tactics and strength, and the players were too tired, not that everyone was not playing well.

In the team's locker room after the game, Mike Dunleavy carefully summarized the game and gave everyone advice before disbanding.

This was not done last season, because last season we lost too many games, and we lost so much that it was useless to sum up.

At the end of each loss, everyone went home, and the team had no morale and winning atmosphere at all.

Zach Randolph sat under his locker, and when Dunleavy spoke, he wore big headphones on his head, and it looked like he was listening to a song, not listening to Dunleavy's nagging, and Dunleavy didn't bother to care about him.

In fact, there was no music playing in Randolph's headphones, and he listened to what Dunleavy said.

"Defending on the inside should be more aggressive, and you can be without talent in defense, but you can't be without attitude."

This seems to have been addressed specifically to Randolph.

After taking a shower and in the players' tunnel, reporters' attention was mostly on Davis, Curry and Carman.

Davis is a Los Angeles veteran, Curry is the top pick, these performances are quite amazing, and Carman is his own man for the Clippers in '03 and has been with the Clippers for 7 years.

And Randolph? The cancer that came over in the middle of last season, the hillbilly from Indiana, has always ignored the media, all kinds of bad news off the field, and this summer he beat people in nightclubs, and no reporter wants to deal with him.

Randolph was so happy that he left Stamp in his Chevrolet Impala and went home to rest.

He had a fanatical obsession with the Chevrolet Impala, and he bought five of them at home in one go, all of them from the '70s, which he modified to different colors.

This boxy box car is extremely cool and eye-catching on the road, which is completely different from Randolph's dark and round appearance.

What kind of car a man likes often reveals what he really looks like in his heart, which is often different from what people see.

Like the baby-faced Curry, who loves wild SUVs, shows that he is not as effeminate as he looks, but a determined and hard-core person.

Randolph wasn't anything but wooden, his love for the Chevrolet Impala began at a very young age, when his dream was to own one of these cars.

Now that he has achieved it, he has bought more than one, and this cool car shows that he has a fiery heart.

Back at home, Mom had already returned to Indiana, and his live-in girlfriend Francis Drake was waiting for him at home, and the two routinely hugged and kissed.

They knew each other at a very young age, grew up in the same parish, and they fell in love after Randolph's career, and she followed Randolph from Portland to New York and from New York to Los Angeles.

Drake has never been very disciplined about her star boyfriend, she knows she can't control it, as long as he remembers to come home every day.

As long as he doesn't get into trouble, Drake is thankful, since he was a child, this guy's troubles have not stopped.

After the last nightclub beating, Randolph has restrained a lot, especially since the start of the season, in addition to competitions and training, the rest of the time is to go home to accompany her, or to complete community service.

"Zach, are you going to do community service tomorrow?"

"yes, get me a burger to eat, I'm a little hungry."

"Okay, please wait for my big star...... By the way, today a guy named Jordan Peale called home and he said he was looking for you to shoot a documentary tomorrow morning. ”

Randolph was about to sit on the couch and play the game console for a while, when he heard his girlfriend say this, he remembered that it was the two black actors that Mr. Smart had hired.

Their film crew has been working on a documentary with the team recently, and yesterday in Salt Lake City, they recorded the whole process of the Clippers' comeback and kill.

Tomorrow they are going to give Randolph a subject that chronicles his day in his daily life.

"I know, then I should go to bed early, forget it, I won't eat burgers anymore, let's rest early together, honey."

"Don't you really need to eat? Would you like to have a drink together? ”

"No, no, don't drink, I'm ready to quit."

"Quit drinking? Are you sure? ”

Drake looked at her boyfriend with a surprised look, and the word "quit drinking" came out of his mouth that shocked her, as if listening to Barkley talk about losing weight.

Alcohol has always been an important thing for people from poor backgrounds in the United States, and it is a narcotic for them to escape from their miserable situation for a while.

Randolph was not poor for a long time, but he was once poor, and he secretly drank before he was an adult, and alcohol could shed his wooden shell and release his colorful nature.

The first time Randolph confessed to Drake was when he was drunk and somewhat drunk.

"Zach, do you remember the first time you kissed me? At that time, there was a smell of wine in your mouth, and I felt so uncomfortable when you smoked it. Haha, now you're telling you you're going to quit drinking, really? I don't really believe you. ”

"Really, I'm telling the truth. When I decide to do something, I do it, you know me. I'm 28 years old, and I'm going to start over and play while I'm not completely destroyed by alcohol. ”

There are quite a few players in the NBA who have been ruined by alcohol, including the more famous ones such as Wen Baker, an All-Star power forward, who is very similar to Randolph.

Once talented, but alcohol ruined his body, ruined his motor nerves, and he went off a cliff, and the latter part of his career was spent with the Knicks and Clippers.

The turning point of his career was when he was 28 years old, during the NBA's 99-year shutdown, when he slipped from a power forward who averaged 20 points per game to a little over 10 points, and never turned over.

Randolph did not want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors, and his mother gave him a slap that day, which he felt was much lighter than the beating he had received as a child.

Because he grew up, and his mother grew old.

The expression on Zach Randolph's face was very serious, and Drake looked at this perennial troublemaker and suddenly felt that he had grown overnight and that he was going to become a real man.

Drake stepped forward and hugged Randolph and said, "Zach, you know what, at this moment I think... I want to marry you, really, Zach. ”

Randolph hugged his wife gently and said, "That day will come soon, and I will definitely play well enough on the court." ”

Randolph's round, innocent face showed a determined look, and he could sense that the Clippers were on the right path to health, and so did he.

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