The Golden State Warriors team is a weak team all year round in the eyes of fans, especially Chinese fans.

Even in 2007, the year when they succeeded in Black Eight, they could only be dark horses,-stirring sticks, and absolutely nothing to do with the champion-level strong team.

The Warriors are actually a veteran team in the NBA, having won championships in the league's ancient times, and the last time they won a championship was back in 1975, and most fans are still not born yet.

In the 80s and 90s, when the NBA was booming, the Warriors were just a supporting role in the league, a footnote.

Their most highlight stage during this period is the TMC combination, and the other is the Black Eight in 07.

And in these two stages, they have only become the brighter teams in the league, and they have never been involved in competing for the championship.

On the one hand, the weakness of the warriors is caused by the chaos of management and the blind actions of the boss.

Several owners of the team can be called strange in the history of the NBA, typical laymen lead insiders, with a lot of eyes and an idea in three days.

For example, Chris Webber, the 1993 No. 1 pick, played a year and had a bit of a conflict with the team, so he sent him to the Washington Wizards.

It shows that the team is very impatient in the construction of the lineup, and wants to play one out at a time.

On the other hand, the Warriors have been a reverse team for a long time.

This team doesn't like to play defensively, it likes to attack, and it has been emphasizing offense for decades.

The Warriors' team ethos is offense, offense, offense.

Although the team temperament sounds a bit metaphysical, it does exist solidly.

This has a lot to do with the team's management style, the character of the fans in the region, and the atmosphere of the city.

For example, blue-collar cities like the Detroit Pistons have a lot of industrial workers, and fans are simple and rough in temperament, and they like to watch high-intensity confrontation basketball.

So the Pistons' most successful stage relied on crazy, tough defense.

Once they start playing offense and playing beautiful basketball, the Pistons are basically finished, and their temperament is not harmonious.

A star-studded West Coast metropolis like Los Angeles wants superstars and a flashy offense, no superstars and no basketball.

But if the Lakers cover the sky in the league, they must have the league's top superstars, and ordinary All-Stars can't support the stage here.

The Warriors, like the Lakers, are located on the West Coast, and the Bay Area, where San Francisco and Oakland are located, is home to a large number of emerging technology companies in the United States, and there are a large number of bigwigs and practitioners in the new economy industry.

When these people are sports fans, they don't have much interest in those rough, brutal high-intensity confrontations, they like to watch beautiful offenses, they like light and agile players, and they like those stars with a heavier academic temperament.

If you look at the Warriors' interior selection in the 90s, you can see that Chris Webb, Joe Smith, and Antoine Jamison are all flexible and play the academy offensive No. 4 position, and the Warriors' preference for this type of player can be described as tireless.

It's a pity that from the 80s and 90s until around 2010, the NBA version was not an offensive version, but a defensive + superstar version, and centers and power forwards were even more giants.

Don Nelson has been relentless in his small-ball basketball with the Warriors and Mavericks, and has been repeatedly rejected from the playoff division finals in the reverse version.

Finally, in 2012, Don Nelson retired, but his spiritual and tactical legacy remained with the Warriors, helping them begin their rebuilding journey.

The Warriors owners have also been replaced by a new economy consortium led by Lacob, and these Bay Area consortium bosses are different from those who are engaged in real estate, industry and agriculture, they are more open-minded, less arbitrary, and can fully respect the opinions and opinions of professional managers and basketball professionals.

After missing out on Curry in the 2009 draft, the Warriors never gave up on their efforts to acquire a good point guard.

Although Rubio is a very good No. 1 talent, his shortcomings in projection are too big to make up for through acquired training.

So the Warriors sent him away after three years of training, and in the 2012 draft, management unexpectedly took the older rookie Damian Lillard.

In fact, when it was decided to choose the library in 09, there was a lot of opposition internally.

But with Curry winning the championship in 2012, there is no doubt about his strength and style of play.

Fans just think it's a pity that if the Clippers hadn't cut off the beard, it would have been nice for the champion show to win Griffin.

This time, the acquisition of Lillard, who is also an older rookie, is much less controversial.

And Lillard quickly proved that the Warriors' choice was not wrong with his excellent performance.

Although his physical fitness is not very strong, he has excellent projection ability and calmly chooses shots.

His style of play and form are not at all like that of a newcomer, and he scored 20+10 in the first game of his career, showing amazing combat effectiveness.

Many commentators say that Lillard is a player who is old and has no potential to explore.

But the Warriors don't see it that way, and they see a lot of energy in Lillard through tryouts, summer league, and the regular season.

Since the start of the season, the Warriors have shown a lot of fighting power.

Playing a weak team, the warriors have strong firepower and can suppress the opponent for a whole game.

Playing a strong team, the Warriors can open five or five, and anyone can compete for a few rounds.

In their last game at Oracle Arena, the Warriors managed to sink the Clippers with a three-pointer, adding another stroke to their winning manual.

Mark Jackson is quite strict in his management of the army, and he not only demands the Warriors' firepower, but also needs a lot of defense.

Balanced offense and defense are the basic requirements of every strong team, and the warriors in the past were too lame.

Even if the NBA is gradually entering the offensive version now, the defense cannot be lost.

In a week or so, the Warriors played the Clippers for the second time, and the whole team was full of confidence.

The entire Western Conference, especially the youngsters with high motivation, are aiming for the Clippers to beat and surpass them.

This is especially evident for the Warriors, who are close to each other because they are in California, because they are both young teams that have risen from the quagmire, because the Clippers and Warriors have a grudge against Curry, and because Mark Jackson has a grudge against the Clippers.

Under the superposition of multiple buffs, the Warriors have a lot of power when they play the Clippers.

But before tonight's game began, the Warriors took a look at the Clippers' starting lineup: four of the five main starters rested, and Curry, Harden, Randolph, and Gasol Jr. did not play.

The only starter to appear was third-year Paul George, the lowest and least important of the starting five.

Good fellow, who looks down on it? I lost the last game, and I'm still here to take a rotation?

Warriors head coach Mark Jackson was upset.

Jackson has always been a grudge-minded person and is not very open-minded.

So since he was a player, although Jackson is very capable, his relationship with the team and teammates has never been very good.

In his 16-year career, he changed 7 teams, and once jumped from team to team, and after retiring, he ranked fifth in history with more than 10,000 assists in his career, and he is definitely a figure.

But no team was willing to keep him and give him even a position, and in the end he had to go to the TV station to commentate.

He used to play for the Clippers, and his previous run for coach failed because he was not appreciated by Min Congda.

Later, he joined the Warriors and formed his own team, and at this time, the Clippers had risen and began to benchmark the Clippers.

Before tonight's game, Jackson gave an impassioned speech, telling the Warriors' young men to make the arrogant defending champions pay the price, and to take advantage of their opponents' back-to-back defeats to rub a handful of salt into their wounds.

The Warriors' starters can attack and defend, Bogut, David Lee, Thompson, Barnes Galillard, and have great potential.

However, the Clippers' second lineup is not bad, and with Milicic and Anthony Davis partnering on the inside, the Clippers' interior height and defensive coverage have been upgraded by a notch.

Milicic has gone further and further down the path of a boxer since he settled down at the Clippers as a defensive center.

Don't look at this kid Bogut playing other teams, with a big mouth and a horn, anyone dares to spray, even Yao Ming dares to go up and say hello.

But when he met Milicic, Bogut really had to weigh himself.

In terms of height and weight, Milicic did not fall behind in the face of Bogut, and even had an advantage.

In terms of the ferocity of the inner line, Bogut, an Australian, is a typical bully who is afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard, and has a bad mouth to open the way.

Milicic is a Serb, a nation that has experienced wars all year round and has a fierce character.

Milicic has been depressed in the United States for many years, but finally found his place with the Clippers, training every day, in addition to completing basic basketball practice, the rest of the time is fitness and punching, proper league number one boxer.

If Bogut doesn't want to be beaten by the old punch, he will have to keep his stinky mouth shut during the fight.

Not to mention Davis, after experiencing a poor performance some time ago and installing a rookie wall, Davis readjusted his mentality.

Tonight's start was a good opportunity for him to prove himself.

He put all his energy back into defense.

Just like he did at the University of Kentucky.

In the 2012 NCAA Finals, Anthony Davis scored a measly 6 points.

But he was able to get the MOP in the end because he also grabbed 16 rebounds and 6 blocks in the game, and really did it on the defensive end.

By the time he breaks some of his obsession with stats and does what he's good at, he's already one of the best interior defenders in the league at less than 20 years old.

And on the front line, the Clippers also have Leonard and George.

After the Clippers lost three in a row, many media criticized the two: "a forward duo with stiff and no offensive talent", "When the two were on the floor at the same time, the Clippers' offense turned into a disaster" "It was like dried horse manure on the western prairie, dry, smelly and hard, and there was no silky place to be seen." ”

The current NBA media is very developed, and fans on Twitter are almost always expressing their opinions about the game.

Often just after a game, players turn on their mobile phones and receive relevant post-match pushes.

The criticism of the media, the sarcasm of the fans, pierced the self-esteem of these two young people like a needle.

If they are in their 30s, famous, psychologically mature, with a high salary, and full of honor, then you will scold, anyway, I have already gotten what I deserved, and I don't care.

It's just that they are still young, and although they won the championship, their basketball career has just begun.

Any spicy criticism will become a motivator for their progress.

Before the game began, Mike Malone woke them up with a sentence:

"If they say you're dry and hard horse manure, then you're just dry and hard. But remember, you are not horse manure, you are steel, you are diamonds, and you will use your toughness to kill your opponents! ”

The Clippers' second team didn't have a defensive strangulation.

When Min Congda first took over as head coach, the players on the Clippers' second team figured out a set of tough defensive play, and they were hard to wear out with the opponent in the transition period, and the opponent with energy consumption was worse than death.

Nowadays, it is not difficult to pick up this style of play again, because they all have a defensive heart and a defensive talent in their bones.

So, five minutes into the first quarter, the Clippers beat the Warriors 11-0.

The Warriors didn't score a point in nearly five minutes, not because they couldn't shoot because they didn't feel good, but because they really couldn't find a chance!

The Clippers' defense is simply airtight.

It's not that Mike Malone has established any system, how can he have the effort to build a system in this short period of time.

It's purely this group of people, serious and focused, and the single defense ability is really strong!

Barnes and Thompson were beaten by George and Leonard.

David Lee even ate two big hats from Davis in a row, and the Warriors' offense became extremely difficult.

At the same time, in terms of defense against Lillard, the Clippers learned the lesson of the previous game and did not give Lillard a good shot, but let him break inside.

Randolph and Gasol Jr. were in a three-second zone, and Lillard still had a chance to score.

Milicic and Anthony Davis were in the three-second zone, and that was to treat them to hot pot.

In the first quarter of the game, Anthony Davis contributed three big hats, David Lee ate two, and Lillard ate one.

The big-mouthed Bogut was under Milicic's watch, and there was no sound at all.

Although the Clippers' own offense is also average, they mainly rely on Dragic to carry the ball outside to maneuver.

But relying on tough defense, the Clippers fought back many times, and Leonard and George vented their inner anger with dunks again and again.

After George's dunk was successful, it was a roar.

And Leonard, let alone roaring, the expression on his face didn't change when he dunked.

It's just two people, one cold and one hot, but they are secretly trying to express themselves.

The Clippers' lineup is top-notch in terms of height, defensive intensity, hardness, and speed.

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers beat the Warriors 25-12 and led by 13 points.

If it weren't for the Clippers defense in the middle to save a little bit of energy, it would be a question of whether the Warriors would be able to score in double digits in the first quarter.

Seeing the strong defensive ability of the Clippers' second team, Mike Malone sighed in his heart that he had come to the right place.

(End of chapter)