The Golden State Warriors ended last season with a 6-win and 22-win loss, which led to their final score of only 23-win and 43-win, ranking third from the bottom in the West District.

At the beginning, the Warriors were definitely eager to make the playoffs. Mark Jackson's arrival changed the Warriors' style of play. He even let the management send Monta Ellis away in exchange for Australian No. 1 pick Bogut to fill the team's defense.

But later, continuous injuries made Mark Jackson decide to give up last season. So, when the start was pretty good, the Warriors finally chose to play badly. Because the Warriors had to get the top 7 picks to stay. In the absence of hope in the playoffs, all the Warriors could do was work together to lose.

So, Bay Area fans broke out.

Boss Rakob was booed at Mullin's jersey retirement ceremony because the frustration fans experienced over 20 years was not soothing.

The Warriors had some hope of change last season, but they took the most shameless showdown in recent years. More than half of the teams can enter the playoffs every year, but the Warriors have only done it once in the past 18 years, so the fans are naturally very angry.

However, this year, when the Warriors' lineup is complete and they want to start winning, Stevens believes that they can complete the transformation.

In addition to the Warriors having outstanding young players such as Curry, Thompson and North Carolina Hawks Barnes, the Warriors also chose to trust Mark Jackson.

The Warriors have been in chaos for 20 years. They have changed 11 coaches in 20 years, and the team has no stable style at all. Although Old Nelson once led the Warriors to create the Black Eight Miracle, that team is a team with more passion and insufficient stability.

The entire team only has offense but no defense, and offense also relies heavily on talent. Even if such a team completes the Black Eight Miracle, it is destined to be in a flash and can only be a flash in the pan.

Facts have also proved that the Black Eight Warriors are indeed just a flash in the pan.

After Mark Jackson took office, he completely changed the appearance of the team. Before the opening of last season, Mark Jackson instilled defensive concepts into the team and took the initiative to lower the team's rhythm. Last season, the Warriors' defense had initially achieved results and reached the league average. The last time the Warriors could do this was in 1998!

Also as the head coach, Stevens could see the changes Mark Jackson wanted to make on the Warriors. He was trying to pull the Golden State Warriors out of the shadow of Old Nelson.

If Curry and Bogut can stay healthy this season, then Stevens believes that it will be easy for the Warriors to enter the playoffs!

Faced with a playoff-level team, Stevens was of course very concerned.

In the first game of the new season, Curry still defeated the Suns by defending his defense, and only allowed the Suns to score 80 points in the whole game, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

In today's era, limiting the opponent's score of only 80 points is a very impressive achievement. The Golden State Warriors are already very different from before. Mark Jackson decided to let everyone see the results this season!

So in the past few days of training, Stevens mainly focuses on offensive practice. As long as he can break through the Warriors' defense, winning the game is not a problem.

As for the offense? It depends on whether the offense led by Link can surpass Stephen Curry, who has just returned from injury.

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When Link got off the plane, he immediately saw the poster of the Warriors' Five Tigers in the new season.

Bogut, David Lee, Barnes, Thompson and Curry, looked at the poster and Link was stunned for a few seconds.

Before he knew it, the Golden State Warriors had developed into the kind of omnipotent warriors he was familiar with, and had already taken shape.

Last season, Curry only played about twenty games due to injury, and was almost forgotten. But Link knew that it was almost Curry's last trough. After that, Curry would progress step by step and start to realize his talents.

Stevens has always attached great importance to this game, so the players dare not take it lightly. Although the Warriors were only the third-last in the West last season, Stevens has said more than once, "It is extremely stupid to only measure opponents based on their performance last season."

But even without Stevens' words, Link would still take this game very seriously. After all, he knew very well that Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were very difficult to mess with at this time.

"It's like this again. Every time we start the new season, we have to play consecutive away games first." Randolph complained, holding Link's shoulder and pulling him back from his thoughts.

"Isn't this good? Let people from other places see how good we are." Link spread his hands, playing away and home first is not that big for him. There is no way, who made Memphis a small football market?

At the beginning of the season, we naturally went to big football markets like Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

"Hey, I also want to feel the enthusiasm of the home fans. By the way, what video did you watch in the car just now? I can't understand any of the words said by the two people in the video."

"Hehe, that's Australian English, Zach. I suggest you learn a few sentences, it's quite interesting."

"Australian English? Just pretending to be like British English? Forget it, I have been bad at English since I was a child. I often misspel words. I only know black street slang. And what are you learning that? Want to go to Australia to see kangaroos?"

"No, it's always good to learn more, so as not to suffer the cultural losses at critical moments." Link smiled mysteriously.

The Grizzlies players took the team bus at this time and rushed to the hotel.

Tomorrow night, this key battle in Stevens' heart will start at the Oracle Arena.

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Stephen Curry is eager for a big explosion this season because his injury last year has put him under too much pressure.

On the other hand, Nike's intention to renew his contract with him is still unclear. On the other hand, although the Warriors renewed the contract with Curry in advance and signed a four-year, $44 million contract. To be honest, the price was greatly reduced due to Curry's injury last season.

In comparison, Harden, who was selected in the same year as Curry, signed a five-year, 80 million contract with the Rockets. However, Blake Griffin, the No. 2009 pick, still signed a five-year, sky-high contract with the Clippers with a 5-year, worth $95 million!

Compared with them, Curry's contract is simply cheap. You know, Curry's data is no worse than them. He scored 30+10+10 in his rookie season, and Curry, a sophomore averaged 18.6 points per game. His three-point shooting percentage was over 43% in three consecutive seasons. He is known as the best point guard shooter in the league after Steve Nash.

If everything is normal, Curry should be able to lead the team to the playoffs in the third season, he should be able to take his personal data a step further, and he should be able to get a larger contract.

But all of these were ruined by their fragile ankles.

Now, Curry is back, but no longer depressed. The setbacks of the past have passed, and he hopes to change his career from now on!

Curry messed up in the first game of the new season. Although the team won the ball, he scored only 5 points in the whole game and made only 1 of 6 three-pointers.

After that game, Curry was questioned. People say that the Warriors chose the wrong cornerstone for the team building, and Stephen Curry is a glass man and is not trustworthy.

But Curry didn't care about those voices, he was still eager to show off and shut up those people.

So today, Curry came to the Oracle Arena very early and began to practice his shooting at various positions outside the three-point line.

The performance in the last game was mainly because he had been away from the field for too long and could not adapt to the intensity. But today, Curry believed that he could handle everything.

Indeed, the Memphis Grizzlies are very strong. Indeed, the No. 0 striker who always loves to argue with him is very difficult. But Curry doesn't care about that much. This game is not only about the team's victory or defeat, but also about the honor of his career!

Is it a waste or a cornerstone? Curry needs to come up with a proof!

At this time, there was still no one in the Oracle Arena. Therefore, no one saw the continuous white waves under the basket.

Stephen Curry, the touch is hot!
Chapter completed!