Sports Almighty King

Chapter 388

This is a usual tone of belittling and bad-mouthing Wang Fei.

McGrady smiled slightly and said: "Charles, I don't agree with you. Is Wang having physical problems? I think this can be easily seen. Now, there are still more than ten games before the start of the playoffs, and there are many For teams that are still fighting for playoff spots, I think those teams that are fighting for playoff qualifications will definitely give 100% of their efforts! We just need to take a look, when those teams What will be the result after the team meets the Rockets? We can roughly evaluate the Rockets' playoff effectiveness. What do you think?"

Buckley blinked, shrugged and said: "Aha! What you said seems to make some sense! I think it's time to test Wang's quality. I hope he is not a parallel import! I also hope he can withstand the test! "

That's what Buckley said. In fact, the emotion in his tone clearly meant that he didn't take Wang Fei seriously at all.

Pause ends.

The Suns replaced Devin Booker.

Now, the players on the Suns field are DeAndre Ayton, TJ Warren, Jamal Crawford, Josh Jackson and DeAnthony Melton.

Suns coach Igor Kokoshkov takes a look at the Rockets' lineup.

He found that the Rockets' players are still all substitutes.

Kokoskov said that it seems that D'Antoni is also trying his best to get more rest time for the main lineup.

I hope that the team can find the rhythm of the offense through fine-tuning the lineup, hit a climax, and recover a few points.

Wang Fei felt relieved when he saw the Suns withdrawing Devin Booker.

If Devin Booker is not available, then he can safely take a look at the true strength of the substitute lineup.

The game restarts.

The Suns played obviously more methodically after coach Kokoshkov's advice.

The Rockets' bench players still played passionately and implemented the head coach's tactics more resolutely.

The two teams played very intensely in the second quarter.

The score increases alternately.

You vote for one, and then I will definitely return one.

The Rockets' bench is fully open, and they are fully confident.

Their offense and defense are smooth.

Therefore, although they are a little bit behind the Suns' main lineup in terms of strength, they are still indistinguishable from the Suns.

Among them, Zhou Qi performed particularly eye-catching.

He can do whatever he wants inside, and can make great contributions on both offense and defense, which has become an important point for the Rockets to cling to the score.

Sitting on the sidelines, Wang Fei was delighted to watch the pleasing transition between offense and defense.

The bench lineup can play better, which is definitely a good thing for the Rockets.

Because, in the playoffs, the depth of the bench sometimes often determines the balance of victory.

D'Antoni stood on the sidelines and watched his substitute play inextricably with the Suns, who were almost all the main lineup. He was surprised at first.

He didn't expect that his substitute players all seemed to be pretty good.

You know, these substitutes for the Rockets are late-round picks or characters who can't even be selected in the draft.

As for the Suns, the worst players are the top ten rookies in the first round. They even have last year's No. [-] pick, DeAndre Ayton!

Although they are a small team, their young players are really talented!

D'Antoni had hardly looked at these fringe substitutes on his side before!
But now, it was these substitutes whom he didn't think highly of and didn't even give a chance to. The Rockets were clinging to the score.

This is amazing.

What shocked D'Antoni the most was that center Zhou Qi from China and small forward Gary Clark both played pretty well.

The cooperation between the substitutes is also very tacit.

D'Antoni said in his heart that they must have done a lot of hard training below, otherwise it would be impossible to make such rapid progress.

Gary Clark is a small forward. He was a rookie last year. However, he failed to participate in the draft. In other words, he was not even a late-round pick. The Rockets signed a two-way agreement with him during their employment period.

Players like Gary Clark are usually role players that the team is not very optimistic about.

That is to say, no one is available for the time being, so sign him and use it occasionally.

Players who sign a two-way agreement may only receive as much as 30 to [-] U.S. dollars a year, not even a basic salary.

But the strength that Gary Clark is showing now really makes D'Antoni shine.

"Who said I can't train newcomers? Look at Zhou and Gary. One of them is a last-round pick and the other is an undrafted pick. They have made rapid progress under my hands!" D'Antoni said proudly thinking.

Although D'Antoni takes the credit for himself in his heart, in fact, he is self-aware. He knows that he has not made any efforts at cultivating Zhou Qi and Gary Clark.In fact, he never valued them.

D'Antoni couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Wang Fei.

D'Antoni thought to himself that both Zhou and Gary are good friends of Wang. It seems that Wang must have given these two more training and tips on weekdays.

The second quarter is almost over.

But the score difference did not decrease.

The head coach of the Suns, Igor Kokoshkov, looked at the situation on the court. It can be said that he was extremely depressed.

What he puts on the court now is the main force of the Suns...

The main lineup was so close to the Rockets' full bench that they couldn't take advantage at all.

Could it be that the Rockets' bench is really that strong?
It seems that the idea of ​​taking away a victory from the Toyota Center can only be a fantasy.

His performance in coaching the Suns this season is so poor, it is estimated that he will leave the Suns at the end of the season.

Kokoshkov felt a little bitter.

Devin Booker, who had been on the bench for almost an entire quarter, was also feeling very uncomfortable at the moment.

He was a little restless.

He felt that many people were pointing at him: "Look! It's him, Devin Booker. Didn't score a single point in the game! Even though Wang was off the field, he couldn't hit open shots! He's a big-mouthed trash!"

Devin Booker held his head in his hands.

Only then did Devin Booker realize that he had misjudged the Rockets' situation. Harden's injury did not seem to have a big impact on the Rockets' strength.

The second quarter is over.

The Rockets' substitutes fought against the main force of the Suns for almost a quarter, and they did not lose the wind at all. The Suns only led by one point 28:27 in a single quarter.

And they still trailed by 51 points 74:23.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the second quarter, Wang Fei stood up, applauded and walked to the sidelines.

The Rockets' substitutes were also very happy. They high-fived each other and came to the sidelines.

Wang Fei clapped hands with each of them and said some encouraging words loudly:
"Good job dude!"

"You played so well, I like you!"

"Come on! Brother, you will have a good future!"

Every substitute who received his praise looked happy.

These substitutes are also filled with emotion.

When I was in the Rockets, no one cared, no one paid attention, and I was almost a fringe person who lived on his own.

But after Wang Fei arrived, everything changed. He got more opportunities to play, and he got a lot of encouragement and help.I got a comfortable shot, and I started to enter the normal rotation.

All the benefits were given to me by the big Chinese boy in front of me.

In the live broadcast seat.

Mike Brin sighed: "Tracey, Charles, can you imagine that the Rockets' bench could play so well in the second quarter? They even withstood the crazy counterattack of the Suns' main lineup. Not losing the slightest bit against Biaozhong? This is incredible."

McGrady nodded and said: "I really didn't expect this. It's a well-known fact that the Rockets' bench depth is insufficient. Their bench is almost full of late-round picks and undrafted players. The talents of those players are definitely not outstanding. But. They just played wonderful team basketball. This puzzles me. We all know that Mike D'Antoni is the kind of head coach who is not good at cultivating new players. His rotation lineup always only has seven or eight players! But now , this season, Mike has changed, he has become willing to give more opportunities to the substitutes, and the growth rate of their substitutes seems to have accelerated. This is a surprising change. I think this change should be the leader. Come. It was Wang who joined the Rockets at the beginning and played well with the bench, which made D'Antoni trust the bench."

Barkley shook his head with disdain and said, "Tracey, you can't put all the credit on that Huaxia kid. In fact, to be honest, Mike D'Antoni is still a very good head coach." ...Mike is very experienced, he also has a good coaching team, and they did a good job of tapping the potential of the team's bench.

Maddie smiled and said: "Charles, what you said fully illustrates one point, that is: you don't know Mike well at all. Mike is the kind of cautious person, he is very conservative, although he is not young anymore, but he has never He didn’t have much patience to train new players. This was true when he was with the Rockets and also when he was with the Suns. The only thing he persisted in was that he always implemented his run-and-gun tactics!"

When Mike Breen saw the two arguing again, he smiled and smoothed things over and said: "In any case, the stronger substitute lineup is definitely a good thing for the Rockets. Do you think that with these substitutes to help Wang, does he have any What’s the chance to win this year’s championship?”

(End of this chapter)