against the front

Chapter 70 Pleasure
"Terry, can you talk about your arrangement for the last ball? Why did you leave Yan Yan at that time? What thoughts prompted you to make such a wrong decision?"

On December 2008, 12, after 8 o'clock in the evening, the media room of the US Airways Center Arena was crowded with reporters from all over the United States. Although Phoenix is ​​the capital of Arizona and the fifth largest city in the United States, the Sun and the Kings Even the matchup between the ninth in the west and the tenth in the west is not even a strong dialogue, but after the end of this game, almost all the players who have resident agencies in Phoenix All the media flocked here, wanting to get first-hand interview materials after the game.

As a team whose season goal is the championship, although the Suns seem to be farther and farther away from the championship now, as a team with three superstars, it is not news at all that the Suns beat the Kings, but sitting in the The Suns lost again at home and were beaten by a rookie. That's news. What's more, this rookie scored 20 points when he was facing two insiders, O'Neal and Stoudemire. The data of 22 rebounds is even more big news. You must know that this rookie scored 24 points and 26 rebounds in the last game against the Jazz. A rookie scored double 20 in two consecutive games. , This will definitely be a sensational big news.

However, after the press conference started, the swarming reporters discovered that today's protagonist did not attend the post-match press conference. After being disappointed, almost all the reporters at the scene, including the Phoenix local media, Targeted the head coach of the Suns, Terry Porter. Originally, when Terry Porter took office, the media in Phoenix still supported him, because they expected Terry Porter to be able to Leading the Suns to a better record than D'Antoni, but the current record of the Suns has disappointed them. Not to mention the top three in the Western Conference in the past few seasons, the championship is popular, and the Suns have now been reduced to struggling for a place in the playoffs Well, after losing to the Kings, the Suns' Western Conference ranking dropped to tenth. If they continue to play here, the Suns might not even be able to make it to the playoffs, let alone win the championship.

As for Terry Porter, who had just sat in his seat, after hearing the questions from the reporters in the audience, his face, which was not very good-looking because he lost the game, instantly became even more ugly. - Reggie Toyes next to Porter looked at Terry Porter with a smile on his face. It seemed that Reggie Toyes, as the winner, was very happy to see the journalists on the scene getting worse.

"I'm sorry, regarding the defense against the Kings' last attack, I admit that there was an omission in my layout. I couldn't think of a guy who shot 11 of 3 from mid-range and would make a lore in that position. Our defensive focus was at that time It was all on Kevin Martin and John Salmons, especially Kevin Martin, he was the one who threatened us the most, I admit, this is my personal negligence."

"For our performance in today's game, I don't think there is anything wrong with my players' performance. Amare scored a game-high 37 points and 14 rebounds today. Shaq also scored 23 points. With 12 rebounds, our players didn’t have any problems. On the contrary, they performed very well today. As for the tactics, in today’s game, we firmly suppressed the king from the very beginning of the game. The game lasted 48 minutes , we were leading for 47 minutes..."

"But you lost the game!" Just as Terry Porter was still up and down for the sun and excused himself, a reporter from the Arizona Republic in the press box off the field directly interrupted his speech, Although this kind of behavior is very impolite, this reporter who has no good feelings or expectations for Terry Porter unceremoniously dismantled Terry Porter's station, and even looked at Terry Porter. The slightly angry face of Tet, this reporter will still feel secretly refreshed. They have only played more than 20 games in the new season, and they miss D'Antoni a little bit. I just can't remember.

"Basketball games are like this. The side that performs well will not necessarily win the final victory, and the side that performs poorly may not necessarily lose the game [-]%, because basketball is round. In the NBA arena, what happens? will happen."

Looking at Terry Porter who was being made difficult by the media, Reggie Toyes thought of himself last season. In recent seasons, the Kings changed coaches frequently in order to make a breakthrough in the record, and was Reggie Troyce, who had high hopes, had a record of 38 wins and 44 losses after taking over the Kings, especially at the end of last season, after the Kings were determined to miss the playoffs, Sacramento The media reporters, just like these reporters in Phoenix, made things difficult for Reggie Troyce in the press conference before and after the game. Ji-Toyce may not be able to stay in Sacramento for a long time.

Finally, when Terry Porter, who was pushed into a hurry, chose to leave in a very rich way, the reporters in the audience remembered Reggie Toyce as the winner. As the record declined, the team With the star players leaving one after another, the Kings have received less and less attention. As the head coach of this team, Reggie Troyce rarely encounters such a big battle.

Take the above game as an example. In the post-game press conference between the Kings and the Jazz, only a dozen media were present, and Jerry Sloan was the one who received the most questions. Although Jerry Sloan’s team lost, But the reporters in the audience did not show any disrespect to the old man. On the contrary, when they asked questions, they were very sorry. In that press conference, Reggie, who was the winner, -Toyce, at the time, obviously felt that he was a villain, a bad person.

When Terry Porter shook off his handsome hand and left, Reggie Toyce became the focus of the scene, and when facing many questions from reporters in the audience, Reggie Toyce also obviously enjoyed this feeling very much , always with a relaxed expression on his face, answering questions from the reporters in the audience with a smile on his face.

Although after defeating the Suns, the Kings are still ranked ninth in the West, but they have now tied the eighth Jazz in the West, and there are only 0.5 wins left from the Hornets, which is seventh in the West, so Reggie Toyes The current mood is very happy. According to the current momentum, the king's hope of reaching the playoffs is very high.

(End of this chapter)