NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 38 Congenital Scoliosis

Barkley in the TNT studio: "Hey, I just came back from a timeout. Since Liu Rui called a timeout again, this kind of situation is really rare for Liu Rui,"

"As the first Asian coach in NBA history, Liu Rui has received a lot of attention, and his casual coaching style has been gradually accepted by everyone, but today's situation of pausing just after playing a ball after a timeout is really the first time we have seen it!"

Smith: "That's right, and I counted it before. Among all the 30 teams participating in the preseason, Liu Rui called timeouts the fewest times among all coaches, but the frequency of substitutions was indeed the highest, and the playing time of personnel rotation was also the longest."

"Among the Bobcats' preseason 13-man active roster, Buffalo White had the least playing time per game, but even White averaged 10.8 minutes per game."

"Although this has something to do with the absence of a powerful center in the previous teams, Liu Ruique often emphasizes to the media that he will put the health of the players first, and will not keep increasing the playing time of the players just to care too much about winning or losing the game."

"And this is the best verification in Wallace. Wallace is currently the Bobcats with the highest average playing time per game, but even this tough guy only averages 28.3 minutes per game."

"I believe that if it weren't for the inextricable game against the Celtics and the subsequent suspension, this playing time might have been reduced."

"I think if it wasn't for Liu Rui, no coach in the league would have made such an arrangement. He is really a strange guy, just like the current timeout. I feel like I can't understand him more and more."

Not only Barkley and Smith in the studio were surprised, but even Rockets coach Van Gundy was a little surprised. I just called a timeout, and you called another one? ?

Could it be that McGrady's goal made him feel uncertain? !Hmm... Yes, it must be my deployment after the timeout that made him unable to parry, so he had to call out the timeout to arrange it.

The more Van Gundy thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. When he looked at Liu Rui who was on the Shan Mao side, his nostrils turned up unconsciously, as if I had seen through you a long time ago, and it was clear that I was determined to eat you! !
And Liu Rui, who was sitting on the sidelines eating bananas, always felt that someone was watching him. When he looked back, he saw the old guy Van Gundy with his head up and his nostrils in the sky, pulling him like two to five to eighty thousand. I don't know what he was doing.

Fuck, this old man is driving me crazy...

Back on the field, McGrady was smiling, but his eyelids were drooping, and he still looked like he would never wake up, and it was precisely this appearance that gave McGrady an air of contempt for all beings.

Apart from other things, McGrady has been judged by professional basketball doctors since the beginning of his career that he is not a piece of basketball material at all.

The reason is simple, his body has congenital scoliosis.

And when this kind of physical disease appeared in a professional basketball player, it was almost a "death sentence" for him.

The doctor at the time even gave McGrady an answer that he could not accept for a long time, that is, his basketball career, in theory, can be played for three to five years at most.

This was absolutely unacceptable for a young player who was complacent and dreamed of dominating the NBA.

So McGrady also firmly believes in that sentence, one's own path must be walked by oneself in the end, if you don't try it, how can you know that you are really not good? ? ?
So, after the Raptors played as a substitute for several years, McGrady was traded to the Magic by the Raptors, and has since entered the sea.

Since then, McGrady has soared into the sky. During his career in the Magic, McGrady has gradually grown into one of the best superstars in the league, and won the league's scoring champion. He is also known as one of the league's four major shooting guards! !
So for Wallace today, Liu Rui doesn't have much confidence in his heart. Although Wallace's defensive ability is extremely good, he even played 2×2 data in his peak period, which is famous in history.

But Wallace is obviously not yet at his peak, and his youthful, passionate style of play cannot be fully matured just because of his few words. There are some things engraved in his bones that can only be guided, not suppressed.

Before Wallace reached his peak, he was prone to jumping, chasing desperately, stealing like hell, and being easily troubled by fouls. These problems still plague him.

But Liu Rui still chose to send Wallace to mark McGrady, because he could unite the team to the greatest extent while being able to vent his anger on Karim.

At the same time, it can also hone Wallace's defensive ability on the spot to the greatest extent.

Because before this game, Liu Rui did not explain any defensive deployment against McGrady, so how about Wallace's defensive effect after he came on the court, not to mention other people, even Liu Rui didn't know in his heart, and he was completely crossing the river by feeling the stones.

In the previous games, Wallace was surrounded by House and Kapono in most cases. Two three-pointers with the league's top shooting percentage opened up space for Wallace to break through the inside to the greatest extent.

And as a center, he has been paired with Brezek, the European big man with top golf intelligence, and this time he replaced Okafor, a low-post killer. Liu Rui is also looking forward to new surprises.

With Kareem substituted, Wallace will return to the 3 with Knight and Smith in the backcourt and Eli and Okafor in the frontcourt.

This lineup does not have a strong three-point firepower to open up space for it, but the strength is the bombing of the basket in the counterattack.

Both Wallace and Eli are absolutely excellent fast-break counterattackers. After the double-double machine Okafor receives the rebounds in the backcourt, paired with Knight, the precise passing master, they can break up the Rockets' formation to the greatest extent.

While the Rockets have Yao Ming, the low-post bully, if they can't convert them into points in offense, then there will be vacancies in the defensive position in transition, so that the Bobcats have the opportunity to convert into points.

It can be said that this is a battle related to physical fitness. The Bobcats can only make up for the lack of superstars in the team by rushing as much as possible, and the Rockets also have extremely high requirements on the physical fitness of the team's main players due to the lack of bench depth.

Okafor served from the backcourt, and Knight held the ball and pushed it into the half court. Wallace did not catch the ball in the arc this time, but brought it up to set a pick-and-roll for Knight, forming a weak-side two-on-two.

With Knight, the master of field control, if he is allowed to play off the ball, it is really a riot, and Knight's career three-point shooting rate of 20.00% can basically say goodbye to off the ball...

(End of this chapter)