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Chapter 259 Throw that damn ball in!

"No way, is the Magic so weak this year? Can they lose under such circumstances?"

Chinchilla watched the game and couldn’t help complaining to his teammates. You must know that the Celtics gave you Garnett. This is the same as the Rockets and the Lakers. Isn't it too embarrassing, it's even more embarrassing than losing.

"They lost their confidence. When a pitcher doesn't have confidence, he shouldn't be on the field because he has lost his value. He will only hinder the team when he is on the field. This is the coach's negligence. "

Battier began to analyze in a systematic manner, which made Totoro very helpless. He just made a few casual remarks when he was free, and he didn't really want to have a deep and serious discussion on this basketball issue.

Look at the current Rockets team, they are very relaxed. After a little adaptive training in the afternoon, their activities in the evening are mainly watching videos. If there is a live game, then watch the game. Adelman did not participate in the video, he still has his own work to do, and at the same time, the old man wants the players to find out the problems and flaws of each other in the video, so that they can become a mature NBA player earlier .

But it is precisely because of the absence of the old coach that the Rockets players are as relaxed as if they are on vacation. Those with whiskey in their hands are drinking whiskey, and those with snacks are eating snacks. Randolph and Gasol Jr. I brought the game console here, and after looking at it for a while, I started playing games online.

This makes the Rockets players who want to watch the video very helpless, but they are not good at talking about each other, because they are not the core of the team, and the core Totoro is also lying there and swiping the mobile phone Weibo from time to time. They told you to follow suit, didn't you scold them for changing the direction and scolding chinchillas?

And the ethos of a team really depends mostly on the character of the cornerstone of their team building. If you want to stand up and watch videos with the boss, who would dare to be so presumptuous?I'm afraid I'm a newcomer who doesn't know the power of Keshen Iron Elbow, but there are not so many rules when watching videos with Totoro, as long as you come, you can do anything else, don't make too much noise and tear down the ceiling of the video room That's fine.

Over there, I don’t know if Van Gundy had a telepathy with Battier. From the second quarter when he relied on the bench to open up the point difference to the Celtics’ main force pulling the lead for several rounds in a row, Da Fan’s heart expressed the same. It goes straight up and down like a roller coaster, but no matter how incompetent he is, he is still a professional coach hired by an NBA team with a high salary. Anyone who can eat this bowl of rice has his excellence. Big Van Gundy has long seen that the Celtics are now Sticking to the basket and shooting a three-pointer is a bet that the Magic will not make a three-pointer, and the three-pointer sharpshooters of the Magic who spend a lot of money are afraid of taking responsibility and dare not shoot. How can this work! ?
"I'll just ask you, do you want to win a championship."

During the halftime break, Van Gundy did not accept any reporters' halftime interviews, and went directly to the home team's locker room to close the door and ask.

"miss you!"

"I miss you so much!"

"I love this moment in my dreams!"

The Magic player replied immediately, but it's hard to say how many players who didn't agree with Van Gundy.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that you all wanted to win the championship. Then I want to ask you, what happened in the second half of the second quarter? You played like shit. Do you still deserve to enter the finals like this? Even if you get in by luck, do you want to give the Rockets a championship?"

Van Gundy did not continue to joke with the players' hippie smiles, but instead scolded them sternly, and the players in the home team's locker room suddenly fell silent.

"Look at each of you, what you say is better than what you sing, but do you implement the tactics drawn on my tactical board? People stick to the inside, and outside players make three passes and two hits. There is an open space. Tell me, why don't you take action?"

Van Gundy looked around the locker room with his sharp eyes. Except for Howard, Gortat, and Pietrus, who were pure inside blue-collar players, the other outside shooters lowered their heads in shame.

But Van Gundy doesn't intend to let them go easily. This is a life-and-death battle in the Eastern Conference Finals. No one can retreat. The two teams are like bulls wrestling on the edge of a cliff. Whoever takes a step back will be an abyss , Falling down will never recover, they have no way to retreat!
So Van Gundy has to use rough methods to wake up these players, even if they bury their hatred towards him in their hearts, he doesn't care. His first goal now is to achieve results, at least reach the finals this year, and then stabilize himself. handsome.

"Redick, tell me what the team gave you the contract for!"

Big Van Gundy named a white pure shooter loudly, and it seemed that he really didn't intend to save any face for them.

"Yes, I was asked to help the team with three points."

Redick replied with his head down, the entire locker room of the home team was so big, he suddenly felt the eyes of all his teammates staring at his face.

"Then how many open three-pointers did you miss in the second quarter?!"

"Twice, coach, I was wrong, I will not choose to pass the ball again in the future!"

As the saying goes, a man needs a face and a tree needs a bark, and being so named and criticized by others, Redick felt like he was going crazy. He stood up and admitted his mistake loudly, which made Van Gundy nod in satisfaction.

"Well, very good, I want your momentum, Lewis! What does the team ask you to do with a six-year, $6 million contract?"

Big Van Gundy then turned his small eyes to another tall and thin black man sitting in the corner and asked.

"It's used to beat opponents with my shooting talent, and I know how to do it."

With the lessons learned from the past, Lewis finished all the following words in one breath, and Van Gundy nodded in satisfaction, and continued to call the names of other players one by one.

But what Van Gundy didn't know was that Lewis had a great dissatisfaction with him in his heart. Unlike JJ-Redick, he was also the team's second star and the owner of the largest contract. The supersonic period was so majestic. He never thought that one day he would be criticized by the head coach in front of other players.

Stars value face more than ordinary players, especially those players with big contracts. Their salaries are high and they get a lot of money. Is this enough to make most NBA players think highly of themselves?Will a billionaire be sprayed?Who would be convinced by this?This means that Rashad O'Quinn Lewis is usually a good-tempered master. If you want Big Van Gundy to spray and roar Tianzun, he must have been rubbed on the ground by Rasheed Wallace long ago.

However, Van Gundy has no other options. The only way he can think of now is to use shame to stimulate the fighting spirit of the players. Are the players traded?
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Magic began to improve on the perimeter. They resolutely implemented the tactics assigned to them by their head coach during the halftime break, and the Celtics’ defensive focus was originally on the interior. They said that the Magic was meticulous. The selected three-point shooters, no matter how stressful they are or how difficult the hand feels today, the muscle memory of their shots accumulated tens of thousands of times can still maintain their three-point shooting percentage stably.

This time, it will be Reeves' turn to worry off the court. Compared with the white fat man on the opposite side, there is still room for adjustment. There is much less room for him to adjust. Van Gundy hasn't finished the work he can do, then Yan Shi feels that he has dedicated himself to death, and can't find anything else he can help. If the team still loses, then I can only blame God Don't reward yourself with this meal.

Halfway through the third quarter, the Magic regained the point difference to two points.

"Move, I want you all to move for me, don't let me see you stop for a moment on the court, we are in trouble now, but we still have a 2-point advantage in our hands, there is still time in the game In 16 minutes, we can decide whether all our hard work this year has been in vain or not! I want you all to move!"

Reeves used his hoarse voice on the bench to ignite the fighting spirit of the players on the field, but the effect of his chicken soup this time was not very satisfactory. Pierce and Ray Allen were too tired. The veterans on the court fought with the Magic guys for nearly 32 minutes in just three quarters. They took a 2-minute break in the first half, and not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end. Who would dare to go outside? letter?
Rondo is one of the few people on the team who feels that his physical strength is enough, but Rondo and Howard have the same problem. On the offensive end, this player has led the league for the third season and spent his rookie season. The point guard still hasn't developed his shooting ability, and his scoring method is only within the three-second zone. Although he has been learning next to the Big Three for the past two years, the Big Three also regard him as the future of the team. Korondo His offensive ability is still infinitely equal to 0, but his rebounding ability, defensive ability and stealing ability are getting better and better. Now he is the second most efficient defensive player in the team after the wolf king, but there is no soft use at the moment .

When the Big Three were around, it didn't matter whether Rondo could attack or not, because the ball was not enough in the hands of the three old men. The Celtics did not lack his scoring ability, but now that the Big Three lacked one, they needed the team There are warriors inside who can come up.

Reeves also thought about this question, but after seeing all the old, weak, sick, and disabled people on the bench, he could only put his confidence in the third-year student.

"Rondo, now is the time when the team needs you to attack. You can go to the inside to score in the way you like, but I ask you, if you receive the ball from the outside and you are still open, you must give I shot! Do you understand? I won’t blame you if I don’t make a shot, and I’ll take all the responsibility for the loss after the game, but you have to shoot for me!”

"That's right, Doug is right, you must say in your heart a hundred times, [Give me that damn ball], you must stand up and help us relieve the pressure, don't have a psychological burden, I think your The talent is no worse than anyone else!"

Pierce also stood up to encourage Rondo. He and Ray Allen were too tired and urgently needed someone to stand up and take over the game for a while. Truth suddenly remembered the Totoro in Houston. It's that Chinese kid, I'm afraid they have already swept away the Magic 4-0, right?
There are many players in the league who hate Totoro, because Totoro is so good, and his emergence has robbed them of a lot of glory that should belong to them, but these are basically star players who are playing in their prime, and the league There are also many veterans who like Totoro very much, just like the three old men of the Celtics, they don't want to be the boss of the team for a long time, and they don't care about their own statistics, otherwise they would not sacrifice each other to form a big three .

What they think about now is just to fight for a few more championships, and hope that a few good seedlings will come out of the team, so that they can pass on their decades of hard work in the NBA to those children, and then it will be like passing on the torch. , watching them lead the team to glory again!The kid Totoro is quite pleasing to the eye. He is willing to defend hard, can pass the ball, has excellent physical fitness, is good at dribbling and breaking through, and has a super stable outside shot. This kind of player has no dead ends. He is in the draft How could you not notice such a beautiful jade?If you notice, even if Angie loses everything in a deal, he will trade the top 6 picks!
It's a pity that there are not so many ifs in the world, and when the timeout ends, they will have to fight again before YY has time.

Rondo dribbled the ball for half court, and Nelson, who was facing him, released Rondo about two and a half steps away. The weakness of not being able to shoot in the NBA is really fatal, especially for guards!
Nelson's official height is 1 meters, and Rondo's official height is 83 meters. But when the two stand on the court, the players will find that Nelson is obviously falsely reporting his height, and Rondo is also falsely reporting his height, but they should be short. , Rondo is almost taller than Nelson and has half a head. Is this really only 1cm away?
Coupled with Rondo's famous long arms, if he pulls up from the outside to shoot a jumper, Nelson can't interfere with him at all, it's just the advantage brought by his height and wingspan, but relatively, Nelson is better than Ron No matter how short he is, the center of gravity is also lower than Rondo's. He can still match the opponent's speed when the tonnage is larger than Rondo's. This is the advantage of being short.

If Rondo has the basket, Nelson must defend close. Rondo is completely free to choose whether to pull up a jumper or break through for a layup, but what if Rondo can't shoot?Nelson can safely and boldly give the opponent space to shoot, and only defend Rondo's breakthrough. Doesn't the difficulty of defending Rondo drop a lot?

(End of this chapter)