basketball pope

Chapter 67 [I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry]

The entire Knicks team was beaming, but Yang Rui saw some hidden dangers while winning streak, and that was Ewing's physical exhaustion.

In order to help Ewing improve the data and compete for MVP, the coaching staff continued to increase his playing time, averaging 37 minutes per game, and winning a few games against the underdogs was quite thrilling, and it was all based on perseverance and experience.Fortunately, Ewing is playing on the outside now, otherwise he would have been in danger.

After defeating the Blazers and Rockets and winning 20 straight games, the Knicks lost 101 to 102 to the underdog Warriors at home.

Ewing was in a terrible state. After 40 minutes of play, he had only 14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 fouls.The two sides played an overtime, and Donyel Marshall made a lore shot, making the Knicks' entire effort to be useless.

Yang Rui once proposed to play the underdog and let Ewing take a rest, but Van Gundy and Ewing jointly opposed it. They both worried that too much rest at the core would also affect the MVP selection and record.

即使输球，媒体还是称赞了尼克斯，他们打破队史连胜纪录，之前的纪录是1969-70年创造的18连胜。这成绩和1970-71年的雄鹿并列排在历史第二位，仅次于1971-72赛季湖人的33连胜。

Entering the first game of March, the Knicks beat the Lakers 3-101 at home, completing the regular season sweep.

尤因26分6篮板7助攻数据压倒奥尼尔的19分7篮板5助攻，休斯顿32分5篮板2助攻完爆15分的埃迪琼斯。

The Lakers have four All-Stars, their popularity is amazing, and they are also regarded as favorites to win the championship.

然而，尼克斯3日93比100先输篮网，一天后99比103又败给了奇才。两连败后，战绩变成了60胜8负。

The Nets are currently eighth in the Eastern Conference, with four more losses than the seventh-place Cavaliers, and are most likely to meet the Knicks in the first round.After the win, the few Nets fans saw a glimmer of hope.

Back-to-back away games against the 76ers, the Knicks only narrowly won 87-80, and everyone began to realize that the Knicks were in trouble.

In Yang Rui's previous life, the Warriors broke the record with 2016 wins in the regular season in 73. Bogut, the oldest starting player, was 31 years old, and he was not a veteran. The other stars were very young and had obvious physical advantages.

Even so, the Warriors also had physical problems in the second half of the regular season. The players were not focused enough, had too many singles, and took rotations in some uncritical games.

The average age of the Knicks is older than that of the Warriors. Yang Rui has no good way to do this. He has arranged tactics, and the rest can only be seen by the players. No one can help them stay in shape on the court at all times.

On March 3, the Knicks played the Bulls again at home and lost 8 to 95.

Pippen's comeback adds a strong scoring point, the Bulls run the ball, and the defense is better than ever.The Knicks' Starks continued to be in a sluggish state, shooting less than 16% in four consecutive games, and this 4-for-[-] shooting.

Watching Starks throw all kinds of waves on the court, the fans were anxious.Yang Rui discussed with Van Gundy again and let the role players rotate, using this method to ensure physical recovery, otherwise it will be more difficult to play in the playoffs.

At first, Van Gundy didn't agree, but now the team is playing in a mess and has lost 9 games.

The player's sudden decline has something to do with Van Gundy's pressure. He often talks about the record, hoping that the team can follow suit.If the coach tells the players that "regular season records are not important, winning the championship is the key", maybe there will be better results.

After Yang Rui and Van Gundy discussed, Van Gundy changed his tune when he mobilized.

"Everyone, forget the record of the Bulls. What we need to do now is to calm down and train for the playoffs, run more tactics, and reduce individual singles. The playoffs are the key."

In addition to decompression, the team also adopted a rotation strategy, allowing Starks, who was in poor form, to enter the injured list.

This guy was in a sloppy state and didn't want to rest. He jumped on the spot in anger, and he had to go on the court no matter what, and yelled at Yang Rui a few times. "What the hell did you come up with? Can't get the fuck out of my second?"

"Don't you think you need to adjust recently? Your shooting percentage per game has dropped below 40%." Yang Rui fought back with facts.

Starks was unreasonable at all and shouted: "How can I find the touch when I play so little time?"

Yang Rui wisely retreated behind Van Gundy. It is very troublesome to communicate with the thorny players. This should be the job of the head coach, not his fault.

Yang Rui feels that the relationship between players and coaches should be like the relationship between teachers and students, and it is only right that students should respect teachers.But in the NBA, there is a special relationship between a coach and a player, and it's not that easy.

Stars are more famous than coaches, and their salaries are higher than coaches. Big-name stars are unhappy and leave jobs at will, and others are rushing to ask for them. Coaches don’t say that they can control these big players. It's easy, in addition to understanding tactics, but also coaxing. If you can't figure out the players, no matter how good the tactics are, you can't use them. If you don't do it, the coach will be fired.

In the NBA, conflicts between players and coaches often occur in various forms. In addition to hands-on fights, most of them are angry, arguing with each other, coaches penalize players and suspend players, serious players have trouble playing games, infighting and so on.

In the past two years, there have been relatively famous things. For example, the Magic originally hoped to build a team around Hardaway and O'Neal, and then O'Neal left Los Angeles.Hardaway became dissatisfied with the coaching style of Magic head coach Ryan Hill, and encouraged the rest of the team to blame Hill.Hill was fired from the team shortly after.

Even more outrageous is Warriors star Sprewell.This season, he was first sentenced to sit on the bench for not listening carefully to tactics. He was late for training and missed the plane on the road. This made Carlesimo, who had not dealt with the players in the first place, furious.

The conflict finally broke out during a training session, and Carlesimo asked Sprewell to be serious, but the "madman" did not bird the coach.Calesimo's authority was challenged. He walked up to the "madman" and continued to shout loudly. At this time, the "madman" couldn't bear it any longer, and he grabbed the coach's neck for 10 seconds before being pulled away by the others.

Then the "madman" left angrily. Who knew that he ran back soon after, and he didn't say a word and punched the coach a few times before leaving.The punishment for this impulse was a 68-game suspension and more than $600 million in salary deductions, the most in the NBA.

Van Gundy talked hard and talked hard, and finally let Starks understand that the playoffs are the stage to play, and he is willing to rest for two games.

Yang Rui watched the whole process and was firm on one thing. In the future, as a head coach, he must have enough right to speak, control the trading rights and draft rights in his own hands, and find the kind of players who are easy to communicate and control.

There are countless black spots like Starks, who mainly rely on convulsions and can't see their position clearly. The state is good, but when the state is not good, it is a tumor.If Yang Rui was in charge, he would have sent him away long ago, and he would definitely be able to get a better person.

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