"After you three boys finish watching the ball, don't run around, if I catch fooling around, I have a way to clean you up." Richard walked over to the three and said with a smile.

Beasley is his cousin, Curry is his junior, and he watched Curry grow up, so Richard unceremoniously intimidated this kid.

"Coach, when will I get a tryout?" Durant looked at Richard with a wistful look on his face and asked anxiously.

Richard was stunned and tried out Durant? This kid doesn't think he's going to pick him in the draft, does he?

The Trail Blazers will use the top pick to select him, and Richard will definitely not tell Durant that it is better to leave some surprises in life.

"My team doesn't have a habit of tryouts, don't you know?" Richard asked with a smile.

Durant blinked and thought about it carefully, as if it was true, Richard's team rarely reported a trial.

……

With the referee's whistle, tonight's G5 kicks off.

Richard is still quite confident that he will win this game, after all, with Stern escorting, if he can't win against the Pistons, it's really a bit unreasonable.

The game went perfectly as Richard had envisioned, and at halftime, the Buccaneers were leading by ten points.

In the third minute of the second half, Paul broke through with the ball, but when he fell, he stepped directly on the surface of Clark's feet, fell to the ground in pain, and curled up like a shrimp.

Richard's brow furrowed, Paul's injuries were too deadly.

The game was only halfway over, Paul was directly unavailable, and the team could only rely on Rondo to take on the responsibility of the No. 1 position.

However, the partnership between Rondo and Milicic has not been long and the cooperation is not tacit enough, and the effect is definitely much worse than Paul.

It doesn't matter if the opponent is an underdog team.

But now the opponent is Haoqiang Pistons, and any reduction in strength will affect the direction of the game.

Sure enough, in the next few minutes, the Pistons took advantage of the situation and began to pursue, and the original ten points difference was chased back to only three points.

Richard sighed, Paul's luck is actually really bad, in such a crucial game, it is always easy to drop the chain.

Paul has been with the Buccaneers for two seasons, and his first injury was in a crucial game like the Eastern Conference Finals.

Richard shouted a long timeout at the technical bench and had to find a way to fix the disadvantage on the court.

Although the Pirates are currently leading 3-1, even if they lose this game, they still lead 3-2 and have a home-court advantage in Game 7.

But Richard didn't dare to take any chances and pinned his hopes on the next two games.

The Pistons are no other team, and as long as they give them a little respite, they may be able to let Richard fish early this season.

Richard was going to get rid of the Pistons completely tonight to avoid long nights.

……

During the long timeout, Rondo's face was apologetic, and he also knew that his performance in the first few minutes was not good enough, otherwise, he would not have let the Pistons steal back the seven-point difference in a row.

Richard waved his hand at Rondo, signaling for him not to take it to heart.

Anyway, this is Rondo's rookie season, and no one can ask for more to be able to play like this.

Richard motioned for the generals to sit back in their seats and rest, and then turned his gaze to Old Peyton.

"Old man, I have a question for you." Richard asked Peyton softly.

Peyton was stunned, not quite understanding what Richard was trying to do.

"Just ask, Coach."

"Do you want to retire this season if we win the championship?"

Peyton frowned, pondered for a moment, and then gave his reply.

"Yes, if we win this season, I don't have any regrets in my career."

In fact, Payton had thought before that if he could win the championship with the Buccaneers this season, he might retire directly.

Now that Richard is asking such strange questions at such a critical moment, Peyton thought about it and told Richard what he really thought.

Richard nodded, since Payton regretted retiring after winning the championship this season, then he could rest assured that he would give Payton props.

The luck of the big horse monkey.

This is Payton's contract year, and although his contract is only one year, it is still a contract year......

Paul is injured, Richard can be healed with the injury scroll, but this healing takes time, even with the injury scroll, Paul will not be able to play in this game.

Richard prepared to kill the Pistons in this game to avoid long nights, so he naturally targeted Payton.

Payton has maintained a pretty good competitive state in the Pirates over the years, and when Rondo didn't join the Pirates last season, Payton could still get an average of 8+5 per game as a substitute.

Now, with the blessing of the big horse monkey and Peyton's rich tournament experience, his debut effect is definitely much better than Rondo's.

……

At the end of the long timeout, what the Pirate fans at home did not expect was that Richard actually used Payton Sr. at this point in time.

Fans can't help but get nervous in their hearts, although their Buccaneers have a huge big score advantage, but the Pistons are not weak chickens, who can say what will happen next?

If this game can't be won, maybe the Pistons will break out two games in a row and directly eliminate the pirates on their home court.

They can only hope that Paul's injury is not serious, and that Payton Sr. can turn the tide and help the team win this game.

Peyton began to take a deep breath, he didn't expect Richard to send himself out at such a moment.

He just felt like he was full of energy.

As soon as Payton came on the court, he teamed up with Milicic to make a mid-range shot to bring the difference back to five points.

Then, although the Pistons continued to steal points, Payton stabilized the situation on the court with his rich experience in the competition, so that the difference between the two sides hovered around five points, and did not give the Pistons a chance to catch up.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he made the right choice, and Payton played a rather important role on the court.

……

With less than thirty seconds left before the end of the game, the Buccaneers led by three points, and it was the Pirates who had the ball.

Payton kept the ball in steady possession and consumed game time, and Billups, who was on the opposite side, did not dare to reach out for a steal.

With an old fritter like Payton, Billups knows very well that he is afraid that as soon as he stretches out his hand, the referee's whistle will blow immediately.

With Payton's free-throw shooting percentage, it is likely that he will hit both free throws, and the five-point difference will directly make the Pistons lose hope of victory.

With three seconds left on the Pirates' offensive turn, Payton made a pinpoint pass to Granger.

Granger immediately made a three-point shot, but unfortunately the ball missed.

Yao Ming grabbed the defensive rebound and immediately asked for a timeout at the technical table.

There are about 6 seconds left in the game, and in the next offensive round, if the Pistons hit three points, there is still a chance to let the game go into overtime, and even if it is 3+1, the Pistons have a hope of winning.

……

In just six seconds, after the short timeout, the Pistons immediately launched a counterattack, and the only thing they could do at this moment was to shoot three points, and if they still wanted to shoot two points, it would be out of their minds.

The Pirates on the court are obviously aware of this, and will expand the defense line to guard against the Pistons' three-pointers.

As for the defense inside the three-point line, the Pistons were directly released, and at this moment, the Pistons are willing to score two points, and the Pirates can't ask for it.

Singles Joe received the ball on the outside, and in a hurry, he turned over directly and shot a three-point shot.

To the relief of Pirate fans, singles Joe's shot didn't hit.

It's good if you don't hit, and the Pirates are basically already winning.

Yao Ming snatched the offensive rebound and prepared for a second offense.

Mo Ning may also be a conditioned reflex, seeing that Yao Ming was about to attack, he immediately flew to block it.

As a result, this cover directly gave Yao Ming the opportunity to go to the free throw line.

Two free throws, even if they hit all of them, were only two points, and the Buccaneers were still in the lead.

All the pirates on the scene breathed a sigh of relief, and the game was basically won.

But Richard didn't relax, he remembered Yao Ming's self-punishment and self-robbery.

Yao Ming deliberately missed the free throw, grabbed the offensive rebound, and then passed to Alston who was waiting on the outside.

It was Alston who couldn't hit the three-pointer, otherwise it would have been a super exciting goal in history.

Now Richard felt that Yao Ming should have such an idea.

Yao Ming's free throws were solid, and the first shot was hit steadily.

"Guard against the outside!"

"Defend their three points!"

Richard yelled at the court, as he could see that Billups and Singles Joe were both tense.

Yao Ming made free throws, and the muscles of the two were tense, obviously there was some special tactic.

The Pirates heard Richard's roar on the sidelines, and they didn't think about the purpose of Richard's strange arrangement, and they all focused on the Pistons' perimeter players.

……

Yao Ming's second free throw began, and as Richard had expected, Yao Ming could make the free throw quite exquisite, with a force and angle that was simply amazing.

The basketball bounced off the basket and bounced back, Yao Ming grabbed the rebound with one step, and then threw the ball into the hands of Billups outside the three-point line for the first time.

Billups dared to delay time, the game was about to end.

He has a big heart, but no matter how big it is, it can't stand the pirate team's defenses.

Flounder's hasty shot was directly fanned out of bounds by Granger, who arrived directly.

When Yao Ming saw such a scene, he scolded angrily and fucked.

Whoever is left with this kind of thing will definitely be angry.

In fact, Yao Ming just said to coach Sanders during the timeout that he grabbed the rebound and directly played the second offense by himself.

That way, if the score is two, the team can drag it into overtime.

But Sanders didn't agree to Yao Ming's suggestion, there were too many people under the basket, and Sanders felt that it was better to let Yao Ming pass to the outside.

The Pirate defenders would never have imagined that their Pistons would come to such a hand, and without defense, the Pistons perimeter players are shooting more from the field, whether they hit two points or threes.

As a result, Richard's two roars completely shattered the Pistons' plan.

Richard had already seen the Pistons' self-punishment and self-stealing tactics and made arrangements early.

This is the advantage of the traverser, if Richard didn't know enough about Yao Ming, I'm afraid he would really know the way of the piston just now.

It doesn't matter if the Pistons hit a three-point or two-pointer, the Pirates are unlucky.

Billups shot three-pointers, and Richard was well aware of why.

Because Billups' mid-range shooting percentage is five percentage points lower than his three-point shooting percentage.

This is a strange player, and the shooting percentage is not as good as the three-point shooting percentage.

This season, Billups shot 41 percent from three-point range, but only 36 percent from the field.

In this case, Billups would certainly be more inclined to shoot three-pointers.

And if Yao Ming had passed the ball to singles Joe just now, then he might have shot two points.

However, with Iguodala's defense, this two-point is also difficult to hit.