Roy made 4-of-11 three-pointers in the first half, 3-of-8 in the second half, and 7-of-19 three-pointers in the game.

However, the two-point shooting percentage was good, with two points on 3-of-4 and 4-of-4 free throws on the outside, so Roy scored 31 points tonight.

Counting up, Roy scored 31 points on a total of 23 shots tonight, and this offensive efficiency has actually made Richard extremely satisfied.

As for both Auden and Paul, Richard was given enough time to play.

O'Neal played 25 minutes tonight, and the remaining 23 minutes were Oden's appearance, with 8 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks.

The goal of Oden's Intermediate Godmaking mission is the best sixth man and the king of hits.

This king of shooting percentage, for Oden, is not too difficult, Richard instructed him to try to shoot as many shots as possible when he encounters weak chickens, and when he encounters an interior player like Carman, who has something on hand, try to shoot as little as possible and focus on rebounding and defense.

Tonight, Oden scored relatively little, only a measly eight points, but the shooting percentage was terrifying, 4 of 5!

As for the honor of the best sixth man, Richard pondered that if Oden could finally play about 14+8+1 as a substitute this season, he would almost be able to win the best sixth man.

……

As for Paul, Richard did not influence him, letting him play at his normal pace, and he could fight as he wanted.

The only thing Richard can do is improve Paul's playing time and allow him to get as many stats as possible.

Last season, Paul averaged about 30 minutes per game, and this season Richard has increased to 35 minutes.

Rondo is not dissatisfied, after all, he knows Richard's little secret, which is that Paul will be traded at the end of the season.

As for the third point guard Sun Yue, he is even less likely to be dissatisfied......

Sun Yue is not the kind of player who is particularly aggressive, and he may not be as good as Yi Jianlian in this regard.

To put it mildly, he has to get by, as long as he can gain a firm foothold in the NBA and get a guaranteed contract, he is more satisfied.

In the current situation of the Pirate team, he knows quite well that even if there are Paul and Rondo in front of him, he will not have a chance to show off.

At the moment, he felt that the only thing he had to do was to endure the loneliness and survive......

Although he was selected with the 29th pick, he was also a first-round pick and signed a four-year contract with the Buccaneers.

After the four-year contract has passed, as long as he doesn't die and doesn't open his mouth, Richard will definitely renew his contract, although it is very likely to be a base salary......

But even with the base salary, it is better to be able to keep mixing like this in the NBA than to go back to China to play.

Playing in the NBA, that fame is not the same thing as playing in China, which allows Sun Yue to get a lot of off-court endorsement contracts, and he can earn more than in China.

Now Sun Yue's goal for himself is to stay up and survive as much as possible until the day he comes out.

Even if you really survive until you retire and don't come out, then you won't lose money anyway......

……

After the game, Richard led the team back to the hotel.

Brand's injury is not yet clear, and it is estimated that the Clippers will officially announce the injury tomorrow, and he will not go over to make trouble tonight.

However, after returning to the hotel, Richard learned another piece of bad news.

The Kings also played a game against the Heat tonight, and Raheem suffered a fractured tibia in this game, and the injury was extremely serious!

Richard sighed, today was really a bad day, two West Lafayette players suffered serious injuries in a row.

Although Brand's injury is unknown, Richard has a hunch that nine times out of ten it will be a season reimbursement.

Rahim was even more miserable......

If Richard remembers correctly, Raheem retired at the end of the season.

He was in a similar situation to Brand, both of them suffered serious injuries after playing a few games in the opening season, which then led to the loss of the season.

Brand is still able to return to the league after recovering from injury, but Raheem is not so lucky, and he faces a complete exit from the league.

……

The last away game next came against the Golden State Warriors led by Nelson Sr.

The result is naturally an easy win, the Warriors have indeed been in the limelight for a while after the Black Eight Mavericks, but due to the limitations of the lineup, they have not been able to rush to the top half of the West, and this season may be even worse, they may not even be able to enter the playoffs.

……

Since the start of the tournament, the Buccaneers have played seven games and won all of them.

It's hard to do that if you win all seven of your first seven games, you can get off to the top every few years.

Now the point is that the Buccaneers are beating their opponents every game, which is pretty remarkable.

Watching the Pirate team's game, you can't see any anxiety at all, every game the Pirates are in an absolute lead, and the only thing the opponent can do is not to let himself lose so badly.

……

Richard is naturally quite satisfied with such an opening record, but these seven opponents are relatively weak, and the game that can really test the gold content of the Pirates has not yet appeared.

As soon as he returned to Charlotte with his team, Richard heard news that made him overjoyed.

The Kings are ready to buy out Raheem's contract......

Rahim's injury has been identified, not only for the season, but even if he returns from injury, it will definitely be difficult to play the previous form.

Before Raheem's injury, he was already reduced to a backup for the Kings, and in this case, the Kings buying out Raheem's contract is the best option.

After the news that the Kings were ready to buy Raheem, Richard was also watching to see if any team was interested in Raheem.

The result was very sad, and no team showed any willingness to accept Rahim.

Raheem basically has no value left now, he is a player who is strong in attack and weak in defense, and his form has declined so much in recent years that he can't even attack well.

Now that he has suffered this kind of injury, how can any team be interested in him.

Richard immediately called Raheem for the simple reason that he wanted to sign Rahim and take Rahim to taste the championship.

Raheem was arguably one of the first West Lafayette players, having entered the league at the same time as Richard.

From a talented super-rookie power forward to the point where no one cares about it now, Richard is a little sad about what happened to Rahim.

But now, he is already qualified to accept Rahim, and he can also give Rahim an extra championship ring by the way.

"Man, how's the conversation with the King's management?" Richard called Raheem to inquire about the situation.

"It's not going to be good, and the amount they're willing to give is too small...... Raheem said with a wry smile.

Richard nodded, Raheem joined the king in 05, and the contract signed with the king at that time was 5 years and 32 million, which was a relatively cheap contract.

With less than three years to go until the contract, the Kings will have to pay Raheem this season and the next two seasons.

If it weren't for the previous "Alan Houston rule", Raheem wouldn't have been as distressed as he is now, and he would have been able to reject the king's buyout request.

The so-called Alan Houston rule is exactly what the league introduced in the summer of '05 about buyouts.

Any team has the right to force a buyout of any player on the team, and this is the main element of Alan Houston's rule.

In other words, before this rule was introduced, teams did not have the right to unilaterally buy out player contracts, and now they have the right to force buyouts because of this rule.

However, even with the right to a forced buyout, the king wants to have a good talk with Rahim, they want to avoid a full buyout, and they want Rahim to reduce the price......

Rahim is not a fool, so naturally it is impossible to agree, you want to ruin Lao Tzu's career, and Lao Tzu has to save money for you? There is no such good thing.

As a result, the buyout came to an impasse.

"Well, let's break it early."

"When you break off with the king, call me and join the team at any time, man, we're going to fight side by side again." Richard said with a smile.

Raheem was stunned, and he could join the team at any time?

He didn't react for a moment, and after a moment of pause, he understood what Richard meant.

"Coach, you're saying I can join the Pirates?" Rahim's tone was hard to hide his excitement.

He is well aware of his quality at the moment and it is unlikely that a team will sign him.

And now Richard has extended an olive branch to him, which means that he is about to have a chance to taste the championship!

In the eyes of the outside world, the chances of the Pirates winning the championship are too great, and when Rahim learned that the Kings wanted to buy him out, he wondered if he could join the Pirates and get a championship ring before he retired.

But he was embarrassed to talk to Richard about this, and now that Richard took the initiative to speak, Rahim couldn't be excited.

"Don't worry, coach, I'll fix it as soon as possible."

……

After hanging up the phone call with Rahim, Richard breathed a sigh of relief that his brother was back to play under him, and it was a wonderful feeling.

Although Raheem basically does not contribute much on the court now, Richard does not expect Rahim to lead the team to win, he just wants to fulfill his original promise.

When they can't get along in the league, Richard will always have a place for them here.