Ye Xuan thought for a moment before returning, "In other words, I don't have a chance to stagger the playing time with that damn facial paralysis long-handed monster in the next game?" ”

"Hahahaha, facial paralysis long-handed monster, boy, you're right, he's indeed the same as you said, facial paralysis long-handed monster, hahahaha." After listening to Ye Xuan's ridicule, Bird first laughed for a while, and then said, "Yes, I think you should know that if the opponent doesn't give you the opportunity to stagger the playing time, your offensive efficiency will be greatly reduced, so I hope you can change your style of play at that time and focus on playing without the ball, so that it will be more difficult for the opponent to lock you up." ”

"Okay boss, as you wish, I'll try to play more without the ball in tomorrow's game, is there anything else? If not, I'll have to go down and train with them a little bit now, because if I want to start playing without the ball again, I'm going to have to get my teammates familiar with my running and receiving habits again. ”

"It's okay for now, boy, when you get the trophy back, the board of directors will probably ask you to renew your contract, but that's after all the games are played, you don't have to think about it for now, all you need to do now is get that damn O'Brien Cup back."

Bird first said these two words to Ye Xuan, and then when Ye Xuan was about to go out, he heard Bird narcissistically say two words, "I haven't touched the O'Brien Cup for 28 years, but I didn't expect that I am not only the only person in NBA history to achieve the regular season MVP, Finals MVP, Coach of the Year and General Manager of the Year awards Grand Slam." And as a general manager, I also have the opportunity to win the championship. ”

Ye Xuan couldn't help but cover his head with his hands, and secretly thought in his heart, "How narcissistic is this general manager I met." Without looking back, he walked out of Bird's office and returned to the training ground.

"Hey, Ye, what is Mr. Bird looking for you?" Ye Xuan happened to meet Roy Hibbert, who had just finished training and was about to rest for a while, Ye Xuan saw that everyone's joint training was basically over, so he simply asked Hibbert to call other players over together.

"Just now Mr. Bird called me to the office, gave me an analysis of the opponent's defensive strategy, and hoped that I would run more without the ball in the next game, so in the next game I am going to try to use the off-ball to deal with the Spurs' facial paralysis monster, and then the specific will wait for the coach to arrange it, and when we continue to train, I will start running without the ball, so that we can get familiar with this sudden change."

After that, the Pacers will train for a while, and then end today's training, after all, in addition to the basic training in the morning, tomorrow will be the fourth game of the finals in the evening, so everyone is ready to rest, and Ye Xuan will certainly not do anything special and want to practice or something.

But thinking of Shen Wei going out to help him run the domestic endorsement again, he didn't have anything to eat when he went home alone, so Ye Xuan also had to come to the team's restaurant with Solomon Hill and 'enjoy' a nutritious meal.

In fact, Ye Xuan used to go to Shen Wei's restaurant to eat after training, but after being discovered by the physical fitness coach, Ye Xuan was forbidden to eat Chinese food during the playoffs, because the characteristics of Chinese food are more oil and salt, which will make the players' tired muscles not get enough rest, especially in a high-intensity game like the playoffs, so Ye Xuan can only pinch his nose and barely eat a nutritious meal for a month. But as soon as Shen Wei left, Ye Xuanke suffered.

Not to mention how Ye Xuan went home after he struggled to stuff all the nutritious meals into his stomach. In short, early the next morning, Ye Xuan still got up early, cleaned up his personal hygiene, and drove to the stadium again, early in the morning, the stadium has not officially opened, but on the court, there are already people training, Ye Xuan saw that it was actually Lance Stephenson who was pressed on the bench by Coach Frank at the last moment because of his poor performance in the last game.

Lance heard someone coming to the court, turned around and took a look, but he didn't have a stubble with Ye Xuan, so he continued to train on his own, Ye Xuan also knew that he was very unhappy because he was pressed on the bench at the last moment of the game the day before yesterday, so he didn't care, and he came to the other half to train by himself with the ball.

The time came to 7 o'clock in the evening, the game was about to start, Coach Frank announced the decision to adjust the starting lineup in the locker room, he put Lance Stephenson on the bench again, and then mentioned George Hill to the starting lineup, in fact, the main reason is because Ye Xuan was arranged to play without the ball, so an orthodox point guard is needed in the starting lineup to organize the team's offense.

And after such a rotation, it is estimated that C.J. Watson should also be able to mix playing time, but in this way, the playing time of Lance Stephenson and Solomon Hill is bound to be affected, and Coach Frank obviously did not think about this aspect of things, so after arranging the starting lineup, he went to prepare for other things.

Soon after, the time came to the start of the game, players from both sides came out one after another to warm up, and then stood ready to wait for the start of the game, the referee threw the ball high, although Duncan was not as fast as Hibbert, so the first few jump balls have failed, but this time, Duncan predicted a wave, and the referee had just raised his hand when he had already jumped, and the result was that he won the jump ball.

Ye Xuan didn't care about this, it took so much effort to win an inconsequential jump ball, it was obviously not necessary, anyway, no matter who won the jump ball, in the end, it was the first opportunity for the two teams to have two quarters each. After Parker won the basketball, he slowly came to the frontcourt, and today the Spurs still wanted to attack from the inside, so after both sides were in position, Parker passed the ball to the inside.

Duncan picked up the ball inside, leaned in a few times with his back to the ground, then suddenly reopened the distance between him and Hibbert with a mid-range shot from the board, scoring the first goal of the game. On the Pacers' side, Hill immediately controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and then assisted David West, who was inside, to shoot a long-range mid-range shot.