Santos sat quietly on the bench on the sidelines, his eyes a little sluggish, as if he wasn't paying attention to the game at all.

In fact, Santos is really not paying attention to the game now, he is thinking about his future, thinking about how to leave this team that has made him hopeful, but now there is no future in sight.

As the head coach of the Wizards, Santos was full of ambition when he took office, although the Wizards were the league's most important team, but Santos didn't care at all, he felt that he could create glory with James Hart.

However, it wasn't until he began to slowly get in touch with James Hart that he realized that he couldn't live with each other at all, and their concepts were fundamentally different.

Santos thinks that the team should run with his own philosophy, with James Hart as the core and John Larsson as the support, the team is both inside and outside, both offensive and defensive, this is Santos's philosophy for the future development of the team.

However, James Hart, a young rookie with a halo, has too much possessiveness, although he performs well with his teammates, but in fact, James wants the ball to be in his hands all the time in the game.

The point guard Harris of the team who empathizes with Santos on this point is naturally Harris, who watched his other teammates and James play hotly, and he didn't know how tired he was.

If that's all there is, maybe Santos can still find a way to cooperate with James, after all, the Wizards' results are very good now, but since the Wizards management made it clear that they are standing with James, Santos has found himself more and more like an ornament.

James often directly ignores Santos's command to handle the ball on the court according to his own heart, of course, this is understandable, after all, the situation on the court is changing rapidly, but he sometimes directly replaces Santos to arrange tactics for teammates, which is a bit too ignorant of Santos.

Just when Wizards head coach Santos was thinking about how to leave this team, Wang Lei on the other side also sat quietly on the bench, but his attention was focused on the game at this time.

After five minutes of play, the Runners led the Wizards by five points, 14-9.

Of those 14 points, Elvin Butler scored seven points alone, along with two rebounds and an assist, making him an excellent interior player for any team.

Seeing Erwin's performance getting better and better, Wang Lei is actually very pleased in his heart, there is always a reward for paying, this is the concept that Wang Lei has always believed in, and now seeing that Erwin's previous efforts are reaping the rewards, Wang Lei is actually happier than Erwin himself, after all, this is a player he discovered and cultivated.

On the Wizards' side, James Hart scored four points, but these four points were only scored by him on five shots, and Blair used his experience to limit James' play very well, he could always get stuck in the most appropriate position before James made a move, and then let James only change the direction of attack or pass.

So it was already five points behind, but the Wizards didn't have the slightest intention of taking a timeout, on the contrary, in the offense, James continued his singles, he even commanded his teammates to pull away, and then singled out Blair in the low post.

Blair's single defense made James a little angry, he not only felt that he was underestimated by the opponent, but also angry at the cunning of this "old guy", several offenses, James played very sluggish, he attributed his poor performance to Blair's dirty, and felt that this famous veteran would use the means to defend himself.

Misses' low back-to-back play has caused some trouble for Blair, after all, Blair's physical fitness has been declining, and he can't beat James in this pure wrestling.

But Blair has more than just physical fitness, he has eleven years of NBA experience that James does not have, which is Blair Bowman's greatest asset.

James' low-post skills are actually very average, he relies more on his own strength and speed to play, and his set has no problem dealing with others, but here in Blair, James is not good.

The Runners didn't contain James, they just let Blair defend alone.

James' low-post singles brought the entire Wizards' offense to a standstill.

Turgun then began to consciously increase the pace of the Runners' offense, with Ervin and Toby Sevig protecting the rebounds in the backcourt, and the Runners' thunderous fast break once again made the players on the floor into jubilation.

The gap between the two sides began to widen, and by the time there were less than three minutes left in the first quarter, the Runners had stretched the margin to double digits.

Wang Lei did not hesitate to start changing to the rotation lineup, at this time the mentality of the Wizards players has been unbalanced, including James Hart and all the Wizards players have fallen into a state of fighting alone, Wang Lei is really not worried that the rotation players will be suppressed by such a Wizards team.

At this time, James Hart on the field took the initiative to take a timeout, but he gave head coach Santos a special look.

James Hart is actually a very smart player, but due to age and experience limitations, after getting the recognition and support of the league and the team's top management, he starts to swell a little, he thinks he can solve all the problems, but in fact he is not so perfect in character, he is not a suitable personality to be a superstar.

After the team fell behind, James began to fear that a big loss to the Runners would affect his reputation, so he began to think of his other teammates and head coach Santos.

In fact, the last time the two teams met, James Hart once exposed the biggest disadvantage of his character, and this alone was enough for Wang Lei to seize the opportunity to suppress James, so Wang Lei originally wanted to use the "law" that had been used once before the game to reverse James into the quagmire, but now he didn't expect that Blair alone would make James completely dumb.

There is also a specific reason why Blair was able to restrain James so easily, when Blair first entered the league, his style of play was the same as James, and now Blair has eleven years of game experience, after these eleven years of training, Blair has a new understanding of his ability, but also has a rather humiliating mood for his previous performance.

And now James wants to use speed and power to suppress Blair, which is completely giving Blair food, his routine is very effective against other teams, but meeting Blair is really James's misfortune.