While Brin, Fraser and the fans were raving about Roy, Hornacek was frowning.

Although the hard-working coach is also obsessed with Roy's personal highlight performance, he sees a hint of bad clues.

Roy's style of play is not right, the bench leader who cooperated with his teammates in the first two games and led the "bench bandits" to soar is a bit alone today.

No, to be exact, he is not a little alone, but very alone.

Although he won against Udri and Pope alone, that didn't prove that Roy's choice was the right one, and he obviously had a more reasonable way of handling the ball.

Thinking about the team, Anthony's style of play is unique enough, and the backup point guard Jennings is a well-known "big tumor", coupled with Rose, who is not very good at organizing, the team itself lacks a core guard who can lead the whole team, distribute the ball, and stimulate the team's combat effectiveness.

Although a basketball game can rely on the crazy performance of one star to win, it is a five-person sport after all, and if you break away from the team, no matter how strong the star is, you will not be able to achieve the highest honor. For example, Chamberlain and Russell back then, if you "Zhang Dashuai" can score 100 points in a single game, and average 50 points and 20 boards per game in the season, but you don't have the support of your teammates, how can you win the championship? "The Lord of the Rings" Russell is different, although his personal data is not worth mentioning compared to Chamberlain, but he has 11 championship rings, so many that he can't wear them on both hands.

That's how important the team is, and as a member of the team basketball team (the Utah Jazz) back then, Hornacek couldn't have been unaware of the importance of team basketball, so he couldn't help but worry.

Roy is indeed turning into a "cancer" and has already blown Pope out in one-on-one, and now the defender in front of him has been replaced by Tobias Harris, another physical swingman.

But it doesn't matter who comes now, Roy seems to be born for singles, his speed, bounce, and agility are all ahead of Harris, coupled with his elusive ball-handling offense, Harris immediately collapsed.

Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy has yet to signal the bag defense, presumably using the bag on a rookie player really made the coach unable to pull his face, so he let Roy toss his guard line on the court.

Until the end of the first quarter, Roy had almost single-handedly taken all of his offensive opportunities on the court.

Roy's single-mindedness, his stats were blinding, and he played five minutes and scored 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting, at which point he was content to sit back on the bench. Probably too intoxicated by his wonderful performance, Roy didn't realize that the expressions of the four bench players who had just competed with him were a little embarrassed and dissatisfied.

Hornacek knew he was about to make a move, and he said a few words to end the tactical set-up, but pulled Roy aside.

"Roy, you can't play like this anymore later, your style of play will lose the trust of your teammates, you are still a rookie, you have to know how to respect your teammates, understand?"

To tell the truth, Hornacek really cherishes Roy's talent, so he also takes special care of him, and if it weren't for Mills' intentions, Roy would have played the main force by now. But Roy didn't quite understand Huo Shuai's intentions, he felt that if he could win with his own strength like a high school championship, then why not?

Don't say that the opponent is too strong, don't say that basketball is a team event, I want to play five at a time!

Although Roy nodded in agreement, he was still the same "cancer" style after he played.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Knicks' first four offenses were still Roy's individual performances, whether it was facing Kentavios Cardwell-Pope who spared no effort in defense, or Stanley Johnson, who was active in defense, and even attacking the defense of Joan Loyle and Aaron Baines inside, Roy was undaunted. His willfulness and bravery have won the crazy call of the fans, but also made his teammates and head coach very unhappy.

Anthony clasped his hands on his chest and looked indifferent, and it was a wonderful thing to enjoy the performance of another "cancer" from the perspective of one "cancer". Judging from this game alone, there is no essential difference between Roy and Anthony except for a higher shooting percentage.

Although Brin is still praising Roy, his tone has also changed, and at this moment he also feels that Roy is a little too lonely, he is not Michael Jordan after all, and even if he is a Jordan god, he did not perform like this in his third game in the league.

Hornacek finally couldn't sit still, and the next dead ball appeared, and he decisively replaced Roy, although Roy's stats at this time were still beautiful 8-of-11 shooting, scoring 17 points.

Hornacek was angry, he replaced Roy and didn't say a word, let the wind on the field surge, the score went up and down, the players went up and down, Hornacek didn't mean to put Roy back on the field.

At halftime, the Knicks were rightfully behind, and at 55:64, Roy's lead built up by relying on the "cancer" style of play disappeared under the squandering of other "tumors", and the score proved that they were still the chaotic "mud" team.

Intermission, locker room. Hornacek's face is pale, according to this trend, the team's three consecutive defeats are imminent, and the distrust between the players is also intensifying, he didn't expect that even Roy, who has a very high ball quotient, has joined the ranks of being a cancer and brushing data, and this team is really unmanageable.

Without much tactical set-up, Hornacek made up his mind to sacrifice a game to get the team in order.

At the beginning of the second half, before all the players came on the field, Hornacek pulled Roy aside again, and the middle-aged man's eyes were so serious that Roy, who was still sulking just now, lost his direction.

"Roy, tell me, why do you play so alone? You shouldn't be such a player. ”

"In order to win, instead of letting them waste attacking opportunities like that, I should take my own shot and grasp it a little bigger, right?" Roy made no secret of his heart.

"Do you really think you're going to win a game by playing like that?" Hornacek kept his voice down and tried not to explode, he knew that Roy was just a stunned young man who had just turned "19 years old", and he had to be as soft as possible with him.

"I feel like I could, that's how I played in high school league, and I won all of them." Roy's eloquence left Hornacek speechless.

It is difficult for a traditional player with a professional background to understand Roy's previous "adventures", so he can't understand where Roy's absolute confidence comes from.

Roy believes in his own strength too much, after having the "ball king system", he has been playing the role of a lone hero, from the "Uncle McCup Summer Three-on-Three Basketball Game", to the city's high school league, from the California Championship, to the Four Nations Invitational Tournament, Roy has played the absolute offensive core of the team every time, he prefers to believe in his own ability, he wants to use his ability to finish the game. Because he believes that he has more strength than any of his teammates, he is the successor of the best player in a million, which is his proud capital.

In fact, before coming to the NBA, Roy has been doing well, he won the "Ronald McCup Summer 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament", he led Ya'an High School to the city competition easily, he won all the California Championships and won the MVP, even in the face of the NCAA All-Star encirclement, he has not fallen behind.

So, when the difficulties came, he chose to believe in himself again, even if it was the NBA, even if he was just a bench player.

Hornacek pondered for three seconds, and in this moment, he thought a lot, such as his own youthful frivolity, such as his own fearlessness when he first stepped into the NBA, self-confidence is a good thing, but it is not all a good thing.

After contemplation, Hornacek had an idea.

Today is a good opportunity, a good opportunity for Roy to recognize the real NBA.

"Roy, I'm going to abuse my power once today, I can make a bet with you, if you can use your so-called 'one dozen five' mode to win, I will never interfere in your style of play again, but if you can't lead the team to victory, then you have to apologize to the whole team and change this 'cancer' style of play, what do you think?"

What does that mean? Roy was suddenly surprised, listening to what Hornacek meant, did he want to let himself attack?

He looked up at Hornacek's poker face again, and Huo Shuai nodded affirmatively.

"I'll only give you a quarter and a half, and if you play too outrageously, I'll replace you right away."

"It's a deal."