Brad Stevens' eyes lit up.

He wanted to give Butler a basketball volunteer with no salary, and now that the Knicks have offered a job as a paid video editor, how could he not say yes?

It's pie in the sky!

"Coach Li, can you let me discuss it with my girlfriend? I didn't dare to tell her about my intention to resign from Eli Lilly! ”

"Absolutely!" Li Wei nodded.

Stevens' girlfriend, Tracey Williammie, is also a graduate of DePauw's Class of '99 and is now trying to become a lawyer. After thinking about it, she decided to support her boyfriend's choice!

On May 27, the Knicks came to the Pacers' home court for court adaptation work.

At the beginning of the season, the Pacers moved from the original City Square arena to the newly built Conseco Arena, which was renamed the Bankers' Living Arena 11 years ago.

In fact, it would be more accurate to translate it as Banker's Life Arena, because the company that obtained the naming rights was Bankers Life Insurance Company. However, there are many domestic media translations of life, probably because they don't want to advertise people's life insurance. The company that obtained the naming rights only had tears in their eyes when they heard such a Chinese translation.

Brad Stevens needed to go through the formalities of resignation before he could resign from Eli Lilly. But today is Saturday and he doesn't go to work, so he also came to the Knicks to see how it went.

"Brad, this is the team's assistant coach, Greg Brydenham, who is currently handling the offensive video, and this is Tom Hiberdu, who is currently handling the defensive video. Greg, Tom, this is Brad Stevens, a very dynamic young man, and I'm going to get him involved in the team's video editing, you know. Li Wei introduced.

Stevens greeted the Knicks' two senior assistant coaches with genuine trepidation, and Brydenham and Hiberdeau responded politely, not taking the young man seriously.

The Knicks had a lot of people in charge of video editing, most of them who had coached or something, and they had video coordinators on top of them. For this kind of young people who help the coordinator cut the film, they are really not interested, and no leader will be interested in the employees at the bottom.

Stevens soon met his immediate boss, a video coordinator named Jimmy Pope.

"New here, want to cut the video? High school and college are the main guards of the varsity team, and the foundation is not bad? Boy, you think that if you learn some tactics in high school and college, that is, you know tactics, you must be very wrong, like my guy who memorizes thousands of tactics like this, he can still only do video coordination work, and not everyone can stand in the NBA.

I'll give you a couple of footage of the Knicks-Pacers matchup, and you'll cut out all the valuable tactical rounds for me and sort them into different ways, and I'll see what your foundation is. If your work doesn't satisfy me, whoever introduced you to me, fuck me! ”

"Yes!" Stevens nodded hurriedly.

This is Hades's good opinion, the little ghost is difficult. Li Wei was very good to him, but no one below would pay attention to him.

You say you know the ball, you know the tactics? I'm sorry, the people who sweep the door here all understand tactics, take a tactical version and you can draw dozens of sets of tactics casually and talk about it, young people still have their tails between them, first learn how high the sky is, how thick the ground is.

Not every young man can become a head coach by acquiring a team like Li Wei!

Li Wei didn't have time to care about how Stevens adapted, and at 8 p.m. Indianapolis time, Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals officially began.

"Clark, how do you think this series is heading?" Al Albert, the on-site commentator at the Conceco Arena, asked his partner.

Clark Kellogg, a talented No. 8 pick in '82 and a former Pacers player who cut 20+10 in his rookie year, said: "I think we've got the advantage, after all, we got an away game in New York. Now back at Indiana's home court, the Knicks can't bargain! ”

While the two were talking, the midfield jumped the ball, and Da Yao jumped to win.

The opening tactics of the Knicks are still Da Yao blocking Houston!

In these two games, Da Yao has been attacking fiercely, Schmitz cut to the basket as soon as he didn't pay attention, followed by Nash's pass, and Da Yao dunked violently.

Therefore, seeing Da Yao blocking and dismantling, the big center of the Pacers did not dare to let go of the opponent, and he had no time to help defend Houston!

Schmitz didn't help defending, and Reggie Miller was blocked by Da Yao, and it was a little slow!

Nash's pass was swift and timely, and New York's leading scorer caught the ball and threw it!

"Bang!"

A three-point shot into the net!

3:0, the away Knicks lead!

Al Albert said, "Houston is so accurate! ”

Clark Kellogg said: "This is the league's most promising person to take over the banner of Reggie Miller and become the all-time three-point king!" ”

The Pacers attacked, and Reggie Miller was not convinced after seeing Houston shoot a three-pointer, and he had one!

"Bang!"

Reggie Miller is also in!

3：3！

The fans at the Conseco Arena cheered together!

The Knicks attacked, played a No. 33 strategy, and finally the ball was handed to Maddy, the first choice of the tactics.

Maddie broke through Jalen Rose with the ball, Schmitz came to make up for the defense, and he immediately assisted Da Yao!

Da Yao hits a shot!

5：3！

The Pacers attacked, Rick Schmitz used his experience to play Da Yao, cut down 2 points, and the referee then blew a home whistle and added a free throw!

Schmitz hits the free throw safely!

5:6, the Pacers overtook the score!

The Knicks attacked, and after passing the ball a few times, Maddy broke through with the ball and gave it to Garnett, who made a shot!

7:6, the Knicks overtook the score!

The score alternated on the court, but Larry Bird's eyebrows furrowed.

Because he felt something was wrong!

What's wrong?

A bright light suddenly crossed his mind - where did the Knicks get so many points today?

Although the tactics of basketball are ever-changing, they are nothing more than blocking and dismantling, covering, air cutting, breaking and other routines are combined in different ways to find ways to achieve unexpected results.

Coach Li Wei actually advocates collective basketball, pays attention to team concepts, and pays attention to cooperation, so the Knicks' style of play is also based on passing and cutting, and the players' sense of response is very high.

In fact, the style of the team is not that the coach can change how he wants, you have to have the right talent to play the tactics you want. Coincidentally, the Knicks have Garnett and Nash, who are very good at passing, and with these two as the core, the whole system is getting more and more perfect.

But today, Bird discovers that although the Knicks are still doing some passing and cutting cooperation, the real intention is not like that!

What they actually want is Maddie singles!

The opening was Maddy's singles, breaking through the ball, which didn't quite match the Knicks' style, but it almost fooled him!

In the next round, the dead ball was played, and Larry Bird immediately replaced Jalen Rose with Derrick McGee!

"Well, I've been discovered!"

Li Wei saw McGee on the court and smiled lightly.

He had already played a lot of tricks to hide his true tactical intentions, but he didn't expect Bird to find out so quickly!

Whoever knows me, Larry Bird!