Jeff Van Gundy has gotten the hang of it. Hayes thought to himself.

This kid has the potential to be a coach, so he has to train him well. Jeff Van Gundy thought to himself.

Is Van Gundy really that unenlightened? There are some things that he actually sees very clearly, but he likes to stick to his own opinions too much.

He saw Spanoulis's strength very clearly, but he felt that Spanollis was too proud.

Before Spanoulis reported to the Rockets, he claimed to the media that he was the most suitable to play as a starter, and he praised many teammates, but did not mention the head coach, and simply did not take the coach seriously; In addition, Spanoulis likes to walk with his arms held his head high, as if he was eating a watermelon alone, which is not the point......

The point is that when Spanoulis first met Van Gundy, he actually smiled when he saw his hair.

Aunt can bear it, Uncle can't bear it!

Span Nollis is very similar to Wei Yan, it is said that Wei Yan was viciously killed because he laughed at Zhuge Liang's wife for being ugly. Although Spanoulis didn't laugh at Van Gundy's wife, it also made Van Gundy, a "military advisor", feel unhappy, and it is normal that he can't be the starting five tigers.

As for the players introduced by Hayes, although Van Gundy does not know very well, he has also read the information in general. He talked less and listened more, wanting to test Hayes' ability and see how deep Hayes's understanding of basketball, players, and tactics he had.

That's how Pat Riley developed Jeff Van Gundy as a coach.

The results of the test surprised Van Gundy very much, and Hayes described the technical characteristics of several players in great detail, just like introducing himself, and even what kind of role these people can play in the Rockets, how to integrate into the offensive and defensive system, and what position is most suitable for playing. Increasingly, he felt that Hayes had unlimited potential.

In high school, Jeff Van Gundy fell in love with basketball. Like his older brother Stan, he played as a playmaker, and Stan was already a varsity star at the time, much higher than Jeff, and scored 30 points in a game. Compared to his older brother, Jeff seems to only have a passing life. However, he did not admit defeat at all, and was determined to make the varsity team in college.

After graduating from high school, Jeff entered the prestigious Yale University in the United States, but he stayed at the Ivy League school for only a year before leaving to attend Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. And the reason why he wanted to transfer was because he failed to make the Yale varsity basketball team.

Jeff Van Gundy is perhaps the only guy in Yale history who has voluntarily transferred to a junior college. Obviously, he loves basketball to the point of obsession, and his hair is about to fall bald in order to study basketball, and he knows almost all the players in the league, but it is impossible for him to detail the characteristics of a role player.

There is only one explanation, Hayes is more obsessed with basketball than he is. (The correct solution is to cross the male)

On November 21, the Rockets challenged the New York Knicks away. Although the difference in strength between the two teams is huge, this game still attracted the attention of countless fans.

Madison Square Garden, a basketball mecca, is located at Pennsylvania Station, one of the largest train stations in the United States, and the first thing many tourists who come to New York by train is the 126-year-old Madison Square Garden, which is the face of New York.

Madison Square Garden is home to teams such as the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Liberty, St. John's University, Red Storm University, and more, as well as large indoor events such as solo concerts and political rallies. New York's first motivational concert after the devastation of 9/11 and John Lennon's last concert before his murder in 1980 were held here. The hall in the garden has a special seating list detailing the different seating arrangements for different events such as basketball, ice hockey, concerts, etc., and according to statistics, the stadium hosts 320 large-scale events a year. It is not only the "basketball mecca" of the NBA, a place where superstars such as Mike Jordan and Reggie Miller have left magical memories, but also the "Mecca of boxing" before Las Vegas, which is the most active stage of boxing in the past century, hosting the first and second fights between Fraser and Ali, and many boxing matches of Joe Lewis and other historical classic events.

A history of Madison Square Garden is a vivid history of American sports, literature and politics.

"Hi, Yao Ming."

"Hi, Boss."

On the field, Yao Ming and Francis hugged hard. Francis missed the game in Houston due to injury, and this time, the two best friends finally met.

Yao Ming always keeps an eye on Francis's movements, just as he never changes his name to Francis: Boss.

No one supervised him, no one corrected him, because in Yao Ming's mind, Francis would always be the boss who took him for a ride in an open-top BMW, Stadamire dunked on his head and gave the other party an elbow to help him get angry, and told him with a wicked smile not to have more girlfriends.

Yao Ming can even vividly remember the scene when the two first met: Francis stepped forward, a high-five and a chest bump.

Yao Ming said, "You have won me. ”

Francis happily said, "That's right, someone else traded me here and let me draw you." ”

Yao Ming and Francis are different, but that doesn't stop their friendship.

Whether in China or the United States, Yao Ming's circle is so small that his buddies can be counted on one hand. But he is a person who values affection and righteousness, and he can count the past that seems to others to have become a thing of the past, so as to repeatedly taste it in his heart to prove that his judgment is correct.

But Francis is different, although he cares about Yao Ming very much, but after all, because Yao Ming is a foreign player who allows him to fully enjoy the feeling of the boss of the team, with three points of righteousness, three points of arrogance, three points of freshness and one point of doubt, Francis and Yao Ming are getting closer and closer. Before Yao Ming, Francis was surrounded by too many out-of-fashion masters, but his reputation as the leader of the team has always been a little embarrassing, and as soon as Yao Ming arrived, it was logical.

Yao Ming has a strong sense of belonging, he doesn't want to change the court, and he doesn't even want any changes in the team.

Francis, however, has come to terms with the fact that business and basketball can't be combined, and when he left Houston, he was still a little reluctant, and when the Magic sent the old cat and Cato away, he no longer had any resistance in Orlando or New York. Whether he is carrying No. 3 or No. 1, he does not belong anywhere, just like in 1999 when he preferred to die in Vancouver and became the first rookie to ask the team to send him out, because he had no sense of belonging in his heart.

Perhaps it is the different mentality and surname that make the situation of the two completely different today.

Four years ago at the Compaq Center, after training, Francis would just shout on the field: "Hi! Big! Yao Ming would walk towards him with a towel and a smile. At that time, he was the boss of the rocket, and Yao Ming was just a rookie who had just arrived.

Four years later, at Madison Garden, Francis, who was sitting on the sidelines, also shouted to the court: "Hey! Big! The Knicks' No. 13 Jerome James glanced back at Francis, ignored him, and went back to practice. Now, he no longer has the "privilege" he used to say, but Yao Ming has become the star of the rocket.

used to be the boss of Fu, but now he can only "look up" at Yao Ming.

Jeff Van Gundy asked to play to the interior first when formulating the strategy, and Yao Ming is the nemesis of "Little Shark" Curry, who plays alone when he has the opportunity and passes the ball when he encounters a bag.

When he was on the court, Hayes walked up to Yao Ming and whispered: "Brother Ming, this game against the Knicks, we must win easily." You've been on the court for nearly 40 minutes, you're definitely tired, don't work too hard today, hand over to me in hand-to-hand combat, you shoot more and play less baskets. ”

"Are you addicted to grabbing rebounds, afraid that I will affect your data? Ha ha. Yao Ming patted Hayes on the back and smiled.

"Hahaha, yes, you'd better catch the ball and shoot directly, I'll even brush up on the assists, brother, my contract problem next year depends on you." Hayes laughed too.

"As long as you can play well, you will definitely not suffer in the contract." Yao Ming smiled.

Hayes felt that Yao Ming had something to say, so he didn't ask much.

He didn't let Yao Ming play inside, in fact, he didn't want to see Yao Ming being blocked by "Little Potato" Nate Robinson, Robinson pointed to this cap for the rest of his life to live, and that ball will become the best ball in the "Yao Hei" promotional video in the future, and become the talk of trolls after dinner.

He hoped that this one cap would not happen again.

The Rockets' starting five are still the same. Knicks Money Masters: Marbury, Francis, Quentin Richardson, Channing Fry, Eddie Curry.

The Rockets attacked first, and Yao Ming received the ball and encountered two inside players and distributed the ball to Hayes, who ran to the front high post. Hayes drew Quentin Richardson to step up and pass the ball to Battier in the bottom left corner.

Battier's position was so empty that he couldn't be empty anymore, and he hit a three-point shot to take the lead.

Marbury dribbled the ball past half court, and this guy allowed himself to be the NBA's No. 1 point guard, nicknamed "Lone Wolf", how can a very "lonely" person be a good playmaker? Marbury dribbled the ball left and left for more than 10 seconds, organized his thoughts well, and roughly considered what expression to put on to celebrate after the goal, facing Maddy, who was a head taller than him, forced a shot from outside the three-point line, and missed.

Hayes grabbed the rebound with ease.

If you want to be a good rebounder, in addition to prediction, physical condition, and card position skills, there is another important point, that is, **. Only when the heart is full of rebounds will he use all his strength to grab it, and he will try his best to grab it.

Eddie Curry is clearly not good at grabbing rebounds, he is 213cm tall and can also compete with O'Neal. But there has never been a season with more than seven rebounds. Channing Frye was too skinny to grab a rebound, and Hayes didn't waste any effort to get him stuck outside.

The Rockets attacked, and Yao Ming asked for the ball on the left side of the inside line. The Knicks again wrapped up Yao Ming with Channing Frye and Curry, Yao Ming passed the ball to Hayes again, and Hayes passed to Maddy, who scored two points on a jumper.

Francis singled Alston, missed the pull-up jump shot, the ball bounced far away, Hayes won the rebound again, this time it was his performance, first dribbling with his back past Marbury, who stepped forward for a gambling steal, and passed it to Maddy, who followed him with his back in the half, Maddy pulled up a three-point jumper and hit again.

The Knicks finally scored in the third round, and Channing Freira went to the high post and used his height advantage to hit a mid-range shot in the face of Hayes' interference.

Shoot, if you barely shoot like this every time. It's a lot easier to play. Hayes was beaten by Frye and was not in a hurry.

Rockets offense, the Knicks switched to Eddie Curry to defend Hayes, Hayes received the ball and dribbled twice in the three-second area on the left side, used his right foot as the center foot, turned to the baseline and passed Eddie Curry, he took the ball under the basket and raised his right hand, and shook Eddie Curry who was chasing back to jump, and then turned left with his left foot as the axis, and hit a hook with his right hand.

"Footsteps of the Sea" completely stunned "Little Shark", the Rockets went 10-2 to make a small **, and Thomas, the owner and head coach of the Knicks, asked for a timeout.

The problem is that after the "Smiling Assassin" called a timeout, he couldn't think of any way to contain the rocket's attack, so he emphasized more on offense, attacking against attacking.

After the timeout, the Knicks didn't make any substitution adjustments.

Curry singled Yao Ming at a 45-degree angle on the left side, although Yao Ming's strength is not as good as Curry's, but the lower game is very stable, and he will not be so easily squeezed to lose his position. Curry's flexibility is disproportionate to his body, and when he is in a good state and mood, he can make a lot of step-back jumpers that power forwards can't do, but unfortunately the shooting percentage is a little lower. In this round, he made a step-back jumper, and the rebound was taken by Hayes.

After Hayes landed, a long pass was handed to the fast Maddie, who received the ball in the half, took advantage of his height, ignored the returning Francis to shoot a three-pointer, and the ball hit again.

The Knicks' defensive system is in shambles.

Quentin Richardson catches the ball in the corner and makes a three-point shot with Battier guarding it and the ball goes wide. Hayes got the rebound, and then made a long pass to Maddy, Maddy's hand was hot, and he had entered invincible mode, and hit a three-point jumper on the right side again. The Rockets went crazy, these two groups of offenses did not strictly implement tactics, and Yao Ming still insisted on playing fast offense in the presence of Yao Ming.

The Knicks focused their defensive attention on Yao Ming, and this time Yao Ming became a spectator, not even a shot, and even stood in the backcourt for a few rounds without participating in the offense, and the Rockets beat the Knicks on the outside.

Marbury broke through and hit the basket again. Turning around, Hayes pulled to the outside of the three-point line to receive the ball, Eddie Curry followed a little slower, and Hayes shot a three-pointer and the ball went in.

The Knicks' home court commentators didn't know how to explain the game, first having a 10-2 run, forcing a timeout, and then having a 9-0 run. Could this be the tactic that Thomas arranged?

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