After the offseason recruitment, the Knicks' lineup has been preliminarily finalized, and Wang Zhuo's ideal starters are Noah, Porzingis, Anthony, Rose and Grant. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are Ray Allen, O'Quin, Jennings and Vujacic on the bench, and despite the injury factor, this lineup definitely has the strength to compete with the Cavaliers, not to mention the Knicks and Wang Zhuo, the ace head coach.

A week before the start of the preseason, the Knicks have begun preliminary training, and the Zen master hopes that the Knicks will focus on the triangle offense in the new season, after all, the Knicks' talent is enough to support the rigorous system of the triangle offense.

Wang Zhuo agrees with the Zen master's point of view, but Wang Zhuo is a head coach who is not bound to a specific tactical system, and running and shooting, Princeton, blocking and so on, can all come in handy in a specific environment.

Judging from the effect of training, the performance of the players is not satisfactory, as for whether they can play the great power of tactics, it still needs to be tested by the practice of the game, and the preseason is the stage for the run-in of the tactical system.

Jeff Van Gundy's dedication is awe-inspiring, from the moment he returned to the Knicks, he tried to infuse the iron-blooded defensive concept into the bones of every Knicks player, at first the players did not buy it, and after Wang Zhuo publicly expressed his support for Van Gundy, the defensive concept was successfully implemented.

The first game of the Knicks' preseason was on October 4, against the Houston Rockets, and on the day of the game, the Toyota Center was in a sea of red, and the game that fans had been waiting for for three months finally started at this moment.

"Jeff, what do you want?"

After entering, Van Gundy sat on the bench, thoughtful, Wang Zhuo sat next to him and asked.

Wang Zhuo knows what Van Gundy is thinking, Van Gundy once coached the Rockets, and now the first game back to coach is to face the Rockets.

"No, it's nothing, the floor in the Toyota Center is too bright, a little uncomfortable."

Van Gundy's thoughts were interrupted by Wang Zhuo, and after coming back to his senses, he rearranged his thoughts and replied insincerely.

"Jeff, you're in charge of this game, I'll sit by and watch the excitement."

Wang Zhuo had a whim to hand over the command of this game to Van Gundy.

In fact, Wang Zhuo wanted to make fun of Van Gundy, saying that the brightness of his brain could compete with the floor of the Toyota Center, but if you think about it carefully, Van Gundy's personality is stubborn and rigid, and it is not appropriate to say such a thing, so he changed his way.

Wang Zhuo is flexible and changeable in both his conduct and coaching style, but Van Gundy is the opposite, stubborn, rigid and stingy are synonymous with him, and the two completely different styles may be opposite, or they may form a perfect complement.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose a preseason game, Wang Zhuo hopes to find an entry point that can be tacitly coordinated with Van Gundy by getting to know Van Gundy's coaching style up close.

"Why, King?"

Van Gundy obviously found it a little incredible, and in his worldview, the assistant coach was acting ultra vires and disrespecting the head coach in his worldview.

"No, it's just that my brain hurts a little, as an assistant coach, it's my job to solve problems for me, you won't want to refuse, right?"

To treat a serious person like Van Gundy, you should use GS means, Wang Zhuo put up a leader's shelf, and asked rhetorically in an official tone.

This trick really worked, Van Gundy scratched his shiny head and stopped talking, obviously acquiescing to Wang Zhuo's arrangement.

Howard jumped out of contract and joined the Hawks, leaving the Rockets without a strong interior pillar, and although they made moves in the offseason to sign None, Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson, the Rockets' strength has fallen rather than improved.

Before the start of the game, the live broadcaster announced the starting lineups of both sides for this game, the starting lineup of the Rockets is Harden, Ryan Anderson, Ariza, Gordon and Capela, and the Knicks are Wang Zhuo's ideal five.

The opening whistle blew, the centers on both sides jumped the ball in the center circle, Noah pressed Capela to grab the opportunity to take the lead in the Knicks, and Grant dribbled the ball and quickly passed the half.

Van Gundy stood up from the bench and walked to the sidelines, observing the changes in the situation on the field, while Wang Zhuo sat on the field with a relaxed expression, seemingly completely unconcerned about the situation on the field.

D'Antoni stood next to the Rockets' bench, completely unable to see what Wang Zhuo was thinking, although it didn't matter if he won or lost in the preseason, but Wang Zhuo's blatant inaction was the first of its kind in the NBA.

This summer, the Rockets failed to poach Wang Zhuo, so they retreated to sign D'Antoni, so in D'Antoni's heart, he was eager to win this game, and while fighting for a good start, he wanted the Rockets' management to prove that he was no worse than Wang Zhuo, who knows, Wang Zhuo did not go head-to-head with him at all.

Not only that, but D'Antoni doesn't understand the Knicks' lineup on the court very well, Rose and Grant are on the court at the same time, is it playing a double point guard tactic?

Soon, the Knicks' running position completely solved D'Antoni's doubts, Grant held the ball at the top of the circle, Rose interspersed left and right on both sides of the baseline, in an "S" shaped run, Harden's defensive attitude was not positive enough, Rose went back and forth for two laps, easily got rid of Harden, and got the opportunity to vacate.

Grant aimed at the timing, hit the ground with a long pass, Rose received the ball, Harden chased after him, and stopped in front of Rose two meters away, with his knowledge of Rose, Rose will definitely start quickly, burst into the restricted area, and score a layup.

There was nothing wrong with Harden's idea, he was standing just at the point after Rose started the first step, but he didn't expect it at all, Rose didn't choose to break through at all, but pulled up directly on the spot, opened his hand to shoot three points, Harden tilted his head, looked at the ball to draw a parabolic trajectory, and fell steadily into the basket.

"Derek Rose, forthree!"

The live broadcaster pulled a high-pitched and loud voice to broadcast Rose's goal.

D'Antoni suddenly realized at this moment that the Knicks did not play the so-called two-point guard tactics, but let Rose change to scoring guard, and the effect was quite good, Rose made a three-point shot in the bottom corner on the first stage, you must know that this is not Rose's strong point at all.

The Rockets served in the backcourt, Harden dribbled over the half court, Rose stepped forward to mark, Harden continued to dribble under his hips, trying to get rid of Rose, but he ignored Jeff Van Gundy's defensive skills, no matter how he changed direction, he could not find a suitable breakthrough opportunity to get rid of Rose.

Time is losing little by little, Harden looked up at the timer, 8 seconds, there is not much offensive time left, Harden can't care so much, quickly starts, strides to the inside, but just when he passed Rose in one step and was about to make a three-step layup, he found that the ball in his hand was missing.