The day after Xu Yi returned to the Raptors, they had a game at home, and they faced the Rockets, a Western Conference playoff team.

Kevin O'Neal insisted on an eight-man rotation, and in addition to the five main players: Jalen Rose, Vince Carter, Morrison Peterson, Don Yell Marshall and Chris Posh, veteran point guard Rodstrickland, short power forward Corey Blunt and Michael Curry, who played extremely erratically, became the Raptors' three bench players.

Kevin O'Neal's rotation policy made Xu Yi quite incomprehensible, these five starters are strange enough, and there is not even a pure starting point guard, no wonder the offense plays so badly. And on the bench, in addition to the old point guard Rodstrickland, who still has a bit of strength, the other two are simply soy sauce existences.

Let's take a look at the other bench players of the Raptors, Alvin Williams, who was heavily used before, has been seriously injured and said goodbye to this season, but this does not mean that the Raptors have no other scoring guards, backup scoring guard Roger Mason, in Xu Yi's opinion, is quite good, has three points on defense, and is still very young, why Kevin O'Neal doesn't use it, Xu Yi can't figure it out.

There are really no players on the inside bench, Xu Yi's compatriot **, who also plays for the Raptors, is just an iron bench, and he can't always play, and he didn't even make the squad in this game. However, the opponent is a rocket, Xu Yi thinks that ** should play, not to mention anything else, just on his familiarity with Yao Ming, he can completely play and consume Yao Ming.

However, Kevin O'Neal doesn't think so, and Xu Yi is not good at intervening.

In this game, the Raptors are still the regular lineup starters, and the Raptors, who have no point guard, start with a chaotic game, rushing like headless flies. On the Rockets' side, Steve Francis's breakthrough score was very popular, and the only thing was that Yao Ming seemed to be really limited by Chris Bosh's forward defense and could barely catch the ball.

But in general, the Raptors' offense was chaotic, and Xu Yi observed the light above the heads of the players, none of them were red, most of them were yellow, and even Morrison Peterson was still blue on his head. On the other hand, in the Rockets, the starting five are all in a state of yellow or above, Steve Francis is in a pale red state, and Yao Ming is even in a blood-red state!

In other words, if it weren't for Chris Posh's defense around the front that prevented Yao Ming from getting the opportunity to catch the ball, the Raptors' inside and outside lines would have exploded in this game.

But even if it didn't explode, it wasn't far off, after the first quarter, the Raptors fell behind by 11 points, Vince Carter wanted to play a dozen at first, but when he saw that the team was falling behind more and more, he began to give up on himself and shoot indiscriminately.

In the second quarter, the two sides came off the bench, and the situation was still the same, the Raptors slowly fell behind by 17 points, and just when Steve Francis hit a mid-range shot to expand the score to 19 points, a bright color appeared in Xu Yi's eyes, which made Xu Yi immediately excited, proving that the opportunity to plug in had arrived.

The bright color that Xu Yi saw was the color of red and black, which came from Ramon Murray, who had not been given the opportunity to play all year round by the Raptors, and the red and black light, which was already in the best state! Xu Yi urgently called up Ramon Murray's information, and Xu Yi naturally knew about the players in this team. Ramon Murray, a short big forward, has a good three-point hand, Xu Yi thought about it carefully, maybe at this time, it is possible to chase points by replacing Ramon Murray!

Xu Yi swept around the Raptors bench again, and surprises kept appearing, the light above Roger Mason's head also changed from pale yellow to red, and the color on the top of Donyer Marshall's head on the court also changed from yellow to light red. Perhaps the only thing that worked against the Raptors was that the color of the top of Vince Carter's head changed from yellow to dark blue.

However, Xu Yi couldn't care so much, and he decided to meddle in the team's arrangement. Of course, the way to meddle should not be too radical, Xu Yi chose to discuss with Kevin O'Neill.

"Kevin, can you trust me?" Xu Yi sat next to Kevin O'Neal and said this.

Kevin O'Neal was stunned for a moment, and then nodded suspiciously, he was now in a stupor, the team was behind by a large score, and Kevin O'Neal was no longer interested in this game.

"Do you want to win this game? Kevin. ”

"Huh?" Kevin O'Neal didn't react.

Xu Yi was a little anxious, and he saw that the red on the top of Roger Mason's head gradually faded.

"I said, do you want to win?"

"Of course, but the team"

"Don't be, listen to me." Xu Yi said undoubtedly, and then began to transfer troops in place of Kevin O'Neal: "Send Roger Mason, let him play point guard, and Ramon Murray, let him play small forward, keep Vince Carter, Chris Bosh and Don Yell Marshall, use these five to play the next game, we will win." ”

Xu Yi arranged it, and Kevin O'Neal reacted at this time: "Why? Why can they win? This lineup? "Kevin O'Neal wants to say there's nothing special about this lineup.

"This?" Xu Yi stopped suddenly, Kevin O'Neal wanted a logical reason, but Xu Yi would tell him that these people were in good shape, so would they be on these people? Obviously this cannot be done.

Xu Yi was helpless, and said forcefully: "Kevin, listen to me, this game, you listen to me, we can win!" Believe me! ”

"Okay." Kevin O'Neal thought for a while and decided to believe Xu Yi, he nodded and agreed, and soon replaced these players according to Xu Yi's idea.

At this time, the Raptors were already behind by 21 points, Roger Mason and Ramon Murray played, and many people immediately felt a different atmosphere, because these two players had never played in the second quarter before, did the Raptors arrange new tactics?

On the Rocket's side, Jeff Van Gundy scratched his bald head, which he couldn't read.

But soon, he understood, and the Raptors gave the Rockets a surprise in the first offensive round of replacing the bench players. Ramon Murray quickly pulled outside the three-point line, and at the moment when Morris Taylor didn't react, he shot a three-pointer and hit it!

Xu Yi waved his hand off the field, and this goal was completely expected by him!

The red and black state, the three-point shot without the interference of the defender, how can it be missed!

And turning around, Roger Mason actually directly single-handedly defended Steve Francis's breakthrough, he directly cut off the ball and started the fast break with the Raptors!

Vince Carter's changes from the Raptors after the substitution, obviously saw the difference, this ball Carter seemed to have the strength all of a sudden, rushed to the frontcourt, received Roger Mason's pass, and came to a violent dunk! The Canadian Route Center Arena suddenly set off a huge cheer, they hadn't seen such a Vince Carter for a long time, and the angry roar after the violent buckle vented their dissatisfaction for many days.

The Raptors seem to be alive! After the substitution, they sounded the horn of the counterattack!