The first wave of offense played a beautiful coordination, Xu Yi felt that the run-and-bomb tactics were stable, and the old point guard Rodstrickland could fully assume the responsibility of organizing the offense.

Then, the Raptors played wave after wave of fast offense, and there were many mistakes, but the success rate of the offense was still very good, and the Raptors also relied on the rhythm of fast play and fast offense, gradually controlled the rhythm of the court, and soon brought back the disadvantage in the early stage of the game.

The Hornets were clearly not comfortable with the Raptors' rhythm, their defense began to be chaotic, and so did their offense, while Kevin O'Neal was still there on the sidelines asking his players to speed up the offensive tempo, apparently still dissatisfied with the team's speed. Xu Yi observed the state of the players, making a substitution from time to time, or making adjustments to a player in the Hornets.

The Raptors are playing well, and there are more people who are surprised.

Everyone knows that the Raptors have been in extremely poor condition recently, Vince Carter has no intention of fighting, and there are many contradictions within the team, the Raptors have actually made changes at such a critical moment, and it seems that they are going to succeed! This has to be the point of attention.

Fortunately, the Raptors' opponent in this game was the Hornets, and Tim Floyd was unprepared for the Raptors' outburst, so he could only ask Byron Davis to slow down the tempo on the sidelines. However, Byron Davis can only spread his hands and say that he is incompetent, knowing that Byron Davis is a point guard known for his momentum, and he prefers to play in a fast pace.

So when the Raptors play a fast-paced offense, Byron Davis can't help but cater to it, not caring about the lives of his teammates.

The Raptors extended their lead in the second quarter and sealed the win in the third quarter to earn a victory they had never dared to hope for before the game.

"Haha, we won, well done! Lads! After the game, the Raptors were smiling, Kevin O'Neal high-fived the players in celebration, and even bumped his chest with Vince Carter to celebrate, without the slightest sense of contradiction and estrangement.

Xu Yi was also in the crowd celebrating, he knew that the team needed to use the victory of this game to drive away the haze of the previous losing streak, so Xu Yi ignored the crazy boos of the away fans and followed the players to celebrate this hard-won victory.

However, Xu Yi is not very optimistic about the future of the team, in this game, the Raptors' victory was very accidental, first of all, the head coach of the Hornets is Tim Floyd, the head coach of the level, and secondly, the Hornets do not have a rhythm master in the team, which will be led away by the Raptors and finally lost.

If you change teams, you don't need to be a strong team, you just need to have a head coach who can adapt to the situation, and respond in time when the Raptors start playing fast and fast, and the Raptors will not win so easily.

Xu Yi thought for a long time, he didn't pay attention at all, in the celebratory crowd, Kevin O'Neill's thoughtful eyes.

The team flew back to Toronto from New Orleans overnight after the win over the Hornets, and they were given a five-day break after two consecutive road games, which is a huge help to the Raptors who are in dire need of change, and they can use this five-day break to perfect their run-and-gun tactics.

Xu Yi started to work, he made a detailed running map for each position of the Raptors, and each offensive round, the players only need to run to the corresponding position to complete the task of opening up the space, and then all they have to do is shoot the ball in their hands. Of course, everyone's direction of running is not fixed, and they can run as they please.

However, the final activity area must be the area specified by Xu Yi, and these areas are actually the shooting points demarcated by Xu Yi according to the characteristics of each person, and everyone can run within the area and shoot within their own range. In order to do this area, Xu Yi also checked a lot of information, summed up everyone's shooting heat map, and made this running area according to the shooting heat map.

On the second day back in Toronto, the team did not schedule regular training in the morning, and Xu Yi was ready to use the morning to give tactical lessons to the players.

Xu Yi arrived at the stadium at 8 o'clock, but the stadium was empty, which made Xu Yi a little strange, and it was understandable that the players did not arrive, after all, they came back very late yesterday, and they must be late. But Kevin O'Neal didn't arrive, and Xu Yi couldn't understand it. In any case, the manager has to be on time.

Xu Yi waited for a while, and at half past eight, the players were almost there, but Kevin O'Neal still hadn't arrived, which made Xu Yi feel strange, and he called and asked, Kevin O'Neal was hesitant, just let Xu Yi be in charge of training first, and didn't say anything. Xu Yi was very strange, but he didn't know what was going on, so he had to leave the doubts for now, and then dragged the whole team to the conference room.

"Guys, from today onwards, we're going to practice a set of tactics, how did you feel about winning the game yesterday?" As soon as he entered the conference room, Xu Yi turned on the projection and cut straight to the point.

"Haha, cool! It's just a little tiring! Tang Yell Marshall answered Xu Yi's question loudly, in yesterday's game, Marshall shot 3 three-pointers, scored 17 points, and won the game again, so he naturally felt cool. Others, with smiles on their faces, apparently agreed with Marshall's statement.

Xu Yi smiled: "Then, the tactics we want to practice are the tactics we initially used yesterday, the run-and-bomb tactics!" Next, I'll tell you more about this tactic."

Just when the stadium was nervously explaining the tactics, Xu Yi didn't know that in a luxury villa in the affluent area of Toronto, there were three or four people sitting in the living room, two of them were Kevin O'Neal and the team's general manager Glenn Grove, and the other few people, Xu Yi also had several relationships, those people were several Raptors owners, Larry Tarlen Nanny, Richard Petty and Timothy Lewick.

The Raptors are controlled by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Company, and this Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Company has multiple shareholders, each of whom does not have absolute control over the company, which also makes the team's management have great power, because it is difficult for them to be controlled by shareholders, and shareholders who want to make changes to the team need to hold a shareholder meeting and discuss and approve it before it can be implemented.

This is also the reason why Kevin O'Neal led the team to extremely poor results, and he still did not leave the class, because the procedure was too cumbersome.

But now, the situation is different, because Kevin O'Neal is here this time, and he actually came to resign! After returning to Toronto, Kevin O'Neal submitted his resignation to Glen Gruward overnight, and was taken to the mansion by Glenn Gruward the next day to meet with several of the team's owners.

"You say, you're going to resign?" Larry Tarlen's nanny was the first to cry out in surprise, "But, it's the end of the season, you resign now, where do we find an acting head coach?" ”

"Larry is right, and I've heard the team has been in good form lately, huh?" Richard Petty echoed the words.

"I'm sorry, I don't think I'm good enough to stay in this position, so I chose to quit. However, the two of you don't have to worry about the acting head coach, there is a better head coach candidate in the team. Kevin O'Neal explained apologetically.

"A better manager? Who? Timothy Levik, who had not spoken, became interested.

"That's right, the team's recent form has been good, and it's all because of the assistant coach Xu, who has just returned to the team, and he has helped the team get back into form."

"Xu?" The team owners were deep in thought.

After a few minutes, Larry Tarlen's nanny raised her head: "That's it, Kevin, our resignation application can't be approved for the time being, we need to discuss and decide, and the shareholders' meeting will discuss a result in 1 day, you go back and wait for the result first, train hard, and prepare for the next game." ”

Kevin O'Neal nodded helplessly, the Raptors' equity composition is like this, no one can say anything, but Kevin O'Neal knows that he should be able to get down from this damn head coach position, this head coach position has made him pressure all the time.

Kevin O'Neal breathed a sigh of relief, and on the way back to the arena, he directly asked Glenn Grove for a day off, and he was not going back to the arena. Glen Gruward also approved the request.

And over at the Raptors training gym, the tactical class has been completed, Xu Yi unexpectedly heard the news of Kevin O'Neal's resignation, which made him very surprised, after all, the team has been getting better, Kevin O'Neal has no need to resign at all, he can be in the position of head coach, hold on until the end of the season, and then leave the class because the team did not enter the playoffs.

Xu Yi was very helpless, he knew that at this time, he could only wait for the news from the shareholders' meeting.

When the team conducted the afternoon tactical training, they came to the training hall one after another, preparing to hold a shareholder meeting immediately in the afternoon. They also went to the training ground to observe the team's training, and when they learned that Kevin O'Neal did not come to the stadium, and now the training is in charge of Xu Yi, they became even more interested.

Xu Yi didn't know this, he stared at the players' running positions on the sidelines, and reminded from time to time: "Morris, you ran wrong, what are you running to the penalty area for?" Your range is in the bottom corner! Run to the bottom corner! ”

"Vince, even if you can fire from a dead end, be mindful of your teammates' positions and don't run into them! Watch out for the run! ”

When Xu Yi was yelling on the sidelines, Timothy Levik asked with interest: "Glenn, what are they doing here?" Is it just a casual run? ”

Glen Gruward didn't know that the team had been practicing tactics recently, so he called another assistant coach and asked, only to find out that the team was now practicing run-and-gun tactics. The eyes of several shareholders lit up, running and bombing tactics? That's the most ornamental tactic.

After watching for a while, they left with a smile and went upstairs to the conference room.