After playing the Warriors, the Raptors have a very tricky schedule to face. So, this is their last easy game.

Before the game with the Warriors, the Raptors had a two-day rest, and because it was a back-to-back home game, the Raptors still had to get up early to train the next day.

The next morning, Xu Yi got up at 6 o'clock, ran to the newspaper box at the door of the apartment, took out the newspaper he subscribed to, although he did not want to contact these media reporters, but Xu Yi still wanted to know the first time that these reporters evaluated themselves, after two consecutive wins, I believe that the media is unlikely to criticize themselves, what Xu Yi wants to see, in fact, is those praises.

Walking on the road, Xu Yi couldn't wait to see it.

"The Raptors have won two in a row, and the new coach has a wonderful lineup." The newspaper Xu Yi was holding in his hand was Sports Illustrated, and they only mentioned the Raptors in a small corner, and the focus was on the wonderful lineup that Xu Yi posed, and most of what was written was criticism of Xu Yi, criticizing Xu Yi for messing around with the lineup and being too self-conscious.

Xu Yi is helpless, it seems that these reporters are still not ready to let themselves go.

Criticize yourself no matter what, Xu Yi closed the newspaper and prepared to enter the door.

Suddenly, he heard a shout from behind him: "Xu? ”

Xu Yi turned around in some surprise.

"You're the Raptors' Xu?" A middle-aged white man pointed at Xu Yi with a look of surprise on his face.

Xu Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, yes." ”

"Haha, I'm a die-hard Raptors fan, do you live here too?"

Xu Yi nodded again, but a smile appeared on his face.

"Wow! I didn't expect us to be neighbors! The white middle-aged man's face bloomed with joy, and he stretched out his hand and shook hands with Xu Yi. To introduce myself, my name is Jay Triano and I was a member of the Canadian national team and was the head coach of the Canadian national team before. ”

Xu Yi looked at this middle-aged man with a little white sideburns, he was really shocked, he didn't expect to meet a random person, it would actually be his peer.

"Haha, don't be surprised, Xu, I'm a fan of the Raptors, and in this community, almost everyone is a fan of the Raptors, so that's why we live here, next to the Raptors arena." As if seeing Xu Yi's surprise, Jetriano explained. "Moreover, the current head coach of the national team also lives here."

"Herdelman?" Xu Yi knew the head coach of Canada, so he asked rhetorically.

"That's right." Jetriano smiled, then said, "Let's talk?" I'm intrigued by that weird starter you posed yesterday. ”

Xu Yi was also interested when he heard this guy actually mention the starting lineup of future basketball that he put out yesterday, and he wanted to hear what the head coach of the Canadian national team in the 90s thought about this tactic.

"That's the future of basketball."

"The future of basketball? Tell us about it? Jetriano was interested, and the two chatted at the door of the apartment.

"This is a theory that Pat Riley once mentioned, that the future of basketball is made up of five swingmen around 2 meters." Xu Yi first stated the source of the theory, and then began to elaborate on this argument: "The advantage of this lineup is that there are five players of about 2 meters, who are more flexible, they can accomplish a lot of things, and everyone is very versatile, just like Michael Jordan." ”

"If you can really do this, this tactic is really invincible, but the Raptors' lineup can't form such a lineup." Jetriano looked at Xu Yi.

Xu Yi also smiled: "That's right, the Raptors' lineup can't form such a lineup, so you can see that we failed." ”

"But I think your strain is good, but it needs to be improved." Jetriano thought for a moment and said.

"Improvements?" Xu Yi suddenly became interested, and he lacked someone who could help him think of ideas.

"yes, I see you're trying to use Chris Bosh, but I don't think you have used the essence of Chris, I've studied Chris, his back-to-body skills are good, and his face frame breakout, you've used both, but it seems like you're ignoring the other point."

"Another point?"

"That's right, you ignored his high jumper." Jetriano points out the most central thing.

"High jumper?" Xu Yi read it silently, and he found that he seemed to really ignore Chris Bosh's high jump shot, although Xu Yi arranged a mid-range shooting tactic for Bosh, but obviously only used Bosh's mid-range shooting ability, and did not further develop Bosh's offense.

Xu Yi couldn't help but look at Jetriano, he wanted to get a concrete approach.

"Chris Bosh has a great high jumper, which is something that he showed in college, so we can design some pick-and-roll tactics that will allow him to be in the high post and constantly open to hit those shots." Jetriano did not disappoint Xu Yi either, and directly said the specific approach.

Xu Yi slapped his palms and looked very excited, after all, Chris Bosh's offense was really maximized, so the improvement of the Raptors was not a little bit of a star.

Xu Yi turned his head to look at Jetriano, as if he remembered something: "Jay, are you interested in working for the Raptors?" ”

Xu Yi decided to invite Jetriano to join the Raptors coaching staff, and he really needs a helper like Jetriano right now.

"Oh! Xu, I'm just waiting for your words! ”

"Great!" Xu Yi shouted in his heart, the addition of Triano is equivalent to the team's introduction of an all-star player for Xu Yi!

The two chatted a few more words, and after Xu Yi and Triano scheduled a meeting at the Raptors training gym the next day, they called the team's general manager Glenn Grove to report, and this time, his assistant coaching team finally had a usable talent.

Jetriano urgently went to the Raptors, and Xu Yi appointed him as the team's tactical coach, and his main job is to help Xu Yi develop Chris Posh's ability. Xu Yi still has some understanding of Chris Bosh's ability, after all, Xu Yi, who has 10 years of memory, has long known that Meng Bo will gradually grow into one of the best offensive power forwards in the league in the next few years.

Jetriano also lived up to Xu Yi's expectations, and after he came to the team, he formulated several sets of high-post jumper tactics for Chris Posh, including using teammates to cover and shoot the ball after receiving the ball, or holding the ball through his teammates' blocking and covering in the high post, and so on.

Soon, on March 31, the Raptors welcomed the challenge of the Warriors at home, and Xu Yi slightly changed the team's tactics before the game, allowing Chris Bosh to get more opportunities.

As for several core players of the Warriors, Xu Yi only made a slight arrangement and successfully curbed their state. Dunk king Jason Richardson scored a game-high 22 points from the Warriors, but McDonleavy only scored 4 points, and Clifford Robinson's 13 points was already the second-highest score on the Warriors' team.

On the other hand, on the Raptors' side, Vince Carter got 29 points, 8 boards and 6 assists, and Chris Bosh, who got the core treatment, also cut 22 points and 12 boards, and the two of them broke the Warriors, and in the end, the Raptors also relied on their excellent performance to win the game with an advantage of 18 points, and won three consecutive victories after Xu Yi took office.

But the results of other games made the Raptors a little helpless, facing the challenge of the Portland Trail Blazers, the New York Knicks actually won by 1 point! As a result, the difference between the Raptors and the Knicks is still 3.5 wins. And the Nets are really as Xu Yi thought, they are really unreliable, and the Celtics actually won another game, so that the difference between the Raptors and the Celtics' wins has not changed, and it is still a gap of 4 wins.

As for the other two teams ahead of the Raptors, the 76ers beat the Warriors the day before, so they still have a 0.5-game lead over the Raptors. On the other hand, the Cavaliers, who lost to the Spurs and Mavericks in two days on March 29 and March 30, lost to the Spurs and Mavericks one after another, and their record became 35-39, which has been tied by the Raptors!

ESPN's editorial office in Toronto, there are several well-known ESPN expert reporters here, and they are also very concerned about the ranking of the East, after all, Xu Yi's "playoffs" goal, they have always remembered.

"Hey, Mark, how's the ranking in the East?" The head of ESPN's Toronto editorial department, a reporter named David Thorpe, asked another expert reporter, Mark Stein.

"Haha, nothing has changed David, the Celtics and Knicks have won, the gap between the Raptors and them is still the same, but there are only 8 games left in the game!" Mark Stein laughed, maybe looking at the standings was the happiest thing for them right now.

"And next the Raptors will face the Pacers, Bucks, Pistons, these teams, it seems that this Chinese is about to show his original form!" Journalist Chris Forsberg, who sat across from David Thorpe, also let out a gloating laugh.

"Let me see the full schedule, oh! The next game of the Raptors is going to play the Pacers! The show is about to begin! Mark Stein flipped out the schedule and let out a shout of excitement.

"So, who do we send to interview the Pacers?"

"I, David, I'll go! For such an important moment, I must be there! Mark Stein immediately raised his hand.

"Okay, then Mark, go ahead."

Because the Raptors' next game is an away game, almost all of the Raptors media discussed such a thing, and finally decided that a reporter would accompany the team to the road to cover the event. And without exception, they are all very much looking forward to the performance of the Raptors in the next game, and some are like ESPN, they are waiting to see the jokes of Xu Yi and the Raptors.

And some, like local media outlets like the Toronto Sun, expect the Raptors to continue to excel.