Xu Yi stayed on the street court until the early hours of the morning before going home to sleep, and slept until dawn when he was woken up by the ringing of a mobile phone.

Looking at the caller ID in a daze, Kevin O'Neal, and hurriedly sat up, Xu Yi knew that there was a response from the Raptors.

"Hello, I'm Xu Yi, it's Kevin O'Neal?" Picking up the phone, Xu Yi said hello.

Kevin O'Neal laughed heartily on the other end of the phone: "Haha, Xu! I heard you're coming back, welcome! ”

Xu Yi also laughed, and it could be heard that Kevin O'Neal was still very welcoming to Xu Yi's return. Kevin O'Neal's time with the Raptors isn't having an easy time right now, he took over the team after coach Lenny Wilkens stepped down, and was the number one assistant coach under the old coach. However, after taking over the team, Kevin O'Neal performed worse than the old coach, and the Raptors, who have a healthy Vince Carter, are still outside the playoffs! One can imagine how much pressure he must have.

Xu Yi chatted with Kevin O'Neill on the phone, turned on the computer, flipped to the email that Glen Gruward replied, and after looking at Glenn Gruward's reply, Xu Yi had to reapply for a Canadian work visa, which was still more troublesome.

However, with the help of the Raptors, I believe it won't take long, and it will be a bit of a waste at most.

Xu Yi ended the call with Kevin O'Neal, and hurriedly went to the embassy to handle visa matters, and then rushed to Toronto the next day, completed the work procedures in Toronto, and went to the team to report.

Toronto, Canada's largest city, is located northwest of Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes of North America, and became the only non-American city with an NBA team after the Grizzlies moved out of Vancouver in 2001. As the home of an NBA team, Toronto is also qualified, and Vince Carter's presence has made Toronto's ball market very hot, with fans sitting on the sidelines of every game, and everyone is looking forward to Vince Carter's dunk performance.

However, in the past two seasons, the Raptors seem to have been in a difficult situation, and in the 2002-2003 season, Vince Carter missed half of the regular season due to injury, resulting in the team ultimately missing the playoffs. And this season, the old coach left the New York Knicks, and rookie head coach Kevin O'Neal led the team to also poor results, and the Raptors are currently only ranked 13th in the East, with only a slim hope of the playoffs.

And the record is so poor, so that Vince Carter, who is still at the peak of his career, can't bear it anymore, and he has the idea of going.

Therefore, for the Raptors now, the situation is quite grim, and they don't want to lose Vince Carter's box office guarantee, but the team's record has not progressed for a long time, which also makes the Raptors worried.

Xu Yi rushed to the stadium early in the morning, it was still early, and there were no players training in the stadium. Xu Yi went directly to the second floor and entered Glen Grove's office.

"Hah! Xu, are you here? Hurry up and sit! Glen Gruwald saw Xu Yi enter the door and stood up to welcome him. As the general manager of the Raptors, Glen Grove has also been under a lot of pressure recently, and his extremely failed operation in the past two seasons is one of the culprits that has contributed to the Raptors' gradual decline. In the memories of Xu Yi's previous life, after this season, Glenn Gruward eventually lost his current job as well.

Xu Yi chatted with Glenn Gruward for a few words, which made Xu Yi feel that Glenn Gruward's mood was not very good, perhaps because of the excessive pressure, which made him a little anxious. Seeing this, Xu Yi didn't bother Gruwald too much, said a few more words, and went downstairs after reporting.

At this time, there were already a few players in the stadium, and Xu Yi's old acquaintances, Vince Carter, Don Yell Marshall, had already started their training.

Seeing Xu Yi, several people stopped the training in their hands in surprise and ran over to say hello.

"Xu, why are you back?"

"Wow! Who's this? This is Xu! ”

"Xu, I heard you beat that Stephen Marbury hard in New York? Haha, that's so cool! Everyone was asking why Xu Yi came back, but only Morris Pietson said this, which made Xu Yi speechless immediately.

Maurice Peterson also realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing and scratched the back of his head. Xu Yi laughed with the others, Morris Pietson's character, everyone already knows it very well, this thing is such a funny character.

Xu Yi's memory of his previous life still has a typical funny incident of this buddy, after Carter transferred to the Nets, there was a game between the Nets and the Raptors, this goods and Carter were opposed, the two joked in the game, touched each other's faces, but the referee did not see Carter's movements, but saw Morrison Peterson's actions, and directly sent Peterson out of the game.

Today, back to ten years ago, Xu Yi still remembers the super funny scene, Morris Peterson was sweating profusely, shouting explanations, and Vince Carter stood aside and held back laughter.

Thinking of this funny guy, Xu Yi laughed even more, but after laughing, Xu Yi still explained the reason why he came back: "I came back to work, and now I am your coach." ”

Hearing Xu Yi's explanation, everyone suddenly expressed their welcome to Xu Yi's return.

Soon, Kevin O'Neal also came to the stadium, and when he saw Xu Yi, he naturally welcomed him a few words, and after chatting a few words, it was time for the team to start training, and Xu Yi went directly to work. His first job with the Raptors was to give the team a scouting report for the next opponent.

The day after Xu Yi arrived, the Raptors had a game to play, the opponent was the Houston Rockets, fortunately, it was a home game, there was no need to travel a long distance, Xu Yi could go to the video room very leisurely to make this scouting report.

The 2003-2004 season was Yao Ming's sophomore season, this season Yao Ming averaged 17+9 per game, and the Rockets were also in the Western Conference playoffs, which was a strong opponent for the Raptors.

In Xu Yi's scouting report, there are four players in this Rockets that need to be paid attention to, center Yao Ming, pay attention to the front defense; Point guard Steve Francis, watch out for the pack; Scoring guard Catino Mobley, Vince Carter should have no problem eating alone; And the last one to watch out for is three-point shooter Jimmy Jackson, be careful not to give this player too much space.

Soon, Xu Yi completely got this somewhat simple scouting report, sorted out the information, Xu Yi cleaned up, and went out of the video room and went to the court.

At this time, there was a fierce shout from the side of the court, as if something had happened, which made Xu Yi secretly strange, and when he got closer, it was actually Vince Carter and Kevin O'Neal who were glaring at each other.

Xu Yi frowned, does this Nima mean infighting? Infighting just back?

"What's going on?" Xu Yi grabbed Tang Yell Marshall, who was watching the play on the side, and asked.

Marshall saw that it was Xu Yi and immediately explained: "Coach Kevin asked us to play an intra-team training game, and Vince felt that tomorrow was the game, and we shouldn't waste our physical strength, so"

Xu Yi nodded, knowing the reason for the contradiction. However, after knowing the reason for the incident, Xu Yi felt that the Raptors' problem was very serious. Whether to play an intra-team training match or not is only a small question, and obviously there should not be such a-for-tat confrontation. This kind of-for-tat only shows the depth of the contradictions within the Raptors, which has made them ignore the problem itself.

Vince Carter and Kevin O'Neal argued a few more times, and in the end, Kevin O'Neal had no choice but to compromise, angrily let another coach arrange a regular training session and left the arena directly.

Xu Yi was helpless, chased out, and caught up with Kevin O'Neal with a flushed face at the door of the stadium.

"Kevin!"

Kevin O'Neal didn't leave the training hall directly, he went up to the second floor from the stairs on the other side, and when he saw Xu Yi chasing after him, Kevin O'Neal forced a smile: "Xu, I'm sorry, as soon as you came back, you made you see the joke." ”

Xu Yi shook his head: "Kevin, you can't say that. After saying this, the two fell silent.

After a while, Kevin O'Neal broke the silence: "Go and sit in my office." ”

Xu Yi nodded and followed Kevin O'Neal to his office.

Sitting on the sofa, Xu Yi still didn't speak, he didn't know what to say.

"Xu, you also saw the situation of the team, to be honest, you shouldn't come back." Kevin O'Neal spoke first, but the first sentence made Xu Yi stunned. "The team's record is so poor, there are internal conflicts, and I'm ready to resign."

"Resign!?" Xu Yi was shocked.

"That's right, in fact, even if I don't resign, after this season, the team will replace me, Glenn has already revealed to me that the owner is dissatisfied with the current situation of the team, he wants to make some changes, so you know, the Raptors need to change a lot now." Kevin O'Neill said a lot, and after speaking, he looked at Xu Yi and didn't speak for a long time.

Xu Yi didn't know what to say, Kevin O'Neal was already under pressure and wanted to resign, so persuade him to stay? Apparently not. Persuade him to leave quickly? Xu Yi didn't want the Raptors to change the coach now, so everything would not be in Xu Yi's plan, nor would it be in Xu Yi's memory.

Cold field, cold field again, Xu Yi felt that he really should say something: "Kevin, I think you should try again, maybe I can help you." ”

Kevin O'Neal shook his head and smiled bitterly: "No, Xu, you don't know the current state of the team, of course, tomorrow's game, you know, things are irreparable, I think, you should think about yourself first." ”

Xu Yi was helpless, said nothing more, said goodbye to Kevin O'Neal, and then went to the training hall and distributed the scouting report that had just been made to the players.

The Raptors players who finished their workouts got this detailed scouting report.

"It's good that Xu is back, look at how detailed this report is! If we had this report in the last game, we wouldn't have given that Grizzlies' Pau Gasol 29 points! "It was Don Yair Marshall who spoke out, and apparently he was still haunted by the fact that he was blown up by Pau Gasol in the last game.

It was Vince Carter, who heard Tang Yell Marshall's praise, and actually nodded, obviously quite satisfied with Xu Yi's scouting report.