Media Day, also known as Media Day, is a time when players and coaches are forced to let the media take photos and interviews. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Interviews with team personnel, allowing the media to film their team's drills and answer questions is basically a hard and fast rule for the league to build a good relationship with the media.

After Yang Rui arrived at the stadium, he greeted the players.

The Summer League five were very close to him, and Bowen, Jackson, and Atkins all reported to him on the results of their training, treating him as a thigh and intending to hug him tightly.

Ewing, Oakley, Johnson and other veterans nodded and finished it, they are all high-paid stars, although they are players, they don't pay much attention to assistant coaches in their bones.

NBA coaches are playing with a group of rich people, and it is not easy to convince them. Like Ewing's salary this season, it is 200 times that of Yang Rui.

Usually, the focus of media days is on big-name stars, head coaches, with the exception of this time, when reporters from multiple media outlets interviewed Yang Rui, whose name was known to the whole country after previous incidents of racial discrimination.

"Jerry Young, do you have the confidence to be the team's No. 1 assistant coach?" The reporter asked.

"Yes." Yang Rui despises this reporter from the bottom of his heart, this is nonsense, who would say no?

"There are a lot of people who think that the Knicks are playing well in summer league because of the quality of the players, not the tactics, what do you think?" The reporter asked.

"Did anyone say that before Summer League?" Yang Ruixin wanted that if it wasn't him, these five people couldn't get together. 'Of course, it's their business what other people think, all I have to do is help the team win, and the results will speak for themselves.'

The reporter asked: "What do you think the Knicks will achieve in the new season?" ”

"I don't know, the opponents are all strong, and we will work together to try to defeat those strong opponents."

The reporter asked: "On the Internet, the coach who graduated at the same time as you said that you were introverted and unsociable, which led to a bad relationship between you, do you have anything to say?" ”

After the discrimination incident, in order to reduce the impact, several coaches partnered to give anonymous interviews, saying that Yang Rui was not social.

Yang Rui smiled: "When I couldn't find a job, many people laughed at me, and when I got a good job, they started to say that I didn't fit in. I want to say, classmates, don't be jealous, even if I am very gregarious and love you as my own son, what can I do? You can't be an NBA coach because you don't have the ability, not because you don't have a good father. ”

The reporters were all shocked, big news, this is clearly an abuse that does not spit out dirty words.

It is certain that he is not social, but no one believes that Yang Rui is introverted, which introvert dares to talk like this in the media?

Yang Rui dared to expose it with a camera, so he naturally didn't mind mending the knife. Is it useful to have a good relationship with those people? When he is down, he falls into the well one by one, is it possible that when he is developed, these bastards will be enlightened and become good balls?

He will not deliberately make enemies, and there is no need to be polite if he is already an enemy, let alone tell people what truth, goodness and beauty are.

Like how to look at the players, Yang Rui said all good things, including the five people he had worked with in the summer league, and he also praised it. As an assistant coach, you will inevitably interact with the players, and you can't talk nonsense.

The Knicks' seventeen-man roster for the preseason is out.

Centres: Patrick Ewing, Ben Wallace, Chris Dudley, Buck Williams.

Power forwards: Charles Oakley, Mickey Moore, Herb Williams.

Small forwards: Larry Johnson, Bruce Bowen, Anthony Bowe, Chris Mills.

Shooting guards: Alan Houston, Stephen Jackson, John Starks.

Playmaking defenders: Chris Childs, Charlie Ward, Chaggie Atkins.

The Knicks' goal this season is only to win the championship, and Mills can only play off the bench when he joins, which is to buy insurance to prevent Johnson's injury. Yang Rui is confident that he will prevent the Bulls from defending his title this season, and the team's lineup depth beats the Bulls and can be called a Super Knick.

Look at the makeup photos of the core players to know how strong they are, Ewing, Oakley, Johnson, Houston, and Starks are all very powerful.

On the 26th, the team opened the training session, the media and fans could visit the stadium, and the stadium was full.

In addition to watching the training game, spectators will also receive a short-sleeved T-shirt with the Knicks logo as a souvenir. Hunter Johnson came with his childhood sweetheart's female friend Jill, and it was Yang Rui who gave the ticket.

Before the start of training, Oakley and Ben Wallace were chatting on the sidelines, and Van Gundy asked curiously: "Why, you two know each other?" ”

"He attended my bootcamp when he was in high school, and I recommended this kid to college." Oakley laughed and told interesting things about their acquaintance.

At that time, Oakley saw a vicious-looking guy in the training camp, who didn't look like a good thing, and his body didn't look like a high school student, so he asked this person to practice alone, wanting to teach him a lesson.

Oakley didn't expect this kid to dare to fight himself, Oakley knocked his lips open, and he broke Oakley's nose, this kid was Ben Wallace in high school.

Later, Oakley asked Ben Wallace, who was strapped for financial difficulties, to work in his car dealership, taught him to play, and recommended and sponsored him to go to school and play at his alma mater, Virginia Union University.

Therefore, in the growth process of Big Ben, there is Oakley's figure everywhere, tough, steely muscles.

After listening to the introduction, the more Van Gundy looked at Big Ben, the more pleasing he became, and he liked people who could defend. "You play well in the preseason, as long as you can have him 80% of the defensive skills, the team will definitely sign you a long-term contract."

Van Gundy still underestimated him, and now he is competing with Oakley, and he must win Big Ben, his running and jumping ability is amazing, and all he lacks is experience. Just looking at protecting rebounds, he won't be worse than Oakley.

The players first ran laps with the physical trainer and then warmed up with shots, while Van Gundy and Yang Rui chatted on the sidelines.

"Mix the players in a while, you and Tom lead a team, let's have a match, let me see what you can do." Van Gundy proposed.

Yang Rui smiled slightly. "I don't have a problem with the confrontation, but the players are mixed, so I can't see what I'm capable of."

"Oh? So what do you say? ”

"I'll take those five guys in the summer league, and pick two more substitutes, as long as Alan Houston starts one guy, eight guys against nine on your side, how about it?"

Van Gundy frowned. "What, you think you have a chance to win me?"

Yang Rui explained with a smile: "No, because the core of my tactics is to attack from the outside in, I want you to see the effect of such a fight." ”

This is a nice way to put it, but in fact, Yang Rui asked Houston to come over because Van Gundy wouldn't use it at all.

Houston was the second leader of the Pistons in the 1995-96 season, averaging 19.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3 assists on 15.2 shots per game, and 2.3 three-pointers on 5.5 shots, shooting 42.7% from three-point range.

When it came to the Knicks, Houston averaged 12.7 shots per game, and his stats dropped to 14.8 points, 3 rebounds and 2.2 assists, and his three-point shooting percentage dropped to 38.5%.

The team's most accurate shot had only 12.7 shots and no special tactics. Under Van Gundy, Houston, who was originally the "three-point king", has simply transformed into the "king of the pitch", which is simply a waste of resources.

Yang Rui wants Van Gundy to see what it is like to be the core of the outside line!

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