The whole Knicks team was jubilant, but Yang Rui saw some hidden dangers while winning streaks, that is, Ewing's physical exertion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to help Ewing brush up his stats and compete for MVP, the coaching staff made him play an average of 37 minutes per game, and a few games against weak teams were more thrilling, relying entirely on perseverance and experience. Fortunately, Ewing is playing on the outside now, otherwise it would have been dangerous.

After beating the Trail Blazers and Rockets to win 20 in a row, the Knicks upset a 101-102 home loss to the underdog Warriors.

Ewing was in terrible form, playing 40 minutes and scoring only 14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 fouls. The two sides played an overtime, and Donyel Marshall hit the game-winning shot, making the Knicks' entire effort useless.

Yang Rui once proposed to play the weak team and let Ewing take a rotation, which was opposed by Van Gundy and Ewing, who were worried that too much rest in the core would also affect the MVP selection and record.

Even with the loss, the media praised the Knicks, who broke the franchise winning streak, the previous record being 18 straight wins set in 1969-70. This result is tied with the 1970-71 Bucks for second place in history, behind only the Lakers' 33-game winning streak in 1971-72.

Entering the first game of March, the Knicks defeated the Lakers 101-89 at home and completed a sweep in the regular season.

Ewing's 26 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists overwhelmed O'Neal's 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, and Houston's 32 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists exploded with 15 points for Eddie Jones.

The Lakers, who have four All-Stars, are incredibly popular and are also seen as favorites to win the championship, and the media Kwaknicks are even more sparing.

However, the Knicks lost to the Nets 93-100 on the 3rd, and then lost to the Wizards 99-103 a day later. After two consecutive defeats, the record became 60-8.

The Nets are currently eighth in the East, losing four games more than the seventh-place Cavaliers and most likely to meet the Knicks in the first round. After the win, the few tennis fans saw another glimmer of hope for an upset.

Back-to-back away games against the 76ers, the Knicks only narrowly won 87-80, and everyone began to realize that the Knicks were in trouble.

In Yang Rui's previous life, the 2016 Warriors' 73 wins in the regular season broke the record record, and the oldest starter, Bogut, is 31 years old, not a veteran, and the other stars are very young and have obvious physical advantages.

Even so, the Warriors had fitness issues in the second half of the regular season, with players lacking concentration, over-heads-up, and rotating in some non-critical games.

The average age of the Knicks is older than that Warriors, and Yang Rui has no good way to do this, arranging tactics, and the rest can only look at the players, and no one can help them stay in shape on the court at all times.

On March 8, the Knicks played the Bulls again at home, losing 95-102.

Pippen's return adds a strong scoring point, the Bulls run the ball, and the defense is better than ever. The Knicks' Starks continued to be in a slump, shooting less than 30% from the field in four consecutive games, and this time he shot 4-of-16.

Watching Starks make all kinds of waves on the field, the fans are anxious. Yang Rui then discussed with Van Gundy to rotate the role players to ensure physical recovery, otherwise it would be more difficult to play in the playoffs.

At first, Van Gundy didn't agree, but now the team is playing in a mess and has lost 9 games, and he has no good way, and he can't listen to Yang Rui.

The player's sudden decline in form also has something to do with Van Gundy's pressure method, and he often talks about his record, hoping that the team can follow suit. If the coach tells the players that "the regular season record is not important, winning the championship is the key", it may have a better effect.

After Yang Rui and Van Gundy discussed, Van Gundy changed his tune when he mobilized.

"Guys, forget the Bulls' record, what we need to do now is to calm down and train for the playoffs, run more tactics, reduce individual singles, and the playoffs are the key."

In addition to decompressing, the team also adopted a rotation strategy to put the in-form Starks on the injury list.

This thing is in a sparse state and is unwilling to rest, so he jumped on the spot angrily, said that he was going to play a wave, and yelled at Yang Rui a few times. "What the are you up to with a bad idea? No second score for me? ”

"Don't you feel like you've needed to adjust lately? You've dropped below 40% of your shooting average. Yang Rui hit back with facts.

Starks was unreasonable and exclaimed, "How can I find my touch after playing for such a short time?" ”

Yang Rui retreated behind Van Gundy with interest, and it was a very troublesome thing to communicate with the thorn players, which should be the job of the head coach, not his pot.

Yang Rui feels that the relationship between players and coaches should be like the relationship between teachers and students, and it is natural for students to respect teachers. But in the NBA, there's a special relationship between coaches and players, and it's not that easy to do.

The star is more famous than the coach, the salary is more than the coach, the big-name star is unhappy and changes jobs casually, others rush to ask for it, the coach doesn't say that he can control these big coffees, it's good to coax, so it is not easy to be a coach in the NBA, in addition to understanding tactics, but also to know how to coax, can't get the players, no matter how good the tactics are, they don't want to be used, and if they don't do a good coach, they will be fired.

In the NBA, there are often conflicts between players and coaches, in various forms, in addition to hands-on fights, most of them are anger, mutual arguments, coaches punish players for suspensions, serious player swings, infighting, and so on.

In the past two years, there have been more famous things, such as the Magic originally wanted to build a team around Hardaway and O'Neal, and then O'Neal left for Los Angeles. Hardaway began to frustrate Magic head coach Ryan Hill's coaching style and encouraged the rest of the team to blame Hill. Soon after, Hill was fired from the team.

Even more outrageous is Warriors star Sprewell. This season, he was first punished for not listening carefully to the tactics and was sent to the cold bench, late for training, and did not catch the plane away from home, which made Callesimo, who was already at odds with the players, very angry.

The conflict finally broke out during a training session, with Callesimo telling Sprewell to be serious, but "Mad Man" didn't bird Coach. Calesimo's authority was challenged, and he walked up to the "madman" and continued to yell at him, at which point the "madman" couldn't help himself and grabbed the coach by the neck for more than 10 seconds before being pulled away by the others.

Then the "madman" left angrily, who knew that it didn't take long for him to run back again, and he didn't say a word and punched the coach a few times, and then left. The punishment for this impulse was a 68-game ban and more than $6 million in salary deductions, the most in the NBA.

Van Gundy was so good at talking and grinding hard that he finally made Starks understand that the playoffs are the stage to play, and he was willing to take two rests.

Yang Rui watched the whole process and firmly stated one thing, he must have enough say as a head coach in the future, take the right to trade and draft picks in his own hands, and find the kind of player who is easy to communicate and control.

People like Starks, who have countless black spots, mainly rely on convulsions, and can't see their position clearly, can be in good condition, but when they are in bad condition, they are tumors. If Yang Rui was in charge, he would have sent him away, and he would definitely be able to exchange for a better person.

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