Yang Rui didn't expect that boldly using people can achieve such good results. After all, the Knicks' starting strength is obviously higher. His original plan was to use Houston to let Van Gundy see Houston's core potential.

As a result, he found that Van Gundy did not know how to use Houston, but no one could use the offensive end except Ewing. He is still in the stage of playing single-core offensive, so Ewing is in a normal state and the offensive is not good.

In Yang Rui's previous life, after Ewing was seriously injured and reimbursed, Van Gundy was forced to change to the outside dual core. During the Rockets period, the Yao and Maggie combination also took turns to play singles.

The defensive coach is just a label on Van Gundy's forehead, and he is not at all good at the offense.

Yang Rui felt that he could not continue to fight like this. Van Gundy was the head coach. This result was a bit hurtful and would affect Van Gundy's prestige in the team.

It may not be a good thing for Yang Rui. The face of the core team also needs to be maintained. If Ewing, Starks and others dislike him, can they still work happily in the future?

During the break, Yang Rui called Thibodeau aside and smiled and said, "Tom, you can lead the team in the second half, and you will arrange the offensive and defensive tactics."

"Ah? Why?" Thibodeau was stunned.

"Everyone is an assistant teacher. I can't just care about myself and let you watch it, right?" Yang Rui shrugged.

When Thibodeau was happy, he almost used Sakamoto's secret skill and repeatedly jumped sideways. With the intense exercise from left to right, he could make the wind blow.

Of course, if Thibodeau dances like this, it will never be cool. It should be similar to the picture when logging in with the QQ number in the lower right corner of the computer.

"Okay, then you can rest for a while and leave it to me." Thibodeau went to tell the players about tactics.

When the players came on the court, Thibodeau felt something was wrong...

Taking the lead in the first half, Yang Rui has proved his strength. Now he has given Quan to him, and he feels very comfortable. The two are closer, but Yang Rui does this as if he is deliberately letting go.

If they finally win Van Gundy's starting team with substitutes, the head coach will lose all his face, and even if he admits their abilities, he will feel uncomfortable.

Now that Thibodeau leads the team, he has also given the difficulties to him. Only by losing can everyone be happy.

Thibodeau glanced at Yang Rui and shuddered.

Is this guy really 23 years old? Compared to him, I am 39 and still as simple as a boy!

In the second half, Thibodeau followed some of Yang Rui's tactics and continuously created misaligned offensive opportunities through off-ball cover.

On the White Team, Ewing and Johnson found their feelings and were unstoppable, and reversed the score in the third quarter. Both sides were on the bench in the final quarter, and the White Team won 105 to 124 in the end.

Van Gundy breathed a sigh of relief, without a smile on his face. He knew very well that Yang Rui was the audience in the second half and did not arrange tactical adjustments.

Bringing a group of marginal people into this way, if you change teams... Van Gundy dared not think about it.

Everyone walked to the venue and waved to the fans around them, and the curtain call of the open training class was over.

The players received interviews on the sidelines.

Many reporters surrounded Ben Wallace, and his performance was really eye-catching. Although there were no statistics, he grabbed a lot of rebounds and had beautiful blocks. Ewing and Johnson experienced it.

Houston and Atkins together ensured the offense, which also attracted the attention.

Atkins made Ward and Chiles feel threatened. Atkins was poor in defense and short in size, but they lacked speed and breakthrough ability.

Even Bao Wen had interviews with reporters. He made two three-pointers today, and Mills, who was defending, only scored 2 points. He smiled and talked to the reporter about his thoughts.

In Yang Rui's impression, Bowen of the Spurs is a gloomy and non-talking person, but Bowen is not like this at all.

The environment creates people. Popovich is a serious coach, and the Spurs are a place where facial paralysis is abundant. In contrast, the atmosphere of the Knicks is not bad now.

Van Gundy praised Yang Rui in an interview. "I believe the Knicks will make a breakthrough this season. I have a very outstanding assistant coach who has brought a lot of surprises to the team. Several players in the summer league performed very well."

The reporter asked: "Houston led the bench to lead the first half. Will you consider giving him more ball rights in the new season?"

"Yes, he will be the core of the Knicks' outside line." Van Gundy answered without hesitation.

Before the game, Yang Rui recommended Houston to become the team's outside core. Van Gundy was a little skeptical. He played very well today. As long as he arranged tactics, his scoring ability seemed to be not as good as Ewing.

Ewing scored a lot of points today, his shooting percentage was not high, and his condition was average. If he reduces the number of singles on the offensive end, he can focus more on the defensive end.

In fact, the management greeted Van Gundy in the summer, and Ewing's role needs to be changed. He has hidden dangers of injury, and he is the person who cannot afford to be injured in the team. He must control Ewing's playing time and ensure efficiency.

Van Gundy has always been a headache for the team's lack of attack power. Yang Rui gave a solution during the interview, and it can allow internal and external players to cooperate more.

Van Gundy knew very well that he needed Yang Rui, and he should be able to arrange appropriate offensive tactics for Ewing to let others share the offensive pressure.

Yang Rui did not have any reporter interviews, and the assistant coaches were far less attractive than the stars. The substitutes were leading in the first half, and most of them automatically thought that the players were outstanding in strength and in excellent condition.

He took the jersey from the sidelines to Houston. "Alan, please help sign an autograph. My friend and I like you very much. That handsome guy on the sidelines can't get in the sidelines. He is your fan."

Yang Rui pointed at Hunter and Jill, and they waved to the side together.

Hunter was so excited that he shouted, "Alan, you are the best."

Many fans like Houston, he is a recognized handsome man among black people. Yang Rui said that it means nothing but to like him. Assistant coach and Van Gundy communicate for a long time, so he is easier to get on the position, so Houston took the jersey seriously, placed it on a chair, and squatted on the ground with a signing pen to sign beautiful spots.

"Jerry, what are you signing?"

"Never give up your dreams!" Yang Rui said with a smile.

Houston savored this sentence carefully and found it great. He quickly wrote it down, and his name and handwriting were elegant and graceful.

Manager Ernie walked to the sidelines and said to Yang Rui kindly: "Jerry, you're doing a pretty job. Try to maintain this level in the new season and help the team."

"I can." Yang Rui gained a lot in a training class.

He has been recognized by the management, and some people even think that he is better than Van Gundy, and it is impossible not to be reused!

The management affirmed his work. Only in the new season will he have a certain say in the team, rather than simply making suggestions and looking at Van Gundy's expression.

This is very important for Yang Rui. He needs to learn defensive tactics. If Van Gundy is stubborn and uses last season's tactics, he will be angry to death. For several days, the Knicks players began to adapt to new tactics, practice covering running, and receiving and shooting, with obvious results.

Since one side of the players don't run, this is just a simplified version of Princeton, and veterans can learn it once.

What Yang Rui has a headache about is that this team cannot play fast attacks. The players last season were used to positional battles and liked slow pace. Especially Ewing, Oakley, and Johnson, just like the three Celtics in 2008, they won by reducing the number of rounds to ensure efficiency. Their playing style is really unpleasant.

In order to speed up the pace, Yang Rui proposed to let Oakley play as a substitute, and Johnson topped the No. 4 position, but was unanimously rejected by the coaching staff. Not only Van Gundy felt it was unreliable, but other assistants did not support it.

In 1997, all the strong teams fought for defense, slow pace, and believed in defense and won the championship. Yang Rui wanted to test the Suns' future running and bombing tactics, which was a rebellious and heresy.

People with too advanced vision are difficult to understand. For example, if someone proposes to make a smartphone that is ultra-thin and beautiful and can access the Internet, then he will not be called a genius, but will only be regarded as a psychopath.

Even if you make a Meitu Xiuxiu software now, you may apologize for making black people a white person because they PS it and the defendant will pay racial discrimination.

In the end, Van Gundy set the tactics that Ewing and Houston were the main attack points on the inside and outside lines, and the point guard was responsible for organizing passes in the middle and shooting with opportunities. Johnson and Oakley cut at any time, and Starks continued to lead the substitute to ensure offensive firepower in the second quarter.

Well, there is more side cover than last season.

The good news is that Yang Rui trained to exercise and quickly became familiar with the players. His age became an advantage, and he did not have the majesty of other coaches. Young players were the same age as him. The veterans regarded him as a younger brother and were not restrained in speaking, but no one asked him to help him carry his bag and buy things.

At noon, Yang Rui usually eats on the team, and his work meals are more hearty than he imagines.

The Knicks are currently the No. 1 rich family in the NBA. They are rich and powerful. In this era, they have been equipped with professional nutritionists. Auston Perkins is responsible for diet in the training hall and prepares good breakfast and lunch for the players every day. The meat purchased by the team is sour meat, and they will never eat meat fed by feed. In oil, they will never use vegetable oil.

The method is relatively simple, but the ingredients are more exquisite, the taste is good, and the amount is large and the amount is full.

Yang Rui's life outside the field was also fulfilling, and he read and studied, so he accepted a younger brother.

When Yang Rui handed over the signature jersey to Hunter Johnson, the boy immediately said that Yang Rui would be his elder brother in the future. He was thief and believed that Yang Rui was beneficial or harmless as the elder brother. There were people treats him to dinner together.

Yang Rui also developed the habit of writing, recording some important events in his previous life, using Chinese and cursive scripts, so that Thomas Bentley could not understand.

Not to mention Thomas, even if he comes to Chinese people, it is difficult to understand Yang Rui's unique scribbled handwriting. He can only understand half of it over time, and it is enough to remember what is happening.

This is a must-do. He does not have a superior memory. After 20 years, he may not remember many major events clearly.

In addition, Yang Rui reads newspapers every day, pays attention to current affairs and news, makes plans for the future, and is ready.

What excited him was that there was some inertia in the development of history, and major events were no different from his previous life, and his memories could definitely come in handy.

For example, on July 15, the famous fashion designer Versace was killed in Miami.

For example, on August 31, Princess Diana died in a car accident.

As long as Yang Rui does not participate in the incident, it will not cause a major butterfly effect, and the same is true for NBA.

Before the season started, the Bulls encountered a series of blows, including internal strife, injury to the star, and the situation of defending the title was not good. The root of all misfortunes began this year's draft.

Considering Pippen's age and potential injuries, the Bulls tried to trade him for Raptors rookie Tracy McGrady, and the deal was ultimately rejected by Jordan.

If it really changes, although the Bulls can get a future potential star, they will definitely not be able to complete three consecutive championships. McGrady is only 18 years old and joined the NBA after graduating from high school. No matter how talented he is, he cannot provide much help to Jordan.

The Bulls management did not send Pippen away, and he reluctantly used the league coach's maximum annual salary of $6 million to retain "Zen Master" Phil Jackson, and then renewed his contract with Jordan with a sky-high annual salary of $33 million, completely retaining the team's core lineup.

In addition, Rodman renewed a contract with various incentive clauses, with a total value of nearly 10 million. These three people alone cost $49 million.

Ron Harper has 5 million, Kukochi has 4 million, and Pippen has 3 million, not counting as a substitute, but the annual salary of the Bulls head coach and core team exceeds 60 million.

In the new season, the average annual salary of players is $2.45 million and the salary cap is $26.9 million. Jordan's salary is higher than that of the entire team of twenty teams, and the salary of a regular season game is higher than that of some players in a year.

As a rebirth, Yang Rui felt terrifying when he saw Jordan's salary. The US dollar had not depreciated yet. Judging from the salary cap, it was equivalent to a unimaginable astronomical figure between 73.7 and 80.4 million US dollars in 20 years. As for how the bull can afford it, it is not clear.

Seeing that everyone else signed high-value contracts and he was almost sent away, Pippen got angry. This is not only a matter of money, but also a matter of respect for the team. He is a star in the Dream Team and is also one of the 50 superstars in history selected by the NBA.

Pippen decided to do something to express his dissatisfaction and anger.

During the 1997 Finals, he had already injured his foot, but after the season, he did not undergo surgery. Not only did he not perform surgery, Pippen also ran to play two charity games, which caused General Manager Klaus to send faxes repeatedly, warning him to stop such behavior immediately.

Until the new season approaches, Pippen did not treat his foot injury, just to let his boss Reinsdorf and manager Klaus see: in order to revenge, he did not hesitate to take risks with his health and the opportunities of his teammates.

Now, due to a foot injury, Pippen was unable to play at the beginning of the 1997-98 season, and the team doctor said he might be missing for half a season.

Such a lack of professional ethics has completely broken Pippen and the management team and will be decided next season.

Phil Jackson is sure that the 1997-98 season, whether it is winning or losing, will be the last year for these people to work together. On the first day of pre-season training camp, he sent everyone a tactical manual with the cover saying: "thelastdance, the last dance."

On the surface, the Bulls are an old and weak team. Jordan will be 35 years old, Pippen will be 32 years old, Rodman will be 36 years old, and Harper will be 34 years old. Although Kukoc is young, he has not proved that he can play a high level steadily. As for those on the bench, they are very smart but lack talent.

Yang Rui knew that if the Knicks wanted to win the championship, this season was the best opportunity. Thank God for sending him to this wonderful era, he would definitely take his destiny into his own hands.

Bull, please dance with me for the last dance.
Chapter completed!