Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

The Kings were the Pacers' first of three consecutive away games. As a result, the Pacers, who were leading by 14 points at the end of the third quarter, overturned in the last quarter and were strongly reversed by the Kings, giving their opponents their fifth victory of the season.

Giving up the third place in the Eastern Conference to the eagerly awaited Hawks.

"Nitrogen Tomb!"

Listening to the celebrations of the surrounding Kings fans, the Pacers fan wearing George's No. 24 jersey kicked the front seat hard to express his anger.

"Hey, hey, bro, be nice."

The Kings fans who had had conflicts with him before walked over with a smirk.

"What's wrong, Bro, are you feeling a little down?"

"snort!"

The Pacers fan snorted coldly, picked up the female companion next to him, turned around and left.

The surrounding Kings fans looked over with unkind expressions. A good man won't suffer the loss in front of him.

I will never come to watch a Pacers game away from home again!

Being embarrassed in front of so many people made him feel like he had been slapped a dozen times on the face, with heat and pain flying all over him.

The Kings fans behind him immediately burst into exaggerated laughter when they saw him running away.

Although Granger felt insulted by the defeat of this game, he still suppressed his emotions, turned around, shook hands with the Kings players on the court, and then turned around and left.

"Brother!"

George followed Granger's footsteps and walked towards the away tunnel.

Naturally, the substitute players were not in the mood to embarrass themselves, so they followed the coach and exited the court.

Thomas and Qi Tian's eyes met, they just nodded silently, then turned to celebrate with their teammates.

When the team wins, he has confirmed the team's tactical position and can even appear in the lineup at critical moments. This has put Thomas much ahead of Qi Tian.

After washing up, Granger followed head coach Vogel for an interview. It was originally a game between two traffic teams, but it became a gimmick because of the Kings' reversal.

The reporters immediately became active, and as the losing side of the game, Granger's already gloomy face turned even darker when the reporters asked if he was satisfied with his performance in today's game.

Qi Tian and others saw the faces of Granger and others who came back silently turning dark, so they wisely did not go up to expose everyone's scars, but just silently took the car back to the hotel that the team had booked.

"I'll make a call when I get back, you guys go ahead and get busy."

Vogel hurriedly got out of the car and ordered the rest of the coaching team to go back to his room.

Brian Xiao and others looked at each other and said nothing.

From the perspective of the game's perception, it was equally disappointing to lose by a big score and to have a big lead reversed.

"I'm afraid the president won't go around Frank."

Danbok said hello to several other people and prepared to go back to the room to rest.

Although the game was lost, the players' post-game entertainment would not be affected too much. George, Hibbert, Stephenson and other fun-loving players got off the car and headed towards the local nightclub.

Granger said hello to Qi Tian and followed him.

"Although I don't understand it, I still envy them for not taking things seriously."

Qi Tian shook his head and prepared to go back to his room to rest.

Vogel turned around and closed the door, threw his briefcase on the sofa, washed his face first, then took out his cell phone and made a call.

"Oh Frank, what's the matter?"

The voice of Pacers President Bird came from the other end of the phone,

"If you have anything to say, tell me quickly, I'm very busy."

"Well."

Vogel gritted his teeth before confessing to Bird,

"President, we lost today's game."

Bird over there paused for a moment before continuing:

"so?"

"I must apologize to you. Today's game was completely reversed by my opponent because of my problems."

Now that he had a beginning, Vogel immediately said skillfully,

"Due to my rotation problem, my opponent took the opportunity and I took the lead..."

Bird on the other side interrupted him.

"Frank, if I remember correctly, I have told you before that I am the president and not a part-time coach, so I will not interfere with your coaching of the team."

"But we lost..."

Vogel didn't understand.

Bird put down the document in his hand. He was really fed up with this stupid head coach, so he simply made it clear:

"So what? There are 66 games this season. Which team can guarantee victory in all 66 games?"

"I said I won't interfere with your coaching affairs, so I won't interfere. You just need to let the management and me see the competitiveness of the team. They can go further in the playoffs. No one cares that you lost at the beginning of the season.

We lost a few games and lost a few points.”

"Understand?"

Vogel nodded quickly, then realized that he was not making a video call, and quickly replied:

"I see."

"Um."

Bird paused for a while and then asked:

"Is everything okay?"

"No, I will do it in the next one..."

"I've said it before, I don't care if you lead by 14 points and are overturned, as long as you can deliver results that satisfy the management in the playoffs."

Hearing Vogel's nonsense again, Bird interrupted him again.

"Finally, if I have any questions, I will naturally come to you. Don't call me after the game!"

"Okay, okay."

Vogel immediately smiled and breathed a sigh of relief when Bird hung up the phone.

You still say you don’t care. If you don’t care, you will know that we led by 14 points and were overturned?

Vogel knew that his performance had put the matter behind him, so he lay back on the sofa with peace of mind.

"In the next games, we must make up for the team's shortcomings."

Vogel picked up his notebook again and wrote down the team's entire lineup.

He found that if the team wants to improve its shooting, there are really not many potential players to choose from.

"Aside from not having enough space in the starting lineup, they don't have any problems defensively."

Vogel scanned the starting five and paused for a moment on Collison's name.

"Hill, who was traded, needs to re-establish a tacit understanding. For the time being, Collison may not be more suitable for the starting lineup. Let's let Collison start."

Then he looked at the several substitute names that were gradually determined.

The first was the prickly Stephenson who made him scratch his head.

"If I had the choice, I really don't want to put Stephenson in the rotation, but he performed well and couldn't break his arm."

"(Dengtai) Jones and Qi have similar performances, and they are both qualified role players for the team, but Jones is already 31 years old. Although his performance may be more stable in the playoffs, Qi still has to play more in the regular season."

"Hansbrough also performed well and was enough as a substitute."

Vogel finally looked at the last member of the substitute lineup, the substitute center.

Due to Hibbert's limited physical strength, the Pacers' backup center will inevitably have more playing time, but Armandson and Foster can only be regarded as qualified rotations, and Fesenko and Pendegraaf have been reduced to water dispensers.

Players, expecting them to replace Hibbert in the post is really a bit wishful thinking.

"Let's do this for the time being. I'll find an opportunity to trade with an insider later."

Considering that both Amandasson and Foster were older, Vogel was determined to prepare early.