The Basketball Court Swordsman

The major media clearly left a lot of pages to prepare to report on Henson's suspension. However, in the end, the media could only use "Coach Henson was not heavily punished" and brought it through.

No one thought that David Stern would actually lightly slap such an exaggerated coach, and the $25,000 ticket was really painless.

"Coach Henson bought a luxury bag for his girlfriend for more than $25,000!" A media outlet even commented on this tickle-like ticket.

Bird feels sorry for the media who were prepared to watch Henson make a fool of himself but finally passed by. But if they heard how Henson fooled Stern at the time, they wouldn't be surprised.

Henson's mouthful can make people hate him instantly, and naturally, it can also instantly make an old man happy.

As a party to the whole matter, Henson has already stayed out of the matter. If the media loves to discuss, let's discuss it. Anyway, it's not the first day that the media has caught the eye.

Henson is more willing to focus his work on daily training and the following games than the messy things like league tickets.

While the media were still discussing why Henson could escape the penalty, the Pacers had already played a set of back-to-back matches and scored 1 win and 1 loss.

On February 7th, the Jazz, who was no longer in iron and blood, even though seven of the Jazz scored in double figures, they still did not conceal Paul's 25 points and 12 assists. No. 8 played the Eagles back to back, and the Pacers showed a good physical reserve. However, Josh Smith scored 28 points with a 64% shooting rate, which still gave the Eagles a surprise victory.

Of course, this game undoubtedly made Henson's old rival Larry Drew extremely happy. After the game, he even bluntly said: "Fake things will show up sooner or later," in order to satirize Henson's half-hearted identity.

However, Drew's attack made Henson angry and did not bring any rhythm. Because people suddenly discovered that the Pacers are already sitting in second place in the Eastern Conference when the schedule is almost halfway through!

The tournament lasted until February, although the regular season had just begun. But in fact, the regular season of this season is almost halfway through.

This is always a shrinking season, and the regular season will disappear in the blink of an eye. Therefore, if the team wants to stabilize the ranking, it must enter the state as soon as possible. The shrinking schedule naturally means that there is less room for coaches to try and make mistakes.

Fortunately, the Pacers seem to have been in form since the beginning of the season, so Henson doesn't have to worry too much about team rankings now.

The Pacers' performance so far has undoubtedly exceeded expectations, because the Pacers experienced tremendous changes during the offseason and did not encounter problems with running-in. As soon as he came up, he played an 11-game winning streak and booked the top three spots in the Eastern Conference early.

At this time, the Pacers are ahead of the Heat and Celtics in second place in the East, and only 0.5 wins away from the Bulls in the East.

"Whether you want to admit it or not, Henson did make the Pacers their best record since the 03-04 season!"

"The Pacers can beat the Heat and the Celtics, but it's not all about coach Henson's mouth."

"Henson is a very controversial figure, but his results are real."

Only then did the media finally recover from the fine incident. In the blink of an eye, this young Chinese coach has already done such a good job!

When the media attacked Henson, Henson would not care. Naturally, when the media praised Henson, Henson would not be complacent.

Therefore, although people now appreciate the Pacers' second place ranking in the East, Henson is very upset at this time.

As the season ends in February, the Pacers will naturally start to meet more Western Conference teams. To say which Western Conference team Henson was most afraid of playing last season, he would definitely not choose the Los Angeles Lakers or the Denver Nuggets, but the Memphis Grizzlies, who have always been very low-key!

"Black and white bears, **** it, I'll have a big head when I see these brothers." The tactics of the Conseco Arena are indoors. In the dark room, Henson couldn't help holding his forehead.

At this time, the only light source in the room is the projection image of the projector on the screen. What's playing above is nothing else, it's a video of the Grizzlies game.

"It's really rare that Coach Henson will be frowning for his next opponent?" Vogel couldn't help but joking with Henson. After all, no matter what opponent Henson met this season, he was always confident. It looks full.

The Memphis Grizzlies are the only team that has never beaten since Henson became the head coach. The Pacers met the Grizzlies twice last season, but suffered a double kill. The reason for their loss is also very simple. Last season, the Pacers' weak inside reserve could not withstand the strong hands of the "black and white bears".

"Okay Frank, you should now find a way to help me develop a defensive strategy, rather than sarcastic me. Gasol will have absolute height advantage in the three-second zone, and the Grizzlies' defense is very tight. We want to speed up. The rhythm is not simple, you must be ready to fight the Grizzlies..." Just after this paragraph, Henson touched his chin again, "No, it's not right. The old fox Hollins must be With this in mind, he must have placed a heavy guard on the outside line, and we can't face the difficulties."

This is Henson, he always deliberately tested what the other party was planning.

"To be unexpected, we can only play inside. Hollins never expected that we dare to attack their inside." Silas proposed.

"Inside? Unless I'm crazy, Stephen, our inside player... Inside, um...yes, it's a good idea." Henson thought about it. This season, the Pacers The internal configuration is completely different from last year.

Especially after adding that guy.

The Pacers’ outstanding performance this season is unquestionable, and this result can be produced mainly because the Pacers did not experience any discomfort after the offseason changes. At the beginning of the season, the team immediately entered a state of full firepower.

The reason why the team has hardly encountered any running-in problems, apart from Henson’s training plan and the role of the badge, the leadership qualities of Paul and David West are also one of the reasons why the team can quickly gather together. .

Naturally, Paul needless to say, he is a natural leader with the bonus of superstar status, and he is also a commander on the court. The combination of these factors makes the players obey him.

But David West's role in it is greater than outsiders imagine.

To use Henson's evaluation: "He is a natural speaker. He knows how to boost morale better than anyone."

And, he is still the most stable mid-range shooter in the league and the most stable point for the Pacers. Every game has a stable output, and the hit rate does not fluctuate much. When the Pacers can't open the situation, West tends to use an unremarkable mid-range shot to break the scoring shortage.

As Paul said when commenting on West: "I call him a 17-foot assassin."

David West is always ignored, even if he has been selected to the All-Star team. But as a member of the 03 Super Platinum generation, West was able to rank fifth in the draft rearrangement many years later. Before him, but LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and other names...

Henson knew very well that it was time to make use of this super cost-effective star forward.

After the training, when Henson was about to go to the locker room to talk to West about the plan for the next game, he found West was wearing a pair of glasses and was looking at the book he was holding intently.

West likes to read books, which is well known in the team. Of course, this bookish spirit is in stark contrast to his tough and rough appearance on the court.

"David, aren't you going home yet?" Henson greeted West naturally, and sat next to him.

"Waiting for Chris to take a shower." West raised his head and smiled at Henson friendly, then pointed to the shower.

"What book do you read?" Henson leaned forward curiously.

West never shy away from sharing his books with teammates or coaches. In fact, George often borrows books from West.

So West opened the cover and gave Henson a look. "Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, I can lend it to you if you are interested."

"Uh..." Henson found himself asking a wrong question. Real Nima suffered a cultural loss!

"No, in fact, I am looking for you so I hope you can be prepared. For tomorrow's training, I plan to let you switch roles and make a major scoring point."

Hearing what Henson said, West closed the book with a "pop".

"I'm ready at any time, boss."

Sure enough, the assassin is the assassin.