The Godfather of Basketball

The Nets offense, this time by House, went straight past Spanoulis and rushed to the basket for a quick shot.

Thibodeau shook his head uncontrollably this time.

Novak and Spanoulis, these two people are basically defending black holes on the court!

He looked at Tang Tian, ​​but found that Tang Tian's attention was still on the Nets' half court, and he still didn't look at the team's defense.

For the Rockets' offense, Spanoulis played a pick-and-roll with Novak directly this time.

"Shua!"

Robinson, who was switched by the Nets, was only one step slower and watched Novak steadily send the ball into the basket.

Both sides failed to make the last attack. At the end of the first quarter, the Rockets led the Nets by 12 points 36 to 24.

Although the defense was poor, the Rockets even opened the score after coming off the bench for this round!

Dawson in the auditorium took a long breath at this time, and then he smiled self-deprecatingly.

Perhaps because of the influence of the two commentators at home, this old fritter was a little restless.

Sure enough, we can't just look at the beginning of everything.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the quarter, Thibodeau looked up and saw the score on the court with a strange expression.

He has been in the NBA for more than ten years, and this is the first time he has seen a game like this.

Tang Tian's expression didn't change much.

Novak and Spanoulis are poor defensively, Van Gundy and Thibodeau know that, as a traverser, he is naturally more aware.

But poor defense does not mean that they cannot be used. To put it bluntly in a basketball game, it still depends on who scores more points. As long as they can score more points on the offensive end than they lose on the defensive end, then he dares to use them.

Just like these two minutes, 8 to 4, the Rockets have a 4-point lead.

Of course, this is not absolute, which is why he has been staring at the Nets half court.

If Novak and Spanoulis can't play offensively, or the Rockets' offense is not smooth on the court, he will still replace these two people.

He is willing to give opportunities, but whether they can stay on the court depends on whether they can seize the opportunities themselves.

Obviously, Novak and Spanoulis, who were holding back their energy, seized such an opportunity tonight.

The main force of the Rockets played normally. Millsap got a lot of shots when Yao Mai restrained the defense. On the bench side, Novak and Spanoulis also emerged suddenly and performed eye-catchingly.

In the end, the Rockets suppressed the Nets and beat their opponents 115 to 98, achieving the most hearty victory of the season.

Yao Ming scored 19 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists. McGrady scored 38 points. In addition, Millsap became the second highest scoring player of the Rockets. He made 10 of 14 shots and contributed 20 points and 6 rebounds.

Novak on the bench scored 15 points, and Spanoulis contributed 6 points and 6 assists, and their performances were also impressive.

At the press conference after the game, the reporters surrounded the venue.

This was Tang Tian's first game as the interim head coach, and he defeated the Nets with the Trident. The reporters had a lot of questions in their minds.

In this press conference, apart from Tang Tian and Thibodeau, McGrady and Millsap also attended the press conference.

"Paul, you contributed a career-high 20 points in this game. Can you talk about your current feelings?" When the reporter came up, he asked Millsap first. His performance in this game was the most amazing.

"I'm very excited and happy to be able to play next to Hall of Fame-level superstars like Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. You know, if it weren't for them, I wouldn't have gotten so many scoring opportunities." Millsap praised himself for a while teammates.

McGrady smiled and nodded beside him, the new kid seemed to be very good at talking.

"Also, I think the biggest reason for winning this game is the excellent arrangement of the coach. He knows the team and each of us very well, and knows how to make us play in the most comfortable position. He really It's unbelievable." Millsap then blew Tang Tian again without any surprise.

Tang Tian couldn't help but smile at this time, Millsap seemed to have a high EQ as well as a golfer.

"Tom, what do you think of this game? Although the Rockets won the game, the team also lost 98 points in this game. This score is not low." The second reporter who stood up threw the question to Thibodeau, Although Van Gundy did not come, as Van Gundy's old subordinates, defense has always been the style of this Rockets team.

Like his old boss, Van Gundy, Thibodeau gave people the impression that he was rather rigid, but perhaps he had been with Tang Tian for a while. After the reporter asked this question, his first reaction was to smile.

This move surprised the reporters below.

"Honestly speaking, the defense in this game... as everyone saw, it was not very good, especially when we came off the bench, but it turned out that Don's thinking was right. Defense can win games, but The final winner of the game is the team with the most points.”

After Thibodeau finished speaking, the reporters below fell into a commotion.

Thibodeau, who has always been in the same pants as Van Gundy and always regards defense as the foundation of winning, now says that more points can win the game?

It's really the sun coming out in the west.

The reporters then naturally looked at Tang Tian. They all knew that the person who made all these changes happen was the person sitting next to him.

"Tang, what's it like to be the head coach for the first time?" The reporter finally turned to Tang Tian for questioning.

"It's cool, but in fact, this is not the first time. I led the team to win the summer league championship." Tang Tian said with a smile.

The reporters below burst into laughter. Obviously, this kind of self-deprecation made the atmosphere of the press conference a lot easier.

"Well, your employment is very bold. There are 14 people in this game. Except for the five substitutes at the last moment, the rotation lineup has reached 9 people. There are two of them. Novak won 6 seconds in the previous game. The opportunity to play, but Spanoulis did not play for a second, can you tell us what made you make such a decision?" The reporter continued to ask.

"That's a good question." Tang Tian first praised the reporter.

"Let's put it this way, in my opinion, a coach is like a chef, a good cook, he must know every ingredient very well, know how to make them play the best taste in the dish, no matter how good the ingredients are, There is a reason for it to be an ingredient, and only in this way can we cook the most delicious dishes with the ingredients we have.”

Tang Tian's words were all metaphors, but everyone could understand them.

Novak and Spanoulis were the two unsatisfactory ingredients, but after being paired with the Rockets' big dish, Tang Tian let them play their best.