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The moment the basketball fell into the basket, the Raptors rookies were stunned, unable to believe it for a long time.

Especially Carter and McGrady, they were directly responsible for the loss, one gave the Knicks time to kill, and the other did not guard against good people.

Yang Rui's mind is very calm, some things should be yours, they are yours, there is no need to force them.

Zhang Lili sighed: "The Raptors have two brothers who have succeeded and two brothers who have lost. They are too young and veterans will not make such mistakes. McGrady made the last defense. If Houston does not break through and directly hits, it may also cause a foul."

Sun Zhengping said regretfully: "I think it will be difficult for the Knicks to stand up to overtime. Ewing's footsteps can no longer keep up with the defender's breakthrough, and Johnson is too tired."

Toronto Sports Station felt even more regretful. Clarke said depressingly: "The Raptors had countless opportunities to score and win this game. Unfortunately, they wasted all the opportunities. Billups and O'Neal felt bad today."

Yang Rui walked up to Mai Di and patted him on the back. "Don't be sad, you've done a good job, don't make this kind of mistake again, we haven't been eliminated yet."

In the previous life, many people said that McGrady was low in winning, but he averaged 25+ points per game in six playoff games, 30+ in 4 times, and played an average of 43 minutes per game. Where is his low level in winning? It's just that people are weak and they didn't win.

McGrady was the saddest player in this loss.

There seems to be a little smile on O'Neal's baby face. Maybe he thinks it's amazing to be able to play like this with the Knicks in his rookie season.

Veterans Detref and Willis are equally calm. The Raptors' performance this season has exceeded their imagination, and the Knicks do not have an absolute advantage, so they may not be eliminated.

Van Gundy breathed a sigh of relief, walked onto the field and shook hands with Yang Rui.

"Jeff, congratulations."

"Thank you." Van Gundy ran out of words. The series is not over yet, and he is still under a lot of pressure.

Yang Rui smiled slightly. "In the next two games, you will not be so lucky. I have figured out the Knicks' weaknesses."

"We'll see." Van Gundy snorted.

He was a little upset, why did it seem like this kid was the winner?

Thinking of Yang Rui's saying "Youth never fails", the Raptors are really not losers.

At the press conference, Carter said dejectedly: "The loss was my fault. It shouldn't have been like that. The coach told me to make a shot at the last moment, and if I didn't score, I would play overtime. But at that moment, I felt that the chance was very good. So I shot it. I thought about how stupid I was, and even if that shot went in, we were only up by two points, and the opponent had a chance to shoot a three-pointer."

The reporter asked: "Do you think the Raptors still have a chance to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals?"

"Of course there is a chance. I will obey all the coach's arrangements and will not make such low-level mistakes again."

Yang Rui did not criticize Carter, and attributed the loss to luck. "I think the Raptors are already better than the Knicks. It's just a little bit of luck. I'm proud of the players. We must win the next game. The Raptors will come to New York to play the tiebreaker."

A New York reporter asked: "Even if it's a tiebreaker, the Raptors are at a disadvantage, right? The Knicks have home court advantage."

Yang Rui smiled and said: "That's not important. Our away game win rate is not inferior to the home game, but the Knicks have an Achilles' heel. They have few scoring points and a big gap between the substitutes. I can guarantee that the Raptors' substitute players will definitely defeat the Knicks." Substitute. Relying on the depth of the lineup,

We must win. "

A good coach must not only arrange tactics and tap the potential of players, but also be able to release "smoke bombs" and confuse opponents with words.

Yang Rui said this not to reuse the team's substitutes, but to create psychological pressure on Van Gundy, making him suspect that the Knicks' substitutes will be unreliable in the next game.

People with a wide heart may not care, but Van Gundy is not good, he is neurotic and paranoid. Hearing what Yang Rui said, if there is a substitute who can't play well in the next game, he might be replaced by him immediately to sit on the bench.

This is a conspiracy against Van Gundy's character. How could every substitute player perform well? If Van Gundy follows Yang Rui's thinking and increases the playing time of the main force, the real weakness of the Knicks will appear, and that is the veteran's physical fitness.

At the end of the game, the Knicks veteran couldn't run. If the two sides play 7 games, although the Raptors players are also tired, they will definitely be better than the Knicks because they are young.

If Van Gundy continues the previous rotation without increasing the veteran's playing time, the Raptors are already familiar with their routines. What Yang Rui is most afraid of is that Van Gundy will reuse Jackson and Atkins. If those two have the ball on the offensive end, they can definitely compete with the Raptors' bench.

In Yang Rui's eyes, these two were much more threatening than Childs and Ward. After this season, Yang Rui intends to ask the management to contact their agent to try to recruit the Raptors, and the lineup will be stronger.

On the second day, most of the media were optimistic about the Knicks advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals, because the Raptors are the core of young people, and their mentality may go wrong in key games, and they may not be able to exert their full strength and are more likely to make mistakes.

Some Knicks fans are already discussing how to play against the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, feeling that there is no need for a tie-break.

In the sixth game, the Raptors, who were on the verge of elimination, were unwilling to be eliminated, and the home court was hotter than expected.

This is the first time the team has entered the playoffs, and the home fans are very excited. The staff put up purple commemorative T-shirts in advance, and uniformed clothing, to cheer for the home team players.

To mobilize before the start of the game, general manager Glenn Gruward took the microphone and took the lead in spitting out dirty words: "; The fans followed suit and shouted: ";

This is to put pressure on the visiting team. In the previous two home games, as long as the Knicks players had the ball, the fans would boo them enormously, creating noise and pressure. Many teams are like this at home, so it is really difficult to get cheap away games.

Yang Rui had a black line on the sidelines, symbolically waving at the fans.

The Raptors have nothing against the Knicks. He also won a ring with the Knicks last season. It is a bit embarrassing to do it now.

He didn't expect Glenn to be such a passionate person. In his previous life, after Glenn was fired by the Raptors, he was invited by the "Assassin" Isaiah Thomas to join the Knicks. He worked for many years and was the general manager of the Knicks after Thomas left.

Now because of the butterfly effect, it's no wonder that James Dolanken wants this product. Even if he wants to, Glenn may not go. Now he has made a name for himself and is regarded as the rising hero of the team in Toronto. He has a good time here.

With such a commotion at the scene, the players were all excited and full of strength. No matter which country people are, before fighting their opponents desperately, they usually have to fight with each other.

Yang Rui changed the lineup back to normal, with McGrady on the bench and Billups.

Playing this way, the offense in the second quarter is better. Compared with running and catching the ball, Carter is not as good as Billups. He is more suitable for playing pick-and-roll offense with the ball. .

The Raptors' defensive tactics have not changed, and they are still man-to-man. They must not shrink against teams that are good at shooting three-pointers, otherwise they will die very ugly. 8