The Almighty King of Sports

This is a habitual depreciation and bad-mouthing of Wang Fei.

McGrady smiled slightly and said: "Charles, I don't agree with you, whether Wang has a physical problem, I think this can be easily seen. Now, there are more than ten games before the start of the playoffs, many of them. Teams that are still struggling for a place in the playoffs, I think those teams that are struggling for playoff qualifications, they will definitely make a 100% effort! We just need to take a look, when those What kind of results will the team look like after encountering the Rockets, you can roughly assess the Rockets' playoff combat effectiveness. What do you think?"

Barkley blinked, shrugged and said, "Aha! You seem to make a little sense! I think it's time to test Wang Chengse. I hope he is not a parallel importer! I also hope he can stand the test! "

That's what Buckley said, but in fact, the emotion that came out of his tone obviously didn't look at Wang Fei much at all.

The suspension is over.

The Suns replaced Devin Booker.

Now, the players on the Suns field are DeAndre Ayton, TJ Warren, Jamal Crawford, Josh Jackson and D'Antoni Melton.

Suns coach Igor Kokoshkov took a look at the Rockets' players on the field.

He found that the Rockets players are still full benches.

Kokoshkov said in his heart that it seems that D'Antoni is also trying his best to get more rest time for the main lineup.

I hope the team can find the rhythm of the offense after fine-tuning the lineup, play a wave of climax, and catch a little point.

Wang Fei was relieved when he saw the Suns withdraw Devin Booker.

If Devin Booker didn't make it, then he can safely take a look at the true strength of the bench lineup.

The game restarted.

The Suns played a bit more systematically after head coach Kokoshkov's face-to-face help.

The Rockets' bench players are still playing passionately, and they are more determined to implement the coach's tactics.

The two teams actually fought fiercely in the second quarter.

The score increases alternately.

You vote for one, and then I will definitely pay one back.

The Rockets' bench is fully opened and fully confident.

Their offense and defense are very smooth.

Therefore, although they are a little bit worse than the Suns' main lineup in terms of strength, they still play hard against the Suns.

Among them, Zhou Qi was particularly eye-catching.

He takes everything in the paint and makes great contributions on both ends of the offense and defense, which has become an important point for the Rockets to hold on to the score.

Wang Fei sat on the sidelines watching the pleasing offensive and defensive transition, and he was very pleased.

The bench can play better, which is definitely a great thing for the Rockets.

Because, in the playoffs, the depth of the bench can sometimes determine the balance of victory.

D'Antoni stood on the sidelines and watched his bench play inextricably with the Suns who are almost all the main lineup. He was surprised at first.

He didn't expect that the strength of his own substitute players seemed to be pretty good.

You know, the Rockets' benches are some last-round picks or roles that are not even selected in the draft.

As for the Suns, the worst is the rookies with more than a dozen in the first round. They even have last year's No. 1 pick, DeAndre Ayton!

Although they are a big belly, their young players are really talented!

D'Antoni has hardly seen these marginal substitutes directly before!

But now, these are the substitutes for the Rockets that he doesn't really value, and he didn't even give a chance to bite the score.

This is amazing.

What shocked D'Antoni most was that center Zhou Qi and small forward Gary Clark from China both played quite well.

The cooperation between the substitutes is also very tacit.

D'Antoni said that they must have done a lot of hard training below, otherwise it is impossible to make such rapid progress.

Gary Clark plays the role of small forward. He was a rookie last year. However, he failed to participate in the draft, which means that he was not even a last-round pick. The Rockets signed a two-way agreement with him during the hiring period.

Players like Gary Clark are usually role players that the team is not very optimistic about.

That is, no one is available for the time being, so he signed him for occasional use.

Players who signed a two-way agreement may earn as much as two or three hundred thousand dollars a year, which is not even a basic salary.

But the strength that Gary Clark has shown now really makes D'Antoni a bright spot.

"Who said I would not train new people? Look at Zhou, look at Gary, one of them is the last round pick, the other is the loser, they have made rapid progress under my hand!" D'Antoni is not without pride. Thinking about it.

Although D'Antoni took this credit to himself in his heart, in fact, he was self-aware, and he knew that he had not made any efforts to cultivate Zhou Qi and Gary Clark at all. In fact, he never valued them.

D'Antoni couldn't help turning his head and glanced at Wang Fei.

D'Antoni thought to himself that Zhou and Gary are both Wang's good friends. It seems that Wang must have given them some extra training and suggestions on weekdays.

The second quarter of the game is almost over.

But the points difference did not decrease.

Suns coach Igor Kokoshkov looked at the situation on the court, and it can be said that he was extremely depressed.

Now he is placed on the court, but the main force of the sun...

The main lineup is so stalemate with the Rockets' full bench that it can't take advantage of it.

Could it be that the Rockets' bench is really so strong?

It seems that my desire to take away a victory from the Toyota Center can only be an illusion.

My performance in coaching the Suns this season is so bad, it is estimated that I will leave the Suns at the end of the season.

Kokoshkov felt a little bitter in his heart.

Devin Booker, who has sat on the bench for almost a whole quarter, is also very uncomfortable at the moment.

He was a little restless.

He felt that a lot of people were pointing at him: "Look! It's him, Devin Booker, before the game, he let go of the big talk that he wants to crush the king and win the king by statistics! The result? He didn't score a point in the game! Even if Wang had already left the field, he couldn't make an open shot! He was just a big-mouthed trash!"

Devin Booker hugged his head with his hands.

Devin Booker discovered at this time that he had miscalculated the Rockets' situation, and Harden's injury did not seem to have caused much damage to the Rockets' strength.

The second quarter ended.

The Rockets' bench faced the Suns for almost one quarter. They did not lose the wind at all. The Suns only led by 28:27 in scoring in a single quarter.

And they still trailed by 23 points 51:74.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the second quarter, Wang Fei stood up and clapped to the sidelines.

The Rockets' benches were also very happy. They clapped each other to celebrate and came to the sidelines.

Wang Fei and each of them high-five, and said some encouraging words loudly:

"Good job, buddy!"

"You played so well, I am optimistic about you!"

"Come on! Brother, you will have a good future!"

Every bench that received his praise is full of joy.

These substitutes are also filled with emotion.

When I was in the Rockets, no one cared, no one cared. I was almost on the verge of fate.

But after Wang Fei arrived, everything changed, he got more opportunities to play, and he got a lot of encouragement and help. I got a comfortable phone meeting, and I started to enter the normal rotation lineup.

All the benefits are bestowed by the Chinese boy in front of him.

On the live broadcast.

Mike Brin sighed: "Tracy, Charles, can you think that the Rockets' bench can play so well in the second quarter? They actually resisted the crazy counterattack of the Suns' main team, and they were actually playing against the Suns' main lineup. Doesn't let Biao Zhong fall in the slightest? This is incredible."

McGrady nodded and said: "I really didn't expect this. The Rockets are not deep enough on the bench. This is a well-known thing. Almost all of their benches are last-round picks and losers. The talent of those players is definitely not outstanding. But. They just played wonderful team basketball. This puzzled me. We all know that Mike D'Antoni is the kind of head coach who is not good at cultivating newcomers. His rotation is always only seven or eight players! But now , This season, Mike has changed. He has become willing to give more opportunities to the bench, and the speed of their bench growth seems to have accelerated. This is a surprising change. I think this change should be the king Come. It was Wang who joined the Rockets at the beginning to play with the benches and played well, giving D'Antoni trust in the benches."

Barkley shook his head a little disdainfully and said, "Tracy, you can't put all the credit on that Chinese kid. Actually, to be honest, Mike D'Antoni is a very good head coach. Mike is very experienced, he also has a good coaching team, they are doing a good job of tapping the potential of the bench in the team.

McGrady smiled and said: "Charles, what you said so fully explained one thing, that is: you don't know Mike enough. Mike is the kind of cautious person, he is very conservative, although he is not young, but he has never There is not much patience for newcomer training. This was the case with the Rockets and also with the Suns. The only thing he persisted in was that he was always implementing his running and bombing tactics!"

Watching the two argue again, Mike Brin smiled and said, “Anyway, it’s definitely a good thing for the Rockets to become stronger on the bench. Do you think there are these substitutes to help the king, does he have it? What's the chance to win this year's championship?"