After preseason tests, fans found (no, sure) that the Pacers are a team that doesn't like to play low-coordinated matches.

The direct evidence that can prove this view is their 3-2 record in five preseason games in Las Vegas.

The most eye-catching thing is the game against CSKA Moscow. They actually played until the last second, and Xie Hou dramatically scored a jump shot and won the victory.

The CSKA's old coach, Abersovsky, who turned King Arthur into Louis XI, said: "Just think I'm talking nonsense, but I think Arthur has stepped back after going to the United States."

Abersovsky said this with a certain factual basis.

Putting aside Xie Hou's focus on finding his shooting feel during the preseason, his shooting percentage dropped sharply.

As the league's efficiency king last season (regular season efficiency value is 30.9, playoffs 31.4), he averaged 22 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game in five preseason games, and his shooting percentage was 44%.

Xie Hou is like those superstars who have made their debut. When he enters the league, he is a player who is close to the finished product. He has small flaws. In the result, those problems have not affected the Pacers' winning the championship.

Now Xie Hou took the initiative to take a step of change, and all the shots he had practiced in Russia were reduced to zero.

His long shot needs to be practiced again, and his mid-range shot turned into a nerve knife, which is very expensive no matter how you look at it.

Xie Hou could fully understand why the old coach said that.

Abersovsky is the godfather of Russian basketball. He has countless "productions" in his life. From the bottom of his heart, he believes that Xie Hou is the most successful player he trains.

Others are just works, and Xie Hou is a treasure and a masterpiece.

Now this treasure has been in the United States for less than a year, and it has thrown away the shots that Russia has learned. How can the old coach not be angry?

"You'd better not be lazy here!"

When Xie Hou and Lao Shuai met privately, the old man stared at him like a wolves.

"What you said...how could you be lazy? My goal is not the heaven and earth, but the vast universe!" Xie Hou communicated with Lao Shuai in fluent Russian.

The old coach doesn't like his new shooting posture. "Your good touch is a trauma of talent when you shoot with such a posture. I can no longer stand your shooting!"

"What do you mean?" Xie Hou had to respect the old coach, and let it go.

Although he was grateful to him for his cultivation, he is now in the United States and is beyond his reach and cannot control him.

I saw the old coach staring at Xie Hou with a stern face for half a minute.

Xie Hou was wandering with his eyes and did not dare to look at each other.

Before coming to the United States, Xie Hou was afraid of two people. (Miller may be added to this list after coming to the United States)

One is the mother and the other is the old coach. He played the strict face of his father during Xie Hou's growth. Although Xie Pingsheng was Xie Hou's father, he was too tolerant and gentle, which was not conducive to the growth of his children in the long run.

Chen Mimi was in charge of the house, and Abersovsky was in charge of the house outside.

Abersovsky was like a second father to Xiehou, of course, he was a little older.

The old coach's eyes of death looked at Xie Hou for a long time and suddenly said, "Of course I can't care about you now. King Arthur is already the NBA champion after all..."

"It's not just the championship, I'm also the Olympic champion, I didn't give you any shame..." Xie Hou added stinkyly.

"Stop interrupting this!" The old coach said angrily, "Yes, I can't control you anymore! The eagle's wings are hard, I can't do anything to you, but I have my way of resisting!"

As long as you don't cry, make a fuss, and hang yourself...

"I won't watch the Pacers anymore!" Abersovsky threatened.

The effect of this sentence was not to make Xie Hou sad, but to surprise. He did not expect that after leaving Moscow, Abersovsky was still paying attention to him.

“Have you been watching the game?”

“This is not the point.”

So what is the point? Xie Hou wanted to relieve the old coach's temper: "I think..."

"Stop!" Abersovsky interrupted Xie Hou rudely, "I don't know who you listened to! I don't want you to think, I want me to think! You can conquer the United States with the technology you learned in Russia, just like we did in Munich!" (Amway to "The Kill of Munich" can also be a few words)

Xie Hou joked: "But there is basically no game in the United States that can play three times in a row at the last moment, right?"

"Don't interrupt me. You have to change back to the original technical movement, that is the most suitable for you!"

Xie Hou believed that Abersovsky was for his own good, but sometimes the older generation would just admit his truth.

Xie Hou did not intend to convince him, silence was his resistance.

"You played well last season, who made you make the changes?"

Abersovsky also did not want to make the atmosphere stiff when he met once. He took the initiative to give Xie Hou a chance to explain.

"Reggie Miller, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan's trainer." Shehou believed Abersovsky knew better than him how persuasive these people were.

Miller is the best shooter in the past 15 years, Bird is a legend in the basketball world, whether in the United States or the world, he is a legend, and there are also goat trainers?

"Do they think your shooting move is wrong?" Allowing Xie Hou to change is equivalent to admitting that he has been teaching Xie Hou's wrong shots for so many years.

With Abersovsky's dignity, how can you accept it?

He asked: "They said there was something wrong with your shooting move?"

"No." Xie Hou paused, "but there is a problem with my jumping height, they think..." This is really a more complicated problem than complex. Xie Hou understood Jerry Robert III's explanation, and now he wants him to repeat it in Russian to Abersovsky. You can kill him.

"Why don't you say it anymore? I'll listen!" said the old coach.

Xie Hou said: "It's too complicated, I can't explain it clearly. In short, it's not a problem of shooting movements, but my own problem. If this problem is not solved, my long shots will always be unstable. I have to solve this problem. I don't want to be unstable in the long shots."

"Just, you are not even stable in the mid-range jump shot now, and you are still shooting from a long shot?" This is why Abersovsky refused to let Xie Hou change his shooting moves.

Xie Hou was just unstable in the long shot at the beginning, and the mid-range shot was very good. Now, his mid-range shot has become a nerve knife, and his long shot fell into the category of "not entering is normal, but entering is an accident and surprise."

Xie Hou said: "No change will not overturn old things, it is a price that must be borne."

"Even if your long shot is unstable, you can still play well. Why do you have to do this?" After saying that, I returned to the starting point.

"Because I don't want to be just good, very good, very good, super good - this is not my goal. I want to be the best," Xie Hou said.

Abersovsky still couldn't accept Xie Hou's change of shooting posture, but now, he no longer objected.

"Okay, it seems I need to continue watching your game." Abersovsky finally had a smile on his face.

Did I convince him? Xie Hou asked himself for a moment, but he couldn't believe it.

Abersovsky is definitely one of the hardest people in the world to convince.

He asked carefully: "Do you support me?"

"No, I want to see if you have become the best or become an ordinary person." The smile on Abersovsky's face was not a gratifying smile, but a mockery, "If this incident causes your level to fall and you are returned by NBA, don't come back to me. The CSKA is not a recycling bin!"

No matter what, Xie Hou only met in his life, the most rigid, stubborn and difficult to convince, the old bastard who always "don't make trouble and listens to me" in everything, no longer objected to Xie Hou's most influence in basketball career.

He did not accept it, but did not object.

For Xie Hou, this is very important.

After the "happy" discussion, Xie Hou took Lao Shuai to have a meal.

At the dinner table, what they talked about was still related to basketball. But it was not basketball today, but basketball from the past.

Xie Hou talked about the similarities and differences between NBA and Europe.

The same high intensity does not require European systematic tactics.

A fact that fans may not accept: Before the 2013-2014 season, few NBA teams could defend against pick-and-roll, and few teams could play pick-and-roll tactics well. The legendary Avengers Spurs gave the NBA a heavy hammer with a gorgeous team performance. Curry put the ball on the historical table with a three-point whirlwind, and the tactics began to innovate, and the ball-holder pick-and-roll tactics became the mainstream of the NBA. Since then, NBA has been considered world-class in terms of physical talent, skills, and tactics.

But before that, NBA's tactics were not world-class.

Abersovsky disdained the current basketball. He believed that the current games were the remaining games played by his predecessors.

When it comes to basketball, Abersovsky always takes on the identity of an old senior and gives guidance to the country.

Xie Hou got used to his virtues.

After the meal, he asked about the situation in the team.

Abersovsky claimed that there were several geniuses in the youth team who were no less than him and Kirirenko to prepare to join the team (Xiehou objected that he and Kirirenko were not on the same level).

Kirilenko, Shehou and Papalucas have successively logged into the NBA. The strength of the CSKA has been greatly reduced. After signing up and joining with strong American foreign players, they can still dominate the Russian Premier League, but in the Champions League, they have lost their previous competitiveness.

The CSKA, which was the third championship, one in the fifth quarter of 1999-2003, became the end of the UEFA Champions League in the first season after Xie Hou and others left.

Abersovsky didn't want Xie Hou to blame himself for his departure, and he should have left long ago.

Continuing to stay in Europe would not benefit his growth.

Before parting, the old coach said to Xie Hou: "Listen, I only accept that you are returning with glory. I do not accept that a betrayal dog who was swept out of the house went home with his tail and found someone to surrender."

Abersovsky was so "ruthless", Xie Hou had to work hard to stay in the NBA until he retired and ended his basketball career.
Chapter completed!