Van Gundy took out the last card he had placed in his suit pocket, on which he had noted his final strategy before the game:
"If we really can't win, provoke Ah Gan, let him beat you up, and get Ah Gan ejected..."
After reading it, Van Gundy himself was speechless, realizing it was the nonsense he had written in the brain-dead state from preparing for the finals a few days ago.
Putting the card back into his pocket, Van Gundy said some empty words to the players, merely encouraging everyone to boost their spirits and improve their defense.
But looking at the score difference, 96:79, it was indeed too wide, and the Knicks barely had hope.
After a round of ineffective adjustments, the timeout concluded, and on the other side, Gan Guoyang took off his warm-up jacket and re-entered the game.
Van Gundy looked at his players' somewhat fatigued expressions; was tonight's game going to be lost like this? Was Ah Gan going to be the hero of the game again?
