On the morning of the year, the Lakers arrived in Phoenix.

On the way from the airport to the hotel, Zhang Hao saw Anfenny Hardaway's billboard several times.

The addition of Anthony Hardaway, Antonio McDyce and others has made the Suns a team with hopes of winning the championship.

When we arrived at the hotel, after lunch, Zhang Hao analyzed the game with the Jazz last night at 1 pm in the team meeting.

He consciously focused on analyzing the improvement role his changes in playing style play on the team, and did not emphasize anything, but continued to adopt a subtle way.

Teammates didn't notice this before, and now, many players didn't realize that there were too many, such as Brent Barry, Jason Williams, Ben Wallace and others, as instructed by the coaching staff and the tactical core, and do what they should do as required.

However, there are many people in the Lakers team who have coaching talents, and there are also many players with high football skills and good tactical understanding.

Brian Shaw, Rick Fox, Doug Christie, Kenny Anderson, O'Neal... and even Fisher, after last night's game, they all understood Zhang Hao's true intentions.

Most people who understand Zhang Hao’s true intentions do not think there is any problem, because overall, Zhang Hao is indeed helping the team adapt to the new game environment faster.

But most of these teammates who understand Zhang Hao’s real intentions are worried about being alone.

After the tactical meeting, Kenny Anderson, Boggs, Doug Christie, Rick Fox, and Brian Shaw, these five veterans with the core tactical or voice had a summary and had to do something.

...

As the saying goes, the group of people who like to be funny and always make others laugh happily are all quiet and sad in private.

O'Neal felt very lonely and felt that he was a quiet handsome man in private, so he loved reading in private and enriching himself.

Then, he became sad, and he told others that he liked reading books, but no one believed it!

When he first arrived in Los Angeles in August last year, he applied for a master's degree in the School of Economics and Management at Phoenix University next door, Arizona, and passed the exam. Last summer, he applied for a master's degree in education at Stanford University and also passed the exam.

But when they say it, others actually think he is joking!

At that moment, he believed that the comedy masters were all sad handsome men in private.

However, reading is good. O'Neal now has concerns, and he doesn't like trouble, so if he has concerns, he either reads or writes songs and diss others.

The knock sounded, and O'Neal got up and opened the door. It was Brian Shaw.

"Hey, Brian, why, I'm asking me to go out for fun? Did you discover which new nightclub in Phoenix? Oh, this doesn't work. I'll have to have a good rest tomorrow."

"Uh, no, tomorrow's game is important, we are not going to go out and have fun today."

Live broadcast across the United States, no one in the Lakers wants to see themselves perform poorly.

O'Neal nodded, put away his funny thoughts, and welcomed Brian Xiao into the room.

"Shake, I want to talk to you about the team's tactical changes."

O'Neal nodded, he had guessed it just now.

Brian Shaw knew that O'Neal was a smart person and continued: "I think you must have seen that when Aix led the team to adapt to the new game environment, he deliberately strengthened his performance. I analyzed it. In fact, the changes in tacticals are beneficial to him and also to you..."

"I know, I understand," O'Neal interrupted Brian Shaw, "I won't cooperate just because he wants to strengthen his tactical status. His changing style of play is beneficial to the team. I also saw my opportunities in tactical changes. This is fair competition. He did not cause me trouble. I will try my best to seize my opportunities. You don't have to worry about me...

You... aren't right, it's you, you should worry about your own, including Kenny and Aix, the tactical adjustments that led us to make, strengthened his and my performance, and your chances will be compressed less."

At this time, he did not forget to black Zhang Hao. Brian Xiao smiled helplessly and replied: "We are role players, and it is appropriate to serve the strongest double towers in history..."

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Phoenix is ​​a very interesting city, very special throughout the United States.

Most government personnel in other cities are unwilling to engage in infrastructure, because often there is a situation where the infrastructure is halfway through, and the government will replace people, and it will be unfinished, wasting a lot of money. Over time, the Federal Parliament, the State Parliament, and the City Hall are unwilling to engage in infrastructure.

But Phoenix City is different. They almost do their best to build infrastructure. No matter what else, it is the most important thing to look good in the city or not. The city government has adhered to this idea for six consecutive terms.

So, this happened in a situation where Phoenix looked more like a big city than Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States, the next state.

This operation was initially considered to have been in the sea, but in the 1990s, after the US automobile industry entered a downturn, the revenue of the service industry increased, and Phoenix began to become a favored city for investors. The tourism industry here flourished, with the world's largest golf courses and supporting related industrial chains, and also established the University of Phoenix, the largest private university in the United States.

Four years ago, Phoenix City Hall, American Airlines and Phoenix University jointly invested 220 million US dollars to build a new venue for the Suns, and American Airlines received 17-year naming rights.

Last July, the American Airlines Center was put into use and welcomed the first superstar of this arena, Anthony Hardaway!

At 6:10 p.m. on January 22, Suns fans welcomed tonight's opponent Los Angeles Lakers with crazy booing.

O'Neal, who was the first to play, enjoyed the warmest welcome, which was even more violent than the booing Zhang Hao who was the last to play.

When the home team Suns appeared, Anthony Hardaway, the last one, got the strongest cheers.

"Suns fans really inherited the Magic's hatred for Mr. O'Neal?"

Listening to Zhang Hao’s complaints, O’Neal also wanted to complain.

Looking at Anthony Hardaway opposite, O'Neal was very excited. This year, this former teammate finally had a powerful teammate and could finally compete with this former teammate.

Although he was very happy to abuse the Magic last year, O'Neal always felt that it was a little bit bad. Now it's different. Kidd, Kevin Johnson, Denis Scott, George McLeod, four outside lines, Antonio Daniels, Mark Bryant, and Hort Williams' three inside teammates, plus Anthony Hardaway himself, the Suns' eight-player rotation is very strong.

So far this season, the Suns have played 40 games, 24 wins and 16 losses, surpassing the Timberwolves, whose season-ending reimbursement has begun to decline, and have come to fifth in the West. The top four are the Lakers, Jazz, Supersonics and Trail Blazers.

With such a teammate, Anthony Hardaway, who has such a record, is the opponent O'Neal wants to fight.

Zhang Hao was also looking at the opponent's... player detection report.

"Anfini Hardaway, 26 years old, 201 cm, 96 kg, ability evaluation 96, offense 97, defense 84, 65 three-pointers, 93 mid-range shots, 98 layups, 93 speed, 86 strength, 95 bounces... 37 appearances, average playing time 33.6 minutes per game, average 22.6 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.6 steals per game... shooting percentage 52.3%, three-point shooting percentage 27.6%, free throw shooting percentage 79.6%..."

Only three games were missing...

Zhang Hao looked at Anfenny Hardaway's player detection report and thought of O'Neal in the 2008-09 season.

Before going to the Suns, O'Neal was injured and had a 40-game attendance in the 2006-07 season, with the lowest career, which was even fewer than the number of appearances in the suspension season. When he went to the Suns at the end of February 2008, O'Neal was still one month away from being 36 years old. People concluded that he was about to end his career and would be pardoned by the Suns using Houston terms.

As a result, the Suns team took a summer to the 2008-09 season, and the number of attendances reached 75 times and was selected as the All-Star.

What is this concept?

Since the 1994-1995 season, O'Neal has only 75 attendances in two seasons, one is 79 attendances in the 99-00 season, and the other is 75 attendances in the 2008-09 season. Other times, they are old injuries. In 8 years of Lakers' career, they are absent from 110 games. Except for the suspension season, they have missed 15.5 games in 7 seasons.

As a result, O'Neal was beaten by Thomas Carter in the year of 36-37 and had the second highest number of attendances except for the first three years of his career.

Unlike the original Affini Hardaway who was destroyed by the Magic for three years and was reimbursed twice before coming to the Suns. His body had collapsed and could not be cured. After a summer of treatment and rehabilitation, Anffini Hardaway got rid of the injury and returned to the super level with Kidd's help!

The Suns are very good this year. If the running-in period was not a little longer at the beginning, the record was only 7 wins and 7 losses at one point. This team is expected to win 60 wins, and they still retain hope now. As long as the Suns win 36 wins and 6 losses in the remaining 42 games...

As for theory, it's always a little exaggerated.

Zhang Hao is also very interested in such an opponent.

In addition to strength, the opponent also has another aspect that makes Zhang Hao feel very interesting...

After the players of the two teams entered the court, O'Neal went over to Anthony Hardaway and met with him for a moment. The two met with gunpowder.

Unlike the original Affene Hardaway who died due to injury, the two of them felt different from the friendly atmosphere that they could not continue to cooperate. Both of them have a good lineup and may be direct competitors in the Western Conference playoffs, which feels quite tense.

After the pre-match greetings, the two teams made the final pre-match preparations.

On this side of the Lakers is the last emphasis on Silver Fox before the game, and on the other side... Suns players are all surrounding Kidd...

Zhang Hao couldn't help looking over there, curious about the current mood of Suns coach Danny Anji.

But Danny Angine stretched her neck to see Kidd say, as if she didn't resist such a thing...

The silver fox noticed Zhang Hao's movements and looked at the opposite side according to Zhang Hao's sight... He was instantly shocked.

"Aix, focus, don't even know what tactics to play in a while!"

...

The Lakers' away game against the Suns is about to begin, and Time Warner Cable Sports, T.N.T and Fox Sports are broadcasting the game live.

The NFL's 97-98 season is approaching its end, with few games and the NBA's ratings are also steadily increasing. The Lakers have live broadcasts for seven consecutive games, which is quite sensational, and there are many people watching the live broadcast.

If multiple TV stations broadcast live, they naturally have the right to choose.

Time Warner Cable Sports commentator Bill Walton is a bit sarcastic every time he comments on the Lakers game. Hubby Brown will become a Lakers fan at this time and bets with Bill Walton. The two's commentary methods are funny and humorous. They are the choices that neutral fans who simply watch the game like to choose. Although Time Warner Cable Sports is a sponsor of the Lakers, Lakers fans generally do not like to watch Time Warner Cable Sports live broadcasts.

Fox Sports is very neutral and basically does not invite retired players and coaches to be commentators. Instead, it is a professional broadcaster and hosting professional commentators. It lacks fun. However, if it is a team that makes too many enemies and is hated, it likes to watch Fox Sports live broadcasts.

T.N.T Sports Station, the mortal enemy of Lakers fans in the past decade, hacked Jabbar in the late 1980s, black magician in the late 1980s, James Worthy, black logo men in the early 1990s, could not create a team to compete for the championship without the three top picks, Zhang Hao started to hack Zhang Hao after joining... They always like to seize a point to create topics.

But in terms of ratings, T.N.T Sports has always been the best basketball live broadcast in North America, and Beat-LA is definitely right.

But today, before the game between the Lakers and the Suns began, T.N.T Sports’ pre-match analysis was shocking!

The commentator invited by T.N.T Sports Station today was former Lakers and Suns player Charles Barkley, who refused to give commentator Bobby Jones a chance to speak...

"I think the Lakers have a bigger chance of winning, they have the best players in the world."

"Who is the best player in the world? Of course it is our gentleman, Shi Buddha, Ritian..."

"Jordan? Oh, brother, did you forget who won the tiebreak half a year ago?"

"Jordan is like the God of the basketball world, but Aix is ​​the God of the basketball world himself."

"Aix learned to play Jordan? Yes, he learned it, and then he played better than Jordan."

"Aix is ​​the limit of talent in basketball. He just turned old not long ago, but he is already an FMVP..."

"Penny is not bad, he is very good, but he doesn't have O'Neal. He can't even pass the first round. Now he has Kidd and plays well. He needs help, but Aix doesn't need it. Before O'Neal and I joined the Lakers, the Lakers were already the number one in the West..."

Bobby Jones couldn't find a chance to turn black! Barkley's mouth was like a cannonball!
To be continued...