After making an appointment with Engelland, Stephen was not in a hurry to know that offensive training is not something that happened overnight. Hearing that training madmen like Kobe, Arenas, and James have to train for more than six hours a day. With their talent, they still work so hard, and without this talent, wouldn’t they work harder? But working hard does not mean that they have to die in one day, just like Rome was not built in one day, and offense is not something that can be practiced in one day.

After losing to the Suns, the Spurs returned to home court and after two days of rest, they began to face the challenge of the New Jersey Nets. This is another team of the league's top point guard Jason Kidd. After breaking up the combination of Kidd, Ken Yang Martin and Richard Jefferson, although they signed "demigod" Vince Carter, the Nets have gone from a championship-level player to an ordinary strong team.

Especially after Kidd underwent knee surgery, he could no longer see the Kidd who was pushing fast attacks like Fengchi Electric Motor, but he was still the top point guard in the league. The assistant Vince Carter, who was appointed as the closest person to God, was later known as Jordan as the closest person to God. Stephen also worshipped this guy crazy for a while because he was also from North Carolina and his dunk seemed slightly better than Jordan, but later the aura of the flying man gradually began to fade. On the court, it was obvious that he was still a long way from Jordan.

Whether he is still one of the top swingers in the league, compared to Kobe, and his cousin McGrady, he may be only a slight difference, so **Vicci specially prepared a series of feasts for him. Because Richard Jefferson cannot access the Internet, both Bruce Bowen and Stephen were assigned to him.

With the full defense of the two people, Carter, although Kidd's free throw assists and passing the ball at will, would be very good at making a phone call, but the defended ones only scored 34 points, of which nine points came from free throws, nine points came from three points, and the defended two-pointers only made eight of 26 shots.

Bruce Bowen accompanied four fouls, Stephen accompanied five fouls, and the two of them took turns to barely limit Vince Carter. It is said that this guy is not as strong as Kobe, why is it more difficult to deal with than Kobe? After Stephen left the court, he asked Engelland depressedly.

"Every player has his own pride and his own thinking. Although they are required to do their best in every game, in fact, everyone's performance is reserved, especially emotions affect the player's condition. For example, players at Carter's level are more happy or depressed, and those who undertake defensive tasks will be in trouble. This is what is commonly called the state." Enl Grande patiently solved with Stephen.

Stephen thought about it and said that although he had never retained his strength in every game, there were always a few games where he performed well or poorly. Sometimes he couldn't explain why, he just failed to make a shot, or he just couldn't master his own strength well.

After defeating the New Jersey Nets, the Spurs continued to stay in San Antonio and waited for their opponents to come. At this time, Catherine received a call from Parker and reluctantly left Stephen's home. The renovation of the house was only halfway through, and she had to continue to come over the supervisor, which was also a reason to come.

After a day, the Spurs' opponent landed in San Antonio. This time the opponent was extraordinary. It was the Detroit Pistons, who had just been defeated by the Spurs in the Christmas game. Last time, they lost to the Spurs in front of home fans and national spectators, which made these guys lose face. This time, when they came to San Antonio, with a strong sense of revenge, they suppressed the Spurs' offense with super defense at the beginning of the game, but their own offense was very exciting.

The Spurs are a player who pays more attention to balance off offense and defense. The Spurs' style of play is like Duncan's personality, as plain as waves. The Spurs really can't play with defense and offense like the Pistons, but if the Pistons really maintain such intensity offense and defense in every game, they don't have to play in the subsequent games and just give them the championship this year.

Sure enough, the Spurs, which was thirteen points behind in the first quarter, continued to remain on the field in the second quarter, and then slowly scored another five points. In the third quarter, the Spurs replaced their own substitute lineup, but the Pistons did not have so many substitute players, so they had to rotate and rest for a while, but all the main lineups returned to the field, and immediately, as if they were at the opening, they completely beat the Spurs on both offense and defense.

The score was once again widened to ten. When the Spurs' main lineup came on the court, they were determined to kill the enemy and were unable to make the situation. The Spurs were actually beaten by the Pistons 68 to 83, which was a new low in the season.

Stephen did not perform well in this game. He was in the low point these days, and the Pistons made a lot of arrangements specifically for him, so Stephen did not have the glory of the game. This is the first time since Stephen entered the team's main lineup, he has not scored twice.

The Detroit Pistons were sent away and the Memphis Grizzlies were welcomed. The days were coming and going. The game against the Grizzlies was quite calm. Although the Spurs were in very ordinary form and only scored 80 points in the whole game, the Grizzlies' counterattack was not very good. They had been chasing since the Spurs took the lead in the first quarter, but they did not catch up until the end of the game. In the end, they lost by just one point.

Then the two teams took a plane to Memphis and fought again in Memphis. This time, like last time, the Spurs had never given the Grizzlies any chance since the beginning of the lead, until the end of the game, but this time they won the game by a 10-point gap.

In these two games, Stephen did not perform well. He scored 12 points, four rebounds, one assist, and the other was 15 points, two rebounds, three assists and one steal. On the defensive end, Stephen's ability did not decline, but on the offensive end, Stephen's performance was a little struggling. In this way, the substitute lineup of the Spurs decreased. Ji Piao Astronomy gave Stephen a lot of messy suggestions, regardless of whether Stephen could see it or not.

In fact, the main reason for Stephen's struggle was that in these two games, he met an opponent he had never met before, that is Sean Bathir of the Grizzlies. This is another type of defensive player who is different from Stephen and Bruce Bowen. He does not rely on his body to force the opponent, nor does he stick to him like Bruce Bowen. He always uses some vague movements to influence your offensive movements, and you can't guess what his next defensive movements will be. Although the defense is not strong, it is particularly uncomfortable.

The confrontation with him did not bring any gains from Stephen's offense, but it was a great boost to Stephen's defense. It turned out that the defense could still be like this. Bathir's defense has no data. At the same time, if you don't pay attention carefully, his defense seems to have no strength at all. Only the opponents know how uncomfortable his defense is.

Stephen's struggle on the offensive end has aroused many doubts, especially those experts and media who attacked Stephen before the draft. Originally, Stephen's first place in the second round was selected by the Spurs, and then the Spurs gave him another two-year contract, which does not mean that they did not take their analysis seriously.

Although they could not criticize the Spurs, Stephen kept his anger in his breath. Unfortunately, after joining the Spurs, Stephen has always performed well. While playing time gradually increases, his performance is getting better and better. His original weakness in attacks is becoming more and more obvious. You must know that this is their biggest excuse to attack Stephen.

It would be fine if you say this. Now Stephen is qualified to win the Best Rookie. If Stephen is really allowed to win this Best Rookie, wouldn’t that be the biggest irony for them? You should know that on the eve of the draft every year, they have made a lot of money by analyzing the rookie rankings. If you say that the ranking is a bit out of the way, it would be fine. But if you like Stephen, you will basically lose the second round. Almost all media make such mistakes. That is not something that can be explained by just one mistake. This will make people doubt their professional qualities.

There are many team management teams in it. If Stephen wins the best rookie, the personnel responsible for the draft in the previous teams may be blamed by the boss. Except for the Spurs, they naturally do not want Stephen to win the best rookie.

In addition, there is also a team of agents who are qualified to win the best rookie. They have long been dissatisfied with Stephen's choice of an agency in the entertainment industry as an agent. Didn't this allow them to come and intervene in our field and grab our jobs? In addition, their own players won the best rookie, and they were also a lot of bargaining chips when negotiating contracts. Stephen was suddenly criticized by thousands of people. All sports media were big articles questioning Stephen's articles.

To put it slightly better, Stephen encountered a rookie wall. And judging from Stephen's performance, this rookie wall will be very difficult to break, especially for the better player in the early stage, the more difficult it will be to break the rookie wall in the later stage. You are unceremonious and directly commented on Stephen's real strength. In the face of real tests, Stephen's offensive ability defects were finally exposed. He is just an ordinary basketball player with no development potential. Even in the hands of the Spurs, who are best at low picks, they cannot be trained.

Fortunately, Chris Paul's performance has not been very good recently. Since losing to the Spurs last time, the Hornets first lost three consecutive games, and then after winning a victory from the Portland Trail Blazers, the weakest in the West, there has been another three consecutive games. Although Chris Paul's score has not dropped much, his average assists per game has decreased.

In the latest rookie rankings, several other players, including Kupat, caught up and saw that everyone had the chance to win the best rookie, which was the main reason why they attacked Stephen with all their might.
Chapter completed!