Chapter 164 Return to the road of victory
In the second half, the Spurs replaced Sanders. Max two players who almost never played, but sent Robert Horry and Parker, the main players, to stabilize their position. Five minutes later, when the Spurs' defense was gradually unable to support them under the Suns' attack like water, **Vic replaced Mohamed and Stephen. After the situation on the field was stabilized, when the third quarter was about to end, **Vic replaced Duncan and Brent Barry back on the field, so that the Spurs returned to the starting lineup.
In the fourth quarter, Stephen and Mohammed suddenly found a way to cooperate outside the Spurs' original system. Like Duncan and Parker, the two of them played internal and external cooperation and pick-and-roll tactics. Whenever the Suns turned their defense attention here, they both put the ball back to Parker and Duncan, while Brent Barry kept running outside the three-point line, ready to wait for an opportunity to catch the ball, and found many opportunities.
In this way, the Spurs played a full-scale game, making people unable to defend themselves. Although the Suns did not play like mercury, and they looked as good as a needle and thread, there was no difference in power, and the scores were constantly rising, and they quickly broke through the 100-point mark.
By the end of the game, both teams scored more than 100 points, while the Spurs happened to be 111 points, winning the Suns with six points. Nash added his shots in the second half, scoring a high score of 30, but only seven assists, while Marion scored 22 points, 12 rebounds, three steals and three blocks, which performed very comprehensively.
On the Spurs, Stephen and Mohamed both scored 30 points, Duncan scored 20 points, Mohamed scored 16 rebounds, Duncan scored 13 rebounds and seven assists, Stephen scored nine rebounds and six assists, and the three were the biggest contributors to the Spurs' winning game. When he was rated as the best player after the game, he gave this honor to Mohamed. This was the first time he had received this honor, which made him cry.
After playing this game, the Spurs players packed their luggage that had been prepared long ago, followed the Suns players on the bus and drove towards the airport. Although Houston was only 300 kilometers away from San Anho, the Spurs all boarded the team's special plane.
After more than a day of rest, Nestrovic and Michael Finley both returned to being able to participate in the game, which made **Vic breathed a sigh of relief. With these two people back, at least there was no need to worry about the substitute lineup, both inside and outside.
After a week, the Rockets are still not the opponent of the Spurs. The injury has not caused the Spurs to lose much strength. At least no one is irreplaceable. The Rockets McGrady's absence is irreplaceable, so the Spurs once again easily won the home court of the Houston Rockets.
After playing against the Rockets, the Spurs returned to San Antonio. Before the next home game against the Golden State Warriors, the Spurs had two days off. For safety reasons, **Vic just arranged low-intensity recovery training for the players. In this way, Ginobili and Oberto returned to the team before the end of the game. At this time, the only main players left on the injury list were Bruce Bowen and Van Exel.
Bruce Bowen is not on the court, and Stephen is the first choice for the small forward position. After seeing Stephen and Mohammed's cooperation in the game against the Suns, **Vic designed several sets of tactics for them, so that Stephen's exclusive tactics will finally be found in the main lineup.
The Golden State Warriors star Baron Davis still cannot play. It is natural that unknown people like Murphy, Dunleavy, and Fisher are not opponents of the Spurs. They were easily won by the Spurs. In this game, Stephen scored 34 points, but eleven of these 34 points were obtained through free throws. Stephen made 11 of the 16 free throws, and both the number of free throws and the percentage of free throws broke his own record.
If it weren't for the garbage time that they played less than half of the fourth quarter, Stephen believed that there would be no problem with his score reaching forty. Unfortunately, he did not give him this opportunity. After Bruce Bowen was injured, Stephen scored around 30 in four consecutive games, which completely proved Stephen's ability.
Stephen's problem in shooting shè still exists. The outside shooting percentage is unstable, the shooting percentage within the three-point line is only barely more than 40%, while the three-point shooting percentage is only about 35%. This shooting percentage is barely OK at the small forward position, but it won't work if it's switched to other positions.
But in this case, being able to score about 30 points in a row proves Stephen's potential. It is not scary to have problems in offense. What is afraid of is that there is no problem or that there is no problem, so there is no room for improvement. Stephen's like this happens to say that his potential is endless.
Technology can be trained through training, and the feel can also be improved, but the body and consciousness are innate. Stephen is particularly outstanding in this regard, especially in terms of body, and is called the strongest person among the outside players except for "Little Emperor" James.
Moreover, Stephen's hard work in training has also been revealed by many media. A young player who is hardworking, self-disciplined, obedient and has aspirations is a player that every general manager and head coach will like. Although Stephen is prone to emotional loss when he is on the court, he is a well-known good temper on the court.
Such continuous and outstanding performance made Stephen truly enter the eyes of general managers of various teams. No one thought that he could get from the hands of the Spurs, even if there was such a possibility, the price he paid was unbearable. However, Stephen's contract was not only two years, but many people laughed at the Spurs for giving such a player a two-year guarantee contract. Later, everyone thought that the Spurs had vision. Now it seems that the Spurs' vision is just like this, why didn't they sign for a few more years?
The Spurs have a lot of good cards and are also a well-known small balloon team in the league. They are definitely reluctant to issue big contracts for this player. However, many teams are rich and rich enough to not care about paying luxury taxes. Some teams are even richer and cannot attract well-known stars. Big contracts or team bosses are very attractive to young players, and they are not completely without opportunities.
Many general managers of the team who disdained the caa company decided to contact the company and then deepen the relationship. They might have to talk to others at any time. This made the caa company very happy. The company immediately instructed the staff below to increase the contracting work of well-known college students or high school students. As for poaching existing players in the league, they were afraid of public anger. At the same time, they were also existing players who usually had no money to change agents, and it was useless to poach them.
However, while Stephen performed well, Chris Paul was not idle either. After the game against the Spurs, the Hornets played four more games. Chris Paul scored more than 20 assists in four consecutive games. Among them, in the game against the Toronto Raptors, he scored 32 points and 16 assists, which is not bad at all compared to Stephen.
In this way, the debate between the two people started again. Which one is better? It is impossible to easily draw a conclusion. The two factions of data theory and victory theory have started to rise on various media positions, and have cited various arguments to prove their own views, while the other side has cited counter-proof.
Due to their two stings, other rookies also showed very good condition. Bogut, Cooper, Granger, Hyde, and Nate Robinson all performed excellent performances. Although they were not as dazzling as their two, they were already overjoyed.
At this time, the Spurs have set off from San Antonio to Denver, a high-altitude city, and challenged the Nuggets here again. In recent times, the Nuggets have played very well. With their record, they can barely reach the end of the playoffs. The Jazz and Lakers behind them have also put a lot of pressure on them, so as the second half of the regular season, they fought very fiercely in every game.
Adding factors such as Gao Haiba, back-to-back, and injuries is not a good time for the Spurs, but the Nuggets are a relatively young and impactful team, especially their head coach George Carl, who is also a well-known veteran coach with rich experience in the league. Moreover, George Carl once played for the Spurs during his time as a player, which is quite a relationship.
George Carl is a coach who advocates offense, so among the teams he coaches, whether it is the Warriors, the Supersonics or the Bucks, they are famous for their fluent and smooth offensive style. Under his coaching, the Nuggets have all this reflected.
At the beginning of the game, the Nuggets took advantage of the Spurs' unstable footing to make a breakthrough fast break. Andre Miller quickly advanced to the half and passed the ball directly to Carmelo Anthony who had been waiting there. After Anthony received the ball, he did not even hesitate at all and hit it outside the three-point line. After the ball hit, he turned his head and looked at Stephen with a provocative look.
Hey, what's wrong with this guy? Stephen recalled in confusion. It seemed that he didn't have any hatred with this guy. He sneaked into a three-pointer and looked at him like this. Why? Stephen naturally didn't know that this was Anthony. Many people compared Stephen with James, but they didn't mention him once and were dissatisfied with Stephen. In addition, the last failure, so he was determined to beat Stephen to prove himself. Stephen happened to be arranged to defend him this time. He felt that this was a chance for a thousand years.
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