Although Phoenix is ​​not as high as Denver, it is still much higher than San Antonio. Moreover, the climate here is high and dry, and it is the city with the highest annual average temperature in the United States. It has a tropical desert climate, similar to that in the Middle East, so it is often used as a weapon or personnel training base.

Although it is not the hottest time of the year, the temperature during the day is as high as forty degrees. Compared with San Antonio, which is still lower in the latitude, it is nearly ten degrees higher. The Spurs' chartered flight landed at the Phoenix Williams Pass Airport. As soon as Stephen walked out of the cabin, he was immediately scared by the heat wave coming. He really didn't expect that Phoenix would be so hot, no wonder it was called the Suns. [..com]

Everyone quickly packed up their luggage and got into the bus. The situation was a little better. Looking at the rolling red sun outside, many players who had never played in Phoenix in this environment frowned. Playing under this temperature was simply a life-threatening one.

After putting his luggage in the hotel, **Vic took them to the stadium for adaptive training. After playing two games in a row, the players were a little tired, and then came here to undergo such a high temperature test. **Vic was very worried that the biggest factor affecting his team's victory may not be that the Suns will explode when they return to home, but whether the players can perform normally in such an environment.

**Vicci's worries are not unreasonable. During training, all the Spurs players were listless. Of course, fatigue was just the heart. The main reason was that they were not adapting to the climate here. **Vicci did not torture his players too much, so they had a very intuitive impression of this place and brought them back to the hotel.

After returning to the hotel, the players recovered slightly better. I heard that there was a swimming pool here, Stephen also went swimming for a while. You can tell, the swimming feeling is pretty good, Stephen called more teammates to swim together, and the discomfort with the climate was eliminated during the fight.

**Wich was preparing for the next game while still worried about the climate. When D'Antoni accidentally saw a comment and then saw the source of this comment, he hurriedly arranged for someone to order more than a dozen copies of this issue of the Chicago Sun Times.

Although you can also see this article online, the paper media is still more powerful. Although he does not agree with the comment, he can use this article. The next day, the newspaper he ordered was finally delivered. After the training, he summoned all the players and sent one copy of each newspaper.

After seeing everyone get a copy of the Chicago Sun Times, D'Antoni said, "Please turn to the third page and look at the upper left corner." After seeing everyone turn to it, he continued, "You all see it. This comment comes from Bronya Cwinter, a very famous basketball expert with relatively neutral views. The Chicago Sun Times is not a local media in Phoenix or a San Antonio media, so the position should be objective, but this article criticizes us."

"Why does it make people feel disappointed in the Western Conference Finals? It is because after watching those two games, Mr. Winter believes that the confrontationality of the game is not as good as the Spurs' Mavericks' matchup, and he believes that the series against the Spurs is the most competitive series in the West in this playoffs. Mr. Winter said that the Spurs have physical advantages, but he also believes that even if they have advantages, they will only be a slight advantage. At the same time, even if they have advantages, they will have advantages in the first game, and there will always be no such series in the second game, but in our game, the opponent will still easily win the second game."

At this time, the Suns players were already a little restless. If you want to be tired, you are indeed a little tired. However, the main reason is that the Suns' strength this season is indeed not as good as last season. Although they fought with the Clippers in the seventh game, the two teams were not very fierce. The Clippers lost at the end of the last game. Their feel was slightly worse than the Suns, and the Suns did not have much advantage.

Even the seven games against the Lakers in the previous game were not considered tragic. Although the Suns have been playing until now, there are no fierce battles. They have certain strength against these two teams, the Suns, but they are not much higher than their opponents, so they are entangled until the seventh game.

So when you encounter such a difficult Spurs, the Suns are a bit unsuitable. The offense cannot break the opponent's defense. The Suns are a team that wins the game entirely by offense. The offense cannot catch up with the opponent, so how can they win? Although the Spurs perform well is the main reason, the Suns' insufficient investment in victory is also a problem.

This article happened to appear in front of D'Antoni, and was immediately used by D'Antoni as a tool to stimulate players to win. Others may not know Bronjack Winter's foundation. He has been wandering in the league for many years, so how could he not know? Now the Heat and the Pistons have tied one-to-one, and the Heat have won a away victory. If the Heat finally win the Eastern Conference championship, they naturally don't want to see a Spurs who easily defeat the Suns and wait for their time.

In the article, Winter praised Nash very much, believing that Nash's performance had reached its peak, especially in the first game, Nash, who rarely scored, scored 35 points, but imagined that other Suns players were definitely not performing well, and Nash had already done everything he could do, but his teammates were not Stodmeier, Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson last season.

If you don't know Winter, just from the article, you will think that Winter may not be a fan of the Suns, but you are very concerned about the Suns, worrying about the current situation of the Suns, and calling for the unexciting game. A neutral and objective basketball expert appears on the paper.

But this is exactly what D'Antoni needed, so he used it. This article was also seen by **Vic, but **Vic just said: "Bored" and put this comment aside. Regardless of whether there is this article or not, the Suns must do their best after returning to home court. Winter did this just to judge a gentleman with a villain's heart.

It would be said that without this article, the Suns would let the Spurs go, allowing the Spurs to easily win this series. As for this article being used as a tool to inspire morale, **Vic naturally didn't know, but without this article, D'Antoni would come up with another way.

Before the third game between the Suns and the Spurs began, the Spurs came to the center of the air corridor, but when they walked into the narrow and small visiting team locker room, the staff went over and fiddled for a long time and found that the air conditioner would not work no matter how they worked.

At this time, the player had already changed into his jerseys and was sweating profusely without wearing a warm-up suit. He had to worry about catching a cold. **Vic was still in a suit and tie, and his shirt was quickly soaked by sweat. However, after the worker went over to negotiate with the other party, he came back angrily. When he saw the expression on his face, **Vic knew that there would be no result.

Sure enough, the other party stated that it could not solve the problem of the air conditioning in the guest dressing room on the grounds that there was a problem with the ventilation duct. Whether it was the staff's own actions or the instructions of the senior executives of the Suns, going to entangle with the other party at this time will only fall into the trap of the other party. So **Vic told the players to change their clothes and warm up quickly. After finding the most insignificant staff to negotiate with the other party, **Vic forgot about this matter.

As soon as the players entered the stadium, Nestrovic and Robert Horry sneeze twice, and the others quickly put on warm-up clothes outside before coming in. However, such a sharp temperature change still made many players feel uncomfortable. Even Stephen secretly scolded the Suns in his heart for being too shameless and playing such tricks.

By the beginning of the game, on the surface, the Spurs had recovered, but in fact the impact still did not fade, while the Suns played very unrestrainedly. As soon as the game began, the Suns launched a crazy and sharp offensive craze against the Spurs.

The Spurs were able to resist at the beginning, but after half a quarter, they were beaten by the Suns so hard that they had no power to fight back. All their energy was spent on dealing with the Suns' offense. Even the Spurs' own rhythm was not that **Vic kept roaring on the sidelines, but they had been brought over by the Suns long ago.

After the first quarter, the Spurs were thirteen points behind. In the second quarter, the situation became even worse. **Vic did not even dare to change the substitute lineup, but he still could not change the reality that the gap in the score was widened step by step. Stephen returned to the court and scored seven points in a row, but he still could not help the Suns' offense, but he just maintained the score not to be further widened.

The defense cannot defend against the opponent's attack, but his own offense is led by the Suns because of the rhythm, and he cannot stick to his tactical style of play. He can only rely on the players' personal abilities. This situation is naturally not an opponent of the Suns, who is dedicated to the whole team.

Stephen made a mid-range shot with only three seconds left in the last second quarter, otherwise the Suns would widen the score gap to more than 20. Looking at the 20 points gap at halftime, it was still hot and hot to return to the locker room. **Vic couldn't help but be furious and took action to scold the Suns staff.

The other party still gave the head coach a good face. When the halftime break was about to end, a trace of cool air gushed out of the air conditioner outlet in the indoor air conditioner, and the cool air increased accordingly. The players who were already shirtless put on warm-up clothes one after another.

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To borrow a sentence from the book, it’s hard to be the hot summer. I was riding a bicycle alone on the hot asphalt road for two hours. I almost fainted after I got home. Let’s update one chapter first, and see the status of the next chapter.
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