Updated: 2012-09-19

Stephen sat firmly on the court, fishing, and island-like, and watched. He had signaled to Caresimo just now that he wanted to play again, but was rejected by Caresimo. However, although the team went from leading to falling behind, the score difference was only five points. At the same time, it was the first half, and Stephen was not in a hurry to play.

He sat off the court to watch the Kings' performance. The Kings were not a very powerful team, especially after Chris Webber left, in just over two years, Stephen saw how quickly a team declined. Not to mention a team without foundation, such as the Kings, it was because the Lakers and Celtics had a low period.

If it is a strong team, Stephen will definitely take this opportunity to observe the opponent's defense, find out the opponent's defense weakness, and then attack after going on the court. However, the Kings do not have any defense. Their defense against Stephen only depends on Artest's defensive ability, so there is no need to observe.

Since there is nothing to observe in the defense, Stephen focused on the Kings' offense. Today, even if Adelman left the Kings, the Kings still played the Princeton system with four people participating. This does not mean that the system can be changed by changing the head coach. At least more than half of the main players must be replaced.

Artest has strong personal abilities, but his performance lacks coherence. He will play very well at a certain period of the entire game, looking like a superstar, but he cannot maintain such performance throughout the game.

The reason why he left the Indiana Pacers was that he felt that the team should regard himself as the boss, and had offensive ability that was no less than anyone else, let alone defense. How could he be the second-rate figure of a team like this?

Even if there is no Auburn Palace incident, as long as Reggie Miller retires, Jermaine O'Neal can't suppress people like Artest and Stephen Jackson. However, the Auburn Palace incident has accelerated the progress of this incident. Artest is unwilling to be the second in a team, so he will naturally challenge the authority of the boss Jermaine O'Neal, and he uses the most inappropriate way to speak to the media.

How could Larry Bird, who was very good at controlling the team, allow such a thing to happen to the team? In order to eliminate the disputes within the team, Larry Bird immediately traded Artest. The Kings were quite famous at that time, and they were the boss in the past, so Artest was not unwilling to do so.

The Kings also hope to use Artest to inject the team's lack of toughness and high-quality defense. Although Artest has given Artest the right to match the boss, the team's overall tactics are still mainly Princeton and did not revolve around him.

Obtaining nearly unlimited shooting rights did not greatly increase Artest's data. He was a coolie in the team and started as a defensive player. His technical characteristics are not suitable for a team to place offense on him alone.

He has the ability to average more than 20 points per game, but he cannot get more than 20 points in every game. Having this ability does not mean that he can play in every game. Moreover, he is a relatively emotional player. Soon the Kings discovered that Artest is not a trustworthy player, especially on the offensive end. In this way, the team adheres to the original Princeton style of play, and Artest has never been integrated into this system.

Artest overestimated his offensive ability. After discovering this, it was a big blow to his confidence, so he never performed well in the Kings, which naturally made the Kings very dissatisfied.

Correspondingly, Kevin Martin is a player who has no defense but is very smart and talented on the offensive end. When the team selected him, he had no expectations for him, but Kevin Martin was very adapted to Princeton's style of play. At the same time, his defensive shortcomings basically seem to not exist in the Kings system.

From an optional substitute to entering the main rotation lineup, and then becoming the team's starting lineup, this summer, signed a five-year, $55 million long contract this summer, and there were vague signs of becoming the core of the team. As a 26 low-coupon player who entered the league in 2004, although his performance was not as dazzling as Stephen, he has also taken the lead and has come to this point steadily.

After watching Artest's attack for a while, Stephen lost interest. However, Kevin Martin's attack made Stephen's eyes lit up. This guy was very thin and had very poor ability to fight. Even Wilkins could knock him around, but even so, his offense could still maintain a high success rate.

Even if he obviously hit and fell down, Kevin Martin was able to throw the ball into the basket. His shooting movements seemed very unstandard, but he was able to hit the ball repeatedly. It seemed that this was the offensive method he developed based on his physical conditions, which made Stephen very interested.

In the second half, Stephen returned to the court. Because Wilkins performed poorly and Durant needed to rest again. Stephen's partner on the forward guard became Szebiak, but the Kings replaced Artest to rest, and the one who faced Stephen was replaced with Salmons.

At the same time, in the Kings' lineup, Stephen saw another acquaintance, Yudic, Stephen scratched his head, as if he heard that the Spurs had given up his last year's team option at the beginning of the season, and then he signed with the Kings. This should be what he strongly requested, otherwise the Spurs still lacked a substitute point guard, so how could they let him go?

Salmons was also a player selected by the Spurs. He was Yao Ming in the same year. After spending four years in Philadelphia, he decided to leave Philadelphia, but he refused the Suns and Raptors' offer contracts. If the Kings waste a lot of time on Wells, there will be no good players in the free market in the end, so he will renew him with a lot of money.

Although he is also a defensive player, his defense is not enough to face Stephen. Stephen easily accelerated and threw it behind him. Brad Miller wanted to lift it up to block Stephen. After Stephen made a fake move to break to the left, he turned around to his right, and jumped and put the ball into the basket.

Kevin Martin easily shot and scored on Szebiak's head. It was either Szebiak's experienced and closed faster, but almost caused Kevin Martin to foul. With his attack method, Stephen dared not take action easily, so Stephen did not defend Kevin Martin.

After Stephen came back, he jumped out of the three-point line and missed the ball, but Robert Swift grabbed the rebound and then gave it to Stephen directly. It was still the same position as before. Stephen jumped out again, but this time it was not lost.

Salmons had no experience in confronting Stephen, so he made a rash move. Facing Stephen, he actually chose to break through this offensive method. When he passed by Stephen's left side, he seemed to have no reaction when he saw Stephen. He was still glad, but he didn't know that Stephen's left hand was not inferior to his right hand. He casually reached out and took the ball from his hand.

Salmons was still reaching out to prepare for the dribble, but suddenly found that the ball had not returned to his hand. When he looked at it again, Stephen was already controlling the ball and traveling far away. Udic knew Stephen very well. Seeing that Stephen completed the steal, he began to retreat, just in front of Stephen.

Stephen would take him seriously. As soon as he accelerated, he would increase his speed. Yudic struggled to retreat, but Stephen had already taken the air and made a dunk move. If he hadn't been dodging faster, he would have been knocked away by Stephen.

Brad Miller's shot failed, and the rebound was obtained by Wilcox, and it was immediately passed to Watson. While cooperating with Stephen, Watson ran to the basket. Seeing that his team was the only one who retreated, Kevin Martin immediately reached out to hug Watson and used a foul to stop the opponent's fast attack.

His foul played a role. Watson, who had two free throws, only one free throw, but Stephen grabbed the rebound in the crowd. After grabbing the rebound, Stephen immediately took a step and walked down the bottom line to the basket, and then put the ball into the basket with a long body.

Salmons passed the ball to Kevin Martin. While Kevin Martin was going down, Brad Miller went up to block Szebiak for him. Facing Robert Swift, Kevin Martin did not dare to force himself, but passed the ball to Brad Miller outside the three-point line.

Brad Miller made a three-pointer, and the Kings led the Supersonics again. However, Stephen also assisted Szebiak to make a three-pointer. He killed more than half a quarter. The Supersonics have not been able to widen the score. Although Stephen kept scoring and scoring, the Kings played very well today.

Stephen quickly increased his score to 43 points, but he still only led the Kings by three points. However, as he assisted Szebiak to hit the three-point line again, he finally expanded the score advantage to six points, and the third quarter ended here.

There is still one quarter, only seven points away from the record of 50 in four consecutive games. At this time, everyone realized that Stephen had made this record unstoppable. Can anyone who can get twenty-three points in a single quarter still not get seven points? Only Artest clenched his fists below. He secretly decided to stop Stephen from creating history on himself and breaking the record, because this was the biggest insult to him, the best defensive player.


Chapter completed!