Chapter 71 Worries on the battlefield

In the game against the Washington Wizards, Stephen saw for the first time what is unstoppable, what is ignoring defense, what is arrows falling like rain, and what is perfect shots. Bruce Bowen is known as the best outside defender, but there is no way to face the Wizards' All-Star shooting guard, who is called "Agent Zero".

With 11 of twelve shots from two points, four-pointers from three-pointers, nine of eight free throws, Arenas scored forty-three points. This was the first time Stephen saw someone get a score of 40 extra points in front of him. Arenas was omnipresent in the whole game, especially layups and mid-range jump shots, which made him completely unsuccessful. The only one who missed was Bowen who had hit his arm, but the referee did not whistle.

Only fouls can prevent him from scoring. Even if Stephen watched on the court, he could only come to this conclusion. This has nothing to do with defensive skills and defensive strength. Through Arenas's extraordinary performance, Stephen thought that his shooting should be a sensory shot. This is the feeling of shooting, so he can shoot whatever he wants.

But what should we do if we don’t have a shooting feeling? Then we should be habitual shooting. Kobe, McGrady, Arenas, Iverson and others should be this kind of. When we have feelings, we can sweep forty and fifty, and when we don’t, it’s twenty-thirty. Especially Kobe Bryant this season, he scored thirty-three points in the first game, and then thirty-nine points, thirty-seven points, thirty-seven points, and twenty-eight points. Only in the game that just ended, Iverson made only seven of his 27 shots against Iverson, but on the contrary, Iverson scored thirty-four points.

However, they all have one characteristic, that is, they have no doubt control over the team's right to take action. They are the only core of the team. McGrady is a little bit short of that. Because the Rockets have Yao Ming, it is impossible to get more than twenty shots in every game.

The right to take action is the main factor for getting high scores. Without the right to take action, there is naturally no way to score. Seeing Arenas cutting melons and vegetables, a hint of envy flashed inexplicably in the depths of Stephen's heart. It must be very good to do this. He doesn't want to be a lonely king like James, but he is willing to be a lonely hero like Arenas. Apart from the defense against the opponent, he doesn't need to think about so much, just score.

Moreover, scoring seems to win the game. In Stephen's opinion, the Wizards' defense is like a funnel, but with Arenas' crazy performance, there is no way to defeat so many players in front of them. The entire league is panicked and the Spurs are defeated by the horse. Although the Wizards are one of the strong teams in the East, the overall strength of the East is generally inferior to the Western Conference. If the Wizards switch to the West, they may not even be able to enter the playoffs, but such a team has done something that no other team can do.

The Washington Wizards did something that no other players could do, and this kind of thing is naturally worthy of the media's special report. Arenas just scored 32 points in a back-to-back game, 137 to 96. He beat the Seattle Supersonics and scored another 43 points when he turned around. He was unanimously considered to be a powerful opponent in Kobe's scoring leader this season.

However, these are a painful memory for the Spurs. However, the away trip to the Eastern Conference finally ends here. For Stephen, there is another good news that his suspension career is about to end. The Charlotte Bobcats, Boston Celtics, and Washington Wizards, sitting on the sidelines watching their teammates fight on the field, can only be a bystander, which has made Stephen so depressed that he will make him determined not to allow such things to happen again except for injuries.

Although the six-game winning streak ended here, **Vicci does not value this. He does not value these records. No matter how many consecutive wins the team has, how good the regular season record is, for a team like the Spurs, as long as they cannot win the championship, it is a failure. For **Vicci, there is another idea to break the law that the team cannot win the championship in even years. With the Lakers in 2003, there was no chance for the Spurs at all. In 2004, he lost to the Lakers with four kings. Although they did not win the championship, for the Spurs, this law is still considered to exist. If this law is broken, it will break the doubt that the Spurs will never defend the title.

Especially this season, the Heat made **Vicci very afraid. Although O'Neal was old, his power at the basket was still unstoppable. Wade also allowed **Vicci to vaguely see the Jordan of the past. Although he was still much worse than Jordan, through these games, Wade had developed a three-point long shot. In addition, he had already had the ability to break through and the mid-range shot that could not open the situation, the more he could make the ball. The combination of one inside and one outside is a replica of the three consecutive championships in the past. Pat Riley is also very good at such a lineup. Recently, there have been news that Pat Riley will regain the coaching spike and replace his disciple Stan Van Gundy.

**Vicci believes that this news is not completely groundless. With his understanding of Pat Riley, Pat Ritter will definitely do such a thing. On the one hand, he is still unfulfilled in his ambitions, and on the other hand, he also believes that Stan Van Gundy does not have enough experience to lead the team to the championship.

**While Vic was planning the team's long-term future, Stephen was trying to get the ground and drinking his own sweat on the training ground. Back to this familiar training ground, Stephen felt that even his touch, which had not made any breakthroughs for a long time, had improved. He couldn't practice more on the away game, and he couldn't even complete normal shooting training. Who knew that the shooting percentage would increase in such a week.

After observing a lot, Engelland told Stephen that he has now entered a period of stable growth in shooting percentage. After only practicing, the shooting percentage will continue to rise according to inertia. Even the current shooting percentage has basically met the requirements of the top player in the official game. As long as he has confidence, does not force his shots, and does not make random moves, the shooting percentage can be guaranteed to be more than 30%.

This is very good news for Stephen. Although Stephen has developed a variety of scoring methods and is no longer the kind of rookie who only knows how to dunk, shooting is still the most suitable scoring method in the game.

Back in San Antonio, Stephen's training program suddenly increased a lot. In addition to Engelland's shooting training, Stephen also followed Duncan and others to do basic movement training in the inside offense training and dribbling. Only by training various offensive methods and basic movements to the extreme can he use them as he pleased in the game.

After seeing Anthony, James, Pierce, and Stephen deeply felt that there was a huge gap between him and them, especially in terms of basketball talent, the difference was even greater. Although Stephen's body had been strengthened to a level that was no less than them, Stephen's control ability was not enough to fully control this body, let alone when he started basketball training.

Every night when I returned to my residence, Stephen would open the mailbox to see if there was any reply from Johnny, but day by day, there was no movement at all. Is the war in Afghanistan very tense and didn't even have time to reply an email? Stephen found a lot of reports related to the Afghan war and found that the situation did not deteriorate anyway.

At this time, in the far Middle East, at the Mahira Island Air Force Base in the Republic of Oman, a small team of Navy SEALs were wearing yellow camouflage outfits and camouflage on their faces and walked down from a stalker. They had just carried out a capture of Al Qaeda No. 2 Atiye Abud Rahman. Although they did not succeed, they also successfully captured more than forty hardcore Al Qaeda elements, adding five points to each of their merit points.

The SEALs have another set of military merit calculation methods. Although the tasks they perform are extremely dangerous, it is very easy to accumulate military merit. If a person can serve in the SEALs for three years without sacrifice, it is equivalent to five years of fighting in the front line troops and ten years of ordinary troops.

"Johnny, this is the report of the Spurs that you are most concerned about. I didn't expect that you are a Spurs fan like me, but this is not a matter of confidentiality. It is very open to like a team." The logistics staff responsible for receiving them immediately connected them to the camp that had been prepared long ago. The sergeant responsible for logistics brought a stack of newspapers to Johnny. He found that Johnny was very concerned about reports related to the Spurs several times, thinking that Johnny was a Spurs fan like him, so he was very friendly to Johnny.

"Thank you." Johnny took the report and smiled at him, showing his snow-white teeth, and then opened the newspaper and started reading.

"I think with Michael Finley joining, the Spurs will definitely be able to defend their title successfully." The sergeant chief was not polite, and sat down next to Johnny and began to discuss with Johnny. Johnny was very concerned about him, but Johnny had searched through the recent newspapers and there was no report related to Stephen.

"I think that rookie has a greater effect on the team." Did something happen to Stephen and get hurt? Johnny was a little worried, but he didn't want to reveal his excessive concern for Stephen, so he pretended to be relaxed, as if he was discussing casually.

"That rookie is really good. Coach **Vic is really good. He can actually find such a good player in the second round. But I don't know what's going on. I haven't seen him appear in several games. I can't have suffered any injuries. The Orientals' body is not as good as ours."

"That's it." Johnny responded casually, but he couldn't help but worry about Stephen. However, he could not see the basketball game on site in the military camp, and the second-level network in the camp was destroyed by those terrorists. He couldn't go online. He wanted to see the latest online reports. He didn't know what happened to Stephen and did not play for two or three consecutive games.
Chapter completed!