In this game, the Supersonics maintained the necessary defense, but their main energy was on offense, and they played the tactics they practiced in the past two days, that is, the offense was as smooth, simple and fast as possible, but the rhythm of the offense did not become faster.

Each attack was basically passed by more than three times, but the pace did not slow down. The ball was passed from Earl Watson and came to Stephen's hand. Stephen passed the ball to Yao Ming, who passed Yao Ming to Kevin Durant in the bottom corner to make a three-pointer.

This is the offensive mode shown by the Supersonics in this game. If Earl Watson passed the ball to Stephen, about half the chance of Stephen's passing ball will be back in his hands, or he will reorganize it, or he will directly shoot.

The number of shots occupied by Stephen has decreased significantly compared to the past, from nearly 40% to more than 30%. However, this has made the team's offense more smooth, and teammates are more willing to participate in the offense.

The Nuggets' state in this game has significantly decreased compared to the previous two games. In fact, according to the theory of Chinese military strategy, they can explain this phenomenon. At the beginning, they reached the point of being eliminated, and the sad soldiers will win, and their momentum suddenly rose. Then they won the game. The Supersonics can be described as arrogance soldiers will lose. After leading three to zero, they relaxed in spirit, relaxed in attitude, and reduced their will. As one goes up and down, they naturally lost two games in a row.

However, after defeating the Supersonics twice in a row, the Nuggets' momentum also declined. In addition, their efforts and hard work in these two games have also caused them physical and mental fatigue. In addition, after winning two games in a row, they will also be contemptuous of the Supersonics, which is inevitable.

It is not that the head coach or team boss can completely avoid these things by emphasizing and doing psychological work. Each player's psychology is a very complex and changeable systematic project, not to mention that there are so many players together, with qualitative changes and quantitative changes, which makes it difficult to analyze and unify their thinking. Therefore, the Nuggets' state in this game has a significant decline compared to the previous game. They only scored twenty-six points until the end of the first quarter. In the previous three games, the average score in the first quarter was 34:8, which is a big gap from today.

On the other hand, the Supersonics scored 34 points in the first quarter today, while Stephen scored 14 points personally, which is basically one-third of the team's score, which is also a relatively balanced and reasonable number.

Although it is contrary to the norm since the two teams have fought, the first one to lead has become the Supersonics, the players on the Nuggets still have not paid enough attention to it. The gap of a few points is not a gap for them at all. The fans of Pepsi Center Arena also did not lose confidence in the team, believing that since the team can win the opponent at the Supersonics, now they have returned to their own home court and with their support, they should win the opponent.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the second quarter, as soon as JR Smith and Linas Creza came on the bench, they joined forces to fight an 8-0 offensive to tie the score in one fell swoop. The fans immediately celebrated with ecstasy, but they did not notice that Caresimo, who was originally going to call a timeout, was stopped by Stephen. Then Stephen immediately assisted Damien Wilkins to shoot a three-pointer, and then defended JR Smith's shot, and then came over and shot a three-pointer in person, which opened the score again.

After coming over, JR Smith was about to take action, Stephen suddenly appeared in front of him, poked the ball out of his hand, and then turned around and said, "Today in front of me, don't think about hitting the ball again."

After saying this, Stephen immediately rushed to catch the ball quickly, then crossed the free throw line with two big steps, then jumped and swung his arm to dunk the ball into the basket, and scored two points, helping the team lead the Nuggets again by eight points.

After getting the ball, JR Smith, regardless of Stephen's defense, stubbornly chose to shoot. The ball really went far away from the basket, but it only touched the rebound slightly, and then fell into Coupard's hand. Coupard passed it to Stephen, who had already run through the half. Stephen raised his hand and made a fast attack three-pointer.

Forty-five: Thirty-four, watching the score difference widen to double digits, George Carl couldn't sit still, and after calling a timeout, he sent Billups to the field and replaced Anthony Carter. However, when the game started again, Billups had just dribbled the ball after halftime, JR Smith reached out to him for the ball. Seeing that Stephen was all focused on his own, he passed the ball to JR Smith, but the ball was passed, and Stephen also came to JR Smith.

According to normal circumstances, under this situation, JR Smith dared not take any more. He should pass the ball back to Billups or others, but JR Smith didn't. He remembered Stephen's words just now. Seeing Stephen standing in front of him again, JR Smith gritted his teeth and threw the ball into the basket again. But as soon as the ball was shot, Stephen laughed loudly and jumped in mid-air, reaching out to cover JR Smith's shot. Although it was directly covered by the sideline, the ball was still from the Nuggets, but JR Smith still did not break through Stephen's blockade and hit the basket.

"Don't keep his words in mind, don't rush to take action." Billups whispered when passing by JR Smith. When Stephen spoke to JR Smith, he happened to see him. Although he didn't know what Stephen said, he could guess that when he was with the Detroit Pistons, he had fought with the San Antonio Spurs many times, and Stephen left a very clear impression on him. Although Stephen was still a rookie at that time, Stephen had a growth rate far beyond others. Every time he met Stephen, he could feel Stephen's rapid progress.

Moreover, Stephen's offense is not only reflected in technology, but more importantly, his maturity in dealing with the game. He is not like a young player at all, but like an old player who has played for more than ten years. Naturally, they don't know how Stephen followed Robert Horry and other old players, and became like this. There are very few people outside the team's internal affairs. Even if the media knows it, it will not announce it, because once they do this, they will offend the team.

As an economic entity with assets of hundreds of millions of dollars, a team has a huge local influence. Usually, local media dare not offend such a behemoth. Of course, for sales and eye-catching, you can criticize or deliberately blacken the team or stars, but there must be a limit, especially not to harm the team's economic interests.

To talk about foreign media, you should know that the team is not isolated. Each team has twenty-nine allies, and there is also an alliance with more outstanding influence on them. The league itself is a huge media organization, so there is no media or media practitioners to provoke such existence.

Many celebrity players have extremely good image. You searched all the media and there was almost no negative news. Even if there was, it was irrelevant or there was no substantial evidence. Could it be that these super stars are so pure and gentlemen? Of course not. As a representative industry who gets rich overnight, ordinary players have not received any good education. Most of them were originally from street gangsters, so how could they become gentle all of a sudden? The main reason is that each team has a media protection plan for their celebrity players.

They usually communicate with the media in advance or make unwritten agreement that a certain player cannot be slandered, so even if you get such news materials, you cannot publish them. Otherwise, we should not let us cooperate with you in the future. Generally, players who are maintained at this level are the core of the team. Usually, one team has only one or two players to accept such protection, so these star players have such a good image. However, ordinary players are often reported from time to time to time to hide poison, but there are very few star players because they are under protection.

Of course, the agent's constraints on them or commercial endorsement contracts also play a certain role in their constraints, but the main role is the media protection plan. Otherwise, the players will be human, needy, and have seven emotions and six desires. They will be angry and pick up girls. If everything is revealed, they will lose their sense of mystery. Therefore, this media protection plan is very useful. Why do some players suddenly spread negative news after changing teams? It is because they lose the media protection treatment.

So outsiders don’t know Stephen’s growth process with the Spurs at all. No one even knows Stephen often mingles with them. They all think Stephen matures very quickly, but they don’t know that most of the credit is on them. Like LeBron James, he is already mature enough, but compared with Stephen, everything else is not enough, because when he joined the team, he was the boss of the team. No one can carry him like a younger brother and teach him a lot.

Stephen was not the case. He started as a follower since he was a child, and after a long time of mercy, he slowly grew up. With these people's words and deeds, he learned a lot of things that were not under the spotlight, and trash talk was one of the other.

After JR Smith got the ball, he saw Stephen coming over again. When he thought of Billoups' words, he passed the ball back to Billoups. Billoups immediately shot and shot the ball into the basket, which scored two points for the Nuggets and broke the team's scoring drought. However, Stephen immediately dribbled the ball and forced it to the basket, causing Nene Hilario to foul and scored the ball and scored another three-pointer.
Chapter completed!