Chapter 336
336. No one has ever thought about this
The bottom line fans cursed directly, Kwame Brown's ball was too wild! Even the Trail Blazers fans couldn't help but swear.
The Trail Blazers players on the sidelines all jumped up. The Little Overlord has absolutely the best physical fitness, but only looking at the physical fitness, Kwame Brown has to be even more vigorous!
Kwame Brown screamed twice after landing, and celebrated with a chimpanzee-like chest beating.
Stadmeier was so angry that he ran to the frontcourt and heard Liu Xiu praise Kwame Brown for being the first high school student. He immediately headed and came to the left of the three-second zone to lean against Kwame Brown for the ball!
Nash happened to need a singles, and was still struggling with happiness to Jo Johnson or Stodmeier or Stodmeier. Now he was struggling, finding the right time to pass the ball to the ground, leaning against Kwame Brown's Stodmeier to catch the ball and turn to the singles in the frame. Kwame Brown was so excited that he believed that he could defend himself... The little bully broke through at close range, turned around, jumped quickly under Rahim's pounce, and bounced up and smashed the ball into the basket!
This ball is so beautiful! It is clean and neat, with a crisp dunk, and a perfect combination of technology and physical fitness. Stoudemire regained the scene and helped the Suns offset the morale pressure brought by Liu Xiu and Kwame Brown's all-connection cooperation.
When it comes to the Trail Blazers' offense, the Trail Blazers' scoring is not difficult, but even when facing the Trail Blazers' defense, the Suns can still get a scoring opportunity with the pick-and-roll attack initiated by Nash, Stoudemire or Marion.
The game was dragged into a stalemate by the Suns again!
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The word ‘drag’ seems inappropriate to put it on the leading team, but the Suns are such a magical team.
In the middle of the month, even the Spurs were dragged into the quagmire by the Suns. The Spurs, which averaged 97 points per game so far this season and lost 90 points per game, lost to the Suns 107-115.
The weak team cannot feel the Suns' drag, and they will be beaten directly. The strong team will have to feel it. The Trail Blazers will feel it tonight!
In singles, the Trail Blazers star group is not inferior to the Suns; in positional combat team attacks, the Trail Blazers and the Suns have their own advantages; but in terms of seizing the opportunity to counterattack, the Suns are stronger than the Trail Blazers!
The Trail Blazers are very experienced in defending counterattacks, and tonight they are not only defending counterattacks, but also defending the Suns as well as being very good. However, there will always be times when they are protected from leaks during a thousand days of defense, and the Suns will suddenly score a goal.
The most difficult thing about the Suns' "drag" is their "drag" is the effect of the play, not the subjective purpose of the drag. However, they happen to have invincible offense and defense that they cannot defend against whenever they are strong teams.
The Suns have only one goal - scoring! Their players have been playing so far, and they have believed that as long as they run and rush forward, they will definitely win.
Tonight, the Trail Blazers, who played against the Suns for the first time, were also dragged into the quagmire.
In the first quarter, the Suns led the Trail Blazers 34-26 8 points. In the second quarter, the Suns led the Trail Blazers 27-24 3 points. After the half-time, the score difference was widened to 11 points, and the Suns led 61-50!
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When he entered the intermission, Liu Xiu returned to the locker room and was called by the coaching staff.
In the first half, the coaching staff had tried every possible way, and used up all the timeouts, constantly adjusting, from tactics to lineup rotation, there was no way to go, so I looked for some immature suggestions from the warden.
Liu Xiu brainstormed for a while and asked, "Why don't we try to fight against the other party?"
Defensive assistant coach Buzderick feels unreliable - the Suns must not take off against each other?
Don’t mention this strategy, Liu Xiu himself thought it was unreliable. In his impression, he said that the Suns would stop when they encountered a strong defensive team, but it wasn’t like that when they really fought! It was impossible to defend at all!
Liu Xiu only knew that the Suns lost to the Spurs 1-4 in the Western Conference Finals in 2005, but what he didn't know was that even in the playoffs, the Spurs did not really limit the Suns' offense.
The Spurs averaged 27 points per game with Duncan, Ginobili averaged 22 points per game, and Parker averaged 20 points per game in the series, and defeated the Suns by offense. Of course, this is based on the Spurs being able to limit the Suns' average score to 104 points in the playoffs, beating the Suns, who averaged 108.2 points per game.
The Suns swept the Grizzlies with an average of 113.8 points per game in the first round, and defeated the Mavericks 4-2 in the second round, and reached the Western Conference Finals!
Before and after the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs averaged 84.9 points in the finals and 98.7 points in the second round. Even the Spurs had to rely on offense to deal with the Suns.
Duncan, Ginobili, and Parkes averaged 20+ games in the finals. It was precisely because of this performance that Ginobili and Parker were fortunate to be tied with Duncan for the "Tricks of Horses".
Based on the actual situation, Liu Xiu thought that it would be better to make a comeback than to be able to defend himself, so he put forward this suggestion; the defensive assistant coach denies this suggestion based on common sense. The final decision is in the hands of coach Morris Chicks. The two are just providing reference opinions. When they have a meeting, they must have different opinions.
No one proposed to attack, and the coach didn't think about that. Just like Buzderick, after the first month of the game, the public opinion about the Suns was discussing how to defend the Suns, and almost no one discussed how to fight against the Suns.
The coach recalled that he used Randolph to play center in the second quarter to suppress the speed. Although the Suns scored 7 points in a single quarter, their own score was still 3 points less than the opponent, and the difference continued to be widened... What if the small lineup was playing offense?
No one has raised this kind of thing, and it may be that no one has ever thought about it.
The coach made the decision! Take a try!
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After returning from the break, the Trail Blazers sent a combination of Flying Squirrels, Liu Xiu, Joan Barry, Rahim, and Kwame Brown; the Suns sent a combination of Nash, Barbosa, Joe Johnson, Marion and Steven Hunter.
Liu Xiu saw that there were only 8 players in the Suns so far, so he was very D'Antoni.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Marion ran to the bottom line to receive the ball after pick-and-roll, and replaced the defender with two points... Failed! Liu Xiu took back the wing and grabbed the defensive rebound and launched a counterattack!
The Trail Blazers hardly made a counterattack in the first half and kept suppressing the rhythm. The Suns were caught off guard and retreated hastily. After receiving the ball in the frontcourt, Rahim attracted the attack from Barbosa and Marion, who were retreating and defending in place in the Suns. The Flying Squirrels and Joe Barry who followed behind attracted the defense of Nash and Joe Johnson. Rahim passed the ball to the left of the three-second zone, and Liu Xiu received the pass and made a layup!
When the Suns attacked, the unexpected situation made them not concentrate enough on the offensive end. After the ball came to Joe Johnson on the wing, he passed the ball to Barbosa in the middle and was too careless. The flying mouse in the middle was snatched! Barbosa immediately turned around and grabbed the ball, slapped the flying mouse on the arm of the flying mouse, and made a tactical foul to prevent the Trail Blazers from launching a counterattack.
Although Buzderick denies the suggestion of using attack, it is just an opinion in the meeting. He is professional. The coach decides to play attack. Of course, he has to emphasize the defensive goals that players can achieve based on the lineup, hit height with speed and create opportunities in the middle. The Suns have played a lot of this move. Now they don’t consider comprehensive defense anymore. These small-scale defenses that may be limited were mentioned by Buzderick. They seized the defensive opportunity when the opportunity came!
Falling into the positional battle, Xiao Feishe received the ball and launched a quick attack. Liu Xiu moved quickly. When receiving the ball, he found that his teammates had a chance. He passed the ball with a predictive pass...Joan Barry ran back and used the cover to catch Liu Xiu's pass and turned around and hit a three-pointer!
After a 5-0 wave, the Trail Blazers chased the score to 55-61, and the score difference narrowed to 6 points!
The Trail Blazers only took 13 seconds to attack this time. Seeing this, the Suns already understood what the Trail Blazers wanted to do.
But they are not afraid of this!
When the Suns attacked, Nash and Marion passed the ball to Barbosa after pick-and-roll. Barbosa cut into the basket and flew to dunk to score two points. Kwame Brown failed to defend and even made a foul. Barbosa made a free throw, breaking the score 64-55, and the score difference opened to 9 points again, and the two teams' offensive battle began!
In the first half of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers scored 18-15 in the half quarter, with a score of 68-76, tightening the score difference in single digits. However, in the second half of the third quarter, the Little Ballon made 3 of 4 shots and 3 of 3 free throws, scoring 9 points and 1 assist, helping the Suns to return the Trail Blazers one-half quarter-and-half quarter-and-18 points. After the three quarters, the Suns led the Trail Blazers 94-82 and entered the break with 12 points!
During this break during the festival, the warden chose to use the Q spirit to improve the fighting spirit of his teammates - he lost so many points in the first and second quarters, and the Suns in the third quarter had 33 points in a single quarter, and they only lost 1 point, which is a great improvement.
This is true, and the team members took the initiative to think the warden was right!
In the final quarter, the Trail Blazers really had a chance, and the Suns' wing shots dropped accurately!
The Trail Blazers used this to limit the scoring efficiency of the Suns' positional battle and counterattack, limiting the Suns' scoring to only 25 points, which is the lowest single-quarter score of the Suns in this game.
At the same time, the Trail Blazers are also trying hard to catch up points. They played 11 minutes and 43 seconds in the last quarter. Liu Xiu made the third three-pointer in this game, making 4 of 8 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 12 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal in a single quarter. Randolph's 7 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in a single quarter, which helped the Trail Blazers score 31 points in a single quarter. The Trail Blazers chased the 6-point difference in a single quarter!
But unfortunately, the Suns still scored too many 25 points in the final quarter, and Liu Xiu and his teammates tried their best to counterattack and stopped at Liu Xiu's last three-pointer.
At 9:27 pm, the final whistle sounded.
Although Liu Xiu made 13 of 25 shots in the game, including 3 of 7 three-pointers, plus 12 of 14 free throws soared 41 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, losing to Nash's 19 points, 4 rebounds, 15 assists and 1 steal.
119 to 111, the Suns defeated the Trail Blazers, improving their record to 14 wins and 2 losses, and continuing to be ranked first in the league!
Chapter completed!