Chapter 413: Famous place

Chapter 416
This Houston cockroach did not turn over in the fourth quarter after being crushed by the sun's feet.
In the fourth quarter, Adelman gave up playing Yao Ming and replaced it with a small lineup and the Suns, but it didn’t work well, because if you want to chase points in the fourth quarter, the first thing to do is to be able to Stop the opponent on the defensive end, and then your goal will make sense. Otherwise, if you score a goal, the opponent also scores a goal, and the time is reduced a little bit, and victory will slowly slip away from your hands.
The Rockets are obviously unable to contain the Suns defensively. Of course, Adelman is not doing nothing. He adjusted the defensive position and asked Shane Battier to defend against Nash. Battier used his defensive consciousness to constantly interfere with Nash's Pass the ball and follow him closely without giving him a chance to tear the Rockets defense. If it is the previous Sun and the previous Nash, this will undoubtedly be effective, and the Sun's offense may be stagnated.
But this season’s Nash is not the same Nash before. He played more resolutely than before. Since the Rockets use big defenses, then he unceremoniously showed the various skills of small hits to the Toyota Center fans. . No matter how good the defensive pace is, Battier can't keep up with Nash in the center of gravity. Nash used the dribble to get space for three consecutive times and ended the attack with a jumper.
Battier is an excellent defender, but when faced with offensive offensives from skilled outside ball holders, Battier's defensive effect has always been relatively mediocre. The difference is always stable at double digits. Seeing that the situation is not good, Adelman called the timeout to readjust, return to the regular defensive matchup, and let Ralph Alston go with Nash. Alstom played on the bench for the Celtics for a year, then roamed on several teams, and now he is firmly established as a starting point guard in the Rockets.
His steady dribble and three-pointers with one trick but no one are a good controller for the Rockets guard line. But he is still a bit too tender in front of Nash, not to mention that Leon almost knows all the technical characteristics of Alstom. His biggest problem on defense is his poor pick-and-roll prevention ability.
One Alstom, one Yao Ming, one outside and one inside, have many problems in pick-and-roll defense. Yao Ming is too tall and can’t be pulled out. Alstom is physically weak. Whether he squeezes or bypasses, he often follows Not the opponent, let alone his sparse and almost no blocking interference ability.
This is also an important reason why the Rockets were in a good situation last year and were turned over by the Utah Jazz. The two starters were unable to contain the other's core tactics, and even if they were in a big lead, they couldn't completely kill their opponents. The Suns are also a strong pick-and-roll team, even better than the Jazz.
Before this game, Nash and Stoudemire actually did not have many pick-and-rolls. This season Leon has deliberately weakened the dependence of the team's tactical system on Nash-Stoudemire's pick-and-rolls, but it does not mean that the power of the two pick-and-rolls has declined.
Leon saw that Adelman switched back to Alstom to defend against Nash. Naturally, he would not be polite. Nash and Stoudemire's pick-and-rolls on the offensive end played together. Whether it was Yao Ming or Scola, the pick-and-roll defense was very general. Yao Ming didn’t. On the scene, Stoudemire rushed forward, and Scola couldn't lift his head with two consecutive dunks. Although Scola quickly returned to the offensive end and scored from the basket with his footsteps, the point difference was neither opened nor narrowed, and it was so stalemate.
A little bit of time passed. The Rockets could not reproduce the miracle in the Toyota Center without Tracy McGrady. They also tried shooting from beyond the three-point line, but unfortunately it was too late. The Suns did not miss the defensive end. At the same time, the offensive end relied on the two most stable points of Stoudemire and Nash to score consecutively, so that the game lost suspense.
There were not many people in the entire Toyota Center. Seeing that the game was about to lose, the audience was getting less and less. In the last two minutes, the two sides changed the main lineup and stopped playing. The Toyota Center was almost gone except for some enthusiastic Chinese fans. Up.
In the end, the Suns beat the Houston Rockets with a 115:101, 14-point advantage. Amare Stoudemire made 9 of 9 shots and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 100% from the field. With 24 points, he is the well-deserved best player in this game.
In this way, the Suns continued to maintain their excellent record of losing only one game and lead the entire Western Conference. This result can be said to have played the face of many people who looked down on the sun before the start of the season. Many people think that the Suns lineup has not succeeded in three years. It is already at the end of the battle. It is impossible to make such minor repairs in the West. Achievements, will be the first to fall behind from the troika.
However, they forgot that O'Neal spent three years in the Los Angeles Lakers. It was not until 2000 that Phil Jackson took off. After the Phoenix Suns acquired Fox Leon, the tactical play was completely new, becoming more three-dimensional and richer. The sense of hierarchy, the firepower is getting fiercer and the defense is steadily improving. After the game with the Rockets, the Suns jumped from sixth place before the start of the season to second place on ESPN's newly released strength list.
The first place is of course the Boston Celtics. From the beginning of the season to the present, the Celtics have not yet tasted a defeat. After getting Ray Allen to form the Big Three, Boston has regained its glory and once again in the league. No difference. Reimbursed last season, Kevin Garnett, who has returned this season, is in great shape. He is the current MVP leaderboard and ranks first.
But the Sun and the Celtics are still too early to meet, and Leon doesn't need to worry about this problem for the time being. For the Suns, they will face a tighter schedule. Fight back to back with the Kings, take a rest day against the Clippers, then play the Warriors, return to the home court and fight the Rockets and Magic, and then start a road trip to the East.
After the game with the Rockets ended, the Suns boarded the plane back to Phoenix. Leon calculated the schedule for the next three weeks in his mind. To sum it up, there is no one that can play.
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Three weeks later, it has entered December. In winter, the weather in the United States is getting colder and colder, but the weather in Phoenix is ​​not bad. Leon has just returned from the cold Minnesota. This is the last part of their last road trip. Starting in New York, making a circle along the northern border of the United States, finally finished the Timberwolves game and ended the road trip.
In the past three weeks, the Suns have lived up to expectations and continued to sing forward. They only lost two of the 10 games. One was avenged by the Houston Rockets after returning to the home court. After Tracy McGrady came back, Yao Ming really showed his power and penetrated inside. The sun. The other game was against the Timberwolves one day ago. They suffered a cold winter at the center of the triangle and were suppressed by the Timberwolves. Finally, they lost the game 114:117.
The loss of this game was also expected by Leon. This is the last and fifth game of the road trip. The players have been exhausted from the continuous journey~EbookFREE.me~ so after returning to Phoenix Leon immediately gave the players a vacation and let them take a good rest.
But today Leon didn't give himself a vacation. He got up early in the morning, put on his jacket and went out to the team's training hall. During this time, he was setting up a small stove for Boris Dior to help him train low defense.
For this reason, Leon also specially pulled Stoudemire as a sparring partner. Stoudemire is energetic and he will of course not let go of this opportunity to accept the best coaches in the league. And he also wants to see if he can improve his defense, although even Leon is not very hopeful.
After arriving at the training hall, Stoudemire and Dior have arrived. They are wearing Suns training uniforms. There is another person present together. He is the former Suns star and retired center Alwan Adams. He is currently on the team. Served as Vice President of Operations. Today Leon specially invited him over to provide technical guidance for the team's two insiders.
After all, he is the star of the Suns. Although he is not a great star in NBA history, he is also a strong inside player. In that era when the inside was king, he was a white insider who established a foothold in the league through his unique technical style. , Of course, it is not in vain.
(End of this chapter)