Healing Basketball

Chapter 477. Chapter 477.

Tonight, the Trail Blazers had the best start of the season against the Suns!

Liu Xiu made 4 of 3 shots in the first quarter, plus 1 of 1 free throws. He scored 7 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal. The conventional style of play caught the Suns by surprise.

A day ago, back-to-back against the Jazz and Nuggets, who had better defenses, they threw more than 30 throws regardless. , The Suns can't even guarantee basic defense.

Although 29 points is not as crazy as the 36 points scored in the last away game, but this is an adjustment made for defense, reducing fast breaks and controlling the speed of the game. To 20 minutes!
The 9-point lead is much larger than the previous 36-point lead in a single quarter.

If it weren't for D'Antoni's response in the last two minutes, the Trail Blazers would be able to end the first quarter with a double-digit lead over the Suns.

It's a pity that D'Antoni is much better than the current Popovich and Van Gundy in terms of on-the-spot response.

Being able to defend the Suns, Liu Xiu felt that it was thanks to Amare Stoudemire, a high school bully with poor defense and very sensitive.

There is one thing to say, Liu Xiu thinks that Xiaobawang's man-marking and blocking, regardless of the overall situation, only looks at the effect of man-marking and blocking, which is really good.

However, Xiaobawang's defensive choices, awareness, and basic skills are astonishingly poor!

Liu Xiu even felt that the current Xiaobawang's defense was worse than when they played against each other at the end of 2003!Little did Bully know how his defensive options would work.

In fact, in the 02-03 season, the rookie season of the bully, the former Suns coach Frank Johnson was training the power forward of the bully's offensive and defensive integration, and the training was pretty good, but in the middle of the 03-04 season, D'Antoni replaced him. After Frank Johnson became the coach of the Suns, he immediately overturned Frank Johnson's training method for the bully, and fully developed the offense of the bully.

It’s hard to say how much D’Antoni helped the bully’s offensive development. The final result seems to be more of a growth spurt. When an insider retires, he still only knows how to face the frame. He is still only destructive at the age of 30. own knees.

And Xiaobawang's defense, which was just started in the second grade, was strangled in the cradle. During the very important stage of laying the foundation, no one taught him how to defend. Now that he is only in the third grade, it can be seen that the defense is basically ruined.

In Liu Xiu's view, D'Antoni has a strong ability to discover role players, but let's forget about cultivating new players.

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Back from the intermission, the Trail Blazers sent a combination of Flying Squirrel, Liu Xiu, Raheem, Van Horn, and Kwame Brown.

Although the Suns were limited to only 20 points in the first quarter, Maurice Cheeks' adjustment during the intermission was still based on the premise that he could not prevent the Suns and had to attack the Suns.

The Suns sent a combination of Nash, Barbosa, Joe Johnson, Marion, and Astadmire.

In addition to the big Q, Jim Jackson, and Steven Hunter who played in the first quarter, the Suns will rotate these 8 players tonight.

Liu Xiu doesn't think much of Mike D'Antoni, who is now being touted as the "strongest coach in the new era", but he attaches great importance to the player Xiaobawang.

With Nash's addition, the bully's average performance of 26 points per game is real.

Although Xiaobawang entered the NBA directly after graduating from high school, his mental quality is not good, but his self-regulation ability is very good. No, although Xiaobawang who reappeared is still looking at Liu Xiu viciously, his eyes are not as irritable as in the first quarter. Even more determined than the opening stages of the game.

Soon, the second quarter began. The Suns, who lost the jump ball, took the lead. They played an unstoppable offense from the very beginning!

Trailing by 9 points, the Suns are playing harder and harder than usual!
Little Overlord put aside his face and acted as the third pick-up point in the pick-and-roll cooperation between Nash and Marion. Hardworking and smart and calm.

With the assistance of such a bully, Nash led the team to play a fierce offense.

Joe Johnson on the wing took on the heavy responsibility of scoring in the second quarter. The contemporary Jordan made 7 of 4 shots in the second quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 12 points in a single quarter!
加上纳什的单节5分5助攻、小霸王的7分、马里昂的6分……太阳队第二节狂飙32分！
It's hard to find anyone to defend against this ferocious attack.

However, the Trail Blazers adjusted properly. They didn't expect to continue to defend at the beginning. Little Flying Squirrel and Liu Xiu started the crazy shooting mode in the second quarter. Together with Randolph, who played in rotation, he scored 7 offensive rebounds in a single quarter, and with the support of Van Horn on the wing, he and the Suns went back and forth on offense!

Relying on Liu Xiu's mid-range shot at the buzzer at the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers scored 34 points in the second quarter!
Liu Xiu scored 7 points and 4 assists in the first quarter and 10 points and 2 assists in the second quarter.

在半场拿到17分3板6助攻1抢断1盖帽的刘秀的带领下，开拓者队以63比53领先太阳队10分进入中场休息！
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With 12 points and 8 assists in the half, he was actually 10 points behind. During the intermission, Nash felt tremendous pressure.

There's still a chance, though -- the third quarter!

The third quarter is the one that most tests the strength of the stars.

After the physical exhaustion in the first half and the interruption of the game rhythm during the halftime break, in the third quarter, the performance of most role players will be greatly affected, even a top team like the Suns cannot avoid it.

However, the performance of the Suns in the third quarter of this season ranks among the top in the league!

Because they have Nash!

Many people have forgotten that in the first three or four years of the most prosperous era of iron and blood, Nash had already been selected as an All-Star by relying on singles.

In the 01-02 season, Nash averaged 48 points and 45 assists with 88% field goal percentage, 17.9% three-point field goal percentage, and 7.6% free throw percentage. The Mavericks have the fourth-highest number of shots, behind Nowitzki, Finley, Van Exel or Juwan Howard.

Nash, who has just turned 31 years old and is in his prime, is worthy of anyone in singles!

Moreover, he also has a very trusted helper-Joe Johnson.

In his opinion, Joe Johnson is the most promising young talent in the team to surpass him in singles.

Back from the intermission, Nash took Joe Johnson, Big Q, Stoudemire, and Steven Hunter onto the court, full of momentum.

However, no matter how aggressive and confident he was, Nash also felt tremendous pressure when he saw the Trail Blazers starting in the third quarter.

Little Flying Squirrel, Raheem, Randolph, Van Horn, and the supernova who has only played 4 game since April and has not scored 1+ points in a single game - Warden Liu Xiu!

But despite the great pressure, Nash's excitement is also soaring!

He felt the excitement and fighting spirit from Liu Xiu's eyes, coupled with the frenzied atmosphere of Rose Bay Devil's home court, he also became excited!

At the beginning of the third quarter, Nash came up and hit a three-pointer with a singles!
56 to 63, the Suns narrowed the point difference to 7 points.

In the transition between offense and defense, Flying Squirrel advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu took the initiative to ask for the ball, and was just hit by Nash's three-pointer that looked like he was lying in the air. He decisively chose to respond.

Big Q made a good defensive choice this time, taking a step back to defend, but Liu Xiu still chose to break through.

The big Q has enough space to move laterally. Although the defense is gone in the Suns, the level of effort remains the same. He actively moves laterally to block the defense. However, space is relative. The big Q has room to move, and Liu Xiu also has it. Room for more offensive moves!Liu Xiu took the initiative to lean towards the big Q, easily resisted the big Q, turned right, and broke through the middle!
Amid the cheers of the fans at the scene, Liu Xiu entered the basket and leaned against Steven Hunter to make a layup.

Steven Hunter has already done a good job with the ball. The awareness of movement and the interference of vertical take-off after standing still have shown the qualities that a frame-protecting center should have. Unfortunately, the movement speed is slow, the jump is not high, and the confrontation Not good enough, the big Q was passed too quickly, and even the most basic thing of preventing the opponent from breaking through the middle was not done. Steven Hunter reacted quickly and expanded in time without being blocked.

65 to 56, the Trail Blazers led by 9 points.

After one round, the point difference narrowed by 1 point, but Nash's pressure did not decrease.

Nash chose singles for three-pointers instead of more stable singles for two-pointers in order to arouse Liu Xiu's fighting spirit and soar three-pointers. He has the confidence to hang Liu Xiu unless Liu Xiu hits 12 shots like he did against the Nuggets A three-pointer of 5, so Nash admits it, otherwise Nash feels that he is sure to win.

This is the confidence that a running and bombing team star should have!
However, although Liu Xiu responded immediately and began to fight in singles, he didn't shoot a three-pointer. He was better at breaking through the frame more steadily!

Moreover, it was not obvious when playing team offensive and defensive battles before. Now that the singles mode is turned on, Nash feels that Liu Xiu is in great condition!

From the start of the breakthrough, to the timing of the confrontation, to the rhythm of the back turn, to the feel of leaning on the center for the layup...

But Nash has long been used to things like pressure.

He has been against the wind since he entered the NBA. Now, at the age of 31, he has finally come back. In this game, he also has the confidence to come back!
Nash's amazing three-pointer and Liu Xiu's rough attack kicked off the prelude to the star confrontation between the two teams in the third quarter. The two led their teammates to start a fierce confrontation.

Warden + Little Flying Squirrel VS Zonda + Contemporary Jordan, the four singles masters have their own characteristics, but it is not these four who decide the situation of the game, but the butcher and the bully.

The offensive rebounds of the two played a vital role when the two teams scored in singles from the outside!

(End of this chapter)