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Another day later, the Sonics ushered in the challenge of the Phoenix Suns at home. As one of the traditional strong teams in the West, the Suns have encountered challenges from many teams this season, and the Sonics are one of them. one. :Reading novels[]

Now the top four teams in the Western Conference, the New Orleans Hornets, Seattle SuperSonics, and Los Angeles Lakers, these three teams in the first two or three seasons, either failed to make the playoffs, or barely made it The ranks of the playoffs.

But this season, the West ushered in a big shakeup, first of all, the sudden rise of the New Orleans Hornets, then the Seattle SuperSonics' strength all the way, and finally, the Lakers' explosion after the trade. The Phoenix Suns, San Antonio The Spurs and Dallas Mavericks squeezed into the bottom half.

After the Suns found that they could not continue to maintain their advantage with their accustomed running and bombing tactics, they desperately traded Sean Marion for "Shark" O'Neal from the Miami Heat, intending to use his last glory to fight. Can you get out of the way.

But O'Neal can't adapt to the Suns' running and bombing tactics, so when he appears on the court, the Suns must slow down the pace to adapt to O'Neal's increasingly heavy pace, or leave him behind and attack with four .

The departure of Sean Marion made the Suns completely without outside defense and help defense between the inside and outside. The arrival of O'Neill has increased the inside defense ability, but he alone cannot change the overall defense of the Suns. In addition, the partner around him is Amare Stedmeier, who has almost no defense. Once he works too hard on the defensive end, fouls are an inevitable result without helpers.

So after the exchange for O'Neal, the Suns have been struggling, and their record has not risen but declined. Occasionally, after a few games, they suddenly shut down, which makes people unable to understand. In the final analysis, the entire Suns team is used to that. This fast-paced style of play like wind and fire is simply not suitable for the current slow-paced style of play. [~]

When encountering problems that cannot be solved, the Suns will naturally switch back to the previous style of play. At this time, O'Neal staying on the court is a very embarrassing giant running machine, and he cannot participate in the game at all.

After the two sides entered the game, they played three rounds of normal offense. O'Neal scored four points and one rebound. With plenty of physical strength, his ability and experience were not enough for a young man like Coupard. , but after three rounds, the Suns started to run wildly again.

Such a Suns team is no longer a threat to the current Sonics team. The current Sonics team is sometimes even faster than the Suns team in terms of offensive rhythm. too used to it.

After running for more than half a quarter, the Suns realized that the style of play they were accustomed to did not help them take the lead, but fell behind their opponents by a large score, and the point difference was still widening. At this time, they wanted to re-enter the positional battle mode , The Sonics have not given him this opportunity.

After scoring a record-breaking 83 points in the last game, Stephen's offensive desire seemed to be over-released. In this game, his shooting desire was very low. Pass the ball to teammates.

However, in this game, the Supersonic players seemed to have recovered their touch. One by one, they all felt hot, especially Durant, who seemed to have changed from yesterday. , The mid-range shot from seven feet away, the shot from the basket, almost how to make the shot, so far, he has made [-] of [-] shots, and his shooting percentage is [-]%.

Watson made two of three shots, Wilcox made two of four shots, Coupard made two of three shots, Stephen sent eight assists before the end of the first quarter, and in the second quarter, Stephen's assists were strong A little lower, after the substitute lineup came on the field, when the offense came to a slight standstill, one person scored crazily, scored eight points with shots and penalties, and then turned on the assist mode. ( ·~ )

At the end of the first half, the battle between the two sides was 64 to 47. The Sonics held a [-]-point advantage. This was the result of "Brazilian Lightning" Barbosa hitting three consecutive three-pointers after he came on the court. Bigger, Stephen only scored [-] points and [-] assists in the first half.

In the second half, when Stephen was not on the court, the Suns launched a crazy counterattack. Without Stephen, the Sonics could not cope with such a counterattack. The point difference was narrowed step by step until the point difference was reduced to [-]. At the time, Carlesimo replaced Stephen.

Stephen came up and hit the Suns with a two-plus-one, and then scored another fast-break layup after a steal. Durant made a three-pointer, and the point difference was further widened.

In the fourth quarter, O'Neal reappeared and began to show off his power. His power at the basket was still so terrifying. Coupard was successfully beaten by him in a row. As "the most flexible fat man in history", he can still make many unexpected movements.

Turn around the basket and the small hook is still so proficient. As long as he receives the ball at the basket, there is no other way but to foul, and Nash’s passing has never disappointed, although he is not playing positional warfare. In the first 3 minutes of the fourth quarter, the two teams entered a stalemate, and the Sonics showed a slight decline.

However, with a huge lead in their hands, they did not panic, played very patiently, and controlled the game with their own rhythm, regardless of how their opponents played. This made many fans or experts who understand fans very impressed. Thankfully, this is a team that is gradually maturing.

Very stable, able to stick to himself, not relaxed because of the lead, nor irritable because of the lag. Like Cheng Yaojin, who exhausted all his physical strength and ability, he returned to the field sadly, and the Suns returned to the run-and-gun style of play.

But this was still not enough to save them. With more than two minutes left in the game, the Sonics already had an advantage of nearly [-] points. Seeing that there was no hope of chasing points, the two teams replaced all main force.

In this game, Stephen scored 28 points and sent 22 assists. At the same time, he was also the first player to send 83 assists in the second game after scoring more than [-] points in the previous game. The player with ten assists, whose personal scoring average was originally pulled up because of the [-] points in the previous game, was pulled down a little.

O'Neal scored [-] points and [-] rebounds in this game. At a glance, he is still a very good insider stat, but he can only maintain this performance in a short period of time. The rest of the time is so obvious against the Suns Out of place, it makes people feel that the Suns traded him over, which is not a suitable deal.

After sending off the Suns, the Sonics also came to Los Angeles the next day. This was also the last match between the Sonics and the Lakers this season. In the first two games, the Sonics won one and lost one. The game ended in a tie, because both sides are the No.1 teams in the sub-division, and the record between each other is a tie.

In the case of the same total winning percentage, No.1 in their respective divisions, and a tie between each other's records, the Sonics are ahead of the Lakers only by virtue of their record against teams in the same division. A period of crazy pursuit can break this situation at any time.

So this game is very important to the Sonics and to Stephen himself. One involves the ranking advantage, and the other involves the ranking of the most valuable players in the regular season. The value player rankings occupy one or two places respectively.

Stephen leads the way with personal data, but Kobe Bryant's data is not bad either. Although it is not as good as Stephen, it is also one of the best performances in his career. At the age of 30, he can get such data. It is indeed surprising.

Coupled with the injustice to him in the previous two seasons, and the record of the Lakers this season has improved significantly after the trade, this makes people have no reason to object. Many people think that this award should be voted for Kobe, Stephen The lead is loosening, seeing that the top position in the list is not guaranteed.

At this time, Stephen used a more dazzling 83 points than Kobe Bryant to regain his advantage. He once again proved that what Kobe can do, he can also do it, and he can do it better. Kobe alone The guy who leads the team can't stay competitive, he can.

What is the most valuable player can be interpreted as two kinds of data and function. Data is to play dazzling data, which is unmatched by others. The second is function, which makes the team better and has a reborn performance. In all of this, Stephen has the upper hand.

The Lakers have a league status that the Sonics don't have, and Kobe Bryant's seniority in the league is far greater than Stephen's. This is Stephen's disadvantage, but Stephen has an absolute advantage in statistics, and the two teams have similar records. However, the strength of the Lakers team is far greater than that of the Sonics, but the salary expenditure is nearly 2000 million more than that of the Sonics, and it was only after the arrival of Pau Gasol that the Lakers' record began to improve by leaps and bounds.

Many people pointedly pointed out that the last key factor in determining who will win the most valuable player award in the regular season is to look at the record rankings of the two teams. Awards, and the direct confrontation between the two teams is even more critical.

At this time, a news came from Seattle. "Seattle Weekly" exposed Bennett's plan to move the team to Oklahoma City, and called on fans to come forward to prevent the team's relocation. Famous Sigma and Gary Payton also stood up to express their support, which cast a shadow over the Sonics game.