i have a coaching book

Chapter 340

After retreating from the hands of the Texas duo, the Phoenix Suns are still in the devil's season, non-stop, and immediately fly to Denver to challenge the Denver Nuggets away.

The Denver Nuggets are located in a plateau area. With this natural environmental factor, they have the advantage of becoming the devil's home court.

At present, the Denver Nuggets, with a shock wave of 9 consecutive victories around the All-Star Weekend, reached the ninth place in the regular season of the Western Conference in one fell swoop, with a record of 32 wins and 29 losses, only because they played against the Lakers in three games and lost. In two of them, only half a game behind the Lakers.

However, with their recent fiery state, with the comeback of Anthony and Camby, it is not impossible to reach the playoffs and get a good playoff ranking.

The state is hot, the devil is at home, the core players are back, and the morale is sufficient. Facing such a tough team, it is not easy for the Suns to gnaw.

Fortunately, the recent state of the Suns is also extremely good. In order to keep the top position, the desire to fight is also very strong.

Although the Nuggets sit at home, they are facing the Suns back-to-back. You must know that in the last game they could desperately kill the Spurs who were on a rotation.

In terms of physical fitness, the Suns are not at a disadvantage, and they may even take advantage of it.

At 3 pm on March 13th, the Phoenix Suns will play against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

After a simple appearance ceremony, warm-up shots and layups, the starting lineups of both sides lined up and came to the middle circle of the basketball court, ready to start scrambling for the ball.

The Suns are not injured or sick, and the starting five are relatively stable, lined up, followed by point guard Steve Nash, shooting guard Joe Johnson, small forward Quentin Richardson, power forward Sean - Marion, center Amare Stoudemire.

The Nuggets' starting five-man roster is point guard Andre Miller, shooting guard Greg Buckner, small forward Carmelo Anthony, power forward Kenny Martin, center Marcus - Camby.

beep! !

A clear whistle came from the ear.

The referee casually threw the basketball in his hand high into the sky.

The game starts with scrum!
Camby VS Stoudemire! !

Stoudemire's physical talent is extraordinary, and he has outstanding jumping. However, compared with the second pick of the 96 golden generation, he still came to the wrong place.

Although Camby's second place in the list is a bit watery, he is known as a glass player and loves to be injured, but in terms of jumping ability, he still has top strength.

With his height and long arms, he can easily beat Stoudemire in the jump ball and dial the basketball into Miller's hands.

Striding his legs, Miller immediately accelerated after receiving the ball, and his body rushed up and ran away.

This is a team with a tradition of running and bombing. Under the guidance of head coach George Karl, they played a powerful whirlwind.

There was a clear snap at the top arc of the three-point line, and Miller casually passed a ground pass to the inside.

Kenyon Martin rushed to the basket, easily hit the basket, caught the ball and layup directly, and took off from the basket.

boom!
Kenyon Martin's body bounced up like a spring man, stretched in the air, held the ball with both hands, and slammed it hard towards the basket.

He successfully dunked with both hands, grabbed the rim, and made a gravitational upward movement. His body looked very explosive, and the dunk was also quite brutal.

2 to 0! !
As soon as the game started, the Nuggets played a whirlwind in front of the Suns, completely unafraid of the powerful offensive firepower of the Suns.

Kenyon Martin showed off his physical talent as the No. [-] pick, and scored the first for the Nuggets with full firepower.

Offensive and defensive transitions, the Nuggets are willing to speed up and play against each other, and the Suns are naturally very happy, and they completely agree with it.

After receiving Marion’s fast serve from the bottom line, Nash dribbled the ball to increase his speed very fast. Facing the former assist king Andre Miller, Nash dribbled the ball and turned around, easily throwing off the opponent’s defense, and went to the frontcourt without slowing down , a cross step change direction, directly accelerated to break through inside, reached the three-point line, pulled the ball up, shook Buckner's defense, and threw the basketball into the sky.

Joe Johnson on the right is like a sharp blade, sprinting to the basket, jumping up, alley-oop, holding the ball with one hand and directly smashing the basketball into the basket heavily.

He scored two points with an alley-oop split and dunk, and returned the favor.

2 to 2! !
The Nuggets attacked, and Andre Miller dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, but couldn't run and bomb.

The Suns are too mobile and come back too fast.

Without any hesitation, Andre Miller passed the ball directly to the left wing.

Anthony received the ball and faced the frame, posing in an offensive three-threat position.

Richardson lowered the center of gravity of his body and assumed a posture of guarding against death.

Raise the right foot to take a probing step, and lift the ball in the hand to feint.

Richardson stepped forward and moved close to Anthony's footsteps, and reached forward to interfere with the shot.

Anthony quickly changed his move, took a step sideways, exerted strength on his feet, and quickly broke through to the inside.

Richardson didn't give an inch, moved his feet laterally to keep up, trying to block with his body, Anthony's breakthrough route.

Unexpectedly, Anthony pulled the ball up neatly, took a big stride for a layup, jumped up from the basket, stretched and stretched in the air, and dodged Stoudemire's block.

A loud bang!
Anthony dunked the basketball into the hoop with a backhand in the air.

4 to 2! !
The current "Melon" has a very active playing style and full of impact. He doesn't like to stay outside and shoot ecstasy mid-range shots.

His physical talent is top-notch, his strength is strong, that is, his combat power is very high, he can get to the basket, and he can use kaleidoscope offensive methods to score points, which is very difficult to defend.

The Suns attacked, Nash dribbled to the frontcourt, directly stepped down the middle and dribbled continuously to force Andre Miller.

Aware of the weakness of the opponent's weak defense, although he was once the assist king, the defensive problem has always been the key factor limiting the Nuggets' take-off.

Even though the Nuggets dug up a lot of strong players, they still couldn't break through the first round. Miller almost became the opponent's scoring cash machine in the playoffs.

Forced into the three-point line, Nash used Stoudemire's pick-and-roll cover to completely throw off Andre Miller's marking.

One step to the free throw line, he immediately pulled the ball up, drew the bow and set the arrow, and opened his hand to make a small throw like horseback archery.

The arc of the basketball is very high. After avoiding Camby's block, it hit the center of the backboard precisely and bounced into the net as if it had eyes.

4 to 4! !
Nash played his special skills leisurely and scored easily.

The Nuggets speeded up and ran, and Andre Miller arced at the top of the three-point line, and also directly forcibly broke through Nash and entered the three-point line.

Snapped!
With a clear sound, Andre Miller showed the demeanor of scoring the king, changing the attack at will during the breakthrough, and passed a coquettish back pass.

Outside the 65-degree three-point line on the right, Buckner arrived at the ball and easily caught the ball without any extra movement. He bent his knees and jumped up, flicked his right hand, and shot a three-pointer.

Bang!
Greg Buckner's three-point jumper missed and went out of the frame.

Buckner was a second-round pick in 1998. He is 193cm tall and weighs 95kg. His offense is mediocre, but his defense is aggressive and tough. However, he is limited by his physical talent. He cannot play dazzling statistics at the shooting guard position. , can only become a blue-collar player.

He can serve as the starter, one is that the Nuggets do not have strong players at shooting guards, and the other is that Buckner can play off the ball and has a good three-pointer ability.

It's just that he is not a microwave oven, and he doesn't have the right to shoot the ball to find a touch. Even a three-point star can't guarantee that his shooting skills are full of blood!
When the basketball was still on the rise, Camby jumped up to grab the rebound, and Stoudemire took half a shot. As a result, the rebound was taken off by Camby with his spring-like physical talent.

Fortunately, Stoudemire also knows how to use his body to directly squeeze Camby's offensive space.

With a thin body, Camby was squeezed without a trace of offensive space.

Can only pass the basketball back to Andre Miller's hands and reorganize the offense.

In the positional battle, Andre Miller strictly followed the pre-match arrangement and distributed the ball to Anthony on the left wing.

Catch the ball and pose as an offensive three-threat, lift the ball and feint a shot, and stretch out his right foot with a stab step.

Richardson didn't keep up with Anthony's footsteps and rhythm, only half a beat slower.

Anthony immediately seized this offensive opportunity, dribbled a step sideways, stepped into the three-point line, directly pulled the ball up, and made a two-pointer mid-range fadeaway jumper.

As a pitcher, Richardson reacted extremely quickly. He rushed forward, jumped up, and greeted Anthony's face overwhelmingly.

Anthony's shot was very high, and he also added a back. The offensive rhythm was not disrupted. With a flick of his right hand, he flicked the basketball away like playing a string.

A full moon-like arc was drawn in the air.

Swish!
There was a crisp netting sound.

The white net was overflowing, Anthony raised the knife and dropped it, and the two-pointer fell into the basket accurately, and went into the net hollow, causing a burst of white waves.

6 to 4! !
After just a few rounds, the Nuggets' offensive style was completely exposed.

In running and bombing, all the people are soldiers. Whoever has the opportunity can shoot as much as they want. They play very emotionally. The whirlwind seems to be integrated into the blood of this team. They like this offensive method very much.

Rush up your body, run with your feet, and then, dare to shoot and play with your physical talent.

In the positional battle, the stars attacked the city, and the ball was concentrated in the hands of Anthony, and Anthony did not disappoint the team and fans, and conquered everyone with powerful offensive scoring methods.

Next, the two sides fought wildly, the offensive rhythm increased rapidly, and they opened up their stances to fight against each other.

The scores of the two sides have increased step by step, but the gap in the scores has not widened.

The Suns can't open the situation inside, Stoudemire and Marion, facing Camby and Kenyon Martin, do not have much advantage.

Although Richardson put all his energy on the defense against Anthony and his offensive touch was not online, but with the efforts of Nash and Joe Johnson, the Suns' offensive firepower played well.

Under Anthony's strong personal scoring ability and Kenyon Martin's impactful attack, the Nuggets played back and forth with the Suns, and no one could do anything to their opponents.

Nash showed off his small throws and pull-up jumpers, and even a sudden three-pointer.

Joe Johnson also showed off his strong individual singles skills, frequently grabbing points.

Kenyon Martin played harder without Kidd's pass. Fortunately, Andre Miller's ability to organize and support the pass is also very good, and Kenyon Martin's impact is also brought into full play. Impact at the basket, causing damage.

Anthony has a kaleidoscope of offensive methods in his hands. When the Nuggets are attacking around him, he plays very strong and vigorously. Scoring is like finding something out of a bag.

After the first quarter, the Phoenix Suns played a tie with the Denver Nuggets with a score of 27 to 27.

(End of this chapter)