NBA: I haven't played a game but I'm full of talent

"Suns! Suns!"

Huge shouts sounded throughout the arena.

At 28:40, as Babos made a counter-attack layup, the difference between the two teams was still 12 points.

Although the point difference has not widened compared to before, the momentum of the Suns home team has become extremely high.

Afterwards, the Suns also continued to show an excellent defensive state with such morale. Another minute passed, 1:30, and the point difference between the two teams directly widened to 44 points.

Seeing the momentum of the Suns getting stronger and stronger on the court, and the point difference between the two teams continued to widen, Avery Johnson quickly called a timeout.

In fact, D'Antoni still wanted to continue to maintain this lineup and maintain the current defensive strength at this time, but after thinking about it, he also chose to do player rotation.

Ling Yang didn't rest in the first quarter and has been playing until now. Although Marion took a short break in the first quarter, it's almost a whole quarter until now.

Moreover, Nash and Stoudemire have been sitting off the court for half a quarter, and it is time to return to the court after enough rest.

Ling Yang, Marion, Diaw off, Nash, Stoudemire, Thomas on.

Under Gentry's suggestion, Thomas, who is better at defending, came on the field, which to some extent made up for the defensive deficiencies of Ling Yang and Marion's strikers after they left the field.

And Nash returned to the court to organize the offense, and Diaw was able to end accordingly.

However, it has to be admitted that with the departure of Marion and Ling Yang, coupled with the appearance of Nash and Stoudemire, the Suns' defensive strength has indeed decreased.

But fortunately, the Suns' offense is also playing well at this time. The Suns players on the court did not make the mistakes of the previous game. hold on.

At 46:56, although Nowitzki made another three-pointer almost at the buzzer before the end of the previous game, the Suns still controlled the point difference to double digits by virtue of the advantage determined earlier.

"Such a lead is not safe enough, we need to maintain enough game focus in the second half of the game!"

Such thoughts are engraved in the minds of every Suns player.

And this also allowed the Suns to control the situation on the court again after the start of the second half.

The defensive trio of Ling Yang, Marion, and Bell made great contributions again. After consecutive defenses against the Mavericks' offense, the Suns made a spurt of 8:2, widening the difference between the two teams to 16 points.

Also forced the Mavericks to call a timeout again.

Back from the timeout, the Mavericks tried to get close to the score, but unfortunately they didn't succeed.

69:84, after the end of the third quarter, the difference between the two teams is still 15 points.

And this point difference has been maintained until the middle of the fourth quarter.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the Mavericks tried to give it a go, looking for opportunities from outside the three-point line in a row, but once narrowed the point difference to 9 points.

But the Suns also quickly stabilized the situation, a wave of 6:0, once again opened the gap.

Seeing that the game time was less than 4 minutes, and the difference between the two teams was still 15 points, Avery Johnson also realized that the general situation was over.

Originally, the Mavericks, who didn't have much hope of winning two consecutive games at the Suns' home court, simply called for gold and retreated, and Johnson withdrew all the main players to rest.

...95:111, the game ended, the Suns beat the Mavericks by 16 points at home, defended their second home game, and rewritten the big score of the series to 1:1.

There are still many battles in the future, so even after the game is over, the two teams did not have much communication. They all went back to the locker room. On the scene, only some fans were still watching the statistics of the whole game with the commentator. statistics.

The Suns played well offensively, and everyone scored well. Both Ling Yang and Stoudemire scored quite high. One scored 26 points and the other scored 27 points. Stoudemire scored slightly higher than Ling Yang.

But in terms of other data, Ling Yang is even better.

在拿到26分的事时，凌阳还拿下了12个篮板6次抢断4次封盖2次助攻。

Stoudemire had 7 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 assists, but no blocks.

Marion's data in this game is also really good, with 20 points, 10 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block.

Nash didn't score many points, but assisted a lot.

The data of 16 points and 14 assists reflects his ability to drive the team's offense.

Bell also scored 11 points, and all five of the Suns' starters scored in double figures.

In contrast, the Mavericks' scoring is more concentrated.

Nowitzki continued to show his performance as a top scorer in the league. Although in this game, Ling Yang even provided a lot of help to his teammates on the defensive end.

But Nowitzki still scored a game-high 35 points and 10 rebounds in the game.

And Terry also scored 20 points.

The rest were scattered. Under Ling Yang's marking, Josh Howard's performance was still not outstanding. He just scored in double figures and got 10 points and 6 rebounds.

Entering the playoffs, apart from top scorers like Kobe who can take advantage of Lingyang's opponents, whether it's Maggette in the second round or Josh Howard in this round, it's hard to win. Ling Yang is here to please.

Among them, Ling Yang's defensive ability is undoubtedly the key.

In terms of scoring ability and scoring methods, neither Maggette nor Howard is weaker than Ling Yang.

However, Ling Yang's defense is too good, and the offensive ability of these players is often unable to be fully utilized.

On the offensive end, the Suns where Lingyang is located have a better offensive system. Lingyang, who is good at capturing opportunities, is undoubtedly the beneficiary.

On the other hand, it is Ling Yang's defense.

His ability to create counterattack opportunities through defense is too strong. With steals and blocks, coupled with Ling Yang's full-court impact, which is almost rare in the league, he can often score more than 10 points through counterattacks in each game.

This game is typical, Ling Yang scored 26 points in the whole game, and his scoring was mainly concentrated at the beginning of the second quarter and the second half of the game.

Anyway, it was a typical Suns win.

The pick-and-roll tactics of Nash and Stoudemire were fully played out, Ling Yang's defensive counterattack was also played out, Marion's performance was stable, and Bell and Barbosa's role players also made contributions.

This Suns team is affected by the overall tactical strategy, and the overall defensive ability is still not outstanding, especially in terms of defensive continuity, there is still a big gap.

...However, because the team has gathered top defensive players in various positions such as Ling Yang, Marion, Bell, and Kurt Thomas, they can often play very good defensive strength when the team needs it.

And this is also the reason for the Suns' victory in this game.

After all, what really opened up the score between the two teams in this game was the stage when Ling Yang led his teammates to play defensively in the second quarter.

For Ling Yang, the only shortcoming in this game is that in this game, he didn't play much in attacking with the ball in the positional attack.

Lingyang's ball-holding offense has not been well integrated with the team's overall offense. This is the problem Lingyang is facing at the moment.

So even though his ability to break through with the ball has improved, he was suppressed in these two games and did not have many opportunities to show off.

Of course, for Ling Yang, the team's victory in the game is ranked first.

How to integrate with the team, how to better handle the ball while holding the ball, he still has the opportunity to improve slowly.

The two home games of the Suns are over, and the game between the two sides will be moved to the home of the Mavericks.

For the media, since there is only one game per day until the conference finals, the coverage will naturally be even more intensive.

The Suns won the game and rewritten the big score to 1:1, which did not completely dispel doubts from the outside world.

In the eyes of the media, in the second game, the Suns must win, and the Mavericks are not bad for losing. After all, they won an away game after two games.

Interestingly, in the east, the situation is actually similar.

The top-ranked Pistons in the Eastern Conference also lost their first home game and then won the second game. The big score was also 1:1.

And after coming to the home court of the Miami Heat, the Pistons were strongly blocked, and finally lost to the Heat 83:98. The big score came to 1:2, but the Heat took the lead.

Under such circumstances, the Western Conference Finals followed by the third game is particularly attractive.

The third game of the Western Conference Finals, after a lapse of one day, came to the home court of the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks, who won the next game away, returned to their home court with great momentum.

In the first quarter of the game, they gave the Suns a bad start. After a 7-0 start with their excellent defense, they then steadily took the initiative on the court.

Although in the middle of the first quarter, the Suns once completed a go-ahead to take the lead, but then the Mavericks once again showed their excellent defensive strength, forcing the Suns to score no points in nearly 3 minutes.

At 24:30, after the first quarter, the Mavericks led by 6 points.

Entering the second quarter of the game, D'Antoni tried to replicate the process of the previous game, put Nash and Stoudemire on the sidelines for a rest, and then deployed a lineup with better defense.

However, the Mavericks took the initiative.

Nowitzki, who took a 2-minute break in the first quarter, played directly in the second quarter, with a combination of Josh Howard, Stackhouse, Terry, and Harris. Strong lineup.

Facing a lineup that can score stably at every point in the Mavericks field, the Suns failed to replicate the defensive counterattack of the previous game. The Mavericks opened the score in one fell swoop.

...by the time D'Antoni made the change to put Nash back on the court, the gap between the two teams had widened to double digits.

However, the Suns' offense was great after all. Before the end of the first half, a wave of 6:0 just pulled the difference between the two sides back to 5 points.

51:56, the first half of the game ended, the Suns trailed by 5 points.

What everyone in Lingyang didn't expect was that these 5 points turned out to be a hurdle that the Suns couldn't get over in the whole game.

The Mavericks opened up the score, and the Suns approached the score, but the point difference between the two teams remained at 5 points until the end of the game.

98:103, the whole game ended, the Suns lost to the Mavericks by 5 points, and the series trailed their opponents 1:2.

The Eastern and Western finals were exactly the same script, which immediately aroused heated discussions among fans and industry media.

Under such circumstances, the Suns once again conducted training almost isolated from the outside world just like after the first game.

Except for D'Antoni who came out to deal with reporters a few times, everyone else hid.

And the only thing they do is very simple, study the game and train tactics.

The next morning, as usual, it is time to watch the video of the previous game first, and then conduct tactical analysis and training.

But after watching the video of the game, just when Ling Yang thought he was going to make tactical arrangements, he was unexpectedly called out by D'Antoni and Gent alone.

"Ling, I discussed with the coaching staff. In order to win the fourth game, we need to make some unexpected arrangements. We need to communicate with you in advance."

Hearing D'Antoni's words, Ling Yang looked over with a little curiosity.

"We want to put you on the bench?"

"Ok?"

Hearing D'Antoni's words, Ling Yang was slightly taken aback.

At this time, D'Antoni went on to say: "We want James Jones to enter the starting lineup. This will not be a normal tactic. We just want to try the effect in this game.

Also, he doesn't start very long, maybe four or five minutes, and then you come on. "

Ling Yang roughly understood at this moment, it is very likely that D'Antoni wanted to strengthen the attack power of the outside line at the beginning of the game, so Antu Jones faked the starting position.

Such a change might come as a surprise.

Thinking of this, Ling Yang was ready to agree immediately.

At this time, D'Antoni continued: "Of course, your playing time will not be reduced. Another role for you is to stay on the court after the start of the second quarter, and then act as the team's main attacker.

After the Mavericks achieved good results in the previous game, they will most likely still deploy an offensive lineup after the start of the second quarter, with only Dirk Nowitzki on the court.

At this time, we arranged Boris Diaw on the court, and the Mavericks should guess that the offense was initiated by Boris.

And what you have to do is to look for opportunities and use your breakthrough to kill insiders. "

After Ling Yang heard it, his eyes lit up immediately.

To be honest, up to now in this round of the game, he has not played the role of the team's scoring attacker for a certain period of time like the previous round.

D'Antoni's arrangement made him feel very interested.

"No problem, coach! I obey the arrangement of the coaching staff." Ling Yang immediately agreed.

After D'Antoni heard it, he smiled and said: "Of course, this is just our tactical assumption. The specific tactics and personnel arrangements will be adjusted at any time according to the situation on the field."

Ling Yang nodded, "Understood!"

The tactics were preliminarily determined, and then D'Antoni immediately organized tactical training.

Now that the game has been played, conventional tactics no longer require more training. What needs training is some targeted tactics.

The Suns are training hard, but the outside world is less optimistic about them. The reason is simple, the Pistons lost.

When everyone thinks that the Pistons are 1:2 behind after losing a home game, they will definitely fight for the next away game.

But the result was that the Pistons suffered a 2-game losing streak in away games, and the series became 3:1. After the Spurs were out, everyone was extremely optimistic about the Pistons, who had hope of winning the championship, but the Heat got the match point in the fourth game.

The pressure immediately came to the Suns who also lost a home game and fell behind the Mavericks 1:2.

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