Amondson is an alternative player, the purest blue-collar player, who only does the dirty work, and has no offensive means other than dunks and under-the-basket shots. He always strides back to the restricted area to block the opponent's fast attack, finds his own target, maintains physical contact, even if the rebound ball is not bounced to his side, he still gets stuck in the rebounding position, always maintains confrontation in the face of opponents who are faster than him, and immediately plays the fast break after grabbing the rebound. He often runs hard and covers when he can't get the ball on five consecutive rounds.

To put it bluntly, Armondson is a guy with excess hormones, the best defensive player for the Suns, but his offense is so bad that even Nash can't help him score double-doubles even if he has the ball, so he can only play more than ten minutes per game, and when he needs to strengthen his defense in a certain period of time, the coach will send him on the court.

Amondson came on and played immediately. He kept fighting for his muscles next to Randolph, making it uncomfortable for him to catch the ball. The warriors cut in the air, and the Suns didn't change their defenses, and everyone stood in their positions and waited to attack. Outside shots are OK, but there is no way to break into the three-second zone.

The Suns' interior limited Ellis and Margety's breakthrough, Ellis's rough problem showed up again, and he missed two three-pointers on the perimeter without certainty, and then forced a breakthrough into the bag, which was successfully stolen by Richardson, and the Suns scored on a counterattack, with 4 minutes left in the game, the score was 103-101, only 2 points away. Nelson Sr. asked for a timeout.

Ellis is averaging 18 points per game since his return, but he has a lot of turnovers and only plays 31 minutes per game, averaging 3 per game. 1 turnover, assist-to-turnover ratio close to 1 to 1. It's okay to make mistakes in normal times, but it will kill the team at critical moments. Maybe he'll improve in the future, but Ellis isn't good enough right now.

Nelson Sr. arranged a new lineup, saying: "Playing small-ball tactics, Corey (Margety) cameo at the No. 4 position, what you have to do is to block and block their outside shots, Armondson has no offensive power, you can do it." Zach resisted Stoudamire on the inside, didn't let him get to the basket, and if he pulled out to cover, he didn't shoot. Corunna small forward, guarding Hill. Anthony (Moreau), your opponent is likely to be Richardson or Barbossa, whoever it is, don't let them burst in, concentrate on defense and open up on the offensive end. Zhou, you don't rely on cover to single Nash, just like before. ”

Nelson Sr. put Ellis on the bench at the key and chose to believe Zhou Xuan. Ellis may be stronger on the break, but as long as someone is in the trap, he's likely to deliver a turnover, not an assist.

If I had to play singles, I could have done Nash. Ellis didn't say anything, but he didn't feel good about it. But he also knew that his passing awareness was not as good as Zhou Xuan's, and Zhou Xuan's role in the team was greater. Now everyone in the team believes in Zhou Xuan.

No matter how good it is on the surface, it is inevitable that jealousy will arise after a long time, which is human nature, not to mention that Ellis is a person who wants to be in the limelight very much, and being put on the bench in the last few minutes really makes him feel very painful.

On the Suns' side, they played more conservatively at critical moments, did not let Barbosa and Nash play together, the scoring guard was still Richardson, the small forward veteran Hill, and the interior was Stadamire and Armondson.

Amondson defended well during this time, and Gentry let him continue to play, but it also suited Nelson Sr. Nelson Sr. is also a calculating coach, with strong on-the-spot adaptability on the field, and often makes surprise moves, which are aimed at the opponent's lineup. Margeti's height suffers from playing power forward, but in the face of not attacking, it doesn't matter if Amunderson is only 206CM tall. All five players on the Warriors court are now able to shoot the basketball.

The game continued, and the Warriors players all pulled away, and unlike the previous non-stop running and no ball cover, all four stood still. Azubuuk and Moreau play two corners, Margeti on the flank and Randolph at 45 degrees on the left, ready to cover in the middle and receive the ball alone. Zhou Xuan controls the ball at the top of the arc.

Zhang Cheng said excitedly: "After the Warriors paused, it was Zhou Xuan's singles tactics that were arranged, and Old Nelson believed in him too much. The defender is still Nash, who has now scored 19 points. Zhou Xuan also scored only once in the fourth quarter, and fell slightly behind by 17 points. ”

Yu Jiadao: "After playing to the bottom, it's time for the stars to stand up and show their personal abilities, and Zhou Xuan doesn't know how to play." ”

Zhou Xuan mentally said to himself: "Calm down, this is just an ordinary practice match. ”

He counted the time and started with 7 seconds left, dribbling the ball to the left with his crotch.

Even if this direction can't be abrupt, it can be passed to Randolph, Zhou Xuan made up his mind to play this side, and as soon as Nash's center of gravity moved, he immediately dribbled the ball behind his left hand and handed it over to his right hand, and changed direction to the right. His basic skills are very solid, and he can do feints with his left and right hands, which is not inferior to any American player. Nash hurriedly shifted his center of gravity to the left, trying to block Zhou Xuan. He moved his left foot and took a big step just after stepping on it, Zhou Xuan dribbled behind him again, handed his left hand to his right hand, and swept past Nash.

Not to mention Nash, who has not been very good at defense, may be passed even if he changes to a defensive expert, such a pass will not end the ankle, but Nash can only watch, and his heart is more than enough.

Compressing the defense for a three-pointer in the corner, all three Suns players were near the baseline, and Armondson was on the other side with Margeti. Stadamire didn't make up for it at all, Zhou Xuan took a step forward, and made a 60-degree jumper near the three-second line, and the basketball hollowed into the net. 105 to 101.

"Good ball, Nash really can't prevent Zhou Xuan, he has done his best, Zhou Xuan's feints are too beautiful." Zhang Li shouted.

Yu Jia was not so excited, and said lightly: "Look at how the sun hits." ”

It was still the blocking of Stoudeyer and Nash, after the dislocation, Margeti followed Nash, Nash passed to the middle of the Stoudeyer, and Zhou Xuan stepped forward at the moment when Stoudeyer got the ball. If the opponent takes the ball with his back on the inside, his closeness is tantamount to looking for abuse, and once the face frame, Xiaobawang can't hit him directly.

Stadamire dribbled the ball to the basket by Zhou Xuan, Randolph let go of Amonderson to form a bag, if Thomas played the No. 4 position, the Warriors would definitely not dare to do this, but it doesn't matter if Amondson is empty. Stadameyer was caught at 60 degrees on the left side and had no way to pass the ball, so he had to protect the ball with his back and pass it to Hill.

A few days ago, Azubuke has been defending the opponent's top scorer on the outside, and his ability has also been trained, this time he and the veteran Hill are also very well defended, and he was not thrown away, Hill failed to break through, and passed to Richardson.

With 24 seconds of offensive time approaching, Richardson made a pull-up jumper from inside the three-point line under the interference of Moreau, and the ball bounced out of the frame, and Randolph jammed Stadameyere to protect the backcourt rebound. He's never going to be a defensive expert, but as long as he works hard as his coach tells him to, the fans will be happy.

The Warriors attacked, the players pulled away again, the defender became Hill, and Nash went to defend Morrow. The Suns didn't dare to let Nash and Zhou Xuan go head-to-head, this was the right choice, Nash was afraid of fast guards, and when he played the Rockets, Brooks singled him to score consecutive points.

Zhou Xuan immediately gave up the singles and played a code at Randolph to block and dismantle.

Although the Suns have always given people the impression of focusing on offense and defense in recent years, there has never been a shortage of important defensive sappers in the lineup over the years, such as Marion and Bell. Now Hill is the No. 1 defensive gate on the current Suns roster.

Zhou Xuan studied the information of the Suns players in detail before the game, and some data will not lie. In the Suns, Hill even forgot his age, from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position, he defended all over again, and every time he defended, he could be called a model for the younger generations to learn.

Last month, when the Lakers played the Suns, Kobe Bryant scored 35 points, but only hit 14 of 33 shots, and 1 of 5 three-pointers, and Hill was the main defender of him.

Durant, a new generation scorer, has faced Hill twice this season, scoring 28 points in the first 42 minutes, but shooting just 8-of-19, including 1-of-6 from three-point range.

In their second meeting, Hill played another impressive defence. Durant didn't shoot as many shots as he usually did on 8-of-16 shooting in the game, thanks to Hill's aggressive defense that prevented him from catching the ball. And Hill also scored 30 points and 11 rebounds on Durant's head.

In today's game, Ellis also struggled Hill's defense on a number of occasions, hitting less than usual shots, and only scored easily when he was out of position.

After Randolph blocked, Zhou Xuan broke through the right side, and Stadameyer changed the defense. Zhou Xuan's speed was very fast, and when he reached a 45-degree angle, he glanced at the middle, Hill didn't dare to chase the defense, and Randolph couldn't let it go. Zhou Xuan shook his shoulders with his back to protect the ball, dribbled the ball with his right hand and turned to the bottom line, and the problem of Stoudamire's lax defense appeared again and was passed. Zhou Xuan burst into the basket and scored a quick backhand basketball. 107 to 101.

At this time, "Magic" Johnson was also moved. "Zhou Xuan didn't shoot much in the game before, and his average score per game this season was only about 10 points, and people thought that his scoring ability was average, but today he let go of the game, and his efficiency was very high, scoring 4 points in a row."

Van Gundy said: "The Suns' two offensive strengths are also defensive weaknesses, Nash's defense has never been better, and Stoudamire is also easy to shake, he seems to prefer blocking to successful interference, but he doesn't do well in blocking." His fame is all earned by dunking, and unless he can defend well, he will never reach the height of Duncan, or even Paul? Gasol and Nowitzki defended better than him as well. ”

The Suns attacked, Nash broke through by blocking and dismantling, Margeti defended Nash alone, and as soon as Nash passed, he immediately wrapped up Stadameyer. Compared with Zhou Xuan's resolute attack, Nash did not show his due leadership temperament at this time and helped the team steal points.

In the face of Margeti, Nash was seriously at a physical disadvantage, and it was right not to try to break through alone, but as soon as the Warriors let go of Armondsson, Stoadamire was in trouble, and his pass was directly wrong this time, and was knocked out by Azubuike, who passed to Zhou Xuan to launch a fast attack.

Zhou Xuan's speed was originally faster than Nash, but this time he also formed a dislocation, and he caught the ball and made a single fast-break layup. 109 to 101. The score was pulled apart.