Chapter Thirty-Eight: Racing the Sun
"Man, are you there?"
"Just got off the plane, what, is there a welcome ceremony?"
"Haha, no, but would you like a phoenix-style breakfast if you'd like?"
"Hey, bro, it's only eight o'clock in the morning, do you mean to go to your house for breakfast? I'm afraid the headlines tomorrow will be that I have a special relationship with you. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Then admit it, we don't really have a special relationship anyway."
"Oh, no, oh my God, Steve, you're really good at it now, but I still like Anna more, breakfast is free, I just got off the plane now, and I still have a bunch of things to deal with, lunch, wait for me at noon, you should know where we live, come pick me up."
The plane that Liu Han and the Mavericks were on had just landed in Phoenix, and the call from Liu Han's old friend Nash had already arrived.
Nash who went around and went around and returned to his first starting point, Phoenix, although the phone was full of all kinds of jokes, but his heart was very boring, and when he returned to the Suns, he still couldn't be reused, more to become Stephen? Marbury's substitute also had to compete for a place with "Penny" Hardaway.
As for why Nash went to Phoenix again, it actually stemmed from the internal dispute within the Lakers, and Coach George received Jenny in office? Bass's troubles, Jenny? Buss always wanted her boyfriend Phil Jackson to become the head coach of the Lakers, so she instigated the players to boycott Coach George, but Nash was the first to stand up against it, so he became a victim of killing chickens and monkeys, and in just one three-way trade, the Lakers exchanged for Derrick of the Nuggets? Fisher, while Nash is once again with the Fix Suns.
Liu Han is very grateful to Nash, he can stand up for Coach George and do such an act is enough to see what kind of person he is, such a person is actually very suitable for making friends.
The Mavericks had just finished their game against the Chicago Bulls the day before, and they had beaten their opponents by more than 30 points, and after the game, the Mavericks flew to Phoenix in the early hours of the morning because their schedule was back-to-back away games against the Suns.
The Suns have not been doing well since the start of this season, there are many good players in the team, but the team has never been peaceful. Marbury doesn't want to stay in Phoenix, he wants to go back to New York, and Stoudmire is ambitious, he beat Yao Min to become the best rookie last season, which makes his confidence swell quickly, but this season "lone wolf" Marbury gradually showed his essence, and the statistics of Stoudemire who lacked the ball fell quickly.
Also Anferinil? Hardaway is not a good guy, he was quite able to make noise when he was on the Magic team, and when he arrived at the Suns, he relied on his old seniority to show off his power in the locker room, and he was also on par with Marbury.
Can a team with such an atmosphere perform well? Of course, it's unlikely, although the tactics they follow are similar to those of the Mavericks, which are all about destroying opponents with speed, but the Suns lack shooters on the perimeter, and Joe Johnson also has more ball-handling offense, so the Suns' ball distribution is a big problem.
After the game started, it was still the Suns who launched the offense first, Marbury and Liu Han were the same year show, but Marbury was the No. 4 show, and Liu Han was only the No. 24 show, but now the situation between the two is very different, Marbury is conceited and willful, and the Timberwolves had the opportunity to form a very good combination with Garnett, but Marbury was not angry with the Timberwolves to give Garnett a contract of hundreds of millions, so he left the Timberwolves angrily, and then went to the Nets and had a falling out with Kobe Bryant, and then he was traded by the Nets, Swapped for Jason Kidd.
Compared with Liu Han, Marbury has not even touched the shadow of the championship so far.
Marbury tried to show off his skills in front of Liu Han, but Liu Han ruthlessly used his physical advantage to crush Marbury directly, and then the Mavericks launched a fast attack, and the Suns were not slow but still much worse than the Mavericks.
Nash looked at Liu Han with some envy off the court, he envied that Liu Han could have a group of teammates who were quite cooperative, and at the same time there was a team that believed in him very much.
The game was like a race from the start, with players on both teams running all kinds of switchbacks, including the inside, and Nelson replaced Nowitzki in the sixth minute of the first quarter, which was not suitable for Nowitzki's play, and Josh Howard was well suited to this chaotic atmosphere.
At the end of the first quarter, the Mavericks led the Suns by just five points, and the Suns had a good hand in the first quarter.
After entering the second quarter, the Mavericks bench suddenly broke out, Xue Yuyang became the key point on the court, he first risked Anfernee Hardaway in defense, and then hit three points in the offense, helping the Mavericks bench to play an offensive climax, after more than a dozen games of adaptation, this Henan young man finally found his rhythm, but also showed his potential.
By the time the Mavericks' main team returned to the court, the difference between the two sides had reached 14 points.
By halftime, the Mavericks were twenty-point ahead of the Suns.
Unlike the Mavericks' combination of speed and perimeter shooting, the Suns are more likely to shoot inside three-pointers or attack under the basket of interior players, and only break fast on the counterattack, which makes their speed always intermittent, while the Mavericks' speed is consistent.
In the third quarter, Marbury stepped up his singles, but he looked a little helpless under Liu Han's defense, Nash only played in the second quarter, and he was on the bench in the third quarter.
In the second half of the third quarter, Nash got the opportunity to play, he didn't shoot too much, but played a pick-and-roll cooperation with Stoudemire, and the two cooperated quite tacitly, and the Suns caught up with the score some.
But in the final quarter, the Mavericks' main force hit three points in a row on the periphery of the offense, and Liu Han played three plus one under the defense of Joe Johnson, and the Mavericks expanded the difference to 25 points, and the Suns were gone.
In the end, the Mavericks defeated the Suns by 21 points 125-104, and Liu Han had a triple-double of 30 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists, which was his ninth triple-double this season.
Before leaving Phoenix, Liu Han had a conversation with Nash, and Liu Han wanted Nash to go to the Mavericks, but Nash refused.
"Man, I don't want to be your shadow anymore, I want my own team, don't worry, I won't miss any opportunities here, gold will always shine."