Gary. Payton joins the Pacers, and that's really big news.

Although Payton is 36 years old, he is past his prime.

However, that still doesn't change the fact that he was one of the best point guards of the '90s.

Two-time All-First Team, seven-time All-Defensive First Team, one-time All-Defensive Player, three-time top-five MVP list, and one Finals experience against Jordan in the '90s.

And in the finals that year, for a time, the "gods" couldn't kill.

Although the '96 finals Michael. Jordan still scored 27.3 points, but his shooting percentage was limited to 41 percent.

That speaks volumes about Payton's abilities.

Such a "big man", although he has reached the end of his career, is still famous.

As the saying goes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse.

You can't expect Payton to play in the top five MVP with the Pacers, but you want him to do better than Anthony. Johnson is better, almost a breeze.

Payton's defensive ability is certainly not as good as it was back then, but his excellent sense of height and long arms will undoubtedly make the Pacers' No. 1 position less vulnerable.

Payton's positional and fast-break playmaking are excellent, and with him, the Pacers' No. 1 position is no longer a "dribble guard."

People say that John. Stockton was the best point guard of his time.

But in fact, Stockton is a more "biased" player.

He may have 100 points in his organizational skills, but he is a little weaker in other areas.

Payton, on the other hand, may only have 80 points in his playmaking skills, but he also has 80 points in other abilities.

He was the most versatile point guard of the '90s, not one of them.

So even when he's old, Payton still has a lot to do.

So when Peyton decided to settle in a cornfield in Indiana, it caused quite a stir.

Now, the Pacers' No. 1 position has become a strong point, but at least it is no longer a weak point.

Now, in China, many fans can't help but shout a slogan: "Win the city!" ”

Indeed, after a painful period of suspension, the Pacers beat the defending champion for the second time, as if they were about to start to exert their strength.

The villain foursome + Peyton have the meaning of regaining the country.

When Wayne went to practice early in the morning, he had planned to hear how everyone reacted to the signing.

Although Payton has signed with the Pacers, it is estimated that it will be a few days before he can report.

As a result, Wayne pushed open the locker room door...... I found that the guy who used to talk trash with me was already sitting in the locker room.

As soon as he saw Wayne, Peyton put on that cocky look again.

"Yo, so late? Did you go on a date with a girl last night? Payton wasn't inhibited, talking to Wayne the way he was for years.

"That's not it, there's a tennis girl waiting for him in the players' tunnel last night." Jie Tai hurriedly came out to echo and sang and harmonized with Peyton, as if he had found a new backer.

"Cut, a ghost is a ghost. Don't let the temptation in front of you hold you back, boy. With that, Peyton continued to change his clothes and didn't say anything more.

Wayne glanced at Peyton and said nothing.

Then, after sitting down next to Atay, Wayne hugged him around.

"You're excited today, Ron, I'm not going to spare you when I'm training later."

"This ...... You won't fail to hear that I'm joking with you. You also know that the humor bacteria in this man's whole body have nowhere to put it. He hurriedly smiled.

"Are you really kidding?"

"Then it's fake!?"

"Well, then, I'll try to be as light as I can later."

Atai let out a big sigh, at this time, he has gradually lost the attitude of a "big senior" when Wayne first joined the team.

The first training session after the Christmas War, Gary. Payton appeared on the court wearing his No. 20 training uniform.

I have to say that the Pacers are really fast.

God knows if Bird had made Payton's jersey and training jersey in advance.

Although he was in the locker room just now, Payton looked like a dick, but in practice, Payton didn't put on a show at all.

He does what the young players do. Although it was the first day of reporting, there was neither special treatment nor a word of complaint.

If you're going to talk about Peyton's trash, that's really annoying.

But his work ethic is okay, and his first day of training has earned him the respect of most of his new team-mates.

Especially Anthony. Johnson.

Most players will feel a little nervous when they see their starting position being snatched away by new signings.

But Johnson was very happy.

He finally doesn't have to play the starter!

Come on Peyton, you're my savior.

If you don't come, the media of Madanyin City will hold meetings with me every day!

The ball is given to you, you are dribbled!

In the afternoon, Carlisle also directly let Payton enter 5-on-5 confrontation training and directly began to run in with the team.

It has to be said that changing teams in the middle of the season is a test of a player's adaptability.

If it's a summer transfer, there's still pre-season training camp time to get used to a new team.

But in the medium term, it is basically necessary to be able to plug and play.

Thankfully, Payton's versatility allows him to adapt to a variety of styles with ease.

In the Pacers want to focus on defense? No problem.

Want to take a quick pass? It can be done.

Positional warfare licensing organization? I can do it too.

Overall, Payton's state and fit are indeed very good.

But that's it......

Payton's arrival made the training ground extremely noisy.

He and Wayne had some kind of strange "chemistry".

At this point, Payton controlled the ball to the top of the arc outside the three-point line. Facing Johnson, he borrowed the cover of Xiao Ao to burst into the penalty area.

Wayne immediately switched to Payton, and now Payton's speed is not fast, and it is not difficult for Wayne to keep up at all.

As a result, Payton suddenly shot with a small toss on the move.

Wayne didn't have time to react, and the ball was so curvacated that it ended up past his fingertips.

Don't say it, this ball is really a bit like the trick that Cannon often uses. It's just that Peyton is now more sophisticated than a college cannon.

"Brush."

The basketball went into the net, and Payton made an offense.

And so, the noise began again.

"It's too easy, it's too easy, do you know what defense is? Or are you just going to bully some garbage players? "As soon as Payton scored, he started trash talking to Wayne, even though they were teammates by this time.

"You're going to be able to score a goal this way, and honestly I'm afraid of breaking your old guy's ribs, otherwise you'd have to go to the bottom line and pick up the ball now."

Not to be outdone, Wayne and Payton exchanged flaws.

And this scene has appeared countless times today.

Lively, really lively.

"Are they really okay like this......" Mike. Brown was a little worried, Tyre and Wayne hadn't sprayed so fiercely in training before.

Carlisle just smiled: "It's okay, look at them, how loving they are." ”

"God has a special love ......" Mike. Brown was speechless, he didn't know if Payton's arrival would tear the locker room apart or if he would really put the puzzle together.

And just like that, today's training ended in a noisy voice.

According to the statistics, the "score" of Payton and Wayne trash talk is 13-10, and Wayne is slightly inferior.

But no matter what Payton said, Wayne didn't react.

On the contrary, Wayne sprayed Payton a few times to gnash his teeth.

Of course, these images are invisible to the fans.

In the past, Wayne had a nickname in college called "The Rain Man", so fans are fantasizing that Payton can play with Wayne the same combination as he did with Kemp, and the picture is as follows:

Payton threw it seemingly lightly, and Wayne suddenly jumped out and overwhelmed the crowd and poured the ball into the frame. Then the two high-fived each other and sat back and watched each other shiver.

Wayne is known to be a brutalist power forward, so this kind of picture is very likely.

Well, Wayne, the brutalist power forward.

If fans knew that Wayne and Payton had been spraying each other on the practice court all day, they don't know how they would feel.

Finally, on the third day after the end of the Christmas War, the Pacers welcomed their next opponent.

A team that has been a game-changer this season – the Phoenix Suns.

Although this game was scheduled after the Christmas War, it was no less popular than the Christmas War.

The reason is simple - the Suns now have a 24-3 record, which is the best in the league!

It's hard to imagine that this is a team that only managed 29 wins last season.

The 03-04 season was undoubtedly heartbreaking for Suns fans, who not only finished second to last in the West, but also took Marbury and the like.

It seems that the team has only one way to rebuild.

Now, however, they are number one in the league.

Steve. Nash and Mike. D'Antoni's arrival has given the team a new lease of life.

Taking advantage of the HC rule changes, Suns general manager Jerry Brown. Colangelo decided to be the first to eat crabs.

He decided to adapt to the change in the league's rules and play offensive basketball.

It not only uses the sun to promote the new style and new policy of the alliance, but also uses this policy to raise the sun in turn.

It can be said that it is a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

So the Suns in the 04-05 season embarked on a cross-era path in this way.

D'Antoni's "7-second offense" stunned the league.

It is often said that offense wins fans, while defense wins.

But the Suns are telling everyone with a 24-3 record — times have changed.

He averaged 110.4 points per game in the regular season, first in the league.

In an era where everyone is emulating the Pistons to win championships with defense, it's hard to score 100 points in a game.

I haven't seen the Pacers have a few games that have scored more than 100 points in the regular season this season.

However, the Suns are averaging 10 more points per game than 100!

The Suns' flashy style of play not only saved the league's offense, but also the young guards with a flashy style of play.

Eight seasons in the league is still tepid. Nash, who has risen strongly this season, has never fallen out of the top three in the MVP rankings.

Of course, while saving the small guards, D'Antoni is also known as "the man who can make all the league's centers unemployed." ”

Under the whirlwind of the Suns' fast play, most sluggish centers seem to have become a burden and extremely inefficient on the court.

Studemire and Sean. Marion's interior combination has caused countless big centers to break their legs.

If such a team meets the Pacers, it will definitely be a spark.

People are also looking forward to who is more tiger in the combination of Nash and Smalls and the combination of Wayne and Payton.

Well, don't be surprised. At this time in China, the media has blown a non-playing Peyton into the sky.

is just an ordinary veteran now, but he has been blown into an All-Star level player.

This is the Chinese media, when Wayne was a fan in his previous life, weren't those guys on the Mosaic team also blown up to the gods.

A little Alston can give you the feeling of an All-Star point guard.

All teammates of Chinese players must blow a wave.

Otherwise, how to shout the slogan of the Indian City champion? Otherwise, where does the mosaic come from to compete for the championship every year?

"Peyton and Wayne?" When facing the reporter's camera, Xiao Si was a little confused: "I didn't even know they were a combination." ”

'There's no doubt we're going to play a good game. I respect the Pacers, and I also know that they just won the Christmas fight. But this year, we're number one in the league. ”

Stoudemire is very confident, like a wolf before a space dance move.

Of course, his self-confidence is not unfounded. As he said, the Suns are the number one in the league this season.

The Suns' 24-3 record gives Stoudemire the capital to be confident.

Carlisle's side did not dare to underestimate the enemy, this kind of opponent who made the attack almost extreme was something he had never encountered before.

Although Carlisle also complained last year: "The confrontation in basketball has become very intense, it is all physical contact and muscle collision. Such an ugly game makes people want to go crazy when they look at it, and league reform is imminent. ”

But in his bones, he is still a defensive person.

So this time, he decided to be extravagant again and put the Chinese God of War in the starting list.

The sixth person? What is the Sixth Man? Serious God of War, who fights the sixth man. Does your god of war fight the sixth man? Anyway, my family doesn't fight.

Of course, the purpose of letting Wayne start this time is not to fight, the purpose is to hope that the speed of Wayne and Xiao Ao can keep up with the Sun's fast whirlwind, so that the Sun will not rush easily.

Payton will play as a bench player and slowly adapt to the Pacers' game.

In this way, Wayne, with a little excitement, met this epoch-making sun.

The moment he saw the Suns starting on the court, Wayne called Ye Qing ...... Forget it, I won't call it this time.

On the Suns' side, point guard Nash, point guard Joe. Johnson, of course, he is not called the "Eagle King" at this time.

Small forward Quentin. Richardson, power forward is Marion, the league's most sassy shooting move.

The center is the "little bully" Amare who only attacks and does not defend, and only blocks and does not interfere. Stoudemire!

This set of starters is another generation of fans' lost youth.

"Let's see if the Kombat Whirlwind can destroy the tenacious defense of Yin City!" Before the start of the game, Steve Brown, who served as the commentator of the game. Cole was excited.

He's very interested in the way the Suns attack.

Once the game started, the Suns were quick to show their different side.

The Pacers attacked for the first time after getting the ball, and they couldn't make a shot.

When I was just warming up, the guy patronized and asked Wayne what he had done on Christmas Eve and Sava, so he didn't quite cast it.

After Artey's shot missed, Studemire grabbed the rebound and handed the ball to Nash.

Nash pushed forward quickly and just stepped on the halfway line before passing the ball to Marion from beyond the three-point line.

Marion immediately played the ball and fed it to Stoudemire, who cut in from the middle.

Now O'Neill Jr. wants to keep up with the "little overlord", and it is indeed a little difficult.

Seeing this, Wayne immediately gave up on Maleonn to chase Xiao Si.

However, Xiao Si, who has not suffered a major injury at this time, is really athletic.

He leaped high and dunked the ball into the frame despite Wayne's interference.

Suke is a real Fauvist power forward.

After the goal, the confident Xiao Si yelled at Wayne in front of him.

It's like what was done to Yao Ming before.

"It's really fast, the success rate of such an attack is really high. Xiao Si yelled at Wayne, and we'll see how he responds after that. ”

Cole smiled, this game smelled of gunpowder as soon as it came up.

Wayne picked up the basketball and prepared to kick off the baseline and wasn't too angry.

I can't do it, because when the sun hits, we have to be prepared for this.

What about the team that averages 110 points per game, playing around with you?

But Xiao Si just ......

It's okay, let's talk to him elegantly later, and he shouldn't be crazy.

It's really not good, the iron elbow can also shine brightly, it's all paper tigers.

In short, this is Indianapolis.

There's no crazy part of you here.

The Pacers re-attacked, and this time, it was replaced by Xiao Ao to catch the ball......