Chapter 279 [Cake Emperor!] Soaring! 】
On the 17th, the Suns played away against the Hawks.
The two teams went on a fierce offensive battle, with a high score of 132-115 in regulation time, and the Suns won three in a row.
The Eagles' tactics are based on fast attack, supplemented by positional warfare at No. 1234 singles, and whoever has the opportunity will shoot. In terms of individual ability, the Eagles are significantly inferior, and the four core players are all jumpers.
Anfernee Hardaway was the Hawks' worst performer on the offensive end, taking more shots against his old club, shooting 5-of-16 from the field and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line to finish with just 12 points and four assists.
Michael Jordan once said, "If I had to pick a successor, Hardaway would be my first choice!" ”
It was this sentence that made Hardaway lose himself, he couldn't drag it not long after he entered the league, and he was not very friendly to the fans, and the young Kobe Bryant once asked him for an autograph and was ignored, which later inspired Kobe.
Speaking to the media after the game, Hardaway openly expressed his dissatisfaction with his teammates' defense, but no one listened to him complain, and now he is not even a spiritual leader in the Hawks, just a high-paid and low-energy role player.
Hardaway has requested a trade from management, arguing that the Eagles have no future. The Eagles management also thought that he was very unpromising, his strength was declining, and his popularity was declining...... But his big contract was so bad that it only expired in 2006, and no team was willing to take it over. If the Suns hadn't traded for Kukoczy and Chris Crawford's garbage contract, the Hawks wouldn't have traded them.
Due to the Hawks' extremely weak interior defense, Stoudamire ate cake and ate the cake in this game, and he played 38 minutes and played a career-high 40 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks.
Guo Xu scored 25 points and 20 assists, almost 30+20 again, he didn't shoot much, played assist-based, broke through to attract defensive points to teammates, and the whole team of six scored double-doubles.
In his previous life, many Chinese fans were disgusted with Xiao Si, thinking that he had snatched the best rookie that should have belonged to Yao Ming, and Guo Xu originally thought so. After becoming a partner with the Suns, he found that Xiao Si was a better impromptu than Yao Ming, and his rookie season was purely delayed by Frank Johnson.
Smalls has the most top-notch physicality, he's a real beast, and by the time he was in the sixth grade, he was already able to dunk on his backhand. By the end of high school, he had reached a height of 208cm and a weight of 108 kg. At the 2002 McDonald's All-Star Game, he stood out like an adult standing in the middle of a group of children. So he decided not to go to college and go straight to the NBA draft.
AT THE TIME OF THE DRAFT, HIS TECHNIQUE WAS STILL RELATIVELY ROUGH, BUT HIS VERTICAL BOUNCE OF UP TO 105CM WAS ENVIABLE, AND MANY PEOPLE SUSPECTED THAT HE WAS NOT REALLY A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. He is indeed two years older than other high school students, and because of the bumpy school experience, he has changed schools 6 times.
It is no exaggeration to say that Xiao Si plays with his body, and he has the ability to average 20+ per game in his rookie season, as long as he blocks and dismantles more to pass the ball to him, he will let everyone understand what a "cake king" is!
In his previous life, Smalls scored 20+ in his second season, and after Frank was driven away by the team in the middle of the game, D'Antoni came to the top to liberate Smalls' attacking power, and the Suns did not make the playoffs because of injuries, and Marbury and Hardaway only played in 34 games.
In the 2004-05 season, Xiao Si had a pass from Nash to usher in a big explosion, averaging 26 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1 steal and 1.6 blocks in 36.1 minutes per game, and staged a large number of dunks in each game.
Before the minimally invasive surgery, Xiao Si was mainly scored, supplemented by mid-range shots. After a season, Xiao Si worked hard to shoot, and the proportion of shooting in the offense has increased, and he is still excellent.
Now Xiao Si broke out in advance, because Guo Xu's personal ability is stronger than Nash, and the two are not the same type.
Nash's breakthrough mainly relies on blocking and dismantling to create dislocation, and rarely holds the ball to blow up the opposite No. 1 position to attract the bag, which is the pursuit of a reasonable style of play.
Guo Xu is different, if the opponent does not send a defensive expert to defend him, he opens a point guard who can blow up the opponent by heads-up. There must be two defensive experts on the opponent, one inside and one outside, otherwise Guo Xu will be sharper after playing the dislocation and dismantling.
In Guo Xu's previous life, the Suns couldn't win the championship, first, the defense was too poor, and second, Nash's heads-up ability was average.
As the core of the team, Nash has only averaged more than 15 shots per game in the playoffs once in his career, and that time he played 40.7 minutes per game and only took 17.9 shots, which is still not much. The Suns lack the ability to carry the ball and attack at critical moments, so it's not hard to understand why the owner has always regretted letting Joe Johnson go.
In the playoffs, sometimes stars can't be overly reasonable and hard, which is why Kobe Bryant and James tend to play better in the playoffs.
Guo Xu is also this type, if you don't wrap up, I'll shoot you, I'll pass if you wrap up, and watch the teammates' dunk performances. He is the most terrifying when he plays counter-attacks, he is fast and easy to misplace, and once he attracts a supplementary defense, he throws the ball into the air and his teammates are free to catch it.
On the 18th, the Suns challenged the Clippers back-to-back away.
The schedule is very tight, Guo Xu can only take time to have a meal with Megan, Austin, cousin Guo Dasen and others at noon, and the two can't eat alone, and they don't seem very close to others.
The game was easy to win, with Brand and Odom sidelined due to injury, and the Clippers Andre Miller playing with a group of benches, and the gap between the two teams was too great.
113-76 in the game, the Suns won by 37 points, which was not played in the last quarter of the starter, otherwise it would be difficult to win by more than 50 points.
Guo Xu only played 30 minutes, shooting 8-of-12, 2-of-3 three-pointers, and 5-of-6 free throws, scoring 23 points and 12 assists. Led by him, all six members of the team scored double-doubles.
When beating the Kings, Guo Xu's sarcasm of Frank Johnson caused a lot of controversy, and many people said that he went too far, fell into the ground, and was a cautious player.
Now Guo Xu has shut everyone up with his actions, since Frank got out of class, the Suns beat the opponent every game, Guo Xu's assists have been double-doubles in four consecutive games, two games are 20+, and the assist data has soared to 8.4, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before Kidd, who is chasing 9.1 assists, becomes the assist king.
The Suns' other players' stats have grown equally ferociously, and Xiao Si has become the biggest beneficiary, averaging 14 points and 8.2 rebounds per game to rank first on the rookie list, and he has only a third of the season, and he still has a lot of room for improvement.
Nene is averaging 10.5 points and 6 rebounds per game, and will continue to improve and should be on the All-Rookie team.
Suns fans on the Internet are spraying Frank, saying that he owes Guo Xu a regular season MVP, if the Suns are so strong at the beginning of the game, the regular season record will definitely not be bad, Guo Xu's personal data will be more beautiful, and his chances of winning the MVP will be very high at that time.
Lakers fans began to pat Lakers management and Buss Sr., with the Lakers losing to the Timberwolves on the same day with a 10-16 record. O'Neal's comeback halted the losing streak, but it is still not comparable to last season.
This year, the Lakers averaged less than 100 points per game, and the game was very ugly, and the Lakers fans who had become more visionary couldn't stand it.
Some people on the Internet have long said that the Lakers should trade Kobe Bryant and keep Guo Xu, and there are more and more people who support this argument.
Guo Xu led a group of newcomers to play in the Suns, and his record was better than that of the Lakers, with the current situation, it is difficult for the Lakers to surpass the Suns in the regular season, and Guo Xu slapped his old club in the face too hard.
The league has arranged the first showdown between the two sides in the Christmas War, and Guo Xu will receive his championship ring at that time, and the ratings of that game will definitely explode!