Chapter 333 [Jason Guo Second, the Tone of the Confrontation]

The Suns vs Warriors game was broadcast live on TNT Radio nationwide, and it was the focus of NBA publicity.

Although the Warriors are outside the playoffs, they have recently played a seven-game winning streak and are a team that wins offense with high scores in the backcourt of the All-Star Game.

In addition, the Warriors' starting point guard is Gilbert Arenas, who has improved the most this season, and his confrontation with Guo Xu is the biggest gimmick. Guo Xu is recognized as an inspirational star, and now many people say that Arenas is "Jason Guo second".

The difference is that Guo Xu didn't care about the order at all, happily joined the Lakers, and quickly surprised everyone.

After being drafted in second round, Arenas faced the media to express his displeasure, believing that he was grossly underestimated. He predicted that he would be selected in 11-19 places, and even if he couldn't make a lottery show, he wouldn't be too far behind. Because he was relatively famous in college, he led Arizona to the NCAA finals.

Scouts don't look down on Arenas because the 19-year-old played as a shooting guard in college, and he is only 191cm tall, so even if he has a strong scoring ability, he has no future.

PROBABLY THE SCOUTS OF EACH TEAM ARE REALLY WASTE, OTHERWISE THERE IS NO WAY TO EXPLAIN WHY IN GUO XU'S PREVIOUS LIFE, BEN GORDON, WHO WAS ALSO 191CM TALL IN 2004 AND PARTICIPATED IN THE DRAFT AT THE AGE OF 21, WOULD BECOME A "TANHUA" AND WAS SELECTED BY THE BULLS. The two have similar styles, Arenas is still two years younger, and age represents potential in the draft.

The somewhat paranoid and confident Arenas announced to the media that he would be able to start with the Warriors in less than the middle of the season. As a result, he did not go well after entering the NBA, sitting on the bench for 40 games. No one paid attention to him, and no one knew that the Warriors had a Southern California scoring champion sitting on the bench, the core of the NCAA runner-up.

Fortunately, Arenas had plenty of playing time in the second half of the season and earned the trust of the manager. He played in 47 games, starting 30 games, and averaged 10.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

"I like it when people are suspicious and look down on me." Arenas later said in an interview, "Because then I can throw these doubts back on their faces." ”

This season, Arenas ushered in a breakout, currently averaging 18.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.

His success stems from hard work, just when people are sleeping, he shoots wildly in the training gym with a basketball, and when he is tired of practice, he sleeps in the training hall, and the Warriors and the people he knows best are the court administrators.

In this regard, he is very similar to Kobe and Jordan, very neurotic, hates failure, and once something goes wrong, he begins to adopt masochistic training. He developed broad shoulders, thick arms, and the physical fitness to fight until overtime.

Now many fans are starting to question the management and scouts of the teams they support. Missing Guo Xu can also be said to be because he doesn't participate in the trial, and missing Arenas is obviously blind, right?

The worst thing to be sprayed happened to be the Bulls management who selected Ben Gordon with the high pick in the previous life, and in 2001, they were extremely weak at the No. 1 position, and then decisively selected a blue-collar swingman Trenton Hassell in the second round to share playing time with Artest, Jason Richardson, Hojberg and others.

After the warm-up, the starters came out, and Arenas didn't speak, but Guo Xu could see from his eyes that he wanted to score points.

When Guo Xu first entered the league, he would be excited to meet stars, which was a good opportunity to prove his strength to everyone, and of course, he might also be taught to be a man by the other party.

Arenas really wants to challenge Guo Xu, Guo Xu's defensive shooting has been relatively poor due to his limited height, and he can't block and can only interfere, and pulling out jump shots against people is what he is good at.

On the contrary, Guo Xu's attack on Arenas is not easy to defend, as a heavy defender, he lacks explosiveness, does not move fast, and suffers a lot from breaking through. Defensively, he has the advantage of not being afraid of misalignment, and he can also fight against the No. 2 position.

Suns starting five: Guo Xu, Joe Johnson, Kirisek, Marion, Stoudamire.

Warriors Five: Arenas, Sean Battier, Antoine Jamison, Troy Murphy, Eric Dampier.

Last season, the Warriors were dominated by "small-ball tactics", and after guard Larry Hughes was poached by the Wizards, coach Eric Musselman began to let Jamison focus on small forward, and power forward Murphy is 211CM tall, plus center Dampier, which may be called a "big-ball tactic".

Dampier jumped the ball to win and the game began.

Arenas was close to Guo Xu before dribbling to the three-point line, and used his height advantage to pass the ball from Guo Xu's head to the empty cut Battier, who followed the trend for a layup and was blocked by Joe Johnson.

The two were about the same height, and Battier was slightly inferior in strength and could not get rid of the entanglement. Joe Johnson doesn't like to jump, but it's not that he can't jump, his pull-up jumper, turnaround and backward jumper shot is not low.

Dampier grabbed the offensive rebound in the card position, bumped into Xiao Si and then got up strongly, and smashed the ball with both hands. 0 to 2.

In the future, Dampier will be affectionately called "Mr. Danpiel" by Chinese fans is not useless, he not only has a height of 211CM, a weight of 120 kilograms, and his athletic ability is not bad, and he is at the peak of 28 years old this year. The existence of O'Neal and Duncan has made Western teams frantically hoard meat shields, and Dampier is considered the top three meat shield blue-collar workers.

The person who Suns manager Brian wanted to trade the most was Dampier, but the Warriors manager offered to use the young and potential Nene as a bargaining chip, so he had to give up.

The Suns attacked, Guo Xu and Xiao Si played blocking and dismantling in the middle, easily creating a misalignment opportunity, Dampier and Murphy did not defend it, Arenas chased the defense slowly, Guo Xu moved a step sideways, and shot three points on the right side.

He was particularly sure of the vacancy in this position, and the ball went into the net hollow. 3 to 2.

Kenny Smith commented: "The Warriors' defense is still a big problem, Jamison is really good at playing small forward offense, and Dampier can also defend the box on the inside, but it's not a good idea to deal with the Suns like this, the Suns' three-point shooting is the best in the league." ”

Barkley said: "It's better, the stars on both sides can score points, and the Warriors have to lose beautifully even if they lose. ”

As soon as the words fell, the Warriors made a mistake, Battier's intention was too obvious when he passed the ball to Jamison, Marion stretched out his long arm to steal successfully, picked up the basketball and passed it to Guo Xu for a single fast break.

Guo Xu quickly brought to the free throw line and made an emergency stop to make a "worship Buddha" feint, attracting Arenas to make an emergency stop and take a small step forward, and then changed direction to the right side to break through successfully, and easily made a layup. 5 to 2.

Arenas didn't dare to foul, if he was troubled by fouls at the beginning, he wouldn't be able to score points with Guo Xu, and his speed was obviously at a disadvantage, and he couldn't keep up once he feints.

The Warriors attacked, Arenas took the ball to the front court and was close to Guo Xu and passed to Jamison. He is good at attacking with the face frame, and if he doesn't turn around, it will affect the rhythm of the attack.

Jamison's left-back-to-back catch attracted the Kirisek defense, heads-up was an opportunity, the Suns were a mixed defense, Guo Xu was the main defender position, and the others were responsible for the four areas.

Jamison watched the situation and dribbled back to Arenas on the right.

The Warriors played a small range of cooperation, Dampier blocked Guo Xu, Xiao Si did not change the defense in time, and Arenas received the ball and scored a layup. 5 to 4.

The Suns' home fans also gave Arenas some applause, and the two teams set the tone for the game in the opening game, which fans love to see. If the stars of both teams can score points, it will be better like the Suns did against the Spurs.

For most fans, the course of the regular season is more important than the result. (https:)

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