After the loss, a hidden danger for the Suns began to emerge, with young players making the mistake of being inexperienced, not being good at adjusting their form, playing inconsistently, and falling into a slump at some point in the regular season.

Joe Johnson couldn't get out of this cycle, and Josh Howard and Blake hit the rookie wall headlong.

Back then, Guo Xu was able to pass the rookie stage safely, but the overall strength of the Lakers was too strong, and any star could drive the whole team by playing. Not only O'Neal, but Kobe Bryant can also shoot to death when his hand is hot, and Guo Xu occasionally plays abnormally, and everyone will not blame him.

Now the Suns as a whole are not strong enough to dominate the league and need role players to play. Guo Xu will have problems as soon as he breaks the game, and Blake's offensive organization ability is a big step behind.

The Suns only have two point guards, and the young point guards in the free market in the summer are reluctant to join the Suns, they know that they have to play Guo Xu off the bench when they come, and they will play a maximum of 15 minutes, how can they play beautiful statistics and fight for a big contract in the future? Alstom left for the sake of long-term interests.

Experienced veteran point guards are also reluctant to come, first, the Suns are not favored in the summer, and second, for the sake of face. Let Payton hug Guo Xu's thigh to the Suns, he can only be a backup point guard, and he can't be happy even if he wins the championship. "Bug" Tim Hardaway wanted to come, the Suns didn't want it, he only played 10 games last season, and he couldn't play for a long time.

It's not something that the coaching staff can solve by boosting morale, it's up to the players to adjust themselves. On the field, the only one who can help them is Guo Xu, who has to help his young teammates find confidence and help them play.

In the past, the Suns used to let Guo Xu attack in the first quarter, striving to catch the opponent off guard first, and then pass more balls to teammates after the opponent began to wrap up, so as to help the young players play.

After the coaching staff discussed, it was changed to Guo Xu's passing in the first quarter, and when his teammates really couldn't afford the offensive responsibility, he made more shots by himself. It can also have the effect of surprise, and opponents may not expect to focus on role players.

On December 9, the Suns beat the Mavericks 127-90 at home, and all six members of the team scored double-doubles and swept away the decline.

Guo Xu shot 7-of-12, 3-of-5 three-pointers, and 6-of-6 free throws, scoring a double-double of 23 points and 20 assists.

Joe Johnson found his shot, shooting 9-of-13, 2-of-3 from three-point range and 1-of-2 from the free-throw line for 21 points and 4 assists. Stodammire finished with 16 points, 11 rebounds and two steals on 6-of-10 shooting and 4-of-4 free throws; Marion, who returned, shot 9-of-14 and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line to finish with 20 points and seven rebounds.

All 5 members of the Mavericks team scored double-doubles, none of them scored 20+, and many people overlapped on the court; Without a defensive expert, the Mavericks' defense inside and outside is a mess, and the defensive efficiency is second to last in the league.

Nelson Sr. has had Antoine Walker and Nowitzki together on the inside for a long time, and of course he can't prevent it. Since the start of the game, the five-star Mavericks have lost 6 games without a championship at all. Toward the end of the third quarter, Nowitzki also sprained his knee while attacking in the low post, and although the injury was not serious, he would be out for at least two weeks.

There are more and more people who question the old Nelson, and his style has always been his own way, and his tactics are not wrong, which has made him irreconcilable with the players and the management.

This summer is a contract extension year for Nelson Sr. Cuban gave him a contract, but it devalued him in the eyes of Nelson Sr. In the end, he chose to compromise and signed a three-year contract as head coach and general manager for $5.1 million a year, and it was a dead contract, no matter what the team did, no bonuses.

"He signed, but there was a loss of trust between the two." An insider said.

The team's poor record and a lot of unjust money were spent, and the fate of Nelson Sr. and the Mavericks should have come to an end a long time ago.

On Dec. 11, the Suns didn't train intensively on the team, and in the evening they will fly to the road to play the Magic tomorrow. Since the Magic are now the bottom team in the NBA, there is no pressure on everyone.

During free practice, Stoudeyer said, "I propose to relax in a slam dunk contest, who wants to participate?" ”

There were three responders on the team, Marion, Howard and Nene, all of whom had great bounce and loved to dunk.

Guo Xu also has good bounce power through two time loop exercises, but he is short and can't buckle tricks, so he can only be a spectator with other teammates on the sidelines.

This season, Smalls is preparing to participate in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, and every time he practices he spends some time practicing dunks and asking his teammates to help him get creative. Guo Xu helped him think of two, one was to pretend to be Superman, and the other was that Guo Xu cooperated with him, and the header was crossed by the air to dunk.

"Warcraft" Howard's Superman dunk was mainly a gimmick, and Xiao Si would definitely get a high score as long as he put on the cape. In his previous life, he and Nash's air connection was not very difficult, and it was better than creativity.

Guo Xu believes that as long as Xiao Si enters the finals, these two ideas will be enough to win, because Xiao Si also has two actions that can get high scores alone.

After proposing the idea, Guo Xu was vaguely unhappy in his heart.

In this world, I am afraid that no one has more dunk creativity than him, in his previous life, he watched every dunk contest and was deeply impressed by those perfect dunks. But he can only partner with Xiao Si, and he can't go up and buckle it himself, he wants to be a red flower more than a green leaf to set off his teammates.

The team's slam dunk contest ended with Xiao Si winning easily, and he successfully performed a one-handed dunk with a crotch turnaround, an empty tie rod dunk and a big windmill dunk.

The other three performed averagely, there were no tricks in the inside, it was mainly a violent buckle, and the most difficult action was the lever buckle.

Howard staged a somewhat reluctant one-handed windmill and self-tossing dunk, and he dunked well in practice, but the movement was stiff.

Marion was the most surprising thing, he actually completed a crotch change dunk, as well as a half-turn dunk with a self-throwing and self-dunking from the bottom line. He said that the second action is called "Lady Liberty", and the difficulty factor is not small, but he makes it clearly a "free werewolf", and there is no beauty in shrinking his neck. is also a dunk under the crotch changing hands, he and Xiao Si are also two different things, and they are extremely ugly.

Marion has a slam dunk contest-level bounce, but he doesn't have the image and temperament of a slam dunk king, so he has never participated in it, and he has the self-knowledge not to show ugliness.

After training, Guo Xu went home, watched TV at dinner in the evening, and the sports news released the top five balls of yesterday's game, all of which were dunks, and Carter, Richardson, and Swift gave amazing performances.

Guo Xu said with some envy: "If only I could score like this." ”

Megan smiled and asked, "Didn't you say that you don't dunk in the game because you play healthy basketball?" Changed your mind? ”

"It's good to buckle one occasionally when no one is guarding it, but I'm not pretty. Even if you don't deduct from the game, you can go to the All-Star Weekend performance. Guo Xu sighed.

In his previous life, "Little Potato" Nate Robinson rarely dunked in games, but won three dunk kings, which attracted many fans and became a celebrity in the NBA.

All those who play basketball must have dreamed of being a flying player who is good at dunking. Pure dunking with poor skills and can't play good data will indeed have no future, but if a star can dunk, the popularity will be higher, Kobe, Carter, Howard and others are examples.

Most players can only dunk normally, just like Guo Xu occasionally dunked one in previous seasons, and he was too lazy to dunk this season, anyway, his civilian dunk can't attract people, and it's two points like a layup.

That night, the Suns flew to Orlando, and Guo Xu rested immediately after checking into the hotel in the early morning, he dreamed......