Chapter 418: Six-foot man

In the fourth quarter, the Suns turned on harvest mode and didn't give the Jazz any more chances. Although the Jazz play very tenacious, Sloan's team will never give up easily, even if it is garbage time on the bench, the Jazz team is still playing tactical cooperation, once the game is not good, Sloan will call a timeout to arrange, and replace the players who can't play well.

It is this serious and rigorous attitude that allows Sloan to be as stable as Mount Tai in the Jazz's position, although he has not won the championship for so many years, but the Jazz have always maintained a strong team demeanor and can firmly gain a foothold in the NBA.

Until the last minute of the game, when the margin was 15 points and the Jazz had no hope of catching up, Sloan still called a timeout when needed, laid out the final tactics, and asked the players to complete the offense.

The moment the buzzer sounded, the game was over, and the Suns beat the Utah Jazz 121-106 at home, continuing to add to their win and move towards 2008.

Fox Leon took the initiative to shake hands with Jerry Sloan on the sidelines, and Sloan counted Leon as a coach who stole more after Leon entered the league. When he was working as a video editor and assistant coach, he watched a lot of games for the Jazz, and his rigorous tactical coaching and meticulous tactical arrangements provided a lot of help for Leon to enter the team of basketball coaches.

Another victory, and against the Western powerhouse Utah Jazz, the Suns are proving their mettle. At the beginning of the season, the Phoenix media's doubts about Leon and the Suns were gradually disappearing, and certainly not to the point of singing praise, because there was still a long way to go, and the Suns had not yet encountered a real challenge.

And after playing the Jazz, they are about to face a strong opponent, a dark horse team that suddenly became popular this season - the New Orleans Hornets.

Chris Paul, the No. 4 point guard who entered the NBA in the same year as Deron Williams, looks to have more potential than Williams, and in the first 20 games, he has put in a spectacular performance that shook the league. In the season opener, the quasi-triple-double led the team to the first victory, scoring 19 points, 21 assists and 3 steals against the Lakers, 29 points, 13 assists and 5 steals against the Grizzlies, 33 points, 12 assists and 3 steals against the Mavericks, followed by the Grizzlies, 43 career highs easily took away the opponent.

This little man, who is only 6 feet tall and is looked down on because of his height and did not enter the top three in the draft, is using his wonderful performance to prove to the world that basketball is indeed a giant game, but a person who is 6 feet tall will also be a giant if he has outstanding skills and a strong heart.

The junior has a tremendous amount of energy in his body, and with it has boosted the popularity of the terrible New Orleans Hornets, who are now among the playoff teams. Although the season has only just begun, the Hornets' solid core structure and the outstanding performance of their top players have led to the belief that this rising star can thrive in the brutal West.

Of course, they also need to go through the baptism of a strong team, and after a two-day break, the Suns flew to New Orleans in the south to start a three-game Southwest death trio against the Hornets, Spurs and Mavericks.

Because he knew that he was about to face a strong opponent, during these two days, Leon did not give the whole team a holiday, but increased the amount of training to keep the players in good shape. Leon is a very well-managed coach, don't look at the off-season and at the beginning of the season to give the players a holiday, and take them out to play, because this is when the season is just starting and the players need a process of adaptation.

In the middle of the season, as the schedule becomes more dense and the journeys are more and more, the players not only cannot relax, but must be more regular and efficient. At this time, the true colors of Coach Leon's devil began to slowly show.

On the field, he was the shopkeeper, and his strict training guidance began off the field, and on the 13th, he practiced all the right days, and the players were a little suspicious of life. It's not that I'm tired, but I feel that I can't do anything right, as if I have played the ball for more than ten years, because Leon demands them with extremely strict standards.

Only Steve Nash made Leon more satisfied, but he also felt that the training was really hard, and he didn't want to practice anymore and wanted to go home to spend time with his children.

On the 14th, Leon left it alone, letting the players practice freely to stay in shape, and asked everyone to add an hour of gym strength training before setting off again in the evening and heading to the southwest side.

On the 15th, the Suns conducted another hour of shooting drills plus simple tactical coordination exercises, so that the players were fully prepared in physical condition before this death road trip.

In the evening, at the New Orleans arena, the stadium was full, and the fans came to their seats early. The New Orleans arena is one of the smallest arenas in the league, and it can basically compete with the key arena in Seattle for the worst arena, and the rise of the Hornets this year has made the New Orleans ball market quite hot. In addition, today's match against the Suns is again, and they have qualified for the national live broadcast.

The fiery atmosphere at the scene made the Suns players excited. In fact, before the game started, the Suns players didn't take the Hornets too seriously. After all, the Hornets were still an underdog last season, and their core player, Paul, is only a 6-foot-tall third-year student, which feels tender compared to old fritters like Nash.

Their minds are all thinking that after playing the Hornets, they will go to San Antonio to play against the Spurs the day after tomorrow to avenge the revenge of last season's playoffs. However, they did not expect that they would be greeted by a bitter battle today.

The game started at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and the person sitting in the New Orleans Hornets coach's seat was really Byron Scott, who had fought Leon this year when he was in the East, winning first and then losing. Now that he's in the West and leading the Hornets to great performances, Scott still has two hands as a player and coach.

And his two songs, Leon is clear in his heart, it depends on how the players on the field gather and dismantle the moves.

The Suns are still the regular lineup, and the Hornets have center Tyson Chandler, power forward David West, small forward Rassell Butler, scoring guard Morris Peterson, and point guard Chris Paul.

The organizational structure of point guard-power forward-defensive center plus defensive wing is a lineup structure that Scott is familiar with, and it is also what he transplanted from the Nets.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides jumped the ball, Tyson Chandler was tall and long-armed, and the first to touch the ball, and the Hornets got the offensive possession. Paul takes the ball and organizes the attack.

Nash Paul, the best point guards of two eras began their battle.