Chapter 366: The Sun That Can't Defend
The Suns players can't believe their ears, and Fox Leon's first official training session after coming to the Suns is to play the main players against the new fringe people?
Steve Nash was the first to speak: "Fox, are you kidding? I think we should get acquainted with each other first. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Nash is the leader of the team and knows Leon well, so he can give his opinion. But Leon was clearly not prepared to take Nash's advice, but instead asked the players on both sides to put on their training clothes and take out their whistles, obviously he was going to be the referee of this match.
Seeing that the new coach was playing for real, the players had to wear training uniforms of different colors, with the main team wearing white vests and the substitute team wearing gray vests. The main team is Stoudemire, Nash, Bale, Marion and Dio, and the substitutes are Brent Barry, Turiaf, Jascovisius, Dudley and Barria.
Stoudemire looked relaxed, and he didn't care about the sudden matchup, warming up with the ball while joking with Bale. But Bale looked serious and said: "Coach Fox is not the kind of person who makes casual arrangements, remember Boris, when we first entered the Celtics, we had games like this when we were on the bench. “
It was 2003, when the Celtics had assembled an unprecedentedly strong roster, Bale and Dior, said his former teammate in Boston. But at the beginning of the team's training camp, Leon organized a confrontation between the substitute team and the main team, and as a result, the talented main team wasted all their strength to defeat the substitute team.
It seems that Leon's move is going to be used again in Phoenix, and it seems that the bench lineup on the opposite side is quite reasonable, the right-back has a forward and a center, a breakthrough and a pass, a three-point point, a veteran and a young player, if you integrate it and play well, it is really a decent team. And I heard that Leon opened a rookie training camp for newcomers, and they trained together for more than a week, I don't know what kind of training method Leon used.
Bale and Dio are a little apprehensive in their hearts, both of them have been tortured in Boston, and life will not be too easy after arriving at the Suns, especially Dio, who shined in the 2006 season when Stadamire was injured and reimbursed, and successfully got a big contract. Now he feels that it is time for him to enjoy life, but he did not expect that Fox Leon will become the head coach of the Suns.
When he knew the news, he was on vacation in France, and as soon as he heard the news, he immediately lost his mind to bask in the sun, and ran back to the United States to train, and by the way, he lost weight for himself.
Before the start of this training, Bale and Dio did not meet Leon, after meeting today, Leon looks more majestic than in the past, when he was in Boston, as long as he stood on the sidelines, everyone trained obediently, and no one dared to be lazy. Thinking that his life in Phoenix would be the same as in the past, Dior felt that his heart was about to break.
Leon went to the locker room to take off his suit and changed into a sportswear, wearing short sleeves, revealing strong arms, and a little scar on his muscles, which was still the same medal left in the bar boxing ring in the past. This made him completely different from the white and chubby D'Antoni, and the players felt a little nervous for a while. There were only five players on the bench, and they were in a relaxed mood because Leon had told them before the start of training camp that they would play this match.
As for how to play the match, Leon has made detailed arrangements and carried out targeted training, which allows the five players who have never played together to have a basic game strategy. Of course, the most important thing is not strategy, but heart.
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The matchup began with Leon's toss, with Turyaf and Stoudeyer battling the ball, with Stodamayre's bounce superior and the first to touch the ball, Nash took the ball, and the Suns began to attack. As the undisputed offensive heart of the team, Nash has almost 90 percent possession in the offense, and he has done a very good job of controlling turnovers.
This summer, Nash has not relaxed his training, dribbling, shooting, and power, and at the age of 33, he is still honing his basic skills like a rookie. And the person who played against him in this game was Jasco Vitius, a player who proved impossible to survive in the NBA, a player who almost left the United States and returned to Europe. Nash had heard that Leon had compared Jascovitius to the Sun's demon knife, and he didn't know where Jascovitius was.
At this time, Stoudeyer stepped forward to make a block for Nash, the two Pick-and-Roll, Nash used a scalpel-like ground pass to send the ball to Stoudeyer, Stoudeyer stepped in, jumped and dunked with one hand!
It's what Nash and Stoudamire do best, and it's one of the strongest duos in the entire league, almost unstoppable. Even the Spurs and Duncan can't limit their pairing, let alone this makeshift patchwork of bench players.
After the goal, Nash and Stoudmayre high-fived, and it looked like a summer had passed, and there was no lack of chemistry in their cooperation. After scoring this goal, the mood of the main five relaxed a lot, it seems that the opponent has not been trained by Leon to do anything super defensively, Jascovysius still looks so slow, and Turiaf is slow to react and completely unable to keep up with the rhythm.
However, the counter-attack of the substitutes came quickly, and the little man Jose Barria ran wildly with the ball and rushed across the half court in a moment. At the moment, the main team has not yet made a good allocation of who will defend Barria and who will defend Jascovitius, as both men are point guards. Seeing this, Bale took the initiative to post it, and Barria was hindered, but Jasco Vitius immediately came up to answer it, Barria passed to Jascovitius, and then Brent Barry made a block for Jascovisius at the top of the left arc.
Obviously, Nash's defense was poor, giving Jasco Vitius the chance to break through the middle, Marion had to step up to make up for it, Jasco Vitius didn't rush in and passed back to Barry, who got a three-point shot from outside the left three-point line.
Dio wanted to come to make up for the defense, but Barry passed to Dudley who was ambushed in the bottom corner, Dudley took a look and shot three points! The ball didn't go in, and it looked like he was just graduating from college and he wasn't used to the NBA's three-point line.
However, Turiaf on the inside got the frontcourt rebound and easily deceived Stoudamire, causing Stoudamire's defensive foul. Leon blew the whistle without hesitation, and Turyaf made two free throws. In the end, Turyaf made one of two free throws to recover a point for the bench.
D'Antoni watched the attack of the substitute team and felt that their cooperation was unexpectedly tacit, and the ball was transferred very quickly, which is likely to make them lose sight of one or the other when the main team's defensive object and strategy are not clear.
Sure enough, in the next few minutes, the main team was unstoppable on the offensive end, and the old and small bench team had no way to prevent Nash and Stoudamire from co-ordinating. They had the advantage from the start, but they were never able to pull the gap away and stayed around three points. Because they simply can't contain the bench on the defensive end.
It's hard to believe that the bench's offense was nothing short of fluid, and they didn't play much of a fast break, but instead kept using pick-and-rolls to create misalignments, passes and cut-ins in positional battles. And Turiaf, as the team's interior lineman, never comes out to block and dismantle, but always grabs frontcourt rebounds on the inside, which puts a lot of pressure on Stoudamire. He doesn't defend well, he also leaks, he always picks up rebounds for Turiaf in the frontcourt, and he also causes his own fouls.
The four people on the outside, Barry, Barria, Dudley, and Jascovisius, block each other, among which they use Jascovisius and Barry as the center of the pass, focusing on the left and right sides of the arc to block and dismantle, and at the same time, there must be a person in ambush in the bottom corner to shoot a three-point shot.
D'Antoni watched a few rounds to understand Leon's routine, and knew why the main team would struggle so the defensive end, one is that their defensive focus is problematic, focusing on the pressure of the ball carrier, and the other is that D'Antoni really didn't help the players practice defense well in the past...... Now D'Antoni wants to call a timeout to give the main players some pointers, but Leon will not give a timeout.
The two sides were obviously getting more and more engaged, and a little bit red-eyed, Nash made a three-pointer in the offense! However, Jasco Vitius immediately returned the favor on the counter-attack and also hit a three-pointer! It seems that after today's match, the main team will inevitably be criticized. I don't know what kind of whip Fox Leon will use to whip them on their heads.