Nash looked excited when he came off the pitch, he and Leon high-fived each other, and the smile on his face made him look like a 1.9 meter kid. D'Antoni looked a little puzzled from the sidelines, if the Suns needed Nash to start scoring in the past, it meant that the team's offense was no longer good, and Nash would be very tired at this time, and the expression on his face was always serious, and he would never be as relaxed as now.

But under Leon, he looks so relaxed, so far, D'Antoni feels that Nash has not yet made a force, could it be said that this year's Nash has been reborn to a higher level? But Nash is going to be 34 years old this year, at the end of his professional career.

Of course, Leon knew that Nash was older, and he knew that it would be good if Nash could maintain his condition, don't think about going to the next level, so he had to save Nash, so during the timeout, Leon replaced Nash with Jascovitius and let him sit on the court to rest, and the leader of the Suns court became Stoudemire again.

This rotation is very different from the previous Suns, but the performance of Xiaosi in the first half proved that he can support a team's offense at the moment. On the Lakers' side, Kobe Bryant still stayed on the court, experienced the reasonableness of the first half, and then the continuous firing in the second half, Kobe Bryant has entered the game, and when he enters the state, there is no one to stop him on the offensive end.

On the first offense after the timeout, Bryant hit a 3-pointer from the outside with his open hand to narrow the gap to one point. Turning around, Jasco Vitius hit a three-point shot straight after blocking and stoudemire in the high post, and came with an anser-ball.

Small's inside threat was just too great, giving Jasco Vysius plenty of room to shoot, and the three-point guard showed no mercy, because in Leon's offensive system, point guards have to shoot when they have a chance, and they have to shoot when they don't have a chance to create a chance. In this system, Jasco Vysius no longer has to run in a fixed position, play the ball for his teammates, and then watch some people waste opportunities with the ball, as he did with the Pacers.

After both sides hit a three-pointer each, the shooting percentages of both sides suddenly fell off a cliff in the middle and late third quarter, and Kobe Bryant continued to hit iron on the offensive end, and his shot seemed to be a little impatient; And the Suns were not able to take the opportunity to expand the score advantage, Xiao Si was defended by the Lakers, the Lakers let go of Dio's point, did not let him respond, pass, let him move in the middle distance of the blank area, to shoot casually, to close the door suddenly.

And the mid-range jumper is not Dio's strong point, this is only the second game, he is still a little unfamiliar with how to control the team's offense like a point guard, and the cooperation with Jasco Vysius is also a little tacit, and the Suns' offense has come to a standstill. In this way, the offense of both sides did not score many times in a row, and the offense was a mess, and the head coaches of both sides were still very calm, one more calmly sat on the bench and watched their team X ** play.

Phil Jackson also whistles twice from time to time, and Leon doesn't bother to look up at the situation on the court, instead focusing on chatting with Nash, who in Leon's opinion is more important than watching the game on the court.

"I have an idea to play four or five minutes in the first and third quarters, and then before the end of the first half and the end of the fourth quarter, give you more time and let you control the game." Leon is discussing with Nash about the allocation of his playing time, and Leon wants to save Nash's use on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wants to make the most of his role when he is there.

"I think it's a good idea, today I feel like I'm in good shape, I don't use my brain anymore." Nash said with a smile.

Originally, he was supposed to lie on the sidelines to watch the game, but Leon called him to the bench to chat with him, and in such a game, he talked and laughed so much that D'Antoni on the side sighed, thinking that this guy doesn't care about the situation on the field? When you don't set up a strategy at the timeout, you know that you let the players solve the problem on their own. He has the impression that Leon in the Celtics was not like this in the past, anyway, as long as the Celtics had a timeout at that time, there would be an immediate effect after playing.

But judging from the first two games of the season, it seems that he is a hands-off shopkeeper.

More than half of the game was played in the third quarter, with 4 minutes and 35 seconds left, Kobe Bryant scored under the basket and caused Xiao Si to foul on the free throw line, the score of the two sides was 82:79, the Lakers only trailed by 3 points, Kobe Bryant hit both free throws, and the Suns also replaced Nash, and Xiao Si was at the break. In the third quarter, he was mediocre and couldn't help the team support the offense, but he did okay on the defensive end, contributing two blocks and not missing people seriously.

After Nash came on the court, Leon put Brent Barry on the court again, so that the two slow defensive and average whites on the outside of the Suns could see the Suns fans have a sore eye. But as soon as Barry came on the court, the offensive role was obvious, Leon gave him a very clear positioning, a transfer station for the ball on the outside, and a three-point prince in the bottom corner, the old Barry was very clear about his responsibilities, and he didn't want anything else, and he did his job with peace of mind.

As for the defensive problem, it's all left to Marion, Bell and Turiaf, after the score came to 82:81, in the Suns' offense, Nash and Turiaf blocked and dismantled, and then cleverly divided the ball to the bottom corner, and the old Barry hit a three-point shot, 85:81.

Then in the defense, Marion defended two, first blocked Kobe's breakthrough, and then flew up to interfere with Fisher's throwing, Turiaf received the backcourt rebound, Nash took the ball to push the counterattack, and in the counterattack, Nash paused a little outside the three-point line, seeing that the opponent's defense did not come up, the right side of the 45-degree direct three-point shot! Nash wasn't quick to shoot, but without enough interference, his shooting arc was unusually consistent, and he hit a solid three-point shot.

With two consecutive three-pointers, the Suns opened up the gap again, and Leon continued his three-point strategy in Boston to Phoenix, in fact, except for a pure blue-collar interior player like Turyaf, all the players in the Suns rotation have three-point ability, including Stoudemire.

The Lakers, on the other hand, did not expect that Nash would be full of firepower in this game, taking shooting as their first choice, and their preparation on the defensive end was obviously inadequate, and they barely gave Nash too much pressure outside the three-point line, allowing him to handle the ball more calmly, including shooting at a slower pace.

Jackson immediately called a short timeout to reset the defense, and he brought on Sasha Vujacic to enhance his outside shooting while asking him to start a biting defense against Nash. It worked, but Nash was Nash after all, and when the Lakers started to focus on him defensively, they seemed to forget that this was the assist leader of the past two seasons, and he assisted Marion for consecutive layups, and the difference between the two sides was further widened.

By the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Suns had a 10-point lead over the Lakers at 95:85, and their advantage in hard power began to show little by little, especially the advantage of the player's individual ability, except for the point of point guard, they were better than the Lakers in almost every position.

However, the 10-point gap is not too big a problem for Kobe, after a short break at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Kobe Bryant re-appeared, and he changed his offensive style after playing a lot of iron in the third quarter, and began to continue to force the inside, and hit two consecutive three-point successes, although Xiao Si also relied on a single hit to make a layup, but turned around Kobe Bryant hit a three-pointer again, and the score became 100:95, and the Lakers were approaching the score a little bit.

D'Antoni watched Kobe Bryant's offense feel better and better, remembering the terrible Kobe Bryant in the playoffs in the first two seasons, he began to be a little anxious and couldn't sit still, and wanted to stand up several times, but when he thought that he was not the head coach anymore, he couldn't stand up and command, so he had to continue to stick his ass to the bench.

With the Suns missing the attack again, Kobe Bryant counterattacked with the ball, he saw no one, no teammates, and no opponents, he was like a snake, with a sensitive body and rhythmic dribbling, shuttling between multiple people, and finally switching to a layup to avoid Marion's block, scoring two points, turning the score into 100:97, and the difference was narrowed to three points.

At this point, Leon finally got up from the bench, asked the referee for a timeout, and pulled a tactical note from the inside pocket of his suit, knowing that it was time for him to show some strategy, or else he would be treated as if he didn't care about anything - although no one dared to think so.