Chapter 375: Brilliant Idea
With the game fast approaching and the league's most dilapidated Key Arena packed to the brim, this is Kevin Durant's first season, and the Seattle SuperSonics have decided to rebuild around the talented youngster. After www.biquge.info Ray Allen era, Seattle fans have finally welcomed a player who has the potential to become a true superstar.
But now he still looks very immature, he is so thin and thin, he is too tall, a foot 9, but his body is so thin that the wide NBA jersey on his body seems to be one size bigger. But his arms are so long, and if you see him perform in college, everyone will exclaim that this guy is absolutely unique in the history of the NBA.
That's right, all superstars in the NBA are unique, and if someone tells you that a player is the second in XX, there is a good chance that he will not become a superstar. And Kevin Durant is not, no one will think that he will be the second Who, he will only be the first Durant.
Today was his home debut, and Durant looked slightly nervous, just two days after Durant had just completed his first NBA game in Denver, facing Carmelo Anthony, who scored 18 points on 7-of-22 shooting, a good statistic, but the team lost the game.
However, the feeling of playing at home is not the same. For any player who has just stepped onto the NBA court, it's a new continent of possibilities and wonders. He's going to start creating his own time and miracles here, and all this hasn't started yet, and the miracles that haven't started yet are always so exciting.
In contrast to Durant, the Suns' players are unusually calm, and this is just a regular season game, and the Suns' starters have years of experience in the game, and they know that everything is just beginning. The Suns' starting lineup is the same as in the preseason, Nash, Bale, Stoudmire, Marion and Dio, a starting lineup with insufficient height, and many commentators have already believed before the start of the regular season that the Suns' lineup is more than offensive and not enough defensive, and it will not improve much in the playoffs.
"Unless Fox Leon can do magic, I bet the Phoenix Suns won't make it past the first round this year!" This is the prediction of the big-mouthed Charles Barkley on the show, and Leon's response to this is "Have you forgotten the ass of the donkey?" ”
Leon certainly doesn't care about Barkley's nonsense, and from last night to now, he is still thinking about how to solve the problem of the connection between the two line-ups and playing styles, and how to solve the compatibility problem of Boris Dior and Stoudamire.
Today he wants to get the answer in the game, to see what kind of problems exist between Dior and Stadameyer in actual combat, and how to solve them.
The SuperSonics' starting lineup is Kevin Durant, Earl Worthton, Michael Reed, Nick Collinson and Chris Wilcox, their lineup is somewhat similar to the Suns, not tall, full of mobility, but the overall talent and strength are a lot worse than the Suns.
And the head coach of the SuperSonics, PJ Calesimo, does not care about the victory in this game, because the SuperSonics have no pressure on the record at all this season, and his task is to develop Kevin Durant, and by the way, give the team a good draft pick next season.
So as soon as the game began, the SuperSonics' tactics were quite clear, giving the ball to Durant. It's the unifying rule of every team in NBA history that develops perimeter superstars — give him the ball and let him solve the problem, only to one day make him the number one problem for other teams.
In the last game against the Nuggets, Durant showed superhuman offensive talent, his reach, his shooting, his footwork, and his sense of offense, all proving that he will be a historic attacker. However, today he will face Sean Marion, a small forward who is not inferior to Durant in terms of height and arm span, and will undoubtedly cause a lot of problems for Durant.
But to everyone's expectations, Durant's offensive state was quite good at the beginning of the game, first receiving the ball on the left side and then a feint to break through to the three-second zone, and in the case of three people, hit a board jumper and opened the record.
Then the Suns relied on Stoudamire's basket to score, supersonic fast serve, Durant quickly passed the half court with the ball, rushed to the three-second zone, and jumped directly to the basket for a layup under the cover of his teammates. Marion, who was keeping up, pounced and flew to the rebound to miss the block.
With four straight points in the opening stanza, it was clear that Durant wanted to surprise the fans at home. Seattle fans did see hope in him, and he looked like a complete kid with no hair at all, like a ninth-grader. But he can already score on the heads of the NBA's top forward defenders.
Leon also sighed when he saw Durant's performance, this guy really has infinite potential, but I don't know if supersonic can fully develop him. However, Leon doesn't seem to be worried about the team and Marion's defense, he doesn't care about the wins or losses of these two goals, he looks at the team's offense, and sees that Sun can't play the style he wants.
Nash played a little differently after the opening, he often handed the ball directly to Dio or Stoudeyer after half-time, Stoudeyer can turn over the river and sea on the supersonic inside, but the direct cooperation between the two seems to be less. On the contrary, Nash is more in line with Dior and attacks directly from the outside. Nash hit two three-pointers and dished out just one assist in the first quarter, while Stoudamire scored eight points on a single. It looks like the Suns are playing with the individual abilities of their players, rather than the offensive system that has been relied upon to succeed before.
However, the score on the court will not lie, and the Suns led the SuperSonics by 10 points at 31-21 in the first quarter, but their offense did not look as flashy and exciting as in previous years. However, in the second half of the first quarter, when Leon replaced Jasco Vitius, the Suns had a little shadow of the past Suns in the offense, Jasco Vitius threaded the needle on the outside, his European-style organization is very useful for Suns players who are good at interspersing, plus the NBA does not defend for three seconds, it seems that Jasco Vitius is like a fish in water in the new team.
As the game deepened, the Suns, who were better in overall strength, slowly pulled the score away and always maintained the lead. And the SuperSonics, regardless of the situation, will give the ball to Durant as long as he has an offensive opportunity. And Durant is very competitive today, with a good shooting percentage, but he is too young to score, but he will not lead his teammates forward, obviously he still has a long, long way to go.
When the game entered the second half, at the beginning of the second half, the Suns suddenly played an attack wave, Nash seemed to be back to the past three years, controlling the overall situation on the court, and playing with Stoudamire, using the block to drive the whole team's positional offense, the Suns suddenly played a 10:0 attack wave, and the score gap was opened to more than 20 points.
Discerning people can see that the Suns' pick-and-roll offense is more sophisticated than last year, and Marion's role in the offense is reduced, but Raja Bell has made multiple three-point shots on the offensive end, and he and his old teammate Reed have competed with the two. The two used to be teammates and rivals at the same position with the Celtics, and until Bale left the Celtics, he couldn't replace Reed at shooting guard. But after arriving in the Suns, the two were on an equal footing, and they were both starters.
Although there is a friendship between teammates, it is more of a competition between opponents, and unconsciously the two are getting more and more angry, and they are talking trash on the field.
At this time, the difference between the two sides has been widened, and the suspense of the game is not big, but Reed was annoyed by Bale's entanglement, and his action was a little big in the attack, and an elbow hit Bale's chest. Bell, of course, was not to be trifled with, so he pushed Reed when he went up, and the two began to curse each other, spewing out all the trash talk they had learned in Boston. The referee hurriedly blew the whistle and one of them gave a technical foul, and then Leon replaced Bale off the field and told him to extinguish the fire.
Leon was going to bring on Jascovitius and put Brent Barry on top of Nash to give Nash a break. At this time, Leon suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he came up with a brilliant idea to let the three of them merge organically!
"Pause, I want a timeout!" Leon called a timeout to the referee, and he had to rearrange it.