At halftime, the Suns' locker room was quite calm, Leon didn't even bother to arrange the second half tactics for the players, although their defense in the first half was still ordinary, but Leon did not think about asking the players to defend desperately, on the contrary, he was quite satisfied with the players' performance.

Especially in the second team of the bench, in the transition period, Jasco Waisius, Barry, Turiaf, and even rookie Dudley, all had brilliant performances. Overall, although the Suns did not come to open the score, the play was relatively stable in the first half. According to Leon's temper in Boston in the past, the midfielder would definitely scold everyone, but in the Suns he didn't, just let the players rest, which made Ragabel and Boris Dior feel very unaccustomed.

The two sat together and muttered quietly, Bale asked Dior, has Coach Leon completely changed his personality this year, I heard that when people have children, their personalities will change a lot; Dio objected, believing that the regular season had just begun, and the days were still long, so it was better to play well. Both of them went to the Celtics when they were rookies and were trained by Leon, and they were both low-post shows, so they have the same awe for Leon as students do for teachers.

After the two discussed, they looked at Leon, who was sitting on a stool in a daze, which was incredible. Of course, neither of them dared to provoke Leon, for fear of being scolded by him, so they only dared to speak quietly.

Leon sat there, he didn't empty himself, on the contrary, his mind kept spinning, he analyzed the Suns' offense and defense in the first half, combined with the Lakers' performance, to make a detailed assessment of the team's offensive and defensive effects. At the same time, he is also trying to manage his own new way of thinking about the team, which is to give a more relaxed team environment to the attacking team, especially the team with the core of the veteran.

In a defensive team like the Boston Celtics, the coach has to keep pushing the players, and the defense is to make the opponent uncomfortable, and the coach has to make his own players uncomfortable, so that his own players can make other people's players uncomfortable. Players on defensive teams should always maintain a strong aura, even a murderous aura.

The offensive team, in the NCAA Leon, feels that the players need to relax, the players can integrate with each other's emotions, and even inspire self-confidence and creativity beyond their own ability, which will make the team burst out of superhuman energy on the offensive end.

Of course, this requires the coach to control and grasp the emotions of the team well, and Phil Jackson on the opposite side is undoubtedly a master of this. Leon has never looked very highly up to Phil Jackson, and the coaching paths of the two can be described as very different, but to this day, Leon admits that there is still something to learn from Jackson, after all, 9 championships did not fall from the sky.

Therefore, Leon only told the players with a serious attitude at the beginning of the game, "Give me a good game in this game", and in the process of the game, he mainly encouraged and guided - to be honest, he really didn't get used to it, especially when he saw the players leaking and not delaying on the defensive end, he clenched his fists and wanted to hit people, but finally held back.

After the half-time break, the players from both sides returned to the court, and the second half of the game was about to begin, before the game, Leon grabbed Nash and said to him: "Steve, we can say that you are going to win a scoring title." Nash smiled and nodded, but Leon added with a serious face: "Your competitor is on the other side, and you are already behind." ”

Leon is talking about none other than the Lakers' two-year scoring champion in '06 and '07, Kobe Bryant. Nash never wanted to score against Cor, and he knew that getting himself the scoring title was just a joke from Leon, but it wasn't a joke either. Before the start of the season, Leon and Nash had the most exchanges, and the two smart people had endless topics to talk about basketball, and Leon's many ideas and suggestions gave Nash a huge inspiration. At the age of 33 and approaching 34, Nash is determined to start a new chapter in basketball, just as he did when he first came to the Suns three years ago.

In the first half, he was involved in the team's attack as an ordinary player, and for the first time he felt that the burden of organizing the attack on his body was not so heavy, and he felt unusually relaxed at the end of the first half. Because of this, he started the second half slowly.

The same is true for Kobe Bryant on the opposite side, the Lakers served first in the second half, Kobe Bryant wanted the ball in the half, and in the face of Ragabel's defense, he continued to change his direction, turned his back and hit a difficult backward jumper to help the Lakers overtake the score.

61:60, and the Suns, the opening possession returned to Nash's hands, Nash called Xiao Si's block in the high post, it is hard to imagine that this is the second block and Nash in this game, Nash used a very skillful dribble to cut into the three-second zone, he did not accelerate, but observed the defender while dribbling, Brown was obviously afraid of Nash's breakthrough, and worried that he passed the ball to Xiao Si who cut in, standing forward and backward.

Fisher pounced from the side, Nash dodged a step laterally and jumped straight at the free throw line! Very calmly and steadily shot, as easy as a free throw, the ball hollowed into the net, and won two points. The Suns took another one-point lead.

At the start of the second half, the top players on both sides scored a goal each. At halftime, Phil Jackson told Kobe Bryant to step up his individual offense, not to mention pulling away the score in the third quarter, and never falling behind. Since the Suns don't carry out the clamping, then Kobe Bryant will naturally not be polite, in the face of the so-called "Kobe Killer" Raga Bell, Kobe was unceremonious, continuous crotch change direction breakthrough, extremely beautiful breakthrough into the Sun restricted area, jumped up in the air a stasis, dodged Xiao Si's block, and made a layup.

Bryant turned on the individual offensive mode, and the reasonable department in the first half has disappeared.

But turning around, Nash blocked and dismantled with Xiao Si in the middle, Nash used the rhythm to accelerate past Fisher, Brown followed Nash but didn't dare to stick up for fear of him passing, but Nash hit the board with a high throw and scored two points.

After the goal, Bryant said to Nash: "Do you want to score by Bibi? ”

Nash smiled and replied, "Always with you." ”

It's okay now, the figure of Reasonable Branch completely disappeared in Kobe, Kobe Bryant also saw it, anyway, the Suns don't defend, and the third quarter is also time to score, in the offense, he did not hesitate to hit the inside line after receiving the ball, and used his left hand, which is as skilled as his right hand, to complete a left-handed throw on Dior's head and score two points.

The two teams are alternately leading, Nash is not to be outdone, after half the court first handed the ball to Dio, and then used the cover to go to the bottom corner on the right side, Dio made a diagonal pass, Nash took the ball and shot the feint to shake off Fisher, dribbled the bottom line, and then a horse archery scored two points.

The two went back and forth in the first two minutes of the second half, scoring goals one by one, playing extremely well, and the audience at the American Airlines Center were excited.

Phil Jackson watched Nash score points with Kobe Bryant like this, and he didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Leon's gourd. It stands to reason that once the Suns need to rely on Nash to score, then they are basically cornered, like the fourth game of the Western Conference semifinals in 05 against the Mavericks, he scored 48 points and 5 assists in a single game, and the team lost the game. The most terrifying thing about Nash is that he can both score high points and assist his teammates, and a good way to beat the Suns is to only let him score high points and not give him a chance to lead his teammates.

But today, it seems that Nash's score is rising, but the rest of the Suns are not completely idle, tactically speaking, Nash seems to have become two separate systems with others, which is very incomprehensible.

And the game continued, Kobe and Nash were still engaged in scoring performances, Kobe showed his gorgeous low-post offensive skills, and Nash took the word "rhythm" to the extreme, various time differences and feints, making Fisher, who was the same age as Nash, look like a five-year-old veteran - although he looked like a veteran when he entered the league.

And Nash, like Kobe, showed his left-handed skills to the fullest, dribbling, throwing, layups, and almost shooting with his left hand, and the entire third quarter became a performance arena for Nash and Kobe Bryant. When Nash shook off Fisher's defense from outside the three-point line and hit a three-pointer, the score came to 75:71, and the Suns actually led the Lakers by 4 points, and Nash had an advantage in the race against Kobe? Nash didn't end the third quarter, scoring 13 points single-handedly while Kobe Bryant scored 10 points — and on two occasions he began to habitually hit the iron.

Jackson had to call a timeout to adjust, and to be honest, this Nash and the Suns, he was a little confused.