Chapter 79: Core Treatment

On January 26, the Suns hosted the Raptors, a weak team in the East, and yes, they were weak again, and the Raptors have only won 3 games so far, which is only a little better than the Cavaliers, the opponent in the previous game.

Chen Shu played against the Raptors again, but this time he did represent the Suns. Due to the great response of Phoenix fans in the last game, the audience for this game was significantly higher than the last time, although it was still not as good as when Nash was on the court before. But it also gives the team management hope that as long as the Suns can play a good game, then they believe that the West Coast will still be full sooner or later.

If you want to play a beautiful game, you need to have excellent stars, and obviously the current Suns team can only give fans a refreshing look at Chen Shu, an Asian point guard who is good at 3-point offense, and his viewing, topicality, and commerciality are very prominent. There is also Chen Shu's style of play on the court gives people a sense of fearlessness, the current three-point shooting rate of Chen Shu is more than 50%, and the wonderful three-point makes the opponent desperate, the last game of the Cavaliers is an example, consecutive 3 points directly dispelled the willingness of the Cavaliers to resist, and the murderous heart is nothing more than that.

And Chen Shu's unreasonable three-point routine, each of which will make the audience boil, bringing an unprecedented look and feel to the fans, and although Chen Shu's assists are not so gorgeous, they are concise and practical, and teammates also recognize Chen Shu's passing.

Although Chen Shu shoots accurately, he doesn't take many shots per game, only 14 or 5 times on average, ranking 3rd or 4th in the entire team, because there are no superstars, all Suns have relatively average shots.

But Chen Shu's efficient performance gave the fans a feeling of unfinished business, and at the same time gave the management and coaching staff endless reverie. If Chen Shu has enough ball possession, then what kind of game can Chen Shu play, and will his statistics be very explosive.

Therefore, before the start of the game, the management discussed with the head coach, and gave Chen Shu more shots in today's game, although this is somewhat different from the Suns' tactics all along, but with the Suns' current tactics, it is difficult to play a wonderful match without Nash's flowing passing level. And apart from the wonderful cooperation, the star-studded Suns have nothing to attract fans.

And the management is also thinking about the team's goals for this season, which are of course the team's goal at the beginning of the season to make the playoffs, but as the season progresses, this goal is getting farther and farther away. Nash's injury dealt another fatal blow to this goal, but the wonderful performances of the two rookies gave the Suns another glimmer of hope, so the team's goal has also changed, the first goal has become to develop the growth of new talents, and the second goal is to strive for the playoffs.

The game started immediately, and after Gentry finished arranging tactics for everyone, he turned his head and said to Chen Shu: "Chen, we have to play a wonderful game, in this game, you have the opportunity to increase your shots while sorting out the team's offense."

Hearing Gentry's words, Chen Shu was slightly surprised, obviously he had gained the trust of the team, but what he didn't expect was that it only took two games to get this kind of trust.

The players around the coach were also a little surprised, and it seems that the coaching staff and management are now clarifying Chen's position as the interim core of the Suns (why the interim core, since Nash will return in a few weeks). However, they don't care too much, even if a few starters can be used as starters on a weak team like the Suns, and they can just enter the rotation when they are placed in a strong team, such as: Shannon Brown, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye and others. As for Hakeem Warik, Sebastian Telfer, Robin Lopez, Michael Reid and others, they are either veterans who have long since been at their peak or are court vagabonds, they have long since lost their ambition to be the core, and of course even if they do, no player wants to.

At present, the two most potential people in the team are Chen Shu and Morris, and the most powerful are Gortat and Hill. But Hill is 39 years old, and as a former superstar, his strength is still very good, but if he wants a core position, he is also powerless.

Gortat should be the strongest person on the team at the moment other than Nash, but as a white insider, Gortat has little potential and is likely to be at the top now. So the 27-year-old Gortat is not at the heart of the team.

And Morris, like Chen Shu, are both potential rookies, and the two positions are not conflicting, and the chemistry on the field is also good, so the team will also focus on resources to cultivate the two.

"Ding, Post Regular Mission: Help the Team Win the Match, Task Reward 500 Points"

"Ding, release a random task: the initial core, the host is detected to be determined as the tactical core, this task is hereby released, the task requirements: score 30+, the task reward is 1000 points, 2 attribute points."

The game started with the referee's whistle and both sides starting:

Suns: Shushu Chen, Brown, Dudley, Morris, Gortat

Raptors: Calderon, DeRozan, Rinas Creza, James Johnson, Andre Banjani

According to the strength on the books, in fact, the Raptors are stronger than the Suns, excellent point guard Calderon, potential subdivision DeRozan, talented small forward Kreza, all-round power forward Johnson, and champion center Bargnani.

To Chen Shu's surprise, these five people were all rated as B players, among which Banyani, Calderón, and DeRozan are all B+ players.

Although it is not easy for such a team to make the playoffs, it is not a bad record, with only 3 wins. The reason is that they are going to mess up, and the first task that new head coach Dwyane Casey gets is to mess up.

Getting back to business, the game started with Gortat seeding possession over the head of fellow white interior champion Banjani. Basketball came to Chen Shu, Chen Shu, who had just been established as the core position, was full of offensive desire as soon as he came up, and the opponent was familiar to him, and Calderon was difficult to pose a threat to him on the defensive end.

Came to the frontcourt, outside the 3-point line, the iconic 3-point directly pulled out his hand against the defense, fired on the outside, and ten thousand arrows pierced the heart.

0:3。

"Wow ~ Wow" Chen Shu, who was a little excited, did not disappoint the audience, and the audience did not skimp on their applause and shouts, driven by the DJ, bursts of sound inspired the momentum of the Suns.

DeRozan missed mid-range, Gortat grabbed the rebound and made a long pass to Chen. The latter dribbled the ball, and just when everyone thought that Chen Shu was going to attack by himself, he faked to attract the defense, and passed 45 ° Morris with his right hand.

0:5。

As soon as the game began, the Suns were full of momentum and gave fans a wonderful performance. Kitri off the field saw more from it, you originally thought that Chen Shu would get the right to shoot, and this game might become a personal show, but I didn't expect that Chen Shu was more mature than he imagined. He didn't get carried away by the treatment of the core, didn't forget his duties as a point guard, and created opportunities for his teammates.