Chapter 130: The Desire for Power
On Feb. 4, Chen Shu traveled with the Suns to New Orleans Arena in Louisiana to play away against the New Orleans Hornets.
Obviously, the New Orleans Hornets can't be called a team with a long history, and they moved to New Orleans in the 2002-03 season to start the team's history in New Orleans, but they have not been called a successful team.
But things changed when the team drafted Chris Paul with the fourth pick in the first round in 2005. In the 2007-08 season, the third season after selecting Paul, the Hornets came out on top of the game. In the end, he finished second in the West with a team-making regular season record of 56 wins and 26 losses. In the playoffs, the Hornets defeated Nowitzki's Dallas Mavericks 4-1 in the first round, and Chris Paul completely overwhelmed the aging Kidd in this series. In the second round, the Spurs, led by Tim Duncan, were overturned 4-3 after leading by 2 times, and unfortunately ended the playoffs.
Although they still made the playoffs in the 08~09 season, due to injuries, the Hornets finally stopped in the first round of the playoffs. After that, the team didn't have any stellar performances until last season, when star Chris Paul was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Hornets traded Eric Gordon, Al-Farouk Aminu and Chris Carman, as well as two first-round picks and a second-round pick. In the end, the Hornets entered the playoffs as seventh in the West, losing 2-4 in the first round against the defending champion Lakers.
And this season, the Hornets are in league custody and have been completely reduced to a Western Conference fish belly team, and the Hornets have a terrible record, and they are gone on the road to the top pick.
At present, there are only 4 B-level players in the main team of the team: Carman, Jack, Ariza, and Vasquez.
As soon as the game began, the Suns obviously underestimated the Hornets with a sparse record, and in the first two quarters of the game, the Suns backcourt was completely blown up by Jack and Vasquez, and Chen Shu was obviously one of the unprepared personnel, although yesterday's strength increased a little to 80 points. But at the defensive end, they couldn't stop Vasquez and Jack, who both weighed 91kg. Although the two of them are the same B-level as Chen Shu, although Chen Shu has the assistance of defensive sliding steps, Chen Shu, who is obviously only 84 kilograms in terms of strength, was crushed.
In the first two quarters, with the advantage of the overall strength of the Suns, the two teams played inseparably, and finally tied the two teams with a score of 58:58 and entered the second half.
In the first half, Chen Shu not only did not have a very good effect on defense, but also his own consumption was also very serious, so in the entire first half, Chen Shu only scored 5 points, 4 assists, 2 turnovers and 3 fouls in 2 of 8, and his performance was sparse.
In the second half, Chen Shu learned from the pain and tried his best to find face on the offensive end, although there was still little achievement on the defensive end. At the beginning of the game, Chen Shu opened the skill of the trash talk king to Jack, the muscle ** who made him suffer. Although he scolded this guy for having developed limbs and a simple mind, Chen Shu still couldn't help but envy this guy's strength in his heart.
In this way, under the leadership of Chen Shu on the offensive end, at the beginning of the third quarter, the Suns put away the attitude of underestimating the enemy and played a 15:5**, which opened the score by more than 10 points in one fell swoop. And the Hornets, who played well in the first half, obviously did not admit defeat and immediately organized a counterattack. And Vasquez also hit back-to-back shots, leading the Hornets to a 7-2 counterattack**.
Just as the Hornets were starting to gain momentum, Chen Shu was surprised to find that the head coach of the Hornets replaced Vasquez. At this time, there is still half of the game in the third quarter, you know, so far Vasquez has played 24 minutes, shooting 6 of 9, including 2 of 2 3-pointers and 3 of 3 free throws! He has 17 points and 9 assists, and his performance is not undeniable.
But soon Chen Shu understood that this was obviously a bad ball routine, and winning was obviously not the first factor they considered.
Although this is not fair, Chen Shu did not let this opportunity go away, but took advantage of the opponent's self-destruction of martial arts to lead the team to attack.
Throughout the third quarter, the score was 30:16. The Suns also relied on the efforts of this quarter to stretch the score to 14 points in one fell swoop.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Hornets sent a mixed lineup of main and substitutes, and Gentry originally wanted to let Chen Shu rest more, but in his impression, Chen Shu's physical fitness was still not good enough. But to his surprise, Chen Shu wanted to continue to appear. When Chen Shu repeatedly explained that his physical fitness had made great progress and he could already cope with about 40 minutes of the game, Gentry sent Chen Shu to the court with suspicion.
The reason why Chen Shu wants to play is completely to brush data, of course, brushing data is not the goal, brushing points is the goal, because Chen Shu has already made 3 mistakes in this game, and 15 points will be lost for just one mistake, which makes Chen Shu very distressed, after all, there are too many times to use points now.
In the fourth quarter of the game, Chen Shu did not put a lot of energy into the defensive end, but spent all of it on the offensive end. Under the rhythm of Chen Shu, the two sides began to fight against each other, and in the last few minutes, Gentry replaced the reluctant Chen Shu.
In the end, the Suns defeated the Hornets with a super high 115-103 in the game.
In the whole game, Chen Shu played 38 minutes, 7 of 20, 4 of 11 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 20 points, 8 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal and 3 turnovers. In fact, if it weren't for the skills of the trash talk king in this game, Chen Shu's offensive efficiency could be said to be sparse, and the high scores were all made by shooting shots. One can imagine how aggrieved Chen Shu was under the encirclement and suppression of Jack and Vasquez, two powerful defenders.
Originally, Chen Shu was quite satisfied with his strength attribute that had reached 80, but he didn't expect that he encountered such a thing as soon as his strength reached 80, it seems that he still underestimated the backcourt players in the NBA, and the most important thing in the NBA is physical talent, because it concentrates the strongest talent in the United States and even the world. Chen Shu made up his mind that the main improvement goal for the next season is strength and long-range shooting! He's going to get to the top of the league in both of these two!
In this game, former Hornets All-Star interior Chris Carman did not play because of injury, so the Suns performed well inside, Gortat shot 6 of 10, 11 of 14 free throws, scored 23 points and 12 rebounds, and substitute center Frye had 16 points and 7 rebounds. Morris had a poor hand today, shooting 3-of-10 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists. Dudley 10 points, Brown 12 points, Varick 8 points, Telfil due to Chen Shu, the playing time was compressed, only 10 minutes played, 5 points and 2 assists, plus some play from other benches, the team scored 115 points.
In the backcourt, the Hornets played well, Grevis Vasquez played again in the bench time, and finally got 20 points and 12 assists, Jack had 14 points and 6 assists on 6-of-11 shooting, Jason Smith 12 points, Tever Ariza 15 points, Emeka Okafor 11 points, Marco Belinelli 10 points, Gustavo Ayon 10 points, Dejuan Summers 5 points, Carl Landry 6 points.