The Suns vs. Grizzlies matchup is a great reference for most teams in the league.

The Suns turned into serfs this season, and the Kombat Whirlwind was almost a bloodbath in the league. Facing the test of the playoffs, the Grizzlies on the opposite side are too traditional to be a balanced team with inside and outside.

What kind of countermeasures the Suns will come up with in the face of such a traditional team, the whole league is paying attention to such effective information.

Especially the Rockets and the Supersonics, as they are likely to play against the Suns in their next game.

The game arrived, and as soon as the game began, the Suns showed the strength of the Western Conference leaders, and the fast-rotating offense made the fans sitting in the Phoenix West Arena climax. Playing a beautiful playoff offense, it's a spectacle that hasn't been seen in this arena in a decade. The last person to lead here was Barkley in the commentary table.

Mike D'Antoni is the coach who can make point guards better, and Nash is a master of passing the ball who can make the 2-5 around him better. By his side, Sean Marion can win an average of 20+10 per game, and by his side, a big man like Channing Frye, who is about to lose his job, can become the league's three-point king.

It's almost a perfect match! No, it's a perfect match!

Nash's fast-break advancement and passing are able to maximize the coach's intentions. Needless to say, at that time, Nash's Suns were one step faster than others, and sometimes the opponent was still immersed in the joy of scoring, and Nash had already helped his teammates score with a pass of the ball. To broadcast the Suns' game, TNT's live broadcast must reduce slow-motion replays, otherwise you may miss a complete fast break for the Suns.

The rise of the Suns and Nash has certainly aroused everyone's curiosity, but most teams in the league are still in the superficial stage of the regular season when studying Nash, with the exception of Hu Qingniu, who can even list Nash's common offensive routines and frequencies, so as to take targeted approaches, which is the charm of data analysis.

In the fast break, Steve Nash usually has 4 options, the first of which is the most common, receiving a rebound from a teammate, passing it to the forwards on either side who are running fast (usually Marion), and completing the layup directly.

The second is to grab the rebound, find that there is no space to complete the offense with a pass, advance with the ball yourself, and then look for a teammate who is fast in the advance, take advantage of the opponent's unstable position, and sneak attack the fast attack.

The third is to quickly advance to the three-point line and pass to the three-pointers who are ambushed on either side. The Suns can throw three-pointers except for center Smalls, which is particularly effective.

Finally, in the fourth way, Nash passes the ball to his teammates first, and his teammates bring them to the front court and cannot attack directly before passing back to Nash, and Nash shoots coldly from outside the three-point line. As a point guard, Nash's shooting ability is absolutely outstanding, and his outside shooting is much better than Stockton, Magic, Kidd and even Paul, and he can score with unconventional shooting positions, which is the most special thing about Nash.

The Suns' four-board axe offense was very scary, and the Grizzlies fell into a 0:12 deficit after three minutes, but fortunately, the Grizzlies are no longer what they used to be, and this team with no background suddenly has an old-school star player who can control the court - Grant Hill.

Hill's improvement in temperament and consistency for this Grizzlies team was obvious, and after a 60-second timeout, the Grizzlies quickly put on a defensive posture under Hill's command, waiting for the strongest spear to attack.

In front of the TV, Hu Qingniu saw this scene and said pointedly.

"Grizzly bears have huge stature and strong strength, but people tend to overlook that grizzly bears also have hard fur and fat fat."

The Grizzlies' defensive array immediately took effect, and in the face of a more aggressive and tough Grizzlies, the Phoenix's gorgeous offense was also discounted.

The tireless follow-up made it difficult for Nash to get out of the ball and also made Marion's ugly chest shot incapable of making smooth shots, even by heavy hitter Joe Johnson.

It's easy to think of a strategy that puts the pace of the game in a quagmire, but it's difficult to execute, with mad dog defense and tacit rotation all indispensable. If it's not the playoffs, no one wants to expend a lot of energy in this game, after all, there are 82 games in the regular season, and losing to an opponent in the playoffs has to go home.

Many teams that had a flashy offense in the regular season were discounted by the playoffs, a curse that D'Antoni's team never escaped.

D'Antoni emphasises open space and an open attack, but that will be a lot of problems in the playoffs. Regular season opponents may give you 20 open spots per game, but when it comes to the playoffs, where everyone is desperate, there are very few open spots.

The Grizzlies base their team on a combination of inside and outside, with a balance of offense and defense, which is a bit like an all-offense and all-defense in football. Their frantic fill-ins and tireless footwork have made the Suns' living space smaller and smaller. Some of those gorgeous combinations can be successful, but some of them become mistakes.

This may just be a matter of a few percentage points drop in offensive success for the Suns, but those few percentage points are enough for the Grizzlies to catch up.

Because at the other end of the court, in the Suns' defensive area, the Grizzlies' two huge bear paws slapped left and right, and the tofu scum defense was smashed. This Suns team's defense is really like engineering, there is no intensity at all, and Hill and Gasol don't have any pressure to score.

At this time, people found out that the statistics of 26+9 are extremely gorgeous, and Stoudemire, who is almost known as the strongest offensive front since Karl Malone, fell into disadvantage at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends when facing Gasol, another young traditional power forward who is not well known.

Nash's pass is difficult to reach Xiaosi's hands easily, this is the Grizzlies' most feared passing line, everyone knows that the connection between Nash and Xiaosi is the ace of the Suns this season, so this is also the Grizzlies' most tightly defended line.

Smalls also faced a problem in one of the few opportunities he had to get a pass from Nash, Hill's delay. That's Hill's experience, every time Scarlet goes out to catch the ball, Hill will always show up on the line to create a little obstacle for him, maybe it is only a delay of less than a second, but with this time Gasol can perfectly fill in the position.

Xiao Si, who can't rush up, will never be able to display his peerless talent. Smalls is an excellent finisher, but there's one problem that he's relied too heavily on the rim, which has been pinched by Gasol, who is tall and arm-long. This is also the reason why Xiao Si desperately practiced mid-range shooting in the later stage, and with the mid-range shot, Xiao Si's offensive power can increase geometrically.

However, now, Xiao Si's mid-range shooting is still intermittent, and today is unlucky, just nothing. After a few hits, his heart was gone, and Xiao Si began to hesitate, and in turn, Gasol's traditional status technology was accurate, and Xiao Si's offensive and defensive ends were comprehensively suppressed by Gasol.