Chapter 130: In Good Shape?
On December 23, local time in the United States, the Suns went to the Denver Plateau to challenge the Nuggets, which was the second meeting between the two teams this season.
Before the game, Li Mojie was bound to win this game, after all, he had already defeated the Nuggets before, and in Li Mojie's opinion, there was really no one worth noting in the Nuggets' current lineup.
It's a pity that although the Suns defeated the Nuggets 103-99 on the road, it didn't have much to do with Li Mojie, but Gobert and Markieff Morris played a very wonderful performance, Gobert grabbed 17 rebounds in the Nuggets' interior line, and Markieff Morris cut 25 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists to get the MVP of the game.
Li Mojie only had 12 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds and 5 turnovers.
He was sandwiched from head to end by Wilson Chandler and Kenneth Fared in this game, as if the Nuggets were not here to win this game, but to hit Li Mojie's self-confidence!
"These damn muddy balls!" After the game, looking at Chandler and Farid who lost the game and didn't forget to look at Li Mojie with a provocative eye, Li Mojie couldn't help but scold.
Li Mojie had already felt the pressure brought by his fame before, but he didn't expect that it was getting more and more excessive now, and the victory or defeat of the game could be thrown aside, and he would see himself to death.
But now Li Mojie has no leisure to watch the news, after the game, everyone has to fly back to Phoenix before the plane after washing, to meet the current Mavericks, the future to be called the Mavericks team challenge, in order to let everyone understand, from now on call him the Mavericks.
"I'm tired now, I've played in the last two months, my stamina can't keep up, I didn't play very well today, but luckily I have great teammates, I'm a rookie and I can attract the opponent to cover me, I feel honored, as long as the team can win, my stats almost don't matter!" It was already early in the morning when the Suns returned to Phoenix, and Li Mojie said to the local media in Phoenix at the airport with a tired face.
Middleton twitched beside him, he has been with this guy for so long, don't you know what virtues Li Mojie has? He can't wait to brush a triple-double every night, if he wasn't still a rookie, maybe he would have done it, and when they played games together, Li Mojie's choice of the Suns' style of play in 2k14 was always Li Mojie's single tactics, more poisonous than anyone else!
After returning home, Li Mojie used Anera's graceful body to temporarily forget all his troubles, and yes, the two had established a relationship and lived together.
The next night, the more tired Li Mojie will face the Mavericks.
It doesn't matter to Li Mojie, the other players are also very tired, Hornacek is not a conservative coach, seeing this situation, he decisively chose to rotate, and the starters on the field became: Ramon Sessions, Gerrard Green, Li Mojie, PJ Tucker, Rudy Gobert's lineup.
The Mavericks, on the other hand, are a combination of Monta Alice, Jose Calderón, Sean Marion, DeJuan Blair, and De Konowitzki.
Before the game, the veteran driver also comforted Li Mojie when asked by reporters: "Mojie is a great rookie, maybe the media is too harsh on him, I believe he can become a great player in the future!" ”
Today, the atmosphere at the National Air Center Arena, the home of the Suns, is very strong, because many veteran fans know that the Suns currently have the third record in the West, but this is a youth army after all, and another synonym for possibility is instability, anything can happen.
The indicator of whether a team can enter the playoffs is not to see if he can wrestle with championship teams like the Spurs and Heat, but to see if he can stably defeat teams like the Mavericks and Nuggets on the verge of the playoffs.
At the beginning of the game, Li Mojie swept away the decline of the first two games, and with the cheers of the home fans, especially the more feminine Anella, he made 3 of 3 three-pointers and 3 of 4 free throws due to the breakthrough, scoring 12 points.
After the first quarter of the game, Li Mojie scored 19 points and 2 assists, and the team led the Mavericks 38-25, which shocked the ground.
Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle didn't expect Li Mojie to play back-to-back as a rookie, and his physical strength could not only keep up, but also completely different from the state of the previous two games
Especially Marion, who was defending him head-on, originally thought that the Suns were also his parent team after all, and it would be difficult to explain if he bullied Li Mojie so badly in front of the home fans, but he never expected that Li Mojie was really biao in this game.
Li Mojie met Marion, who is 35 years old this year, and in terms of athleticism, Marion is no longer the "hacker" he was when he was with the Suns (Sean Marion is nicknamed Hacker from TNT commentator Kenny Smith). During Marion's rookie season, Kenny Smith was amazed by his perverted athleticism and gave him the nickname. )
"I'm Cao, my shooting hand is so good today?" Li Mojie himself was stunned, to be reasonable, he only finished playing the Nuggets yesterday and then flew back to Phoenix to prepare for the game, and also completed a few intense sports, his physical strength is indeed not in the state, but he didn't expect him to have a trend of explosive seeds today, how to shoot?
The state of the players is really unpredictable, for example, Corvo likes to play after the court so that he can beat the opponent as if he was the lawyer on the other side, Jordan likes to play after food poisoning, and that kind of helper no longer cares about the opponent.
And Li Mojie now feels that he will have to discuss the origin of life with Anella before the start of every game in the future.
Hornacek saw that Li Mojie was in such a good state, and replaced Marcus Morris, Marcus Morris, and Archio Goodwin at the beginning of the second quarter, and replaced PJ Tucker, Gobert and Ramon Sessions, and the lineup on the court became Archiy Goodwin, Gerard Green, Li Mojab, Marcus Morris, Markieff Morris, and after missing the big center Bale, the team's athleticism is stronger and the impact is stronger.
"Hell yes!" Originally, when he saw the aging Marion being beaten by Li Mojie in the first quarter, Jack Crowder, who came off the bench, was quite happy and thought that his opportunity had come.
I didn't expect Li Mojie to look at this 12-year-old second-round show, and again and again it was **, dry pulling, relying on his good hand, and once again exchanged 3 shots for 5 points, Carlisle saw this appearance and didn't dare to let Jack Leoder continue to defend, and hurriedly shouted at the 208cm Brandon White to let him go on the court to defend Li Mojie.