Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Advantage of Youth

"Director Zhang, have you heard? This game is very popular with Suns fans! "CCTV is still the partner of Teacher Su Qun and Zhang Weiping.

"Hehe, I did hear it, not only the fans in the United States are discussing, but the major sports forums in China are also discussing, and everyone also voted for a selection, who is the real enemy of the Suns, and 72% of the people chose the Spurs." Director Zhang said with a smile.

"Indeed, the feud between the Spurs and the Suns has continued since Nash's time, and many old fans still remember the spear and shield, water and fire battles at that time." Teacher Su Qun said with emotion.

"Well, in the first two or three seasons, the Suns fell into a rebuild after the departure of Xiao Si and Nash one after another, but I didn't expect to be so lucky this year, drawing a top pick in the history of the team, and then trading a few powerful players like Bledsoe, Middleton, Ramon Sessions, so far the Suns have defeated the Trail Blazers, Jazz, Thunder, Pelicans, and won four consecutive wins in the league to rank first, which is unimaginable before the season!" Director Zhang said eloquently.

"Yes, I thought that after Nash left, the Suns would fall into a long rebuilding process, but I didn't expect the Suns to show signs of rising this year, which makes the Timberwolves, 76ers, and Bobcats think about it!" Teacher Su Qun teased.

"No way, this year, whoever draws the champion lottery will choose Li Mojie, and whoever will be able to rise, this is a matter of luck." Zhang Weiping's guidance of high emotional intelligence praised Li Mojie without a trace, and was loved by countless fans of the earth-shattering magic troupe.

The game started on time, and Frye and Duncan jumped on the middle circle.

Spurs starting five: PG: Tony Parker (6'2"), SG: Danny Green (6'6"), SF: Kawhi Leonard (6'7"), PF: Boris Dior (6'8"), C: Tim Duncan (6'11")

Suns starting five: PG: Eric Bledsoe (6'7"), SG: Chris Middleton (6'7"), SF Marc Jay Lee (6'8"), PF: Markieff Morris (6'10"), C: Channingfrye (6'11")

Duncan was known as the Flying Devil of Wake Forest when he was younger, but after a major injury, he gradually turned to floor flow, and the 1976-born man is now clearly not as good as the 1983-born Channingflye, who eventually moved the ball to the back with relative ease.

But the Spurs' Parker and Leonard were expressionless, obviously used to it, or had expected it, so they settled and defended in an orderly manner.

The first ball Bledsoe didn't come hard against Parker, who was about the same height but obviously much more experienced, and he passed a few times with Middleton and others, and then handed it to Li Mojie on the wing.

"Oh, here, the first ball in the opening game, give Li Mojie a single first." Director Zhang perked up.

Teacher Su Qun sighed: "This is the status of the team!" At that time, Da Yao played for several seasons to have the same status as Li Mojie in the team now, right? ”

"Well, the Suns and the Rockets are still a little different, the current Suns team does not have team veterans, almost all of them are a group of newcomers, so it is reasonable that Li Mojie's status will be improved soon." Director Zhang replied.

Li Mojie took the ball and dribbled a few times, and when he was traveling to the left, he pulled the ball with his left hand and turned to the right side to break through, Leonard opened his long arm span, lowered his center of gravity, and stared at Li Mojie with a serious face.

"As soon as you create a breakthrough or a shot space, you will shoot decisively!"

"Dang!" The ball bounced out of the box, but the opportunity came out.

Leonard took a deep look at Li Mojie, although he was hit by iron just now, Leonard was indeed shaken off the shooting space by Li Mojie. And Leonard and Li Mojie are both Californians, and when they were in the NCAA game, Leonard also watched Li Mojie play on the spot, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, Li Mojie has become the champion and the core of the Suns, with unlimited ball rights....... The latter makes Leonard very envious, you must know that Leonard played an average of 31.2 minutes per game last season, but only 9.1 shots, and can only do some tiring work, and among the basketball teenagers born in California, who doesn't want to be like the Los Angeles No. 24, who doesn't want to have unlimited shooting rights and regard scoring as a probe?

The Spurs' offense, their rhythm is not hurried, after all, the team lineup is not young, Tony Parker controls the ball steadily on the outside, passes to Duncan on the inside, Duncan on the inside sees that Frye is very tight, there is no strong play, there is a pass to Leonard on the outside, Leonard passed to Boris Dio.

The French Magic is also very excited today, I don't know if you remember, ESPN once compared Li Mojie's template to an offensive enhanced version of Boris Dior, and Dior won the first climax of his career with the Suns.

After hitting Markieff a few times with the back of his fat body, the flexible dead fat man turned around with a nimble that was completely inconsistent with his body, and successfully showed Markieff's face, "Where's the ball?" Markeef wondered.

On the other side, Duncan easily won the ball and hit the board at 45 degrees.

Then, when it was the Suns' turn to attack, Jeff Hornacek stood on the sidelines and shouted, "Pick up the tempo, pick up the tempo!" ”

Hornacek knows that the Spurs' tactics in the past two years have been too obvious, which is to control the tempo on the court and use their best defense to beat the Suns with the ease. If the Suns get caught up in the rhythm of the Spurs, these lads will be played to death by the Spurs' old fritters.

So we must take advantage of the Suns' own advantages, that is, young, the oldest on the court is 83 years old and 30-year-old Frye, Bledsoe and Markieff are both 89 years old, Middleton and Li Mojie are both post-90s, and the bench is even younger.

The Suns forced up the tempo, but fortunately Markieff was in good shape in this game, and after Bledsoe quickly held the ball to the frontcourt, Markieff opened his hand to ask for the ball.

While asking for the ball, Markieff also ran towards the Spurs' interior and shook off Boris Dio by half a step.

Dio gritted his teeth and accelerated, but his speed, especially in a short period of time, was much worse than that of Markieff, and it didn't take long for Markieff to be thrown two steps away.

Bledsoe quickly passed the ball, he passed a advance, this pass was a bit risky, even the other side of the Kowhi Leonard reached out to interfere with the flying basketball, fortunately the ball was fast, flew directly in front of Markieff, he received the basketball, and made a layup.

Tim Duncan's defense was a step slower, the basketball bounced twice on the basket, and eventually plunged headlong, and Markieff has been in good form in recent games.

The Suns went on a quick offense, while the Spurs continued to control the tempo.

Hornacek continued to shout from the sidelines, emphasizing the defense.

Tony Parker and Duncan broke through and shook off Bledsoe, and Middleton immediately made up for it, so Parker chose to share the ball, and the empty Danny Green received the basketball, but he was also defended by Li Mojie, and then looked at the other side, Kowhi Leonard, who was let go by Li Mojie, also appeared in front of Bledsoe. For the Suns to these young men, their speed of defense is not slow at all.

The Spurs failed to find a chance with consecutive shifts, and in the end, Green made a very reluctant shot from outside the three-point line, and the iron was slammed.

But the rebound was picked up by the old Duncan and passed to Parker, who slammed into the basket and hit a small throw.

Off-the-field, Hornacek frowned dissatisfiedly: "Frye really doesn't have any advantage on the inside, the team still needs an excellent blue-collar center!" He then looked at Gobert on the bench: "It depends on when this guy gets the hang of it." ”

The Suns served from the baseline, Bledsoe dribbled across the half court, and he also tried to break through to the basket and return one, but Duncan's defensive ability was not blown, "Give it to me!" Li Mojie on the outside reminded in time.

Bledsoe passed the ball out, and Li Mojie cleverly called Frye out to block and dismantle, because Frye has the ability to shoot, so Duncan couldn't help but guard it out.

"Hmm." Popovich on the sidelines nodded approvingly, in fact, he really wanted to recruit Li Mojie into his command this year, first, the Spurs lineup is old, and they need to plan early, and second, the position of the swingman at the forward has always been a hard injury for the Spurs, but this idea was interrupted by the bastard of Suns owner Robert, and Suns manager Ryan said that the boss said that he would not accept the trade at all, which means that there is no need to talk about it.

"Duncan is out, the inside line is empty!"

LI MOJIE MADE A CROSSCOVER, DRIBBLED THE BALL TO THE RIGHT, TOOK A STEP FORWARD WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT, AND THEN PULLED BACK TO BREAK TO THE LEFT, LEONARD FOLLOWED IN TIME, AND DIO ALSO WRAPPED UP WHEN HE SAW THIS.

"Oh! Don't look at the pass behind the person, Middleton shoots from the outside, hits, hell, how did he see Middleton? ATT Arena, commentator Marco surprised.

He didn't know that Middleton is currently Li Mojie's number one friend, and the two often mingle together, so naturally they talk a lot together, so among several people on the Suns, Li Mojie knows Middleton's running position the most.

Looking back, Green missed his three-point shot from the outside, and the rebound was snatched up by Markieff.

"Give it to me!" Before Markieff could react, he listened to the voice in his ear. Rushing to the frontcourt, Li Mojie strode into the inside line, instantly attracting the defense, Leonard defended two, and then naturally a split ball, Bledsoe received the ball and dunked it violently, with a clang. That's the advantage of being young!