The Runners took a win away from Phoenix, and they beat the Suns with ease in their next two meetings, dropping the Suns, who were originally sixth in the West, to seventh and even the possibility of falling out of the top eight.

This season, the split between the East and West teams has become more pronounced, but some mid-level teams have become more competitive due to the rise of new teams, such as in the West, where the difference between fourth and tenth place is not large, so teams in this range are likely to participate in the playoffs this season, and they may end up with nothing.

The Suns' move even caught the attention of the entire league for a while, as their head coach George Gwen finally couldn't resist getting Penny Alexander up for grabs.

This man, who had been seriously cowardly and timid in Penny, finally got a hand, but such a man seemed to Penny Alexander to be the most dangerous.

George Gwen, who was already intent on revenge on Penny, publicly admitted that he had been blackmailed by Penny after the Suns had three games against the Runners, and then the otherwise stable Suns were immediately on the brink of turmoil.

This season has been a real pain and a joy for the league hierarchy, because there are already two teams in chaos because of the personal affairs of the players or coaches, which they absolutely do not want to see, which will seriously affect the reputation of the entire league.

And the happiness is because the rise of several emerging teams has allowed the league top management to see the new direction and new impetus for the future development of the entire league.

However, after entering March, the process of the regular season has entered the final stage, and with the start of the North American College League Championship, the schedule of the league's teams has entered the most intense stage.

Of course, some of the teams that have been in a bad position are now almost in the stage of training new players and star players, and for teams like them, they are now in the preparation stage for next season.

And for those teams that aim to make a difference in the playoffs, they are now in the playoffs preparation stage, and teams like the Runners, Lakers, and Eastern Conference Wizards and Celtics have begun to rotate players.

A season is coming to an end, and the players' physical condition is actually entering a period of exhaustion, and it would be a bit too much to gain if you want to make the playoffs when you have already determined that you can make the playoffs.

The Runners now have a consensus on the whole team, and Wang Lei has started an active rotation of players when there is no possibility of breaking the best result in the history of the regular season.

Turgun, Salich and others all take turns every other game, while Blair has also reduced his individual attacks in the game and played more on or off the ball.

The results of the Runners have been very stable, although they also lost one or two games unexpectedly, but this is harmless, besides, even if the Runners are now overtaken by the Lakers to become second in the West, but when the two teams meet in the playoffs, it is still the Runners who have a home-court advantage, because they are the best team in the Pacific Division.

In fact, the league's division of the league is actually quite unreasonable, there have been many times before that the team with better results in the regular season actually has no home court advantage, which has always been criticized, but the league still insists on doing so, and its purpose is also to use this kind of small competition in the division to prevent some giant teams from becoming bigger.

It is said that the store is a big bully, sometimes the customer is too strong, but it will be difficult for the store to do, just like a team like the Lakers, they have the advantage of the city, they have strong economic strength, and they also have a very wide reputation in the world, once a team like this grows, it is actually very difficult for the league to manage.

So after the Mavericks showed signs of getting bigger last season, the league used the media in Los Angeles to tear the Mavericks apart, and this season, with the rise of the Runners, the league immediately supported the young Runners to prevent the Lakers from becoming bigger.

Wang Lei began to devote his energy to the transformation of the team's defense during this time, and he knew that relying on the current style of play of the Runners to enter the playoffs would suffer, and some appropriate adjustments must be made to ensure that the team goes further in the playoffs.

Seriously, even in the regular season, the Runners performed extremely strongly, but Wang Lei still can't say where the team can go in the playoffs.

Any team in the league that can make the playoffs is not to be underestimated, even if the Runners face either eighth or seventh in the West in the first round, but once they enter the playoffs, these teams that do not seem particularly dangerous can become very dangerous, and in the playoffs, any small accident can change the fate of a team.

Just like last season's playoffs, the Lakers in the West encountered a stubborn counterattack from the Houston Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, and the two sides fought hard for seven games, and finally the Lakers were able to defeat the opponent after paying a heavy price.

At that time, the Rockets were only ranked seventh in the West in the regular season last season.

But even so, the Lakers eliminated the confident Trail Blazers in the second round when everyone was not optimistic.

You must know that at that time, one of the two cores of the Lakers was injured and the other was banned for five games, and it was such a remnant that could beat the Trail Blazers.

In the East last season's playoffs, the Boston Celtics suffered a very similar encounter to the Lakers in the first round, but the Celtics, who finished third in the East last season, were finally knocked out by the Pacers, who had not been a big player for many years.

Wang Lei has watched all these games, and he doesn't want his team to not even be able to break through the first round in the playoffs.

Defense must be transformed, this is the consensus of the whole team of the runners, but how to transform, this is Wang Lei's job, he chose such a group of players, using these players he also led the team to play excellent results in the regular season, but the group of players selected by Wang Lei has a huge flaw in defense that cannot be ignored, that is, the height problem.

It is undeniable that the core idea of Wang Lei's team from the beginning of its establishment is to replace defense with offense, but in the playoffs, with the improvement of the confrontation level, it is still unknown whether the Runners' offense can play as smoothly as the regular season, even Wang Lei himself is not very confident in his heart.

In case the team's offense is not smooth, then the height disadvantage in defense will undoubtedly be magnified, and the rebounding defects caused by the height disadvantage will also seriously affect the team's performance in the playoffs.

Therefore, the problem that Wang Lei has to solve now is actually very complex and difficult.