On the final day of 2021, the Runners played their last game of the year at home, and the fourteenth game since entering December.

If there's anything special about this home game against the Suns, it's that if the Runners win, they will be just one game away from equaling the Lakers' 37-game winning streak.

And it's such a coincidence, after entering 2022, the Runners' first opponent is the Lakers.

Tying the Lakers' winning streak in Staples will be the biggest surprise of the season for the league management, in fact, even they can't arrange such a coincidence, and can only say that God favors the NBA to make such a classic battle about to be staged.

However, for the Runners, if they want to challenge the Lakers' 37-game winning streak, they must first beat the visiting Suns.

For the Suns, the Runners are undoubtedly one of their biggest enemies, and it was the Runners who upset the Suns' already fragile balance last season, and then led the entire Suns into a new round of rebuilding.

Suns fans can't blame their own people, they can only set themselves the most formidable enemy, which is the Runners.

The new Suns, which are new from last season, are led by Van Lauderway, who has resigned from the Lakers.

Van Lauderway originally planned to take a break after leaving the Lakers, and then study Wang Lei's tactical ideas well, but the sincerity of the Suns management really moved Van Lauderway, and they promised Van Lauderway that he could experiment with various tactics at will in the Suns, and they did not even make any performance requirements this season, they hoped that Van Lauderway could continue to do it in the Suns for a long time.

I have to say that the management of the Suns is still very bold and very discerning, they see Van Lauderway's pioneering ability, and they plan to seize this promising coach.

The Suns have been very inconsistent in the new season, and they can either beat the Lakers, who have never been opponents before, or lose to the New York Knicks, who are too bad to be bad.

Van Lauderway was also genuinely bold, starting his own tactical studies with the Suns and vaguely feeling that he had grasped something.

Van Lauderway, who has won 36 in a row against the Runners again, doesn't care, the crazy Dutchman just wants to study the Runners' new system again.

After the game began, the Suns were not slow to get into the groove, and the outside shooters quickly threw their senses, but they faced the Runners, who were also on a 37-game winning streak.

The current Runners have used their previous 35-game winning streak to push their spirits to the top.

With Turgun's tandem team on the outside, Erwin on the inside, Blair's low-post attack and Sallich's cold arrows and breakthroughs from time to time, the entire Runners team has formed its own unique set of tactical concepts and systems, and has successfully implemented them.

The Suns' offense played well, but the Runners' offense was almost flawless, and they quickly overpowered the Suns with offense-to-offense.

At the end of the first quarter, the Runners had already led the Suns by 9 points, and if it weren't for the Suns' good outside shooting percentage today, maybe the difference between the two sides would have been stretched to double digits.

After entering the second quarter, the bench players of the Runners played a wave of offensive climax, and after a wave of 19-0 offense, the Suns' bench players were about to cry, not that they did not shoot, but that the basket rejected all their shots after the shot.

Van Lauderway could only shake his head off the pitch, bench depth is not something that can be done in a day or two, and sometimes it is more difficult and troublesome to find a suitable substitute than to find a superstar.

The difference between the two sides remained at around 25 points at halftime.

Heading into the second half, the Suns' starters continued to perform well, giving the Runners a 12-0 run at the start of the game, and the Runners players were a little too relaxed after the start of the second half.

At the critical moment, it was Turgun's two three-point cold shots to help the Runners stabilize the situation, and then the Runners began to frequently attack the Suns' interior line, while reducing the offensive and defensive speed to suppress the pace of the game.

The Suns tried to fight back in the third quarter, and their starters didn't go off the floor, while the Runners rotated players as usual.

Van Lauderway thought it was a good opportunity for the team to catch up, but he didn't expect the Runners' bench to play so wildly.

Each attack lasted no more than eight seconds, and all the balls were shot within three passes.

The original good rhythm of the Suns team was completely deviated, they pursued fast, but they definitely couldn't adapt to this fast rhythm, it was really too fast, and even made many fans think that the TV station was not playing the video, and then pressed the fast forward button.

At the end of the third quarter, the Runners reopened the gap to more than 20 points.

Despite trailing by 20 points, Van Laudwe did not let the Suns players just give up on the game, they began to focus on defense, and Van Laudwe hopes to use this pressure to ponder and study the Runners' tactical changes.

However, the Suns' defense didn't have much effect on the Runners, and Turgun alone scored nine points in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter, so that the difference between the two sides was stretched to 30 points.

Wang Lei waved his hand, and all the Runners starters were rested, leaving the substitutes for Van Laudway to study.

Van Lauderway glanced at Wang Lei not far away depressedly, and then complained in his heart about the stinginess of this Oriental, and at the same time replaced the substitute player, he didn't want to study it anymore.

In the end, the Runners still won their 36th game of the season, so they could calmly head to Los Angeles for a "classic match" against the Lakers.

The league takes such a God-or-arranged game very seriously, and while the current performance of the Runners has led some in the league to believe that they have upset the balance of the league, more management believes that the balance is to be broken as long as it brings enough benefits.

So, after the Runners' victory over the Suns, the league began to hype up this Runners-Lakers game with titles like "Battle of the Century."