Abandoning plans to trade Iverson, the Bobcats focused on the game. Heading into their first game of December, the Bobcats won 102-88 at home against the visiting Spurs.

The Spurs are still going strong this season, with the GDP combination of Ginobili, Duncan, and Parker beating most teams in the league, but with the retirement of veterans Bruce Bowen and Robert Horry, the Spurs have struggled to challenge for a championship.

The Bobcats won easily, but Camby injured his left little finger while defending Duncan, and after a broken little finger, he needed a bone implant surgery, and it depends on the exact time of the surgery. Will also be absent for at least 6 weeks.

Camby is a well-known glass man in the league, and he is like a curse, and he is frequently hit by injuries. Knees, arms, shoulders, hips, now it's the turn of the fingers...... Fortunately, the strongest Bobcats lineup is the inside line, and they are not worried that there is no one available without Camby.

On December 3, the Bobcats faced the Phoenix Suns back-to-back at home.

If it was previous seasons, back-to-back games against the Suns would have been a tough schedule. However, this season, the Suns have fallen badly, and their record has fallen out of the top 8 in the West, and they have only achieved 7 wins and 9 losses.

Fans are still looking forward to this game, because the Suns are still a strong offensive team. Who wouldn't want to watch a high-scoring game? Last season, the Bobcats and Suns played a difficult game, and it took overtime to decide the winner. Hayes got a super big triple-double. The fans will be hoping that Hayes will be able to play well this time around.

The Suns are a cut short of the Bobcats. After the new coach Terry Porter took over, he emphasized that the Suns should strengthen their defense, so the offensive speed slowed down, but the Suns' defense was not much stronger, but it affected the players' performance. Stoudamire's points per game average is down four points from last season, Nash's assists have dropped below 10, and almost all of the players are not comfortable with Porter's offensive and defensive system. They are averaging 109 points per game this season, second in the league behind the Bobcats. But conceding an average of 108.5 points per game, except for the Warriors who are unbeatable in conceding 112 points per game, the Suns are the worst team defensively.

And the Suns players have also suffered injuries, with Standa Mayer suffering an ankle sprained in last week's game and will miss two weeks, adding to the Suns' woes and the roster is full of shortcomings. The power forward position is almost unavailable, and Boris Dior will also make a cameo appearance as a power forward, with only Luis Armandeson and fringe player Andre Brown on the bench.

In order to free up salary space, the Suns are also looking for trades, and they want to send the high-paid and incompetent Dio, as well as defensive player Raja Bell, who are not interested for the time being.

The Suns have no idea of beating the Bobcats at all, and their goal this season is simply to make the playoffs.

Rondo and Weaver rested, and Hill and Morrow moved into the rotation. The Bobcats dispatched all their shooters, ready to crush the Suns with a combination of inside and outside.

D'Antoni knows the Suns very well, although he has O'Neal as a strong scoring point inside, but the Suns' offense is mainly fast-breaking, O'Neal is responsible for grabbing rebounds inside, and the other four are the Suns' main style of play to launch fast-breaks. As a result, the Bobcats made a change to their surname, and Marc Gasol made the starting lineup for the first time. He is heavy in size and has good strength to fight O'Neill.

Hayes is now focused on offense, so the task of defending O'Neal has changed. In terms of confrontation, Gasol has an advantage over Lopez.

Bobcats starters: Billups, Durant, Wallace, Hayes, Gasol.

There have also been changes to the Suns' starting lineup. Steve Nash, Raja Bell, Boris Dior, Luis Armanderson, Shaquille O'Neal.

Aardmanson was in the starting lineup because of an injury to Stoudamire, and he grabbed rebounds and defended well, but the offense was a mess and he didn't have the strength to start, which was a desperate move.

Nash shook hands with Hayes on the court, smiling a little bitterly. Nash knew the Suns were away from the championship, and after O'Neal arrived, he didn't play as smoothly as he used to run.

O'Neal lost to Gasol in a jump ball, and the big shark can barely jump now, and he can only rely on experience to play the time difference.

Wallace receives the basketball and hands it to Billups. In the first round of the Bobcats' positional battle, the offensive means is to block and dismantle and evacuate the inside line. Gasol pulled up the high post and Amanderson followed. Billups passed the ball to Durant, who took advantage of Gasol's cover to break inside from the right side. Ardmanson moved well and blocked Durant's breakthrough route, but Durant didn't plan to play hard, he just needed to contain the defense. Hayes pulled out from beyond the three-point line, and Wallace blocked Dio for Hayes at a 45-degree angle on the right. At this time, Hayes was completely empty on the outside, and O'Neal could only follow the outside slowly.

By the time O'Neal stepped on the three-point line, Hayes had already made a three-point shot. 45 degree angle throws a wipe board hit! 3 to 0. The audience immediately gave a standing ovation.

Hayes still insists on practicing shooting every day this season, and his most accurate position is a 45-degree angle, and if no one defends, he is confident that he will win the game with Duncan, and this position is particularly comfortable to shoot.

The Suns also played positional battles, with Nash lobbing the ball high to O'Neal. O'Neill was greatly relieved to see that it was not Hayes who was defending him. As long as he is opposite Hayes, O'Neal is extremely depressed, and the difference in size between the two is too big, which is more uncomfortable than playing other interior players without scoring. The opponent was just Gasol, and O'Neill immediately arched inside with his back to the ball. He was convinced that he could handle the Spaniard.

O'Neill had just taken two hits when suddenly a man came out of Gasol's back. Hayes let go of Armanderson, wrapped O'Neal and slapped the ball with precision. Gasol reached for the basketball and made a steal. O'Neill suddenly understood why Artest wanted to beat Hayes.

Gasol's passing ability has been recognised by the entire coaching staff and team-mates. The first pass didn't go through Billups, and the long pass was delivered to Gerard Wallace accurately, with Christian Dior following Wallace.

Today I'll let you see how good I am at "Miles Alone" Gerald. Wallace attacks with the ball and is arrogant!

Wallace was very interested in Chinese kung fu, he envied Hayes for having a nickname "Black Whirlwind", and one day he asked Hayes what light skills were the strongest, and wanted to give himself a loud nickname. Hayes told him that there was a person in Jin Yong's novel "Smiling Proud Jianghu" who was very powerful, known as "Thousands of Miles Alone", and he could read that book and think about it.

Wallace happily clapped his hands and said, "Don't look at it, this name is bold enough, that's it!" (Thousands of miles alone, that's Tian Boguang...... Wallace was really fast on the fast break, and he was also very powerful, squeezing Dio to force a layup. Dior was squeezed and couldn't jump at all, let alone block. 5 to 0.

Armanderson pulled up the high post to cover Nash. If you want to talk about the biggest weakness of the Suns right now, that is shooting, whether it is Ardmanson or O'Neal, they will not shoot. After Nash broke through, Hayes made a frontal stoppage, and Billups bypassed Armanderson to pick up Nash from behind. Armanderson is completely short in the high post, so if you like it, you can do it.

Nash also knew that it was useless to pass the ball back to the high post, jumped lightly and passed the ball with one hand to Raja Bell outside the three-point line on the left. Durant vs. Bell. Bell is not good at breaking, and his offensive means generally rely on catching and jumpers after running, how can he shoot in front of Durant, a 7-foot-long man with speed? He hoisted the ball again to O'Neal, who asked for the ball in the low post. This time, Hayes has pulled up to the top of the pack, and O'Neal is not worried about Hayes coming back to the bag. Playing singles Gasol, arched into the penalty area. Even an aging shark will not lose to anyone in the alliance than power, and Gasol from Europe is still a little softer. was squeezed in by O'Neill and forced to turn around successfully.

If it was a young O'Neal, he would definitely pull up and dunk vigorously in this position. But he is old, his explosiveness is not as strong as before, and the dunk can only go to the basket, so he takes the ball and prepares to use one-handed shooting. As soon as he came out of his position, Gasol fouled hard and knocked the ball down.

'It's so strong, I used to watch Chuck defend against him, and I thought O'Neal's strength was average. Chuck is a monster! Gasol glanced at Hayes unconsciously. The coach's arrangement for him is to try to defend O'Neal as much as possible, and if the opponent successfully turns into the penalty area, he will be fouled!

Gasol doesn't have to worry about foul trouble, even if he has six fouls, the Bobcats still have Lopez and Bagnani.

O'Neal stepped to the free-throw line and hit one of two free throws. Hayes protects the backcourt rebounds, and the Bobcats attack from the position.

The Bobcats offense relied on a double pick-and-roll. Gasol pulled up the high post, and this time Billups didn't pass the ball, broke through the interior with the ball through the screen, shook off the defending Nash, and then passed Armanderson and went straight to the basket.

O'Neal complements the defense. Billups passed the ball out of the box and handed it to Hayes, who had borrowed Wallace to cover and shake off Dior. Wallace covered, Hayes ran back to catch the ball, the Bobcats had already used it twice, and the Suns just couldn't help it. Raja Bale rushed up from the weak flank to fill in Hayes. His height doesn't hurt compared to Hayes. But Hayes didn't shoot, but passed to Durant next to him. The Suns can only defend Durant with Nash. It's not much different from being unguarded.

Durant makes a jumper from beyond the three-point line! 8 to 1.

Except against the Lakers, the Bobcats are always the opponents who can play in the first quarter. The sun is no exception. The defense can't be defended, and there is not much to attack.

O'Neal pulls up to the high post to screen, his bulkiness, and the better the defender to block. Nash broke through from the left side for a pull-up jumper, and although Hayes let go of O'Neal at the first time, the defense was still a little slower. Ball in! 8 to 3.

The Bobcats attacked, and this time, Hayes still ran out of the three-point line, and Amanderson followed out. O'Neill followed Gasol to the top position. In contrast, Gasol is still relatively easy to defend. But Gasol is not an option to attack, his purpose is to cover.

Billups took advantage of Gasol's high cover to break through with the ball, relying on his speed to pass O'Neal and rush inside. O'Neal was too slow to keep up with Billups. Raja Bale had to make up for it from the weak side again, or Billups would have made an easy layup. The reason why Bale has been in the best defensive team many times is that he has two shots, and he has a strong sense of single defense and supplementary defense. However, this supplement will be missed.

Billups quickly passes the ball out of the line. Durant received the ball at a 60-degree angle and hit another three-point shot! 11 to 1.

Bobcats' double-block attack easily broke through the Suns' defense.

(To be continued)