Chapter 123: Phoenix Suns
Located in Arizona, Phoenix is a very beautiful place that is perfect for all kinds of outdoor activities, so various competitive sports are very popular, and the Suns are one of them.
The Suns are a very good team and have rarely missed the playoffs since joining the NBA, but the Suns are also a very sad team that has never won a championship since joining the league, and its best result is only to reach the Finals.
Speaking of the Phoenix Suns, we must mention that Phoenix's sports medicine hospital is very powerful, and it is said that it can cure many orthopedic diseases such as sports strains or bone fractures, and Phoenix has plenty of sunshine, which is very suitable for athletes to recuperate. The NBA league also has one of the most powerful medical institutions in the United States.
In the 2002~2003 season, the Suns obtained Amarestadmeier, known as the little bully, with the No. 9 pick in the draft. The little bully who just entered the league has excellent athleticism, grabbing an average of 8.8 rebounds, and the team leaders Marbury and Sean Marion can also cut 20+ data, so the Suns still played well last season, breaking into the playoffs with a record of 44-38, but unfortunately lost 2:4 to the championship team of the season, the Spurs, and stopped in the first round.
This season, the Suns continued last season's lineup and wanted to make a big splash, but unfortunately the Suns have stumbled all the way since the start of the season, and by the end of November, the result was a pitiful 7-8. It wasn't until December that the Suns' performance was even worse, with a record of only 5 wins and 12 losses, which led to head coach Frank Johnson's dismissal.
Osborne had already come to Phoenix with the team at this time, and his first feeling when he came to Phoenix was that it was really dazzling, not something that ordinary people could enjoy.
Osborne couldn't help but feel a pang of excitement when he thought that today would be the day he crossed a triple-double in a row. He hopes to set a few more records in his rookie season for future generations to look up to. Thinking that the rookies of the same period are still trying to catch up with themselves, a sense of pride emerges in my heart.
And yesterday he also learned that he won the Rookie of the Week again, which gave him another thing to add to his Badge of Honor pavilion. Although he has had it several times, Osborne still feels that it is not enough, after all, the more honors the better.
Today's game is against the Pistons and the Suns, and the Pistons came to Phoenix to challenge the Suns with two consecutive wins after the victory over the Lakers, showing the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers.
At the beginning of the game, the Pistons offense was very active, after all, the main players of the team were a little tired, and they all wanted to solve the battle quickly, and the first quarter started, the Pistons offense was like a tide, Chauncy Billups, Taysha Ann Princes, and Osborne fired on the third line, and they all came up with their own good plays, scoring 10 points, and the Suns except Marbury, no one else had a hand, and they hit the iron one after another, and then the Suns players gradually found their touch, and Sean Marion threw the ball in an extremely ugly shot. After that, Amarestad Meyer received an assist from Penny Anfernee Hardaway and a direct dunk, and then Ousbourne, who was in the same 03 class, also hit a quick three-point shot, and the Suns gradually chased the score.
Then Osborne suddenly made a force, kept shooting three points quickly, and also assisted Prince to shoot from time to time, and the Suns began to shoot again, the Pistons took the opportunity to play a scoring climax, Osborne scored 6 points in a row with free throws, Chauncy Billups broke through the basket and threw two points, Tysha Ann Prince also hit two points, the Pistons hit a wave of 13:4 climax in one fell swoop, at the end of the first quarter, Marbury began to go it alone again, scoring 6 points in a row, but it could not change the situation of the Pistons' lead, and the Pistons led by 11 points at 32:21.
In the second quarter, the Pistons still did not change their main players, but Ben Wallace was replaced to rest, and Larry Brown instructed to take the game away in one wave and not show mercy.
Therefore, in the second quarter of the game, the Pistons still did not relax, and even strengthened their defense, with Osborne as the scoring guard and Tysha Ann Prince as the small forward, and the task in this quarter was to steal points.
As soon as the Suns came up, Marbury gave the Pistons a dismissal, and then Osborne returned the color, and the other main players of the Pistons are still very powerful, especially Memet Oku, who has just been mentioned to the starting lineup, and Daco Milicic, the big forward who was favored by Larry Brown again, and the performance is more positive. They were both desperately trying to get a spot, and Osborne lived up to his expectations and kept feeding them the ball.
They also worked hard to score the ball and added a lot of assists to Osborne, because Osborne was very lucky, Osborne completed a triple-double in less than two quarters, with 14 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds.
And the Suns are even more devastated, almost all of them are alone, and they are miserable by the Pistons' system defense.
The Suns continued to struggle late in the second quarter, but the Pistons were in full bloom, leading the Suns 63-39 at halftime to extend their lead to 22 points.
After the break, Larry Brown withdrew the main force and came on the court with a full bench lineup, the Suns seized the opportunity to fight back, Marbury no longer fought alone, he incarnated as a point guard, kept passing the ball to Stoudemire, and Sean Marion was not to be outdone, frequently gave steals, dunked points, and the Suns bench Joe Johnson was also very sharp, eating the Pistons defenders alone, the Pistons bench could only barely maintain, and the score was constantly approaching.
Larry Brown was furious when he saw this situation, he really didn't expect that the performance of the Pistons team in addition to the main players was simply not as good as a piece of Xiang, and there was no way for Larry Brown to replace the main player again and be responsible for filling the hole.
At the end of the third quarter, the Pistons came on the court with all their main forces, and this time they wanted to go berserk, but unfortunately the Suns' momentum had risen, and they didn't press down their arrogance so quickly, and by the end of the third quarter, the Pistons only led by six points at 88:82.
In the final quarter, the Pistons replaced Ben Wallace and Rich Ballding with all-offensive players.
Chauncee Billups took the lead in firing and hit frequent shots, while Osborne also threw three-pointers wildly, shooting quickly, and they were not inferior to others in attack, and they also scored with their own offensive means. The Suns began to sink into the slump again, with only Stoudemire scoring as if everyone else was sleepwalking, and the Pistons quickly took another 15-point lead.
The Suns saw that there was no more chance, so they removed the main players, and the full bench lineup came on the court to announce their surrender, and the Pistons also changed to the full bench lineup. The Pistons benched for the final quarter to seal the win, and the Pistons won 109-99 against the Suns.
Winning the Suns, Osborne's only feeling is that he can finally go home, the Pistons have played three or four games on the road, which makes all the members of the Pistons tired, but the next game is not simple, and it will be against the Los Angeles Lakers, but the only good thing is that this time it is a home game, so it can be less tired.