The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 393

Chapter 396

After the game with the Cavaliers, the Suns were preparing to head to Charlotte in the East to begin their road to the road, and at the same time began to methodically deal with Stoudemire’s knee injury.

In the summer, Stoudemire’s knee was slightly uncomfortable, but there was no major problem after the examination. With Stoudemire persistence, he played the first three games and was in very good condition.

It was just unexpected that against the Cavaliers, Stoudemire still had an accident. In the morning of the next day, the team doctor immediately took Stoudemire to the hospital for an MRI examination. The results will be available 20 minutes after the examination. Leon and Cole accompanied Stoudemire to the hospital, where they waited anxiously for the result.

And the result came out soon. Stoudemire’s knee had no problem. It was a minor injury due to the fierce confrontation during the game. The team doctor diagnosed that Stoudemire could return to the game after a two-week rest. And there will be no big problems.

Hearing this result, Leon and Cole were greatly relieved. This is already the best result. As long as Stoudemire does not hurt, then the Suns this season will continue to maintain the competitiveness of the championship.

Leon looked at Cole and found dark circles on Cole’s face. It seemed that he must have not slept well last night. Leon said: “Now you can rest assured, now you should put your energy on signing Grant. , I think he can appear on the court as soon as possible.”

Cole said: “I already contacted Grant’s agent last night, as well as Grant himself. He will come to Phoenix tonight and discuss the details of the contract tomorrow. Then he has a medical examination, signing a contract, and it is estimated that he can catch up with The Miami game.”

The Suns have four road trips to the East, the third of which is against the Miami Heat, which means that the first two games against the Charlotte Bobcats and the Atlanta Hawks, the Suns will face a shortage of strikers.

Cole looked at Leon with some worry on his face and said, “I think at your level, you can also play the NBA by pulling five people from the street, and you can see that we won the second half.”

Leon said: “I can bring five people to play in the NBA, but it does not mean that I can win. The Cavaliers have established an advantage in the first half, and the opponent was caught off guard. Now the other side knows that we have injured Amare, It will definitely make targeted arrangements, which is hard to say.”

Leon’s concerns are justified. Without Stoudemire, the Suns’ offense would have collapsed. Even if they achieved good results in 2006, it’s now in 2008. Two more years have passed. Nash Two years old. Moreover, the team’s offensive run-in must be interrupted because of this. They have been running better and better. In the first half of this game, they are playing the championship-level team’s field control ability.

But this little difficulty certainly can’t trouble Leon.

In the evening, the team took a plane to Charlotte, ready to start their road trip to the East tomorrow. For the Western Conference team, going to the East on a road trip is not so much a challenge as a travel, especially for the Suns. Kind of strong team.

Four opponents, Bobcats, Hawks, Heat, and Magic. Except that the Hawks are relatively mature and slightly threatened, the other three teams are completely at a disadvantage. Even if the Suns let a Stoudemire, they still have enough confidence to defeat opponent.

On the plane, Leon was sitting in the front position, holding a notebook in his hand to paint and paint. He was already ready to be a hand-shoulder. The operation was good in the early stage, and the A in the later stage was over. He waited until the playoffs to start. Micro-operation, now Stoudemire’s injury disrupted his beautiful plan.

He decided to open a training session tomorrow morning to take the whole team to practice new tactical ideas to ensure that the team can play at a high level in the next game.

After arriving at the hotel in the evening, Fox Leon organized several assistant coaches together and held a short meeting to discuss tomorrow’s training plan and some tactical arrangements for future games.

“I don’t think any adjustments need to be made. Players have the experience and ability to deal with such minor injuries and absences, and let them play as usual. As long as there is no shortage of Steve, the team’s offense is not to worry about. .”

Brother Dan D’Antoni thinks Leon has overreacted, but he was absent for two weeks. He had been absent for a season before, so he didn’t need to make any special arrangements at all and just started running.

Leon knows that Dan has always had some opinions about replacing Mike and letting him and Mike D’Antoni be assistant coaches. Therefore, he will often raise some objections when discussing meetings within the team.

Mike D’Antoni said: “Dan said some truth, but I think this may be an opportunity. In 2006, we let Dior play out, and now maybe we can try other people’s other styles.”

Dan D’Antoni said: “Two weeks, just two weeks. We tried a lot of styles in the offseason, but in the end, there may be only one or two that can be used, let alone the playoffs. I think our style of play this year has been rich enough. Let Turiaf start and continue with the current style of play. I think it is a good choice to survive this time.”

Others have expressed some of their opinions. They are roughly the same as Dan. They believe that the most important thing in the regular season is stability. There is no need to make extra adjustments for the absence of a player. Just keep playing normally. This team is not strong.

Everyone babbled for a while, but Leon kept silent. Seeing that everyone was talking about the same thing, Leon said: “I am unfortunate to tell everyone that I asked everyone to come here for a meeting, not to discuss something. , But to inform you of what we should do next. I hope you can understand. Originally, I hoped to continue to run in slowly, but now the situation has changed slightly, and I have an idea, I need you to help me Not against me.”

After Leon came to the Suns, he has always been more casual, letting others manage a lot of things as before, but when he got serious, these assistants remembered that this guy is also a champion coach, and his Temper and iron fist are famous in the league.

Everyone stopped talking, Dan looked at Mike, and Mike motioned him to shut up with his eyes, so Leon continued to talk about his plan, and his adjustment plan was actually very simple. It was to start Turiaf but not let him. As the main force, their main lineup will be a purely small lineup of Nash, Bell, Marion, Dior plus Dudley.

This lineup was tried by the Suns in 2006. At the time they would use James Jones at the small forward position, but the effect was not very good. Most of the time, D’Antoni still started with Kurt Thomas as the center. Injuries troubled words.

Now Leon is coming to this set again. D’Antoni is experienced. He asked: “Do you just want to test it purely, or do you want to become a regular tactic of the team? If it is just a test, I want to say this lineup. I have used it, and the effect is not very good, because the inside defense is too bad~www.mtlnovel.com~If it becomes a regular tactic…well, the evaluation is the same as the previous one.”

Leon said: “I want to test it and hope that he can become a regular tactic. Trust me Mike. Although Amare’s absence is a challenge, it is also an opportunity. You seized this opportunity two years ago. You didn’t make good use of it last season. Let’s try it. Starting from the next game, you know, we have a lot to do this season. We are far from the time when we need stability because we don’t have a championship yet. “

Leon finally persuaded the coaching staff by “coercion and lure”. In the Charlotte training hall the next day, the whole team began to train and deduct a small lineup; this lineup is actually familiar to the players, and occasionally in the past games They are all used, so there is no problem of strangeness.

The trouble is that this type of lineup used to be a little overdone, and will not stay on the court for a long time. Once it stays on the court for a long time, defensive problems will emerge. Therefore, the training session mainly solved the defensive problem, and Leon proposed a defensive strategy he had thought about a long time ago and conducted a three-hour drill.

Three hours is definitely not enough, but they still have enough sessions to complete this test, provided that Leon can withstand failure and criticism.

(End of this chapter)