The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 398

Chapter 401

(Because this book has been broken several times in the middle, I have forgotten a lot of the previous information about player transactions and whereabouts. If there are mistakes or omissions, please correct me.)

On November 8, 2007, the day after the Suns had their first defeat of the season, in Phoenix, Steve Kerr hosted a press conference to announce that the Suns had successfully signed free agent Grant Hee. After completing the physical examination, Hill will travel to Orlando to join the team and start his NBA journey for another year.

The signing of the Suns is expected. As early as the summer, Hill intended to sign the Suns, but thought that the arrival of Fox-Leon and Leon’s “notorious” caused the Hill team to be reluctant to let Greece You play for the Suns.

The Suns’ medical team is well-known, but Fox-Leon’s iron-blood defense in Boston is well known. Hill just passed his 35th birthday in October this year. The 35-year-old, for a professional player, means that he has entered the twilight period of his sports life, and it is very likely that a common injury can end his entire sports career.

Hill has experienced too many injuries in his career, and this still did not destroy his basketball dream. Originally, he and his team were worried that the Suns would play hard defense. After Leon and Cole personally visited, and after watching the Suns’ first few games, Hill determined that he could continue his NBA career with this team. Moreover, the timing of his joining was just right. The Suns were a little stretched in the forward rotation due to Stoudemire’s injury. The arrival of Hill is definitely a good help for the team.

At this time, the Suns have left Atlanta and headed to Miami. They will have back-to-back games on the South Coast. Because of the medical examination, Cole and Leon decided to let Hill play the second back-to-back game after discussing. , The game against the Magic.

In this case, Hill, who just finished his career in Orlando, can continue to start his new journey in Orlando with the new team.

Leon saw the news on ESPN’s sports news. He has arrived in Miami with the team and stayed at the hotel. After Hill signed, Leon sent a text message to congratulate Hill. The two also talked on the phone to discuss the current situation of the team, how to play, and the vision for the future.

Leon talked to Hill about his thoughts. The two are actually about the same young age. They can be said to be of the same generation. Hill is also a smart, knowledgeable, and understanding person of basketball. The exchange between the two is very pleasant.

After hanging up the phone, Leon became worried again. Recently, Khomeinis’ due date was approaching. Leon also had to pay attention to the birth of the first little life connected with his blood after he came into this world. Of course, New York is also in constant contact with him, and the global financial market is surging.

For tomorrow’s game, their opponents, the Miami Heat, are not in good shape. After losing consecutive Eastern Conference finals in 05 and 06, they began to plummet, and were eliminated in the first round in 2007. After the start of the new season, the Heat so far Haven’t won the game yet. And they have a worse situation, that is, the team’s top star Dwyane Wade missed the first few games of the season due to injury, and it seems that he will not appear in the game against the Suns.

This is undoubtedly good news for the Suns and Leon. The defenders on the outside of the Suns are slower and older. Faced with assault guns like Wade, they are expected to be beaten. Now that he is injured, the Heat’s strength has declined. A large piece.

The only person Leon needs a snack is O’Neal, the big shark inside the Heat. This big shark has been a little unable to swim on the South Coast this year, and it is said that his relationship with Pat Riley is relatively tense. Cole had thoughts about trading O’Neal, but Leon wanted him to die. Not only did the Sharks have no way to provide the same dominance on the court as in the past, it might also be a trouble off the court.

Of course, as a former league superstar, Leon still has to do some preparations for O’Neal, such as sending cannon fodder to chop him a few times and sending him to the free throw line to wipe his sweat and catch his breath.

The night in Miami is fascinating. After arriving here, Leon gave the players a vacation and asked everyone to go out and play and relax. This surprised Dior and Bell. Anyway, after Leon came to the sun, the number of times he took or allowed everyone to go out to play has almost exceeded his years in Boston.

Leon’s explanation for this is that the offensive team needs a certain degree of relaxation to open up the state, but the actual situation is that Leon believes that the team has more veterans and the season is still very long. It is a long journey to maintain a good physical and mental state. just began.

On November 9th, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, at the American Airlines Center in Miami, the match between the Phoenix Suns and the Miami Heat started here. In the absence of Wade, the Heat’s starting shooting guard has become Ricky Davis, and on the front line is Anfenni Hardaway.

The penny-shark combination that used to be magic is now reunited in the Heat. It’s a pity that O’Neal is quite old, and Hardaway has long been tortured by injuries and all his aura and talent has become an ordinary forward player. His figure is not as thin and agile as before, but a strong man. After 2005, he has disappeared from the league for two years.

This summer, Pat Riley contacted Hardaway with the mentality to give it a try and signed an unguaranteed contract, which means that if Hardaway can’t perform satisfactorily in the game, the Heat will always He can be cut off.

Hardaway is exactly 36 years old this year, one year older than Grant Hill, both of them are young and famous, both have smart and elegant styles of play, both are plagued by injuries, and both continue to stick to their basketball dreams, and all this All illustrate a problem, that is, the Orlando Magic team is poisonous.

The Suns’ starter was the same as in the previous game. Turiaf still stood in the middle circle and jumped the ball. In fact, after Stoudemire was absent, Turiaf’s performance was still good. When he was on the court, he defended. With rebounds, including the offensive end, Turiaf did his job well.

It’s just that, because Leon uses more of the five small lineups, Turiaf doesn’t have much time to play. Many times he is a pseudo-starter, carrying 15 minutes in a game, and then rests and throws a towel.

So in these 15 minutes, Turiaf played quite desperately, which Leon values ​​very much, not because of the lack of playing time and dissatisfaction, but passionately playing the few 15 minutes.

At the beginning of the game, the Heat successfully jumped the ball and attacked for the first time. Without Wade, O’Neal naturally became the core of the team’s offense, starting with O’Neal. Turiaf obeyed Leon’s arrangement. O’Neal fouled him directly to the free throw line when O’Neal attacked for the first time, destroying O’Neal’s offensive rhythm.

There was a boo on the scene~www.mtlnovel.com~ This shark hacking came earlier than usual.

O’Neal lived up to expectations and missed two free throws in front of the enemy of his life. Haslem wanted to rush for the offensive rebound, but Turiaf stopped him. Dior protected the offensive rebound.

The Heat retreated a bit slowly. Nash got the ball and broke into the three-second zone. Then, under the defense of Jason Williams, a close-range horseback archery shot into the basket. This season, Nash’s desire to attack exceeds the sum of previous seasons, and it is rare to see Nash directly attack the basket as soon as he starts.

Obviously, the defeat in the last game still had a strong motivational effect. Nash’s attitude of taking the lead in attacking drove the morale of the team. In the next few offenses and defenses, the Suns kept fouling O’Neal to send him to the free throw line, as well as pressing defense from the outside to suppress the Heat, and then their efficient counterattack made O’Neal exhausted. As for Hardaway, he is really old, and in front of Marion this fast horse, he seems to be slow everywhere.

In the opening game, the Suns hit a 9:0 for the Heat, Riley had to call a timeout, and the team’s inside advantage was not played at all. But Riley didn’t rush, because he felt that Leon is going to play the fifth minor anyway, and when he is on the fifth minor lineup, the Heat’s opportunity will come.

(End of this chapter)