The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 407

Chapter 410

On November 12th, Leon bid farewell to his wife and Los Angeles, and flew back to Phoenix by plane. This trip to Los Angeles is of great significance to him.

But once back to Phoenix, he immediately put his mind on the team’s next two games. After a two-week break, Stoudemire will make a comeback against the New York Knicks on the night of November 13. For the Suns who have played several games and just adapted to the five small team, how to make Stoudemire fast Getting involved will be a small challenge.

Stoudemire is not Turiaf, it is impossible to accept being a pseudo starter, of course Leon will not let him be a pseudo starter. Now he has two very good lineups in his hands, it depends on how he uses them.

It was already in the afternoon when they arrived in Phoenix on the 12th, and the team’s co-training was over. Needless to say, everything was done by D’Antoni. On the morning of the 13th, Leon participated in team training, allowing Stoudemire to rejoin the confrontation training.

He didn’t give specific guidance to the training, just let Stoudemire return to the starting line, and then play training games between the substitute starters, he watched carefully from the side. The Suns’ bench and the main lineup are playing very fast, and the players’ cooperation is becoming more fluid and tacit. But this is just a practice, and it cannot be compared with a real game.

Leon observed Stoudemire’s situation and initially concluded that his condition was good, there was no problem with running and jumping, and his physical condition was quite good. So Leon decided to activate him in the starting roster in the game that night, anyway, the opponent tonight is the New York Knicks.

Leon did not look down on the New York Knicks, but according to the New York Knicks’ situation in the past two years, you just want to look down on him, he doesn’t want to give you this opportunity. Since Ewing left the Big Apple and entered the 21st century, that is, Fox-Leon has just entered the NBA, the Knicks have begun to fall into the quagmire, and have not come out yet, and there is no sign of coming out.

In terms of the degree of suffocation of the team’s operation, the New York Knicks can compete with Cleveland, but Cleveland has LeBron James, and the Knicks have only Isaiah Thomas who is standing on the sidelines as coach.

Since he left the Pacers, he came to the Knicks as a manager, invited Larry Brown, fired Larry Brown, and now he has picked up the pointer again and started to run the team.

Before the expedition to Phoenix, the Knicks were 2 wins and 3 losses in five games, which is not particularly bad, but it is definitely not much better. You should know that in their lineup, there are Stephen Marbury, Zach Randolph, Quentin Richardson, Eddie Curry, Jamal Crawford, Jerome James, etc. Approve players who have performed well in other teams.

Among them, Marbury and Richardson have also played for the Suns, Marbury was the Suns in exchange for Kidd, and now they have Nash.

It was such a group of capable players who played in a mess under the guidance of Larry Brown in the first two seasons, and finally ended with Brown’s resignation. The scene is not unsightly.

Thomas’ takeover did not allow these players to perform at their original level. Marbury still couldn’t get rid of his “lone wolf” title. Big Q, Curry and Randolph got bigger and bigger faces and got bigger and bigger bodies. Fat, the defense on the court is basically no. When they got off the court, they were even more lost in the feasting and feasting of New York. When Thomas was the manager, they signed them with stinky and long contracts, so that the whole team couldn’t see a trace of getting out of the mire through operation Hope.

Such a team, no matter in terms of combat effectiveness or fighting spirit, is far from the Phoenix Suns opponent, plus the Suns are playing at home again, and the general comes back, where will the Knicks have a chance.

Of course, before the game started, there was a fight.

In the East, Leon and Thomas were a bit grudges. Thinking of the original Pacers and Celtics battle, Leon almost beat the Pacers with a pair of fists. At the same time as the Pacers coach Thomas, his fancy tactics were crushed by Leon’s steel-like defense, so every time he met Leon, Thomas felt very shameless.

This guy is a very vengeful person, and Leon is born in the Celtic family, naturally the relationship with Leon will not be very good.

Thomas believes that the team’s recent state is recovering, they have an advantage in the interior, facing the sun, who is the main team of small lineups, they will find the feeling of winning in Phoenix.

Leon certainly thinks Thomas’ words are farting, but in the pre-match training interview, he said politely that the Knicks are a talented team, and no one can despise them in the game. Once they despise them, for sure. Will be taught.

Leon added in the end: “This is a heavyweight team that has always been true and complete. This will be a duel between a heavyweight boxer and a lightweight boxer. We will be careful.”

This remark was naturally circulated as a joke by reporters, because judging from the weight of the players, if the Knicks put up a three “big” lineup of Curry, Randolph, and Richardson, even with a Crawford. , There will not be too many teams in the league that can surpass them in pounds, let alone a light team like the Suns.

The Knicks’ three-fat team, needless to say, the holes on the defensive end are as wide as the ocean. In the three games they lost, two of their opponents scored more than 110 points. Tonight is likely to be the third game. .

At nine o’clock in the evening Eastern time and six o’clock in the afternoon Pacific time, the game between the Suns and the Knicks began at the American Airlines Center Arena in Phoenix.

In this game, Amare Stoudemire returned. The DJ on the scene gave him the loudest introduction to the game, and the fans on the scene also gave him the loudest cheers.

At the same time, this game is also the first time Grant Hill made his home appearance in Phoenix. It can be said that the Suns are full of morale and they don’t want to give the Knicks any chance in this game.

The game entered the rhythm of the sun from the first quarter. Stoudemire started flying on the rim again after two weeks of silence ~www.mtlnovel.com~. It seems that the discomfort of his knees did not affect his passion on the court. Surging. Eddie Curry, who is facing him inside, can’t keep up with Stoudemire’s offensive pace at all. He doesn’t even need to make a fake move. An acceleration after facing the basket can throw the “Little Shark” behind him and directly into the basket.

When he got to the basket, Randolph would of course not be able to make up his defenses. He watched Stoudemire dunk and scored 11 points in the first quarter. The Suns scored 35 points in a single quarter, leading the Knicks by 8 points at 35:27.

In fact, the Knicks’ offensive talent is not very bad. Whether it is Curry, Randolph or Richardson, Crawford is a player with strong personal offensive ability, otherwise the Knicks will not be stupid. To give them a big contract. But the problem is that in the Knicks, first, they have no defense, second, their offense lacks a system, and third is the most important point. This is a team that has no cohesion.

How can such a team succeed in a cruel arena like the NBA?

Isaiah Thomas stood on the sidelines and looked at the performance of the players on the court with a bewildered look, while Leon sat on the bench with a calm face and entered a state of meditation.

(End of this chapter)