Lin Ri only sprained his foot. When the news was revealed by the media, all Suns fans breathed a sigh of relief.

After winning against the Knicks, the Suns fans did not appear happy, but instead had worried expressions on their faces.

When they thought of the scene of Lin Ri being helped off the field by the team doctor, they really had no choice but to feel happy.

Fortunately, now that the news has come out, it was a false alarm and it was just an ordinary sprained foot. This makes Phoenix fans feel that all their fears have disappeared.

Lin Ri is fine!

The future remains bright for Phoenix!

What else is there to worry about?

"Let us look forward to the return of the king of the sun in a week!"

As the "Lin Ri Fan Group Leader", Barkley also happily "celebrated" on Twitter at this time. Just looking at the content he posted, it can be seen that he is in a really good mood at the moment.

At that time, Lin Ri's injury shocked all Phoenix fans, and it also shocked Barkley.

You must know that after Lin Ri entered the league and performed outstandingly, Barkley's attention as a Suns star has continued to increase.

In the past, he had to desperately find topics to attract fans' attention.

But now, as long as he says something related to Lin Ri, it will immediately become news reprinted by major media. Although it is not in a particularly eye-catching position like the headlines, it still has a number of views. His appearance rate is really higher than before.

There are too many, and the fans are also happy to talk to him about topics related to Lin Ri.

Some fans would even praise his achievements with the Suns, which made him feel that his reputation was getting better.

He is no longer a "big mouth", but the "former president" of the Suns!

He knew that all these changes were related to Lin Ri.

So when he knew Lin Ri was injured, he went crazy.

When he knew that Lin Ri had just sprained his legs, he went crazy with joy!

He felt that he had experienced the great joys and sorrows of life...

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Phoenix fans had a false alarm, but the Suns' coaching staff currently has a problem that needs to be solved: Lin will be absent for the next week. How to fill Lin's vacancy on both offense and defense during this week?

This is a problem Gentry must solve.

The good news is that the next opponent is not that strong. Originally, the Suns wanted to consolidate their No. 1 ranking in the Western Conference during this period. Now Gentry does not dare to have this idea... However, there is no way to consolidate the ranking.

Thoughts, but the advantage of these four wins must be preserved as much as possible...

Gentry thought about it for several days, to the point where he felt like he was going bald, and he couldn't come up with a reliable solution.

In fact, he also knows that it is impossible to find a way to completely replace Lin Ri. After all, Lin Ri is now an indispensable part of the Suns.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is now more important than Steve Nash in many cases.

Gentry then resigned to his fate and gave up thinking if he couldn't think of anything. Then he could only try his best to mobilize troops and generals to make up for this big hole.

However, although he had already thought about it, this problem was not easy to solve. But when the game actually started, he realized how much loss Lin Ri had caused to the entire Suns team on both offense and defense.

The Suns' next game is against the Rockets.

This is the toughest team that surprised many people by competing with the Lakers in seven games in the playoffs last season. This season, although Tracy McGrady was traded and Artest left, only Yao Ming is left to hold on.

There was already a decline at the beginning of the season, and now, they are not even ranked 11th in the Western Conference.

Yao Ming has also become the "dean" who is most loved by fans this season.

It is also because the strength gap between the Suns and Rockets is too large that the league did not arrange a "national live broadcast" of this game. After Lin Ri was injured, fans' attention to this game plummeted.

However, Stern has already used the "Chinese Derby" to gain some attention, so he doesn't feel any regrets.

But this is such an opponent.

The Suns still lost.

Where did I lose...I lost on the inside.

Yao Ming scored 34 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks tonight. His performance completely overwhelmed the Suns' inside line.

Not only him, Scola also got 21 points and 8 rebounds tonight.

His various singles under the basket also made Gentry realize that Channing Frye's starting fourth position will not have any effect at all.

His poor defensive ability, which would not have been noticed on the bench, was infinitely magnified after entering the starting lineup. Tonight, he was no different from a ragdoll being beaten in various ways on the court.

Gentry covered his eyes with his hands at one point.

It’s the kind of “eye-searing” thing that you really can’t stand to watch.

Speaking of which, Gentry also thought that Channing Frye might become a loophole on the bench, but his idea at the time was that even if Channing Frye's defense was not good, he could also provide offensive space on the offensive end.

After all, he is also the representative of the alliance's high-altitude fort.

It's a pity that the firepower of this high-level fort is far less powerful than the one on the opposite side.

Only then did Gentry realize that he had made a mistake. He directly regarded Channing Frye's efficiency on the bench as his efficiency after entering the starting lineup. Now it seems that this is somewhat unreliable...

However, his biggest mistake was that he overestimated the defensive capabilities of Kris Humphries and Robin Lopez!!

The reason why Gentry dared to put Channing Frye into the starting lineup was because Humphries and Lopez usually performed well on the defensive end when they were paired with Lin Ri, so he felt relieved.

But he didn’t expect it!

The reason why Lopez and Humphries performed so well was entirely because of Lin Ri's guidance.

This was another aspect where he miscalculated.

It was also because of so many unexpected things that the Suns ultimately lost the game.

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The first day of "I miss Lin Ri without him on the court" started with a loss, and the loss was against a weak team like the Rockets, which made Gentry feel even more unsure.

To be honest, losing to the Rockets was something Gentry didn't expect.

And now, they dare to lose even to the Rockets, so what else do they dare not...

Gentry was really a little panicked. Although the remaining two teams were still not very strong, they could still compete with the Rockets and be on par with each other.

The Suns lost to the Rockets and may not be able to win the next two games.

Anyway, it should be impossible to win the game with the current tactics.

Gentry chose to continue changing formations.

He no longer lets Channing Frye start at the fourth position. Although this guy can widen the point difference, he "doesn't score as much as he gives away", so forget it.

Gentry's next change was to put Grant Hill at the fourth position.

The purpose of this is simple - don't defend, just play "Little Quick"! Use offense to deal with all situations.

As long as the Suns score more points at the end of the game, that'll be fine!

Gentry thought so.

Not to mention, the Suns actually won the next game. They defeated the Detroit Pistons 128-123!!

Don’t worry that this game is the Pistons’ highest total score in a single game of the season, or that the Pistons’ inside line has improved again in this game. Anyway, they won by 5 points in the end, and that’s fine!

This is what Gentry looked like when he faced reporters after the game.

At least he won a game, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

There is one last game!

On the plane back to Phoenix, he glanced at Lin Ri from time to time. He had never missed someone so much. During the three or four days without Lin Ri, he truly realized that without Lin Ri, this

Just what level of team is the team?

This newcomer is so indispensable!

The Suns are gradually realizing how bad it is to be missing Lin Ri.

The entire league is also more aware of Lin Ri's influence on the game.

It can be seen from the voting results of the All-Star starters in the third stage announced after this game that fans did not lose attention to Lin Ri because of his absence from the game. Instead, his absence made more fans look forward to it.

After his return, he also spontaneously voted for recommendation.

As of the end of the third phase of voting, Lin Ri's total votes have exceeded 2 million votes, reaching about 2.28 million votes. With this momentum, Lin Ri may be able to get 3 million by the end of the fourth phase.

The number of votes left and right!

This number of votes is undoubtedly a bit scary!

You must know that among the previous "voter kings", the one with the highest total number of votes was last year, with 3.15 million votes. It was Howard last year, but all fans know that this guy has been in the league for 5 years, which gave him

Lin Ri's time to accumulate popularity is different. He is this year's "rookie" and his popularity only started to accumulate last year.

I have to say that the speed at which he has accumulated popularity is truly terrifying!

Well, yes, after the results of the third stage of voting were announced, fans have basically determined that Lin Ri is the "voting king" this year. Not to mention other things, his final estimated total number of votes is destined to become the "voting king".

"King", not to mention that Howard, who is currently ranked second, is almost 450,000 behind him.
To be continued...