Chapter 359 We will definitely enter the playoffs this year!
The Sonics players advanced past half-court, and after passing the ball several times, the basketball returned to Ray Allen's hands, and he forced a breakthrough against Richardson's defense.
At this time, Ray Allen was not the one who could only shoot. Now he can shoot suddenly, dunk and pass. He is simply a hexagonal warrior.
But when he was preparing for a layup, he suddenly saw Lu Yu, wearing the No. 10 jersey, blocking the shot.
He quickly adjusted the arc of the layup and threw it forcefully. The basketball bounced out of the frame and Marion grabbed the rebound.
The Sonics players were not retreating quickly, and Lu Yu wanted to launch a fast break directly, but Marion had already handed the ball to Nash as arranged by the coach during training. Nash advanced quickly and then threw it to Richardson, who had already sunk to the bottom corner.
Richardson feinted a shot and hit the basket. When Yi Jianlian came over, he threw the ball to Marion at a 45-degree angle.
Marion threw the ball with his weird posture.
Really throw it away.
This posture is simply ugly.
But fortunately, the hit rate was good, and the basketball fell into the basket with a swoosh.
3 to 0
When it comes to the player with the ugliest shooting posture in the NBA, in addition to Hayes' free throws, Marion's long-range shots must not be excluded. Because his posture is too weird, but it is ugly, but it cannot be denied.
Marion is an outstanding player.
If Marion were placed in the small ball era of later generations, he might be an upgraded version of Ying Guodala and would be robbed by other teams in the league.
In the SuperSonics offense, after halftime, Barry passed the ball to his teammates first. Yi Jianlian received the ball inside and singled out Haslem, then turned and shot and scored, 3-2.
The Suns attacked and advanced quickly. Once again, the ball did not pass through Lu Yu's hands and was shot directly...
The offense in these rounds is the epitome of the game between the two sides. The Suns played very fast, but almost never handed the ball to the inside. The inside's task was to grab rebounds and protect the basket. During the fast break, Nash would distribute the ball to
Inside dunk.
Lu Yu frowned slightly, knowing that this was D'Antoni's tactical arrangement.
It was with this set of tactics that Stoudemire became an All-Star, and Nash also won two regular season MVPs.
But Stoudemire is Stoudemire, and Lu Yu is Lu Yu!
You must know that Lu Yu is already a player who has dominated this league. He is completely incomparable to a player like Stoudemire who relies on eating cakes to become an All-Star.
However, Lu Yu remained silent. He also wanted to see if such tactics could lead the Suns to victory.
Because of this tactic, he is an enhanced version of Stoudemire, but other Suns players, especially the bench players, are weaker than Lu Yu in his previous life.
If Lu Yu forcefully argued with the head coach, it would cause disharmony within the team.
He is the number one player in the league. He can directly make arrangements for other players and the head coach.
Because the boss formed this team just for Lu Yu.
But Lu Yu doesn't want this. He wants this team to go further, so some mistakes must be experienced by them personally before they can have a deeper impression.
In his previous life, why was D'Antoni's tactics so invincible in the regular season, but in the playoffs they became a failure.
It's not just because their center only knows how to eat pie. Once Nash's engine has problems, Stoudemire will become a waste.
So for a team like the Spurs, just kill Nash.
That's why there was a scene where Nash's nose was crushed.
In the first quarter, Marion and Richardson performed well, scoring 6 and 7 points respectively. Lu Yu also scored 5 points. At the end of the first quarter, the Suns led the SuperSonics by five points, 24-19.
In the second quarter, Lu Yu sat off the court and rested for the entire quarter. D'Antoni knew that Lu Yu had just been injured in the Olympics and did not dare to overuse him.
After Lu Yu left, the Suns' offense was pretty smooth, basically the same style Lu Yu saw on TV in his previous life.
But towards the end of the fight, six or seven people were rotated, and physical strength became more and more of an issue.
When Lu Yu came up in the last quarter, Ray Allen didn't get into the paint at all and hit four consecutive three-pointers in front of Nash, taking the lead in one fell swoop.
Fortunately, Lu Yu saw something was wrong and took the initiative to ask for the ball. He directly knocked out the SuperSonics inside and combined with his bald head to win the game 12-2.
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90 to 79, it was so difficult for the Suns to win against a weak team like the SuperSonics last season, let alone a Western Conference powerhouse like the Spurs in the future.
During the press conference, Lu Yu found that the difficulty of the game did not arouse the alertness of everyone in the team.
He was thinking in his heart that if this happens in the next game, he will never save the team again and let it lose. Sometimes people are like this. If they don't suffer, they won't remember the fight, and they won't have a long memory.
It cannot be said that D'Antoni's arrangement was wrong, he just played out his ideal running and gunning style.
But tactics are dead and people are alive.
There is a strong player like Lu Yu here, and if you don't know how to use it and still play run-and-gun, it's your fault.
This situation does not only happen to Lu Yu.
In Lu Yu's previous life, D'Antoni went to the Lakers for a period of time to coach, and the Lakers also hired Nash for him.
He was confused.
He also wanted to replicate the run-and-gun tactics according to the Suns' previous style of play. As a result, Nash controlled the ball and Kobe followed suit and became the shooter. The Lakers lost all their money that year.
It cannot be said that coach D'Antoni is a parallel import.
I can only say that he is rather old-fashioned and stubborn.
In the second game, the Suns played against the Cavaliers. James was still thinking about rising up in the second year of this year, but in the end he could only be his younger brother in front of Lu Yu.
The Suns won the game again 97-80.
This made Lu Yu a little depressed. He originally wanted to teach Captain Sun a lesson, but in the end, all he encountered was rubbish.
D'Antoni really thinks the team is strong?
You're such a shitty run-and-gun tactician, you haven't scored more than 100 points, do you have the nerve to say you're a run-and-gun tactician?
Later, the Suns finally met the Mavericks and Spurs, losing two games in a row, and their true colors were suddenly revealed.
At this time, many fans began to make excuses. The Spurs and Mavericks were too strong and they had already meshed well. The Suns had just taken shape and had not yet meshed well. It was understandable that they lost.
Lu Yu wanted to say, bullshit!
Whether a team can reach the end depends on whether it can beat these strong teams and compete with the weak teams. The weak teams will not be able to enter the playoffs.
The reason why the Bulls were invincible last season was because their style of play, whether they were playing against a weak team or a strong team, was as stable as ever.
Whether the opponent has a strong inside line or a scoring-mad outside line, the Bulls have a way to win the game.
But now for the Suns, let alone a strong team, even if they encounter a weak team with explosive outside scoring, they may lose the game.
Within a few days, Lu Yu's conjecture was confirmed.
In another China Derby, the Suns met the Warriors. The Warriors were ranked last among the Western Conference playoff teams, but Arenas directly beat Nash.
In one game, Arenas scored 53 points, his first 50-point score this season, and led the Warriors to a 113-92 victory over the Suns.
If it were really the Suns team from the previous life, it wouldn't necessarily lose, but this Suns team's bench lineup is really unbearable to look at.
At the end of November, the Suns' record had reached 8 wins and 7 losses. D'Antoni was vaguely aware of the problem. Although the winning rate was now more than half, the team was obviously strong when it encountered a weak one and weak when it encountered a strong one. Such a team could not cause any problems at all.
The attention of other strong teams.
At the beginning of December, the Suns ushered in a losing streak, with a record of 8 wins and 14 losses, falling out of the top eight in the Western Conference.
At this time, D'Antoni finally couldn't sit still. He admitted in the post-game interview that there might be a problem with his tactics, but he still didn't think of how to solve it.
By watching the game videos over and over again, he seemed to have caught the problem.
So he found Lu Yu and asked for Lu Yu's opinion.
Lu Yu directly pulled out the video of the first fast break of the first game and showed it to him.
"This ball could have gone directly to the fast break, but according to the team's tactics, the ball must be handed over to Steve's hands first, and then Steve will quickly advance, find Quentin in the bottom corner, and then hit a three-pointer
."
"It seems that I scored three points and the offense was very fast, but you have to know that if you play like this, the probability of scoring becomes smaller."
"Since we want to play run-and-gun, everyone must have the ability to handle the ball. No matter where the ball is, we must find the player with the highest probability of scoring as soon as possible."
"The best way to get this ball is for Marion to pass it directly into the hands of Udonis who has already run to the basket."
"If Udonis doesn't have the right opportunity, you can hand the ball to me. I promise not to waste this scoring opportunity."
"In addition to controlling the ball in the position, Steve's role is to serve as a shooting point from the outside."
D'Antoni gets it.
In the next few days of training, he specifically emphasized this point. Nash actually felt a little unhappy, because this way, his strategic core status was reduced.
He is good at distributing the ball in positional battles, but the control of fast breaks is not in his hands, and when the fast break cannot be completed, most of the ball rights are given to Lu Yu to handle inside.
His role has been greatly weakened.
However, the previous style of play has been proven to lead to losing, and the team leader is Lu Yu, so he does not dare to overstep at will. The previous style of play that regarded him as the core, Lu Yu did not say anything, he played well,
I almost forgot who is the protagonist of this team.
Now Lu Yu's data is not good, and the team's record is not good either, which has made the team owner very dissatisfied.
If he continues to struggle with the team, he is probably not far away from being sent away.
Nash is very self-aware. When he was with the Mavericks, when he knew that Cuban wanted to use Nowitzki as the core, he honestly became the second-in-command.
Now the Suns have wanted to treat Lu Yu as the boss from the beginning, but the head coach's tactics were more tilted at the beginning. While he was secretly happy, he was also vaguely worried that Lu Yu would cause trouble.
But now it seems that the transition has been smooth.
Since D'Antoni listened to Lu Yu's advice, he has found that his running and gunning has become different, and the results during training are surprisingly good.
Now we are just waiting for the competition to verify the results.
The Suns held a press conference in response to their previous defeat.
Reporters began to attack D'Antoni.
The reporter asked: "At the beginning of the season, you said that the Suns would become the top team in the league. Now they haven't even gotten a spot in the playoffs. With such a loss, do you think it's your ability or Lu Yu's?
What about the ability issue?”
D'Antoni smiled: "I think it was my problem. I didn't integrate the team well. Of course, everything is fine now and we will win more games."
The reporter asked: "Now the entire league is saying that Lu Yu is useless. After Lu Yu came to the Suns, he was much worse than when he was with the Bulls. If Lu Yu cannot lead the team to win, will you continue to support him?"
"certainly."
D'Antoni kept smiling, but in his heart he wanted to smash the reporter's head out of the bag with the microphone.
"Lu Yu is the most dominant and best player in the league, bar none. I have always underestimated his ability. I did not use him well. This is my problem. I will not do this next time."
It was a mistake. Believe me, starting from today, everyone will see a different sun, and everyone will also see a different leader of the sun. Just like Lu Yu led the Bulls before, he will also bring the sun to that place.
high."
D'Antoni bears all the blame alone.
From this point of view, he is quite responsible, unlike some coaches who are terrible at directing the game and only know how to play chicken soup for the soul, and even blame the players after losing.
Rivers: "You can just give me your ID number."
The reporter asked: "Now that the Suns have fallen out of the top eight in the Western Conference, do you think you can still make the playoffs this season?"
D'Antoni did not speak too fully, but said with a smile: "Time will tell everything."
Yes, time will prove everything, but he must use a victory, a hearty victory to prove to everyone that what he said is not nonsense.
But for him, the next opponent will be difficult to beat.
After all, it was a Kings team that once dominated the Western Conference and almost won the championship several times.
If you say something like this at this time, the probability of being slapped in the face is very high.
D'Antoni called all the players together: "The next game is the time to verify our training tactics during this period. I need everyone to work hard. We must win, and we must win to everyone who sees our jokes."
Look, let them know that we will definitely rise this season, and this season, we will make all the teams in the Western Conference tremble!"
"We can play fast, and we can also fall into positions. Although our defense has loopholes, the core of our defense is Lu Yu!"
"We have the strongest players in the league, and we will definitely make the playoffs this year!"
His words made all the players excited.
Lu Yu just stood aside and sighed secretly, who said that Rivers is the only one in the league who can speak chicken soup for the soul, D'Antoni is also a good hand at making chicken soup for the soul! This chapter has been completed!
