This is a game that is broadcast live across the United States.
It’s not because of how high the rankings of the two teams are. The Kings are not doing well this season either. They are now only ranked seventh in the Western Conference. The conflict between Webber and Stojakovic is well known.
The team is not far away.
The Suns are even worse, they haven't even cracked the top eight in the Western Conference.
Looking back now, the words Lu Yu said before the game have become the laughing stock of basketball experts. They seem to be more willing to mock superstars like Lu Yu than little-known figures in the league.
But the game is still broadcast live across the United States.
Firstly, after Lu Yu joined, the number of Suns' national live broadcasts increased, and this game was a previously scheduled live broadcast. Secondly, the league did not plan to cancel this live broadcast, because D'Antoni's words before the game had already attracted the attention of the fans.
appetite.
Everyone wants to see what changes the Suns have in this game.
CCTV also broadcast this game. Even though the Suns are losing more and winning less, CCTV is still very enthusiastic about broadcasting the Suns' game.
Of course, the games of Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian are also broadcast.
It's just that their popularity is still far behind Lu Yu's popularity in China.
The attendance at the Suns' home court was sluggish after the loss, but it was full again today. Many fans wanted to see the team's changes. They didn't know if they were just bragging or if they had really made adjustments.
CCTV was responsible for the commentary by two old friends, Zhang Weiping and Sun Yiping.
Sun Yiping said: "When Lu Yu came on the field, he had a smile on his face and was not affected by the recent defeat at all. It can be seen that he is full of confidence in the team."
Zhang Weiping said with a smile: "I don't know if he has confidence in the team, but the US media said that he recently had a daughter, so he should be in a good mood. I wonder if his luck in the game will change after he becomes a father. We
Isn’t there a saying in China about celebrating happiness?”
Sun Yiping nodded: "This is something he is happy about, but the American media only reported photos of him holding the girl. The child may not be his, it may be the child of a relative or friend. Anyway, now Lu Yu
His private life is a mystery to much of the media."
Could it not be a mystery?
Lu Yu's media company has reached cooperation with multiple TV stations including ESPN and TNT. No one dares to offend this sponsor.
Even if I receive some gossip, I don’t dare to post it.
When both teams started, everyone was surprised, because the Suns... didn't fucking change at all.
Lu Yu, Haslem, Marion, Richardson and Nash.
The same old lineup.
What about the adjustments you promised?
What about the promised changes?
Okay... It seems that D'Antoni didn't say there would be changes in the lineup. It's just that the fans are overthinking it.
The Kings' five-man roster is: Mike Bibby, Cuttino Mobley, Stojakovic, Chris Webber and Kenny Thomas.
Thomas is only 201cm tall and will definitely not be able to guard Lu Yu, so the heavy responsibility of guarding Lu Yu can only be given to Webber.
Weber also had a headache.
He faced off against Lu Yu last season and it was not easy to guard against him.
"Don't worry, the Kings were great in the first two years, but now they are just paper tigers." Lu Yu joked with his teammates with a smile.
Marion nodded: "Let Peja score more than twenty, and I will practice another hundred sets of sliding steps when I get back."
Richardson: "Isn't your request a little low?"
Nash looked at Bibi's muscles: "Which one of you has some ointment? Go back and get some for me to apply some on. I estimate that after tonight, somewhere on my body will be swollen again."
A few people walked onto the court chatting and laughing, and both sides were preparing to jump the ball inside.
The Suns don't seem to be under any pressure at all.
Nowadays, jumping balls are all Lu Yu's job, and he seems to have never lost. So far, no center has been able to beat Lu Yu in jumping balls.
From this point, we can also see the horror of Lu Yu's bounce and speed.
The basketball was handed to Nash. Lu Yu didn't look back and ran directly to the frontcourt. Nash didn't stop the ball and passed a long pass directly to the backcourt. Lu Yu chased the ball in the air and led all the players. After catching the ball, he passed the ball directly from the backcourt.
Take two steps outside the dividing line and enter.
"Boom!"
The first shot was a dunk!
The fans in the audience were fired up.
This was too damn fast. In the first two seconds, it was just a dunk.
Who can bear it?
The Kings were obviously fooled. The ball passed halfway and passed to Peja. Peja glanced at Webb and shot directly instead of passing the ball.
The basketball hit the neck of the basket, and Haslem easily collected the rebound.
The Kings quickly retreated to avoid another fast break.
After halftime, Nash chose to hand the ball to Lu Yu who was on the outside. Lu Yu waited for his teammates to pull away. Haslem screened Webber. Lu Yu broke through from the right, attracting Thomas to help defend. When Thomas came over,
When the ball was passed to the center.
The Suns have practiced this routine many times during training, and it is also a tactical play proposed by Lu Yu. The main advantage of this play is that it clears the opponent's interior defense. After the pick-and-roll, Haslem received the pass from Lu Yu and rushed directly.
He got up, took two steps, and smashed the ball into the basket with a tomahawk dunk.
The Kings didn't have time to make up the defense.
Two rounds, two dunks.
Started 4-0.
The home fans applauded and cheered together. There were two top five goals in the opening game. It was much better than the previous games, okay?
The Kings attack, and Bibby moves the ball to Webb from the side.
Hope Webber can come back, but Webber tried twice and gave up. He couldn't resist Lu Yu at all, so he could only pass it back to Bibby. Bibby pressed Nash in and shot at the free throw line.
Still didn't get in.
Zhang Weiping said: "The Suns played very fiercely at the beginning, and they all scored dunks, which kind of confused the Kings. Bibby's shooting was also inaccurate."
Sun Yiping sighed: "D'Antoni said that the Suns would be different today. Unexpectedly, the lineup has not changed, but the style of play has changed. Today's Suns are really refreshing for us."
However, the Suns' next attack failed to score, and instead the Kings turned around and made a shot.
The Kings' play is not slow either, but the Suns are still a bit unadapted to their speed of defense.
Lu Yu encouraged his teammates to run faster.
If the defense doesn't improve every round, you can't win against a strong team just by relying on offense.
4 to 2
The Suns attacked, and Lu Yu played a pick-and-roll with Haslem in the middle.
Weber was extremely depressed. He felt that Lu Yu was not a center at all. How could a center hold the ball and start a pick-and-roll from outside the three-point line? Shouldn't the center fight in the paint?
But there was nothing he could do. Lu Yu pulled him out and he had to follow him, otherwise everyone would know that Lu Yu's shooting was simply fatal.
After the pick-and-roll, Thomas changed defense slowly. Mobley on the wing came to help defend. Lu Yu passed the ball. Richardson understood it and received the pass from Lu Yu at a 45-degree angle on the right.
Raise your hand to shoot the ball easily,
Textbook standard, the basketball hits the net hollowly.
7 to 2
Lu Yu scored two points and two assists in the opening game.
Zhang Weiping sighed: "Today's Lu Yu seems to have returned to the time when he was a bull. This year's Sun is probably going crazy."
Many basketball experts who originally wanted to see a joke about the Suns were dumbfounded. They said that the Suns were doomed this year. They had already said it, but now they were slapped in the face, which made them feel very uncomfortable.
Is it too late to change your tune now?
However, as basketball experts, there is no reason to change at any time. They can only bite the bullet and persist. The Suns are only temporarily relieved. At the critical moment of the game, they will still have diarrhea.
They never thought about what they would do if the sun didn't cause diarrhea.
The Kings were attacking, and Webber was bumped by Haslem after covering. The referee whistled for a foul. Haslem was still inexperienced and easily fell into foul trouble. The referee also liked to blow the rookie whistle, and rookies would be whistled for any big moves.
It seems that only Lu Yu was not treated like this in his rookie season.
Most other players have experienced this.
The inbound ball was sent out, and the Kings continued to cover, allowing Webber to hit Haslem in a misplaced position. After breaking through with the ball, Webber missed a layup. Lu Yu grabbed the rebound and threw it directly to Nash.
Nash took a dribble and threw the ball to Lu Yu, who had already accelerated past him.
Lu Yu took the ball and changed direction to get rid of Mobley, who was defending him, and pushed the ball directly towards the opposite basket from the midfield position.
On the other side, Marion had already bolted out like a cheetah.
Oh, wrong.
It should look like an ape, after all, the way he throws his arms while running really looks like a gibbon.
Marion received the ball at the free throw line, took off in two steps, and made another one-handed dunk.
9 to 2, Lu Yu’s third assist.
Seeing Marion dunk Lu Yu in the backcourt, I felt great. This fast break style is even more exciting than what the Bulls used to do. After all, the Bulls' style of play is still based on the triangle offense, which is steady and steady, while the Suns'
Run and gun, no matter what the result is, now it seems that it is fun to play.
During training, Lu Yu likes to pass the ball to Marion, because Haslem is a bit slow to get down quickly, and Richardson prefers to float outside and shoot three-pointers.
Only Marion was at the front of every fast break. Especially after changing his tactics, Nash dribbled less. He basically kept the ball with his hands. As long as Marion could throw the ball open, Lu Yu would definitely be able to get the ball.
Stuff it into his mouth.
Bah, it's in my hand.
The Kings were fooled. The Suns' attack only took two seconds?
Or three seconds?
No more.
Because the timer didn't last more than three seconds.
The Kings attacked, and Webb chose to support him from the high post this time. Thomas provided a cover for Bibby, who caught the ball and made a mid-range shot.
9 to 4.
When the Suns attacked, Lu Yu passed a pass to Richardson who was running without the ball from the side. After Richardson attracted Thomas to switch defense, he directly passed a lob ball to Haslem who was cutting in the air. Haslem jumped high.
, put the ball into the basket.
Another dunk.
Today's top five goals, are the Suns going to take them all?
11 to 4!
Zhang Weiping shouted: "The Suns played too reasonably. This style of play gives full play to the characteristics of each player."
Sun Yiping nodded and said: "Yes, Haslem is slow and is only suitable for facing the unguarded basket after such an air cut. Marion is fast and fast breaks are more suitable for him. Richardson and Nash are both
There are outside shots, and as for Lu Yu... he is an all-around fighter."
Zhang Weiping said: "I have never been able to understand, with the same lineup, why the Suns kept losing before, but now the Suns are playing extremely easily."
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Sun Yiping smiled and said: "Is it possible that Lu Yu became the core of the tactics?"
Sun Yiping was actually an outsider in basketball tactics, and he just said a casual sentence, but it was this sentence that made Zhang Weiping slap his thigh.
"That's right, Lu Yu has become the core. Nash controlled the ball a lot before. Although he could score, his efficiency was too low. Now that he has been replaced by Lu Yu, his scoring efficiency is much higher. And on the defensive end, did you notice that?
The expansion of Luyu has directly increased the area of assistance."
"Isn't Lu Yu afraid of his opponent attacking the inside?"
"What are you afraid of? When attacking the inside, he can just recycle it. There are a few insiders in the league who can guarantee that they can definitely defeat Lu Yu. I dare say that even Duncan can't guarantee that."
Maybe, only O'Neal is at his peak.
But now O'Neal is also going downhill, but it's just not obvious yet.
The Kings completed the ball coordination from the outside. Peja received the ball with an air cut and hit a two-pointer from a long distance inside the three-point line, 11-6.
It didn't matter that the Suns lost a goal. The offensive end immediately recovered it. Lu Yu first passed the ball to Richardson. Richardson had no chance to take action and saw Lu Yu making an off-ball screen with Nash on the right side.
Richardson distributed the ball, Lu Yuniu received the ball in the corner and feinted, passed the chasing Webber, attracted Bibby on the right side to help defend, and passed the ball directly to Nash.
Nash took a mid-range shot and the basketball fell steadily into the basket.
13 to 6
Lu Yu’s fourth assist.
The Kings couldn't hold it in any longer and had no choice but to call a timeout.
If we don't call a timeout, this game doesn't need to be played, just surrender. The Suns made almost no mistakes, all of them scored easily, and their tactics were very clear, leaving the Kings with no way to do anything.
The most important thing is that they have a clear division of labor, no one is greedy for credit, no one is greedy for the ball, everything is for scoring.
And Lu Yu.
His passing skills are so profound that as long as he passes the ball, he can basically score directly.
In this regard, his passing is different from Nash's.
Nash's pass can also score directly, but Nash prefers to score after a breakthrough.
Now Nash has changed the way he passes. Most of his passes now are ice hockey assists. The so-called ice hockey assists mean that he does not assist directly, but serves as a transfer station. After passing the ball to Lu Yu, Lu Yu directly assists.
And his transfer is essential.
Because if you go slower, your opponent will be able to react.
When a team has two passing masters, the remaining players only need to be responsible for sending the ball into the basket.
The most important thing is that these two passing masters are stable scorers themselves.
Needless to say, Lu Yu is among the top three scorers in the league all year round.
Nash's shooting percentage has actually been overshadowed by his assists. In fact, Nash is also a stable shooter.
After the game, all the Suns players high-fived each other.
