From sparring to superstar

Chapter 233 231. Jordan: Blame me again?

When Jordan made up in front of Penny, everyone thought that Penny would hit one.

Even Jordan, who made up in time, felt that the ball should be unstoppable.

Step-back shots, behind-the-back dribbles and horizontal shots to get rid of defenses, back-to-the-crotch jumpers, turning around and making emergency stop jump shots... These are the most iconic mid-range scoring methods of Penny back then.

Penny chose to divide the bottom line, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Hearing the surprised voices of his teammates and opponents, Penny retreated with a smile, accepting people's strange eyes calmly.

Team doctor Thomas Carter told him that if he doesn't want to support crutches after retirement, he must learn to play with his height, wingspan, vision, and brain, and he can no longer overdraw his already riddled knees and ankles.

He chose to accept and actively adjusted his style of play.

In the transition between offense and defense, when Li Ao served the ball, he heard his brother sigh, "Jordan is still the god of basketball, and Hardaway is no longer a penny."

He felt that there was no problem with this statement. Penny's style of play just now was indeed not penny.

But this does not mean that Penny has become weaker. Li Ao uses his professional perspective on support. The current Penny is playing like this, which may be the right choice in terms of efficiency.

Bibby advanced to the frontcourt, and it was Marbury who defended him. The help defense was not good, and the team's defensive awareness was lacking, but the single defense has always been good.

Li Ao was followed by Marion, so he had no chance to play singles, and it was difficult to run, catch and shoot.

Odom playing Bo-Outlaw is an advantageous matchup, but in this lineup Odom will play awkwardly and can't use it when he launches an offense.

He continued to give the ball to Jordan, and Jordan turned and broke through with one step.

Penny predicted Jordan's movements and followed closely. The confrontation was not fierce, but the slight advantage in size still made Jordan feel it.

At this time, Jordan saw Odom moving to the baseline after covering off the ball on the left side. He made the ball decisively and made an alley-oop pass from the left side of the hoop... "Boom"...

Odom didn't go alley-ooping into the basket!The ball hit the backboard and bounced to the left of the three-second zone!

Li Ao has quick eyes and quick hands. He squeezed away Bo Outlaw, who was on defense, and grabbed the ball.
Jordan's pass error turned into an assist. He happily patted Li Ao on the back when he retreated to the defense. After retreating to the backcourt, he sprayed Odom a few words, but he didn't see such a good alley-oop scoring opportunity.

Odom responded with an apologetic but wise smile.

When it came time for the Suns to attack, Marbury broke through to score the ball, Bo Outlaw cut to catch the ball and throw the iron after covering from the wing, and Jermaine O'Neal protected the defensive rebound.

The Suns players actively retreated to defend, but Li Ao quickly stopped and ran forward slowly.

The opponent is not O'Neal, so there is no need to create exercise for the opponent.

However, the Suns' offense in the first two rounds made Li Ao vigilant.

He didn't think it should be, their team shouldn't be so out of time.

However, after playing a few more rounds, at 4 minutes and 38 seconds into the first quarter, Marion slid from the baseline to the right corner and hit a three-pointer with a 9-8 push. 1-[-], the Suns led by [-] point. Stop the Clippers!
In this small half of the quarter, the Suns' offensive cooperation played very well!
With Marbury's breakthrough points and Penny's high position support, the Suns' offensive dual-core play is very tacit.

Marion's off-ball screens, cuts, bottom line counter-runs and long shots, he played very actively. In the third year of his career, the Hacker's three-pointer, although not accurate in his life, has been developed from time to time. up.

Beau Outlaw screens, cuts, runs back, defends, and rushes aggressively.

Although Gugliotta is no longer as brave as he used to be, Li Ao's player evaluation report only has a comprehensive evaluation of 69, but he has rich experience, and he has a good grasp of the timing of moving positions such as pulling the basket and blocking people from the bottom line, at least on the offensive end. Don't hold back.

The tactics are executed smoothly, the running positions are in place, the passing is also very good, and the success rate of finishing is also good... Such a Suns team makes Li Ao question marks in his head.

After entering the timeout and returning to the bench, Li Ao complained to Jordan: "We are a little bit behind! I have watched the video clips of the first 6 games. Their cooperation is obviously so poor, and they are not active at all in retreat. They counterattack every game. They were all scored more than 20 points by their opponents, why did they suddenly become enlightened tonight...Wait, Michael, this may be your problem!"

Jordan (へ╬): "Mom Ravako, you really can blame me for everything?"

"You see, there are 5 starters on the opposite side, 4 of which are players who entered the NBA during your 6 championships, and most of the substitutes are also. Their previous games were not active enough because they did not have a common goal. To win the basketball gods, even the 38-year-old basketball gods, so work together...Is there something wrong with my analysis? Am I wronging you?"

Jordan: (_)
So convincing!He could not refute this point of view!

His rich experience told him that Spiderman's analysis should be right.

The opposite Suns, compared with last season, can actually be regarded as two teams.

The starting lineup has changed 4, and the substitute lineup has also changed more than half.

So in fact, there is no such thing as 'everyone can't adapt to the cooperation after changing the core point guard', and Colangelo still has something.

However, the new team needs an opportunity to play together.

It's different from a group of "carefree" young people from the Clippers who got together and bluffed and yelled at a goal and then rushed forward together.

Most of the players in the Suns are old fritters who have played for five, six, seven or eight years. They don't have so much blood, and the players have more thoughts.

Suns coach Scott Skiles is less than 40 years old, has no qualifications and ability to conquer players, and does not have the courage and skill of Maurice Cheeks of the Trail Blazers.

For such a team, it is difficult to find an opportunity to unite, and it may even be impossible to find that opportunity after a season. This is a very common thing in the NBA. In the future, the Big Four will have to rely on their leading stars to break their Achilles tendons to enter the season. playoffs.

But opportunities can also appear suddenly.

Unite as one to deal with the God of Basketball, even the God of Basketball thinks this is a good opportunity.

Jordan forcibly changed the subject: "What happened to Lamar today? He missed several opportunities and made an inexplicable mistake."

Just as Li Ao was about to talk about this, he replied, "He's always sick and tends to be distracted. Just don't pass the ball to him from now on, and direct him to rush for offensive rebounds, flank pick-and-rolls, and play fast breaks."

"Is this appropriate? Lamar is our inside core!"

"You are the god of basketball, he dare not have an opinion."

When Li Ao said this, as the god of leverage, Jordan couldn't find a suitable leverage point for a while.

He can retort that 'I'm not a ball bully', but he can't say it because he was really a ball bully before he retired last time, the kind of No. [-] player in the world.

(End of this chapter)