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If there were any coaches in the league who were good at adapting and reacting quickly, they would have definitely taken Barbosa down in the first two rounds.

Although D'Antoni plays the most freehand, craziest and best-looking offensive basketball, his use of players is quite rigid, cautious and stubborn.

The Suns don't have many players who can play, and the team's rotations in the game are quite rigid and fixed.

For example, in this game, even though Barbosa was completely beaten by Lin Tian after he came on the court, and played like a pile of shit on both offense and defense, D'Antoni did not make any substitutions, and did not make any changes or on-the-spot commands.

He just watched Barbosa being beaten by Lin Tian, ​​and watched Barbosa on the court like a headless fly, getting blocked, making mistakes and missing shots.

Barbosa played on the court for a full four minutes in the second quarter, which was also the Suns' usual rotation method.

But in the previous match, Lin Tian was not his opponent!

There is today.

Tonight, the Suns were outscored by the Knicks on a 4:14 offensive wave in just 3 minutes!
The only way to get 3 points was by Richardson's long-range shot.

In short, the Suns, who still had a slight lead at the end of the first quarter, suddenly fell behind by a full 4 points after 10 minutes of the second quarter!
Even though D'Antoni called a timeout and replaced Nash, Marion, Martin and others, the rhythm and trend of the game had been controlled by the Knicks.

Throughout the second quarter, the Knicks maintained a lead of about 10 points!

If Johnson, Richardson and others hadn't made several difficult shots in the second quarter, the Suns' deficit might have been as high as 20 points.

Fortunately, although Barbosa was undercover, the Suns managed to withstand the Knicks' fierce bombardment, maintained the situation at home, and retained the possibility of a comeback in the second half of the game.

Just 10 points.

For super offensive teams like the Suns and the Knicks, a 10-point gap can be completely made up in just 2 minutes if they are in good form.

In the second half of the game, players from both sides changed sides and fought again.

The starting players of both sides were not replaced and they were still the starters of the first half. However, judging from the expressions and conditions of the players on the Suns bench, D'Antoni obviously scolded Barbosa during the halftime.

Otherwise, Barbosa would definitely not look so sad and unhappy at this moment.

This kid wanted to compete with Lin Tian in the first half!

Even in the last few minutes of the first half, this guy still looked unconvinced and eager to try, wanting to go on the court and compete in speed with Lin Tian again.

Anyway, if you ask Lin Tian to guess, he guessed that of the total 15 minutes of halftime, D'Antoni used at least 13 minutes to scold Barbosa, and the remaining 2 minutes were the team's exit and entry, wasting time in the player tunnel.

65: 55!

The game continues in the second half!
The Knicks continued to control the ball, with Lin Tian dribbling towards the frontcourt.

After taking a look at the Suns' defensive arrangement, Lin Tian found that he was wrong.

That is, D'Antoni just scolded Barbosa for a maximum of 12 minutes, and in the remaining minute, he still arranged some tactics.

For example, he changed the team's defensive position. He let Johnson face off against Lin Tian, ​​and put Nash, who was completely unable to stop Lin Tian in the first half and allowed Lin Tian to score 18 points and 8 assists in the first half, next to Jackson, and let Nash face off against Jackson, who had the weakest offensive ability on the Knicks.

Let's change this one.

how to say?

This fully demonstrates that the Suns have never practiced or studied defense.

They had hardly even watched Lin Tian's games and had never thought about how to defend Lin Tian.

Of course, even if we study it, it will have no effect at all.

But it is not important.

The important thing is, even with this simplest mismatch defense, Lin Tian can find 88 postures to make the Suns suffer the consequences with his eyes closed.

For example, the simplest and most direct one.

He accelerated past Johnson, then attracted Marion's double-team and threw the ball into the air. Stoudemire fell from the sky again and completed the aerial operation!
"boom!"

For example, let Jackson and Anthony set an off-ball screen, forcing the Suns to switch defense quickly, and then let Anthony, a tough guy, drive all the way to the basket and crush Nash to force a shot.

Missed.

He forced Nash to get the rebound and then made the tip.

It still missed, Anthony stood up and stretched his hand a little more, and the basketball finally went into the basket!
In one round, he scored 2 points, 2 misses and 2 rebounds!

Poor Nash, he could hardly stand because of the muscular muscles all over his body. Anthony might as well have just scored. Nash's body was really uncomfortable with the continuous banging.

"You owe me an assist! Can't you just put it in?" Lin Tian stretched out his hand and touched Anthony's, while at the same time mocking him.

"It's very difficult!" Anthony said with a bitter face, "It's much harder to lay up the ball than from mid-range or long-range!"

Fine.

Lin Tian looked at the guy's expression and knew that Anthony was not talking nonsense.

At the same time, Lin Tian also remembered Anthony's two nicknames.

'The man with the lowest dunk percentage in league history' and 'the man who is best at shooting and rebounding'.

Well deserved!
Well, that’s off topic.

In addition to easily beating Johnson himself and letting Anthony or others play one-on-one against Nash, Lin Tian has countless ways to break the Suns' so-called switching defense.

For example, Lin Tian could directly use pick-and-roll with Jackson to play against Nash, or directly give the ball to Jackson to let him challenge Nash one-on-one. Anyway, Martin, the only player on the Suns who can be said to have the ability to protect the rim, has to go outside the three-point line to defend Okur. In this case, the entire Suns' basket is like the Knicks' backyard.

In addition, with the traditional skills of Lin Tian, ​​Stoudemire, Okur and others, and fancy pick-and-rolls, this most basic tactic of basketball has been completely transformed.

It is worth mentioning that even when the basket was so empty, D'Antoni did not think of switching between Marion and Martin. He did not think of letting the more mobile Marion go outside the three-point line to block Okur and assist in defense, and let the larger Martin guard the basket to block Stoudemire's way.

God knows whether he can’t think of it or can’t see it, but D’Antoni really hasn’t changed.

However, it is not surprising that Lin Tian has so many ways to break the Suns' defensive system, which cannot be called a wonderful defensive system or defensive changes. This is his job and what he usually does.

The amazing thing is that when Lin Tian was humiliating and teasing the Suns' ridiculous defense in various ways, D'Antoni once again chose to sit back and do nothing.

The old man really could not bear to make any substitutions or changes in formation, but just watched Lin Tian command his teammates to kill on the court.

With Lin Tian showing off his basketball IQ, the Knicks' lead had reached 8 points eight minutes into the third quarter!
Then at this time, old Nelson waved his hand, signaling Lin Tian, ​​O'Neal and Stoudemire to come down and rest. It was time for Anthony to take the others out for some fun.

The three replacements were Muhammad, Smith, Barnes and Ward.

As Lin Tian and others arrived, although the Suns were still unable to defend against Anthony's one-on-ones and the Knicks' offense, their offense suddenly came alive.

Without Lin Tian's control over Nash, the talented guard began to regain his feeling and continued to use shooting and passing on the court to narrow the score.

Three minutes into the third quarter, because the Knicks had strong scoring ability, Nash led the team to narrow the gap by 3 points.

The gap between the two sides is 15 points.

With only one minute left in the third quarter, Anthony once again went for a low-post singles match, but this time he faced Marion, who finally couldn't bear it anymore and pushed his teammates away to face Anthony himself.

Marion himself doesn't understand why he is the most suitable person on the court to defend Anthony, why Lin Tian and Stoudemire are not on the court, and D'Antoni doesn't let him go against Anthony.

But at this moment, seeing Anthony playing two games in a row and having his way on the court, Marion couldn't help himself and volunteered to switch to face Anthony.

As soon as the position changed, Anthony felt a little uncomfortable and missed his first turnaround jump shot.

After Martin grabbed the rebound, the Suns launched a counterattack again. Nash dribbled all the way to the three-point line, then looked left and right and found that Ward and others were still retreating, and no one was closely guarding his three-pointer.

So Nash was extremely decisive and just pulled it out and threw it!
His shooting posture is a bit strange, as if he pushes the ball directly out over his shoulder, while also leaning forward a certain amount.

This somewhat feminine shot should be easy to block, but when used by Nash, it becomes one of the sharpest weapons in the league!

"Shh!"

After a crisp sound, the Suns narrowed the gap to 12 points!
There are only 35 seconds left.

After Ward brought the ball to the frontcourt, he was not in a hurry. He carefully resisted Nash's attempts to steal the ball while compressing the game time.

It was not until the last 8 seconds of the offensive time that he waved to Anthony to come forward. After the two of them passed the ball hand-to-hand at the top of the arc, Anthony dribbled and accelerated, crushing towards the inside against Marion's defense.

After making his way to the edge of the 3-second zone, Anthony suddenly used his signature move. He turned 360 degrees like a washing machine, took a step forward with his left foot, then jumped off the ground, stretched out his right hand, and was about to shoot a layup.

Anthony has been using this set of moves since high school. He has mastered it to perfection and his moves are graceful and beautiful.

But sometimes good-looking movements are not necessarily useful, just like having an ugly shooting posture does not necessarily mean you cannot score a goal.

"Snapped!"

Martin, who rushed over from the side, blocked Anthony's layup with a slap and hit the basketball directly onto the backboard.

Richardson grabbed the basketball and passed it to Nash immediately.

This time Ward's defense on Nash was quite effective. Although he was unable to delay the shot, he also did not give Nash any chance to directly shoot for 3 points. Seeing that he had no chance to force a shot, Nash simply continued to accelerate and pressed Ward all the way to the Knicks' basket.

But Nash did not jump up and shoot directly or stop after receiving the ball.

Instead, he dribbled the ball back and forth in the Knicks' 3-second zone for two full circles, messing up the entire Knicks' defense. After no one could keep up with him, Nash suddenly passed the ball with one hand without looking at anyone.

The basketball passed through the entire Knicks defense and went straight into the hands of Marion who was unguarded on the wing.

Then, a shooting posture that could compete with Marion's face for the ugliest shooting posture in NBA history appeared.

Marion used his signature weird posture, which no one except comedians would imitate, to make a buzzer-beating three-pointer in the third quarter.

"Buzz!"

As the buzzer sounded, Marion's three-pointer accurately went into the net!
"Shh!"

In the last minute, because Anthony's two attacks failed, the Suns seized the opportunity to counterattack. After two 1-pointers, the difference between the two sides was narrowed to 3 points again!
110: 101!

Both teams completed the task of scoring over 100 points at the end of three quarters!

"This last round, really, how can I put it? Well, I think it will have a negative impact on the kids." Barkley sighed in front of the camera: "Carmelo's turnaround layup was perfect except that it didn't go in!"

"His pace in breaking through, the timing of his turn, the smoothness of his turn, and his posture and stretch when he took off at the end deserve at least 9 points!"

“But the ball didn’t go in.”

"But Sean's shot, apart from the fact that the ball went in, was almost useless. His jumping posture, his whole body posture, his shooting posture, the height of his shooting point, and his appearance were all not worth mentioning."

"One is almost perfect except that he didn't score, and the other is almost useless except that he scored. Kenny, if it were you, which one would you choose?"

"I'll choose Carmelo." Kenny said without hesitation: "No one wants to have Sean's shooting posture! I don't mean to mock him. His physical fitness, defensive ability, shooting level and awareness on the court are all excellent and even top-notch."

"But I don't want his shooting posture. I would rather not play basketball in my life and play table tennis or some water polo, softball or something like that instead. I definitely don't want his shooting posture."

"Absolutely not!"

Logically speaking, the approach used by the two commentators was almost at the level of personal attack and face-to-face criticism. If they used this kind of commentary to anyone other than Marion, including Cassell and Howard in last year's finals.

There will definitely be complaints from many fans.

They also have their die-hard fans!
Except Marion.

It’s not that Marion doesn’t have loyal fans, but even the most loyal fans can’t say that Marion is not ugly or that his shooting is not ugly.

Cassell and Howard, at least if they cover their faces, they don't look ugly when playing basketball.

But Marion... Never mind, I won't say any more. It's all tears.

But no matter what, no matter what shooting posture Marion used, at the end of the third quarter, the Suns still managed to close the score!

The single-digit score difference gives them a greater chance of turning the game around and winning in the fourth quarter!

Then, when the fourth quarter began, it was D'Antoni's time to show off his skills.

No substitutions!
Not a single one was changed!

He continued to let his top five starters play.

Judging from what D'Antoni meant, it was obvious that these five starters would have to play the entire second half, which was in line with D'Antoni's usual habits and style.

Normally, the Suns now have a rotation of 7-8 players, and there are few players on the team who can play and get stable rotation time.

Tonight, the team's important substitute Barbosa only played for 4 minutes. D'Antoni has obviously lost confidence in him and is not going to give him any more playing time.

In addition, the team was trailing and he was anxious to catch up, so naturally he would not let role players appear on the court.

Damn the main force!

I have to say that these guys in the early 21st century, from Jeff Van Gundy to Larry Brown and then to D'Antoni, really had no hesitation or mercy when it came to fucking the main players, they really fucked them hard until they had cramps!
Later, Thibodeau, Nash and others can be said to have inherited the mantle of these people.

In the situation tonight, if we had replaced the coach who is good at responding, knowing that this is a tough battle and there is a high probability that the game will be fought to the end, he would definitely use his brain and think of a solution.

They will do everything they can to stimulate the potential and fighting spirit of role players, let them play on the court as long as possible, and buy some rest time for the main players so that they still have the strength to play at the last moment of the game.

But obviously, D'Antoni had never thought about it this way, nor had he prepared to do so.

His strategy has always been to give the ball directly.

On Nelson's side, Lin Tian, ​​Stoudemire and other players who had rested for more than 4 minutes at the end of the third quarter continued to play, while Anthony and others went down to rest first.

Lin Tian and Stoudemire used their signature pick-and-roll right from the start, allowing Stoudemire to once again take down the enemy!
This is Stoudemire's 30th point tonight! His previous career high was only 35 points.

There is a high probability that he will set a new personal scoring record tonight!
As for why he was in such a hot state tonight, with 8 dunks alone, almost breaking Phoenix's defense?
The reason, of course, is that Lin Tian’s bad taste has struck again.

This guy thinks that letting Stoudemire dunk into the Phoenix basket is just like Cao Cao outside Wancheng, who asked Zhang Xiu to personally send his aunt into his tent and let Zhang Xiu listen to the sound with Dian Wei outside the tent.

hiss……

Wait...if Cao Cao really did that, wouldn't Zhang Xiu have become a hostage under Dian Wei's surveillance? Would Zhang Xiu dare to flip the table?
How dare he give a shit!

Boss Cao!
You are not perverted enough, otherwise you would have unified the Three Kingdoms long ago, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Tian became even more excited!
In the next round, he rushed into the inside after a pick-and-roll. After entering, he did not rush to handle the ball. Instead, he imitated Nash and after turning around the Suns' 3-second zone twice, he suddenly slammed the ball onto the floor!
After the basketball bounced high, Stoudemire arrived as promised. This time he held the ball with both hands and slammed the ball into the basket again with a double-peaked kick!

After another dunk, Stoudemire is getting closer and closer to his career high. This guy is so excited that he screams to the sky!

It felt like Zhang Xiu was outside the tent and heard Cao Cao shouting triumphantly: "Come up, move on your own!"

Zhang Xiu, feeling deeply insulted, clenched his fists and trembled all over, but he felt a slap bigger than his head on his shoulder. Dian Wei looked at Zhang Xiu with a fake smile and said, "General Zhang, are you in a bad mood?"

What could Zhang Xiu do? What could he say?
He could only say with tears in his eyes: "I didn't eat dinner last night, and my stomach hurts because of hunger."

Exciting!
In the next few minutes, Lin Tian kept trying to feed the ball to Stoudemire. Even though the Suns had strictly guarded against the cooperation between the two, they were powerless and could not stop these two guys.

The defensive ability is too poor, what a pity!

Then, five minutes into the fourth quarter, Lin Tian once again attracted a double-team outside the three-point line, and then he suddenly threw the ball towards the basket. Stoudemire jumped high and grabbed the ball but chose not to shoot directly.

Instead, he made a fake move in the air to shake off Martin, then turned around after landing and completely wiped Martin behind him. Finally, he jumped again and pressed the ball into the basket with both hands again!

"boom!"

After the loud noise, D'Antoni had to call for a timeout.

Because the Knicks once again extended their lead to 15 points, and at the same time, Stoudemire's score tonight has reached 40+!
41 points, a career high!

26 of 17 shots, 17 hits is also a career high! It is also the first 40+ in his career!

And there are still 7 minutes left until the end of the game!
With Stoudemire's firepower tonight, he might just head for 50 points!
At the same time, Lin Tian's number of assists tonight has reached 20 times.

He is only one assist away from breaking his Knicks career record of 21 assists in the first game of the season.

Like Stoudemire, there are still 7 minutes left in tonight's game!
Lin Tian still has plenty of opportunities to continue increasing his number of assists!

such as……

30 times?
As a point guard, Lin Tian has broken many historical records in scoring, triple-doubles and other items.

It's just that when it comes to assists, which is his job, although Lin Tian's assists have been maintained at an average of more than 10 per game for many years, he has never delivered too incredible a number of assists.

His career record is 25 assists in a single game in the Eastern Conference Finals that year. It is worth mentioning that he also scored 38 points and 10 rebounds that year!
It's the playoffs!
But no matter what the game is or what the data is, it is still quite far from the NBA historical record.

Like him, Isaiah Thomas, Kevin Johnson and others have also had a career high of 25 assists. There is Stockton who has had 26, 27 and 28 assists in a single game, and of course there is the king of assists in a single game: Skiles.

This guy once made 30 assists!
Tonight's Lin Tian...

Is there hope?

As the timeout ended, players from both teams returned to the court once again. The Knicks brought Anthony and Okur, who had been resting for a long time, back to the court, while the Suns did not change their lineup either.

D'Antoni clearly wants to fuck his main lineup until they get cramps. He won't let these people go down until the game is over or the outcome of the game is decided!
Back to the first round of the game, the Suns' offense was still initiated by Nash. This time he did not look for Martin or Marion in the interior, but threw the ball directly to the baseline. Joe Johnson who received the ball there once again showed his big heart and threw it from outside the three-point line!
"Shh!"

The Suns once again narrowed the gap to 12 points!
When the Knicks were attacking, Lin Tian couldn't help but look for Stoudemire. After all, he really didn't want to stop this exciting feeling.

But this time Marion was obviously angry. He didn't care about anything, not even watching basketball. He just blocked Stoudemire face to face and didn't give him the chance to attack the basket.

This time, Lin Tian was too happy and made a wrong choice. He forced the ball to Stoudemire, but Stoudemire had not yet developed the mid-range shooting skills.

He can only rush to the basket, which makes him less threatening.

With Marion stuck in position, his advantage in impact power could not be brought into play at all.

This attack ended up being a rather forced shot by an expert, and the basketball naturally failed to hit the target.

This time, Nash rushed into the inside to grab the rebound, then dribbled towards the frontcourt and launched a counterattack.

Facing Lin Tian who arrived at the scene first, Nash could only use the same old trick again. He once again broke into the core area and suddenly lay back to shoot. Lin Tian really wanted to curse at this shooting method that almost lifted his legs to the defensive player's face.

But he really couldn't do anything about it. The position he was lying on was too big. Who could do anything?

"Shh!"

After a crisp sound, the score difference returned to 10 points again!
I have to say that the Suns' firepower is really scary. They can catch up with a gap of a few points in the blink of an eye!

If you are not careful, they will launch a climax of attack!
"It's okay, calm down! The last ball was my fault!" This time, Lin Tian didn't rush to serve the ball from the baseline. Instead, he gathered his teammates together and said to everyone, "I will check on everyone next. Whoever has a chance will get the ball."

"So, everyone, run! Next, let's let the Phoenix people know that their firepower is nothing compared to us!"

"Not worth mentioning!"

After the Knicks players shouted together, Okur went to the baseline to pass the ball, allowing Lin Tian to dribble to the frontcourt again.

This time, Lin Tian waved his hand to signal everyone to move away, and facing Nash, he used exactly the same tactics.

He broke through halfway, then suddenly leaned his upper body back, raising his legs so that they were almost touching Nash's nose!
"Shh!"

Nash naturally had no defense on this ball. After landing, Lin Tian looked at Nash and said, "Do you think you are the only one who can do this? I can do everything you can do! And I'm even better than you!"

Nash once again did not give any verbal response to Lin Tian's trash talk.

His way of response has always been to prove himself through actions!

You said you can do everything I can do? Then I will do something you can't do!

then……

Nash really came to a place that Lin Tian would not and could not come to.

When he was attacking, he drove to the basket, causing the assisting Okur to foul, and then went to the free throw line.

Nash lifted his left foot and licked his left hand, then lifted his right foot and licked his right hand, then spat on his hands, "Pooh!", then stuck out his tongue and licked the saliva on both hands, and finally rubbed his hands together, ready to shoot free throws.

Damn it's so dirty!

Aren’t you afraid of getting diarrhea?

And spread it evenly, ugh...

I can’t come, I can’t come!

Mr. Lin really can’t do this!
Even though I know that the floors of NBA arenas are very clean, without any dust or dirt, the caddies and staff will wipe the floors very clean every game day.

Even Lin Tian knew that Nash just added some anti-slip features to the soles of his shoes and hands to make himself more stable when shooting and running.

But he still couldn't come.

Mr. Lin also has a bottom line.

For example, when he was playing rock-paper-scissors with Aunt Zhang Xiu, did he let Zhang Xiu listen outside the door? No problem!
But opening the curtain to let Zhang Xiu see? That's not possible.

This is the glory of human nature!

So Lin Tian can't come to Nash either.

With Nash making both free throws, the two teams once again entered a stalemate.

For the next few minutes, the two sides continued to fight back and forth around a gap of about 10 points.

Lin Tian then found Jackson, Anthony and Okur one after another. After providing assists continuously, his assists tonight have reached 25 times, tying his career record.

But during this period of time, Stoudemire was completely watched by Marion's reckless and strict defense. He was temporarily silent and did not score even a single point during this period of time!
The situation on the Suns side was similar. With Nash as the absolute core of the team, the team continued to attack continuously and continued its "7 seconds or less" strategy.

With only 3 minutes left in the game, the difference between the two sides was still 10 points!
137: 127!

The scores of both sides were alarmingly high, and the efficiency and rhythm of offense and defense transitions were also alarmingly high.

If it were any other team, with so little time left and a double-digit deficit, the game would almost have been declared garbage time.

But for offensive teams of the level of the Suns and Knicks.

3 minutes, 10 minutes, that's just a matter of sprinkling water!

If the team is in good shape, the score gap can be made up in 1 minute, and 2-5 points can be reversed in 6 minutes!
The most extreme offensive showdown is so exciting!

The first offensive possession after three minutes belonged to the Suns.

This time, Nash took a deep breath, then finally slowed down and slowly moved the ball to the frontcourt.

Lin Tian also rushed up as soon as he passed half court and began to guard Nash closely from near the center line.

This is the first time tonight!
Although Lin Tian had a series of wonderful defensive performances against Barbosa in the second quarter tonight, and his steals and blocks were also quite good today, in the final analysis, he focused a lot of energy on offense 90% of the time.

But now, Lin Tian has to defend with all his strength!

At the same time, Nash's caution in protecting the basketball and choosing offensive options has also been raised to a higher level!
He and Lin Tian both raised their status to the extreme, because they both knew: the time for the final duel has come! (End of this chapter)