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Updated: 2013-02-19

When the league just announced that Stephen won the best defensive player, a long commentary article by the Associated Press was published almost at the same time. It can be seen that they were prepared in advance. The news is also normal.welcome to read

The title of this article is "Nothing to Doubt". According to the report, a player who won the season's scoring title on the offensive end, staged 74 points, 83 points, [-] points in a row, and averaged [-] points per game. It means that he conquered the entire league on the offensive end.

No one or that team's defense can have a significant impact on Stephen, or when facing a certain defensive player, Stephen's data has dropped significantly, which means that his offense is very universal, purely Defensive methods are difficult to play against him.

And his defense is also not to be ignored. After coming to the Seattle SuperSonics, Stephen still shoulders the defensive task against the league's top scorers. Although compared with the Spurs, the team's requirements for him have dropped a lot. But Stephen didn't relax his demands on himself because of this.

Although in comparison, his investment in the defensive end is not as sufficient as before, but the quality of defense has not declined because of this. It can be seen from the obvious decline in the data of the players facing him that his defense is still so solid.

Almost all scorers encounter Stephen, and their individual scores decline to varying degrees, especially those players with a single scoring method. Regardless of the quality of single defense, auxiliary defense or supplementary defense, Stephen's performance among outside players belongs to the excellent.

Although he was able to win this award more because of data, and now the evaluation of this award is becoming more and more data-based, but the old saying goes: "Everything can lie, only data can't lie", He was able to get the highest steal data in the league and the highest block data among outside players, which is enough to prove his investment in defense.

A player who can dominate the two leagues on both ends of the offense and defense, what doubts do you have, this is something that no active player can do, if Stephen can get the most valuable player in the regular season again this season (currently There is basically no doubt about it), then Stephen will become another player to win these two awards at the same time after Michael Jordan and Olajuwon.

If Stephen can get the Finals MVP again (it doesn't seem too hopeful), then Stephen will become the first player after Willis Reid, Michael Jordan and O'Neal (the All-Star MVP is shared with Duncan) Four players who have won the MVP Grand Slam.

This Stephen did not expect that with the current strength of the Sonics, reaching the position in the finals is basically a daydream, unless those few strong teams have concentrated injuries, otherwise there is really no possibility, but this award Stephen has already I took it twice.

Although no one thinks there are too many awards, after all, the awards that have already been won will feel that they no longer pay attention to them. A player cannot take honors and awards as the goal of pursuit, but after paying, these are what you pay. It is just that some returns are earlier and some are later.

At the end of the article, he said in a very passionate tone, facing Stephen’s performance, do you still need to doubt his future? As long as the Sonics can keep him, at least ten years of glory can be guaranteed, he will be a phenomenon , he will be an epic, he will be a legend, he will be loaded into everyone's memory like history.

The author who wrote this article is called Wig Richmond, Stephen does not know him, and has never heard of his name, he is not a well-known author, but why can his article be published in media such as the Associated Press Well, this is a very strange problem.

The media seldom publish such purely flattering articles out of fear of influence, but why did they appear on it openly this time? Mordangs also said that it has nothing to do with this matter, and it was not his handwriting.

While the entire team, the entire Seattle, and even the entire North American are discussing this article, the second playoff matchup between the Sonics and the Phoenix Suns has begun, still at the Key Center, and the fans are still seated. All the seats were filled, but the process of the game was not as smooth as the first one.

Based on the lessons learned in the first game, D'Antoni discovered that if the Suns want to beat the Sonics, they must attack and attack with all their strength. Only offense is the only possibility for the Suns to win.

But in this way, the introduction of O'Neal, who spent huge sums of money, became useless. Originally, O'Neal was introduced to strengthen the inside defense and low-post offensive ability through him, so as to deal with teams like the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets, but O'Neal It is not well compatible with the system of the Suns.

On the contrary, the team played well, giving people a feeling that they are not good enough, especially if they meet other teams, O'Neal can still play a little role, but just happened to meet the Sonics. Let them have no way at all.

The Sonics were originally a team that focused on outside offense and supplemented by inside offense. At the same time, it was also a team that focused on offense and used offense to drive defense. You can also use the inside to bully others, but when you encounter a team with a stronger inside, the Sonics can only let the inside play a defensive role.

So after consideration, D'Antoni decided to put O'Neal on the bench and let him play with the bench, but let the team's starting lineup return to the previous running and bombing style. The team lacked a reliable scoring point and a strong perimeter defender, but they had one more Grant Hill.

In addition to not having an excellent and healthy body, Grant Hill's other abilities, including consciousness, are all top-level abilities. He does not have Marion's defense, but he can give Nash enough help on the offensive end and help Nash share the burden of organization.

The Suns formed a lineup of Amare Stedmire, Bois Diaw, Grant Hill, Lagabel, and Steve Nash, and it took D'Antoni a lot to persuade O'Neal He agreed to accept the request for a substitute, or according to his words, since he entered the league, he has never been a substitute, and he will not let this practice be broken.

In fact, there were signs of this when the Heat team, Pat Riley wanted O'Neal to play as a substitute, but O'Neal refused to agree, which is one of the reasons why the Heat traded him.

The offensive launched by the Suns at the beginning really made the Sonics not expect it, especially Nash, even with his assists and his own offense, he played like a super soul possessed, which is better than him getting the most valuable player in the regular season Those two seasons were fine.

Fortunately, the Sonics withstood their offensive and did not allow them to widen the score gap too much. However, the Suns re-implemented a key defense against Stephen. Lagabel was responsible for close defense, and Grant Hill was responsible for blocking Stephen. The ball path, so Durant got a lot of opportunities, and Stephen got assists.

In the second quarter, when Grant Hill was off the court to rest, after all, he was old, and defending Stephen also made his physical exertion intensified, so he left the court early, although Gordon Girisek was replaced The offensive performance is better than Grant Hill, but the defense is far worse.

In the playoffs, after discussing with the coaching staff, we also consulted with the team doctor, and also negotiated with Stephen. Stephen’s playing time and distribution have changed from the regular season. The first game is only a brief adaptation. The game began to proceed according to the new rotation mode.

The change in the rotation mode is to allow Stephen to stay on the field as much as possible, and the rest time should be as long as possible. It seems that this is a contradiction, but in essence, there are many considerations.

In the new rotation mode, Stephen no longer plays the entire second quarter, but takes a break halfway through the second quarter, then plays directly at the beginning of the second half, plays most of the quarter and then rests again, and waits for the fourth Play one or two minutes after the first quarter.

Under normal circumstances, it is enough to let Stephen rest for 10 minutes, plus the intermission time, and the new rotation mode is similar to the rotation of core players in other teams, especially in the second half. Starting from the starting lineup, the Sonics will suffer a lot if they still use the bench to deal with it as before.

When he felt that he was about to leave the court, Stephen no longer cared about his physical strength, and began to attack the Suns' basket strongly. He knocked Boisdio to the ground for the first time, earned two free throws, and then used it on Amare Stoudemire completed a dunk on the head.

After completing a steal in the hands of Gordon Girisek, Stephen came back and made another fast-break three-pointer. This has become Stephen's regular scoring weapon. After a short wave of offense, the Sonics began to overtake the score.

However, after Stephen left the field, the Suns quickly overtook the score again. After gaining a five-point advantage, Steve Nash started to leave the field and was replaced by Barbosa. Amare Stedmire.

Facing the defense without Wilcox and Kurt Thomas, O'Neal grinned and came up with a strong attack, which caused a foul by Wilcox. Although he is old, his power at the basket is still undiminished , D'Antoni found that putting O'Neal on the bench is still a good move.

Now O'Neal can only contribute 25 to [-] minutes of high-level games at most, so just let him play for such a long time. Besides, the Sonics' bench lineup is not strong. If the opponent's substitute can't handle it, then he won't be called "big shark".