Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 211 The sun is setting...

With each round of rising morning sun, there will be a corresponding sunset... This is the natural law of birth, old age, sickness and death in nature, the change of old and new...

After three quarters, 88 to 74, Houston fell behind by 14 points.

The Phoenix reporter who had a good thing actually walked up to Ron to conduct a live interview with him, "Hey, Luo, what is your sincere opinion on our new coach?"

A few minutes ago, Ron thought that this guy was simply an extraordinary talent, and his reverse thinking made him see Gently thoroughly in an instant...

"..." He was silent for a while, and then there was a faint smile on his face: "Well, how can I describe him? The right person did some right things, but he appeared in the wrong seat..."

"Hey, I don't like hearing your words!" A fan behind complained.

"I thought you were so amazing, but it seems that you are just a bastard who lost in a hurry..."

The sound of falling down came and went one after another, only Ron sighed sincerely, smiled without saying a word...

"You, what do you mean..." The reporter, like all the audience, originally wanted to hear some good words from this amazing manager about their coach, so as to consolidate the voice of the best coach of the season...

"Ah! I mean, he should be the same as me, he should be a team manager... Did I say something wrong?" He turned his head and looked around, everyone was slightly surprised, and all showed disobedient smiles...

In fact, Ron really meant what he said, in other words-Gintley should be a team manager, right, the best coach?He doesn't deserve it.

How much better are the Suns now than they were last season?

"20 times, 30 times," the slam dunk king Richardson said with a smile, "or you can fill in the number."

In fact, due to Steve Kerr's hard work in the past two years, Nash has become a little discouraged, and as the captain, he rarely speaks in the locker room.On one side is Nash who is becoming less and less talkative, on the other side is the shark who doesn't brag that B will die, and on the other side is Stoudemire who is busy swiping data and making transfers. For most of last season, the Phoenix locker room was filled with a weird atmosphere.

According to Jason Richardson, he was playing on tiptoe, and I was afraid of offending someone. "I was transferred here halfway last year. I didn't know what the team wanted me to do. I didn't know my role. I thought everyone would play run-and-gun together, but later found out that it wasn't. One side had to play inside, the other side had to collect statistics, and there were a bunch of people shouting in my ears every day to win the championship..."

As both a bystander and an involved party, Ron's qualified team manager (at least more qualified than his old boss Cole) Gentley had seen through this earlier, and he had to find every gun Steve Nash needed.

So he found Stoudemire: "I will appoint you as the captain of this team in the new season. I know this is the first time in your career, but it's time to show your value as a leader."

He found Grant Hill: "Needless to say, you know, every coach in the world is eager to coach a player like you."

He found every role player: "I hope you all understand that on my tactical board, the bench is as important as the starter."

Then, he could quietly inject his own style different from D'Antoni's into the game, while watching Nash take over the locker room.

After a loss to the Chris Paul-less Hornets, No. 13 was back in the locker room, lecturing everyone.

"He really felt like this was his team again, and he should speak his mind," Gentley recalled afterwards. "I'm not going to add to the chaos, I know he doesn't say much, but everyone listens to what he says."

So we saw the light of the sun, and the average margin of victory in the next four battles was 22 points, setting the best start in team history with 3 wins and 14 losses, and the 3-game winning streak before facing the Rockets.

Gentley also began to smirk at the reporters, "I especially like to see you write those articles saying that Steve is too old to die, and then see how he responds on the court. In fact, I think he is playing better now than when he won the MVP. His footsteps may be a little slower, but he keeps running. Like a snooker player, he can accurately calculate the running position and passing angle of his teammates. Defender."

Indeed, the 35-year-old Nash is old and strong, his personal offensive skills are still sharp and proficient, and his average assists per game is a new high since his debut, at least helping his teammates increase their average worth by 150 million US dollars.

But Gentley, who is not much older than him, has set everyone up a puzzle about what he should do-you can say the manager, he has only signed contracts, sold tickets, and traded players.

Even the "layman" Ron can understand his strategic intentions for those so-called magic strokes, let alone the old man Adelman who prescribes the right medicine.

It's almost time for Gently to show his anxious nature... Ron thought to himself.

When the Rockets suddenly pulled off Scola, who was extremely brave in the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, and replaced him with Dragic, the first and fourth juniors swept over, not only the audience, but even the expert commentators sitting in the studio were almost scared to death...

"Ouch! I'm going...boss, what are they doing!"

"Houston is crazy? Because he lost too many points, he plans to put all his eggs in one basket and fight to the death?"

"Um... I think so, because you lose by 1 point, and you lose by 100 points. Since you are all losers, why should you care about the result and not dare to attack?"

"Although there is no D'Antoni, it is humiliating to fight with the Phoenix, the originator of the cannon... Even if there is no better way to chase points as soon as possible, they should not use their hands to fight their lives!"

No!Ron's face was full of rigor.When he took a look and then calmly turned to the worried Gently, there was a hint of joy in his heart...

Coach of the Month Gentley led his team into December as the No. 12 in the Western Conference, and Nash emphasized that the Suns are no longer a true running team.

But the embarrassing thing is: when they decisively bombarded them three years ago, many people believed that they might win the championship; now more emphasis is placed on the half court and more on defense, but no one sees the Suns as a real threat to the Western District. Everything is just an exhibition game, just passing the scene, scaring many regular season teams that have never seen the big scene, that's all...

No matter how beautiful the game the people in Phoenix are looking forward to, the real problem is that these uncles who can run fast in the first quarter, the second quarter and even the third quarter will eventually struggle in the fourth quarter...

The biggest enemy in the history of sports competition is youth. When youth is over, you can only remember those young selves with unlimited physical strength and galloping all over the field...

Steve Nash is 36 years old…

Grant Hill is 37 years old…

Kurt Thomas turns 41…

Even if the 27-year-old Stoudemire can be tied for the bottom three with Channing Frye, except for Robin and a few guys who don't play at all, they are all uncle players who have passed their thirties...

When people get old, in addition to being more prone to dehydration, desalination, and exhaustion, there are also many invisible mental and psychological pressures...

And these pressures will expose their shortcomings under a magnifying glass and magnify them. In addition, after the Rockets left for more than half of the time, they suddenly tried their best to hedge against you. This strong rhythm contrast, the defeat is like a defeat...

Facts proved that Ron’s contempt during the halftime break was right. The disastrous defeat began. It was impossible for Phoenix to maintain this kind of shooting touch and fierce rotation defense throughout the game.

Then the Houstonians, who were fiercely denying, turned to the German tanks that had crossed the Macedonian defense line. There was already a flat plain in front of them, scoring and defending effortlessly...

Looking back and looking at the more than 10 people who are highly respected by Gentley, Nash must end the game to rest. Thinking about it the other way around, can you not change if you have no energy?
No wonder Gently likes Dudley and Amundsen so much. Apart from these two men with unlimited physical strength, who else in the whole team can hold on to a game?
It's no wonder that he was picky and anxious to beat his opponent to the ground in the first three quarters...

Best coach?
He should be regarded as a very competent publicity minister. At least he made the Suns players spend their money to defend at the cost of physical strength. People are willing to listen...

However, a positive attitude is only one of the prerequisites for a good defensive player. To really look at defense, you still need to pay attention to technology...

But if Gentley really knows the sun's defensive skills, then hell...

The problem is obvious: In this Suns team, 5 starters and 4 failed one-on-one defense, and there is no inside dominance at the championship level.

No matter how Gentley expands the rotation and sacrifices his physical strength to run wildly, Stoudemire, Frye, Lopez, Collins, and Clark can only lose sight of the other on both ends of the offense and defense.

This kind of interior configuration may still have the possibility of escape in the year of 2007, when the strength of the penalty area of ​​the giants was generally flawed, but now the Lakers, Celtics, Magic, and Cavaliers are all richer than the Spurs and Pistons in those days.

The Suns wing also does not have a superstar scorer who can rush to the basket to reverse the decline when the shooting feel is not good.

All of the above are essential elements of a truly strong team.

In other words, the Suns are still the same Suns that swept the world in the regular season back then, the difference is that the age of this group of people has increased by 5 years...

Thanks to Gentley, at least he played a big role in covering up the team's shortcomings. He almost fooled Ron. In the first quarter, he put on a posture of wanting to fight you, as if provoking you: "Do you dare to fight me? I can't kill you!"

In fact, on the defensive end, relying on high-intensity rotations, flanking defenses, supplementary defenses, and the Phoenix "Nursing Home" team, which has seriously exhausted their energy, is most afraid of facing you for a long time...

Ever since, the audience was amazed and praised: "It turns out that Dragic can be so useful", "This guy was also traded away by that bastard and idiot Cole", etc. Under a series of pursuit and jealous words, the Rockets started the fourth quarter with a big wave of super three-point rain, and almost missed the face of Steve Kerr, who was watching with the Suns boss Robert...

Are you kidding me?

impossible!

The fierce Rockets became more and more confident as they played. Kyle Lowry and Tyson Chandler's pick-and-roll dunk after connecting, almost lifted the floor of the entire American Airlines Center arena to the sky...

When the audience rubbed their eyes and saw that the score was increasing at a rate of 5 points per minute, they suddenly found that the best coach in their minds, Gentley, turned into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Taishan collapsed in front of him without changing his face, but kept switching back and forth between "Stoudemire", "Scoreboard", "Then Stoudemire", "Steve Kerr", and switched back and forth between the above three shots...

"You should do something!" A fan couldn't bear it anymore and said.

"It's good to call a timeout and come back to rest..."

no... no... no...

Gently was so anxious in his heart that green smoke kept coming out from the back of his head, and he was ashamed.

"What happened to Gently today? Has he evolved to the point of Zen Master, and learned from Zen Master's 'Let the players learn to adjust themselves on the court'?"

"If he doesn't suspend, I bet his long-term meal ticket plan will be put on hold..."

Even if it is suspended, what good plan can he come up with?Ron just wanted to laugh.

pause!

Or the regular timeout called by the referee for him...

At 99:99, the Rockets' 15:1 climax caused a bloody rain at the American Airlines Center...

Gently touched his own face, and fell into deep anxiety again...

Maybe his inner thoughts are not in the way of some fans on the sidelines-"What's going on??", "Is that Dragic's three-pointer so accurate?", "Why didn't Mayo just pass the ball?", "How to control Chandler's rebounds?"

The cover-up of hypocrisy is only temporary...

When it comes to real swords and bayonets, the playoffs, regardless of the gains and losses of a city and a pool, will also show their true colors...

One sentence best sums up the sun at this time...

As dusk approaches, the sun sets...

In fact, in the final analysis, this is also the foreshadowing laid by that stingy man named Robert and their "proud" idiot manager Cole during their mediocre vacation...

With only the last 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter, it's time for a decisive battle...

Seeing that it was finally the Sun's turn and the players were panting, seeing Nash lying on the ground with exhaustion, seeing Grant Hill sticking out his tongue and drinking a whole bottle of Gatorade, Ron finally felt at ease...

There are only a few minutes before the victory of this game, and just like clearing the game, if you want to win, you must defeat the final boss...

Theoretically and objectively speaking, Steve Nash is the ace and identity of the team, but he has been relegated to Phoenix's second line at the decisive moment a long time ago...

Don't do porcelain work without diamonds...

Even though this god had stated a few years ago that he would abandon the Sun Temple and go to other temples to be worshiped by thousands of people...

That's right, the last level - "Little Overlord"!Amal Stoudemire!
Strong attack!

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(End of this chapter)