From today on is the king

Chapter 1579 1578. Fascinating team culture
In the end, the Eagles' rhetoric that they wanted to win the trophy in the away game did not come true.

On June 2008, 6, the Eagles came to the American West Arena to challenge the Suns away.

This time the Suns insisted on switching tactics between running and bombing and positional warfare, did not waver, and fought hard against the Eagles!
I don't know whether Barkley's big mouth happened to be right, or he intentionally reminded his old club. In short, Coach Gentry has strengthened his idea of ​​playing his own unique game.

The Eagles are naturally fearless, and they will catch whatever moves come their way.

But all in all, it’s an away game, the whistle is not as friendly as it was at home, the referees didn’t blow as many small moves by the Suns players as they did in Phillips Arena, and the Eagles’ defensive small moves were called relatively more fouls.

In addition, the Suns played really well offensively in the third game!

尽管刘莽29投12中拿到了37分8板6助攻，但老鹰队还是以113比121输给了太阳队, 失去了3比0直接锁定总冠军的机会。

On June 6th, the fourth game of the finals will still be held at the American West Arena.

The Suns made 17 three-pointers in the last game, which made the Eagles' shots unnecessary.

This time the Suns misfired three-pointers, and the audience made 26 of 6 three-pointers!
As for the Eagles, McGrady scored 6 three-pointers alone!
在刘莽21分14助攻和麦迪35分、夸梅-布朗17分15板的出色表现下，在进攻大战中，老鹰队以119比91，大胜太阳队28分！
This is the first time the two teams have scored less than 100 points in the finals.

However, the disastrous defeat in the fourth game did not shake the determination of the Suns coach Gentry. This trip to the finals has made Gentry a huge improvement!

In the fifth game, the 1-3 Suns insisted on their own style of play in the last home game. Nash and Josh Smith’s pick-and-roll, Calderon’s positional offensive combing and mid-range and long-range shooting, O’Neal did his best to use his flexibility, mobility, and strength to deal with the Eagles’ inside group...

The three of Kashark and Josh Smith fought hard. The three of them were the best performers of the Suns in the finals, and only the three of them had finals experience.

At the last moment of the game, the Eagles trailed by 1 point, and the Suns had the ball. The Eagles adopted foul tactics. Relying on Nash’s steady free throws and Liu Mang’s three-pointer to drag into overtime at the last moment, the Suns narrowly beat the Eagles with 111-108 three-pointers, tied the big score to 2-3, and refused to be eliminated at home!

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"Uncle, if you got a free throw for that three-pointer last night, we might go home with the trophy now!" Little Lolita was still very dissatisfied with Liu Mang's last-minute three-pointer last night.

Last night, Raja Bell slapped Liu Mang on Liu Mang's arm for Liu Mang's last-minute shot, but the referee didn't blow it. The TV replay also proved that Liu Mang was beaten.

"It was at their home court. We don't have a big advantage in overtime, and we may not always score free throws. Right, we can go back and win again. I didn't make the shot. It doesn't matter whether I call it a foul or not." Liu Mang is very optimistic.

Seeing that Little Lolita was still furious, Liu Mang smiled and said, "Okay, okay, isn't it the same when we go back to the home court to win the championship?"

He can't be coaxed well, and he can't listen to what he says. Liu Mang is helpless to this rebellious girl.

After 5 days and 3 games, the Eagles and Suns were exhausted.

High-intensity confrontation, non-stop defensive counterattack...

To be precise, the first five games were very tiring.

Only 3 of the 1 away games was won, which is actually not bad. The remaining two games are at home, and the Eagles still have a great advantage here!
June 6 is the sixth game of the finals, and the possible tiebreaker is June 16.

After returning to Atlanta, the Eagles rested for one night. The next day was the 15th. The whole team came to the arena early and gathered before 07:30.

Before the coaching staff came, the players spontaneously studied what they did not do well in the past five games, discussed them and came up with solutions.

It’s best if you can think of it, but if you can’t, at least you can react faster when a similar situation arises.

Liu Mang and his teammates are already familiar with the adjustments during the finals.

On the other hand, the Suns are not doing very well...

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Nash practiced alone at the visiting team's training ground. After eight o'clock, Raja Bell also came. The two of them were the most hardworking of the Suns. After that, the only one who arrived before nine o'clock was Josh Smith.

Everyone else was tired, and from the third game of the finals when they returned to the home court, they all arrived at the tactical meeting at almost ten o'clock.

After the tactical meeting, when the teammates were going to find a place to have lunch, Nash was still practicing extra shooting.

He also arrived at the Eagles arena at seven o'clock in the morning, even a little earlier than the Eagles.

However, seeing the Eagles gathering quickly, Nash went to the gate of the home team's training ground, which was not closed, to peek inside, and found that the atmosphere of the Eagles was completely different from theirs.

The atmosphere of the Suns team is not bad either. The whole team has only one belief-hard work will win.

However, the Eagles are not just fighting!
Nash saw the Eagles players discussing tactics spontaneously, and it seemed that this was not the first time they had done so. They seemed to be very used to it. Even Gasol, who played a 10-minute tank in a game, could express his own ideas. Everyone discussed whether it was feasible...

In the past, Nash only heard about the team culture. Although he is a player, he has never been in contact with it. He still doesn’t know what a team culture is.

But today he discovered that it was different from what he had imagined!
The trust between each other, treating each teammate as an equal outside the game, the whole team has the same goal... This is Nash's understanding of the Eagles' team culture after peeking at the spontaneous tactical meeting of the Eagles players in the morning.

Although this understanding may be pissed at Nash after being known by Rondo, Nash understands it this way.

"Is this why they reached the Finals for five consecutive years?" Nash practiced shooting while comparing himself with his team...

There is no harm without comparison. In the Suns, there is no star who does not value his status in the team, and it is impossible for the Eagles to have a place for role players to speak in tactical meetings.

And the team atmosphere after the Eagles lost is very different from them!
When the first and second games were lost in a row, the mentality of the Suns players was about to collapse. From the beginning when they gathered for training at [-] o'clock until they returned to the home court at almost [-] o'clock, it was obvious that they won the third game.

As for the Eagles, the day before yesterday they missed the opportunity to immediately win the trophy, and today they are still full of fighting spirit in the tactical meeting.

It was still carried out spontaneously, without the coaching staff!

Nash thought about it and quickly patted himself on the head. He felt as if he was a little fascinated by that team culture...

(End of this chapter)