Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 269. Gentry's Changes, Luke's Faction Fight
After defeating the Thunder, the Grizzlies ended their short schedule for the new season in October, and set a record of three wins and zero losses, temporarily leading the league leaderboard.

Among them, after the team's main player Artest was suspended by the league for fighting, Rathall Butler, who had just been put on the starting lineup by Luke, performed very dazzlingly and attracted the attention of many fans outside.

According to Memphis gossip, the Grizzlies are trying to make a three-way deal with the Hornets and other teams. The specific target and bargaining chips are still unknown.

Although this news has not been officially confirmed by the Grizzlies, due to the unparalleled attention of the Grizzlies in the league, all gossip about the Grizzlies will be taken seriously.

Fans don't understand why the Grizzlies are in a hurry to make a deal when the new season has just started.

Some fans discussed whether it was because the Grizzlies had a problem of poor running-in on the court in recent games, so Luke planned to make a trade at the beginning of the season.

However, this question is destined to become a big doubt in everyone's mind before the Grizzlies officially reach a deal.

In early November, entering the first game in November, the Grizzlies challenged the Phoenix Suns away.

The head coach of the Suns this season is Alvin Gentry, the assistant coach of the Grizzlies last season.

After Gentry took office, the Suns have indeed undergone great changes. During D'Antoni's tenure, the Suns focused on run-and-gun tactics and seven-second offense. The Suns led by "Son of the Wind" Nash set off a burst of bombardment in the league. The frenzy made all the teams panic.

However, after many seasons of attempts, the Suns management found that D'Antoni's style of play was very sharp in the regular season, but once it entered the playoffs, it had a very fatal flaw.

The polarized offensive and defensive concepts make the Suns only a pleasing team, but it is always difficult to be elegant.

The arrival of Gentry has changed the Suns' style of play from the root. Gentry is also a coach who focuses more on offense.

It's just that compared to D'Antoni's running and bombing philosophy of playing as fast as he can, the Suns this season pay more attention to positional warfare. The way to move the ball.

Gentry has a lot of experience in the use of forward players, especially for the use of power forwards, Gentry is definitely a good player.

Perhaps influenced by ancient times, Gentry prefers to hit the ball inside instead of constantly throwing three-pointers from the outside.

At present, the Suns have played three games, and the team record is two wins and one loss, which looks pretty good.

Playing under Gentry, "Small Overlord" Stoudemire has benefited a lot. So far, Stoudemire has averaged 27 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in three games. .

Among them, as many as 19 shots per game not only set a career high for Stoudemire, but also 4 times more than last season.

However, Stoudemire's benefit has suffered from the team's master Steve Nash. Although Nash can also contribute 14 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists in these three games, it is far less important to the team. Far worse than last season.

Luke can't judge whether the changes Gentry brought to the Suns are good or bad, but from the perspective of the management's desire to seek changes, Gentry has indeed done this.

The offensive firepower of the Suns, which just introduced Jason Richardson in the offseason, has become more abundant, especially the arrival of Gentry, which has released players with the ability to attack the ball.

The Suns played very strongly on the offensive end throughout the game. Although the defensive counterattack was not Gentry's most important style of play, when Steve Nash was on the court, the Suns could still play dazzling cooperation in many rounds.

And "Small Overlord" Stoudemire even staged a mutual explosion with Paul Gasol when he had more offensive possessions.

Pau Gasol is not a star with a particularly strong scoring ability, but the "little bully" Stoudemire is aggressive on the offensive end, and he wants to complete the dunk on Gasol's head countless times, which makes "home Sister-in-law" was also beaten out of anger.

On the offensive end, he asked Chris Paul for the ball, and used his excellent basic skills to perfectly explain to the "jumping man" Stoudemire what is a top European insider.

Mid-range shots, turnaround jumpers, fantastic footsteps, and turning around with the ball, Gasol almost took out all of his offensive arsenal in this game, and once suppressed Stoudemire's momentum.

Due to the loss of Sean Marion, the Suns have become weaker on the defensive end this season. Taking advantage of the deficiencies of the Suns' defensive end, the Grizzlies have firmly occupied the field advantage from the second half of the second quarter with their excellent lineup depth. .

Until the end of the three quarters, when Kevin Martin and Pau Gasol scored 54 points together, the Grizzlies extended their lead to double digits for the first time.

In the last quarter, Gentry did not intend to give up. Facing his immediate boss last season, Gentry still wanted to prove himself with a victory.

Even though the Grizzlies experience has benefited Gently a lot, he is also very grateful to Luke.

But it was precisely because of his gratitude to Luke that Gentry wanted to beat the basketball coach who held a very high status in his heart.

However, although the depth of the Suns with "Brazilian Lightning" Barbosa is not too bad, compared with the Grizzlies, it is obviously still a little tender.

With the grizzlies led by michael reid and louis williams in the backcourt, the grizzlies in the rotation stage once hit a climax of 11:0, sending the game into garbage time in one fell swoop and completely smashing The Suns want the hope of a comeback.

At the end of the game, the Grizzlies defeated the Suns by 13 points away, and won the team's first victory after entering November.

Throughout the game, the confrontation between Pau Gasol and "Small Overlord" Stoudemire was wonderful.

面对出战41分钟砍下32分9篮板2助攻的斯塔德迈尔，保罗加索尔同样用一份31分12篮板5助攻的数据给予回应，在赢下个人数据的同时，还帮助球队赢下了这场比赛。

In addition, the point guard matchup between Chris Paul and Steve Nash is also eye-catching.

As the former No. [-] point guard in the league, and the No. [-] point guard in the league, Nash and Paul are undoubtedly the best point guard players in the current league.

However, the disintegration of D'Antoni's running and bombing tactics still had some impact on Steve Nash's personal performance.

Playing under the former head coach D'Antoni, Nash is a well-deserved offensive engine for the entire Suns. Basically every offensive ball has to go through the hands of Steve Nash.

However, with Gentry's appointment, although Nash is still the unique master of the Suns, he is not as good as the "little bully" Stoudemire in terms of offensive ratio, which can be regarded as intermittently weakened.

In the whole game, Nash handed over a double-double of 38 points, 14 rebounds and 2 assists in 10 minutes of playing, and he looked as good as ever.

In this match against Steve Nash, Chris Paul was superior. While helping the team win the game, he also scored 16 points, 4 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 steals. Take advantage once.

After the game, Alvin Gentry walked towards Luke with a wry smile on his face. Seeing that Luke was still indifferent, Gentry felt that he would never have a chance to catch up with Luke in his life.

"You are still so outstanding. It's hard to see the gap between us getting smaller and smaller, but you always let me see the gap between us again."

"I thought that the solar energy that coached this excellent offensive team would compete with you, but now it seems that I still overestimated myself."

Patting Gentry on the shoulder, Luke is quite satisfied with this old man who contributed a lot to the Grizzlies last season, "First of all, congratulations, you will become even better now than when you joined the Grizzlies , you managed to get rid of many bad habits in the position of head coach."

"You have your own way of coaching. I won't say too much about it."

"However, as an old friend, I would like to give you a suggestion. You can try to use Lagabel and Matt Barnes a lot. These two players have excellent defensive ability while possessing a certain offensive ability."

"Your use of them is too brief and, frankly, somewhat wasteful."

"I know that your coaching philosophy is more offensive, but until a team can really use offense to break everything, defense is absolutely something that cannot be lost."

"If Jason Richardson hadn't hit three-pointers from the outside many times in this game, and Dudley hadn't caught the Grizzlies by surprise, do you think the Grizzlies have a chance to win more than [-] points?"

Hearing Luke's suggestion to himself, Gentry nodded in agreement, "Actually, I thought about what you said before the start of the season, but after staying with you for a season, I found that I have become more sensitive to offense. extreme."

"I seem to suddenly understand why Mike D'Antoni is so paranoid about offense, because that feeling is indeed much better than arranging defense."

Leaning out to hug Luke in front of him, Gentry, who was as black as carbon, showed his white teeth, "I lost this time, but I hope that next time we fight, I will be the one who wins. "

(End of this chapter)