Legend of Tomorrow

As long as Stoudemire is still playing for the Suns, Roy will never be the second player.

Roy didn't care about his status in the team. He lived happily in the Suns. He was often praised and learned a lot from Guo Xu. He averaged 15.1 points, 3 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, and shot 47.7% from the field. This performance has surprised many people.

Marion's mood was not so good. His average playing time per game dropped significantly, and his data also dropped to 14.5 points, 7 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 0.9 steals. Only his shooting percentage of 52.5% was relatively good.

When Joe Johnson was here, Marion showed signs of changing from second to fourth. Now Roy scored more points than him in his rookie season, which caused his dissatisfaction.

People's mentality will change. Marion plans to leave after this season. If he doesn't leave, his status in the Suns will become lower and lower, his evaluation will become worse and worse, and he will not be selected for the All-Stars in the future.

In the locker room, Marion spoke much less. Guo Xu guessed his thoughts but did not persuade him. In his previous life, Marion proposed a trade in 2007. There were two places he wanted to go - the Jazz or the Lakers.

The Suns' unwillingness to renew Marion's contract with a high salary is the reason why he wants to leave. His asking price for the contract extension is 3 years and 60 million US dollars. Of course, the Suns will not give it to an ordinary All-Star with little commercial value. The required salary and Just like a superstar, you are crazy about money, right?

Now that Marion holds three championship rings, he knows that he is not the boss material. He just wants to go to a weak team to play good data and strive to sign another big contract. He wants to get a higher salary than in his previous life.

In the entire month of November, the Suns only struggled in two games, and the rest were all defeats.

On the 26th, they played against the Trail Blazers at home. The Suns defeated the Trail Blazers 139-78 by 61 points, which almost made the Trail Blazers players cry. This point difference can rank among the top ten in NBA history.

If it weren't for the fact that the Suns' four starting scorers didn't play for a short period of time, and Guo Xu only played 18 minutes before taking a break, this game would probably have set a record for the largest point difference in history.

In the first quarter, the combination of Aldridge and Milicic was tightly guarded. The advantage of the two is that they have range and can shoot. The disadvantage is that they have poor confrontation and rely too much on shooting. Once they lose touch, their performance will be poor.

TJ Ford is strong offensively and weak defensively. He is shorter than Guo Xu and has basically no confrontation. Not only was he unable to guard against Guo Xu, he was also unable to guard against Little Steel Cannon Lowry when the Suns counterattacked. The latter forced a layup against him, which was unreasonable.

Although the Trail Blazers don't have a junk contract, they also don't have Roy and Randolph.

This season's record will definitely be at the bottom. I will try to select a high-ranking rookie next year and have a high chance of getting the No. 1 pick.

On the 29th, the Suns defeated the Rockets 110-95 at home.

Under the care of Ariza and Marion, McGrady made only 9 of 26 shots, 2 of 9 three-pointers, and 1 of 2 free throws. He scored 21 points, 5 rebounds, and 7 assists, and shot 34.6% from the field.

Yao Ming only took 11 shots in the game, hitting 6 goals, 6 of 8 free throws, and scored 18 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists. If it weren't for Spanoulis' 18-point performance, the Rockets would have been slaughtered.

McGrady is a bit obsessed. Since the start of the game, he has averaged 9 long-range mid-range shots within one step of the three-point line. Although his shooting rate is 44.1%, will he die if he takes one less step? He shot only 43% overall and 32.4% from three-point range.

On the surface, McGrady's 22+5+5 statistics are good, but in fact the shooting rate is so low that it is difficult to see, and the true shooting rate barely exceeds 50%. However, he still wants to consolidate his position as the boss, and rarely cooperates with Yao Ming.

Because Van Gundy was fired, the Rockets tended to build a team with Yao as the core, and the relationship between the Yao and Mai combination began to change.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the relationship between the two began to change in the 2007-08 season. McGrady once wanted to unite his teammates to isolate Yao Ming, which he later admitted in interviews. In the second half of that season, Yao Ming was absent due to injury, so the two of them did not have a serious dispute.

In the 2008-09 season, McGrady was completely disabled after surgery. He was no longer able to compete with Yao Ming for the top spot, and was miserably isolated in the Rockets.

After Yao Ming was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he thanked many people in a speech without mentioning Tracy McGrady. This shows how much Yao Ming is annoyed by this person.

The people on the thank you list in Yao Ming's speech are all people who helped him grow during his lowest or difficult times. Tracy McGrady has not helped Yao Ming improve. That kind of large mid-range shot has a very low arc and bounces very far, and he even rarely assists him.

The personalities of the two are incompatible. Yao Ming is approachable and has no airs, while Tracy McGrady is a bit unruly and arrogant. How can people with completely different personalities become good friends?

On the basketball court, Yao Ming never hugged McGrady's thigh. McGrady only played well for one season after joining the Rockets. After that, he became a blacksmith with extremely low efficiency but the most shots.

McGrady's popularity remains high because of Yao Ming. Even if his statistics are terrible, he can still be selected as an All-Star starter. Most of the votes are cast by Chinese fans. This man is never grateful. He thinks he is awesome and has a picturesque pull-up. It has nothing to do with Yao Ming having a large number of Chinese fans. It's because those people can't stop with his pull-up jump shot.

The fact is that as soon as McGrady shouted the slogan You will be isolated, he was not selected for the 2008 All-Star Game...

Of course, there are indeed many Chinese fans of Tracy McGrady, and in 2018, some boasted that Tracy McGrady was at his peak and beat Durant.

Do you think you can believe it if you look up the data? McGrady, who never failed to lead the team in the first round of the playoffs, completely defeated Durant because at his peak, he shot 43.1% from two-point range and was invincible at 42.3% from mid-range! The theory is so awesome. If McGrady can lead the team to the conference finals, he will probably surpass Jordan without any harm.

You may not believe it, but McGrady's overall mid-range shooting percentage has never exceeded 43%. His true shooting percentage in his peak season was 56.4%. This is the only time in his career that his true shooting percentage exceeded 55%.

On the day of the game, Guo Xu invited Yao Ming to have lunch at his pizza restaurant. He talked with him about movies and the entertainment industry, but not about basketball. Because he knows very well that the current Rockets team has no future and is definitely no match for the Suns.

If the Rockets want to play well, they don't necessarily have to have Yao as the core, but Tracy McGrady must go, Alston must go, and Juwan Howard must go. These people's shooting percentage is not high on the offensive end, and they are not working hard on defense. The contract Even more outrageous.

If the Rockets don't have good wing defenders, they won't be able to go far in the playoffs, even if Nelson leads the team to the second round. Unfortunately, the Rockets failed to trade Battier, and it was even more difficult to get Artest, who joined the Lakers. It is obviously not possible to rely on Tracy McGrady and Sefolosha on the wings.

Sefolosha is very motivated to defend, but his offense is too bad and his fixed-point shooting is not accurate. In Guo Xu's previous life, he had not practiced offense well in 2018 and was just a blue-collar defensive player.

Guo Xu will not give Yao Ming advice to force Tracy McGrady to leave. His character is definitely not capable of such a thing. He just works hard to do his job and then goes on the field to play.

Moreover, Guo Xu's suggestion would not be of any benefit to him, and would appear to have ulterior motives. If McGrady is really traded away and a powerful star joins the Rockets to improve the team's strength, what benefit will this have to him and the Suns? There will only be one more competitor.

Even if Guo Xu doesn't mention it, McGrady won't be here for long. Nelson wants to trade him out this summer. He can endure it for one more season at most. If his boss Alexander doesn't agree, he will consider forcing him to leave.

Nelson looked down on McGrady, just like when Finley was at his peak, he would vigorously train Nash and Nowitzki and take away a lot of the ball.

He wants to send McGrady away quickly while he is still popular, and replace him with a star who is selfless and likes teamwork...