The godfather of basketball started from conquering the NBA

Chapter 9: Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land

Surprisingly, however, the two rounds of the series were not as intense as expected.

Needless to say, there is a gap in strength between the Spurs and the Warriors, and it is not like the Mavericks who are restrained. When the Warriors face the Mavericks, the arrogance is useless in front of the Spurs, and they are suppressed by the Spurs. In the end, it was swept by Gentleman 1 to 4.

In the other round of the series, the Lakers did not have the Suns as they imagined, and Mars hit the earth.

Because the Lakers were eliminated by the Suns last season, Kobe quit with anger and ended last season, so this round of the series will be Kobe's revenge.

Kobe vs. Nash is the first highlight of this series, and the second highlight of this series is the duel between Stoudemire and Garnett.

However, facing Duncan who can average 37 points per game, there is really no way to face Garnett. The style of play is completely restrained. Compared with Stoudemire, Garnett is not only taller and faster, but also more flexible. Stuck in Stoudemire's running position, coupled with Kobe's defense against Nash from the outside, the connection between Nash and Stoudemire failed several times. The defensive deterrence of the two first-defense players cannot be underestimated.

The Suns' best offense cannot be opened, let alone defense. Although the defensive line composed of Lagabel + Marion is very strong, it is not enough to face Kobe, let alone the inside line. Not good at defense, facing Garnett, both offensive and defensive ends were blown up.

Garnett's career-high two scores were all against Stoudemire. Then in the third game, Garnett turned around and passed Stoudemire for a dunk. Shoving Garnett, the two almost had a conflict, but Harder still fought and retreated, allowing himself to avoid a greater penalty, while Stoudemire was sent off directly.

However, Stoudemire's penalty gave the Suns an unexpected effect. He replaced veteran Kurt Thomas, a blue-collar veteran known for his defense, and his defense against Garnett made the Suns shine. Won the third game, which made Steve Kerr, then general manager of the Suns, have an immature idea in his mind.

In the fourth game, D'Antoni summed up the experience of the third victory, and let the veteran Kurt Thomas start with Stoudemire to relieve his pressure on the defensive end. Only scored 15 points, and Garnett's slump also led to the collapse of the Lakers. Although Kobe scored 4 points, the Lakers still lost the game.

Originally thought that the fifth battle of Tianwangshan would be as exciting as sparks hitting the earth, but Xu Xiao was disappointed again. In the fifth game in Los Angeles, Phil Jackson changed his strategy as soon as he came up and played Kobe and Odom's pick-and-roll, What kind of triangle offense, while playing, the continuous attack of Stoudemire's poor pick-and-roll defense put the Suns in a dilemma.

Either you take Stoudemire and replace him with Diaw, who is not bad on defense, or you take Kurt Thomas, let Marion play 4, and Stoudemire mentions the 5th position.

In the end, D'Antoni still chose to believe in Stoudemire and took down Kurt Thomas. Xu Xiao knew that the Suns were over after this substitution.

"It seems that I have to congratulate the Lakers in advance. The Suns are doomed." Xu Xiao sighed silently in his seat.

"How do you know, this is only the first quarter of the game, and the score hasn't even been drawn yet." Suddenly, a sweet female voice came into Xu Xiao's ears, which startled Xu Xiao. Xu Xiao looked back and didn't pay attention to him at all. Beside her is a sweet-looking Chinese girl.

Because Xu Xiao bought tickets for this game by himself, and didn't ask Old Bass, so he was in the ordinary auditorium. You know, he gave Garnett this kindness for nothing. It is always a VIP seat, and the mayor of Los Angeles has to give up his seat when he comes, but this time Xu Xiao is not in trouble, he just wants to see it because he is interested, and Xu Xiao came early, and he was focused on watching the game as soon as he came in , did not notice a Chinese girl beside him.

Because Xu Xiao was talking to himself in Chinese just now, which made the girl next to her feel a sense of intimacy when she heard it, and since she came, she noticed Xu Xiao. The innate temperament is very attractive, but Xu Xiao didn't look back, just watched the game very intently, didn't cheer along, and didn't have passion. Such a fierce game can be so calm, it's amazing to see It looked like she was doing research, which made the girl a little curious. After waiting for a long time, such a Chinese sentence suddenly appeared, which made the girl sitting next to her couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked a question.

Hearing the girl's question, plus the fact that she is a Chinese and a little beauty, although Xu Xiao was frightened, she immediately calmed down and said in a very professional way:

"D'Antoni was forced to make a wrong decision, but it's not his fault. He believes in his offense. His philosophy has always been to focus on offense, but in this situation, his offense is obviously not the best choice. , the two best scorers in the Suns, Nash and Stoudemire are facing off against two first-defense players, Kobe and Garnett, and their best scoring method is the pick-and-roll, which happens to hit the muzzle of the two Now, one of Garnett's best defenses is the pick-and-roll defense."

"Then the score hasn't been drawn yet?" the girl asked unwillingly.

"It's useless. This is Phil Jackson's trap. He let go of Marion in a row and strangled Nash, because he knew that Marion would not be the savior of the Suns. The score did not open because of Marion's two three-pointer.

But you must know that three-pointers are not Marion's best scoring method. Once he starts to miss shots, the Lakers' counterattack will begin. At the same time, the Lakers did not use their best method at the beginning, but Kobe and Odom's pick-and-roll , has already given the Suns' defense to pieces, which forced D'Antoni to make adjustments in advance. Seeing that the girl did not refute, Xu Xiao paused and continued.

"Either take Kurt Thomas and liberate the offensive space, or take Stoudemire and fight the Lakers defensively, but the two are like two bottles of poison. From the Sun's point of view, there are two defenses with one. It is unrealistic for one of the teams that is still dpoy to fight the defense that they are least good at.

So the Suns chose to go their own way and use offense to confront the Lakers head-on, but their offense lacks a player who can break the game. Stoudemire can use his mobility when facing Duncan, but facing Garnett, a man with insufficient mobility Losing to his bigs, he's going to have a hard time playing. "

"Is there really no chance at all?" The girl asked suddenly.

"Not completely, but the Suns need to completely change the game."

"how to change?"

"Replace Stoudemire, let him stagger the time with Garnett, and then use the inside combination of Kurt Thomas + Diaw to fight against the Lakers on defense. On the offensive end, use one-on-one, let Nash swing up, hold down the rhythm, the Lakers' No. [-] The position is very poor, that Radmanovic's defense is a disaster, and their point guard Mike James, the defense is also average, the offense should be played by the two of them, so it depends on Nash's physical strength, But that doesn't seem likely with the sun right now."

Xu Xiao smiled. He didn't say that D'Antoni would really do this in the future, but he had another No. 13 under him.

The girl was a little disappointed. When she looked up at the game, the score was pulled away as Xu Xiao said. With the Lakers' offensive climax after wave after wave, Staples cheered wave after wave. After a wave, the girl was not happy, but lowered her head in disappointment.

"Aren't you a Lakers fan?" Xu Xiao asked tentatively.

"Whoever comes to Staples must be a Lakers fan." The girl seemed to be in a bad mood, and her tone became stiff.

"I'm a Suns fan, not a Nash fan. I like Nash's agility and the offense of the Suns. I think that's the essence of basketball. Basketball should be a sport that scores more points than anyone else. Who gets less points." The girl also realized that her tone of voice was a bit blunt, and hurriedly explained.

Xu Xiao nodded, agreeing.

Soon the game was overwhelmed, because it was too boring, the two started chatting.

"My name is Zhang Yilin. I'm at UCLA. How about you?" The girl asked first.

"I, my surname is Xu. I am a businessman. I do a small business. Because I am the second child in the family, you can call me Xu Er." Xu Xiao did not dare to disclose his full name, although his name is only used in It is widely circulated in the industry, but he doesn't know how many people outside know his full name. In addition, he gave away Garnett for free and caused the home team to be beaten by the Lakers. Xu Xiao was afraid that after he told him his full name, Can't help but give him a knife.

"Haha, what a strange name." The girl smiled sweetly.

"You're not a Lakers fan. Why did you come to Staples to watch the game? Doesn't it generate income for the Lakers?" Anyway, it was just chatting, so Xu Xiao let go.

"I came with my classmates. I actually didn't want to come. It's mainly him." While speaking, Xu Xiao followed the girl's gaze and met a young Caucasian man. The young man's eyes were filled with disdain and contempt. He even made a mocking gesture towards Xu Xiao. As early as when Xu Xiao was chatting with Yilin, the white young man noticed him, and he was a little annoyed at that, and wanted to give Xu Xiao some color look.

As for Xu Xiao, he has been a human in two lifetimes. Although he is 22 years old here, but counting his previous life, he is already in his [-]s and [-]s, so he won't care about such a child.

Seeing that Xu Xiao didn't care about it, the white youth thought that Xu Xiao was afraid, so he started to intensify.

"Hey, don't worry about him. He is my classmate named Halson. His father is the management of the Lakers. This time we got all the tickets from his father. He is a diehard Lakers, so We are invited to witness the victory of the Lakers.

I didn't want to come, but I couldn't bear his stalking, and the Suns won the last game, so I think the Suns have a chance this time, so I thought that if the Suns won again, I would be happy and happy again. It can be seen that he is disappointed and angry, killing two birds with one stone, but he didn't expect to lose so badly, hey, it would be great if I met you sooner. "

Yilin was afraid that Xu Xiao would be angry, so she hurriedly explained to Xu Xiao, and at the same time immediately scolded: "Harson, you'd better pay attention to my words and deeds, this is my friend, if you continue to make trouble unreasonably, don't blame me for being rude. "

The guy named Halson was obviously a little upset, he couldn't bear to lose face with so many classmates, so he looked at Xu Xiao and told him with his mouth, "You are just a softie hiding behind girls. Come out and try." Xu Xiao has no time to talk to him, Xu Xiao has learned various fighting skills since he was a child, and he also practiced Chinese Kung Fu for a period of time in his previous life, just like that, he can solve it with one hand.

Such a little person who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, he doesn't care at all, but just now he thought she was a sweet and soft girl, and she suddenly looked serious, which was really pretty. How do you say that word, tits fierce tits fierce , looking at Xu Xiao Yile.

Although the game is not good-looking, it is quite interesting to meet such a girl.

"He likes you, your suitor." Xu Xiao deliberately teased him with a look of seeing through.

"Him? Come on, a swinger. He's nothing more than a womanizer. He has no real skills. He can't even understand a game as well as you do. He doesn't know what to do with his father's status. If his father didn't give him Spending money, he can't even get in at the gate of the university, he knows how to find trouble all day long, I don't want to have anything to do with him."

"Then you have to be careful, after all we are here, we will be discriminated against and excluded, be careful that he is not good for you." Xu Xiao is also a kind reminder, after all, crimes are common in the United States, even in Los Angeles the same.

"Well, I usually stay with my friends, and I usually don't go out at school. You are too. Doing business in the United States is not easy. If you need my help, you can find me. I am I study economics, although I have just entered school and my knowledge level is not good enough, but I will definitely be able to do it in the future." As she spoke, the girl took out his University of California student ID card and showed it to Xu Xiao.

"Thank you so much, I may trouble you in the future, you are so kind." Xu Xiao took a look and sighed that this girl is too innocent, casually showing such important things to strangers.

"It's okay, we are all fellow villagers, and we should help each other when we are living in other places. By the way, where is your hometown? I'm from Hebei."

Xu Xiaogang wanted to say that he should not be so simple in the future, because there are many bad people in the village, and he should learn to defend himself, when suddenly he seemed to see something.

"You're only 17 years old?" Xu Xiao was a little too surprised to see that her student ID stated that she was born in 1990.

"That's right, I'm a special recruiter. I'm just about to start my freshman year this year. I only enrolled in September. We bought it in advance to get familiar with the school."

"Genius, what a genius!" Xu Xiao blurted out.

"This is my contact information. In the future, I must learn to protect myself. Don't let others see these things easily, even my fellow villagers, because there are bad people in my hometown. If there is anything you can't solve in the future, just call me and I will help you." I do business in Minnesota, but I still have some friends in Los Angeles." Xu Xiao said with concern that although this little girl may be a genius in academics, she is still a bit short in social experience, so Xu Xiao put his own Personal phone to him.

He has no selfishness here. After all, he has a lot of talented students under him. He is also the big boss of the team, and there is Tianhong Group behind him. And smart little girls can grow up healthily.

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