Chapter 679: The Sun III

In the regular season, the Warriors and Suns played each other, tied 2-2 in the same Pacific Division, giving the two teams a chance to get to know each other more deeply.

The Suns are very fast-paced offensively and are a pioneer in the rise of small-ball tactics in the league, and they have had some success.

Compared to the Mavericks' run-and-gun tactics, the Suns are even more frantic and have topped the list of offensive efficiency this season, outscoring their opponents by 9.5 points per 100 attempts.

Of course, when we're talking about the Suns, we're definitely talking about Steve Nash, the leader of the offensive team.

In the past 20 years, the five most efficient teams have been led by Nash, even far more than the Mavericks, who seem to be the main player this season.

This season, the Suns have won five firsts in offensive statistics.

They are the first in points per game, the first in assists, the first in free throws, the first in three-point shots, and the first in shots.

In the '05 Western Conference Finals, the Spurs won against the Suns, and in fact, the Suns were still quite afraid of meeting the Spurs.

Now that the Spurs have been eliminated by the Warriors and played an opponent they have never faced in the playoffs, fans are even more expecting the Suns to achieve better results.

On the court, the Warriors seemed to have changed their style and attacked unhurriedly.

Yang Di came out to the elbow area to receive Fisher's ball, and then turned around, also taking a face-frame attacking posture.

Xiao Si and Yang Di are opposed, but Montgomery's analysis, Xiao Si will definitely not be in the opposite position with Yang Di throughout the game, the Sun does not have so much courage, if Xiao Si eats a few fouls, then the Sun's offense will be wasted.

Yang Di threatened to attack, grabbed the ball with both hands and lifted up, and made a fake action of false shooting.

"How can you fool me with such a fake?" Xiao Si snorted coldly and looked at Yang Di with gloomy eyes.

Yang Di suddenly lowered his center of gravity, dribbled with his right hand, stepped up with his right side, and made a dribble breakthrough.

His movements were very skillful, Xiao Si moved sideways, easily blocking Yang Di, Yang Di turned sideways to find a physical confrontation, and took the initiative to collide with him.

"Bang!"

Simple and rough, like two beasts, really super confrontational.

After two years of training, Stoudemire has become very strong, but he was still a little overwhelmed by the unparalleled Yang Di, and withdrew his body, at this time the sun was urgently clamped, and Nash rushed in to break Yang Di's dribble.

Yang Di grabbed the basketball and scored a point, and after a lap from the outside, Danny Granger in the bottom corner made a three-point shot and hit.

"Beautiful!"

Yang Di pointed at Danny Granger and signaled that he had made a good shot.

The Warriors lost two games to the Suns this season, one was the rhythm was disrupted, and the other was the whole team had no feeling, although in the NBA, if there is no feeling, any team can lose the game, but playing with a team like the Suns, it may feel a little bad, and the offensive fault line, the Suns will seize the opportunity to play a shock wave, establish an advantage in a wave, and kill the game directly.

Some experts say that the small-ball tactic is the artifact of the downwind battle, and once the downwind ball is played, it is simply unstoppable.

As long as he seizes the opportunity, Yang Di believes that he can still win the game in Phoenix today.

Offense and defense transition, Suns offense.

Nash dribbled past half court and beckoned Marion and Stoudemire to come out with a double pick-and-roll.

Under the cover of two people, Nash got rid of the somewhat slow Fisher, and Yang Di withdrew from Stoudemire and followed Nash to the basket, Nash circled around the three-second zone and gave the other side Dior, who was originally ambushed in the bottom corner of the weak side.

Dior grabbed the basketball with one hand, made a false shake, tricked Chandler into breaking inside, and directly faced Yang Di, who came to defend like a shadow.

With a single hand, Stoudemire jumped high, like a cruising Tomahawk missile, and blew up the frame at a high altitude.

"Peng!"

The basket trembled, and the Suns fans cheered.

"Mine!"

Yang Di patted his chest, he had a problem with the defense just now, although Dio broke through, but Dio's athleticism is not strong, if it is a mid-range shot, and then Chandler arrives to re-defend the interference, if he is too far outside, there will be a leakage on the inside, although this guy is in the center position, but in fact he plays like a small forward, and has a beautiful ability to divide the ball.

Yang Di raised his vigilance, and the game with the Sun could not be careless.

Then, the Warriors attacked.

Yang Di still received the ball in the elbow area, and the Suns insisted on wrapping it as soon as they came up, and Yang Di divided the ball and gave it to Fisher, who was in the gap.

But Fisher didn't throw, and after a feint, he made a feint and broke in.

Near the free-throw line area, Jandy, who had finished dismantling and going down, attracted a lot of defensive attention, and Fisher seemed to shoot and pass to Danny Granger on the outside.

Marion moved quickly to interfere with Granger's jumper, and Granger missed the jumper.

"The Warriors threw two three-pointers in the opening game, while the Suns chose an interior offensive combination, and the two teams seemed to have changed identities, which was unexpected."

Barkley, as a famous legend of the Suns, naturally came to the scene to explain this game in person, and he took a bite of the hamburger, and it seemed that he was also working hard enough.

"Oh, I still love the Phoenix burger, the familiar taste."

Nash combed the offense, Yang Di vigilantly guarded the basket, Stoudemire received Nash's ball, mid-range jumper, Yang Di caught up with the interference, and the shot missed.

Chandler won, and the Suns have begun to retreat.

The Warriors are also fast on the counterattack, except for Yang Di, all three outside lines are rushing to the frontcourt, which is completely different from other teams.

Yang Di advanced with the ball and ran on the floor, rumbling like a heavily armored vehicle.

The 2.08m man looked like a point guard, and Nash compared the arms of the two who were several times worse, and rationally chose to get out of the way.

That is, relying on the length of his arm, Marion dared to step forward to harass Yang Di's dribbling.

On the other side, Raga Bell locked on Ray Allen like a kraft candy, not looking at how far Yang Di advanced, he had only one goal for the whole game, no matter what the situation, he was staring at Ray Allen.

Yang Di sent the ball to follow up, crashed into Marion, encountered Stoudemire's marking, and chose to divide the ball.

The wings are all empty, the Suns are running wildly, following the ball, Granger actually still has an open space, but he just missed one, this time he didn't shoot again, three three-point shots in a row, if he can't shoot, he will be scolded to death by Montgomery.

So he chose to break through, and he stepped inside, plunging headlong into the Sun Pocket Array.

When the ball was divided again, it was given to the wing Ray Allen, which was deflected and made a direct error.

Ray Allen touched his hand in annoyance, when the ball was passed, he was almost in the bottom corner, and he wanted to make a feint to go to the line, but Danny Granger passed the ball directly to the negative angle.

Danny Granger also hugged his head, looking pity, and when the two returned to the defense, they still high-fived each other and encouraged each other.

Playing the Suns is not easier than playing Spurs, and it is even more difficult.