Healing Basketball

  Chapter 878 878. Suspended!

   It is not Nash alone, but the entire Suns team.

   The reason for the drift is quite simple-they overturned the Spurs.

  The Trail Blazers were beaten by the Spurs in the regular season and were swept by the Spurs.

  In addition, the Suns were killed by the Spurs in the second round for two consecutive years, and now they have finally completed their revenge...

  Plus the Trail Blazers played hard against the Nuggets, G6 Liu Xiu broke out to advance, and the second round played against the Lakers was also difficult, and also relied on Liu Xiu's 40 points in G6 to advance...

  Affected by a series of comprehensive factors, Nash and his seven core teammates feel that they have become the strongest in the Western Conference and can easily end the Trail Blazers' two consecutive championships and become the new overlord.

   As a result, as soon as the Western Conference Finals started, they received a loud slap in the face.

  …

   After a day off, on May 25th, the Trail Blazers once again ushered in the challenge of the Suns at home.

  The Suns were much more low-key and calm this time than in the last game, trying to play well in every round.

   But the performance is average, and there are many reasons.

  The main reason is that the Trail Blazers played well!

Liu Xiu scored 4 points and 3 assists in the first quarter, helping Raheem get 10 points and 1 rebound, Ray Allen and Randolph both scored 4 points, Kwame Brown scored 2 points, and Blake replaced Liu Xiu at the end of the quarter Scored a three-pointer... 27 points in a single quarter.

  The Suns did not counterattack much, and the score dropped.

   Unfortunately, the Suns are not good at shooting in positional battles. The bully can't get into the inside line in positional battles.

   This is basically the case for the entire Suns team, only scoring 23 points in the first quarter!

In the second quarter, the Suns still performed poorly and only scored 23 points, but the Trail Blazers became more and more brave. Liu Xiu had 4 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, Zach Randolph had 9 points, and Ray Allen had 7 points. The three joined hands to lead the team to score 31 points in a single quarter!

   After halftime, the Trail Blazers led the Suns by 12 points 58 to 46!

  After returning from the halftime break, the Suns offense finally started to pick up. They scored 26 to 24 in the third quarter and 31 to 29 in the final quarter. They played better and better, but it was too late.

Liu Xiu scored 18 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists, Randolph 30 points, Ray Allen 22 points, Raheem 17 points, and the Trail Blazers scored in double figures. It was 2 to 0!

  Nash tonight, like the previous game, is very different from the usual him.

  Nash made 9 of 21 shots tonight, including 4 of 6 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored the Suns' highest 28 points, but only had 8 assists.

  …

   On May 28, after two days of rest, the third game day of the Western Conference Finals arrived.

   At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Suns started.

   Unlike the Lakers who didn't get discouraged after losing two games, but played better and crazier in G3, the morale of the Suns was low tonight.

  Human The Lakers play with the mentality of the next game. It is normal to lose, and the confidence will be doubled if you win a game.

  The Suns initially thought about sweeping the Trail Blazers 4-1, but they were forced to play two games. This gap can be imagined.

  The Trail Blazers played it simple tonight - singles, singles, singles!

  The score was 29 to 24 in the first quarter, 29 to 26 in the second quarter, 31 to 17 in the third quarter... After the first three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Suns by 22 points 89 to 67.

  Liu Xiu clocked out of get off work in three quarters!

  In the final quarter, the Suns played a 29-22 single quarter against the Trail Blazers, narrowing the 7-point difference, but it had no effect on the whole game.

  Liu Xiu scored 23 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks on 8 of 12 shots, Randolph 28 points, Ray Allen 20 points and 5 assists, Raheem 16 points, Kwame Brown 10 points...

  111 to 96, the Trail Blazers defeated the Suns by 15 points and scored a big score of 3 to 0!

  …

  If, at the beginning, there was no brain twitch and felt that the Trail Blazers were about to be swept, maybe even if they were at a disadvantage, it would not be as bad as 0 to 3.

  But there is no medicine for regret in the world, and it is already on the verge of being eliminated...

  On May 30, the Suns once again ushered in the challenge of the Trail Blazers at home.

  Nash regrets it now, but so far in the series, he has nothing to do.

  Determination to fight to the death, he didn't see it from his teammates.

  The underdogs must win, and they are not talking about the team that was hammered after drifting away.

   Can only fight!

   At 8 o'clock in the evening, after the game started, the Trail Blazers once again had the upper hand.

  The Suns are in good form tonight, but they are really not working hard enough. Nash can only play life-saving shots, resorting to the style of play of the Mavericks, constantly playing singles.

  Nash made 4 of 8 shots in the first quarter, including 1 of 3 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 11 points and 1 assist in a single quarter.

  The Trail Blazers sent 8 people in the first quarter, and everyone scored. At the end of the first quarter, they led the Suns 32 to 26 by 6 points!

  Nash tried his best, but the Suns were still so far behind, but his efforts were not in vain, he successfully ignited the hard work of his teammates!

   In the second quarter, Bully and Barbosa both went berserk, the former scored 11 points, the latter 9 points, Nash scored 2 points and 6 assists in a single quarter... The Suns scored 30 points in a single quarter!

  The Trail Blazers scored 29 points in the second quarter.

   After halftime, the Suns narrowed the point difference to 5 points, trailing the Trail Blazers 56 to 61.

   In the third quarter, the two teams soared even harder. Liu Xiu scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, and Randolph scored 9 points in a single quarter, leading the Trail Blazers to 33 points.

  But the Suns scored 32 points in the third quarter, biting the situation!

  88 to 94, the Suns trailed the Trail Blazers by 6 points after three quarters.

  However, although the point difference was opened by 1 point, the Suns saw hope!

rush!

   They now understand where they lost.

   It is only an objective condition that the style of play is restrained. The most important thing is that they lost themselves after G1, afraid of this and that.

  Now they understand that they are the strongest Suns team if they charge forward without fear and with the pride of Phoenix City!

   At the end of the quarter, the Suns had the upper hand and once played against the Trail Blazers.

   It wasn't until the end of the game that the Trail Blazers took advantage of the decline in the physical strength of the Suns' 8-man rotation to bring the situation back.

   At 11 minutes and 29 seconds into the game, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer, and the Trail Blazers overtook the Suns by two points, with a score of 109 to 107!

   When it came to the Suns offense, after scoring 11 points in the first quarter, Nash only scored 9 points in the next three quarters, but at the critical moment Nash stood up and made a three-pointer shot from the back of the outlaw lunatic...Hit!

  110 to 109, the Suns overtook the Trail Blazers by 1 point!

   With 11 seconds left in the clock, the Trail Blazers did not call a timeout.

When it came time for the Trail Blazers to attack, Raja Bell defended Liu Xiu alone, and the rest of the Suns focused on Ray Allen and Randolph. up.

  Liu Xiu didn't pass the ball, and there were only 6 seconds left after advancing to the frontcourt. After his teammates quickly opened up the space, he directly started singles.

   Facing Raja Bell's defense, Liu Xiu jumped to the free throw line and took a step to the right, leaned back to avoid Marion's supplementary defense, and made a mid-range shot...

  By the time the ball left Liu Xiu's hands, the final whistle had already sounded.

  Nash saw Liu Xiu's posture when he shot the shot and the arc of the ball flying out, so he knew that unless the ball was timed out, otherwise... Sure enough, the ball went in!

   D'Antoni and the Suns players asked to watch the replay.

  If there are doubts about the key goal, even if the referee is confident in confirming the goal is valid at the first time, he must watch the replay.

  The replay proved that the referee is professional. When Liu Xiu threw the ball and there was a clear distance between the ball and his fingertips, there was 0.4 seconds left in the countdown.

  The referee confirmed again that Liu Xiu's CIC is valid!

  Although Nash scored 23 points and 15 assists tonight, the bully got 28 points, Marion 14 points, Raja Bell 11 points, Barbosa 13 points...the Suns still lost.

   Liu Xiu made 13 of 24 shots, including 3 of 7 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 35 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals. Liu Xiu beat the Suns and the Trail Blazers won 111-110!

   With a big score of 4 to 0, the Trail Blazers swept the Suns to advance to the finals!

  (end of this chapter)