Super Legendary Superstar

The level of long-distance shooting has actually been improved!

Still without using the special training card, this surprised Sun Zhuo. Speaking of which, Sun Zhuo usually practices three-point long-range shots the most. He has long felt that his three-pointers are more than ordinary as the A-level system rating.

It is definitely not a common thing for a player who is 2.03 meters tall to have A+ long-range shooting ability. In today's league, with the same height and position, there are probably no more than five players with such long-range shooting ability. Kevin Durant, a monster who is taller than Sun Zhuo and can shoot to the S level from long range, has not yet appeared.

Today's game is completely a three-point battle. Warriors leader Baron Davis has become more comfortable after the team changed their style. He likes to shoot three-pointers very much and will take ten shots in a game. times, the shooting rate is also good. As a point guard, O'Neal, once the opponent is completely afraid of his three-pointers, he can break through the basket to score or distribute the ball more easily.

Relying on Davis, Dunleavy, Richardson and others, although they lost many games, they also successively defeated strong teams in the league such as the Spurs, Mavericks, and Heat. All of these strong teams lost to the Warriors' crazy Three points above.

In the game the Heat lost to the Warriors, Davis threw 6 three-pointers, Dunleavy threw 5, Richardson threw 3, and Fisher threw 3. The Heat were stunned in one game. , O'Neal shouted to Buffett from a distance during the interview after the game: Don't listen to Sun Zhuo's advice, he wants to turn the Warriors into a three-point circus!

In everyone's perception, you can never win a championship by relying on three-pointers. The Warriors are taking the wrong route by increasing the number of outside shots, reducing inside shots, and cultivating players' ability to make long-range three-pointers.

The Warriors manager also gave Buffett feedback from time to time, but Buffett did not change his three-point shooting route because of these voices. Just like the long-term transactions he has always liked to do, early losses are not important. What is important is that the trend should be correct. , as long as this is determined, there will be a day of harvest.

By mid-January, the Magic faced a special opponent and another Mike Dunleavy.

"Oh, I have a headache." On the plane from Los Angeles to Orlando, Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy kept sighing.

"Coach, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Shaun Livingston noticed something was wrong with the coach the day before yesterday. He always had this look on his face in the training hall these two days.

"Yes, I feel uncomfortable, very uncomfortable." Dunleavy still lowered his head and closed his eyes.

"If you are sick, you don't have to come to Orlando with us." Shaun Livingston expressed concern.

Dunleavy smiled helplessly, "Believe me, I definitely don't want to come."

Dunleavy is not sick. The reason for his suffering is Sun Zhuo. He has seen how crazy Sun Zhuo is this season. He scored 66 points in the three quarters. How many points should he score in the fourth quarter? 80? 90? Dunleavy was about to collapse at the thought.

Last summer, Dunleavy asked Sun Zhuo to help him make a lot of money. In return, when he met the Magic, he had to do something. He couldn't block Sun Zhuo's corner three-pointer. In addition, Sun Zhuo got a particularly high score. When scoring points, you can't be cruel and let him have no chance to connect with the ball.

In fact, not only Dunleavy is worried, Sun Zhuo, who is taking advantage, is also worried. He is worried about whether he will break his personal career scoring record again in this game against the Clippers and hit 80+. The second highest score in history!

Sun Zhuo's original plan was to let Kobe break the record first, and after Kobe scored 81 points, Sun Zhuo would challenge and surpass him. But the problem now is that Sun Zhuo has already met the Clippers, and Kobe has not yet met. To the Raptors.

Of course, the Magic will meet the Clippers again after Kobe Bryant meets the Raptors, but is there any possibility that Sun Zhuo will discuss it with Dunleavy? This old fox will never let Sun Zhuo go in the second fight. He will say, "I gave you a chance, but you didn't grasp it."

Before, Kobe scored 65 points in three quarters first, and Sun Zhuo challenged Kobe. This time, Sun Zhuo might as well go first and let Kobe challenge him.

The Magic's home court, both the Magic and the Clippers have already entered the game. In the eyes of many, this is just an ordinary regular season game, but only coaches Sun Zhuo and Dunleavy know how unusual this is.

Before the game, Sun Zhuo took the initiative to walk up to Coach Dunleavy, shook hands with him respectfully and said, "Coach Dunleavy, we meet again. We are a very young team. I hope you will be noble and not be too harsh on us."

Coach Dunleavy has the face of a movie villain, very similar to the actor who played prison sergeant Brad Berwick in "Prison Break". When Sun Zhuo saw Coach Dunleavy's face, he unconsciously thought of what he looked like in uniform. .

Coach Dunleavy didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said to himself: "Don't be too harsh!"

Sun Zhuo could see that Coach Dunleavy was nervous, but Sun Zhuo's request was not too much. He did not let the Clippers perform or let the Clippers show off. He just hoped that they would not target and not defend the three-pointer from the corner. When breaking the record, don't let Sun Zhuo fail to catch the ball.

"God bless, Sun will not score more than 60 points in this game. No, as long as it does not exceed 70 points, I can accept it!" Before the game, coach Dunleavy had been praying silently on the bench.

Sun Zhuo would not make money for Dunleavy in vain, he would definitely go on a killing spree in this game.

"Before, those damn coaches blocked my best three-point shooting from the corner every time. Today I can finally shoot it happily!" Sun Zhuo was also very excited.

The two sides soon entered the game. The one guarding Sun Zhuo was Shaun Livingston, who was about the same height. In the first attack, Sun Zhuo couldn't wait to run to the corner and reached out to his teammates for the ball. His teammates passed the ball a little slowly, and Sun Zhuo was also a little slow. Relax, after all, he has bribed the other team's coach. He gets the ball, comes to the corner and throws it out.

Snapped.

As soon as the ball was released, Livingston blocked it.

"Haha, haha, haha." Seeing this scene, Coach Dunleavy continued to laugh like staccato. He didn't expect that without any arrangements or explanations for Shaun Livingston, Livingston himself He predicted Sun Zhuo's shot and successfully blocked it.

Dunleavy: "Daniel, did you see Sean block Sun's corner three-pointer?"

Daniel Ewing: “Saw it, coach.”

Dunleavy: "I didn't tell him to be careful or guard against Sun's corner three-pointer, right?"

Daniel Ewing: "Yeah, coach, I didn't hear you say that."

Dunleavy: "Haha, haha, haha."

Daniel Ewing: “…”

Coach Dunleavy's laughter was very strange, even "ha" was laughed out twice. Daniel didn't know how a blocked shot could make the coach so excited.

On the court, Sun Zhuo glared at Dunleavy angrily. Dunleavy quickly acted innocent and told Sun Zhuo with his actions that this had nothing to do with him. I didn't tell him what to do!

Sun Zhuo believed that Dunleavy would not break his promise, so the fact that the ball was blocked was not the coach's arrangement, but Livingston's own judgment.

Even if the opponent's coach is dealt with, it is these players who are playing on the court. For some smart players, these players know what to do without the coach's instructions.

"Sean, good defense. Keep going." Sun Zhuo was not angry, but praised his opponent. If even Sean Livingston couldn't deal with it, Sun Zhuo wouldn't have to challenge Kobe.

Immediately afterwards, the Clippers failed to attack. Dwight Howard hit the rebound under the basket, and then took two steps out from the basket to hold the ball firmly. Sun Zhuo was already ready for a fast break. .

Sun Zhuo's position is very good. As long as the ball reaches him, with his speed and fast break finishing ability, he can definitely convert it into points.

However, Howard saved the ball very far, and he was a little anxious when he passed the ball to Sun Zhuo, and he hit the ball directly on Sun Zhuo's face with great force, causing the fast break to fail.

"Haha, haha, haha." Coach Dunleavy began to gloat again. A second ago, he was worried about giving Sun Zhuo another chance to score easily. Unexpectedly, Sun Zhuo was tricked by his teammates and failed to score again!

Does Coach Dunleavy feel like his prayers are starting to work?

Coach Dunleavy burst into laughter off the court, and the Clippers players also laughed, which aroused the disgust of the Magic fans at the scene.

"Why is the Clippers coach so gloating? He has been like this since Sun's first three-pointer was blocked. What's so funny?"

"This old man is so hateful. I feel like he is targeting Sun. I understand his coaching style. He has always been very serious and unsmiling. I don't know why he treats Sun like this. Speaking of which, his son Mike Dunleavy, who has the same name as him, can now The Golden State Warriors were re-employed thanks to Sun’s advice, he went too far!”

Even the referee heard Coach Dunleavy's weird laughter and reminded him: "Please watch your words and deeds, Coach Dunleavy."

The referee has also known Dunleavy for many years and knows that Dunleavy will not be a coach for a few more years. This may be his last year. The referee does not want him to get a bad reputation in his last year.

After being reminded by the referee, Coach Dunleavy laughed even harder because he suddenly thought of Tim Duncan, who was ejected for laughing some time ago. If he was also ejected, wouldn't he not have to worry about this? No matter how many points Sun Zhuo scored in the end, it had nothing to do with him anyway.

Dunleavy laughed wildly at the referee a few more times, which made the Clippers players sitting behind him laugh. The opponent just made a passing mistake. Is it so funny...

"Damn it, this old man wants to run away." Sun Zhuo saw what Dunleavy was thinking, and quickly walked up behind the referee, put his hands on the referee, and kept him away from Dunleavy. As he walked, he said: "You don't have to be as knowledgeable as him. I don’t mind his behavior. I heard that he suffered from a mental illness. As you know, he is 52 years old and this is probably the last season of coaching in his career. Let’s give him some privileges.”

The referee looked at Sun Zhuo with admiration. The referee on the opposite side laughed at Sun Zhuo like this, but Sun Zhuo did not force the referee to punish the opponent. Instead, he stood up and spoke for his opponent. This is indeed rare to see. Besides, the referee would not really punish Dunleavy just because he laughed. He was ejected. After Duncan's incident, NBA referees became much more cautious and did not dare to give technical fouls rashly.

"Magic No. 1 is quite a generous player and can be taken care of properly. The Clippers dare to be so arrogant in the away game, and it is the head coach who takes the lead in ridiculing. Although I dare not eject you directly, you will pay a little for it. cost."

At the beginning, Sun Zhuo's offensive state was not good, and his teammates' state was also not good. Coupled with the continuous mistakes, it was easy to affect his mood. However, when Sun Zhuo saw that the referee was a little biased towards their side, Sun Zhuo was fine. No worries, he boldly went to the Clippers basket and repeatedly got free throw opportunities.

Seeing Sun Zhuo's score slowly rising, coach Dunleavy couldn't laugh anymore.

After one quarter, Sun Zhuo scored 18 points in a single quarter.

Shaun Livingston mainly focused on Sun Zhuo in the first quarter, but he allowed him to score so many points in the quarter. He felt very embarrassed and felt that he would be scolded by the coach. But what surprised him was that coach Dunleavy did not scold him. If it were normal, Dunleavy would have scolded him.

"I'm sorry, coach, I didn't take precautions." Livingston took the initiative to admit his mistake.

Coach Dunleavy has hundreds of curse words accumulated in his mind, but according to the agreement, he cannot do this. The players will defend themselves against what they want, and Dunleavy cannot influence them.

Therefore, without any scolding from the coach, the Clippers' defensive intensity against Sun Zhuo still did not improve at all.

In the second quarter, Sun Zhuo got even more of what he asked for, and got multiple shooting opportunities from three-pointers in the corner. At halftime, Sun Zhuo scored more than 40 points!

"Oh my god, Sun scored so hard today, 40 points at halftime, and 60+ points again today!"

"The point is that the score is not very different. If we can play until the fourth quarter, wouldn't Sun be able to score 80+?"

Clippers locker room during halftime.

After returning to the locker room, Coach Dunleavy said nothing. He did not yell or scold the players. There was only one thing on his mind. He could not let the suspense of the game last until the fourth quarter. If the Clippers trailed by 20 points in the third quarter Above, Sun Zhuo probably won't play again, and his score will remain around 60.

However, seeing Coach Dunleavy acting so abnormally made the Clippers players feel uncomfortable.

"Coach, you go ahead and scold us, we know we played badly in the first half!" Livingston said frustrated.

Coach Dunleavy touched Livingston's face gently and said: "No, you did a good job. It will be good to continue to maintain this state. What matters is not the victory or defeat, but whether we have grown."

Everyone was puzzled after hearing this. This is not what Coach Dunleavy said. He was not like this before!

"Hey, do you think the coach has given up on us? Today he has no demands on us at all. This is not like his style." Mobley asked Elton Brand quietly.

Brand whispered back: "He retired after coaching this season. We played so poorly, and he really couldn't muster the energy to reprimand us. Brother, we have to gain some energy in the second half and show some results to the coach."

"Yeah." Mobley agreed with Brand's point of view.

As a result, the game that could have ended in three quarters was forced to last until the fourth quarter due to the combined efforts of Mobley and Brand...