The Whip of the God of Basketball

In the fourth quarter, the Suns started the harvest mode and did not give the Jazz any more opportunities. Although the Jazz played very tenaciously, Sloan's team would never give up lightly. Even if it came to garbage time, the Jazz still played tactically and cooperatively. If they didn't play well, Sloan would call Pause to make arrangements and replace players who are not playing well.

It is this serious and rigorous attitude that allows Sloan to be as stable as the Jazz's coach. Although he has not won the championship for so many years, the Jazz has always maintained a strong team demeanor and can firmly gain a foothold in the NBA.

Until the last moment of the game, when the point difference was 15 points and the Jazz had no hope of catching up, Sloan still called a timeout when needed, arranged the final tactics, and asked the players to complete the attack.

The moment the buzzer sounded, the game was over, and the Suns beat the Utah Jazz at home, 121-106, and continued to add to their winning streak heading into 2008.

Fox Leon took the initiative to shake hands with Jerry Sloan on the sidelines. Sloan can be counted as one of the coaches who stole more lessons after Leon entered the league. When he was working as a video editor and an assistant coach, he watched a lot of Jazz games. His rigorous tactical coaching and meticulous tactical arrangements provided a lot of help for Leon to enter the team of basketball coaches.

Another victory, and facing the Utah Jazz, the Western powerhouse, the Suns are gradually proving their strength. At the beginning of the season, the Phoenix media's doubts about Leon and the Suns were gradually disappearing. Of course, they have not reached the point of singing praises, because there is still a long way to go, and the Suns have not yet encountered a real challenge.

After playing the Jazz, they will immediately face a strong enemy, a dark polo team that has suddenly become popular this season-the New Orleans Hornets.

Chris Paul, the No. 4 point guard who entered the NBA in the same year as Deron Williams, seems to have shown more potential than Williams. In the first 20 games, he dedicated a wonderful game that shook the league Performance. In the opening game of the season, the quasi-triple-double led the team to win the first victory. They scored 19 points, 21 assists and 3 steals against the Lakers, 29 points, 13 assists and 5 steals against the Grizzlies, and 33 points, 12 assists and 3 steals against the Mavericks. It was against the Grizzlies again, with 43 career-high points easily taking away the opponent.

This 6-footer is underestimated because of his height, and he did not enter the top three in the draft. He is using his wonderful performance to prove to the world that basketball is indeed a game for giants, but a 6-footer, if there is Outstanding technology and a strong heart will also be a giant.

This small third-year player has huge energy in his body, which has greatly increased the strength of the terrible player of the New Orleans Hornets, and his popularity has also skyrocketed. Although the season has just begun, the Hornets' stable and outstanding core structure, as well as the outstanding performance of the top players, make people believe that this rising star can survive in the cruel West.

Of course, they still need to go through the baptism of a strong team. After two days of rest, the Suns took a plane to New Orleans in the south and started a three-game streak of death in the Southwest against the Hornets, Spurs and Mavericks.

Because he knew that he was about to face a strong enemy, Leon did not give the whole team a holiday during these two days, but increased the amount of training to keep the players in good condition. Leon is a very meticulous coach. Regardless of the offseason and the beginning of the season, he will give the players a holiday and take them out to play, because the season has just started and the players need a process of adaptation.

In the middle of the season, with the increasing density of the schedule and more and more journeys, the players' training should not be relaxed, but should be more regular and efficient. They can no longer go out to play casually on vacation, and must maintain a good competitive state . At this time, the true colors of Leon's devil coach began to show slowly.

On the field as a hands-off shopkeeper, he began his strict training guidance off the field. On the 13th, it was miserable to practice all right, and the training made the players a little suspicious of life. It's not that I'm tired, but I feel that I'm doing nothing wrong, as if I've been playing for nothing for more than ten years, because Leon demands them with extremely strict standards.

Only Steve Nash satisfied Leon, but he also felt that the training was really hard. He didn't want to practice more and wanted to go home with his children.

On the 14th, Leon didn't care about it again, let the players practice freely to maintain their form, and asked everyone to add an hour of strength training in the gym, and then set off in the evening to the Southwest District.

On the 15th, the Suns conducted another one-hour shooting training plus simple tactical coordination exercises to fully prepare the players in terms of physical condition before this deadly road trip.

In the evening, at the New Orleans Arena, the house was packed, and fans got to their seats early. The New Orleans arena is one of the smallest arenas in the league. Basically, it can compete with the key arena in Seattle for the worst arena. The rise of the Hornets this year has made the ball market in New Orleans quite hot. In addition, it was against the Suns again today, so it was qualified for the national live broadcast.

The fiery atmosphere at the scene made the Suns players excited. In fact, before the game started, the Suns players didn't take the Hornets too seriously. After all, the Hornets were still an underdog last season, and their core player, Paul, was just a 6-foot-tall third-year student, who felt tender compared to an old fritter like Nash.

Their minds are thinking, after beating the Hornets, they will go to San Antonio to play against the Spurs the day after tomorrow, to avenge last season's playoffs. But they didn't expect that what greeted them today would be a bitter battle.

The game started at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The person sitting on the coaching bench of the New Orleans Hornets was really Byron Scott. When he was in the Eastern Conference that year, he also fought against Leon this year, winning first and then losing. Now that he has come to the west and led the Hornets to a good performance, Scott still has two hands as a player and a coach.

As for his two songs, Leon is clear in his heart, it depends on how the players on the field gather and unravel.

The two sides start, the Suns are still the regular lineup, the Hornets are center Tyson Chandler, power forward David West, small forward Rasu Butler, shooting guard Maurice Peterson, point guard Ke Reece Paul.

The organizational structure of point guard-power forward-defensive center plus defensive wing is a lineup structure Scott is familiar with, and he also transplanted it from the Nets.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides jumped the ball, Tyson Chandler was tall and long, and he touched the ball first, and the Hornets got the offensive ball. Paul took the ball to organize the offense.

Nash Paul, the best point guards of the two eras began their contest.