Todd Dayer is the top mid- and long-distance catcher pitcher, and Luke Longley's close height is a natural threat point.

Under Kidd's control, the Supersonics lineup could not defend against the Suns' attack.

At the same time, the Suns are trying to maximize restrictions on Zhang Hao, and attack more actively, moving to Zhang Hao's breakthrough and shooting routes in advance.

The Suns are indeed strong, and even in the rotation lineup, the Supersonics still do not gain the upper hand.

However, the goal that the Supersonics want to achieve has reached the close score!

In other words, the Suns gradually widened the score gap in the first quarter, and it was stopped by the Supersonics!

After playing 3 minutes and 11 seconds in the second quarter, the Supersonics scored a 9-7 wave, narrowing the gap to 4 points. The Suns replaced Clifford Robinson in advance, but still couldn't defend it. Zhang Hao's breakthrough became faster, more fierce and faster, especially with the cross step that was so big that the small forward would be easily escaped if he didn't keep up with a single step. With the outrageous ability to attack at close range, the Suns could not defend it at all.

The focus is on the stability of the wing shooting. Kassel always appears near the free throw line in time to respond. Dell Curry and Schramf's open shooting stability, and Jason Williams' strong offensive rebounding support ability have given Zhang Hao a brutal performance that looks like a man against the whole team on the other side.

The overall on-site changes on the offensive end are fast, and with enough offensive players, the Supersonics basically replaced the lineup with the strongest offensive firepower.

If it weren't for sending the strongest offensive lineup to exert Zhang Hao's current extreme ability to break through and still insist on playing defense, it would be difficult for the Supersonics to seize the score.

Fortunately, Clifford Robinson has a much greater offensive effect than Luke Longley, which has allowed the Suns to withstand the Supersonics' firepower.

In the second quarter, the Suns scored 9 points and the Supersonics scored 8 points.

46 to 41, the Suns led by 5 points, called the timeout entering the official timeout stage.

As the game has been played so far, no one expected that who would have thought that the Supersonics team, which had such an easy start schedule, could score as low as that of such a tank team suddenly started to score?

Anfini Hardaway is about to play and said to Kidd, who is about to rest for a while: "There is no need to be such a big pressure. They can't guarantee stability when they play like this."

Kidd frowned and shook his head and replied, "I'm not pressure, but excitement! It's great to win the game that pressed that guy's team, but if it's his outbreak, we still pressed them to win the game, it's really great!"

"You're right."

Although Anfini Hardaway seems to care about anything, he is always particularly excited when fighting with Zhang Hao.

Who made Zhang Hao always label the "strongest"?

Especially when Jordan returns again after retirement, he will turn 37 in February next year and Ma Long is also 36 years old. With his performance so far this season, Zhang Hao's label on him has become even more shining.

Even though Anfini Hardaway was not interested in the first person, defeating the first person was still an exciting thing, just like when he led the team alone to defeat the Bulls.

In terms of offensive stability, Anfenny Hardaway believes that no one of their teams is afraid of! When the "Head Horse" was disbanded by the Lakers, their Suns are the team with the strongest offensive stability!

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The Supersonics also know that they have insufficient staff and insufficient stability when they attack.

But they were not stable enough when playing defense, and the Grizzlies and Wizards almost beat them up.

Since they are all playing styles with insufficient stability, how can they be beneficial?

After the official timeout, the Suns sent Anthony Hardaway, Hu Weidong, Rodney Rodgers, Clifford Robinson and Gugliotta to the court, playing for more than 5 minutes in the first half.

Hu Weidong performed well today. He played for more than 8 minutes and scored 6 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist.

The Supersonics sent a combination of Kassel, James Percy, Lewis, Jason Williams and Zhang Hao.

In fact, what makes the Suns' biggest headache is not how strong Zhang Hao is. They have been prepared to be beaten by Zhang Hao. They are confident that their overall strength is stronger than that of the Supersonics.

But now, Zhang Hao is too strong, and Zhang Hao plays at the center!

However, at this rotation stage, Dell Curry and Schramf went down to rest and prepare for the second half, and the Suns players were very confident that they could widen the gap!

Let Rodney Rodgers fight Lewis, the Suns have studied it. Lewis showed characteristics this year, talented to become a top pitcher, but at this stage it is too thin, too poor in the confrontation, and not excellent in the movement ability; James Posey is better than what he described in the draft prediction. His seemingly thin body is not timid when fighting against power forwards, and with his exaggerated wingspan, he has a huge limitation on technical players. From the news obtained from the reporter's interview with the Supersonics' confrontation training, James Posey has a good defense against Zhang Hao, but his offensive end is too tender and his shooting ability is not enough, and he has the possibility of growing up, but it is still early.

What needs to be noted is Cassel's outrageously accurate mid-range shot and Jason Williams' offensive rebound.

The Suns' official defensive adjustment ideas during the timeout are clear and very targeted.

But they made a mistake in their judgment and did not continue to make a breakthrough. Instead, they started a one-to-nine-shot mode that had no difficulty and had to create a one-to-nine-shot shot!

In every round, Zhang Hao plays a life-long attack, two people attack, three people attack, and surrounds in advance. As long as Zhang Hao receives the ball, he will shoot! Unless the opportunity appears in Kassel, he will throw the ball to the basket in various ways.

At this time, the problem of Kidd's absence arises, and the Suns' players' ability to adjust independently has become significantly weaker.

However, Lewis and James Percy were also very successful! James Percy scored 2 points in the counterattack, and Lewis made a follow-up three-pointer. Zhang Hao did not have any extra expectations on the two of them, so that the other party could believe that the two had restraint, so if they had no, it would be fine, but the two really scored 5 points in the second half of the second quarter.

In addition, Zhang Hao scored 8 points alone, Kassel's catch-up shot with two points and a slow-paced throw shot that turned around and broke through with a back in a positional battle.

The Supersonics scored 17 points in the second half of the first quarter!

With 17 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal in a single quarter, relying on Zhang Hao's rampage in a single quarter, the Supersonics were only two points behind the Suns 58-60!

Looking at Zhang Hao, who was holding his jersey and frosting his waist next to the bench opposite, listened to the coach's words, then spit out the jersey and nodded towards the player passage, the Suns players were beaten so hard that they almost doubted their lives!

23 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in the first half, which is simply crazy!

Kidd, Anthony Hardaway, Clifford Robinson... and even Hu Weidong didn't want Zhang Hao to increase his data to a triple-double average when playing them. Of course, he didn't want Zhang Hao to step on them and snatch the first month's best from O'Neal.

Now, still don't want to!

Kidd is now furious, but Anthony Hardaway is even more excited. This is the kind of opponent he is eager to defeat, the strongest opponent!

...

During the intermission, both teams made clear adjustments.

The Supersonics have determined their advantage to play at the basket.

Defensively, it is too difficult and almost impossible to limit the pitching group led by four major stars Kidd, Anthony Hardaway, Clifford Robinson and Gugliotta. Unless the opponent feels really bad or is careless and underestimating the opponent, but obviously none of them. The opponent is like other teams, and he is excited when he sees Zhang Hao.

The players and coaches of teams like the Supersonics have a very good mentality. If you can beat them, you will fight. If you can’t win, you will fight. If you can’t win, you can do your best. When you have a way to win, you will do your best. Anyway, except for someone who doesn’t want to be named, and a star friend who looks like a visit to the earth, others don’t score high, so they can fight as much as they should.

Veterans don’t care about their current data, they sign 2-3 years of contracts.

In the third quarter, Kassel and Zhang Hao continued to play, and Jason Williams and Ben Wallace took turns to play, and the forward and guard Artest, James Percy, Lewis, Dell Curry, and Schramf had the best feel.

This is the first time the Suns have encountered an opponent like the Supersonics. There are many young superstars in NBA history who are not very strong in leading the team. For example, after the 1997-98 season traded to Starkhouse, the Pistons collapsed, and Grant Hill tried his best but could not lead the team to the top ten in the Eastern Conference, but there are also clear routines.

The Supersonics team does not play according to routines at all, and their playing style changes as soon as they say they change. The key is that Zhang Hao bursts out as soon as they say they explode!

In the third quarter, Zhang Hao scored 6 points and 6 assists in a single quarter, leading the Supersonics to score 29-25. After the third quarter, the Supersonics surpassed the Suns by two points 87-85!

If the Supersonics really want, let Zhang Hao score individually, but Zhang Hao scored too fiercely. The Supersonics didn't want to see Zhang Hao soaring individually. When Zhang Hao encountered a pincer attack, Cassel's mid-range shot and the three-pointers of other players who could shoot made great contributions tonight! Except for Zhang Hao's 6 points and Cassel's 7 points, the others scored 16 points in a single quarter! This has been a rare and outstanding performance since the Supersonics started this season!

However, in the first half of the fourth quarter, the Suns once again took the initiative. Anthony Hardaway did not hold the ball in the first three quarters. He played for 22 minutes in the first three quarters, maintaining enough physical strength. In the last quarter, he started to exert force, scored 7 points and 2 assists in the half quarter, helping the Suns scored 17-14 in the half quarter.

During this period, Zhang Hao's singles played an important role, scoring 8 points with 3 of 6 shots. Two of them were pulled down when they entered the basket, or pushed the ball into the basket and scored 2+1. These two 2+1s. Zhang Hao bit the score when his teammates stood up for a quarter and the shooting fluctuated, but was not defeated by Anthony Hardaway.

Although he overtook the score 102-101, the Suns players were still beaten to their scalp numb by Zhang Hao.

42 minutes and 44 seconds, 37 minutes, 9 rebounds, 13 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks. If Zhang Hao only played like this today, the Suns could only admit that he was unlucky, but Zhang Hao has always been like this since the beginning of the new season. Tonight, he continued this performance!

What drove the Suns players the most crazy is that Zhang Hao seemed to never be tired. After completing such a single, he could immediately start retreating. The key is that he ran to the frontcourt with his jersey in his arms and continued to launch a high-intensity attack. Anthony Hardaway was slowing down in front and did not play much. After the fierce attack in the past half quarter, he seemed a little tired. Zhang Hao was full of the first three quarters!

In the past, the Suns were not that strong, and they did not have that strong suppression on the team where Zhang Hao was. They didn't feel anything yet, but now, it is obvious that Zhang Hao has fought to the end in many aspects and has performed this performance. Kidd and Anthony Hardaway discovered how terrible Zhang Hao is!

However, no matter how strong Zhang Hao is, their Suns still have an advantage in strength and the score has surpassed again!

On the other hand, Supersonic players will not always think too much about a strong team like the Suns.

Artest, who played in the fourth quarter for more than 3 minutes, saw Zhang Hao's 2+1 in the basket twice in a row. When he entered the timeout, he followed Zhang Hao back to the bench and said excitedly: "Boss... No! Boss! You are my boss, you are so awesome. I think my idol is going to become you. Oh my God, you are simply the kind of player I dream of becoming!"

Ben Wallace feels full of crisis next to him! Although this rookie is not that powerful in fighting now, she turned 20 half a month ago and has not even had enough flesh on her body. She also likes to practice boxing like him...

"Boss, so do I!"

Zhang Hao walked back to the bench with a black thread and drank wildly with a functional drink.

Now he is just thinking about how to win, and he doesn't care much about data and other things. Kidd has played for 34 minutes and has scored 7 points, 8 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals. He has assisted 13 times, which is a small problem.

The key is to win.

Zhang Hao recalled the strength shown by the Suns. It was definitely the strongest one they have ever encountered this season! It was even better than the 76ers.

After winning the championship, the 76ers entered the vicious circle common to the top teams in the league today, paying too much attention to collecting large-tonnage centers.

But the Suns did not. It may be that those teams did not give their true "high-quality resources" these days, that is, tonnage-type centers, to the Suns for free. After all, a 5+3-level 213 cm, 125+kg center can get a middle-class contract. The Supersonics also used such a center to exchange for a high-quality substitute point guard like Travis Best.

The Suns have only one tonnage-level insider, which makes the Suns lineup structure more reasonable than the 76ers, Jazz and other teams, and the intensity is higher than that of the Pacers.

After analyzing it for a while, Zhang Hao put this aside and watched his teammates excitedly want to win. He is now completely unaffected by the huge overall strength gap. He is very satisfied.

At this stage, what he wants is such a team atmosphere that can keep moving forward!

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With 5 minutes and 16 seconds left in the game, the Supersonics led 102 to 101 and held the ball.

The Supersonics replaced Cassel, who had been resting for half a quarter of the game, and Dell Curry, who played 26 minutes tonight, scored 18 points, Lewis, who performed unexpectedly well and scored 14 points, and Zhang Hao and Jason Williams were sent to the inside.

The Suns sent a combination of Kidd, Hu Weidong, Anthony Hardaway, Clifford Robinson and Luke Longley.

Getting a position and defending defensive rebounds are important tasks for the Suns at the moment.

Hu Weidong played very well tonight. When facing the defense of Lewis, Dell Curry and Schramf, he showed his singles ability well, and scored a career-high 19 points, with a high probability of 20+ for the first time in his career.

Hu Weidong, who was sent to the Suns' stable team to level up, became a troubled surprise, which made Zhang Hao feel a little annoyed, but he was a Chinese Jordan, and this goal has not been achieved yet, and there is still a chance.

After returning from the timeout, the Suns attacked, and Anthony Hardaway used his elf-like footsteps again, and turned around and took a step away from Zhang Hao's backup defense chief's two-pointer.

Fans at the scene were shouting "penny".

When the Supersonics attacked, Zhang Hao was hit by a pincer attack and passed the ball to Kassel. Kassel passed it again. He was ignored by the opponent tonight and Lewis, who performed very well, received the ball and made a three-pointer... but missed it!
To be continued...