When playing in the NBA, every player may have different goals.

There is a common goal to win the championship.

If you can win the championship as the main force, it will represent a lot of great salaries, directly defeating most opponents and reaching the NBA...

In other words, if you can win the championship, you can achieve the goals of most players' money, grudges, glory...

However, everyone is different.

Like Steve Nash, the tyrant of the Bad Kids Kingdom, his goal of playing basketball has become very simple to defeat Zhang Hao!

Looking at the era-level superstar opposite who enjoyed endless glory on the All-Star Game stage a while ago, Nash had already given up on one-on-one things.

Group a group to defeat him first!

This year's Supersonics are one of the weakest teams Nash has ever met with. Apart from the 99-00 season, Zhang Hao's team has never been so weak.

Don’t you take advantage of this time to have a shot at Zhang Hao, and you are still waiting for him to recover in the past two years and then fight head-on? Nash is not stupid.

There will definitely be times when you fight head-on in the future. Now you can pinch soft persimmons, of course you have to pinch them well.

On February 29, 2004, the game day for the Supersonics to challenge the Pistons away was here.

After taking off, Nash, at his new home court, Auburn Mountain Palace ushered in a game with Zhang Hao.

The Supersonics players appeared first, and Nash looked at Zhang Hao.

When the Pistons players appeared, Zhang Hao was also looking at Nash.

During the All-Star Weekend, Nash was not a core player of the Eastern Conference, and Zhang Hao's feelings were not very obvious.

Now, looking at Nash who was surrounded by the Pistons' generals after entering the court... Zhang Hao recalled the selected young man in 1996.

Let’s look at the present, this person has seven or eight years passed, and everything can change.

Nash's big back felt like every hair was waxed, as strong as steel bars.

If Chandler, Artest and others hadn't reacted quickly and surrounded Zhang Hao and refused to let Zhang Hao reach out when he said hello, probably the two teams would have started fighting because of their hairstyle.

These two people watched Zhang Hao play basketball in junior high school and high school, and happened to see the scene of Zhang Hao going to pull the crazy man up in the rookie season.

Soon, at 5:58 pm, the two teams took the game. The extra game was broadcast live by three TV stations: Fox Sports, CNTV, and Black Entertainment Sports Channel.

When the photos of the players of the two teams were played in the live broadcast again, the commentators of the three TV stations reacted surprisingly unanimously and did not know how to describe them.

The Supersonics or the Pistons are not so obvious when they fight with other teams alone.

Now……

Supersonics, led by Zhang Hao, the other four: Kassel, Marquis Daniels, Artest, and Odom.

The Pistons, Nash led the other four: Damon Jones, Tyshaun Prince, Amare Stoudemire, Rashid Wallace.

When Zhang Hao and Nash, the two team stars, were enlarged and displayed, the two photos of the two were in two photos on the left and right sides...

These two teams have the most live broadcasts in the East and the United States this season. The Supersonics have the most live broadcasts from the beginning. The Pistons have added the most live broadcasts in the East and the third in the league.

Not counting the Knicks, who owns their own TV station, the 9 Supersonics, the Lakers and Pistons, have the most live broadcasts in the United States.

But this time the two teams faced each other and found a problem. These two most popular teams, the defending champion of the Dynasty and the emerging super popular balloon team that set off a whirlwind craze in the wild court, have one thing in common, as if there weren't many good people!

Zhang Hao and Nash, in people's minds, are pretty good outside the court. On the court, there is a stone Buddha who despises everyone, and the other is a tyrant who is descending on the Auburn Mountain Palace.

The atmosphere of two gang leaders meeting on the court came to their faces!

...

Not only the commentator, but also the audience in front of the TV, but also the players of the two teams on the court and the fans on the scene.

The Pistons fans did not refuse adjectives such as "bad kids", "gangsters", "tyrant subjects" and so on. Instead, they did not refuse, they enjoyed it.

At 6 pm, as the referee blew a whistle and threw the ball into the air, Zhang Hao narrowly defeated Rashid Wallace to win the jump ball, and the game between the Supersonics and the Pistons started.

Scoring is as easy as drinking water for both teams.

On the Pistons, the positional defense is not that bad. The Supersonics players who were directly fighting each other, just by positional defense, the Pistons actually performed well!

Prince and Rashid Wallace led the team to play positional battles, and the defense was not bad, but after the Pistons ran and fought, the defense was like that.

The Supersonics, even Zhang Hao, was stunned by the first time he fought against the Pistons.

In the first 3 minutes and 55 seconds, the Pistons scored 19 points...19 to 10, and the Pistons narrowed the gap to double digits a little.

Zhang Hao called a timeout in time and sent a combination of Marquis Daniels, Trenton Hassel, Artest, Zhang Hao and Chandler to defend one-on-one throughout the whole process, and ignored everything. He used pure personal ability to suppress the defense... D'Antoni did not react at all this move, and the official timeout did not make good adjustments. The Supersonics stabilized the situation and played 9 minutes and 37 seconds in the first quarter. The Supersonics tied the score to 25-25! A 15-6 climax!

At the end of the first quarter, Bosh, who came on as a substitute, partnered with Rashid Wallace in the inside, Bosh could open up the space, Nash commanded Rashid Wallace to singles to Chandler, and Nash himself played Marquez Daniels alone if he had the chance.

When the Supersonics lineup was consumed by one-on-one teams, they used singles to solve the offensive problem. After being rushed for a while, Nash calmed down and also decisively adjusted his playing style.

Nash is a top singles player who can move forward with rules through singles to the All-Stars. This is as simple as drinking water for him at his peak.

Nash and Rashid Wallace's singles withstand the Supersonics' counterattack.

The Pistons made their last attack until 11 minutes and 55 seconds in the first quarter.

Nash serves, Rashid Wallace gets the ball at the free throw line and gets a second pass, Damon Jones in the bottom corner catches the ball and takes a three-pointer... hits!

After scoring the goal, Damon Jones shook his charming and funny dance!

37-36, Damon Jones made a buzzer-beating three-pointer, and the Pistons overtook 1 point and entered the break between the quarters!

"Damon Jones, 27 years old, 191 cm, 89 kg, ability evaluation 79, offense 83, defense 61... Average 12.6 points, 1.6 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game... shooting percentage is 40.9%, three-point shooting percentage is 43.2%, and 2.9 three-point shooting percentage is averaged... 1997 draft was missed, 1998 free agent signed a rookie with an annual salary of 750,000..."

Zhang Hao's defense was invalid and was shot into a buzzer-beating three-pointer by the opponent.

He looked down at Damon Jones who was dancing awkwardly, and glanced at the ability evaluation he had seen before the game.

Looking at this buzzer-beating three-pointer, Damon Jones, who scored 11 points in a single quarter, Zhang Hao turned to look at the Pistons bench... It is said that because D'Antoni had experience in cultivating an inside line of the same type as Stoudemire, the Pistons chose him as coach.

This is just like Jerry Colangelo of the Suns' original time and space choice D'Antoni as the head coach, and he accidentally hit him.

Many things are caused by coincidence.

Joe Dumas's player era was a rare character in the Bad Kids Army and a player with good quality. After retiring, he became the general manager and also implemented the style of being a good person.

Grant Hill wanted to leave and compete for the championship. Joe Dumas saw that his team was under the current core team and could not win the championship, so he was ready to let Grant Hill go.

When Grant Hill was affected by Zhang Hao and went to the hospital to find out that there were huge potential injuries, which might even cause her knee to be destroyed in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, Joe Dumas convinced the Pistons boss and asked Grant Hill to suspend the game and rest...

Then, Nash, who had a good relationship with Grant Hill in the rookie season, got to know him well at first sight. When he was considering his next home this summer, he gave up the Nets, which had already had a fast attack team that had successfully reached the Finals, and chose the Pistons, relying on Joe Dumas to do good things.

Then, D'Antoni got the duo of Tyrant + Tianzun who let him take off.

But now, Zhang Hao feels that D'Antoni has more than just running and bombing...

This ability to tap into small people is too sloppy!

Damon Jones made only 49 appearances with the Kings last season, averaging 4.9 points and 1.7 assists per game.

Combined with layups and mid-range shooting percentage, the three-point shooting percentage is not as high as that, and it is disliked everywhere.

But it is said that this player was signed by D'Antoni after the team formed the core combination of Nash + Wallace + Stoudemire.

A player who can't even get a veteran's basic salary and can only get a "real-basic salary" has become the main shooting guard of the top team in the league!

Average 25 minutes per game and scored 12.6 points and 3.9 assists!

Moreover, he became a surprise player in tonight's game. In the beginning and end of the first quarter, Damon Jones received a shot and scored 4 times with 6 shots, 3 of which were three-pointers and 11 points in a single quarter!

If the Supersonics want to limit the Pistons' offense, they must selectively vent the target when they have the opportunity to make up for it, but it is necessary to always vacate it as soon as possible.

Zhang Hao chose Damon Jones.

This is a common choice made by all teams, because Damon Jones only has the advantage of throwing three-pointers. He can also break through and shoot at close range, but except for three-pointers, Damon Jones' other positions are all negative contributions.

For most teams, Damon Jones has three uses in hand.

First, when playing key balls, when the control point and the contact point, Damon Jones is quite good. In the 99-00 season, he played 42 games with the Mavericks and made three three-pointers in the remaining 5 seconds, two of which became the final kill. He made a three-pointer who was unlucky to score in 5 seconds and did not win the game, because he met a No. 24 player who was unwilling to be named and beat the mid-range shot in 1.6 seconds.

The second is the time to beat garbage.

The last one is to play a game with no suspense. The latter, in a strong team, creates more rest time for the main players. In a weak team, it is still OK to play a game to watch the unrestrained player.

But in D'Antoni's hands, in such an environment, Damon Jones became one of the most popular players among Pistons fans, maximizing the advantages of being brave and daring to throw and having good passing ability, and always pulling the pace to the fastest when he is on the court. When the whole team's defense is not good, the other player's defense is not a disadvantage. However, his characteristic of daring to throw when he receives the ball at a fast pace is magnified to the greatest extent.

From the point to the surface, Zhang Hao saw the advantages of D'Antoni's system construction, overall game planning, etc. from Damon Jones.

He is cheerful and full of temper. Damon Jones likes to show off every time he performs well.

This time, Damon Jones became sexy again, enjoying the cheers of the fans, and suddenly heard bursts of exclamations.

When Damon Jones turned around, he saw Zhang Hao behind him, his expression was a little complicated, which scared Damon Jones!

Age, Damon Jones is several months older than Zhang Hao, but on the court... it is not the oppression caused by the height difference. A professional guard will no longer feel oppressive because of the height difference. There are more tall people among professional basketball players. This is the oppression on the court!

Zhang Hao did not make a lot of shots in the first quarter, and his teammates had a better chance of passing, but he still scored the highest single quarter of 13 points.

The main reason was that Zhang Hao did not look at Damon Jones, but instead glanced at Damon Jones with his aftermath...

This look, this expression, Damon Jones' dance movements stopped instantly...

From the end of the first quarter to Damon Jones dancing to Damon Jones froze, it took only a few seconds to make Nash and Rashid Wallace come to the two of them. They guessed that it was probably Damon Jones' three-pointer that angered Zhang Hao.

The tyrant and the Heavenly Lord are not afraid of Zhang Hao's beating and will not do anything casually. Zhang Hao is very relieved.
To be continued...