Chapter 275 274. Fight with Raja Bell again!

It took Nash only half an hour to coach the other three people, and he coached Zhang Yang from 3 a.m. to noon.

After lunch, I bought two DVs and returned to the Turkish Airlines Arena. I followed Felton to learn how to transfer videos, how to purchase paid email services, and how to send videos. Then I hurried to the visiting team's training ground to meet up with my teammates for training preparations... It was a busy day.

Fortunately, the Suns team has few training programs and only practices offense, and the amount is not large. He just consumes more energy, but he is not tired.

After the Suns team training, D'Antoni found Nash for a private chat.

D'Antoni: "Steve, did you have fun playing with those young guys?"

Nash rolled his eyes: "Once again, I have suffered a blow that I have never experienced before."

D'Antoni was surprised and said, "You are the best player in the world, who can hit you?"

Nash: "There's the youngest FMVP in the world on the other side, what do you think?"

D'Antoni: "Haha, that's nothing we can do. They are just too lucky. Of the three Western Conference championship contenders last season, the two they least hoped to beat were eliminated early, and they just happened to run into an opponent they have the conditions to turn the tables."

Nash: “Yeah, that’s fate.”

D'Antoni: "You said you were hit, but you didn't seem very angry."

Nash: "At least the Spurs didn't win the championship again... And I felt hit, not because a 19-year-old kid won the championship before me, but because of his talent. When I coached him, as long as I said an idea, he could understand what I meant. Not only that, he was not afraid of making mistakes and immediately started to try to see if it was feasible. I didn't have his learning ability and courage back then."

D'Antoni: "The youngest FMVP in history has to be a little bit special... What a pity, he's already a champion."

Nash: "Oh? Why, Mike, what do you think of him?"

D'Antoni: "He is so talented and has such a good relationship with you. I certainly hope that you can bring him back to be your successor in the future. Although he beat Raja and is an obstacle, our fans don't like him very much, but if he says he is willing to come to our team, our fans can directly rush into the stadium and drive Raja out."

Nash: "Haha, you can't let anyone else hear this... Then why do you say it's a pity?"

D'Antoni: "I originally thought that the Bobcats could at most become a team like the Brooklyn Nets, which could dominate the East but could not beat the strong teams in the West. He could not achieve real success in a small place like Charlotte, and he might have the idea of ​​leaving the team after his second contract expired. But he has already won the championship, and this expectation has been shattered."

Nash pondered for a moment and said, "It's hard to say. Mike, you are not a player like us and you don't understand our thoughts. If it were me, if I didn't win the championship, as long as there was still hope, I wouldn't want to leave. Isn't Kidd the same? The Nets couldn't get past the first round, so he thought about leaving.

After winning the championship, I might yearn for a more prosperous city..."

D'Antoni: "...Steve, you could be more tactful."

Nash: “…”

Fake, infected by the bad boy Jack!

...

The Bobcats' two rest days are over, and it is November 11th, a new week has arrived.

Zhang Yang didn't receive the award notification from the alliance in the morning, and he felt very disappointed.

虽然又是单周全胜，但他场均只有14.6分4板4.3助攻1.3抢断1盖帽，毫无竞争力。

After the morning pre-match training, Zhang Yang and several teammates went to the lounge to see who won the award.

东部周最佳，姚明，上周4场比赛3胜1负，场均25.7分8.5板4助攻2.7盖帽。

Western Conference Player of the Week, Stoudemire, won all three games, averaging 3 points, 27 rebounds, 8.3 assists and 1.7 blocks per game.

Felton: "Last week it was Jack and Chris, this week it's Yao and Stoudemire, all from the same class, is that a coincidence? It feels like the league is creating a topic."

Hill: "That should be the case, but their performance is indeed worthy of it, otherwise Stern would not be able to force them to be the best player of the week."

Zhang Yang: "I thought Emeka would win the award. He averaged 24.6 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game last week. It's a pity that he lost by 3 votes."

Okafor, who had been silent, spoke up: "Yao's performance last week was indeed better than mine. He played that kind of performance, playing only 32 minutes per game. I watched their live game against the Nuggets. He was able to pass the ball even with Anthony, Martin and Camby surrounding him. I can't do that."

Zhang Yang was speechless and said, "Emeka, why do you admire me? You should be angry and accumulate your anger. Next time you play against the Bulls, you should beat the little giant!"

“…” Okafor was silent for two seconds and said, “I understand.”

His teammates inexplicably felt sympathy for Okafor.

Okafor's personality made it impossible for him to oppose Zhang Yang's proposal. Since he had agreed, he would definitely try his best to do it... But that was Yao Ming! How pitiful. It was 8:40 p.m., and the entrance ceremony began at the main stadium of the Turkish Airlines Arena.

The Suns, who entered the court first, enjoyed the enthusiasm of the away game, with boos everywhere, especially when Raja Bell entered the court, the boos from the fans reached a boiling point.

Since the founding of the team, the only team that Bobcats fans truly and currently hate and regard as an enemy is the Suns.

As for the Cavaliers and Pistons, who they faced twice in the playoffs, Bobcats fans did not hate the former, but rather enjoyed playing against them.

The latter has already completed its revenge and won the championship. There is hostility among Bobcats fans, but it cannot be said to be hatred or disgust. To be more precise, that hostility is a recognition of the strong enemy.

Nash felt the hostility and hatred of the Bobcats fans, and felt that the mustache guy was overthinking it. Even if the bad boy Jack planned to leave in the future, there was no possibility that he would choose them... But it didn't matter, he had already left more of his mark in Zhang Yang's playing style!
After the entrance ceremony, Zhang Yang and Nash were invited to accept a pre-match interview from Chaoting TV.

The Bobcats' home games don't start until 9 p.m., so there must be domestic TV stations that will broadcast them live.

In his rookie season, Zhang Yang was said to have a breakthrough like Nash. Now he is also an MVP, although it was only for the finals series, but he is also a second-tier MVP. When the court compares him with the league's top superstars, he doesn't have to worry about being scolded.

Official media, you have to give face, Zhang Yang and Nash had an awkward chat in front of the camera.

The two said they had a good relationship and trained together in the summer, but the reporter had an expression of "guess whether I believe it or not"... Zhang Yang could do nothing about it, let them hype it up as they please.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, Stoudemire defeated Okafor to win the jump ball, the game began, and the Suns attacked first.

The Suns starting lineup: Nash, Raja Bell, Dio, Marion, and Stoudemire.

Bobcats starting lineup: Felton, Zhang Yang, Alan Anderson, Hill, Okafor.

Nash received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt. He was excited to see Zhang Yang guarding the top arc, but also a little annoyed - Bad Boy Jack's defense was not like his, so the label of successor was discounted.

Nash came to the top arc and felt the pressure of shooting interference brought by Zhang Yang's excellent positioning and basic defensive movements. He bent down and accelerated his dribbling.

Normally, Nash would not take the initiative to ask for a pick-and-roll. Between Marion and Stoudemire, whoever faced a stronger defender would take the initiative to screen for Nash. But this time Nash did not take the initiative to ask for a pick-and-roll. Both of them chose to move away. They knew that Nash wanted to fight with Zhang Yang at the beginning.

Zhang Yang also knew that he was defending very attentively and carefully.

After his teammates created space, Nash began to break through.

Zhang Yang knows Nash's breakthrough method very well and knows what kind of changes Nash might make, but he still couldn't stop Nash from breaking through!

Nash broke through to the right side of the free throw line, and made a quick stop jump shot before Zhang Yang, who was chasing him, and Hill, who was coming over from the wing, formed a siege... and it went in!
From breaking through to shooting, the whole process is done in one go, so smooth!

It was rare for Zhang Yang to defend Nash alone. After the first round, he felt uneasy.

He judged Nash's breakthrough route choice, but when he was sure that Nash would start to break through, it was already impossible to stop him.

Just like when Zhang San broke through, the opponent knew that he would turn around and rush forward, but when he turned around, the opponent had already lost the chance to block him.

But that wasn't the reason why he was so nervous. Later, he turned around to defend and pressed forward to interfere with the shot. He felt that he was just a little bit away from blocking it...but he didn't interfere at all! He couldn't even create conditions for a double team attack for Hill who was shrinking on the wing.

During the transition from offense to defense, Zhang Yang put aside the slight sense of frustration in his heart, ran to the front court, and was stuck by Raja Bell.

The fans at the scene began to cheer, with shouts of "Fake Bell", "Kill Bell", and "Gogogo Jack" rising one after another.

Feeling Raja Bell's rough confrontation, Zhang Yang now had a little bit of admiration for this high school classmate of Duncan. To be able to go from an undrafted player to a first-team defensive player, he was truly not an ordinary person. After that incident, he was not afraid at all when meeting him.

Raja Bell and Duncan both attended St. Dunstan's School in the Virgin Islands during high school, but Duncan was one grade older than Raja Bell. And when Raja Bell became a campus basketball genius in junior high school, Duncan was unknown in basketball. In 1990, when Duncan joined the school team in the 10th grade and became an instant hit, Raja Bell, who had just finished the 8th grade, received an invitation from a high school in Florida and excitedly went to the United States to attend high school.

Zhang Yang moved to the high position against Raja Bell. Raja Bell's rough off-ball defense gave him more confidence. Although he was not as strong as Felton and Wade in confrontation, he was almost the same as Raja Bell.

Last season, he suffered a loss when facing Raja Bell. He played without the ball in both matches. He only played one-on-one when Nash switched defense and when he faced Barbosa who was on the bench... Tonight, the atmosphere is already like this, so of course he has to play!
Zhang Yang took position on the right side of the free throw line and waved to Felton.

Seeing Zhang Yang firmly in position, Felton threw the ball over without hesitation.

Amid the increasingly loud cheers from the fans, Zhang Yang became even more excited and started to practice back-to-the-basket moves.

He made a fake move, turned around and rushed forward, retracted his feet, turned around and faced the basket with a fake step back, and took a step sideways to receive the ball... none of them could get rid of Raja Bell!

If he did more movements, he wouldn't have the energy to shoot. Zhang Yang didn't care. He turned around and leaned against Raja Bell, flipped over, and jumped!
Although Zhang Yang was able to fight against Raja Bell, he failed to knock the opponent back. Raja Bell pounced on him immediately and provided enough interference!
But at this time, Zhang Yang was very calm. He leaned back to avoid Raja Bell's block, tried his best to keep his body balance, and tried his best to ensure the strength of the shot, and threw the ball out...

Zhang Yang used all his strength to ensure the stability of his shot. After throwing the ball, he fell backwards and hit the ground. At the same time, the flying ball drew an arc and fell into the frame!

(End of this chapter)