Chapter 126 Three losses in five battles, bottoming out!
One day later, the Suns continued to play at home, this time their opponent was the Los Angeles Clippers.
This is the second time the Suns have played against the Clippers this season. The two teams are in the Pacific Division and will meet four times each season.
The Clippers' goal this season is to pick a lottery pick, while the Suns' goal this season is to win the championship. Naturally, there is not much suspense in this game.
In the end, the Suns defeated the Clippers 108-85 at home.
The Suns still flourished in this game, with 7 players scoring in double figures. This way to win is the easiest way.
Chen Yan played about two and a half quarters and scored 17 points and 5 assists. The game entered garbage time before he even started to work hard.
Brand is injured on the Clippers side, and Maggette scored a team-high 25 points and 5 rebounds. The statistics look good, but anyone who has watched the game knows that they are all fake and have no impact on the trend of the game.
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After winning the Clippers, the Suns will pack their bags and embark on a week-long road trip.
The first stop on the road trip is Dallas.
Since being screwed by the Warriors last season, the Mavericks have become the laughing stock of the entire league. Dirk Nowitzki, the core of the team, has been labeled a softie, the most embarrassing MVP in history, and other embarrassing labels.
This season the German tank is holding back a lot of energy, he wants to make a comeback to prove himself to the outside world!
During the summer offseason, Mavericks boss Cuban hired All-Star Ray Allen as his assistant. Ray's arrival will further enhance the Mavericks' outside firepower. No matter how the media and experts ridicule him, this season
The Mavericks are still one of the favorites to win the championship.
The game started quickly, and Nowitzki hit two consecutive mid-range jumpers as soon as he started.
With a height of 211cm and various golden roosters' independent back-ups, King Nuo is almost unstoppable in one-on-one singles. Whether he can score or not depends entirely on his own touch.
Nowitzki has a good hand tonight. He scored 23 points at halftime, including 6 of 8 three-pointers!
In addition to King Nuo, Ray Allen also scored 5 three-pointers in the half tonight.
Two sharpshooters teamed up to rain three-pointers at the American Airlines Center!
The Mavericks' offensive continued unabated in the second half, the home fans roared loudly, and the Suns were completely suppressed in momentum tonight.
Although the Suns had an 11-3 spurt in the last 3 minutes under the leadership of Chen Yan, they were still unable to recover.
They were already far behind, and the Suns had to accept the away defeat.
In the end, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Suns 111-103 at home.
The performance of the Suns team tonight was quite satisfactory, with 5 players scoring in double figures. Chen Yan and Stoudemire both contributed a team-high 25 points.
But the Mavericks had no choice but to explode from the outside. King Notre Dame and Ray Allen jointly contributed 14 three-pointers. In addition, Terry made 2 of 4 from outside, Josh Howard made 2 of 2, and Eddie Jones made 1 of 2.
Stackhouse went 1 for 3...
It can be said that the Sun was thrown to death by the Mavericks tonight.
This way of losing makes people lose their temper. A season is very long, with 82 games, and there will always be games like this where the opponent's outside touch is overwhelming.
After losing to the Mavericks, the Suns didn't have much time to sort out and reflect. One day later, they will go to Salt Lake City to challenge the Utah Jazz!
The Jazz are currently ranked sixth in the Western Conference. With this record, they can firmly enter the top four in the Eastern Conference. Unfortunately, the Western Conference has been too involved this year. The Suns, Lakers, Spurs, Hornets and Mavericks are all capable of competing for the championship. The Trail Blazers also have a sudden rise.
There are signs that the combination of the Nuggets and Rockets Yao-Mai is not a vegetarian.
In such a general environment, they are currently ranked sixth in the Western Conference, which shows that the Jazz still have something.
Among the top 8 teams in the Western Conference, the Jazz are obviously the bleakest. The biggest star of this team is coach Jerry Sloan. Boozer and Deron Williams were trained by him.
Only then did they shine. In their previous lives, the two of them obviously dropped a level after leaving the Jazz system.
But in Sloan's hands, the two of them are the new Utah twins who are killing everyone!
The Utah Jazz played a classic pick-and-roll game at the beginning. Deron kept hitting the inside to score points, and Boozer also scored on jump shots.
The sun has fallen into a state of collective misfire.
Back-to-back Devils home games made the Suns feel lost. They only scored a pitiful 18 points in the first quarter, and the team made 0 of 6 three-pointers. They collectively turned into ice shooters!
This is undoubtedly fatal for a team that always focuses on jump shots.
The Suns' condition did not improve in the second quarter. D'Antoni saw that the outside was still unable to open up the situation and changed the tactical arrangement, allowing Chen Yan to hold the ball and hit the basket to cause damage!
This tactical deployment achieved certain results. After halftime, Chen Yan helped the Suns chase the score to single digits.
At the beginning of the second half, white center Okur stood up and hit two three-pointers from the top of the arc, widening the point difference again amid the roar of the fans.
Nash kept trying, but his teammates just couldn't get going. Chen Yan relied on his personal breakthrough to score 35 points in this game, but the team still couldn't escape defeat.
The feeling of being cut short was very uncomfortable, and the feeling of losing streak was even more uncomfortable. Chen Yan hurriedly accepted the reporter's interview after the game and returned to the team bus.
The next day, the domestic media published various headlines boasting about Chen Yan, such as why it was difficult to save the savior with 35 points, and the team still scored 35 points despite adversity...
Some media even thoughtlessly published news that Suns teammates were holding Chen Yan back. Chen Yan took a look and closed the web page. He didn't care about these remarks.
Chen Yan knows that the abilities of the teammates around him are online. Everyone is in bad shape sometimes, and he didn't perform well from the outside in the last game.
In the next two games, the Suns won one and lost one.
On December 15, the entire Suns team went to San Antonio.
That's right, their last opponent on the road trip was none other than the archrival Spurs!
The Suns have lost three of the last five games. The whole team held a short meeting after training. They want to defeat their mortal enemy through this game and complete the bottoming out!
"Chen! Look here!"
"Chen, give me an autograph!"
"Come on! Chen, continue to be aggressive on the offensive end tonight!"
During the warm-up, Chen Yan kept hearing the sounds of fans cheering for him on the sidelines.
Don't get me wrong, it's not Spurs fans who defected on the spot, these are all fans of the Texas Longhorns when Chen Yan was in college.
Austin is less than an hour's drive from San Antonio, and many Texas Longhorns fans drove there specially to support Chen Yan.
Chen Yan found that many of them were old faces. Chen Yan waved to them and after the warm-up, he chatted with them on the sidelines like old friends.
It has been half a year since he left the NCAA, and there are still many fans wearing college jerseys to support him. This feels great.
