Updated: 2013-02-19

When the league just announced that Stephen won the best defensive player, a long commentary article from the Associated Press was released almost at the same time. It can be seen that they were prepared in advance. Of course, with the Associated Press's status, it is normal to obtain news from the league in advance.

The title of this article is "Nothing to Doubt". It is reported that a player who won the season's scoring champion on the offensive end, played 74 points, 83 points, fifty plus a row, and averaged 40 plus miracle performances per game means that he conquered the entire league on the offensive end.

No one or that team's defense can have a significant impact on Stephen, or when facing a defensive player, Stephen's data has dropped significantly, which means that his offense is very common, and it is difficult for a simple defense to play a role in him.

His defense is also unnecessarily ignored. After coming to the Seattle Supersonics, Stephen still had the defensive task of fighting against top scorers in the league. Although the team's requirements for him have been reduced a lot compared to when he was with the Spurs, Stephen did not relax his requirements for himself.

Although his investment in the defensive end is not as sufficient as before, the quality of defense has not declined as a result. As can be seen from the significant decline in the data of players facing him, his defense is still so firm.

Almost all scorers encounter Stephen, and their personal scores have declined to varying degrees, especially those players with single scoring methods. Whether it is single defense, assisted defense or supplementary defense quality, Stephen's performance among outside players is excellent.

Although he was able to win this award more for data reasons, and now the evaluation of this award is becoming more and more data-based, the old saying goes: "Everything can lie, only data won't lie." He was able to get the highest steal data in the league, and at the same time, he was the highest block data for outside players, which was enough to prove his defensive investment.

If you have a player who can dominate both leagues on both offense and defense, what else is there to doubt about? This is something that no active player can do. If Stephen can win the regular season's most valuable player this season (it seems basically no doubt at the moment), then Stephen will become another player who won both awards at the same time after Michael Jordan and Olajuwon.

If Stephen can win the Finals MVP again (it doesn't seem too hopeful), Stephen will become the fourth player to win the MVP Grand Slam after Willis Reed, Michael Jordan and O'Neal (the All-Star MVP shared with Duncan).

Stephen did not expect that with the current strength of the Supersonics, it would be basically a daydream. Unless those strong teams suffer from injuries, there would be no possibility, but Stephen has won this award twice.

Although no one thinks there are too many awards, the awards you have won will feel that you no longer pay attention to. A player cannot use honors and awards as the goal of pursuing, but after giving, these are the rewards you deserve when you give, but some rewards are earlier and some rewards are later.

At the end of the article, in a very exciting tone, do you still need to doubt his future in the face of Stephen's performance? As long as the Supersonics can keep him forever and at least guarantee ten years of glory, he will be a phenomenon, he will be an epic, he will be a legend, and he will be loaded into everyone's memory like history.

The author of this article is Wigridgemond. Stephen did not know him or heard of his name. He is not a well-known author, but why his articles can appear in media like the Associated Press? This is a very strange question.

However, such a simple and flattering article is rarely published in order to avoid the influence of the situation. But why did it appear on it this time? Modangs also said that it has nothing to do with this matter, and it was not his work.

While the entire team, Seattle, and even North America were discussing this article, the second playoff showdown between the Supersonics and Phoenix Suns began, and it was still in the Key Center Arena, where fans were still full of seats, but the game was not as smooth as the first one.

Based on the lessons learned from the first game, D'Antoni discovered that if the Suns want to win over the Supersonics, they must attack with all their might. Attack is the only possibility for the Suns to win.

But in this way, O'Neal, who spent a lot of money, became useless. Originally, he introduced O'Neal to strengthen his defense and low-post offensive capabilities in the interior to deal with teams like the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets, but O'Neal was not well compatible with the Suns' system.

The team played in a different way, giving people a feeling of being tired if they were not as good as being a tiger. Especially if they met other teams, O'Neal could play a little role, but they just happened to meet the Supersonics, which left them completely helpless.

The Supersonics are originally a team that focuses on offense and supplements from inside. They are also a team that focuses on offense and uses offense to drive defense. When encountering a team that does not have an inside, the Supersonics can also bully others with the inside. However, when encountering a team that is stronger inside, the Supersonics can only allow the inside to play a defensive role.

So after consideration, D'Antoni decided to put O'Neal on the bench and let him play with the bench, but instead let the team's starting lineup return to the previous running and bombing style. Although Marion lacked Marion and the team lacked a reliable scoring point and a strong outside defender, there was an additional Grant Hill.

Except for not having an excellent and healthy body, Grant Hill's other abilities, including consciousness, are all top-level abilities. He does not have the defense like Marion, but he can give Nash enough help on the offensive end to help Nash share the heavy responsibility of the organization.

The Suns have put in lineups like Amarest Demire, Boise Dior, Grant Hill, Lagabel, and Steve Nash. D'Antoni has tried a lot to persuade O'Neal to agree to accept the substitute. Otherwise, as he said, he has never played as a substitute since entering the league, and he would not have broken this convention.

In fact, this was the case when the Heat. Pat Riley wanted O'Neal to play as a substitute, but O'Neal refused to agree, which is also one of the reasons why the Heat traded it.

The Suns' offensive launched at the beginning did not expect that the Supersonics, especially Nash, had assists and his own offense, and they played like a super soul possessed, better than the two seasons he won the Most Valuable Player in the Regular Season.

Fortunately, the Supersonics withstood their offensive and did not let them widen the score gap. However, the Suns re-implemented the key defense against Stephen, Lagabell was responsible for personal defense, and Grant Hill was responsible for blocking Stephen's ball path, so Durant got a lot of opportunities, while Stephen gained assists.

In the second quarter, while Grant Hill was off the court, he was old after all, and his defense also increased his physical energy consumption, so he got off early. Although Gordon Girisek performed better on the offensive end than Grant Hill, his defense was much worse.

In the playoffs, after discussions by the coaching staff, the team doctors were sought, and at the same time, we also negotiated with Stephen. Stephen's playing time and distribution changed from the regular season. The first game was only briefly adapted, and the game began to follow the new rotation mode.

The change in the rotation mode is to keep Stephen on the field as much as possible and the rest time should be as long as possible. This seems to be a contradiction, but in essence there are many exquisite things.

In the new rotation mode, Stephen no longer plays the entire second quarter, but plays until halfway through the second quarter and then goes directly to the court at the beginning of the second half, and then goes off the court after playing for the most part of the quarter, and then goes off the court again after playing for one or two minutes in the fourth quarter before playing.

Under normal circumstances, Stephen can rest for ten minutes, plus halftime, which is enough. The new rotation mode is similar to the rotation of core players of other teams, especially in the second half. Generally, the starting lineup will be the first to appear. If the Supersonics still deal with the substitute as before, it will be very disadvantageous.

When he felt that he was about to end the court, Stephen no longer cared about his physical strength and began to attack the Suns' basket. He knocked Boisdio to the ground for the first time, earning two free throws, and then used it to complete a dunk on Amarest Demeer's head.

After completing a steal from Gordon Gillisek's hand, Stephen came back and made another fast break three-pointer, which has become Stephen's conventional scoring weapon. After a short wave of offensives, the Supersonics began to overtake the score.

But after Stephen left the field, the Suns quickly overturned the score again. After getting a five-point advantage, Steve Nash began to leave and replaced Barbosa. At the same time, Orr also began to appear and replaced Amarest Demire.

Facing the defense without Wilcox and Cott Thomas, O'Neal grinned and made a strong attack from the way up, causing Wilcox to foul. Although he is old, his power at the basket remains undiminished. D'Antoni found that putting O'Neal in the substitute lineup is still a good move.

Now O'Neal can contribute at most 20 to 25 minutes of high-level games, so he can only be on this long. Besides, the Supersonics' substitute lineup is not strong. If O'Neal's lineup cannot even handle the opponent's substitute, then he will not be called "Big Shark".

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