How strong is Nash?

In the summer of 2004, Steve Nash came to Phoenix Suns.

That year, Nash was 30. Prior to that, he played for the Dallas Mavericks for six seasons, was selected for two All-Stars and two All-Team Teams, and helped the Mavericks reach the Western Conference finals in the 2003 playoffs. However, in the 2003-04 season, after the Mavericks signed two scorers, antoine walker and jamison, Nash's tactical position in the team plummeted, averaging 14.5 points and 8.8 assists per game. In the eyes of the Mavericks' management, he became unimportant.

At that time, it seemed that with the increase of age, the physical condition and competitive level of white point guards had inevitably declined. Considering his history of frequent injuries, when the Suns offered Nash a six-year, 63-million-dollar contract in the free market, and Nash, who was in love with Dallas, hoped that his old club could match, mark cuban, who had always been generous, hesitated. He felt that the Sun's offer for Nash was a bit expensive, and he preferred to throw money at erick dampier in the free market.

Therefore, he gave the star point guard to the Phoenix Suns, a fishing club, which won only 29 games in 2003-04, ranking second from the bottom in the West. But what everyone, including mark cuban, never dreamed of was that this frail old cowboy on horseback was reborn in Phoenix and gave birth to a pair of gorgeous wings! Spread your wings for nine days and shine under the attention of the world!

In the 2004-05 season, he averaged 1 1 times per game. He averaged 15.5 points and1times per game with 50.2% shooting percentage, 43. 1% shooting percentage from three-pointers and 88.7% shooting percentage from free throws. The most amazing thing is that he led the Suns, who won only 29 games last season, to 62 wins that shocked everyone! Let the team average 1 10.4 points in the NBA in the past ten years, and let the team become the first in the league from the bottom in the west! Won the league regular season MVP! In the playoffs, he even inspired his own performance. With an average of 23.9 points, 65,438+065 and 438+0.3 assists per game, he led the inexperienced Suns to surpass the Grizzlies first, then beat his old club Mavericks, and reached the Western Conference finals all the way!

In the 2005-06 season, Amar'e Stoudemire, the team's top scorer, was reimbursed for injury, and joe johnson, the top scorer on the outside line, went to Atlanta to set up a new home. Because Nash didn't have the best boxer before, it was predicted that even if he had excellent organizational talent, it would be difficult to cook without rice. However, in the general decline of the outside world, Nash, 3 1 year-old, continued to be magical, turning the stone into gold, leading the Suns to rank second in the West with 54 wins and ranking first in the league with 108.4 points per game. Nash was also selected to the "180 Club" with an average shooting percentage of 5 1.2%, a three-point shooting percentage of 43.9% and a free-throw shooting percentage of 92. 1%. He averaged 18.5 points and 10.5 assists per game, and was selected as the best team for a while. And lead the team to the western conference finals again!

In the 2006-07 season, 32-year-old Nash averaged 18.6 points and1.6 assists per game, hitting 53.2%, 45.5% and 89.9% for three consecutive years, becoming the assists king and the best team player in the league, ranking second in the MVP voting in the regular season and leading the team.

With his joining, the Phoenix Suns quickly became the top team in the league, which led to a qualitative change in the whole team. In D 'Antoni's "7 seconds or less" offensive system, Nash inspired his ability to the extreme and unexpectedly became one of the best players in the league. He obviously made his teammates better. Many people can only use "magic" to describe his game influence on the offensive end, because he is like a legendary magician. It seems that as long as he reaches out and blows, everything in the team will become beautiful and practical.

Then, back in the game, what is the strength of Steve Nash, a white old point guard who is 1.95438+0 meters tall but can't even dunk at the basket? How on earth did he influence the game?

First of all, it is his organizational ability.

Steve nash is a real master passer. In his time, he and jason kidd could perfectly interpret the true meaning of point guards on the court by passing the ball.

His passing is fast and free, which seems to be desperate, but in fact, every serve has been carefully thought out.

He has a super processor, which can quickly analyze and calculate the results in fast-paced short-term offensive rounds, and he can see those fleeting opportunities. He always puts himself in a favorable position, where he can make a variety of choices, whether in the process of flying with long hair, in the process of quick attack and attack, or in the process of positional warfare. His pass is often instantly activated into a score at the first time or the second before the teammate's opportunity comes. He is very keen on speed. When passing short and middle passes, he tends to pass with one hand, which is not stable in the eyes of many coaches, just because he found that passing with one hand is 0.3 seconds faster than passing with both hands after receiving the ball, so his teammates will have 0.3 seconds more time to shoot. In big slashes and long passes, he will smash the pass with his penetrating hands.

All this is to make the ball pass to teammates faster. Contrary to Nash's weak body, his passing is extremely explosive in an instant. Just like a pistol that fires immediately after pulling the trigger, when he musters all his strength to make the ball explode, people will always hear a bang in his mind, and then his teammates will finish the attack like athletes who will jump to the ground when they hear the starting gun.

He can change the game by passing the ball.

On April 29, 2007, in the fourth game of the Suns-Lakers series, Kobe scored a game-high 365,438+0 points, but Nash took the victory with 23 assists.

In the competition:

-Nash pretended to feed Stoudemire in the low position, but suddenly his wrist shook and he launched a long-distance arc, leading Marion under the basket to jump high and complete the layup;

-high pick-and-roll, Nash took the ball to the right of the free throw line and was surrounded by four Lakers players. In the crowd, he watched the shooter on the left-wing three-point line, raised the ball and rushed to Stoudemire in the restricted area, but when the ball came out, it bounced along the edge of kwame brown's body in front of him to Marion's hand lying in ambush on the other side of the restricted area, helping the latter directly pull up the ball and attack the basket.

-The teammate missed the shot and he caught a long rebound. Seeing four players huddled under the basket, he still took advantage of the situation and quickly penetrated the ball into Stoudemire's hand under the basket to help him dunk directly.

-Keep turning the ball with your wrist to the hands of teammates around you to help them hit the jumper;

-Nash stopped the ball in the high position, Stoudemire waited at the basket, and three Lakers players blocked it in the middle, but Nash still passed the ball to Odom's right rib in front of him at a strange angle. Then, the ball passed Wharton's hand in the process of falling low, and then hit the ground in front of kwame brown. Brown bent down and stretched out his arm to stop it, but the ball bounced right through the narrow gap between his left leg and left arm! Magic runs through three people and is sent to Stoudemire to help him dunk with both hands;

-During the transition, Vucevic passes the ball into the penalty area. Five defenders of the Lakers are around. Nash jumped and jumped, leaned forward and looked out of the right-wing three-point line, and his arm waved to Marion who followed him. But just when people thought he was going to pass the ball to Marion for a layup, he quickly swung the ball in mid-air and then threw it to the bottom corner for three points, giving Barbossa a chance to open a three-point space in front of him.

He can always create a variety of passing options for himself, thus creating a lot of scoring opportunities for his teammates, all because his wonderful passing skills can turn many opportunities that are not considered opportunities in the eyes of others into opportunities to score easily. A real touch of a stone will turn into a golden hand.

Then, it is his shooting ability.

Before Steve Curry, the God of Shooting, Nash was the most accurate shooting point guard in NBA history. His career three-point shooting percentage is as high as 42.8%. In the 2007-08 season, his three-point shooting rate even reached an astonishing 47%. In the 2006-07 season, he even filmed a rare hot shooting season in history, and his hands felt as hot as flames in any corner of the court. At this point, even Stephen Curry didn't do it.

Nash's shots are fast and accurate, and almost every hit is in direct contact with the basket, just like an excellent diver will not cause unnecessary splash when entering the water. Sending him to the free throw line is sending him to score, and his career free throw percentage is as high as 90.4%! On the sum of the three hit rates, his value is as high as 182.2, even slightly higher than Curry's 18 1.8, which is the highest among all players who have played more than 200 games.

In addition, he is an epic master of pick and roll.

After quickly holding the ball and advancing to the frontcourt, he will quickly pick and roll with his teammates and open the team's attack. After the pick-and-roll, he will move sideways around the cover and observe the defender's response. If the defender chooses to bypass after the cover, he will seize the space and shoot directly; If the defender chooses to squeeze through the front of the cover, Nash will break through the basket. Once the defender makes up the defense, his pass will find the teammate who is let go by them. If he doesn't make up the defense in time, then you will see Nash with long hair riding the wind and waves and easily sending the ball into the net. Even if someone gets stuck in the basket, he has an emergency jump shot and throws the ball into the basket with an exaggerated backward shot. If the defender chooses to double-team him after the pick-and-roll, then he can only wish them and Huashan good luck. " ......

Because Nash and Stoudemire are one of the best pick-and-roll combinations in NBA history.

Besides, this is just the simplest routine. In fact, Nash's pick-and-roll attack is really enchanting and changeable. He has no speed and explosive power, but he knows how to use his offensive containment to tease the defensive nerves of the opposing team. In the area around the free throw line, he can instantly radiate deterrence to the whole half with him as the core.

In the 2004-05 season, when Nash was present, the offensive efficiency of the Suns was 120.3, while when he was absent, the offensive efficiency of the team was only 102.9! Intermediate difference 17.5438+0! This is the offensive influence of Nash's terror.

In the 2005 Western Conference semifinals, in the fourth game of the Suns-Mavericks series, Nash scored 48 points with a shooting percentage of 765,438+0.4%, even though he only made four free throws! Therefore, if Nash is selfish on the court, he is fully capable of raising his average score to about 25 points. But obviously, Nash never cared about such data. He didn't want to get so many points at all. Even when he scored 48 points, Nash felt a little ashamed because he just wanted to help the team win.

But we never doubted that Nash was a deadly killer.

In Game 6 of the series against Mavericks in 2005, the Suns trailed by 3 points in the last 22 seconds before the end.

Nash started to pick and roll with the ball, causing the Mavericks to change their defense. After seeing Marion Viteri's obvious dislocation advantage, Nash passed the ball, but Marion immediately passed it back. After understanding the meaning of his teammates, Nash did not hesitate. He faced his former teammate Nowitzki and launched a decisive attack. After dribbling and shaking continuously, he quickly passed and scored two points in the layup. At last 14.2 seconds, the difference is reduced to only 1 minute. Then the Suns took foul tactics, and stackhouse made two free throws, once again pulling the difference to 3 points.

Looking at the little time left, Nash decided to put all his eggs in one basket. After catching the ball in the backcourt, his long hair flew all the way. After rushing to the three-point line, pull it out and shoot it! Is it too busy for electricity to fly, and basketball will equalize the score instantly when it is directly connected to the net! Drag the game into overtime to bring the Suns back to life. In overtime, Nash even went all the way, leading the Suns to beat the Mavericks, scoring 39 points 12, assisting 9 rebounds and successfully completing revenge.

In those years when Nash wore the Sun 13 jersey, he saved the team at critical moments many times: running for the Nets, winning the Warriors with three points and breaking through the Raptors with one point. He also hit a magical three-pointer against Kidd, dragging the game into the first overtime. "... at the last moment of the game," Sun God "is still shining!

After the Millennium, he is the real totem and god of the Phoenix Suns.

In 2009, when Nash played a losing season with O 'Neill, and O 'Neill was very incompatible with his style and missed the playoffs, everyone thought that Nash, who was 35 years old, should go to a more competitive team to compete for a championship ring of his own, but he signed a three-year contract with the Suns and chose to stay, just like a real king would not abandon his kingdom at will. The following year, Stoudemire, Jason Richardson, grant hill, robin lopez and Drazic, as well as Dudley and channing frye who came back from injury miraculously surpassed the Blazers and Spurs and entered the Western Conference finals again!

At the age when ordinary people have retired, he still averaged 16.5 points and 1 1 assists per game, and his three-phase shooting percentage was 50.7%, 42.6% and 93.8% respectively. He once again entered the "180 Club", became the king of assists in the league again, and was selected as the second team of the best team in the league. The true god of health control.

He made a team that was supposed to be in reconstruction only two steps away from the finals, and he turned decay into magic again. He is a real team leader, always making his teammates better, always trying to unite them, and his teammates are very willing to follow in his footsteps.

Until the summer of 20 12, all Suns fans couldn't bear to see him continue to waste his afterglow here. At that time, Nash, who was 38 years old, left Phoenix with the gratitude and farewell of Suns fans, and came to the Los Angeles Lakers to pursue the championship dream that has been close at hand but always out of reach. But it was not until he announced his retirement and became a player development consultant for the Warriors that he really got the first chance to get close to the championship trophy in his life.

When others were at the party, I gave them a gentle kiss. The only way to know the taste is to know yourself.

He has regrets all his life, but he has no regrets all his life.

After retiring for many years, he was elected to the naismith Hall of Fame. He has his own stand at the home of the Suns. The most important thing is that he lives as smartly as he did on the court.