Nine Hundred and Thirteen. Finally Became a Noble

The two first- and second-year shooters blamed themselves. If they scored one of their three three-pointers, they would not put so much pressure on Randolph and make him risk his life to grab offensive rebounds.

But Randolph was complaining: "That weak-ass center fell down with a push because of his weak feet, and he actually called me a foul? These referees xxxx..."

Sun Ce, who returned to the bench, heard Randolph's words. He estimated that Randolph wanted to comfort the two first- and second-year players, but he couldn't bear to say comforting words, so he said this.

Otherwise, if he was really that angry, he would just go and yell at the referee to get the lunch box. He wouldn't be able to hear Randolph's curse unless he got closer.

Randolph fell into a foul crisis, which is a troublesome thing. Being unable to play for the rest of this quarter is not a big problem. Randolph should have been replaced and rested. He did not rest in the first three games of 4 games in 5 days. , the biggest problem is that in the second and third quarters, opponents will definitely look for him. In the next two quarters, as long as Randolph gets fouled, he will be replaced immediately.

However, it was troublesome for Randolph to fall into a foul crisis, but Sun Ce focused on the half of the game that had just ended.

Looking back at this half of the game, if he hadn't started with a 2+1 and Randolph had a tip-in...the opponent actually defended these two attacks very well. After deducting these 5 points, they would only have scored 5 points in half a quarter. 9 points.

As good as the opponent's defense is, except for Jordan who scored 6 points normally, Sun and Randolph both scored 8 points when the opponent was already defensive!

Sun Ce didn't know if his judgment was correct - it seemed that they were forced to play the way Rivers used DeAndre Jordan in the original time and space!

In other words, in the original time and space, the tactics used by opponents to limit the performance of Paul and Griffin were used against them!

Deliberately giving Jordan a chance, and when giving Jordan a chance, he gave outside shooters a chance to fight, and at the same time, he also allowed the dual core of point guard + power forward to reduce shooting. At a certain stage, he suddenly strengthened his defense against Jordan, and then a pair of On first defense, the success rate of Paul and Griffin's one-on-ones drops. If you really want to be more secure, you can shrink the pitchers to guard Paul and Griffin.

Every year, the Clippers fall in the second round like this. As long as the opponent is not a team in the bottom half of the playoffs, the Clippers can't beat them in the second round every year. Sometimes even Paul and Griffin can't beat them. He was injured and in very good condition, but he was killed despite such tactics.

Although their two shooters, Klay Thompson and Paul George, are talented, they are just talents, and the 76ers' defense is much better than the Rockets at the time.

Sun Ce looked at Evans, who was listening to 76ers head coach Doug Collins' tactics and nodding his head.

He remembered that after Evans dunked on Howard, he talked to several starting teammates. He thought it was Evans' idea. When he saw Doug Collins, Sun Ce suddenly remembered that this was not Mike. Haier's later assistant coach with the Rockets?

Sun Ce can remember this incident mainly because an interesting thing happened at that time. McHale had a bad reputation because he sent Garnett to his old club during the Timberwolves. He couldn't find a job. He finally found the head coach of the Rockets. position, the initial salary was US$4 million over three years, and in the summer of 2013, the Rockets signed an important assistant coach, Doug Collins, with a salary of US$9 million over three years...

According to Harden later, the Clippers, who were able to come back from a 1-3 deficit in the 14-15 season when they were extremely healthy and defeated the defending champion Spurs in the first round, relied on Doug Collins to take over both ends of the Rockets' offense and defense. For this reason, McHale was fired just after he led the team to the Western Conference Finals in the 2015-16 season. However, Doug Collins was already in his 60s at that time and did not want to be a head coach. His body could not support such a full-scale performance. After years of intense work, the Rockets had no choice but to sign Bickerstaff Jr.

Thinking of this, Sun Ce compared the starting lineup of his team today with the Clippers' lineup with two pitchers that was commonly used by the Clippers in the original time and space with Paul, Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan. They looked really similar!

No wonder he was restrained by the other party.

However, what Sun Ce has to admire is the opponent's defensive execution. With Howard here, the 76ers' defensive execution is much stronger than last season.

Obviously this was not a prearranged defense. Of course, it must have been mentioned in the tactical meeting how to deal with DeAndre Jordan, but two hours before the game started, the opponent would never have imagined that they would start DeAndre Jordan tonight. , and it was impossible for the other team to know immediately after the two teams submitted their starting lineup. It was the warm-up time of the two teams.

Fortunately, DeAndre Jordan is only the team's No. 2 insider, and DeAndre Jordan does not have the strength that he will have in a few years. He is not strong enough to be an All-Star, and he does not have the strength that the team must use as the main center.

Sun Ce heard that coach Hollins had replaced Gasol with Paul George, and replaced Tony Allen and Battier. Battier went to play power forward to defend the opponent's short power forward. Just right.

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After returning from the timeout, the Grizzlies began to defend.

It came very suddenly, but I had no choice but to survive this period of time.

Without Randolph's restraint, Howard's defensive ability began to show. Howard, who was at his peak, was really strong defensively, and the Grizzlies' offense came to a standstill.

After Sun Ce passed the ball to Gasol, he took advantage of Tony Allen's off-ball pick-and-roll to cut in and receive the ball. Howard was able to get it back. That's fine. Sun Ce faked the opponent and no longer relied on his good physical fitness to show off his jumping ability. When Sun Ce passed the ball back to Gasol, Howard was able to rush out and interfere!

I had already prepared myself mentally. After Randolph went down, it was difficult to deal with Howard, who had strong defense and explosive physical strength. But after the real fight, I realized how difficult Howard was to deal with, even more difficult than when he was in the Magic team, because Holiday and Iguodala were on the outside, and these two also played the whole first quarter!

Evans went down to rest in the 9th minute. Holiday + Iguodala + Howard, the second strongest defensive trio in the league, was not something the Grizzlies could deal with.

It doesn't mean that they can defeat the second defensive trio with the league's top defensive trio of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, and Gasol. These are two different things. Holiday, Iguodala, and Howard are much stronger offensively than Sun Ce, Tony Allen, and Gasol! The defensive effect of the 76ers' trio against the Grizzlies' trio is stronger than the defensive effect of the Grizzlies' trio against the 76ers' trio!

And there is also Louis Williams, who replaced Evans on the opposite side! This guy is very pitfall, but he is also deadly when he is accurate! It is the Grizzlies' defense that is really good, so they didn't let the opponent score a lot and barely supported.

In the first half of the second quarter, Evans came back after a break, but Holiday, Iguodala, and Howard still didn't leave. The reason is very simple. After this game, they will have a holiday. This is the last game before the All-Star Weekend. The 76ers certainly want to win, and they don't want to be a stepping stone for the Grizzlies to suppress the Knicks.

Disliking the Knicks is one thing, but dignity is more important.

In the second quarter, the official timeout was called. If it weren't for Battier's stable three-pointer from the bottom corner, which he scored two times, the Grizzlies would have been almost pulled away by more than 10 points.

Battier's role today was too crucial.

Of course, this was based on Sun Ce, Tony Allen, and Gasol playing a whole quarter from the second half of the first quarter to the official timeout in the second quarter to maintain high-intensity defense.

And it was very sad that Randolph came on the court in the third minute of the second quarter, and he got his third foul after playing for two minutes, falling into a foul crisis. In addition to the foul itself, there was another very troublesome thing, that is, players who fell into a foul crisis would worry about fouls when making moves, but they were not confident. When the opponent wanted to foul, it was easier for the opponent to foul.

Fortunately, the defense held up, and with Battier's two important three-pointers, when the official timeout was entered again, the Grizzlies were 6 points behind the 76ers with 31 to 37.

6 points difference, grinding defense, and carrying through the first half, this is the only way for the Grizzlies at present, and they will find a way to make adjustments at halftime.

Coach Hollins asked Sun Ce if he wanted to rest, and Sun Ce shook his head. He was ready to fight. Originally, he didn't want to be that guy randomly, but today, he was very eager to be randomly.

However, although Sun Ce tried his best to play the whole first half and helped the team limit the 76ers' halftime score to 48 points, at the end of the half, the Grizzlies only scored 39 points!

In fact, the 76ers didn't expect that Randolph would fall into a foul crisis, giving them such a good opportunity to lead by 9 points into the halftime break.

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Back to the locker room, Sun Ce immediately went to... the barber shop.

In the locker room, Coach Hollins returned to the locker room and saw that Sun Ce was not there. He asked the players and learned from Yi Jianlian, who had just gone to refill the hair gel, that Sun Ce went to the barber shop in the commercial area of ​​the stadium to wash his hair.

Coach Hollins was confused, not knowing what Sun Ce was going to do, but after learning about Sun Ce's strange behavior, Coach Hollins became excited.

It's too hard to play!

Who could have thought that he deliberately changed the starting lineup, wanted to rely on Randolph to contain Howard, and rely on Sun Ce and Jordan's pick-and-roll to attack the inside, to create opportunities for the two shooters, but it was actually "predicted" by the opponent, and the opponent actually had a good way to restrain them.

In this situation, there is no other way except to expect the team to shoot well in the second half, unless... that kid explodes!

Now, it seems that there is a tendency to explode!

Coach Hollins suddenly felt a little sad... Before he became the head coach, he never thought that one day he would expect his players to do strange things, but now, once he encounters an unexpected situation that cannot be solved, he really has such expectations...

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On the other side, Sun Ce simply washed his hair, and then instructed the barber, Mr. Jack, to cut the hairstyle he wanted.

It's been almost a month since I cut my hair. Lily Collins complained about Sun Ce's messy hair. Now she has become Sun Ce's life-saving straw.

After cutting his hair, he quickly rinsed it with water, blew it dry, and applied gel cream on it himself.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Sun Ce never thought that he would become a proud nobleman one day...

"Use the Troika Card!"

After Sun Ce looked at himself and felt sorry for himself, he decisively used the Troika Card he had just received last night. The system screen popped up and a cold text prompt appeared on the screen.

"The host uses the Troika combination to randomly select the Peak Star Experience Card of a random player, and randomly..."

Looking at the three three-dimensional images that appeared alternately on the screen, Sun Ce prayed in his heart: "Uncle Learning Machine, my dear uncle, I have already accomplished this, please give me a way to survive..."

Three seconds later, a three-dimensional image was frozen on the system screen.

Sun Ce is about to burst into tears, it smells so good!

The last thing he wanted to do before was this guy, but now he was randomly. Sun Ce was about to cry. He felt the fatigue in his body disappear. He left behind a sentence of "Otspes pays" and decisively ran away from the order. He ran all the way back to change clothes. room……

After passing by the world of his teammates and entering the locker room, Sun Ce got into the toilet and entered a stall in the bathroom. He didn't want to see himself in the mirror, and he didn't have the courage to show it to others right away. He turned on the system screen to read the prompts.

"Congratulations to the host for randomly drawing Tim Duncan's 2001-2002 version of the star experience card, which has been used automatically...

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Because the host has the same hairstyle as Tim Duncan, the matching degree is increased by 30%..."