Nine Hundred and Forty. How Much Hatred and Resentment?

Bledsoe, Griffin and Eric Gordon in suits, three top talents, veteran scorer Caron Butler, backup combo guard Mo Williams...

Looking at the opponent, Sun Ce felt that the talent of this lineup was simply amazing. The owner of the Clippers didn't know why he was suddenly willing to spend money. He signed Caron Butler for 20 million in two years and traded Billup in January. Si, looking like he was about to gain momentum.

However, Billups played two games for the Clippers before he ruptured his Achilles tendon and was reimbursed. Before he could enjoy the growth that Billups brought to the young players, his momentum was stifled by injuries.

In addition, the Clippers' talented shooting guard Eric Gordon, who averaged 20+ per game in just his third year last season, is also out.

The Clippers now look like many players have very good statistics. Griffin averages 22.6 points, 12.3 rebounds, 4 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Bledsoe averages 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. Caron Butler averages 14 points and 5 assists per game. , Randy Foye averaged 13.2 points and 3.4 assists per game, Brandon Haywood averaged 7 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, the five starters looked very good, and the sixth man Mo Williams averaged 17.1 points and 5 assists per game. Very powerful...

Even if Billups and Eric Gordon are reimbursed for the season, such a group of players who feel very good at playing have a mediocre record of 24 wins and 22 losses, only ranking eighth in the Western Conference. If it weren't for the overall Western Conference this season, The victory is not high. The ninth-place Rockets only have 21 wins and 25 losses. In previous years, this winning rate would have prevented them from entering the playoffs. The Clippers' record does not match the data produced by the players.

Before Sun Ce arrived at the hotel in Los Angeles to catch up on his sleep in the morning, he briefly looked at the Clippers' scouting report, and he could probably understand the reason. The Clippers' lineup has nothing to say offensively, but nothing to say defensively.

It's too ordinary, averaging 104.4 points per game and conceding 103.4 points per game. The offense alone is okay, but the defense ranks last in the league.

At 6:58 in the evening, the referee signaled the starting players of both teams to come on.

Nash takes a rest today, and the Grizzlies' lineup of Sun Ce, Ridnour, Paul George, Randolph, and Gasol will start.

For the Clippers, the starting lineup of Eric Bledsoe, Randy Foye, Caron Butler, Griffin, and Brandon Haywood appeared.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the referee blew the whistle to start the game. Sun Ce won the jump from Haywood's head, and the Grizzlies took the lead.

Seeing Sun Ce win the jump ball from Haywood so easily, Gasol almost vomited blood. With the bounce shown by the opponent, he can do it too!

The last time we played against the Clippers, Gasol didn't play. Jordan jumped on the ball and won easily. However, Jordan's jump ball is already fierce. His jump ball winning rate is over 90%, which is better than Howard. To put it mildly, sometimes Howard can't beat Jordan. It's normal to beat Haywood. Gasol has no reasonable comparison object, and his impression of Haywood is still the same as in previous years.

Back then, Haywood was also a blue-collar center with excellent physical fitness, and he dominated Kwame Brown, the No. 1 pick in the same year, to occupy the starting position.

But now he is 32 years old. Last season was okay. After the lockout, his physical fitness declined seriously. Although he can defend in the low post and his rebounding efficiency is also good. He averaged 7.2 rebounds in 24 minutes per game, but he basically relied on 213 The centimeter height and tonnage allow him to defend against low posts and grab rebounds in blocking positions.

Ridnour slowly advanced after receiving the serve, waiting for the two bears to get into position.

If the Clippers' defense was a little more aware, Haywood would be used to guard Randolph who was walking inside, but the Clippers didn't. Griffin went to carry Randolph in the low post.

After Ridnour reached the frontcourt, he lobbed the ball to Randolph. Randolph had another round of torturing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Griffin's defense is actually not particularly bad. He has good flexibility, strength, and good jumping. However, those blue-collar players who eat pie from Hard Steel are okay. When they encounter a top-level opponent like Randolph, they look like a fool. , Randolph flew away in a flash.

He easily turned around and hit the basket, and the Grizzlies took the lead.

Today’s focus is on positional battles. Sun Ce’s triple-double is really not urgent. James didn’t get a triple-double. He can also take a break for a while. He didn’t even wear a blindfold. Today’s focus is on stability. The strength of the Clippers It's not bad, at least it's at the playoff level, and it can be regarded as training for the next game against the Lakers. Moreover, Randolph is always happy to get revenge on Griffin. Of course, Sun Ce will help Randolph open up space.

When it comes to the Clippers' offense, in addition to Evans, there is another person who has been nicknamed "Point Guard James", and that is Bledsoe, the Clippers' new point guard.

However, compared with James and Evans, who are now able to score three-pointers, Bledsoe advanced to the frontcourt and saw that Sun Ce, who was guarding him, retreated to the free throw line.

Bledsoe had no choice but to hand the ball to Griffin who was pulling out, and then cut inside, hoping to let Griffin break through Randolph with the ball from the outside.

It's a good idea, as Bledsoe's cutting threat relies on his excellent physicality.

However, Sun Ce went directly to double-team Griffin at a high position, completely ignoring Bledsoe's cut.

These two bastards have gone too far! Do you want to be so direct? Start the flanking attack without even going through the process?

Griffin angrily passed the ball back to Bledsoe who cut in.

Originally, Sun Ce was prepared to immediately retreat when Griffin passed the ball and flank Bledsoe with Gasol, but the advanced effect of "Food Break", "Besiege", was triggered!

Sun Ce made a goalie-like tackle. As soon as Griffin's ground pass left his hand, Sun Ce lay down on the left side. To others, it seemed as if Griffin took the initiative to push the ball to Sun Ce who was lying down.

Griffin quickly pressed forward to counter-steal. Sun Ce moved quickly and passed the ball to Randolph who ran out of the three-point line.

Griffin's speed was really amazing. He actually caught up with Randolph who had left the three-point line first. However, at this time, Sun Ce had already climbed up and rushed out. Randolph passed the ball back to Sun Ce. His ball control and advancement speed was indeed average.

However, when Sun Ce and Randolph ran to the front court together and Griffin followed closely, only Bledsoe from the Clippers chased after him. Randy Foye and Butler had little defensive desire, and Haywood could not keep up.

Two-on-two fast break in the front court!

Sun Ce rushed all the way into the inside and stopped outside the reasonable collision zone. Bledsoe and Griffin, two physically fit men, jumped up. Sun Ce made a ground pass behind him and immediately ran to the right.

The ball bounced out from under Griffin and Bledsoe, and Randolph followed up and received the ball from behind the two, knocking the two flying forward. In the confrontation, Randolph threw the ball to the basket.

At the same time as the referee whistled, Randolph's throw fell into the basket, Bledsoe blocked and fouled, and Randolph scored 2+1!

The impact of Randolph's rushing forward, Griffin and Bledsoe were both knocked off and hit the basket, the scene was simply miserable.

However, although it seems that the two people's defense this time is unreasonable, two players with explosive bounce actually jumped together, but the two are afraid! Sun Ce is the main player who can dunk Howard when he gets to the basket. He also catches the ball and dunks at the basket. He is known as the basket version of Stoudemire.

From the perspective of others, Sun Ce's pass was very selfless; from Sun Ce's personal perspective, he actually didn't have the confidence to take on two people at once, and it was not worth it to be injured by the two people if he insisted on dunking. These two guys were reckless and never meant to protect their opponents; but in Griffin's opinion, Sun Ce and Randolph were just playing tricks on him!

Looking at Randolph taking free throws, Griffin was not concerned about Sun Ce stealing his ground pass, but envied Randolph.

If he had Nash and Sun Ce passing the ball, he was confident that his performance would never lose to this guy, not just in terms of data, which was much better than Randolph's, but in terms of the role on the court!

However, Griffin had the awareness of being targeted, and the Grizzlies naturally had to meet his "expectations".

Sun Ce and Randolph double-teamed Griffin endlessly. If Bledsoe cut in and Sun Ce failed to steal or shrink to the right position, the basket would be handed over to Gasol Jr. Gasol Jr. did a good job in defending Bledsoe, a physical point guard who had not yet developed a shooting skill, and seriously interfered with Bledsoe's cut-in, receiving the ball and making a layup.

If Griffin goes inside, it's good. Sun Ce + the two bears on the Grizzlies will shrink directly. Bledsoe has a 20% three-point shooting rate. Sun Ce lets him shoot and shoot at will.

The defensive strategy of the Grizzlies is well implemented. As long as they fall into a positional battle, they will block Griffin or shrink their defense. If they encounter a counterattack by the Clippers, there is nothing they can do. The counterattack of Bledsoe and Griffin plus the follow-up three-pointers of Caron Butler and Randy Foye are important weapons for the Clippers' offense.

However, at the beginning of the game, the Clippers had few opportunities to counterattack, and the Grizzlies had a high success rate.

In the seventh minute of the first quarter, when the Grizzlies called a timeout, they were already leading by 9 points with 17 to 8. They made 6 of 11 shots, and the hit rate of the Grizzlies was frighteningly high. They had a hit rate of more than 50% in positional battles, relying on the Clippers' lack of defensive coordination.

And it was a little bit unexpected for Sun Ce. He didn't deliberately ask for assists, but the Clippers had no tacit defense. They focused on whoever the ball was, and they watched. For example, when Ridnour passed the ball to Sun Ce, everyone on the Clippers was staring at Sun Ce. When Ridnour ran to the left jump shot point of the free throw line, Sun Ce passed it to Ridnour and he actually had an open shot.

In 7 minutes, Sun Ce got 2 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block and 1 steal. He was surprised.

Randolph, who was against Griffin, made 3 of 5 shots in 7 minutes, one of which was an offensive rebound that he didn't make. He got 9 points and 2 rebounds, causing Bledsoe and Griffin to foul once each.

And in these 7 minutes, Griffin made 2 of 4 free throws, 0 of 3 shots, and only got 2 points and 1 rebound. Randolph went down to rest happily.

At the same time, Gasol, who gave Bledsoe a big cap, got 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 block.

Griffin was about to burst into tears when he saw the two bears on the opposite side finally went down, but he suddenly realized that in addition to the two bears, there were two nobles on the opposite side!

Neil, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Jordan played!

Since Nash was not playing, Sun Ce had to play for a longer time today, mainly to help Jordan find his feeling with the running and gunning lineup. Although he could easily find the game state, he still had to cooperate more. It might be effective at some stages when playing against the Lakers.

Griffin's balls just felt comfortable and started to hurt again. At this time, he noticed that Sun Ce, who had returned to the court, had put on an eye mask without knowing when.

And the fans at the scene were still cheering when they saw Sun Ce wearing an eye mask!

Although it was the Clippers' home court tonight, in fact, most of the seats were occupied by Lakers fans and Sun Ce fans in California.

The Clippers are very good at finding opportunities to make money. They have suddenly become generous this season and are willing to pay taxes, but that doesn't mean they don't want to make money. With the popular star Sun Ce coming to play, the average price of tickets for this regular season game reached $229, more than quadrupling the Clippers' average price of $55 this season.

They are not going to sell to the working-class Clippers fans. They know that the Lakers fans like to watch them get beaten, and Sun Ce's coming here will definitely bring a wave of wealthy fans, so there is no worry about not being able to sell.

In fact, it was not as exaggerated as quadrupling. After Sun Ce and James started the triple-double duel mode a few days ago, Clippers owner Sterling had an excellent vision and raised the price of the remaining unsold tickets by a full 5 times... and it was raised by 5 times when it had almost doubled before. The tickets that originally cost more than 20 dollars at the outermost part of the stands cost more than 100 dollars in recent days.

So when Randolph received a pass from Sun Ce and scored 2+1, Ridnour received a pass from Sun Ce and made a mid-range shot, Gasol made a layup with a pass from Sun Ce, and Sun Ce blocked Griffin's tip-in after grabbing an offensive rebound, the fans at the scene were cheering.

The voices of the few Clippers fans were completely drowned out.

In the run-and-gun game, defense is not that important. The double emperor combination just stared at Griffin to defend, and it didn't matter if others cut in to score. This lineup couldn't defend Bledsoe, so they just ran and served quickly.

Griffin felt his tears flying...

He was beaten! In another counterattack, he finally got rid of Jordan's pursuit and defense, and only Yi Jianlian was left. Griffin received the ball and faced Yi Jianlian to dunk, but who knew that this golden-haired monster slapped him in the face!

Although he got two free throws, Griffin's nose was bleeding...

In the 6th minute of the second quarter, Sun Ce, who had played for 18 minutes, was replaced.

7 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals, one assist every two minutes. The Grizzlies have a good running and gunning tacit understanding. Paul George or Lewis both shot well when they came off the bench, but more importantly, the Clippers' poor defense made it very easy for Sun Ce to get assists.

With 6 minutes left in the first half, the Grizzlies led the Clippers by 15 points, 49 to 34.

Looking at Sun Ce who took off his eye mask after returning to the bench, Coach Hollins thought about it and decisively sent out a lineup of Neil, Tony Allen, Paul George, Randolph, and Gasol.

The score difference cannot be widened so quickly, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing to let this dead kid go up to brush the data in garbage time. Three hours ago, when James locked the victory in the last two minutes, he tried his best to brush the rebound but failed. It was too ugly. Usually, it was okay, and the fans and media's attention was not here, but now if Sun Ce did the same thing, Coach Hollins would feel too embarrassed whether he could grab the rebound or not. .

In this case, let's grind the defense first. The Clippers' offense is really good. In the absence of any coordination, they relied on the straight-forward offense and defense transition to score 25 points in the past 11 minutes. Using the Clippers' defense to grind it out, coach Hollins found a reason that satisfied him personally.

But Griffin saw these reckless guys from the Grizzlies... He was about to collapse: How much hatred and resentment? Do they want to beat Ben Long to death?