Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven. Love Explodes!

7 games in 11 days. Although the schedule is tight, fortunately there are not many strong teams. The 7 games were originally scheduled for only three strong teams: the Trail Blazers, Magic, and Mavericks.

But before the start of the season, the Magic traded Howard away, and the Trail Blazers naturally collapsed under the team doctor. Currently, only the last game against the Mavericks is difficult to play among the 7 games.

The biggest problem is the two back-to-back games. Since there are two days of rest before the last game against the Mavericks, there are 6 games in the first 9 days.

Although 6 games in 9 days is not as brutal as the past 6 games in 8 days and 5 games in 6 days at the beginning of the month, in the normal season, 6 games in 9 days is already the tightest schedule that each team can experience in the regular season.

The shortened season has made it impossible for each team to prepare properly for the playoffs.

There is no way, Sun Ce suppressed the excitement, nervousness and a little fear, and prepared well.

At noon, the NBA officially announced the best players of the week in the East and West in the 16th game week of this season.

In the West, the Lakers had 4 wins and 1 loss last week, and Paul, who averaged 142 points and 132 assists per game, won the Player of the Week. Taking advantage of the Spurs' two losses last week, the Lakers have the possibility of securing the second place in the West.

In the East, Andrew Bynum helped the Knicks get a record of 3 wins and 1 loss in the past week, averaging 24 points, 145 rebounds and 325 blocks per game. After returning to the positional warfare style, Bynum performed even better than before, helping the Knicks to stabilize the fifth place in the East and sit in the fifth place and look forward to the fourth place.

Sun Ce is very concerned about this, which may affect his competition for the V this season. When he saw that the Western Conference Player of the Week was not himself, his heart was half cold, but he did not expect Bynum to stand up and support him, overwhelmed James who was soaring at the end of the season.

Looking at Kobe averaging 303 points per game and James averaging 301 points per game, these two guys have been fighting like gods recently. You have 30+ in one game and I have 40+ in another game. After that, both of them have averaged more than 30 points per game, dominating the hot news every day.

Sun Ce tried to suppress his inner restlessness. This restlessness was not about wanting to compete with them in the air, but the restlessness of wanting to perform urgently due to anxiety...

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After resting for an afternoon, at 5:40 in the evening, after the warm-up, Sun Ce and his teammates entered the court together.

The regular season is about to end. The first regular season championship in the team's history and Sun Ce's second V are only a stone's throw away. The enthusiasm of the Grizzlies chess fans can be imagined.

In the past, they all chased the stars of other teams.

In the United States, team fans are really more stubborn than star fans. Of course, the star fans of local teams are also counted as team fans.

And Memphis fans used to be really stubborn. They have been rotten for so many years! Although they entered the playoffs three times before, they were swept all three times.

However, since Sun Ce came, local Memphis fans feel that their basketball world has been lit up!

In recent years, Memphis fans have a lot of bragging to say. Although they didn't win the championship, 29 teams don't win the championship every year. If they don't win the championship, they can still continue to brag about other things.

For example, using the No. 2 center to trade for Sun Ce avoided the situation where a defensive center like Thabeet, who needed a long time to train and was only a mediocre physical player, was rotten in the hands, and also got back a second-year player.

For example, Randolph was really a bad guy before, but after coming to Memphis, he became the team's top player in the interior.

Now the team is not far from the first regular season championship in team history, and Sun Ce is also striving for his consecutive championships...

Watching the players from the Grizzlies appear one by one and listening to the cheers of the fans on the scene, Love on the Timberwolves side was envious and jealous!

This season they were almost standing up. Not to mention entering the playoffs, that was impossible, but there was still hope to hit the first 50% winning rate in their career.

Love also doesn't like to lose all the time. After all, he is an inside player. Without a good coach and good outside teammates, he can't lead the team to win even if he doesn't brush up the data.

And this season they really have a good coach and a good point guard. They once played in the West and tied the Mavericks, who were ranked ninth at the time, but Rubio was reimbursed, everything was over, and they became a bad team again.

Seeing Ellis leading his team to the ninth place in the Western Conference and waiting for an opportunity, Love dared not compare himself with others. He had never won 30 games in his career, but he could not help comparing himself with the Warriors, which had been a bad team since he entered the NBA. This made him feel that he was too much of a failure.

And some people really compared the two teams. The Warriors seemed to be about to get out of the situation, but Love's team was dubbed a super bad team.

And the Grizzlies, who were worse than their Timberwolves at the time...

At six o'clock in the evening, the game between the Grizzlies and the Timberwolves started.

On the Grizzlies side, Nash, Sun Ce, Paul George, Randolph, and Gasol Jr. started together.

On the Timberwolves side, Wayne Ellington, Martell Webster, Wesley Johnson, Love, and Pekovic started.

After the game started, Sun Ce easily won the jump ball over Pekovic's head, and the Grizzlies attacked first.

The game started according to the tactics. Sun Ce went up to screen for Nash. In order to cooperate with Sun Ce's cutting direction, Nash chose the screen and broke through to the left. When Sun Ce cut in from the right, Gasol helped Sun Ce block Ellington who was switching to defend Sun Ce. Pekovic could only switch to defend Sun Ce who was running to the baseline.

At this time, Gasol took a step to the free throw line, Nash immediately passed the ball to Gasol, Love quickly came out from the inside, Gasol hung to the basket, Randolph cut in from the baseline and received the ball and layup to score two points.

Two simple pick-and-rolls and two passes, and they easily got the opportunity to pass and cut.

Compared with the ball-by-ball digging, it is still digging Love, a 122 kg fat power forward. Randolph is not stupid, and there is no need to sit and play to show his star power.

Pekovic looked at Love helplessly. Love just needs to guard the basket. If Gasol wants to shoot, can't he let him shoot? This defensive judgment is simply too bad.

Attack and defense transition, the Timberwolves attack, Wayne Ellington advances to the frontcourt to organize the offense... In fact, he just dribbled the ball a few times. As the semi-finalist of the 2009 NCAA Basketball Championship, it is not without reason that he was selected at the 28th pick. His breakthrough is a scum in the NBA.

As expected, facing Paul George's defense, Wayne Ellington had no chance to break through. He stepped back suddenly and shot a long three-pointer from a distance of one step from the three-point line...

Missed!

But Love was stuck in position, and squeezed out Sun Ce who rushed over to make a tip-in to score two points.

Love started to play hard at the beginning!

The Grizzlies encountered trouble at the beginning. Love fought hard on the offensive end. He was good at defensive rebounding, low-post singles before losing weight, and passing. In fact, even his defense had highlights. He was not good at switching defense and assisting defense, but he did a good job in defending the low post.

Under the guidance of the sophomore Pekovic, Love finally stopped leaving Randolph casually and followed Randolph closely.

When Rubio was in the Timberwolves in the early season, the defense was actually very good. At one point, the average points lost were only 98 points. There were Pekovic and Milicic at the center position, Wesley Johnson at the forward line, and Rubio at the guard position. As long as the other two positions did their own things well, the defense would not be too bad. Besides, their head coach was Adelman, who was very good at defense.

But after Rubio was reimbursed, the back line had no defense, and there was no organizer on the offensive end, so they slowly collapsed.

In fact, this was mainly because they lost motivation to defend after losing, and Love returned to the data brushing mode.

But tonight, Love looked at Sun Ce and was indescribably jealous!

Why did Sun Ce become stronger and stronger in the Grizzlies? The draft was good, many free agents joined, and even Nash was obtained...

Moreover, the Grizzlies received a lot of attention in every game at the end of the season. Love was very confident in his own strength and wanted to show his strength by playing against the Grizzlies, so that the stars of other teams would pay attention to him.

Although he hooked up with James, Love found that James was a bit of a bitch, flirting with other girls everywhere, and this guy might not be reliable.

Love, who is good at defense, is indeed good at low-post defense. He made a mistake in his active defense on the first ball, and then listened to Pekovic. This is a big center who is very aggressive on both offense and defense. After Adelman came, he quickly tapped his talent. Love blocked the basket, and Pekovic blocked the baseline and the basket; Wesley Johnson on the outside was useless on the offensive end. He was useless except for counterattack dunks and catch-and-shoot three-pointers, but his defense was excellent. He was good at single defense, assist defense, blocking, and steals.

Sun Ce and his teammates found that they seemed to have been floating on the outside for a long time!

Since the game started according to the tactics, using the pick-and-roll to find open shots, the opponent's defense was very targeted, blocking the basket and the baseline. Nash was switched to defense, Paul George's three-pointer was defended by Webster, and Gasol and Sun Ce were left open. After Sun Ce's pick-and-roll, no one defended him as long as he received the ball in the mid-range. If Gasol had a chance to shoot after the pick-and-roll for his teammates, no one defended him.

It would be fine if he made the shot, but if he didn't, Randolph didn't have a good offensive rebounding opportunity against Love. Randolph is very good at rebounding, but Love is even better!

The key is that there was no chance to counterattack. The Timberwolves' offensive success rate was also very high, scoring 16 points in the first half of the first quarter.

When the official timeout in the first quarter came, the Timberwolves led the Grizzlies by two points, 16 to 14!

The Timberwolves' high offensive success rate does not depend on how accurate their shots are, but they dare to throw, and they are accurate as they throw. The reason they dare to throw is that Love got 3 offensive rebounds in half a quarter!

Love's offensive rebounds were many, which meant that the Grizzlies could not play the counterattack of the outside three-man team + Randolph. As the season came to an end, the Grizzlies' core starting five-man team's playing style became more and more diverse. Among them, the four-man counterattack after Gasol guarded the basket was one of the tactics that made the starting lineup's offense less cumbersome.

But they didn't play it today! They were suppressed by the Timberwolves at the beginning!

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