Nine Hundred and Sixty-Five. Become the Chosen Opponent

The game between the Lakers and Spurs is one of the highlights at the end of the season. It attracts a lot of attention and the live broadcast ratings are also high.

In Memphis, Sun Ce watched the game and saw that Kobe relied on mid-range shots to help the Lakers defeat the Spurs 109-103 and score 55 points. He couldn't explain it.

Paul has a mid-range shot, Kobe has a mid-range shot, Gasol has a mid-range shot, Brand has a mid-range shot... Relying on the control of his teammates, Kobe made 14 mid-range shots!

On the Spurs, Duncan doesn't have a big center who can help guard the basket. Kwame Brown and Splitter won't be used until next season, but they were killed by Kobe Bryant.

It's a bit Tianke.

Sun Ce is in a good mood. Now that everything is going crazy, who is afraid of whom?

On the other side, in Miami, according to unreliable gossip, that night, another man with an increasingly taller hairline was seen crying on the beach...

After watching the game, James' mentality was a bit explosive.

"This bastard is almost 34 years old. What are you fighting for? As for that? Isn't he just a scoring champion?"

Kobe can throw it 30 or even 40 times at every turn, but James can't!

Moreover, Kobe now spends most of his time as a catcher and shooter, and he has a strong mid-range shot. He averaged 5.6 mid-range shots per game with a field goal rate of 42.2%, ranking first in the league this season.

There's no way to play!

One Sun Ce, one Kobe... James felt extremely miserable being caught in the middle...

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It's different from James who is working hard to win the MVP this year.

On a whim, Kobe, with Paul's help, chose to compete for the scoring title and the MVP if he had the chance. But he didn't really care, so he had a calm mind and just caught the ball and shot. It was easier than what he had done before. , is also more efficient, with a career-high overall shooting percentage of 47%, and a career-high shooting percentage while averaging 23.2 shots per game.

For Sun Ce, competing for MVP was not something he had planned. When he first received new events and wanted to compete for MVP, he felt that there was a high probability that he would not get it. He worked hard to complete phased events just to improve his rating, even if he didn't get it. , but also to increase rewards.

Now of course I have to fight if I can, and my mentality is much calmer than that of James.

On the 21st, we faced the Cavaliers at home.

OJ-Mayo performed well tonight. It should be said that Mayo's performance this season is not bad, averaging 17.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. Without an early contract extension from the Cavaliers, Mayo naturally played very hard.

Mayo definitely has the strength. It's no problem to be a starter. He has B+ level strength and is also good to play as the sixth man.

The Cavaliers are really not the worst team. They are currently 23 wins and 39 losses, and they still have the ability to play. Players such as Casspi, Jamison, Tristan Thompson, Varejao, and Alonzo Key have performed well this season. His performance was also good, and he played very hard towards the end of the season.

After all, most of their players' contracts will expire after this season, and the rookies also want to perform well, and they really played well with the Grizzlies.

Sun Ce wanted to get good data, but he was not in a hurry and played steadily. Sun Ce played 21 minutes in the first three quarters. The Grizzlies were 3 points behind the Cavaliers 69 to 72. Mainly due to running tactics in the first half, they were 8 points behind at halftime. The quarter also failed to suppress the Cavaliers' scoring surge.

But in the final quarter, Sun Ce led Klay Thompson, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and DeAndre Jordan in a run-and-gun game, scoring 35-25 in a single quarter. With 11 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 block, and 1 steal in the final quarter, Sun Ce In his performance, Sun Ce scored 23 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals, helping the Grizzlies reverse the Cavaliers 104-97 and win their fourth consecutive victory.

At the same time, Sun Ce has had 17 triple-doubles this season, tying Magic Johnson’s record for triple-doubles in a single season!

After the game, the magician sent congratulations to Sun Ce on Twitter, hoping that Sun Ce could quickly surpass him.

And this, for James, is tantamount to another critical blow...

But for fans, these five days are so exciting! 65 points, 62 points, 51 points, 55 points, triple-double, the three major MVP contenders started the surge mode at the end of the season.

So who's next?

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April 22nd was the Grizzlies' offseason, followed by the last home game of the season against the Magic. The Grizzlies still had a day off, and the coaching staff continued to discuss the upcoming playoffs.

52 wins and 11 losses. There are three games left in the regular season. They have won the past four games. Most people in the Grizzlies team are quite surprised. Three of the games are directly related to Sun Ce's explosion.

When playing against the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers, they should have been unbeatable. After all, it was not simply that the four main players reduced their playing time, but that they had to run tactics when they played. When they ran well, they were okay, such as when playing against the Bobcats. Teams are like that, but sometimes they have to experiment with new tactics, and when the new tactics are not suitable for dealing with the opponent that night, they don't play well, such as against the Trail Blazers.

But Sun Ce scored 65 points in one game and 51 points in the other, raising his scoring average to 24.1 points per game and winning both games.

A win against the Bobcats was a sure win. Against the Cavaliers, Sun Ce got a triple-double steadily and deserved it.

The development at the end of the season was different from what Coach Hollins expected, but it was always a good thing. I had practiced tactics for a few games and won, so I still followed the original plan.

There are 3 games left. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, which is the 23rd and 24th, we will play the Magic and Hornets back-to-back at home and away. Then we will rest on the 25th and 26th, and go to Dallas to play the regular season finale against the Mavericks on the 27th.

After discussion, the coaching staff unanimously decided that they would not reduce the playing time in the next three games. Even if they are back-to-back, they will go all out to play in good condition. They will play against the Mavericks in the last regular season and welcome the playoffs.

But tonight, a big problem suddenly appeared - the Mavericks fell to eighth in the West!

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On April 23, the game day with the Magic arrived. The Magic had already arrived in Memphis yesterday.

After Sun Ce arrived at the gym in the morning, he finished his two sets of three-point practice and did not train again. Instead, he watched the video. The video he watched was not the video of tonight's opponent, the Magic, but the video of the two games between the Grizzlies and the Mavericks after the All-Star Weekend.

The Mavericks rested five main players last night, including Conley. As expected, they lost to the Clippers. Now they are ranked eighth in the West with 35 wins and 28 losses, and were overtaken by the Jazz with 36 wins and 27 losses.

Sun Ce felt that the Mavericks' record was problematic before. Although they could not squeeze into the top four, they would not drop to seventh. There was still a little hope to compete with the Nuggets for fifth place. Now, the opponent has dropped to eighth place directly through rest!

The ninth Warriors currently have 31 wins and 31 losses. Although they rely on the record of 12 wins and 6 losses in the last 18 games, and the Rockets' Anthony's poor state after his comeback has caused the Rockets' record to fall instead of rise, the Warriors have stabilized their ninth position in the West. However, even if they win all four games in the next four games, they can only tie the Mavericks' wins. The Mavericks' win-loss record against the Warriors this season is 2 to 1, which means that the top eight in the West has been locked. The Mavericks can completely control their record and enter the playoffs as the eighth!

Then they, the Grizzlies, will face the defending champions in the first round!

This made Sun Ce incomprehensible. They were the regular season champions after all, and they had already defeated the Mavericks three times in the regular season. Why did the Mavericks pick on them? What did this mean?

Unable to figure it out, after the tactical training in the morning, before lunch, Sun Ce found the old seniors, Stockton and Nash, and asked about his doubts.

Stockton had discussed this with the coaching staff yesterday and responded: "Although I don't know Carlisle, if I were him, I would also choose to drop to eighth, right, Steve."

"That's right, if I were the head coach of the defending champion, I would not choose to waste energy in the second half of the regular season to compete with the Nuggets for fifth place, and I would not want to enter the playoffs as sixth or seventh." Nash echoed.

"Why? It's better than playing first place directly, right?" This is what Sun Ce didn't understand.

"It seems so, but their goal is to defend the championship, so they will definitely play against us. Even if they play fifth, they will play against the Thunder, the weakest team among the top four in the first round, and they will have to play against us later, so there is no need to waste energy to fight for a ranking. They have no home advantage against the top four. Their goal is to defeat all opponents, so it doesn't matter who they play first and who they play later." Nash analyzed.

Stockton took over the conversation: "And the reason why they didn't choose sixth or seventh is very simple. They play against the Lakers and Spurs, which is not much different from playing against us, but if they beat the Lakers or Spurs, they will definitely meet another one of them in the second round, and they will meet us again in the Western Conference Finals. If I were in their place, I would not want to play a series with the top three teams in the division one by one in the playoffs.

Although it is likely that they will play against three of the top four if they fall to eighth, it will definitely be easier to play against the Thunder than against the Spurs or Lakers if they win the first round..."

Listening to the analysis of the two seniors, Sun Ce understood it, but it felt weird.

Playing basketball is playing basketball, but playing strategy?

However, it seems that sports are wars in peacetime, and playing strategies seems to be right and necessary.

It’s just that the Grizzlies haven’t had real success yet, and they don’t have the capital to calm down and do it slowly.

At this time, they are the first, but they are a little passive and are picked on by their opponents.

Being picked on... Sun Ce is a little unhappy, but there is nothing they can do, who makes them the first? Didn’t the Spurs in the original time and space also get picked on and eliminated in the 2011 playoffs... Sometimes you can’t avoid it, you can only face it head-on.

Fortunately, good things will happen next, and it can be said that bad times will be over. At 12 noon, the NBA officially announced the last weekly player of the regular season. When James won the fifth weekly player of the season, he, Sun, won the sixth weekly player of the season with 4 wins in the past week, two 50+, one 60+, and a triple-double.

However, Sun Ce is still upset about being picked on. The Mavericks have chosen the most difficult path!

I don’t want to be the boss

I don’t want to be the boss