One Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-Three. Mamba Soul Seduction Tactics Failed!

The Grizzlies had only 10 attacks in about six and a half minutes, including mistakes at the beginning, of which 9 were completed, 5 of 9 shots, one three-pointer, and one of two free throws.

The Thunder had 11 attacks, 6 of 11 shots, two three-pointers, and two free throws.

Since the Thunder attacked first, the Grizzlies were suppressed by the opponent, but in fact, the Grizzlies were able to counter the Thunder's offense.

That is, although the two teams suppressed the rhythm and reduced the opponent's points, the Thunder still relied on Durant to play a start performance that reached their season average.

The role adjustment of Perkins has brought obvious improvement to the Thunder. They have Ibaka, and Perkins can just block the basket honestly. There is no need to regard himself as the defensive stalwart who ranked in the top five in the league in terms of center defensive efficiency and ranked in the top three in limiting the opponent's points. It is the right way to use his experience to command and drive defense.

And this is definitely not a good thing for Sun Ce, the opponent.

However, Sun Ce never underestimated any opponent. He knew that as they became stronger, their opponents would definitely work hard to become stronger and find ways to become stronger.

Just like in the original time and space, the Warriors had Durant join them and were invincible to that extent. Other teams did not give up and wanted to end the Warriors. Harden almost did it, and Leonard really did it.

Generally speaking, as long as the NBA top management does not make wise operations, the emergence of a strong team is definitely not a bad thing. They will promote the progress of other teams. For example, the yellow-green war in the 1980s, the Bulls dynasty in the 1990s, the Lakers' 5 championships and the Spurs' 3 championships in the first decade of the new century have all made qualitative progress in the NBA.

Sun Ce also wants to be the one who promotes the development of basketball and has been working hard.

In this game, the Grizzlies fell into a passive position again. They played against the Thunder three times this season. The first time they lost badly; in the second match, relying on activating Westbrook's Mamba attributes, Sun Ce exploded and scored, and the Grizzlies won; in the third match, Randolph's state has recovered to the A+ level, and the Thunder was caught off guard, and the Grizzlies easily won.

But this time, after a season, the Thunder team has better coordination, Westbrook and Durant also play better... The improvement of the Grizzlies is not enough to suppress the Thunder. When Durant plays calmly and Perkins does what he can do on the defensive end, the Grizzlies are slightly at a disadvantage.

Fortunately, there is still a big move to be released, right?

Coach Hollins and Sun Ce have the same idea at present, the goal is to activate Westbrook's Mamba spirit!

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After the timeout,

The Grizzlies sent out Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders.

The Thunder team sent out Westbrook, Ellis, Durant, Ibaka, and Nick Collison.

In the first attack of the Grizzlies, Larry Sanders grabbed the offensive rebound of Klay Thompson's missed three-pointer and dunked on the second attack.

Perkins's weight still has its role, and it is very obvious. That is, the top positioning awareness is matched with the weight. Howard in his prime could not grab too many offensive rebounds over Perkins, and Nick Collison is much worse in this aspect.

14 to 16, the score difference narrowed to two points. When the Thunder attacked, Westbrook continued to break through. His physical strength was so good that people thought of Kobe in the No. 8 period. He broke through for half a quarter and could continue to break through.

Westbrook read the Grizzlies' defensive formation and broke through to the position where he thought he could attract Sun Ce or Larry Sanders to double-team, and he had successfully got a pull-up shot from Paul George's single defense, and passed the ball to Durant, who had just made a pick-and-roll with Ibaka on the left side of the three-second zone and got a chance to receive the ball because Larry Sanders hesitated whether to make up for the inside.

But this time, Larry Sanders was not hesitating whether to make up for the inside as Westbrook thought, but was hesitating whether to ignore Westbrook.

At the moment when Westbrook grabbed the ball and pushed it out, Larry Sanders made a decision to switch to Durant, and when he saw the ball flying over, he hit it hard...

Although he didn't steal the ball, Larry Sanders hit the ball out of the baseline, blocking the connection between Westbrook and Durant, and reducing the Thunder's 24-second offensive time to only 9 seconds! That is, the Thunder must make a decisive choice to continue attacking.

This is the beginning of the Grizzlies' desire to put Westbrook in a singles vortex!

But...

The story has ended before it even started, Westbrook called a timeout!

After the official timeout, the Thunder called a timeout again before a round was finished!

"What are they doing? Could it be..."

Sun Ce had an ominous premonition.

The Grizzlies didn't make any adjustments during the 20-second short timeout, and the opponent's timeout made them feel inexplicable.

This is different from when they had a bad start or the Spurs had a bad start and called a timeout after playing for one or two minutes. The Thunder called a timeout directly before they got into any trouble.

The short timeout passed quickly. When Sun Ce heard the long whistle for substitution at the end of the timeout, he had a clear guess.

Sure enough, Westbrook sat back on the bench and Reggie Jackson came on as a substitute!

Sun Ce looked at another genius selected by the Thunder in 2011, a second-year point guard with first-class star talent, and he really didn't know what to say about the Thunder's draft vision.

The draft was like a cheat, and the operation was like being infected with a virus.

Sun Ce has an impression that the year when Westbrook didn't play for most of the season, Reggie Jackson immediately played well, and then the Thunder once again spent money and sent Reggie Jackson away, and then Reggie Jackson went to a new team and got the maximum salary for 5 years before the salary cap skyrocketed.

However, Sun Ce was also impressed by Reggie Jackson's glass man attribute. He is the player with the biggest salary drop in the league in a certain season in the future.

Reggie Jackson is a point guard with excellent off-ball cutting to attack the basket, good body shape to switch to shooting guards, and strong body. After he came on, the Thunder's style of play directly changed to Ellis and Durant taking turns to play one-on-one.

When Westbrook was on the court, except for Ellis occasionally holding the ball and playing one-on-one, Durant would not take the initiative to hold the ball until the critical moment, but if necessary, Durant is definitely one of the most terrifying one-on-one players in the league.

Without the "obstacle" of Westbrook who can't run without the ball to catch the ball and shoot or cut in to find opportunities, the forward and guard line of Ellis and Durant is unstoppable!

Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Larry Sanders' outside blocking, Randolph's defense under the basket, did not take advantage!

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