One Thousand Five Hundred and Forty. You Are Fake News
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On the 25th, the Grizzlies returned to Memphis after five consecutive away games. On the 26th, they were retaliated by the Spurs... 102 to 122, the Grizzlies' three-game winning streak ended.
Coach Hollins knew that they would lose most likely after falling behind by 15 points in the first quarter, 18 to 33.
Randolph returned after a ten-day break. He didn't play very well, but he wanted to fight, so he played even worse.
Others showed a crisis of physical decline when playing against the Celtics. In order to avoid fouls, they could only rotate more intensively to prevent players from getting more injuries due to fatigue.
It's mainly a matter of habit. In the past three years, the Grizzlies have long been accustomed to resting and rotating up to 12 or 13 players every night.
Tactics are also based on multi-player rotation.
Why can they achieve such good results in three Western Conference Finals in three years and two championships? It's because every lineup can go all out without worrying about physical strength.
Now, the number of rotation players has been reduced due to injuries, but the old players have gotten used to the previous style of play, and the new players have also accepted such rotation in training camp and preseason tactical training.
When it was discovered that they would definitely not win, Coach Hollins did not risk injuries to let the main players play more.
Except for Sun Ce, who seemed to be unaffected and played for 39 minutes, the playing time of others was more evenly distributed. Klay Thompson and Paul George only played for more than 20 minutes in the game against the Spurs.
What's more troublesome is that the reason why role players can occasionally play a miraculous role in the regular season is that they often have less playing time. In the playoffs, every player of the opponent will be deeply studied and analyzed, but it is definitely impossible in the regular season.
However, if a role player plays too much time in a game, even if they have not understood it before, they will think of ways to deal with it in the middle and late stages of the game, after all, they are role players.
Teams like the Spurs, Mavericks, Hawks, and Cavaliers, where everyone is a soldier, are exceptions.
Of course, the most troublesome thing is still tiredness!
It was indeed impossible to win. Sun Ce knew that even if he cheated, there was no chance of winning. Their overall performance was sluggish.
But coach Hollins also wanted to do something after losing. In the fourth quarter, led by Duncan, Gay and Ginobili, the Spurs had already opened the gap to more than 20 points at 7 minutes and 22 seconds.
At that time, the Grizzlies were trailing 95 to 115, but coach Hollins let Sun Ce play two minutes of garbage time and raised his assists to 10.
11 of 30 shots, almost 20 irons in a single game, Sun Ce scored 33 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists, 1 block and 4 turnovers. Sun Ce played more than two minutes in garbage time and got two assists before being replaced.
Losing to the Spurs, the Grizzlies' record became 9 wins and 5 losses, but Sun Ce's personal consecutive triple-double games became 6 games.
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6 consecutive triple-doubles… Sun Ce really didn't think that the new season would develop in this direction.
The first month of the game was not over yet, and they had already lost 5 games. This made Sun Ce not so happy that he had won a triple-double in 6 consecutive games.
But thinking of the Grizzlies in the original time and space, they often had a winning rate of less than 30% or 40% in the early stage due to various unfavorable factors at the beginning of the season, and finally won 50 wins and entered the playoffs... At that time, they only looked at the record, and the games of the Grizzlies, a troublemaker team, were not good to watch. Sun Ce only remembered that the Grizzlies were a team that gradually gained strength in the middle and late stages of the regular season during the peak period of the two bears, and became a difficult character that no one wanted to meet in the playoffs.
Now Sun Ce understands the reason.
After playing against the Spurs, they rested for a day. On the 28th, the Grizzlies welcomed the game against the Clippers at home.
109 to 83, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Clippers by 26 points, sending the Clippers, who had just won a game, into a foreseeable losing streak.
Sun Ce only found out before the game that the Clippers actually won the second game. He checked who was the unlucky guy who lost to the Clippers. It turned out to be the Bucks. They "overtook" the Celtics and came to the last place in the Eastern Conference!
In the game against the Clippers, Sun Ce played for 30 minutes, made 10 of 14 shots, and got 26 points, 13 rebounds, 11 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals.
It seems that it is too obvious that Sun Ce has exactly 10 assists every time he wins or loses. Coach Hollins waited until Sun Ce got the 11th assist before replacing him after the game entered garbage time in the third quarter.
In this game, the Clippers had almost no resistance throughout the whole game. Sun Ce seemed to see the Bobcats who only won 6 games in the lockout season.
After the whistle sounded at the end of the game against the Clippers, Sun Ce's system prompt came.
"Because the host has tied Michael Jordan and Oscar Robertson for consecutive triple-doubles, ranking second in the NBA's history; Russell Westbrook has won triple-doubles in 5 consecutive games, and the total number of triple-doubles in the season has reached 9 times... Optional event A-level event: Triple-double overlord's stubbornness is triggered.
Please choose whether to accept it within 24 hours..."
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"A 10-5 start is acceptable. My teammates have done a good job. Paul, Klay, Sean, Mark... They have all done a good job and helped the team stabilize the record under unfavorable circumstances. Zach has also done a good job after his comeback. He is adjusting himself, and I think he will get better.
Maybe I am the worst.
It is a good thing to tie Michael and Big O, but it is an accident. I don't know how, the triple-double came, and I didn't care much about it... What? When did I say I wanted to strive for it? My goal has always been to work hard to deal with the current unfavorable situation of the team.
No, no, no, I didn't say I was striving for the first place in triple-doubles, you know, you are fake news, I am the lord, you, you, you and you, you ESPN are all fake news..."
After the game with the Clippers, Sun Ce attended the press conference.
Because the start of 10 wins and 5 losses created the worst start in 4 years, plus Sun Ce got 8 triple-doubles, ESPN questioned whether he caused the team to lose more games because of his efforts to get triple-doubles.
Regarding ESPN's extremely biased questions, Sun Ce answered in the way of the highest leader of the United States.
After returning home after the interview, Sun Ce began to study the schedule for next month. After playing against the Clippers, including the opening game at the end of October, the first month of the game After all 15 games are played, the Grizzlies will have three days of rest, from the 29th to the 1st of next month, and they can finally take a break.
Moreover, starting from December 2nd, they will have consecutive home games. At the beginning of December, they will have 6 consecutive home games, including the past two home games, a total of 8 consecutive home games.
This is the time the Grizzlies can use to adjust. The opponents are the Nets, Suns, Rockets, Bulls, Magic, and Thunder. Among these 6 opponents, the Bulls are the only truly strong team at present, and the other teams have more or less problems.