One Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-Six. The Talented Antetokounmpo
After being beaten 32-25 by the Grizzlies in the first quarter, the Nets didn't play too hard afterwards.
A hard-fought regular season game is not a good deal for the Nets.
A winning rate of over 50% in the Eastern Conference will guarantee a place in the playoffs, and a win rate of 45 or 6 will place them at the fifth or sixth level. Rivers doesn't want to fight.
Garnett still has the energy to play for 30 minutes, but Rivers just doesn't need it and keeps playing.
The main thing is age. Even if their lineup is 1 year younger, the situation will be completely different! But time is so cruel. Yao Ming, Grant Hill, and Nash were all still in the league last year, and now the three of them are being discussed as to when they will enter the Hall of Fame.
However, with Rivers' chicken soup, the players did not become restless. A group of current and former All-Stars and Best Sixth Man of the Nets... all endured and took a longer view.
118 to 105, the Grizzlies defeated the Nets without any blood.
Sun Ce played 35 minutes and scored 21 points, 12 rebounds, 16 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal. His assists were soaring!
Paul George made 10 of 17 shots and scored 27 points. Klay Thompson made 9 of 15 shots, including 6 of 10 three-pointers, and scored 28 points. Their three major perimeter players scored more than 70 points, and it was only when Sun Ce "only "On the basis of scoring 21 points.
It sure is easy to win!
Of Sun Ce's 16 assists, 10 came from Klay Thompson and Paul George.
Sun Ce scored a triple-double in 8 consecutive games. After the game between the Grizzlies and Nets, the pressure was all on Westbrook!
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At 7 p.m. Eastern time, just as the game between the Grizzlies and Nets entered the fourth quarter, the Thunder started their home game against the Timberwolves.
Westbrook was fighting from the start, passing the ball and grabbing rebounds like crazy.
However, this season may be Love's strongest performance in the six years he has played with the Timberwolves.
Due to Love's early retirement last season, the Timberwolves trained Montenegrin center Nikola Pekovic.
So far this season, Love has averaged 27 points, 13 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, which is a solid All-NBA level.
But Pekovic is playing better than last season,
Averaged 18 points and 9 rebounds per game.
Although the defense is not good, both of them are heavyweight players. Love has not lost weight yet, weighing 122 kilograms; Pekovic is even more exaggerated, with a height of 211 centimeters and a weight of 134 kilograms.
Although the movement of these two is not bad, they are certainly not very good. Both of them have to play more than 30 minutes, and the defense is terrible when they play together.
But the offense is strong! Among all the interior combinations in the league this season, they are the only one that averages more than 40 points per game.
And the rebounding is sharp, the two averaged 22 rebounds per game combined, 6.5 of which were offensive rebounds!
This duo allows Corey Brewer, Kevin Martin, Barea and others to shoot wildly from the outside under Rubio's command.
The Timberwolves currently have 9 wins and 9 losses, which is the best start since Garnett left the Timberwolves. If they were in the Eastern Conference, the Timberwolves would not be able to make it into the top seven, but they still have a chance to compete for eighth.
Even Ibaka, Adams, Perkins, and Nick Collison came to help Westbrook get in position. They played 40 minutes tonight against the Timberwolves' interior combination, and it was still difficult.
This caused Westbrook to stop guarding the outside and directly reach the mid-range, ready to grab rebounds at any time.
To say that Westbrook is amazing, under such circumstances, he grabbed the 10th rebound of the game at 47 minutes and 18 seconds, raising his data to 14 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and won this game. The 12th triple-double of the season, and like Sun Ce, he increased the number of consecutive triple-doubles to 8!
However, when Westbrook grabbed the 10th rebound, the Thunder were already 8 points behind 95-103.
In the end, the Timberwolves defeated the Thunder 106-98, bringing the Thunder's record to 10 wins and 9 losses. The Timberwolves' own record was also 10 wins and 9 losses. Relying on the advantage of winning or losing, the Timberwolves overtook the Thunder. To the ninth in the West!
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"The Suns train Antetokounmpo as Batum? It seems quite suitable at this stage..."
"Brother Antetokounmpo?"
"It's Giannis. His name is so hard to spell. There are so many names."
"This nickname is not bad. It will definitely become popular if it spreads. But Noah, you have such good taste. This guy is more like you than the one in Houston. He has grown 5 centimeters in the past six months and is taller than you."
"..."
"However, his playing style is much different from yours. He is too sticky to the ball, and his progress is not as fast as yours. He needs a lot of holding the ball to develop, and he is much thinner than you, and his shooting talent is not as good as yours.
But he only turned 19 last month. God, how long have I not seen a player who entered the NBA at the age of 18..."
When Nash compared Antetokounmpo and Sun Ce, his logic failed.
As long as Antetokounmpo's talent is mentioned, Nash doesn't know how to describe it.
A genius who started playing in European youth teams when he was only 14 years old in 2008 and entered the NBA in the first round of the draft at the age of 18. Since it was a young draft year in 2013, Antetokounmpo was selected without causing any waves.
But since the start of the season, Antetokounmpo has played 19 games, averaging 7.57 points, 4.42 rebounds, 2.36 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.9 blocks per game, which is a very good performance.
Originally, he was just a small forward, but somehow, as he played, Antetokounmpo was a little taller than the younger brother of the Morris brothers, Marcus Morris, and almost the same height as his older brother, Markieff Morris.
The key is that his height did not affect Antetokounmpo's dribbling, speed, and flexibility. This made Nash seem to see Sun Ce back then, but in a height-enhanced version.
On the afternoon of December 3, after playing back-to-back games last night and resting for a whole morning this morning, Sun Ce and his teammates came to the FedEx Arena in the afternoon to prepare for the game. The Suns came to Memphis yesterday afternoon and are also preparing for the game today.
Sun Ce came to the visiting team's training ground specifically to see Antetokounmpo.
Thin, very thin, weighing only 92 kilograms.
As players from the same company, Nash did not leave the agency after retiring. He still has commercial value after retirement, so he returned to the Suns to help train Antetokounmpo.
This point guard with the height of a small forward, who was sold by the Suns again in exchange for Dragic under the strong recommendation of Bill Duffy, did not make the Suns regret it and showed excellent talent.
However, talent is still just talent. With the departure of a quasi-All-Star player like Dragic, the Suns fell from the top 20 in the league with the 11th pick last season to the bottom five in the league. After playing 19 games, they ranked third from the bottom in the Western Conference with 5 wins and 14 losses.
To cultivate such a talent is good, but it takes a long time and requires focused cultivation, and there is always a price to pay for the comeback.