One Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Seven. The Fierce Panda Army

The Grizzlies' trade has attracted the attention of many teams.

The media and fans are all talking about it.

Players from some teams have also commented on this, and various teams are also paying close attention to it.

Trades happen every year, but the Grizzlies receive such attention because they are a popular team.

In particular, the Grizzlies will play against the Thunder tonight. At this moment, completing a deal related to the core of the team's inside tactics in the past few years will have a huge impact on any team.

During the afternoon break, players such as Tony Allen, Richard Jefferson, and Paul George were earnestly helping their new teammates understand the team as quickly as possible. Tony Allen was the defensive player. The end leader and Richard Jefferson, the locker room leader, these two helped the new teammates integrate without any problems.

But Paul George, Sun Ce's words "We have to rely on you next" gave Paul George an extra responsibility that he should not bear at his age... With no other choice, he could only pick up the knife and get on the horse.

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At 6:10 in the evening, the Grizzlies' home game against the Thunder, broadcast live by T.N.T. TV and Time Warner Cable Sports' two state TV stations, was about to start in 20 minutes.

Players from both teams enter the court.

Seeing the fat boy who had been with the team for more than five years leave like this, the old fans at the scene were very sad. Randolph was reimbursed and Gasol was traded. For Grizzlies fans, it can be It is said that their time has passed, from the era of twin bears to the era of lords!

It seemed to be going smoothly. It did not go through the transitional stage full of fighting like O-K, and there was no internal strife. The trigger that triggered the change of the times was that Randolph became ill due to overwork due to weight, fatigue and other reasons, and was reimbursed for injury.

This is more like David Robinson, one of the four major centers in the 1996-97 season, being reimbursed for the season. When David Robinson came back, the Spurs already had a better center. Once he appeared in the NBA, he was enough to compete with him. At that time, Duncan, an era superstar who had gradually become the strongest center, was comparable to Shaquille O'Neal.

The Grizzlies seem to be going through this process too...although it's not quite the same, it's just as excessive as the Spurs' twin towers.

When Sun Ce sees such topics being raised by self-media, he always feels something is strange...

Grizzlies fans are a little sentimental. It would be okay if the core core combination of the ordinary interior was separated after four years of playing together. The two Bears have been together for more than four years.

Helped Sun Ce win two championships!

The most beautiful scenes in the minds of this generation of fans will undoubtedly be the bits and pieces when they won the first championship.

However, even if they miss him, the fans are cheering for the new players!

Compared with other transactions that are recognized as a loss for the Grizzlies, the unfavorable, skeptical, and even other fans who are optimistic do not value these two people as much as Grizzlies fans.

More than anyone else, they hope that the two of them can smoothly integrate into the team.

T.N.T commentator Charles Barkley had a rare moment of seriousness. Before the start of the game between the Grizzlies and Thunder, he said to the TV camera: "The Grizzlies suffered a big loss, but that is only based on the transaction value. If early We knew that Randolph would be injured, and the Grizzlies would trade Marc Gasol as early as the summer, but no one could have predicted this. We all thought that Randolph would be as lucky as before, losing weight every year. Not hurt.

Judging from the current season, the Grizzlies' deal is understandable. Because Randolph was reimbursed for the season, the Grizzlies can no longer pin their hopes on the interior twin towers this year, so they are prepared to make the interior comprehensive. They have almost all types of interior lines. Insider.

Stoudemire...you know I admire him very much. He played on the team that retired my jersey, and now he is following the same kid as Nash that they brought into the NBA.

Otterspes, he's very nice, I've had dinner with him, he's a quiet man, do you know how disciplined he is? He only ate green salad at the reception! Such people are monsters.

Sanders and Johnson are dynamic players.

Valanciunas? That's how you spell his name, right? He's a lot like Marc Gasol, but he doesn't have that kind of passing and defensive dominance at the basket, or even the ability to pass.

Valanciunas' shooting is not as good as Marc Gasol's, but his pick-and-roll awareness and catching and shooting after splitting are better... By the way, they also have a very tall rookie named Gobert...

They don't have a real inside star now, they are all role players. They urgently need to make changes now and have chosen to make changes. Now we need to see whether the changes they made are right or wrong. "

Kenny Smith nodded while listening to Buckley's words, and finally said concludingly: "Charles, you have finally finished reading, can you return my manuscript to me?"

"Oh, damn it, you lost to me at cards this afternoon and you have no money to pay back. Why did you agree to use the manuscript you wrote to pay off the debt?"

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Barkley and Kenny Smith had another quarrel, and Barkley didn't shy away from reading someone else's manuscript.

At the game site, the players from the two teams didn't have much communication after entering the game. The two teams had already been on the same page.

The players are very motivated, especially the outside players. The second-generation basketball player Hardaway is nothing. He is not a monk but a Buddha. The team selected him with the 16th pick and is unlikely to trade him away unless other teams He is designated for... But judging from the current situation in the league, teams that want Grizzlies players also hope that the Grizzlies will use them cheaply for two or three years to train them.

Jr. Hardaway and Gobert went to Atlanta's Colledge Parker yesterday to play in the Development League. They were loaned by the Grizzlies to the Hawks' Development League team. As long as there are no games in the NBA, the NBDL Skyhawks have the right to call them to play.

Gasol was traded, and the double 3D is safe because some space has been freed up.

Other players are uncertain, and there are also uncertainties in the interior.

Now the players have reached a consensus that if they want to be "safe", they must work hard to play well and let the management see that they don't need to trade anymore, they are very strong!

Sun Ce had a chat with the coaching staff in the afternoon. Just as he thought, the team is ready to change the "reference" of player rotation in the game from the interior to the outside.

This is more in line with the current development law of the NBA. For example, the Lakers, Spurs, and Mavericks all do this.

As for the transaction, there was not much discussion.

Without talking too much, Sun Ce knew that the team is still waiting and watching. Maybe there will be better trading partners, or maybe it will continue like this.

This is the same as what teammates want to do-play well to stabilize.

In fact, this made Sun Ce feel much more at ease. What he needs to do now is to play the game well!

At 6:28 in the evening, the players of both teams came on the court.

Coach Hollins was very cautious about the rotation. Gobert and Hardaway Jr. were not included in the activation list tonight. It was still Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Richard Jefferson, and Yi Jianlian who appeared on the court.

So far in the new season, the Grizzlies have always been an offensive team. In 36 games, they averaged 109.6 points per game, ranking first in the league.

Due to many factors, the league's average score per game this season is as high as 102.5 points, but the team with the highest average score per game is "only" 109.6 points, which is quite rare in NBA history. It also means that the gap in scoring strength between teams above the league's average scoring level is not as large as before.

In the past, when all teams in the league averaged 94 or 95 points per game, there were teams like the Suns that averaged 110 points per game.

But the Grizzlies lost 103.5 points per game, which is also higher than the league's average loss of 102.5 points.

Now they need to change, and they have already started to change.

The Thunder sent out Westbrook, Sefrosa, Durant, Ibaka, and Adams as the starting lineup.

Westbrook looked at Sun Ce standing on the other side of the center line.

In Westbrook's view, the future of this trade by the Grizzlies is unknown, but now the Grizzlies are definitely stronger!

Judging from the games in the first half of the season, Gasol has hardly played in the critical moments, but the combination of Randolph and Larry Sanders, or the combination of Richard Jefferson and Yi Jianlian has more playing time in the critical moments.

Westbrook believes that after Gasol successfully loses weight, his role in the critical moments will be greater than other inside players of the Grizzlies except Randolph, but at present, with two faster inside players with better pick-and-roll, the Grizzlies have definitely improved.

Westbrook's thoughts represent the views of most players on the Grizzlies' trade, because they are concerned about the current opponents of the game, rather than the transaction value, future, etc. as fans, media, commentators, and management pay attention to.

At 6:30, the referee blew the whistle to start the game, and the nationally broadcast game began!

Yi Jianlian beat Adams to win the jump ball, and the Grizzlies attacked first!

Paul George advanced to the frontcourt and encountered Sefrosa's defense, passing the ball to Sun Ce, who was followed by Durant. Facing Durant who was quite restrained, Sun Ce did not play alone, but passed the ball to Klay Thompson who ran out of position.

Klay Thompson received the ball and shot a three-pointer... Westbrook saw that he couldn't keep up, so he took it back directly, but Klay Thompson seemed to be unable to shoot without anyone chasing him, and it was a miss!

Just when Ibaka and Adams were concentrating on blocking their defenders, Sun Ce jumped from behind Westbrook and tapped the ball into the basket!

This is really not that the two forwards did not block well, but that after they successfully blocked the position, they had the opportunity to grab the rebound in the first time, but they didn't grab it!

Missing the best stage of grabbing the ball is equivalent to giving the outside players who rush to grab the rebound a chance!

This is the most essential difference between Westbrook and Sun Ce, because Sun Ce's style of play is mainly mid-range and close-range defense, and his body size has its own deterrent power in defensive rebounds, so many teams choose to retreat instead of rushing.

However, after half a season, the Thunder have become accustomed to this situation occasionally.

In the transition between offense and defense, the Thunder attack, compared with the Grizzlies, the Thunder's rhythm slowed down all of a sudden.

There will always be fans who choose to watch the game tonight because of the Grizzlies' trade and watch the Grizzlies for the first time this season.

They discovered something magical at the beginning of the game - why is the Grizzlies' rhythm so fast?

This is a very magical thing. The Grizzlies are no longer switching between positional warfare, offense and defense + running and gunning, but the overall rhythm has become faster!

The Grizzlies themselves did not expect it to be like this at first, but with Gasol being traded away, fast-paced offense has really become their main theme.

However, the Grizzlies have a certain ability to restrain the Thunder's style of play. Richard Jefferson defends Sefrosa, who only has two scoring methods: spot shooting and counterattacks. Sun Ce defends Ibaka at close range, Paul George chases Durant, and Klay Thompson defends Westbrook.

This is the first time in the new season that Durant has encountered Paul George, who has made great strides to the quasi-top level and has top edge defense. The defensive pressure he encountered is much greater than before. He and Ibaka had a low-post pick-and-roll and encountered Sun Ce's switch defense. Seeing these two brothers of similar height actually played a forward rotation defense... Durant was not feeling well.

Westbrook forced his way into the inside at this time, but failed to get rid of Klay Thompson and missed a strong shot at the right edge of the three-second zone!

Sun Ce turned around and blocked Durant to take the defensive rebound and counterattack!

Adams retreated directly when he was blocked by Yi Jianlian, and the other players of the Thunder also retreated quickly. The Grizzlies did not play a fast break, but forced the opponent's defensive position to have problems. This time the opportunity appeared to Yi Jianlian on the sideline, but after Sun Ce passed the ball to Klay Thompson and Klay Thompson passed it to Yi Jianlian, Yi Jianlian missed the ball and shot!

But this time, Richard Jefferson cut in sharply from the baseline and jumped high to directly press the ball that Yi Jianlian missed back to the basket!

At this moment, Richard Jefferson seemed to have returned to his peak and suddenly ignited the scene.

In the first two rounds, the Thunder was a little confused by the rush of Sun Ce and Richard Jefferson.

The whole Grizzlies team was too active!

It's not that the Grizzlies didn't fight in previous games. One thing that made the Grizzlies' opponents very uncomfortable this season was their changes in the offensive end, which was active and fierce.

But tonight the whole Grizzlies team was particularly excited, and the momentum was even stronger than usual!

Not only that, the Grizzlies' defensive enthusiasm was also stronger than usual. The Grizzlies' lineup, because of its poor defense, usually focuses on blocking three-pointers, guarding the basket, and blocking rebounds.

When encountering off-ball pick-and-rolls and mid-range jumpers, the Grizzlies' lineup cannot defend.

But tonight the Grizzlies fought hard!

Sun Ce and Paul George did a very good job in the forward rotation defense!

The Thunder couldn't understand why the Grizzlies played more actively than usual when they were obviously traded and should be in the pain period. At the beginning, they were beaten 12 to 4. In 4 minutes, the Thunder only got 4 points. If the next attack failed, they might be beaten by 10 points in the next round. The Thunder called a timeout!