One Thousand Six Hundred and Nine. The Lord's Crazy March Continues!
14 games!
The March Madness Overlord Show has lasted for 14 games!
Unlike the previous Sun Crazy and Lin Crazy, this time Time Warner Cable Sports created a new term for Sun Ce's performance after the All-Star Weekend - Overlord Show.
After the All-Star Weekend, it is really hard to judge who is the best in the performance of each team. The reason why the Grizzlies' record was not criticized, but was only called not good, is that the records of strong teams are not bad, and the bad ones have fallen behind, otherwise they would be like the fourth to eleventh in the East, with a very average record.
In the past dozen games, the Bulls and Thunder have 10 wins and 2 losses, the Lakers, Spurs, and Trail Blazers are all 10 wins and 3 losses, and only the Warriors are ahead of all teams with 11 wins and 1 loss.
The difference between these teams with the top records and the Grizzlies' 9 wins and 5 losses in the past 14 games is not very large.
To say which team is far ahead in the record during this period, there is really no one.
It's just that, in the past critical stage, when the record difference is not big, the team that has an advantage before will have a more obvious advantage, and the chance of the lagging side to catch up with the gap that is already difficult to catch up will become increasingly slim.
There is definitely a gap between the playoff teams, but it is not to the extent that the first in the division can sweep the eighth in the division. On the contrary, sweeping is a rare situation. Of course, the black eighth is even rarer.
Those teams that have the strength to impact the playoffs, especially the Western Conference playoff teams, will not have a big gap in the record after entering the All-Star Weekend.
At this time, in addition to the changes in the rankings, the fans pay the most attention to personal performance!
The Grizzlies' record is not satisfactory, and they can barely pass the fans' test. What really makes fans not pay much attention to the Grizzlies' record is Sun Ce's performance.
How long can Sun Ce's crazy March leader show last?
The media counted the Grizzlies' 4 games at the end of February after the All-Star Weekend into the game month of March, and called it the crazy March leader show.
If other teams' games, only those top popular teams can compete with the NCAA March Madness for attention, then Sun Ce relied on his own strength to suppress the attention of the NCAA!
On the afternoon of the 17th, the day when the Grizzlies and Pelicans played, the University of Kansas with Wiggins and Embi and Duke University with Jabari Parker were both eliminated unexpectedly. The three top picks were eliminated together, but none of them could grab the headlines of sports websites.
Lord, Lord, and Lord. I don't know when this month started, as long as the Grizzlies played, the headlines of sports websites all had the word "Lord"!
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"Wolf Snake Heir 2:
Goal 1: In the game against the Pelicans tonight, the host must block at least one shot against Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis, and the host's number of blocks must be higher than Anthony Davis. (Number of times the host blocks Kyrie Irving: 1, number of times the host blocks Anthony Davis: 2, total number of host blocks: 5, total number of Anthony Davis blocks: 2, completed.)
Goal 2: In the game against the Pelicans tonight, the host's score and assists must be higher than Kyrie Irving, or the number of rebounds and blocks must be higher than Anthony Davis. (The host scored 42 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists, and 5 blocks tonight; Kyrie Irving scored 23 points and 6 assists; Anthony Davis scored 9 rebounds and 2 blocks. Completed.)
Goal 3: Win the game against the Pelicans tonight. (Completed)
Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Kyrie Irving's characteristic conversion skill designated skill upgrade card fragment * 1, designated skill: error upgrade card fragment * 1."
Back at the hotel, Sun Ce took a shower, lay on the bed, and looked at the reward he had just received.
Irving's characteristic conversion skill upgrade card fragments have been 3, and there are also two error-specific upgrade card fragments.
But the game against the Pelicans this season has been played!
Thinking about how easy Irving and Anthony Davis are to bully, and it seems that the time they can be bullied is getting shorter and shorter, Sun Ce feels a little regretful.
If I could play with the two No. 1 picks two or three more times this season, it would be great to upgrade these two skills.
In this game, under very unfavorable circumstances, Irving still had 23 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal, and Anthony Davis also had 25 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks. Sun Ce was not surprised that the Pelicans could play such a performance in the early and middle stages of the season. These two are players with excellent talents and can quickly transform into strength.
But at the end of the regular season, the two can still maintain this state. Although it seems that the data performance has not improved much, it is actually an improvement!
It's just a little worse than the visible improvement of Sun's late and early seasons.
This wave of 4 consecutive away games has finally ended, and their Grizzlies record has also improved to 45 wins and 21 losses.
There are still 16 games left. Sun Ce's goal is still to hit 55 wins and maintain the fourth place in the West. If there is a chance, he will rush for the third place. If he can, he will rush. If he can't, forget it.
However, judging from the current situation, the Warriors will most likely hold the fifth place and rush for the fourth place. Sun Ce does not want to lose the home advantage in the first round, so he still has to fight for the next round!
The trouble for Sun Ce now is that the media and fans pay too much attention to him!
This game tonight is just an ordinary regular season game, and there is no live broadcast, but after the game, Sun Ce was still surrounded by media from all over the world.
This is a very distracting thing for a player.
Fortunately, Sun Ce can look at the ability evaluation, the limit of the A+ level, which is not so compatible with the first player in the league. He still needs to work hard to get out of the feeling of almost floating.
Of course, if he is crowned as the first player in the league, Sun Ce will not refuse.
Why not get such praise?
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Nothing happened overnight. On the morning of the 18th, Sun Ce and his teammates returned to Memphis. Finally, after playing 10 games in 17 days and 14 games in 24 days, they finally had two days of rest.
When Sun Ce got home, he lay down, read the news, and read the news that praised him, Sun, to relieve the pressure.
In these 14 games, he can be said to be the most tired one. Physically, he was fine, but mainly mentally. It was really a bit tiring to come up with various ways to mobilize the tired enthusiasm in every game.
After reading these news that made him a little floating, Sun Ce looked at the ability evaluation and quickly calmed down.
Sun Ce did not practice today, but accompanied Lily Collins, who loved playing League of Legends during her pregnancy, and Zu Ge, who was on weekends, to play games. Then... the two girls disliked him, and the two girls went to play in a double row, so he went to play ARAM to practice how to play in a group.
Since Sun Ce is easy to focus, he is very good at last-hitting, but when he gets excited in a group, he starts rolling his face on the keyboard...
Sun Ce felt good after taking a break from his busy schedule and relaxing appropriately.
On the 19th, a new week came, and Sun Ce also returned to the team to prepare for the 7 games in the 12 days from the 20th to the 31st.
Three consecutive home games + four consecutive away games, this schedule, Sun Ce has gotten used to it, and his teammates have gotten used to it too.
During the tactical meeting in the morning, the coaching staff announced that Yi Jianlian and Beverly can return!
However, Coach Hollins made it clear that the playing time of the two will be more limited than before, and Livingston, Amir Johnson, and Valanciunas will get more playing time.
Stoudemire will basically not play in the remaining games of the regular season. If he is forced to play with an injury, he can also play, but the Grizzlies are not a black-hearted team. They will not do something that they know will ruin Stoudemire's career. Although Stoudemire is at the end of his career, he can still last for two or three years as a role player with a minimum salary of 10 minutes per game.
Sun Ce sighed again that it was not easy. It was not until late March that he finally had 13 teammates who could play. In addition, Gobert, the god pit, can finally sit and watch the game in a suit.
For Gobert, Sun Ce is glad that this guy has not yet reached the time when he needs to rely on NBA playing time to improve. To be more direct, this guy is not worthy of NBA-level game time to improve. He is still in the period of training and low-level games to hone his defensive basic skills.
Otherwise, it will really delay him. This year, the Grizzlies will not give opportunities to young players who are in urgent need of playing time. Even Livingston, Amir Johnson, and Valanciunas have not had much playing time.
This year, the Grizzlies are fighting hard in every time period. This season, they are the most unfriendly to potential players.
The main content of today's tactical meeting is to prepare for the games against the Jazz on the 20th, the Pacers and the Timberwolves on the 22nd and 23rd.
To be more direct, we will make tactical plans for the games against the Jazz and the Pacers. We will prepare for the game against the Jazz this afternoon and the game against the Pacers on the afternoon of the 21st.
To play against the Timberwolves, just do it directly.
It is unlikely to hit 60 wins. We need to play 15 wins and 1 loss in the remaining games to hit 60 wins, but 55 wins, not only Sun Ce, but other players and coaching staff want to rush up.
Starting from the 10-11 season, the Grizzlies had 55 wins in the 11-12 season, the season with the fewest wins, for three consecutive years, and they don't want to break it.
Winning 10 of 16 games, judging from their record of 9 wins and 5 losses after the All-Star Weekend, the chances are great!
At noon, the Jazz had already arrived in Memphis. Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Tony Allen, Paul George, and Beverley invited Jimmy Butler to have lunch.
A season is almost over, and Jimmy Butler has transformed himself and has become the Jazz's on-court leader.
Jimmy Butler likes this feeling. Although he is not as strong as at the beginning of the season and is still competing for a playoff spot, he just likes to be the boss.
Seeing that Jimmy Butler was still very low-key when talking to Sun Ce and Tony Allen, but when talking to Paul George, Klay Thompson, and Beverley, he already had the momentum of a big boss, Paul George was crazy about his third brother in his heart.
Look! This is the spirited and high-spirited that young people should have!
This guy is about to become the first in the league, but he is still so unruly all day long!
But Paul George has no choice! Fighting, you may not win, playing, you can't win, what else can you do? He can only honestly bear the responsibilities that he shouldn't have at his age.
He met with his old teammates who won two championships together, and returned to the FedEx Center to prepare for the game in the afternoon, but Jimmy Butler went to the visiting team's locker room and separated at the fork in the employee passage leading to the two locker rooms.
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It was 12:50 when we returned to the stadium. There were still 40 minutes before the warm-up time before the 1:30 training. Sun Ce changed into his training jersey and went to the locker room to look at the new weekly best player announced at 12 noon today.
No one competed with him this time. Griffin and Sun won the weekly best player awards in the East and West respectively!
7 times of the weekly best player. In the past 18 days of this month and the last 3 days of last month, Sun won the weekly best player twice. There is still 1 week of games to play, but with two weekly best players, as long as the performance in the next 7 games is not too bad, Sun Ce feels that he will definitely get the Western Conference monthly best player this month!
Although everyone is saying that Sun has a stable MVP, Sun Ce dare not be careless. He will fight for it if he can! This year's regular season has become the current situation, of course he has to fight!
A day of preparation time passed, and on March 20, after the Grizzlies rested for two days, the brutal 12-day 7-game began!
At 4:40 pm, Sun Ce and his teammates entered the court.
Looking at Jimmy Butler on the opposite side, his strength is not very strong, A-level, averaging 16.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.9 steals, playing 41 minutes per game, and the average playing time in the league is the highest...
It is really a performance that is done with all the effort!
Moreover, because Jimmy Butler received guidance from the Grizzlies and polished his basic skills, Jimmy Butler's performance in the third year is even better than Sun Ce remembered. After all, Jimmy Butler in the first and second years of the original time and space was in a state of being free-range by the Bulls, and the Bulls did not put this 30th pick in the team plan at all.
At 5 pm, the game started. After two days of rest, two more generals returned. The Grizzlies are in high spirits tonight!
After Yi Jianlian, who had been injured for half a month, returned to the court. After winning the jump ball over Kanter's head at the beginning, he randomly received Paul George's lob and smashed the ball into the basket through Kanter after falling into a positional battle, and also caused Kanter to foul. He came back and scored 2+1!
Seeing the fierce performance of Yi Muhualian, who dyed his hair red before his comeback, the fans at the scene were immediately excited!
Yi Jianlian, who dyed his hair, dared to dunk on anyone!
Yi Jianlian also scored the free throw. This goal brought a huge morale boost to the Grizzlies. In the next defensive round, Sun Ce triggered the "food shortage" and rushed out to grab the ball very actively. He passed it to Klay Thompson in the counterattack. The latter missed the three-pointer, but after passing the ball, Sun Ce rushed to the basket and grabbed the ball himself and passed it to Paul George who followed up. The latter made a jump shot from the free throw line and scored two points.
5-0 at the start!
The Grizzlies' strength exceeded the Jazz's expectations. After a wave of 5-0 at the start, the Grizzlies firmly maintained their advantage and gradually widened the score!
The Jazz's offense is not very good, but they are strong in defense. However, at the beginning of the game tonight, they did not defend the Grizzlies, whose morale was ignited by Yi Jianlian, very well. Moreover, the combination of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Richard Jefferson, and Yi Jianlian is the strongest offensive combination of the Grizzlies!
After the morale was ignited, even if Richard Jefferson, Yi Jianlian, and Paul George were replaced by Hardaway Jr., Amir Johnson, and Valanciunas in the second half of the second quarter, the Grizzlies' offense still maintained stability.
29 to 19, the Grizzlies took a 10-point lead in the first quarter!
After the start of the second quarter, the Grizzlies sent out the combination of Livingston, Beverly, Paul George, Amir Johnson, and Larry Sanders.
On the Jazz side, the lineup of John Lucas, Alec Burks, Jimmy Butler, Marvin Williams, and Ryan Hollins came on the court.
This lineup became the moment for Paul George and Jimmy Butler to compete.
Paul George is stronger, Jimmy Butler is more desperate, Paul George really didn't have any advantage, but relying on Larry Sanders's help defense, Paul George gradually suppressed Jimmy Butler.
Halfway through the second quarter, the Grizzlies led the Jazz by 12 points, 43 to 31.
In the second half of the second quarter, the Grizzlies replaced Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Amir Johnson, and Valanciunas. Although Yi Jianlian performed well and scored 7 points, 2 rebounds and 1 block in 6 and a half minutes in the first quarter, the team still didn't let him play more.
However, with this lineup, the Grizzlies still took the initiative!
At the last moment of the first half, relying on Sun Ce's counterattack pass to Valanciunas who followed up, the latter received the ball and made a mid-range shot. The Grizzlies ended the first half with a 58-43 lead, and successfully widened the score difference to 15 points at the end of the half!
Teammates performed well tonight, and Sun Ce passed the ball whenever he could, not stealing the limelight from teammates who were in such good shape. Before this game, he had increased his average score to 34.5 points with 8 40+ in the past 14 games, 1.2 points more than Durant's 33.3 points per game, and he didn't lack this game to score points.
And his teammates did not disappoint him. Sun Ce played for 17 minutes and 44 seconds in the first half, and got 13 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 block and 2 steals!
After the halftime break, the Grizzlies sent out a combination of Sun Ce, Beverly, Klay Thompson, Amir Johnson and Yi Jianlian in the third quarter, ready to welcome the Jazz's counterattack in the third quarter. Because of Jimmy Butler, a physical monster, the Jazz still had a spearhead available in the third quarter.
However, the Jazz played too anxiously in the third quarter, and missed consecutive shots from the outside. Sun Ce got 3 defensive rebounds in 3 minutes!
And he also got two assists during this period!
Finally, the Jazz scored a goal, breaking the embarrassment of no offensive goals in more than 3 minutes.
Looking back, Beverly missed an open three-pointer. Sun Ce took advantage of Yi Jianlian's rushing threat tonight, grabbed the offensive rebound and passed it to Beverly. Beverly dared to throw it, and shot another three-pointer... and finally scored!
15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, played for 21 minutes and 05 seconds, and Sun Ce got a triple-double! The lord show continues!