One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven. What if I Give Birth to Two More Sons?

Sun Ce asked people from the Memphis City Hall for help and arranged for his father to take the American motorcycle driver's license test, and specially found instructors and examiners who could speak Chinese.

For Sun Ce, it would be enough to just say something when doing this kind of thing in Memphis.

After the Grizzlies decided to start the playoffs at home, the direct flights from Beijing and Chengdu to Memphis have been fully booked in recent days. Many additional flights are added every half hour and it is not enough. There are still many people who need to fly from Atlanta. , Miami...and other places to transfer over.

The business of hotels and B&Bs is so good. After Sun Ce, in the past few years, Memphis and cities surrounding Memphis have established a complete industrial chain to receive Chinese tourists. Compared with Southeast Asian countries, Chinese tourists have to suffer when spending money. In the United States, Although this money-oriented country is very hostile to China because China's economic and military power has become stronger and stronger in recent years, as long as it provides money, the service will be better, and its vision is much better than that of their younger brothers.

The 19th is a day off, and the coaching staff has no training arrangements. On yesterday’s team activity day and today’s rest day, the coaching staff is preparing for the games on the 20th and 21st.

The coaching staff is still very discerning in predicting playoff opponents. When the Warriors started their winning streak after the All-Star Weekend and even before they overtook the Mavericks, Coach Hollins determined the high probability of their first-round opponent. It's the Warriors. They have been studying the Warriors' style of play. The last match in the regular season was to personally experience the style of play of the Warriors who had won 10 consecutive games after the All-Star break.

This opponent is very strong, so the coaching staff has been working hard to prepare.

For the first time in five years, there is no guarantee of winning in the first round. This is quite unfamiliar to the Grizzlies and is a challenge, but it also makes the coaching staff full of motivation.

Sun Ce was not idle on his day off. He went to the hospital with Lily Collins, whose belly was slightly bulging, for a check-up in the morning, and started training when he got home in the afternoon.

Focus on practicing the 45-degree three-pointers on the right side and the left sideline three-pointers. The evaluation of the left sideline three-pointers is B+. The accuracy of the right side 45-degree to 30-degree angles is about the same as the left sideline three-pointers. Sun Ce estimated that According to the system rating calculation, it should also be a B+ level, but the system only determines the top arc area and both side lines, because both areas can cover a 45-degree angle.

While Sun Ce is preparing for the game, each playoff team has already begun to prepare for the playoffs at home or away.

The Warriors were very smart and did not go to the University of Memphis for training. Instead, they borrowed the private training gym of a friend of the logo man, which perfectly avoided the long-planned harassment by the students of the University of Memphis.

There's a lot to watch in this year's playoffs.

Over in the East, the series between the fourth- and fifth-place Raptors and the 76ers will feature DeRozan, Evans, and the Gasol brothers.

The series between the Bulls and the Hawks was not interesting. The record was too far behind and the strength gap was huge. The strength gap should not have been so big originally, but Horford was reimbursed, causing the Grizzlies to lose the opportunity to trade for Millsap. The Grizzlies The team proposed a trade and the other party directly rejected it. The reason was that there was no one inside, and the Eagles couldn't deal with the twin towers of Griffin + Noah.

The Heat and the Knicks have a deep grudge. The main reason is that the Heat hate the Knicks. The 1998-1999 season was a good time for Mourning to win the championship at his peak, but he was cheated by the Knicks. ...Although that was a matter for players of the previous generation, the media deliberately guided players who have a sense of belonging to the team to have an emotional impact, thus forming a hostile atmosphere.

Moreover, the Knicks have Howard, and the Heat have Paul Wade, three personal stars, as well as Pierce, Dragic, Chandler, and Josh Smith. There is no lack of excitement in the matchup.

But the highlight of the Eastern Conference is the Nets and Pacers!

Although the Pacers collapsed in the second half of the regular season, with 10 wins and 19 losses, they have four super young stars plus David West, a quasi-All-Star veteran. Due to the large rookie contract, the bench lineup is also weak. strong,

With Scola, Turner, Mahinmi, Copeland and others, the 9-man rotation is very good... Not every team like the Grizzlies, Spurs, Lakers, Mavericks, and Hawks can put up to 13 players. Everyone on the active roster is sent on the field, and most teams use regular rotations of 9-10 people, including the Warriors, Bulls, Heat and other teams.

It is normal to rotate 8-9 players in the playoffs. The Grizzlies will also reduce the playing opportunities of relatively weak players in the playoffs.

The Nets are a bunch of veterans who are still strong!

The Nets can't just finish sixth in the Eastern Conference this season. It's not difficult for them to surpass the 76ers or Raptors. However, they began to rest extensively in mid-March because the Pacers were overtaken by the Heat at that time. the trend of.

Obviously it was for the Pacers, whose record collapsed after the All-Star break.

This naturally caused dissatisfaction among Pacers fans. Although the Pacers collapsed in the second half of the season, the Pacers accumulated a lot of fans in the first half of the season. This team's team style is still very attractive.

According to media speculation, the Pacers players will definitely be unhappy because of this incident, and maybe they will use this to regain the goal of teamwork.

The regular season is over, and some problems have gradually surfaced. Lance Stephenson is dissatisfied with the higher team status of Hayward and Darren Collison, Hibbert's thorny attributes... These things are gradually being exposure.

Some experts predict that this round of series may allow the Pacers to suppress their conflicts, and the Pacers may still become a strong team in the playoffs.

The Nets have a bunch of veteran stars, and they will definitely have no shortage of fighting power in the playoffs.

The Pacers, who are mostly young stars, and the Nets, who are mostly veteran stars, have become the most interesting series in the first round of the Eastern Conference.

In the West, there are more highlights, and each series is very interesting!

The Grizzlies play the Warriors, and two of the three strongest outside combinations in the league meet.

The Lakers play the Mavericks. Kobe and Nowitzki did not play against each other once in their early years. They have passed their peak period, but they often meet in the playoffs, but the attention has not decreased at all.

In addition, James fans are looking forward to James' revenge on Nowitzki.

The Thunder and the Trail Blazers, people were surprised to find that the Trail Blazers ranked third in the Western Conference after the season ended. Both teams have super starting lineups, and the Trail Blazers are even stronger, but the Thunder have better substitutes.

Even the series between the Spurs and the Jazz is interesting. Thibodeau and Jimmy Butler have brought an extremely tenacious temperament to this team, and the Spurs are one of the most popular teams in the league.

It's just that even now, there are still old fans who are not used to the fact that the Spurs are a popular team.

While the playoff teams are preparing for the first round and fans are starting to discuss the hot matchups in the playoffs, regular season awards and other things, the 14 teams that have finished the 13-14 season have also begun to prepare for the draft and the trading market.

A large number of 2010 rookies have not renewed their contracts, and they are all top-notch ones. In addition to Bledsoe who signed a 5-year, $70 million contract extension with the Celtics early on, Paul George, Wall, Hayward, Cousins, Monroe, Larry Sanders, and Lance Stephenson have not renewed their contracts. Role players such as Babbitt, Aminu, Turner, Bradley... are also good players.

Four seasons have passed, and the 2010 rookie class started low and ended high, which looks really good.

Although these players are restricted players, except for a few teams that will let them go, most of them will not, but it does not prevent other teams from competing for them. They can try to give these players' parent teams an offer that they are unwilling to give. Even if it is a high-price offer, as long as these players accept the offer, even if their parent teams are willing to match it, it will make these players' parent teams spend more money, which can also be regarded as weakening these teams.

Moreover, this summer, many All-Star or quasi-All-Star players entered the free market, and teams with young talents such as the Pelicans and the Suns all want to take a chance.

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Each team in the league has its own things to do. On April 20, the Grizzlies' preparation training began.

This year, the Grizzlies encountered a very unsolvable problem, that is, the new defensive system was not built well.

Originally, the defensive core of the perimeter single defense master + Sun Ce who is a tandem defense + Gasol who is excellent in the basket and close defense and can even defend small players, formed the strongest defensive combination in the league.

But this combination is gone.

The defensive combination of Larry Sanders and Randolph is gone.

In addition, there have been various troubles in the regular season. It is too late to engage in defense now. They can't try blindly in the playoffs, so they can only rush to attack!

This does not mean giving up defense. To be precise, it is a compromise, focusing on strengths and trying to make up for weaknesses.

The Grizzlies are still very good at single defense and switching defense on the outside, and they are actually not bad at defending pick-and-rolls. It's just that the team cooperation lacks the tacit understanding of the connection between inside and outside defense because of the changes in the inside.

This is only one aspect, the other aspect is the most critical!

There is Whiteside who can defend alone in the inside, but he can't expand out to defend, can't get back, and then he is not happy.

There are inside players who expand out to defend, but they can't defend one-on-one under the basket.

The biggest weakening is actually Sun Ce's assisting defense ability. This season, he is far less defensive than in previous years.

Do your best on the defensive end and try to maintain the offensive level when the referee's whistle becomes loose in the playoffs. This is what the Grizzlies need to do now.

Don't seek perfection, just do the best you can. With the experience of winning the championship twice, the Grizzlies have a clear policy for preparing for the playoffs.

On the afternoon of the 21st, the afternoon training ended. All three players who were reimbursed came to the stadium. The 17 players of the team cheered each other together and ended the two-day preparation.

After finishing the preparation training and returning home, Sun Ce looked at the time and it was almost 5 o'clock. After having dinner and practicing the Nash training method, he watched the two consecutive broadcasts of the Lakers and Mavericks, Thunder and Trail Blazers with Zu Goose, Lily Collins and Xiao Wufan who was forced to work.

Today, which is the first game day of the playoffs, the games between the Bulls and the Hawks, the 76ers and the Raptors, the Lakers and the Mavericks, and the Trail Blazers and the Thunder were held.

However, as soon as he got home, Sun Ce saw Lily Collins and Zu Goose talking about something excitedly, his father was burning incense to Guan Erye again, and his mother's face was also full of joy.

Seeing Sun Ce walk from the big living room into the small living room where they were, Zu Ge excitedly shouted: "Brother, you're back! Come and see Sister Lily's pregnancy test report!"

Pregnancy test report? Sun Ce remembered that he accompanied Lily Collins to do a pregnancy test on the 19th, but he didn't expect that the report would be issued today... This efficiency is enough! He had forgotten about it.

But why is he so happy about a pregnancy test report?

Sun Ce took the report in confusion and read it through.

Normal, normal, normal... no abnormalities, no abnormalities, no abnormalities... nothing special after reading it through!

If there was anything special about the pregnancy test report, I wouldn't be happy.

At this time, Zu E put his hand on Sun Ce's shoulder, jumped up and climbed up along Sun Ce's back, and pointed at a line of words from behind Sun Ce's head. Sun Ce looked closely and saw that it said "double gestational sacs, no abnormalities in the embryo..."

Double gestational sacs?

Sun Ce turned his head and looked at Zu E's head hanging on his shoulder... twins!

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After reading the pregnancy test report, Sun Ce also followed his father to burn incense to Guan Erye... The whole family was overjoyed.

However, in addition to being excited, Sun Ce was a little annoyed. What if these two were sons again? It would be too tragic. Then he really had to go to Kobe to consult how to have daughters every time.

Hearing what Sun Ce said, Sun Ce was scolded by his mother again.

Sun Ce once again felt that he had less and less status at home.

On the contrary, in about seven months, Gohan will have a pair of younger brothers and sisters, and his family status will rise sharply.

Lily Collins, Zugoo, and Sun Ce's mother, who have watched so many romantic dramas, are particularly caring for Dabao.

After dinner, Sun Ce sadly went to practice Nash training alone, took a bath and watched the live broadcast of the game. Now the family's attention is on Lily Collins, and they have begun to prepare to move to Los Angeles or Miami in the summer.

Before the Lakers and Mavericks played, the two games in the East had already been played.

The Bulls easily defeated the Hawks 99 to 88. The Hawks had a bunch of high-quality role players and two or three quasi-All-Star players, but no real superstars, and no one who could stably enter the All-Star bench. They averaged 255 assists per game in the regular season, but only got 16 assists in the first game of the playoffs. The offense was directly cut off. Without Horford, there was no one to protect the basket, and the Bulls scored 99 points.

There is almost no suspense in this series. The Bulls' score dropped normally after entering the playoffs due to the increased confrontation, while the Hawks were simply defended to death.

Sun Ce felt that there was no suspense in this series after reading the battle report.

But Sun Ce was puzzled by the first game between the Raptors and the 76ers.

94 to 125, the Raptors lost to the 76ers by 31 points in their first away game!

Marc Gasol scored 23 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. He was not afraid of his brother and played very well.

Lowry scored 20 points, 1 rebound and 5 assists... It was barely enough.

But DeRozan... 2 of 11 shots scored 5 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. He played for 30 minutes and scored less than Novak, who played for 10 minutes and scored 6 points with 2 of 3 shots!

Marc Gasol scored 26 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, Evans scored 25 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Tony Roten scored 22 points, and Thaddeus Young scored 22 points and 7 rebounds... The 76ers' offense exploded in the first game of the playoffs!

Sun Ce was confused by the strangeness of the Eastern Conference, but it was not important. What was important was the live broadcast of the next two games.

In the evening, the opening games of the two series in the Western Conference on the first day of the playoffs were held one after another.

The game between the Lakers and the Mavericks was so intense. After the first three quarters, the Lakers were one point behind 81 to 82!

The final quarter was still tense. The Lakers relied on Kobe's consecutive mid-range shots at critical moments, and withstood the teamwork of Carter, Nowitzki, Bosh, Conley, and Marion at critical moments, and played a single quarter score of 29 to 26.

In the end, the Lakers narrowly defeated the Mavericks 110 to 108 and defended the first home court.

The Thunder and the Trail Blazers tied at 99 in regular time, and relied on Durant's buzzer-beating three-pointer to drag it into overtime.

In overtime, it was Westbrook's world.

Westbrook, who scored 18 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists in regular time, got 3 rebounds in overtime, but did not deliberately get that assist. Instead, he scored 12 points alone in overtime, beating the Trail Blazers 12 to 9. In overtime, when Durant was already exhausted, he took on the Trail Blazers alone, helping the Thunder to beat the Trail Blazers 111 to 108!

Westbrook's 2+1 dunk across Meyers Leonard in the last 25 seconds of overtime sealed the victory, and Sun Ce got goose bumps when watching this ball.

Westbrook, who played for 49 minutes and only rested for 3 minutes in regular time, was able to break through and dunk at the last moment of overtime!

30 points, 12 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals. With Durant, Westbrook was really calm and unselfish most of the time.

Sun Ce saw the difference in the viewing of the first round of the East and West after only watching one game. The three or four best teams in the East have the ability to compete with the best teams in the West.

But except for those three or four teams in the East, the other playoff teams are not on the same level as the Western playoff teams.

At present, Sun Ce feels that his team has a bumpy road ahead!

First is the Warriors, and the second is most likely the Spurs... If they can beat the Spurs, the next is most likely to be one of the Lakers and Thunder... Let's prepare well for tomorrow's game against the Warriors!

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Just like Sun Ce's feeling, after the first day of the playoffs, fans feel that the Eastern Conference may have a series with the Pacers and the Nets, who originally had the strength to win 50 wins, and the other three groups in the first round are not worth watching. The Heat and the Knicks are worth watching, but the games may not be very intense.

The 76ers, who have the real superstar Evans and the best center this season, Pau Gasol, beat the Raptors.

In the playoffs, a superstar plays a much more important role than two or three quasi-All-Stars or players who occasionally make the All-Star Game.

The first round is still more interesting in the West!

The games between the Lakers and the Mavericks, the Thunder and the Trail Blazers were all exciting.

Next, the much-anticipated series between the Grizzlies and the Warriors is coming!