One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-Four. Perfect Start

112 to 98, no Grizzlies player exploded tonight, Sun Ce scored 27 points, Klay Thompson 16 points, Aldridge 17 points, Paul George 14 points and 9 assists, the Grizzlies still steadily suppressed the Mavericks for the whole game, and finally won by 14 points.

5 consecutive wins at the start!

After the Spurs lost 107 to 108 at home and Harden's step-back three-pointer was interrupted, there are only two teams in the league that have not lost, one is the Warriors, who started with 5 consecutive wins, and the other is the Grizzlies, who also started with 5 consecutive wins!

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The second game with the Mavericks completely established the confidence of the Grizzlies. Maybe at the beginning of the season, even if they had not run-in well, they were already one step ahead of other teams, and their players were in better condition than other teams.

Relying on the deterrent power of 5 consecutive wins, on October 28, the Grizzlies defeated the defending Pacers 101 to 81 at home, winning 6 consecutive games!

The Pacers are really not doing well this season. David West has declined seriously. In the first five games of the season, he only averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds per game, which is the worst performance in his career since he started as a starter.

Darren Collison left, and George Hill, who was dug back, is not as good as Darren Collison in terms of strength. Stephenson left, and Hibbert has a bad relationship with all his teammates... Hayward feels that he is in a very difficult situation! If he had known earlier, he would not have renewed his contract. He heard that Larry Bird was ready to resign.

Now everyone can see that they collapsed last season because they traded away Granger, and now even if they want to sign Granger back, it is useless.

Granger's status as a big brother comes from the fact that he has been playing for the Pacers since he entered the NBA, and he has the deterrent power of a big boss in the team, but he was traded once, and even if he comes back, his image in the minds of his teammates is not that tall, or in other words, those who used to be suppressed by his deterrent power instead of really treating him as a big brother will no longer obey him.

But the 4-year, $72 million contract offered by the Mavericks was matched by the Pacers, so Hayward can only hold on.

From last season when he could have won 72 games, to now when he has to fight hard to get into the playoffs at the beginning of the season, this sense of gap is simply torture for Hayward.

Look at Paul George on the opposite side, he is going for the championship again!

Also, Hayward doesn't know where he offended Paul George and Klay Thompson, these two people defended him desperately whenever they saw him...

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6 consecutive wins,

The Grizzlies continued to advance triumphantly. On October 30, the fourth game of the five consecutive home games, the last game of this month, the Grizzlies welcomed the game against the Hornets at home.

The Hornets had a bad start, playing 6 games, 2 wins and 4 losses.

At the beginning of this year, the status of each team is clearly divided into 3 levels. The first level is the Grizzlies and Warriors. The players' individual competitive status is better than other stars. They are more advanced in running-in and faster in defensive adjustments. From the beginning to now, both teams have won 6 consecutive games.

The second tier is most of the strong teams, including the Lakers, Spurs, Bulls, 76ers, Knicks, Mavericks, and Thunder. They are not in very good shape, but they already have the feeling of the Grizzlies and Warriors at the beginning of the season. Although they are one step behind the Warriors and Grizzlies, they are much better than other teams.

The teams in the second tier are basically regarded as championship-level teams.

The teams at the ordinary playoffs or the edge of the playoffs are in trouble. They may not be as good as the opponent in a chaotic battle when playing against a bad team, and they are crushed when playing against a championship-contending team.

The Hornets have already lost McRoberts, the tactical core of last season. Lance Stephenson did not soar to the top player after the transfer like McGrady and Joe Johnson did in the past. Instead, his performance declined. Last season, Lance Stephenson averaged 13 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game, but that was when the Pacers ranked first in the league for most of the season.

When his teammates are not so good, Lance Stephenson is just a good role player.

Tonight, the Hornets met the Grizzlies, one of the two teams with the best start of the season, 95 to 110. The Hornets did not struggle much, and the Grizzlies were all excited. Paul George even passed an alley-oop dunk to Klay Thompson and missed it...

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Started with 7 consecutive wins!

After the first two game weeks, the Grizzlies won all 7 games!

However, on the 31st, the second week's Player of the Week was announced, and Sun Ce failed to win the Western Conference Player of the Week for two consecutive weeks.

Sun Ce won the Player of the Week in the first week with 3 wins and 63 points in the opening game without any suspense. In the East, the strong Paul won the Player of the Week in the first week.

But in the second week, Sun Ce's performance was tepid, averaging 24 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 3.5 blocks in four games... Curry won the Western Conference Player of the Week in the second week by winning all the past 3 games, averaging 27 points and 6 three-pointers per game.

In the East, Griffin won the Player of the Week in the second week.

Sun Ce had no choice. The team performed so well that his average playing time had dropped to 31 minutes before he realized it... He played more than 43 minutes in the opening game, barely maintaining an average of more than 30 minutes.

Sun Ce knew that this situation could not continue forever, but if possible, he hoped to extend it as long as possible, so that they could create more leading advantages and have more time to adjust.

After the game with the Hornets, the Grizzlies got two days of rest. On November 2, they will have the last game of their five-game home run against the Magic.

Due to the schedule changes, the Player of the Month award has been changed this season. The second half of October and November will be considered as one game month, and the first 20 days of April will be included in March. Starting from this season, there will only be 5 Player of the Month awards in a season, which can be regarded as increasing the value of this award.

Sun Ce missed the Player of the Week award and failed to get the 30th Player of the Week award in his career immediately, but he didn't care too much. He is still far from the 45 Player of the Week awards of James, who is currently the first in history, and there is also a clear gap from the 37 Player of the Week awards of Kobe, who is the second in history. It is unlikely to catch up this season, so there is no rush.

After looking at the schedule for the next few months, Sun Ce feels it is too wonderful. The month with the most games is only 15 games!

In fact, compared with last season, the two most busy months of the schedule were drawn two games each, and then one game was drawn each for the other three months except April, and all the games were played in October, so the schedule of those months was naturally relaxed.

There are only 13 games in November, and there is no back-to-back, which is a good thing for the Grizzlies.

As the season progresses, the league feels that the players of each team have gradually become accustomed to the new rules, so the referees are not so harsh in whistling. Before, no matter whether they are role players or stars, they should whistle. Now the home advantage, star whistles, etc. have slowly returned to normal levels.

Because the players of the Grizzlies are in better condition than other teams, they have established advantages early in the past few games and have more actual game opportunities to adjust the details on the defensive end.

The main thing is to have a more acute reaction. Before the opponent makes a shooting action, it is possible to confront, but how to grasp the degree of confrontation, put pressure on the opponent before making a shooting action, and stop in time when preparing to make a shooting action, and interfere with the shooting instead of interfering with the opponent's shooting action... This takes time to adapt.

But they have adapted earlier than other teams.

In the next month, Sun Ce estimated that all teams would start to get into the state, and the Grizzlies, who had adapted first, had to improve the team's chemistry while being one step ahead of their opponents.

As the season progresses, the advantage of leading the state at the beginning will become smaller and smaller.

In the later stage, the hard power of the stars, tactical coordination, and the chemistry between the players are still the most important.

In the middle and late stages, it is easier for the Mavericks, Spurs, and Hawks, which have a clear tactical system and run tactics steadily from the beginning regardless of the state, execute tactics, and prioritize the team, to get into the best state.

The three points of competing for state in the early stage, competing for team in the middle and late stages, and competing for stars in the playoffs are fully demonstrated by the extended schedule of the NBA this season.

Soon, the first day of rest passed, and a new month came. On November 1, the Grizzlies began to prepare for training.

However, the opponent to prepare for is not the opponent Magic tomorrow night, nor the first opponent Clippers on the 4th after starting 5 consecutive away games, but the opponent Lakers on the 6th!

Sun Ce feels that the team really looks down on the Magic and Clippers.

However, on November 2, the Magic took the lead in proving that they really don't need to be looked down upon by their opponents.

Towns and Okafor in 2015 made people drool at the sight of them. Too many teams wanted to get them. Embiid, who was selected in the draft, had a completely ruined rookie season. At present, it seems that he played badly last year. Except for Vucevic, the Magic management looked down on all the players in the team, so they cultivated Vucevic and let others do whatever they wanted.

129 to 108, the Grizzlies played tonight. They didn't defend much from the second quarter, but the Magic still couldn't narrow the gap to less than 20 points. The Grizzlies easily won 8 consecutive victories.

After the game with the Magic, the Grizzlies started a 5-game road trip the next morning.

The first 4 games were against Western Conference teams, and the last game was against the Bucks on the 14th.

The first stop was Los Angeles, where they challenged the Clippers and the Lakers successively.

Zugoose also came along. Lily Collins was already due to give birth. Sun Ce thought it was a coincidence. The last time she gave birth, she was about to play against the Lakers, and this time was the same!

Since they were going to Los Angeles, Sun Ce did not take a leave like last time. Instead, he followed the team to Los Angeles after the game against the Magic. After putting their luggage in the hotel, Sun Ce took Zugoose to the hospital by taxi.

After not seeing each other for almost three months, Sun Ce saw that Lily Collins had become rounder... As expected, she turned on the beauty filter when she was videotaping!

With two children in her belly, Sun Ce felt that Lily Collins' belly was even bigger than last time.

Seeing Sun Ce studying her belly like a toy, Lily Collins was angry and amused - it turned out that men can never mature.

In addition to seeing Lily Collins, Sun Ce also took a look at Little Gohan. After not seeing him for a few months, Little Gohan had grown up a little. Children grow very fast. Sun Ce remembered that when he left Los Angeles to return to China to prepare for the national team competition, Little Gohan had just learned to walk, but now he can walk very well.

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After staying in the hospital for an afternoon and handing Zu Goose to his mother and Lily Collins, Sun Ce returned to the hotel in the evening to continue preparing for work.

My wife gave birth in Los Angeles, and Sun Ce hoped to get some luck from NBA players who love to have daughters, preferably twins.

He and Lily Collins didn't ask the doctor whether it was a boy or a girl, and Sun Ce's mother didn't ask either. Anyway, they already had little Gohan, so it didn't matter whether the second child was a boy or a girl, just like scratching a lottery ticket.

After a night's rest, on November 4, the Grizzlies prepared for the game in the morning... the Lakers again.

At 7 p.m., the Grizzlies' away game against the Clippers started.

Since Jokic can't join the NBA until next season, the Clippers have two goals this season - to train Wiggins and to play badly.

This season, the Clippers decisively started with a 9-game losing streak, firmly occupying the last place.

The game was nothing to watch, and the Clippers didn't want to win this season, especially when their general manager Sam Hinkie made it clear in an interview that he wanted to play badly, which brought a lot of psychological blow to the Clippers players.

The team is weak, but the players must try their best to play. Saying that they want to play badly will hit their confidence in the role players.

But the Clippers don't care. At present, they only focus on training Wiggins in their lineup. The second focus is Motiejunas, and the main scorer is Jamal Crawford, who can shoot as he pleases.

Wiggins lives up to his title as the No. 1 pick. He has averaged 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.1 steals per game since the start of the season. He has high athletic ability, talent and basketball IQ.

Because of his body shape, Wiggins was compared with Paul George and Gay. The conclusion is that Wiggins is more talented than Gay, who averaged 20+ points per game in his second year.

But Sun Ce felt that Wiggins needed to hold a thermos cup in his hand to match his noble temperament...

104 to 91, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Clippers and won 9 consecutive victories.

The score in this game was not high because the Grizzlies were practicing their own tactics. After the first half, the difference between the two teams was only 4 points. However, in the third quarter, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson began to exert their strength under the connection of Paul George. The two made 5 three-pointers in a row, and after a wave of 15 to 5, the difference was widened to 14 points, and the victory was locked.

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9 consecutive wins!

Sun Ce was very excited. This year, their progress in running-in was very good. It is hard to say anything else. The defense of the three combinations has been very good. As for the effect, it is definitely not as good as before the rule change. The NBA's average score has increased significantly. It is inevitable that they can only adapt to the existing rules.

Moreover, the overall average score of the league has increased significantly, and their Grizzlies have also improved. So far this season, in 9 games, the Grizzlies have averaged 122 points!

Although it is definitely impossible to keep it that high, they took advantage of this time to try multiple groups of defensive cooperation.

The Grizzlies' offense this season is launched from the outside, but the defense is still mainly inside. The core of the three sets of defense is Randolph and Larry Sanders, Gobert and Aldridge, Larry Sanders and...Sun Ce.

Among these three pairs of partners, Randolph and Larry Sanders are very useful in the fast-paced competition during regular time; when it comes to positional warfare, the combination of Aldridge and Gobert has the best defense.

For fast breaks that need to be defended, Sun Ce, Larry Sanders and Paul George are the most suitable for the frontcourt.

If it is a pure offense, Yi Jianlian and Richard Jefferson are more suitable.

When the schedule reached the beginning of November, when other teams began to find their feelings and enter the state, began to work on tactical running-in, began to practice tactics to see what tactical cooperation they are suitable for in the new season, what needs to be improved... and so on, the Grizzlies have passed that stage and have a clear direction.

The direction to be adjusted on the offensive end and the core to be clarified on the defensive end have all been figured out!

However, the Grizzlies started with 9 consecutive wins, but they are not the first in the league!

The Warriors, who played one more game than the Grizzlies and played a back-to-back game at the beginning of the month, started with 10 consecutive wins!

The Warriors started this season with a bang. After the All-Star Weekend last season, their popularity has been soaring. Now, the Warriors' Wave combination is no less popular than their Splash Brothers and the Lakers' God Emperor combination.

The Warriors and the Grizzlies, who have not lost since the start of the season, are the two teams that fans are focusing on at this stage.

Which team will lose first?

This has become the scene that fans want to see the most. The winning streak will definitely end one day, and fans know which team will end their winning streak.

The Warriors are okay. They played against stronger opponents at the beginning of the season, but the opponents in the next few games are not strong enough.

On the contrary, the Grizzlies, after 9 consecutive wins, are expected to snipe their winning streak!

The Lakers, who are ranked third in the West with 7 wins and 3 losses!

Although the opening performance was not as strong as the Grizzlies and Warriors, the Lakers adjusted quickly. With a deep lineup, they have similar advantages to the Grizzlies, but their core players are not as fast as the young Grizzlies.

Up to now, the Lakers have almost entered a normal rhythm, and many people believe that the Lakers are expected to end the Grizzlies' winning streak.

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The encounter between the Grizzlies' outside triangle and the Lakers' strongest outside combination is one of the biggest highlights of the regular season. Now the Grizzlies are challenging the defending champion Lakers with a winning streak. Even the Warriors fans are paying attention to this game. At this moment, except for the Grizzlies fans, everyone else is a Lakers fan.

In the eyes of the media and fans, the Grizzlies naturally want a longer winning streak after 9 consecutive wins, and the Lakers certainly don't want to be the background of the Grizzlies' 10 consecutive wins. After more than half a month of the season, the Lakers' veterans began to get into shape, and it is bound to be a wonderful battle!

The games between the Lakers and the Grizzlies in recent years have never disappointed the fans!