One Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy-Three. Can We Be a Serious Basketball Player?

Last season, due to the collapse of defense, the Grizzlies were suppressed on both offense and defense when facing the Spurs in the playoffs unless they had explosive shooting, and were eventually eliminated.

Although the Spurs were also defeated by the Lakers, the Grizzlies still cannot understand the full strength of the Spurs, nor can they understand how strong the Lakers were in the playoffs last season from the perspective of their own team. They can only understand from the Heat, Spurs, Thunder and other teams.

This season, it is not a big deal to easily beat the Lakers once. First of all, the Lakers have many veterans and have replaced most of the players. Kobe's performance is not as good as last season. Last season, Kobe averaged 33 minutes and scored 28 points. This season, his playing time has dropped sharply to 25 or 26 minutes, averaging just over 20 points per game.

God knows how terrifying Kobe, who averaged 27+ in the playoffs, James, who averaged 30+8+11, and Leonard, who was almost the strongest on the perimeter last season, were in the playoffs last season.

The Lakers almost lost to the Spurs. It is hard to guess how strong the Spurs were in the playoffs last year.

As for the Lakers this season, they will definitely not be bad.

As for the Spurs, Duncan continued his performance in the third peak stage this season. Perhaps the Spurs are not as strong as last year. Parker and Ginobili have declined significantly this season. Gay's playing time and average points per game have increased a lot compared to last season. He played 15 games and averaged 34 minutes per game, scoring 23 points, 6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals.

The improvement in data means that Gay needs to bear more responsibilities and pressure, which is also evidence of the decline of other core players of the Spurs.

However, in the playoffs, Sun Ce believes that the Spurs will still be one of the strongest teams.

The key is that the Grizzlies obviously did not push the Spurs to a dead end in the playoffs last season, and did not really understand the strength of the Spurs. In this case, they have to get to know the Spurs again this season.

Therefore, taking advantage of the regular season to understand the Spurs, whose core lineup has not changed and whose absolute core Duncan maintains peak performance, is a must-do and very important thing for them in the regular season.

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After a day of preparation, on November 29, Sun Ce followed his teammates to San Antonio. There was no training scheduled today, and the focus was on getting a good rest.

Sun Ce had a daily video call with Little Gohan on his day off to discuss the decline of their family status. Regardless of whether Little Gohan could understand or not, Sun Ce asked Zu Goose to put Little Gohan in front of the projection screen until Little Gohan dozed off and was taken away by his mother...

After lunch,

Sun Ce was going to take a nap, and get up at three or four o'clock to practice high-post back-to-back, and learn from Pierce if he had the chance.

Last year, he tried to find Livingston, but Sun Ce got Livingston's back-to-back moves at the beginning. He used them well at first, but it was not suitable for him after using them. He went to learn from Livingston, but only learned some skills in timing in back-to-back. In the end, he gave up and chose to continue practicing Kobe's high-low back-to-back.

But at this time, a group of uninvited guests came...

At 12:58 noon on November 29, 2014, Sun Ce sat in the hotel cafe with a godfather who led the fashion taste of NBA players and fans.

In recent years, the fashion taste of basketball fans in China and the United States has become very strange in the minds of non-basketball fans. The hairstyle taste of basketball fans has once again deviated from the mainstream, which has led to the resurgence of another group, and then the clothing style and makeup style of basketball fans have also deviated from the mainstream.

In China, the fashion world outside the mainstream has collectively transformed into a certain NBA fashion godfather fans.

In recent years, the fashion world outside the mainstream has called it the Renaissance.

However, after sitting for a long time, Sun Ce did not see the other party speak, and looked at Randolph next to him in confusion. What are these people doing here in the afternoon instead of going out to pick up girls or sleeping in? They also brought the fashion godfather.

In addition, Parker, Ginobili, Gay, Danny Green, Bonner, Dior and six others also came, and almost all the players of their Grizzlies team came!

Randolph understood that Sun Ce didn't know what was going on, and said, "Noah, have you forgotten? Didn't I tell you on the plane that this afternoon our Xiong Ba Tian Xia band would discuss the Christmas concert with the San Antonio Fashion Metal Band!"

"... I remember..."

Sun Ce seemed to be woken up by someone on the plane and told about it, but he was half asleep at the time. Since he had to take a flight this morning and had no training scheduled, he and Zu Ge struggled to climb out of the silver pit last night and played LOL until 3:30 in the morning.

There are a total of 5 Christmas battles this year, the Thunder will play the Lakers away, the Warriors will play the Pelicans away, the Heat will play the Bulls away, the Knicks will play the 76ers away, and the Spurs will play the Grizzlies away.

The annual NBA star group's Memphis Christmas concert is less than a month away. James, Kobe, Wade, Bosh, Duncan, Gay, and Gasol Jr. are definitely invited. This December's schedule has freed up one game, which takes about two days. The league has deliberately put the rest time freed up by each team before Christmas and Christmas Eve. In the past, players always complained about having to play the Christmas game, and they had no time to spend with their families on Christmas Eve and before Christmas Eve. This time the league has been more humane. All teams have no games starting from the 22nd, which means that the suspension period is from the 22nd to the 24th, which is called the "Christmas holiday" by the media.

The Grizzlies have not played since the 21st, but there was a desperate 4 games in 5 days before the 21st, which is also the only 4 games in 5 days for the Grizzlies this season.

However, the Spurs are trying to squeeze in half of their team!

What is the band called? Fashion Metal Band?

Sun Ce asked: "What do you want to discuss?"

"New songs! Two new songs, one band song, and one of your solos. Fashion Metal Band has their own songs..."

Looking at Randolph spitting saliva and talking about writing songs, it seems that he wants to argue about something. Maybe the songs written by the Spurs are better than those written by Black Panda, and he doesn't want to admit defeat.

Sun Ce opened the prop space and looked at it. There are 3 B-level lottery cards that have not been used. They have been saved. Looking at the event "Artist's Fantasy" that can be triggered by the lottery card, he can only nod in grief.

After Sun Ce agreed, a group of people began to discuss enthusiastically.

Watching Aldridge seem a little shy but not refusing to come to participate in the "team activities", watching Carter proudly say that in addition to the basketball scholarship, he also received a music scholarship for playing saxophone in college, Pierce boasted that he had won a 5,000 US dollar prize in a rap competition in a Boston bar, Yi Muhualian still looks aloof but is actually not good at speaking...

Sun Ce was really sad and angry: "I play basketball, not sing, how come playing basketball is like a side job?"

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After the afternoon discussion, Sun Ce learned that in addition to the four people from the Spurs, Leonard was also pulled in by Kobe and James in Los Angeles. It is said that Kobe will play the piano, James will play the violin, and the retired McGrady will accompany Leonard on folk guitar, and Leonard will be the lead singer; Bosh also called Nowitzki in Dallas.

As for the Grizzlies, except for Blake who will go back to Miami for Christmas to accompany his youngest son who has been in good health since childhood and has been staying in Miami, Livingston and Stoudemire have agreed with the team to go to Miami for leg reexamination during Christmas, and the other 12 players of the team all participated.

Larry Sanders, the team's artist, is also preparing to release a single in the middle of next month, and he will find his own company, Sun Ce, to release the record with his own money... Sun Ce didn't even know that the music studio opened by John had become a record distribution company.

Larry Sanders' single is called "Black Mercedes", which is only available online. It is said that Larry Sanders took time to spend half a year to complete the single, and he did it all by himself.

Sun Ce said that Larry Sanders didn't make any progress on the offensive end this summer. It seems that except for training and gaining 10 pounds, which is about 4 kilograms, he spent the rest of his time on writing and recording songs.

Sun Ce thought that there might be more than 20 people at this Christmas concert, all of whom are well-known figures in the NBA. They also gathered Kobe, Duncan, Nowitzki, Carter, and Pierce, five old-generation superstars who entered the NBA in the 1990s and still have a place in the NBA and are even at the All-Star level. Retired McGrady also came to join in the fun...

"This group of people is simply not doing their job! They only know how to do these things all day long..."

After complaining in his heart, Sun Ce saw that it was already 4 o'clock, and directly found the old Hardaway who was round like a ball to go to the hotel's indoor basketball court to practice low-post back-to-back.

This season, Sun Ce's low-post back-to-back efficiency has improved a lot. Although he didn't learn anything new from Jordan and Payton in the summer, the opponent's control of some low-post details was really good. Sun Ce gained some experience and tried some changes in details in the game. He found that some things are not something that can be learned by just looking at them. Some failed attempts need to be improved in training.

After 90 minutes of training, Hardaway felt that he had lost 70-80 grams of weight, and he felt so distressed. After taking a shower, Sun Ce treated him to dinner, and Hardaway ate everything back.

After practicing Nash's training method in the evening, when Sun Ce returned to his room to take a bath, he turned on the system and looked at the active trigger event "Artist's Fantasy". He gritted his teeth, and with a thought, the system prompt came.

"The host opens the special event "Artist's Fantasy" and can choose to invest the highest B-level lottery card to open the specified type of event in the art section. After completing the specified event, you can get a random lottery card of the specified type.

Advanced reward: Get a random lottery card of the specified art type. If the performance is recognized by the audience, the random lottery card will be returned according to the degree of recognition. The highest lottery card returned is A-level."

Sun Ce has done this event twice. Once he was selected for the Grammy Awards and returned an A-level lottery card. Once he was well received for his performance at the All-Star Weekend. The NBA officials decided to cooperate with their Grizzlies and the Tennessee State Assembly to help them organize a Christmas concert and returned an A-level lottery card.

The best B-level lottery cards are some low-level equipment and shooting action packages of certain players, as well as B-level star experience cards. Star experience cards are okay. Occasionally, you can draw star experience cards of high-quality role players who can inspire Sun Ce's play, but the probability of drawing star experience cards is very low. Other ordinary equipment is useless to him. For example, Radmanovich's skis are even more pitfalls. Shooting action packages are even more unnecessary. His shooting action has been finalized.

The A-level lottery cards are different. Skill upgrade cards, powerful equipment, and the highest A+ level stars... are all good things!

But the events are not good events...

Moreover, no matter how popular the card is for performing for others, no matter how strong the resonance is, there will be no reward, such as when he helped Randolph become an All-Star starter.

However, that time was most likely the last time Randolph made it to the All-Stars in his career. Sun Ce would be happy to help Randolph, who was already lazy in the regular season, reach the All-Stars one more time. No reward would be fine.

What are these rewards used for? Isn’t it just about playing well and creating more honors? Helping teammates get honors is also something to be proud of.

In this regard, Sun Ce has always been very open-minded.

Just as Sun Ce was thinking, a different system prompt came from when he actively triggered this event before.

"The host has led the team to win the 19th consecutive victory in the beginning, and the host has 3 B-level lottery cards, and the artist's fantasy optional event is triggered.

Goal 1: Insert 1 B-level draw card and win 20 consecutive starts.

Reward: 1 random drawing card of specified art type.

Goal 2: Insert 2 B-level lottery cards and win the 23rd consecutive victory at the beginning.

Rewards: 2 random drawing cards of specified art type, special rewards: 1 random special card.

Goal 3: Insert 3 B-level draw cards and win 25 consecutive starts.

Rewards: 3 random drawing cards of designated art types, Special rewards: 1 special card with the blessing of a legendary superstar in a random position.

Note: If you choose to participate in this event, 3 B-level lottery cards will be invested at one time, and rewards will be calculated based on the completion progress. B-level lottery cards will not be returned if the goal is not completed.

Failure penalty: If all goals are not completed, after calculating the rewards based on the completion progress, the host will deduct the number of lottery cards, special cards, and star experience cards owned by the host according to the number of winning streaks short of 25 consecutive wins, in order. "

This...Sun Ce looked at the reward for goal 3 and was so excited!

But for this failure penalty, Sun Ce looked at the prop space. There were only these 3 lottery cards. The A-level lottery cards had been used up long ago. There was 1 random special card, a star experience card. There were only experience cards for the scoring stars in the new century, and big players. Two dream cards!

So dark!

However, one blessing from a legendary superstar is equal to 4 All-Star star experience cards that change positions. Now there is no chance to collect Turtle Cards. They have already had 8 triple-doubles in 20 games this season. He Sun X only did it twice.

"To do it or not to do it? Do it!"