One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety-Three. Snowballing Disadvantage

At present, the scores of the stars of the league teams are regionally averaged. Even for a team like the Warriors that has a pair of superstar backcourt players, the total average score of Curry and Harden has also tended to decline, from nearly 60 points per game at the beginning of the season to about 53 points per game.

At present, Curry averages 2.3 points per game, Harden averages 1.3 points per game, and two players have risen against the trend. One is Durant of the Thunder, who has risen from the highest average at the beginning of the season to 1.3 points per game, and only fell back to 1.3 points per game after the game with the Lakers. The other is Sun Ce, who has risen to 29.7 points per game after the Christmas game and the game with the Suns!

In this era, if two or three players stand out, the scoring champion will basically appear on these players.

As for Durant, although he is currently 0.8 points behind Sun Ce in average score, he has not played many games at this stage. As long as Durant can score 50 points in one game, he can directly surpass him.

Even if Curry can score 40+ in a few games on the basis of his average points per game in the near future, he can also rush to the first place.

However, Curry is not the kind of person who destroys the stability of the team for personal honor. At the beginning of the season, he had the opportunity to compete with Durant and Sun Ce for the scoring title, but after the performance began to decline, he began to actively adjust his playing style and improve the team's cooperation, which stabilized the situation.

However, there is no doubt that Curry does have the ability to challenge the scoring title. Since he was selected as the All-Star starter last season, Curry has become a well-deserved superstar in people's minds.

On December 29, 2014, the Grizzlies came to San Francisco the next morning after playing against the Suns. Next, the two teams will play two games in a row.

Sun Ce vs. Harden, Paul George vs. Iguodala, Klay Thompson vs. Curry... These two super powerful outside trios are facing off, and they are playing two games in a row. The NBA officials are pushing for the two teams to face off in this New Year's Eve matchup. After the Christmas battle, the NBA official website has been promoting this matchup on the homepage, and the NBA official Twitter and major TV stations have also been promoting it.

After checking into the hotel in San Francisco, we had lunch and arrived at the Oakland Oracle Arena at 1:30 pm to prepare for the next two focus games.

Sun Ce and others prepared for the next two consecutive games according to the importance of the playoffs, because they and the Warriors only played three times in the regular season this season, and the Grizzlies won once before. These two games will determine the advantages and disadvantages of the two teams in the regular season. As long as the Grizzlies win one game, they can establish the confidence advantage of the regular season. Of course, if possible, Sun Ce and others naturally want to win both games.

This time Curry did not come to Sun Ce to eat at Sun Ce's hot pot restaurant, although he found that the sesame sauce dip can resist the attack of peppers and protect the chrysanthemum, so he can eat as much as he wants.

However,

This matchup is very important. The Warriors are also aiming for the championship this season. It is time for them to compete for the championship. It is not easy to have an advantage in the schedule when playing against the Grizzlies in the regular season, so they have to devote themselves to preparation.

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A day passed in a flash, and at 8 pm on December 30, the last game of the year between the two teams started.

The Grizzlies had a rest when they played against the Suns before, just for tonight's game.

The Grizzlies' five All-Star players started together and launched a triangle offense!

However, in the first game, the Grizzlies were in a fierce battle!

Draymond Green and Thabeet did a very good job of defending close range and under the basket. The key was that the Grizzlies did not defend. Curry made two three-pointers at the beginning of the game, which made it very easy for Harden and Draymond Green to create opportunities for Harrison Barnes and Thabeet to eat cakes.

The advantage is like a snowball, and the Warriors' advantage is getting bigger and bigger!

At the end of the first half, relying on Harden's 12 points and 6 assists in the first half, Curry's 3 three-pointers in the first half, and Harrison Barnes' 15 points, the Warriors led the Grizzlies by 8 points 59 to 51 into the halftime break.

Finally, in the first half of the third quarter, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson started to run, leading the team to a 12-6 run. During this period, the two of them scored three-pointers, and the score was chased to 63-65, only two points behind, purely relying on their three-pointers.

At this point, the game fell into a tense stage. The Grizzlies successfully relied on the containment of the Splash Brothers to make a cut-in at the end of the third quarter to overtake the score.

But in the middle of the fourth quarter, Harden stood up, relying on Harden to score 13 points in the last 8 minutes, the Warriors scored 22-18 in the last 8 minutes of the game and locked the victory!

The Grizzlies once overtook the Grizzlies by 5 points at the end of the third quarter, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Curry and Draymond Green made two three-pointers in a row, and played an 11-3 wave at the beginning of the fourth quarter, overtaking the score by 3 points. Finally, with Harden leading the team to a 22-18 wave, the Warriors defeated the Grizzlies 118-111, ending the Grizzlies' three-game winning streak!

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Braken apart!

After the game, Sun Ce looked at the opponent's data. Curry only made 5 three-pointers tonight, which was not particularly many. Curry averaged 5.2 three-pointers per game this season.

But it made Sun Ce see the role of Curry's three-pointers!

The Warriors took the lead in the first half. Curry made two three-pointers in the first quarter and one in the second quarter. In the third quarter, the Grizzlies were able to overtake the score and lead by as much as 5 points. Curry didn't even make an open three-pointer in the entire third quarter. However, Curry made two more three-pointers in the fourth quarter. One was when the Warriors started to gain momentum in the fourth quarter, and the other was when the Grizzlies were preparing to gain momentum after the official timeout in the fourth quarter. Curry made a fadeaway three-pointer against Klay Thompson's defense, which directly hit the Grizzlies' counterattack momentum.

Although Curry only scored 24 points in the whole game, the role he played... Sun Ce felt that it was no less than his 32 points!

Curry scored 24 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists tonight, Harden scored 31 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, Draymond Green scored 7 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, Harrison Barnes scored 26 points, Iguodala scored 9 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, and Thabeet scored 12 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks... Looking at the Warriors' data, Sun Ce knew that the reason why the Warriors' offense played so well tonight was that they saw through the Grizzlies' defensive strategy. The Warriors didn't play as a team tonight!

The Warriors played Curry, Harden, Harrison Barnes, Iguodala, Draymond Green and Thabeet in turn tonight, and the score of these 6 people reached 109 points.

After carefully looking at the opponent's playing schedule, the Warriors only used 9 players tonight, of which Ezeli only played for 6 minutes and had only 3 points, 1 rebound and 1 steal. In other words, there were only four players rotating on the outside, Curry, Harden, Harrison Barnes and Iguodala, and Draymond Green, Thabeet, Speights and Gerald Wallace on the inside. A total of 8 players scored!

Sun Ce didn't see this situation during the game, because the game was too intense. Neither team had completely opened up the score difference. The team with the most lead was only 8 points ahead. They were always trying to deal with the opponent's offense and break the opponent's defense.

Now I know that the opponent actually played the 8-man rotation of the Suns in the Nash era.

After analyzing it, Sun Ce felt that Steve Kerr really deserved to have worked with D'Antoni for so long. He had a lot of tricks. He relied on being at home and directly rotated 8 people!

If you think about it carefully, this is a player who dared to let Durant play for 9 minutes in the second quarter and rupture Durant's Achilles tendon when Durant temporarily returned from a serious injury.

When the timing is "right" and he feels "there is an opportunity", this guy can do such a thing as using a star to death.

And, indeed, the Warriors played very well!

After this game, the Warriors' record became 28 wins and 7 losses, and their Grizzlies' record became 32 wins and 3 losses. The gap is still so big. Both teams ended 2014 with 2 wins and 1 loss.

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On December 31, the last day of 2014, Sun Ce and his teammates came to Oracle Arena early to discuss the first game of next year.

The Grizzlies' rotation was actually quite timely yesterday. Sun Ce scored 32 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 block and 3 steals. Randolph played very well last night and scored 25 points. Coach Hollins used Randolph and Larry Sanders' inside combination more to deal with the unfavorable scoring situation when he couldn't defend, so he was able to keep the score close and even surpassed at one point.

But! The Grizzlies, who had tasted the sweetness of team offense when playing against the Spurs and the Suns before, had taken advantage of the Warriors with the triangle offense before. They failed to reverse this mentality in time and adjusted to the mode of confronting the stars, so they suffered losses.

After thinking about it, several people had an idea.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the coaching staff held a tactical meeting, discussed with the players, and began to prepare for training.

There was no training in the afternoon. Rest + watch the video of the Warriors' last night and recent games.

The Warriors are a team with the strength to win 65 games. They can't afford to be careless, not to mention that they just lost a game, so they have to be as prepared as possible in all aspects.

In the afternoon, Sun Ce and Curry accepted an exclusive interview with the court TV station. There was no one else, just the two of them, because they basically locked up the two starting positions of the Western Conference All-Stars.

The two have been incompatible since they met, and this time they ignored each other during the 25-minute interview, but they still recorded New Year's greetings together.

A day of preparation time passed in a flash, and the new year arrived as scheduled.

January 1, 2015 is here!

In the morning, Sun Ce did not go to the stadium first, but went to pick up his parents, Zu Ge, Lily Collins, the nanny, and three children.

The confinement period is over, and Lily Collins is still preparing to return to Memphis to live. Missing Sun Ce is part of it, but more importantly, she is worried! This guy is very dishonest.