One Thousand Seven Hundred and Five. It Must Be Fair!

For the Lakers, the trouble is not that they can't defend. Of course, that is also troublesome. There is nothing they can do about it. Sun Ce explodes when he disagrees with them, and their core players have already felt used to it.

What's more troublesome is that they are under increasing pressure on the offensive end!

Sun Ce is getting better and better at defense!

It is not uncommon to see a player's progress in the game, but it is not uncommon to see an MVP-level player getting better and better in the game.

This scene is a bit desperate!

Sun Ce seems to have gradually found the time to shrink his defense, has better skills in mid-range and close-range defense, and has better and better grasp of the timing of interfering with the passing line.

James' pick-and-roll breakthrough is getting more and more difficult. As he plays, he begins to passively strengthen his personal scoring. Leonard and Kobe also gradually have more singles.

It was okay at the beginning. When it came to the second half of the second quarter, after Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Aldridge, and Gobert came on the court, the Lakers began to fall behind.

After the first half, with Sun Ce's 9 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks in a single quarter, the Grizzlies scored 28 to 22 in a single quarter. The Grizzlies successfully widened the gap to more than 5 points before the end of the half, 49 to 42, and the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 7 points into the halftime break!

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Back in the locker room, the head coaches of both teams were actively adjusting. Sun Ce played too well, 20 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 6 blocks and 1 steal in the first half, 4 times 5 in the first half! In the case of getting 4 assists in the second quarter, Sun Ce did not make a single mistake! This is the most terrifying!

Sun Ce's all-out play, even the Lakers, who started the same players playing all-out this season, were a little confused. They went all out, not risking their lives! Sun Ce was like risking his life. Even though old Bickerstaff has worked in the NBA for so many years, he has only seen two people play like this and play the whole game.

Iverson and Kobe at their peak!

Before, they thought they were no longer inferior to the Grizzlies in this regard, but compared with Sun Ce... it was really terrible!

The worst player was Leonard. Sun Ce blocked 4 shots in the second quarter, 2 of which were given to Leonard. Both times, Leonard cut into the basket to find a chance to catch the ball and shoot when Sun Ce was shrinking his shooting space and was cut off. When he received the ball, he was blocked by Sun Ce.

Only Leonard had a stable mentality,

like nothing happened, he defended as he should, and took the initiative to reduce the chances of receiving the ball, and kept the threat by cutting in and rushing. Unlike other young players, they were not frustrated or too eager to prove themselves and turned into random attacks when they were not satisfied. The Lakers guaranteed the minimum offensive firepower.

In fact, the Lakers did a good job in defense, but Sun Ce relied on his personal ability to get 9 points in a single quarter and sent 4 assists. If Sun Ce only scored like in the first quarter, the Lakers would not be afraid. What they were afraid of was that Sun Ce would connect the offense of the entire Grizzlies team.

But what you fear will come true. Even the low-post double-teaming could not limit Sun Ce, so he could only double-team in advance. Sun Ce was separated and got 4 assists. Now the Lakers are in a very passive state!

The good news is that Kobe only played for 11 minutes in the first half. Although Kobe usually only played 25 to 29 minutes, Kobe can play more than 30 minutes in key games.

The Lakers set their sights on the third quarter!

On the other hand, the Grizzlies also focused on the third quarter. It was not to defeat the Lakers in one fell swoop. Sun Ce's performance of 4 times 4 in the second quarter failed to defeat the Lakers. Coach Hollins is no longer the rookie coach of the year. He is a two-time champion coach. He knows that he can't be anxious at this time. The opponent is waiting for them to be anxious. The third quarter requires stability!

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After the halftime break, the Grizzlies sent out a combination of Sun Ce, Livingston, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Gobert.

On the Lakers side, Kobe will take a rest first, and then he will play again, basically playing all the remaining time.

Old Bickerstaff was also bold, sending a combination of James, JR Smith, Nick Young, Ed Davis, and Nene to play.

One nerve knife is not enough, then another one!

James himself is afraid of these two nerve knives, but sometimes they are really powerful. In the current situation, when facing a player like Sun Ce and a team like the Grizzlies, he can only gamble.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Grizzlies attacked first, watching Gobert go to the left three-second zone to keep the ball and hold Nene high, watching Yi Jianlian go to the right corner to open up space, watching Sun Ce run to the low post, James could only follow to the low post, he didn't know which two people the Grizzlies sent out by the twin towers.

Livingston pushed the frontcourt and passed it to Sun Ce, then came to the top corner on the left side of the free throw line, and Klay Thompson went to the weak sideline to open up.

Sun Ce received the ball, and JR Smith went up to help James double-team Sun Ce. Leonard couldn't defend him, and James probably couldn't defend him either. The Lakers players can admit that Leonard is the best player in their team and even the entire league in single defense, because James has been promoting Leonard for the best defensive player.

Sun Ce passed the ball to Livingston, and Livingston received the ball and shot...too stable! Such a fixed position mid-range shot given to Livingston is so stable!

9 points difference!

But then, James just passed the ball to JR Smith and asked JR Smith to dribble it. Then JR Smith treated James as Pippen and went to the frontcourt to shoot a three-pointer against Livingston... hit!

45 to 51, the Lakers narrowed the gap to 6 points!

This one ball made Coach Hollins feel fortunate that he was not in a hurry to widen the gap in one fell swoop and replaced the stable lineup.

The Lakers seemed to have no shortage of players of all types, and there were 2.5 nervous knives!

Not counting Kobe sitting on the bench, who was a nervous knife, there were also JR Smith and Nick Young. If either of these two brothers shot well, it would be very difficult for the opponent.

The Grizzlies played a steady triangle offense with Sun Ce as the starting point of the offense, Livingston as the end point, and Klay Thompson, Gobert and Yi Jianlian as the receiving point. It was very stable. Taking advantage of the opponent's lineup, the forward and guard defense was not very good, and the passing route was not cut off, and the Lakers were on the same level!

This was quite unexpected by the fans at the scene. They thought that the Grizzlies would start a defensive battle with a 7-point lead to consume the Lakers, but they didn't expect that the Grizzlies would play a positional battle offense and defense steadily.

This was also unexpected by the Lakers. If the Grizzlies played a positional battle defense and slowed down the rhythm, they would be passive when JR Smith or Nick Young exploded, because the goals of these two people ignored the defense!

In turn, this also gave Sun Ce a chance!

In the third quarter, Sun Ce played the full game again, and his teammates rotated more. Klay Thompson and Paul George took turns to play. When Klay Thompson played, Livingston played, and when Paul George played, Carter played; in terms of rotation in the interior, given Sun Ce's good defensive performance in the first half, Yi Jianlian played the full third quarter. His space containment ability was the best in the Grizzlies' interior. Gobert and Aldridge took turns to guard the interior.

Sun Ce scored 11 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal in the third quarter. The Lakers could only rely on 2.5 shots from the outside. That is, the Lakers' touch in the third quarter was brought up by JR Smith. Otherwise, with Sun Ce's ridiculous close-range and under-the-basket defense tonight, the Lakers' offense would have collapsed.

It can be said that Old Bickerstaff made the right bet this time.

After three quarters, the Lakers stubbornly kept the score difference within 10 points. The two teams scored 28 to 26, and the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 9 points 77 to 68 into the intermission!

31 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 8 blocks and 2 steals in three quarters, but they only led by 9 points. Sun Ce played a bit explosively.

The Lakers' defense was really good. Although the Grizzlies scored 77 points in three quarters, it was Sun who tried his best and took the physical potion with 3 minutes left in the third quarter to ensure that there would be no decline in physical strength.

The point is that their entire team worked too hard on defense, and the focus of offense really fell on Sun.

The Lakers were able to score 26 points in the third quarter by relying on 5 three-pointers in a single quarter, two from JR Smith, one from Nick Young, and two from Kobe.

These 2.5 nerve-racking players supported the Lakers' offense in the third quarter. With James and Leonard being tightly guarded, they really relied on these three people.

But now... Sun Ce changed into a clean jersey during the break in the third quarter. After wiping off the sweat with a hot towel, Sun Ce couldn't wait to play!

If they really relied on their superb mid-range and close-range defense in the third quarter and Sun's 28 points in a single quarter to defeat the Lakers, he might have to play with a near quadruple-double.

He still needs 2 assists and 2 blocks... It would be a shame if he didn't fight for it!

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Sun Ce wants to get good data and win the game, and the Lakers also want to win the game, but they don't have much confidence in stopping Sun Ce from getting good data. In fact, they didn't prepare for that when they arranged the tactics.

Since Sun Ce's sophomore year, he has had a quadruple-double every season. Kobe and James are more helpless about this. This year seems to be their turn again... As for why it is again, this is a long story...

It is impossible not to double-team in order to prevent Sun Ce from getting assists. Sun Ce is the kind of player who is more violent than Kobe at his peak when he gets crazy. The NBA's historical three-quarter scoring record belongs to Sun Ce!

Winning is the most important thing. Facing such a performance, the Lakers have held on until now. They think Sun Ce must be tired! There will always be a decline!

Otherwise it would be too unfair!

Although players like Sun Ce, Jordan, Magic, Chamberlain... seem to be really unfair to them, they still have to look forward to it.

Moreover, regardless of Sun Ce's data, the Lakers still want to reduce being blocked by Sun Ce as much as possible.

However, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, James was blocked by Sun Ce who secretly followed him!

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