One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Five. It's Not Time to Think About the Western Conference Finals Yet.

Irving, whose heart is as high as the sky, can only feel powerless when watching the opponent celebrate easily at home.

Before the start of the playoffs, when he communicated with Kidd in private, Kidd said that their only chance was to win the first game, and they would not be able to win the subsequent games. This conclusion made Irving very unhappy.

He feels that they have Irving and Anthony Davis, the Pelicans team known as the combination of Kobe Bryant and Garnett Jr., and they are still capable of fighting.

But the reality is cruel. When the Grizzlies mobilized all their members and played their favorite high-confrontation multi-person rotation style of play, the Pelicans had no power to fight back!

There is only a chance in the first game. If Klay Thompson and Sun Ce had not played that 10-2 wave, they might have won if they dragged on.

However, they encountered Klay Thompson, who would break out whenever he fell behind in the third quarter this season, and ultimately lost.

In the next three games, the Grizzlies didn't slack off at all. They had one goal-sweep!

They don't want to experience the same feeling of fear in the first game again. If they are very powerful, they will admit it and be excited about it, but their strength advantage is obvious, and they feel more or less humiliated by that feeling.

Look at how the Hawks finished eighth in the Eastern Conference. Although most people think that the Pelicans are stronger than the Raptors and only weaker than the 76ers and Knicks...

But when playing first against eighth, you should be domineering and dominant.

Then, nothing happened for the Pelicans.

Sun Ce actually played 39 minutes in the first game, 31 minutes in the second game, 25 minutes in the third game, and 30 minutes in the fourth game, averaging 22 points per game.

The Grizzlies' highest scoring average in this series is Klay Thompson, who averages 23 points per game, followed by Sun Ce, who averages 22 points per game, Randolph, who averages 16.5 points per game, and Paul George, who averages 15 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. 10.5 assists…

For the Pelicans, Irving averaged 29.5 points and 6 assists in four games, Anthony Davis averaged 28 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks per game, and Eric Gordon averaged 13 points per game.

The Pelicans have ensured a stable output with these three brothers. Valanciunas, Rivers Jr., Babbitt, Ryan Anderson, Lopez Jr. and others play well but occasionally perform well. If you don't play well, the next three games will be like sinkholes.

Even though the Pelicans only lost by 9 points in the first game, they lost a total of 80 points in the four games, which was exactly 20 points per game against the Grizzlies.

Complete crushing!

"If Al and Jason were here, we would definitely have a better chance of winning!"

Owen looked at the opposite person and said through gritted teeth.

Hearing Irving's words, Anthony Davis also thought of his teammates Aminu and Jason Smith from last season.

The former shone in the series between the Mavericks and the Spurs this season, greatly restricting Gay. This teammate is also one of the most efficient defensive forwards in the league against Sun Ce, and can also switch to guard the power forward.

The latter currently serves as a substitute for Howard, averaging 8 points and 5 rebounds per game. This regular season, he shot 45% from three-point range and averaged 0.6 three-pointers per game.

But in order to get Asik, the team did not renew the contract with these two people. However, Asik now occupies the team's space of 8.33 million U.S. dollars and holds the team's highest salary of 15 million. However, he only averaged 4 per game in the regular season. He scored 6.1 rebounds. Except for the first game in the playoffs, he had no chance to play in the next three games. It's not that he didn't give him a chance, but he scored 2 points and 2 rebounds on 1-of-5 shooting in the first 20 minutes. His performance was ridiculously poor! He was completely abused by Gobert, who was still a rookie!

Anthony Davis felt strong dissatisfaction with the management from Irving.

Anthony Davis can understand this, too.

In the regular season this season, he was not comfortable playing. The best inside teammate with him was Lopez Jr. This center can help him defend the center and keep up with him and Irving's speed.

Anthony Davis is also a little depressed. He obviously traded to Valanciunas, but went crazy to get Asik back. In addition, he performed well last season and this season due to Asik's big contract, he was basically eliminated. The idle little Lopez is almost forming a table of mahjong!

What made Irving feel even more humiliated was that Sun Ce, who was on the opposite side, obviously did not try his best at all times except in the second half of the first game!

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Being eliminated will definitely cause some problems within the team. The double No. 1 pick is now extremely dissatisfied with the management of the Pelicans, even though he saw the team get Valanciu at almost no cost last summer. Nurse was ecstatic, but losing always triggers negative emotions.

This kind of thing is very common, and it happens to every team that is eliminated in the playoffs, and the stronger the team, the easier it is for this kind of thing to happen.

For the Grizzlies, Klay Thompson, the best player in this series, went for a post-game interview.

The reporter did not ask to interview Sun Ce this time, because Sun Ce is so popular this season and has asked all kinds of questions. He has to reorganize some interesting topics before asking questions, otherwise Sun Ce will vomit blood if he asks some boring questions. .

Sun Ce accepted an on-site interview and said a few words casually. There was nothing to say about this series.

Back in the locker room, Sun Ce turned on the system screen and looked at the system prompts when the final whistle sounded.

"Wolf and Snake Dream:"

Goal: Sweep the Pelicans in the first round of the playoffs this season.

Congratulations to the host for receiving the rewards: 1. Specified skill error and specified upgrade card fragment*1; 2. Mysterious fragment*1. "

There are 4 mysterious fragments. Sun Ce didn't have much idea about this before, because even if he got someone's template card, it would hardly help much at that time. But now it's different. He has always had an idea about the star experience card. If the star experience card is a temporary change in playing style, but if he gets several star template cards, can he switch the playing style when necessary?

This needs time to verify. It's just an idea. At this stage, Sun Ce is still focusing on strengthening his original strength. After all, he hasn't reached his peak yet.

"Mistake Upgrade Card" fragments get the 5th one, which is a good reward that can bring him a clear improvement at this stage!

However, this A-level event related to the Pelicans... except for the first game, it seems that the rest is not difficult.

Sun Ce thinks the difficulty lies in the first game. The opponent hits them unexpectedly!

The second difficulty is concentration, and you can't be careless and relax.

In addition, you must sweep. Losing a game means failure, which is also the difficulty of this event. Irving and Anthony Davis are both new generation superstars. They are aggressive and powerful. If you don't do it well, they might steal a victory.

If they lose one game, they will fail, so the difficulty is naturally great.

Fortunately, they held on in the first game, and in the next three games, they relied on Paul George's mobilization before the start of the series and the pressure brought to them by the Grizzlies in the first game, which was transformed into motivation, and then they won the series 4-0.

Sun Ce also knew that in their current state, they could only lose one game at most, but he really couldn't afford to lose any. If this event was not completed, the "error" would be fixed at level 2.

After reviewing the series that would definitely advance in this round, but only 4-0 or 4-1, Sun Ce didn't care about the Pelicans anymore. This team was not their opponent in mind.

In Sun Ce's view, the Pelicans were just an appetizer to get them into the playoffs.

The real main course was two of the Warriors, Thunder, Mavericks, Lakers, and Spurs!

With a thought, the system prompt came.

"The host has merged 5 designated skill: Error designated upgrade card fragments, which have been used. Congratulations to the host. The skill: Error has been upgraded from level 2 to level 3."

"Error level 3:

Offense: 1. When the host faces a player with a height difference of 5 cm, if the host chooses to play one-on-one, the shooting force effect caused by turning, turning, leaning back, stepping jump shots and other defensive actions will be slightly reduced.

2. When the host encounters a switching opponent or double-teaming opponent in the team offense, and there is a player with a height difference of 5 cm with the host, when the host chooses to shoot, the shooting force effect caused by turning, turning, leaning back, stepping jump shots and other defensive actions will be slightly reduced.

Defense: When the height difference between the host and the defended object reaches 5 cm, the host's jumping height and bounce speed will be increased by 1 small level.

Note: 1. The higher the level and the greater the height difference, the higher the offensive bonus effect. 2. The level of this skill can be improved through skill upgrade cards. ”

“Defensive effect? ​​Addition to blocks? Then level 4 should be a bonus to steals such as movement speed or confrontation, right? Can this be connected with the defensive effects of death coil and acceleration and change of direction on the move? Then level 5 is like the ball pick-and-roll conversion and acceleration and change of direction on the move, which will improve the offensive and defensive effects in all directions? ”

Sun Ce analyzed it and felt that it was possible! Because many skills are connected!

Now he really feels that the skills have been integrated into his playing style a lot of the time, and he doesn’t need to be prepared to complete the technical actions to trigger the skills like at the beginning.

Now he can do those actions naturally, and he naturally adapts to the effects after the addition without preparation.

So, although his system panel evaluation is not as good as Irving’s overall, he is definitely stronger after the addition!

Of course, you have to get used to getting new skills, and it also takes a lot of time to develop new skills to trigger them.

In addition to this, the ninth stage of the S-level event Bully, which is also the final event, has a new progress prompt.

In the description of the last goal 4, there is already a list of teams to defeat in the same era, and now there is only one name - the Pelicans.

Then, the next opponent must be one of the Thunder and Warriors!

Next is the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers, the Horses and the Bulls... Among these three teams, the newest era should also be a veteran team if James and Bosh are counted.

Considering so much, Sun Ce shook his head. First, he must defeat one of the Thunder and the Warriors before considering the Western Conference Finals!