One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Nine. The Opportunity to Show Off Was Taken Away!

After a night of rest in Oakland and watching two live broadcasts, the Grizzlies began to prepare for the third game of the series with the Warriors on the second rest day.

Although they rested yesterday, it was mainly for the players to rest, and only some of the players rested. The coaching staff and some veterans and core players have been preparing for today's game. Yesterday afternoon, Sun Ce was called to communicate for a while to analyze how the Warriors' five-small lineup should respond.

The final result of the discussion is very simple. If the Warriors' outside touch is not good, then the Warriors' death five-small lineup does not have to worry about it.

But the Warriors are unlikely to have a bad outside shooting feel. If that happens, it will naturally be a good thing for the Grizzlies.

While the Warriors can play the power of the death five-small lineup normally, the Grizzlies can only fight with offense and consume the opponent.

This is a point that the Grizzlies did not do well in the second game. With experience this time, they can naturally prepare.

Also, if the opponent's small lineup is not good, they will definitely play regular rotations. With Harden and Thabit, the positional battle offense and defense are guaranteed, and Curry's positional battle is not bad, but it is not as powerful as the desperate fast three-point offense when the ball is transferred in a large range during fast breaks.

As the series progresses, they have a deeper understanding of the Warriors, who are now stronger than last season.

Of course, the Warriors will also have a deeper understanding of their Grizzlies in turn. Sun Ce and his teammates are very clear about this.

It also depends on the mentality of the Warriors. How the Warriors view the results of the first two games from a psychological level will affect the performance of the Warriors.

As for Sun Ce himself, if the team's strength is at a disadvantage, the score difference between the first two away games and the opponent is so low, both games are 6 points, and the second game has a long advantage... He will feel that returning to the home court is a good opportunity.

But if the Warriors' mentality is not good, then the Grizzlies will have an advantage.

The second game was so difficult to defend, so Sun Ce naturally wants to make persistent efforts! If we win the third game, we will have a chance to sweep the Warriors!

With this in mind, Sun Ce prepared to do so.

After the morning training, during the break after lunch and before the afternoon training, Sun Ce played Sangong with Randolph, Pierce, Carter, and Blake in the lounge, while planning how to come up with a reasonable reason to show off to boost his teammates' confidence in sweeping the Warriors. At this time, the third game between the Bulls and the Heat last night, which was replayed on TV, ended.

After the replay, the TV screen showed the interview screen after the Bulls finished preparing for tomorrow night's game this morning. The person being interviewed was Rose.

When asked whether he could make it to the finals, Rose only answered one sentence: "FO-FO-FO!"

This sentence attracted the attention of the Grizzlies players who were playing cards, billiards, and PSP in the lounge.

This is the famous saying of the legendary superstar Moses Malone!

It means: We want to sweep, and keep sweeping!

Sun Ce didn't care about the reactions of his teammates. He felt that he had suffered a critical hit!

He, Sun, hadn't shown off yet, but Rose got there first!

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The Bulls’ declaration that they are ready to sweep all the way to the finals quickly sparked heated discussions.

Although the playing style is not as domineering as it was in the past, Rose’s personality is still so domineering!

And in terms of strength, Rose is fully worthy of such dominance!

The teams in the East may be unhappy, but the current Chicago duo has no real rivals in the East!

This trend began to emerge when Howard and Iguodala left the 76ers one after another. When James went to the West and Chandler returned to the Mavericks, the Bulls will have absolute dominance in the East in the next few years.

As for Evans, although Noel performed well and may bring greater help to Evans after improvement, Gasol is in his 30s after all, and he will definitely be worse every year.

And a center like Gasol is not comparable to a blue-collar inside player like Noel. Even if Noel improves to his peak, it is difficult for him to reach the All-Star level, and Gasol is the best center in the league.

Fans have discovered something strange. The current situation seems to be the same as 20 years ago. The only team in the East that can really compete with the Western powers for the championship is the Bulls.

The Bulls are recognized as the only team in the East that has a chance to beat the Lakers, Horses, Bulls, Bears, Warriors and Thunder. The other teams in the East enter the finals to serve the Western powers.

Rose's speech was not questioned or ridiculed, but instead made his reputation soar.

Last season and this season, Rose made too many sacrifices to help Griffin integrate into the team, and Griffin was the one who stole the show.

Some experts have analyzed that Rose must change himself to become a better team player because he wants to compete with Sun Ce.

Curry, James, and even Westbrook...are all adjusting themselves in this way.

Otherwise, they can't compete with Sun Ce!

But fans still prefer to see the Rose who played the defending champion Celtics to a seventh game in the playoffs in his first year in the NBA, and hope to see the Rose who shouted "I want to win the MVP".

Although it is unlikely that Rose's playing style will return to the past, he is not stupid, but what fans want to see more is not a change in playing style, but character. They hope that Rose can regain his previous sharp character.

For Rose and his fans, Rose's declaration brought them a lot of positive energy.

But at Oracle Arena, Sun Ce felt that his negative energy exploded!

All the limelight was taken away!

Now he, Sun, ran and yelled that he would sweep the Warriors. What would others think?

If he told his teammates that he would sweep the Warriors, would he be considered as imitating Rose?

Fortunately, the Grizzlies would not go to the away game with the mentality of losing. Except that they could not put extra pressure on their teammates and let their teammates not relax because they had the home advantage, there was nothing else.

Moreover, if Sun didn't say it, he could find someone else to blame. Sun Ce looked at Paul George...

Paul George held the PSP in his hand and looked at Sun Ce with such obvious eyes. Based on the news he just heard, how could he not guess what Sun Ce wanted him to do?

If you feel embarrassed, I, Paul George, will not feel embarrassed?

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The afternoon training was about to begin. Paul George gathered his teammates with a heart full of grief and indignation. However, although he was indignant in his heart, he had to be confident on the surface.

"Everyone knows about Rose's sweep declaration. If we can play against such an opponent, I think everyone will be very happy, but we can only play against them in the finals, and our goal this year is only the championship, there is no other choice.

We should not slack off at all now. From today on, I think we should adjust our state to the best in every game. We should win every game, starting with the Warriors. I don't want to go back to Memphis to play the Warriors. I hope that when we return to Memphis, we will welcome the opponent of the next round of games!"

Paul George racked his brains to come up with these words. He didn't have time to observe the reactions of his teammates. The "supporting joke" came.

"Paul, you are so right. It's rare that you have such a heroic spirit. I support you with both hands!" Sun Ce decisively responded with appreciation in surprise, impulse in appreciation, and pride in impulse.

Paul George didn't care how other teammates reacted. He only had one word for Sun Ce in his mind now - shameless!

"That's right, we have to sweep too. Rose should be the one saying that. What qualifications do they have? Do they still want to sweep us in the finals?"

Another arrogant Randolph in the team also decisively supported it.

Randolph's words were much more domineering than Paul George's. He didn't mention the Western Conference at all and directly looked at the finals.

Although the Grizzlies had no one who could make decisions except Sun Ce for the time being, Klay Thompson and Aldridge were both second-in-command and third-in-command. They only knew how to play well.

But this also had its advantages. When Sun Ce, Randolph and Paul George made a decision, they would not have any opinions.

As Paul George said, everything is for the championship!

...

In the evening, the first team of the divisional finals was released.

The 76ers slaughtered the Hawks, who had lost their fighting spirit, 91-71 away from home, and swept the Hawks 4-0 to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals!

Sun Ce understood why the Bulls had a chance to win the Eastern Conference regular season championship this season but didn't do so. It was totally unnecessary.

The Hawks were a soft persimmon for teams like them with superstars to play with in the playoffs.

The Hawks players seemed to be affected by the public opinion that "you can't win the playoffs without superstars". The fourth game was obviously a home game, but all the players had no fighting spirit and were easily slaughtered by the 76ers.

The media started to slap themselves in the face again. They didn't vote for Evans in the best team. Now that Evans entered the Eastern Conference Finals, they said that Evans was a pearl left out of the best team and should at least be in the third team.

Sun Ce was not surprised that the 76ers entered the Eastern Conference Finals, but the sweep... this still surprised Sun Ce.

But this is not important. The headache is Rose who is shouting for a sweep, Evans who averaged 31 points, 5 rebounds, 8.3 assists and 2 steals in 10 games of this year's playoffs, and Gasol who averaged 17.3 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.2 blocks. Sun Ce estimated that these two brothers are enough to give the Chicago duo a hard time.

After a night's rest, it was May 13th, and there were three games today.

The 4th game between the Bulls and the Heat, the 4th game between the Lakers and the Spurs, and the 3rd game between the Grizzlies and the Warriors.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Sun Ce and his teammates came to the Oracle Arena. Every time he came here to play, his fighting spirit would be particularly strong! He was full of desire to defeat his opponent without any mobilization!