One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three. Fans Who Say They Hate but Act Honestly

The Lakers are always so good at stealing the limelight, and when the Bulls came to Memphis before the finals started, they disbanded the coaching staff.

Subsequent reports pointed out that the elder Bickerstaff did not resign from the Lakers, but only resigned as head coach.

The Lakers want to convince Bickerstaff, the veteran coach who has won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, the NBA's top coaching award, to continue as head coach.

But the elder Bickerstaff chose the role he had with the Lakers before 2011 - head of the team's scouting department.

Old Bickerstaff, who had served as the general manager of an NBA team for many years, began to serve as the head of the scouting department when he joined the Lakers in the summer of 2010. After Jackson left in the summer of 2011, the Lakers management team Let him serve as Mike Brown's assistant coach.

But later, due to the strong request of Paul and Kobe, the old Bickerstaff had to serve as the head coach again, and made Mike Brown the head coach as his assistant coach.

Coaching in the past few years has been the happiest time of the old Bickerstaff's coaching career, and he also won a championship.

According to internal sources, when communicating with the Lakers management, the elder Bickerstaff said that his approach no longer works for the Lakers, mainly because his coaching staff is no longer suitable for the current Lakers. To reorganize a coaching staff... it would be better to directly introduce a head coach with a complete coaching staff.

Old Bickerstaff suggested that the team needs to make fundamental changes to further weaken Kobe's role on the court, strengthen Leonard, use James as the core of tactics, adapt to the new rhythm of the league, and fundamentally change the team's play style. Make changes, otherwise the current strength will be the same as the sky.

Let's not talk about the Grizzlies. Old Bickerstaff doesn't believe that the Grizzlies lineup can be completely retained. When a team sends a maximum salary offer to Klay Thompson and Larry Sanders at the same time, There is no way to stay.

But the Grizzlies cannot be weak. There are two strong teams, the Warriors and the Bulls. God knows when the Spurs and Mavericks will fall, and the Thunder cannot be underestimated...

The Lakers' traditional positional warfare style is indeed becoming more and more unpleasant now. That is to say, the outside trio of James, Leonard, and Kobe are very capable and have a strong lineup.

But from the fact that many of the veterans they signed to strengthen their lineup last summer, we can see a problem - the basic skills of today's young players are getting worse and worse, and traditional positional warfare is increasingly unsuitable for today's players. The game is increasingly leaning towards the brisk pick-and-roll, pass-and-cut style of the Spurs, Mavericks, Warriors, and Hawks, rather than sudden points and high-low post-ups.

If you want to beat the Grizzlies, and Sun Ce may continue to get stronger, you have to make changes, because the Grizzlies are the team with the strongest traditional play style.

The Grizzlies' core lineup is generally still young. Old Bickerstaff feels that they can support the traditional style of play for a few more years, but the Lakers cannot.

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The finals haven't started yet, and the ban on interviews and watching the news has not yet been lifted. Sun Ce also noticed what happened with the Lakers.

Seeing the news about the old Bickerstaff, Sun Ce felt that the Lakers were really special. Most of the other historical giants were always in trouble. People like the Celtics had so many conflicts.

But the Lakers seem to have always been of the same mind. Perhaps this has something to do with the team culture. After all, the Celtics planned to sell Larry Bird in the 1980s, and they actually sold Pierce a few years ago.

But the Lakers' meritorious coach Pat Riley proposed to trade Magic for Jordan and was fired immediately.

For Sun Ce, this was just fun to watch, but the content of the communication between the old Bickerstaff and the Lakers management revealed in the news made Sun Ce very interested.

Sun Ce also felt that the team play of pick-and-roll, pass and cut has gradually become the mainstream play of strong teams, but this does not seem to be the case for the Grizzlies.

For Sun Ce, he does not stick to a certain style of play. If the current style of play is not suitable,

He will also discuss with the team to try more popular team play styles.

The main thing is whether it still works, not change for the sake of change.

The most suitable style of play is the one that can bring out the strongest strength of their lineup.

Sun Ce and his teammates entered into intensive preparations. The Bulls continued their preparations as soon as they arrived in Memphis. After the third game, the Bulls had already determined that their opponent in the finals would be the Grizzlies, so they started early. Prepared.

On May 31st, an interesting news emerged.

Ticket prices for the first four games of the Finals skyrocketed. The average ticket price for the first game reached $963. This price exceeded the average ticket price for the first game of the 2008 Yellow-Green Finals and the first game of the 2010 Finals. The average ticket prices for a show are almost the same.

This is not the highest. The highest ticket price was in Game 4, the Bulls' second home game. The average ticket price reached $1,462. This price set a new record for the average ticket price in NBA Finals history!

The highest ticket price for the most expensive seat in the first row opposite the technical table in Game 4 reached $31,000, breaking the NBA historical record just set in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. The average ticket price in the entire front row area was The price reached US$16,000, which also broke the NBA historical record set in the 2013 Finals!

And this is just the official ticket sales. As for scalpers, three tickets for the middle seats in the first row opposite the technical table for the fourth game of the finals appeared on the scalper's online sales platform. The price was a sky-high price of 330,000 US dollars. As soon as they were put up, they were all bought by a Saudi noble young man studying in Chicago.

Some fans joked that although the majority of people in public opinion felt that the Grizzlies could not sweep the Bulls, the Bulls did not seem to think so and directly set the official selling price of their home tickets at the highest price in history.

And the fans were very honest when buying tickets, and there were really so many people who paid for them!

In an extremely special public opinion environment, a new month has come, and on June 1, the game day for the first game of the finals has arrived!

Sun Ce feels that this year's playoffs are very interesting. The start time of the second round and the divisional finals is basically the latest start time in theory, but the start time of the finals is even earlier than in previous years.

Today, the Grizzlies' "interview ban" and "public opinion ban" have been opened again.

The players have already felt the benefits of discarding these things that affect their emotions. Now that they have reached the finals, this aspect is particularly strict.

This morning, after the pre-match meeting, Sun Ce and his teammates, under the leadership of the coaching staff, reviewed the tactical training conducted yesterday and the day before yesterday for two training sessions. After resting for an afternoon, they rested enough. At 7:40 in the evening, the players of both teams entered the court.

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Rose was initially very excited to enter the finals with a record of 12 wins and 0 losses. After the third game of the Western Conference Finals, although he saw the ridiculous strength of the Grizzlies, this excitement greatly weakened the pressure brought to him by the Grizzlies.

His teammates had the same emotion.

But on the night of the 29th, after the Grizzlies swept the Lakers, Sun Ce declared that he would sweep their Bulls to win the championship. Rose and his teammates were very angry at the first time because they watched the live broadcast of the fourth game between the Grizzlies and the Lakers.

But after the anger, they analyzed the Grizzlies' performance throughout the playoffs this season under the leadership of Sloan. Others were fine, but Rose and Griffin, the core players, felt endless pressure!

The Lakers are so strong, so stable, and their lineup is so good that people can curse them, but no matter how hard the Lakers try, they can only compete with the Grizzlies at one stage at most. The Grizzlies won the whole game!

The Lakers, who were famous for their stability and ranked second in the league at the end of the season, were killed by the Grizzlies.

And the Warriors, who exploded fiercely this season and officially topped the ranks of the powerful with unlimited impact, were also killed by the Grizzlies.

Whether it was a team seeking stability or change, they were swept by the Grizzlies!

But the two could not reveal their uneasiness. The players of their Bulls, who had two MVP favorites, won 12 consecutive games and entered the finals. They were in high spirits and had extra motivation because of the other party's remarks.

These are what the two of them need to use. They must show the confidence they should have. Rose, who looks like a bandit, must have the spirit of a bandit, and Griffin, who has lumps of muscles, must also have the dominance.

On the other side, Sun Ce was also looking at the opposite side.

"Rose S, offense S-, defense A+, passing S-, three-pointer A, mid-range shooting A, layup S... averaging 17.7 points, 4.2 rebounds, 10.8 assists, 2.2 steals, 0.5 blocks... shooting percentage 44%, three-pointer shooting percentage 36%...

Griffin S, offense S, defense A-, passing B+, three-pointer B, mid-range shooting A+, layup S+... averaging 26.7 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.2 steals, 1 block..."

Before Sun Ce formed a double No. 1 combination in the Bulls, he really didn't think that Rose and Griffin could be so matched, and they actually had the title of double evil.

These two really have the feeling of a double evil with enhanced athletic ability and weakened defense.

And athletic ability, in this era, plays a very important role!

With A+ overall strength and S-level defense, Noah, who is mainly defensive and assisting, averages 9.7 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. The combination of these three players of similar age and the top players in their respective positions is very strong!

The two of them worked together for a year last season. After the Bulls determined the prospects of this trio, they made drastic changes to the team last summer.

They did not renew the contracts of Luol Deng and Hamilton, but promoted the more stable pitcher Dunleavy, and used the younger Tony Snell, who had a middle-class level in defense in his rookie season, as a small forward.

They signed Aaron Brooks as the sixth man, traded the signing rights of Mirotic, who was A-level, from the Rockets, and directly applied to the league to use the middle-class to adjust to the previous rookie exception, and signed Mirotic with a new 3-year middle-class contract.

Add Gibson, the core 8 of the Bulls is not worse than the core 8 of any team.