One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight. Can You Excite Me a Little?

In the first 11 minutes and 41 seconds of the third quarter, the Bulls scored 58 to 64 thanks to Rose's 8th field goal in a single quarter and his 20 points in a single quarter.

Despite Rose's 20 points and 2 assists in a single quarter, the Bulls still failed to overtake the score! Moreover, not only did they fail to overtake the score, but they were also two points behind. If it weren't for Rose's personal performance, the Bulls might have been taken away in one wave! Because someone on the Grizzlies performed just as well!

Sun Ce scored 19 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 assists in a single quarter!

Even considering the different abilities of the role players on both sides to open up space, the different scoring environments, and the fact that everyone is a point guard, Sun Ce's incredible mismatch ability on the Grizzlies side seems to be even better!

Rose used counterattacks and pick-and-roll singles to break through and score continuously. Sun Ce also took advantage of the occasional counterattack opportunities to eat cakes, and in this quarter, Sun Ce also scored 6 low-post singles and two low-post singles.

After Sun Ce passed the ball to Tony Allen in this quarter, but the latter missed the layup, facing Brooks' double team, Sun Ce chose to ignore it and chose to play singles under the double team, but even with Aaron Brooks' double team, Gibson could not limit Sun Ce! Aaron Brooks' double team was like nothing.

The focus is still on teammates. Aaron Brooks, Dunleavy, and Mirotic opened up space for Rose, and Aaron Brooks threw in a three-pointer and Mirotic made a long two-pointer, giving Rose continuous pick-and-roll singles scoring opportunities; Sun Ce also had Paul George, Klay Thompson, and Larry Sanders as teammates.

When Sun Ce was double-teamed by these three defenders, Sun Ce would pass the ball. Klay Thompson made a three-pointer and Paul George made a mid-range shot, adding two assists for Sun Ce. In addition, Paul George used the second pass to pass an alley-oop to Larry Sanders, giving Tony Allen a chance to create a foul and making one of two free throws.

In the last attack of the third quarter, Paul George pushed forward to the front court and spent only 9 seconds, passing the ball to Sun Ce who was leaning on Gibson in the low post to ask for the ball.

Gibson was desperate, and Aaron Brooks's early double-teaming could not interfere with Sun Ce's serve. The height difference between the two was too big! If Sun Ce was facing Aaron Brooks, he would not pass the ball. With an easy fake, Gibson and Aaron Brooks both jumped up. Sun Ce seized the gap between the two jumps, turned right and stepped into the three-second zone with his left foot, jumped forward with force, and scored two points with a layup before Mirotic shrank in place.

With Sun Ce hitting his 9th personal goal in this quarter and the Bulls' super long three-pointer with only 2 seconds left missing, Sun Ce raised his personal single-quarter data to 21 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 assists! At the same time, the Grizzlies, led by Sun Ce, scored 29 to 25 in this quarter. After three quarters, the Grizzlies led the Bulls by 8 points, 66 to 58, and entered the intermission!

Sun Ce only missed a three-pointer in this quarter and then squatted in the paint. The exhaustion of his touch in the first half affected his three-pointer in the second half, but it did not hinder his scoring at close range.

9 of 13 shots and 3 of 4 free throws, Sun Ce's 21 points made the opponent feel like he was going to explode!

Rose scored 20+ in a single quarter in the playoffs for the first time in his career, but he met Sun Ce who scored higher!

Sloan felt his scalp tingling. If he had not made timely personnel adjustments in the first half to consume the opponent's touch and the strategic response of Paul's three shooters, he would have been beaten in the second half when he met Sun Ce!

In the third quarter, the other Grizzlies made 3 of 10 shots! The Grizzlies scored 29 points!

At this time, Sloan was thankful for Rose, who held up the third quarter. The fans were amazed by Rose's wonderful performance after changing his playing style and entering a period of rapid development. As a head coach, Sloan's focus was completely different. From Sloan's perspective, the opponent's Sun Ce was completely undefended at close range, and he couldn't even defend against double-teaming. It was all thanks to Rose's 20 points in a single quarter that the game was held up, because the Grizzlies defended their Bulls' role players very well.

Sun Ce scored 32 points, 17 rebounds, 6 blocks and 3 assists after three quarters, and Rose also scored 28 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals after three quarters!

Back then, he was attacked by public opinion because of Rose.

Before he returned to the Bulls, Rose, who was only in his third year, had already played at the MVP level. However, after he came, he adjusted Rose's playing style, causing Rose's strength to "decline instead of rise" for a long time. It was not until last season that people felt that Rose had reached the level of a third-year player, and this season, he saw obvious progress.

Now, Sloan feels that it is worth bearing those infamy.

However, with an 8-point difference, Sloan felt that his brain was a little exploded! The new No. 1 player on the other side was so scary! He seemed to see the guy who had led his team to defeat his team twice in the finals.

But the score difference was not widened to the point where there was no suspense. He knew that his personnel adjustments and strategic responses in the first half had worked, but he didn't expect the opponent to perform so terribly. Sloan regretted whether he had to play so hard in the first game, but the first game was indeed the best opportunity for an upset. If you want to win the finals, you must at least grab a home advantage. There is no better opportunity than the first game with more preparation time.

Sloan waved his hand and Moore, Snell, Griffin, and Noah, who had rested for the entire third quarter, came on the court.

The touch is no longer important. Rose just needs to shoot accurately, Griffin plays in the low post, and the other three just need to be responsible for defense.

Sloan has used up all his coaching talents to prevent the opponent from playing the game without suspense in such a game. Think about it, the Bulls only scored 33 points in the first half, and the opponent scored 29 points in the third quarter... Do your best, and leave it to fate. Now Sloan can only look forward to the performance of his own players!

On the other side, Coach Hollins was also under great pressure. The opponent's Rose scored 20 points in a single quarter. Every goal made him tremble in his heart. Fortunately, he had Sun Ce, who was more stable than Rose!

Neither team made any substitutions in the third quarter, and Coach Hollins did not want to affect Sun Ce's performance.

During the intermission, Coach Hollins replaced Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Carter, and Randolph. Since Sun Ce performed so well and played so well, of course he had to continue playing!

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After the timeout, Sun Ce watched Griffin of the opponent come on the court. The situation in the third quarter was beyond his expectations. The opponent did not send the best two inside players, allowing him to play easily and efficiently.

21 points in a single quarter... Sun Ce never thought that he could score 21 points in a single quarter when playing against the Bulls, a team ranked in the top three in the league in defense, and in the playoffs. Gibson and Mirotic teamed up to defend him in the interior for a whole quarter. He really played with these two people as if they were playing for fun.

But he didn't expect Rose to score 20 points in a single quarter and close the score.

Sun Ce thought that the opponent could close the score, but he didn't expect it to be this way.

There were two single quarters of 20+ in the same quarter. This is the finals!

But it doesn't matter. What matters is that he faced Griffin in the last quarter.

On the other side, Griffin felt Sun Ce's fiery eyes... At the beginning of the third quarter, he saw Sun Ce's performance and wanted to go up to fight, but after watching the whole quarter, he suddenly felt that Sun Ce's low-post singles seemed to be better than his Tyrannosaurus Rex?

It seems that low-post defense is also better than his Tyrannosaurus Rex!

At this moment, Griffin looked at Sun Ce and suddenly remembered the fear of being dominated by the Grizzlies in the West...

Take a deep breath, the referee signaled the Bulls to serve, Moore served the ball to Rose, Griffin, Snell, and Noah came to the frontcourt.

It was Randolph who defended Griffin, but Noah really couldn't play Sun Ce, even Gibson couldn't play. Noah looked like a rough man, but he had a strong understanding of the game, otherwise he wouldn't have averaged 4.7 assists per game.

Griffin came on the court, and Rose had a better pick-and-roll executor, so of course he had to play pick-and-roll. Griffin went to the top arc to block Paul George. After the pick-and-roll, Rose attracted Randolph and Paul George to double-team on the right side of the top arc. Carter pulled back to try to block Griffin, ready to fall down at the touch.

Sun Ce went forward to block Noah's route to eat the cake, while observing the actions of everyone in the court. Seeing that Moore, who was defending Carter, cut in from the sideline to the bottom line, he was about to make up for the defense when the system prompt came! Sun Ce turned his back and went behind Noah, hiding behind Noah...

Griffin received the pass from Rose, faced Carter's blocking, turned around like a guard to avoid Carter, turned around and made a layup...Sun Ce slapped him!

This ball showed Sun Ce's accurate prediction! Because Griffin had a pull-up action, Griffin had noticed Sun Ce's action of going around Noah's back to sneak attack, and was already prepared. When he was making a layup, he suddenly pulled the ball to the left, trying to hit the backboard, but!

Sun Ce predicted in advance the direction in which Griffin was most likely to pull the lever!

Thankfully, Carter and Moore grabbed the ball together. Although Moore finally touched the ball and it rolled out of bounds, the Bulls' attack was strangled by Sun Ce, but at least it did not give the Grizzlies a chance to counterattack. They still had a chance to defend and prevent the Grizzlies from widening the gap to more than 10 points! Just when Griffin landed and stood firm, the voice of Sun Ce who landed at the same time reached Griffin's ears.

"Gibson is too weak. I thought Blake could excite me a little bit... Can you excite me a little bit?"

At this moment, the miserable experiences of his rookie and sophomore years resurfaced in Griffin's mind! This troll started trolling again!

Those past events were simply nightmares!

Griffin wanted to grab Sun Ce by the collar and say, "I didn't choose to be the No. 1 pick. Others chose me! I know you are the strongest in our class, okay? Why do you always target me?"