One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty. The Top Warriors Enter the Hall!

At 7pm on October 24, the Grizzlies challenged the Kings away.

The Kings picked another center this year. I don’t know what they were thinking. Everyone can see that Stein, a good seedling with the potential of a first-class center, is going to be wasted by the Kings again. The first-round pick of 2014, Randle, the talented center Cousins, this year’s Stein, and Koufos, who signed for 4 years and 32 million... I don’t understand the Kings’ team building ideas at all.

But even Sun Ce doesn’t find it strange. The Timberwolves and the Kings have a useless outside talent and a useless inside talent. It can’t be said that the talent in their hands is unlucky, because these two teams have been high draft picks for the past ten years. No matter who they choose, they will give him a rookie contract of nearly 10 million or even more than 10 million US dollars for 4 years. He went from a poor student to a multi-millionaire overnight. How can he have a bad fate?

It's just that these two teams had to play with the talents in their hands, and didn't send them away in their rookie or sophomore year. This has always been confusing, but they did it. The Grizzlies wanted to use a first-round pick to trade for Nik Stauskas, but the Kings refused to agree.

Anyway, Stein is almost useless, and there is probably no potential to be tapped when he leaves the Kings. Sun Ce can only mourn for this rookie.

Tonight, the Grizzlies sent out the starting lineup of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Aldridge, and Gobert. Randolph, Tony Allen, and Carter took turns to rest. The rotation lineup in the regular season stage included Mo Williams and Gerald Green in the 13-man activation list for the first time, and JaMychal Green from the Development League was also recalled.

There were no surprises. With Sun Ce's 35 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal, Klay Thompson and Aldridge both scored 16 points, and Paul George had 17 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists. With the cooperation of the whole team, the Grizzlies defeated the Kings 117-109 and started a 4-game winning streak.

Although there were no surprises, the score was always close. When Mo Williams, Gerald Green and Bargnani played, it was a disaster!

Sessions' defense was poor, but at least he could keep up with the pace of Kings point guard Darren Collison. The speed was enough, but Mo Williams' physical fitness could not keep up, and he loved to gamble on steals on the defensive end. The latter two had no defensive awareness. They were motivated, but it was better to stand there honestly as a stake. It was better to wait for the opponent to commit an offensive foul than to be blindly active.

Especially Bargnani, after the opponent shoots, he has to rush over when there is no interference and the opponent has already shot...

But the two performed well on the offensive end, and the open three-pointers are really accurate, otherwise they would not have been able to stay in the NBA for so many years.

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On October 27, after returning to the home court for two days of rest, the Grizzlies ushered in the challenge of the Suns.

The Suns are a bit interesting this season, with Payton, Clarkson, Antetokounmpo, Jeff Green, and Jordan, their starting lineup is pretty good.

The substitute lineup also includes Morris, Mirza Teletovic who was dug from the Nets with a one-year full middle-class salary, rookie Devin Booker who averaged 11 points in the first four games of the new season, and Alex Len, the backup center who gradually played in 2013. It is a very good 9-man rotation, and the start performance is good, with 3 wins and 1 loss, which is the best start performance since Nash left.

But the Suns made their own mistakes. They were probably used to bullying Dragic, and they lied to Morris that they would renew their contract with the two brothers so that they could always play together. But after the contract renewal, they traded Morris, and as a result, Morris kept asking to leave. Morris' performance also dropped from 15+6 per game last season to 11+5, and he was relegated to the bench.

Hornacek was also desperate...

This year, Antetokounmpo, the Suns' most promising new star, played better, averaging 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists per game, with Jordan, Payton and Jeff Green.

The defense was very good, especially the wing defense, which greatly restricted Sun Ce.

Fortunately, Randolph stood up in time, and when Aldridge was resting, he beat Jeff Green and Jordan in the interior.

In the third quarter, Randolph led the team with his low-post singles. Sun Ce also got a chance to hit consecutive mid-range shots. The biggest problem for wing defense teams is that they don't defend mid-range shots well. In the tough battle, being able to shoot the ball in the mid-range is very important! Especially in this era of wing defense.

In the end, with Paul George's 13 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Sun Ce's 21 points, 16 rebounds and 4 blocks, and Randolph's 27 points and 8 rebounds, the Grizzlies defeated the Suns 101-95 and won 5 consecutive victories, overpowering Antetokounmpo who scored 19 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks and Jordan who scored 11 points and 22 rebounds.

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The Grizzlies, who won 5 consecutive victories at the start, continued to win in the next games against the Nuggets and Wizards, winning nearly 20 points in two consecutive games, defeating the Wizards 117-99 and the Nuggets 109-90, winning 7 consecutive victories at the start.

These two opponents have not made any improvement this season. Although Wall has averaged 20+10 per game so far this season, his performance is not as good as last season. People's expectations and opinions of him have also changed greatly. Many fans said that it was blind to put him in the All-Star starter in the past few years.

Because Wall only has a really good performance in the national live broadcast, his statistics usually look good, but compared with players who can also play 10+ assists per game, his leadership ability is several levels worse than Westbrook.

As for the Nuggets, they almost traded Lawson for air in the offseason and sent Lawson to the Rockets. People thought they were stupid. Last season, Lawson averaged 16 points and 9 assists per game, but when Lawson went to the Rockets, it seemed that he couldn't play the ball. He was completely hollowed out by alcohol. He couldn't run fast or shoot... But the Nuggets themselves still didn't improve. They were neither good nor bad. They still had a lot of high-quality role players, but they couldn't jump up.

Facts have proved that although George Karl's track and field style of play could not go further in the playoffs, changing the head coach would not even have a good record in the regular season. George Karl has already converted the strength of these Nuggets players into results very well. He was fired in the summer of 2014 purely because the Nuggets management was blind.

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After the game with the Wizards, the Grizzlies came to Phoenix and played against the Suns again.

This time the game was more intense. Antetokounmpo scored 14 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 blocks. With Jordan's 16 points and 13 rebounds, Clarkson's 25 points and rookie Devin Booker's 22 points, they once led the Grizzlies by 9 points in the middle of the fourth quarter.

But at the critical moment, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson stood up, hitting long two-pointers and mid-range shots. The defense of Paul George, Sun Ce and Gobert also played an important role. At the end of the fourth quarter, they played a wave of 23 to 9!

The Suns played well in regular time, and they were even able to suppress the Grizzlies who were in good shape when they were in good shape, but at the critical moment, the strength difference between the two teams was still very large.

Relying on Sun Ce's 37 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists and Klay Thompson's 31 points, the Grizzlies defeated the Suns 103 to 98 and won 8 consecutive victories at the beginning!

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At the beginning, the Grizzlies have been trying to adjust their playing style, find loopholes and find ways to solve problems. The progress is quite smooth. For example, Mo Williams has already started to adjust his playing style. He originally wanted to play patiently when he could play and help the team connect the offense. But as the game went on, the team and he found that he only needed to score when he was on the court. If his shooting state was not good, he would just go down and rest. There was no need to think too much or do too much.

But Bargnani... there is really nothing to do. He is not as good as JaMychal Green who can only play 41 games per season.

JaMychal Green's performance is even better than Nance Jr. The inside combination of him, Randolph and Sun Ce is not as good as when Larry Sanders was there last season, but it is also quite good. When Gobert and Aldridge's starting inside defense has become stronger due to Gobert's improvement, the combination of JaMychal Green and Randolph is still enough. Only when they are resting will the shortcomings caused by Larry Sanders' departure be exposed.

However, due to many reasons, in the first 8 games of this season, the most troublesome games for the Grizzlies were the two games against the Suns. The other games were very easy, and the two troublesome games were won by Sun Ce's personal ability, and the Grizzlies won 8 consecutive games at the beginning!

Finally, on November 5, the day after playing against the Suns, they came to Oakland to challenge the Warriors back to back. In this game, the Grizzlies lost.

Even though Sun Ce used all his strength to play 48 minutes, 33 shots 17 scored 45 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks, 4 steals, and Aldridge also scored 20 points, but except for these two people, no one on the Grizzlies scored in double digits, and the double 3D was severely restricted. Klay Thompson scored only 9 points with 3 of 12 shots, and Paul George had 10 assists, but only 7 points.

With Harden's 49 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Curry's 19 points, 7 assists, Nick Young's 19 points, and Draymond Green's 10 points, 10 rebounds, 13 assists and 3 steals, the Warriors defeated the Grizzlies 123 to 112 to win 10 consecutive games at the start, and ended the Grizzlies' 8 consecutive wins at the start!

At the start, Sun Ce and his teammates focused on their own team, because they had a lot of things to adjust, and they were indeed always adjusting, and their attention was very focused, so they rarely paid attention to other teams.

Before the game with the Warriors, they found that in the start, in addition to the Grizzlies, there was another team that had not lost, that is, the Warriors!

After the real fight, they realized how fierce the Warriors were at the start! In addition to adding Nick Young and Looney, the Warriors, whose main rotation was almost unchanged last season, showed a stronger strength than their Grizzlies!

The opponent, Luke Walton, who only knows how to play the full-level account, won the 10 consecutive wins at the start as the acting head coach!