One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty-two.MVP Strategy

After returning to Memphis with a good start of 23 wins and 3 losses, the most brutal schedule in the early stage of this season is coming.

From December 12 to December 21, the Grizzlies have 7 games in 10 days.

After arriving home, Sun Ce looked at the next schedule. First, there are 4 consecutive home games in 5 days, and then three consecutive away games. More than half of the opponents are playoff-level... It's hard to play! This schedule may be the most compact schedule in the whole season. First, there are 4 games in 5 days, and then the away game. After the first away game, there is another back-to-back away game.

However, after these 7 games, it will be a 3-day short holiday before the Christmas game. There will be no games from the 22nd to the 24th. On the 25th, they will play the Christmas game with the Lakers.

This year's Christmas concert is ready again, but this time the "amateur players" did not ask him, Sun, to write songs, because professional and well-known songwriters took the initiative to contact them to help them write songs.

In the United States, lyricists and composers have permanent copyright commissions. They can get 15 cents for every dollar in album profits, and 15 cents for every dollar in download income. Singers get about 35 cents for every dollar in revenue. Putting aside other interests, just talking about copyright, the income of lyricists and composers is half of that of singers. Seeing that these players who play basketball as a sideline and have various kinds of main jobs can get over a million downloads for just one song, and the key is that after waiting for a long time, these people rarely ask them to write songs, they finally couldn't help but put aside their pride and take the initiative to help these players write songs.

After thinking about it, Sun Ce put his attention back to the game. The 10 consecutive games of 40+ were broken. It was a pity that he was still 4 games away from Chamberlain's historical record, but it was also because of this that Sun Ce knew how difficult it was!

In the next three or four games, he had reached the stage of playing life and death. He played life and death in every game. He used the physical potion immediately... However, although he did not surpass Chamberlain, he became the first active player and surpassed Kobe. Sun Ce still felt very excited.

However, they will have to play more cautiously. After these 7 games, starting from the Christmas game, it is equivalent to the middle of the season. Although the season has been extended for more than half a month, the fatigue accumulated in the early stage of the season will still break out during that period. It is just that the extension of the season will relatively reduce the risk of injuries.

And the time brought by the extended schedule is not very effective for their defending champion team, because they were one of the two teams that made it to the end last season.

In the East, seeing that Rose or Griffin had little hope of hitting the MVP, the Bulls coach Sloan did not consider the problem of results at all. Whether the Raptors will snatch the first place in the East like the Hawks did last season, Sloan does not care at all. Anyway, they have a stable record of about 60 wins in every season in the East, which is a record that no Eastern team except the Bulls and Raptors can achieve this season.

But the Grizzlies can't.

If Sun Ce doesn't have a chance to win the MVP, they can just guarantee the top four. But with Curry's performance so good, Sun Ce still has a chance to compete for the MVP, and it's a great chance. Then he has to ensure the record. If he can't get the first place, he must at least get the second place, and the record gap cannot be more than 5 games.

So, as they are about to enter a fierce battle of 7 games in 10 days, Sun Ce thinks that it is a good thing to break the 40+ streak. If he really gets 40+ in 11 consecutive games, how can he not consider Chamberlain's record of consecutive 40+ games?

Don't say whether Sun Ce has any ideas or not, his teammates and coaching staff will support him to do it, because this is a historical record that has been sealed for more than 50 years!

But in that case, in such a schedule, if he really loses two or three games, he may not be able to catch up in the whole season. After all, in terms of regular season performance, the Warriors can indeed be compared with their Grizzlies last season. Their Grizzlies really can't play such a performance in the regular season this season.

In the past 26 games, the Grizzlies often fell behind in the first half, and even often fell behind after three quarters. This is because no matter what opponent they play, they try more lineup changes and tactics under more lineup changes in the first half. If they play well, they will not say it. If they play badly, they have to rely on stars to turn the game around in the second half, so Sun Ce has such terrible data.

But Sun Ce's hard work was not in vain. The good record is one aspect, and the team is very determined to implement such a plan because of him, Sun, and therefore the team is getting better and better. In the past few games, they rarely appear in the first half like the first dozen or twenty games at the beginning of the regular season. Very passive situations often appear in the first half, which means that their progress has been all the time!

Put aside the problems that cannot be solved, use personnel adjustments and tactical changes to make the game go in their favor. The Grizzlies have gradually acquired such capabilities.

There are clearer ways to use each player, and a better lineup arrangement for their functional roles to give full play to their advantages...

This is the successful experience that the Grizzlies have explored during their three championships in the past four years, so they can quickly find their own solutions to the problem when the rotation lineup changes so much.

This gives Sun Ce the confidence and foundation to continue to have the opportunity to compete for the MVP in the season after two consecutive MVPs, when the Warriors have such an excellent record and Curry's personal performance is so explosive.

The middle of the season is coming soon, and Sun Ce also knows how to adjust his playing style. Perhaps the decline in data and efficiency is inevitable. What he has to do is to ensure that the decline in data and efficiency will not be very drastic. On this basis Above all, record is the most important. The Warriors cannot be allowed to widen the record gap to the point where they are divided into different grades. That is to ensure that the record gap does not exceed 5 games!

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Sun Ce has a clear goal. After communicating with the coaching staff, he learned that the coaching staff’s preparations were consistent with his Sun Ce’s, because this is the best way for Sun Ce to compete for MVP. His record and personal performance are both indispensable. Here, Under such circumstances, Sun Ce's seemingly simple and crude thinking logic turned out to be the best strategic plan.

The two days of rest before the 10 days and 7 games passed quickly. After the preparations for the first 4 games of 5 days and 4 games were completed, on December 12, the Grizzlies ushered in a home game against the Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers are currently playing an astonishing performance. With the lineup further weakened than last season, Lillard and Whiteside are leading the Most Improved Award favorites McCollum and defensive small forward Aminu. , Mason Plumlee and other starting teammates have a 17-9 start, currently ranked fifth in the Western Conference, beating the 17-10 Mavericks and 16-10 Lakers.

In the evening, when the game was about to start, Sun Ce looked at the players outside the top five starters and felt that Lillard was really miserable...

Lillard's substitute is a 185cm undrafted player from the 2008 class, and he is 31 years old. He needs McCollum to play a combo guard, which means that Lillard and McCollum do not actually play at the same time for a long time; Aminu and Whiteside are both defensive pie-eating players, and only the frontcourt player Mason Plumlee has certain independent offensive capabilities.

In fact, the starting lineup is fine. This starting lineup is very suitable for Lillard and McCollum, two players who are sparse on defense and promiscuous on the offensive end.

Mainly a substitute, shockingly bad! Gerald Henderson is no longer the best shooting guard in the 2009 class. Now he is a side effect player. It is estimated that no team will value him after this contract is over; the best outside substitute is Allen Crabbe; the other two substitutes with stable playing time are both strikers, averaging 6+3 per game...

But the more this happens, the more it highlights how well Lillard, McCollum, and Whiteside performed. Lillard averaged 26.2 points, 4 rebounds, and 7.5 assists per game; McCollum averaged 18.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game; White Seder averaged 17 points, 14.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game, including temporarily ranking second in the league in rebounds and fourth in blocks!

At 6 o'clock in the evening, after the game between the Grizzlies and Trail Blazers started, the Grizzlies felt from the beginning why the Trail Blazers were able to achieve their current record. The starting lineup performed extremely well on both offense and defense! The starting combination of Lillard, McCollum, Aminu, Plumlee, and Whiteside is not even better than the Grizzlies starting combination of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, JaMychal Green, and Randolph Poor lineup! It can't be said that they are no worse than their Grizzlies. Due to their better height, the Trail Blazers beat their Grizzlies 26 to 19 in the first quarter!

What impressed the Grizzlies was Whiteside. The number of blocks and rebounds dropped, but his defensive efficiency at close range improved significantly. Because he has experience playing in the Grizzlies and has experienced Sun Ce's way of playing as a teammate. After understanding what it means to be a truly dominant center in assisting defense, the Trail Blazers boss told him in advance that he would be given the maximum salary regardless of whether he was willing to renew his contract in the middle of this season or wait for the offseason salary cap to increase significantly. , gave him a sense of security, and he began to learn to play like Gobert.

With Whiteside's shot-blocking awareness, physical fitness, and size advantages, his defensive efficiency has skyrocketed without any suspense, and he has become an All-Star. This is a team that was originally playing on the fringes of the playoffs without any sense of progress or ambition. There was no change he could make because of his sense of security.

In the second quarter, the Grizzlies came to their senses and began to defend against the Trail Blazers. After entering the rotation, the Trail Blazers were indeed not that strong. Their bench lineup was really poor!

As the game progressed, the Grizzlies gradually took the lead and restricted Lillard, who scored 15 points in the first quarter, to only 21 points in the game.

Although McCollum relied on Lillard to attract extra care from the Grizzlies and had a good scoring opportunity, and Whiteside ensured that he made 13 of 29 offensive rebounds in a single game, including 6 of 12 three-pointers and 10 free throws. 8 scored 40 points, but the Trail Blazers only scored 60 points in the next three quarters!

On the Grizzlies side, Sun Ce met Aminu, and his shooting performance was not that good. A defensive player like Aminu has better restraint against Sun Ce's style of play. In terms of physical condition, the crown prince is really good. As written in the draft report of the draft that year, the superstar embryo just couldn’t keep up with his golf IQ and skills, and eventually became a purely defensive player. Some fans joked that if Leonard, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler and others With Aminu's static physical condition and athletic ability, he is not allowed to take off...

However, Sun Ce also has a way to deal with it. He does not make blind shots, moves closer to the low post, and plays close-range support and distribution to connect the team's offense.

In the end, with Klay Thompson's 27 points, Yi Jianlian's 16 points, Paul George's 15 points and 4 assists, and Sun Ce's triple-double performance of 20 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists, the Grizzlies defeated the Trail Blazers 96-86. !

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