One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Four. There Is Always a Little Regret

In the last moments of the first half, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson launched a 13-2 offensive, which not only helped the Grizzlies overtake the score, but also motivated the entire Grizzlies team.

The players who rotated in the third quarter, whether it was Mo Williams, Carter or Gerald Green, all shot very confidently. Klay Thompson and Paul George played steadily, and Nance Jr. and Yi Jianlian also cut in sharply. The core, of course, was Sun Ce who played the entire third quarter!

Sun Ce, who played only 13 minutes in the first half, played the entire third quarter. He scored 11 points with 4 of 6 shots, and also got 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks, helping the Grizzlies score 37-26 in the third quarter, widening the score to 101-84, leading the Celtics by 17 points into the intermission.

The players on the Celtics felt that they had played well enough, scoring 84 points in three quarters, exceeding their average of 82 points in the first three quarters of this season. It was quite good to be able to play such a performance against the Grizzlies.

However, the Grizzlies scored 101 points in three quarters!

The Celtics, a team with a large number of young players who entered the NBA after 2010, is very motivated, but it is also easy to feel frustrated, especially when they are crushed by the opponent's superstar team when they try their best. Their frustration is even deeper!

Watching Sun Ce play 25 minutes in three quarters, 10 of 18 shots, 29 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks... This made the Celtics players completely lose hope of winning.

Entering the fourth quarter, Stevens began to gradually replace the main lineup. Even if the opponent Sun Ce did not play at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he did not continue to struggle. The basic strength of the two teams may be comparable, but once it comes to the critical moment, they are too far behind the Celtics.

But Stevens is very unconvinced! Why can't a multi-core team be a match for a team led by a superstar?

Looking at Thomas, who was eclipsed by Sun Ce, Stevens felt a sense of determination. Since he could play so well with Thomas as the core and there was still room for improvement, he wanted to continue!

No matter what Stevens thinks, he can't beat them now. When Sun Ce and Klay Thompson are in good shape, even if the other players on the Grizzlies are not in such good shape, they are enough to beat the Celtics. The Celtics are good on the defensive end now, but they still lack something on the offensive end. Otherwise, they would not have spent a quarter of a season to train Okafor so patiently.

In the end, with Sun Ce's 29 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks, Klay Thompson's 20 points and 3 rebounds, Aldridge's 18 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists, and Paul George's 4 points and 11 assists, the Grizzlies defeated the Celtics 130-108, defeating the Lakers and Celtics in two consecutive games, and improving their record to 30 wins and 5 losses!

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After the game with the Celtics, the Grizzlies will have a three-game road trip, three consecutive road trips in the Southwest Division, and challenge the Rockets, Spurs, and Pelicans successively.

On the morning of December 30, Sun Ce flew to Houston with the team, feeling the emotions that would come up every year at this time, and Sun Ce was also helpless.

The current mood is like the unexplained boredom at a certain stage of work. Even if you know that this mood is not good, you can't avoid it.

Mid-season syndrome may occur in any player of any team, and the probability of occurrence is higher with the longer the playing experience.

I know there is no way to avoid it. This is a natural situation after playing more than 30 games. I can only find a way to adjust psychologically and have a good rest. Both physical and psychological adjustments are needed.

After all, playing in the NBA is also a job. Since it is a job, there will naturally be boring days. The difference is that most of the people playing in the NBA are people who love basketball, so they are never lacking in motivation, which is much better than those who are engaged in a career they don’t like.

And Sun Ce is still good. He just feels mentally tired.

Others have to take into account physical adjustment. Thinking of this, Sun Ce doesn’t feel so tired.

On the evening of the 31st, the Grizzlies beat the Rockets 101-88 and won the 31st victory of the season.

Sun Ce feels that Anthony is really out of tricks. This year, the Rockets will not be able to continue to be rotten and it is impossible to enter the playoffs. Anthony still has A+ level strength, but playing in a team that is not specially built for him and does not take him as the future is particularly desolate.

He felt that Anthony was never a core player, but a single-player puzzle player. He needed an organizational core like Billups, but the team that had him wanted him to play like James...

However, in the game against the Rockets, Sun Ce deeply felt the difference between Randolph and Aldridge. It was not the strength. It was already very good that Randolph at this age could still have a strong low-post ability. The key was attitude.

Randolph is really half dead until the important game, while Aldridge is low-key, serious and hardworking.

But this is Randolph. Sun Ce has long been accustomed to it. It's okay to be good in the playoffs, and don't get hurt in the regular season. After all, Randolph's consumption in the Grizzlies in the past few years is far greater than that of him in the original time and space. It's good to have such strength at the age of 34.

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After the game with the Rockets, on the first day of the new year, Sun Ce followed the team to New Orleans.

The Grizzlies don't have a game today. The first game of the new year is a big battle between the Warriors and the Bulls.

After arriving at the Four Seasons Hotel at Monument Square in New Orleans, Sun Ce looked at the upcoming schedule. He had paid attention to the January schedule before the season. This is the month with the most games this season, with a total of 16 games, and the most back-to-back games, with 3. After playing the Pelicans tomorrow night, they will have to play the Spurs back-to-back the night after tomorrow.

At 12 noon, the NBA officially announced the December Best Player of the Month award.

In terms of the Best Rookie of the Month, Pacers rookie Myles Turner won the Eastern Conference Best Rookie of the Month in December.

Sun Ce was very impressed with this player. If they could use three first-round picks to trade for a top ten pick in the draft last year, their first target would be Myles Turner.

It was only because they didn't have one that they chose Nance Jr. and gave JaMychal Green a chance.

The current situation is not bad. Nance has performed well recently. His help defense is a bit interesting. He is too thin, but he cannot gain weight. Running and jumping ability is the most important part of Nance's strength. We can only hope that Nance can find a style of play that suits him and the Grizzlies.

JaMychal Green is a treasure and has the potential to become an excellent forward 3D player.

Such a player is more valuable than a 3D player on the back line. In the small ball era, JaMychal Green is fully capable of playing at the 5th position. It does not mean that he should always play center, but he can swing between the 3-5th position, so the wing defense of the Grizzlies will be better.

In the West, Russell won the Western Conference Rookie of the Month in December, which surprised Sun Ce. Although he knew that Russell in the original time and space was delayed by the Lakers, whose top management was in chaos due to the decline in performance after Kobe's serious injury, he did not expect Russell to play so well with Jokic as the core center. In December, he played 14 games and averaged 16.7 points and 5.2 assists per game, which was quite beautiful. In addition, his record was 6 wins and 8 losses, which was much better than the 3 wins and 12 losses of the Timberwolves who were competing for the No. 1 pick, so he won a small victory over Towns.

The Western Conference Coach of the Year was still the Warriors coach, this time it was Steve Kerr, and the 76ers head coach Brown won it in the East.

The Player of the Month in the East was DeRozan, and Curry in the West won the Player of the Month with a record of 13 wins and 2 losses and outstanding personal performance.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, after Sun Ce finished his personal training, practiced the Nash training method, and took a shower, he curled up on the sofa to watch the game between the Warriors and the Bulls.

Sun Ce thought for a long time before he could come up with a word to describe the game process - big and open.

This was the first time he saw Sloan's wildness. When he wanted to score points, Sloan was not ambiguous at all. Before the end of the regular season, he actually arranged a three-point tactic for Griffin, and the three-pointer with a critical hit rate dragged into overtime.

Griffin did not play as a small forward, but played honestly at the power forward position, but it did not mean that his shooting talent was buried. On the contrary, because he did not practice those techniques on the outside, he focused on practicing shooting and low post, and these two points developed very well. With his top face-up singles, Sun Ce estimated that Griffin might be the strongest inside player in the league today.

133 tie... Sun Ce looked at the score and felt that Sloan was obviously more relaxed when playing against the Warriors than against the Grizzlies, and the tactics he formulated were more wild.

This made Sun Ce feel some pressure. Obviously, in the eyes of other teams, the Grizzlies were the biggest opponents, which meant that those competitors were not attracted by the Warriors and still put dealing with the Grizzlies in the top priority.

In overtime, Iguodala and Curry scored consecutively under Harden's breakthrough. At this time, Rose and Griffin could not hold on. It was mainly because of Noah. Noah had more injuries this year. Rose and Griffin were enough to support the whole game in regular time, but in overtime, the problem of too much playing time of core personnel was exposed.

145 to 137, the Warriors narrowly defeated the Bulls at home through overtime.

Seeing this result, Sun Ce had a little regret. It was false to say that he did not rush to the first place in the regular season. That would be more conducive to his impact on the three consecutive MVPs. That was not only an honor, but also related to the upgrade of the charging version of the physical potion to the energy storage version.

However, the Warriors are indeed too strong. The record of 34 wins and 3 losses is not even comparable to the Bulls in the 95-96 season. Only their Grizzlies could suppress the Warriors last season.

Sun Ce, who was a little slack in his thinking in the middle of the season, once again focused because of the outstanding performance of the Warriors!