206. The Tragic Pioneer
After training with Nash for an afternoon, the next day, on the morning of the 27th, Sun Ce followed the team to Portland in the Northwest.
In the first back-to-back game of 4 games in 5 days, the Trail Blazers will be played in the Rose City first, and the Clippers will be played in Los Angeles the next morning.
With such a schedule, if we talk about pre-match preparations, we can make relatively complete pre-match preparations for the first game of four consecutive games.
When Sun Ce went to train with Nash yesterday, the coaching staff learned about the recent situation of the Blazers, and made a targeted plan for the Blazers' current lineup and style of play.
On the morning of the 28th, the Grizzlies came to the Rose Garden Arena for tactical meetings and tactical training.
In this game, the Grizzlies paid more attention to the game than the Suns, and they made more preparations, because the Blazers are the direct competitors of the Grizzlies.
The Grizzlies are currently ranked tenth in the Western Conference with 7 wins and 8 losses, and the Trail Blazers are ranked eighth in the Western Conference with 9 wins and 6 losses. They are all contenders for the playoffs.
You can lose against the Suns, but you cannot lose against the Trail Blazers. If the two teams have the same record at the end of the regular season, the comparison between the Grizzlies and the Trail Blazers will be very important.
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"Noah, why don't you arrange the Suns and Clippers back-to-back, the two cities are so close, you have to play the Suns first and then come here, and then fly back to the West Coast tomorrow morning? Isn't this a tossing person? ?” The game was about to start, and Guy sat next to Sun Ce and complained.
"..." Sun Ce didn't know Guy had so many unknown attributes.
Loves to play musical instruments, loves to show off his wealth, and is a talkative... Could it be that Leonard left the Spurs because he couldn't stand this guy's talkative attributes?
Sun Ce speculated maliciously.
Guy is so hurt, it seems that another rookie doesn't want to talk to him!
Why again?
Because Conley and Gasol were both annoyed by his thin tongue one after another, when he started talking nonsense, neither of them would pay attention to him.
Originally, there was Randolph who also liked to talk nonsense and brag, but Gay couldn't go to Randolph to brag, and the game was about to start, and Coach Hollins was pulling Randolph to say something.
When playing the sun the day before yesterday, Randolph got a technical foul.
Stoudemire once dunked on Randolph's head, and Randolph pushed him angrily.
Of course, there was no real conflict, but the referee still gave Randolph a technical foul.
In fact, Randolph was an innocent disaster. Originally, Stoudemire wanted to make a retaliatory dunk against Sun Ce, but don't look at Sun Ce going inside on the offensive end. When defending, he basically doesn't go inside except for rebounds and the opponent's breakthrough. Rebounding and defense rely on height, and it is very difficult to dunk him when he seldom takes off with all his strength, so Stoudemire catches whoever dunks...
Playing against the Trail Blazers today... Randolph's dislike for this team is palpable. Coach Hollins needs to tell him well before the game that he can no longer take technical offenders.
Sun Ce is paying attention to the opponent's players.
The most dazzling player of the Blazers is Brandon Roy.
"Branton Roy, ability evaluation a+, offense a+, defense b+, three-pointer b, mid-range shooting a, layup a+, breakthrough a+... speed a, strength b+..."
Roy, who just reached a 5-year 82 million maximum salary contract extension with the Blazers, is now in high spirits!
What is Roy's high-spirited performance? He grew his hair two or three centimeters longer, turning his previous small round head into... a small round head with longer hair and curled against his scalp... nothing else, and he was still preparing for the competition.
He looks like an uncle in his 30s and looks very mature, but he is actually a fourth-year player, the No. 6 pick in the same class as Gay.
Look at the talkative fourth-year player on my side, and look at the quasi-western No. 2 shooting guard on the opposite side who is carrying the team forward alone under the team's extensive injuries... What is the gap between people? Can it be that big?
Why is it said to be the second shooting guard in the Western Conference? .
Who is the second shooting guard in the West is a matter of great concern to fans. Both Ellis and Roy are the type of players that are very popular with fans.
Ellis has an explosive style of play, while Roy has a technical flow.
It can be seen from Roy's A-level speed and A+-level breakthrough. He has averaged more than 3 goals per game at close range this season, which is quite close to the two first-class outside basket scorers of Kobe and Rose.
But... Today the Grizzlies have a big, big advantage.
The Trail Blazers bench lineup is worse than the Grizzlies. The reason for the misery is not that the owner of the Blazers did not give the former signings. The Blazers were compared with the Knicks in salary at the beginning of the century. They had a season with a salary of over 100 million. Injuries are too serious this season, and the substitute is pulled to start, so naturally no one is available on the bench.
Oden was injured not long after he played, and he doesn't know when he will come back, and he doesn't know when he will get injured again after his comeback.
Roy's French Pippen Nicolas Batum played a game in the new season because of a knee injury in the preseason. The team doctor made a mistake in the detection, which led to the failure to deal with it in time. He was injured twice during the game and suffered a fractured knee and tibia. At least 3 Months to recuperate...
RadeMarcus Aldridge suffered a severe groin strain in the middle of the month, Travis Outlaw injured his right elbow, Rudy Fernandez has been injured for years...
Even Roy suffered from right knee soreness, and his left knee had had his meniscus removed last season, but their team doctor told Roy that his right knee was just ordinary soreness, and Roy believed it and continued to play, but Occasionally missed games.
On the contrary, their boss treated Roy very well. Even if he had a serious left knee injury before, he extended his contract with a maximum salary in the summer. The five-year 82 million contract was the largest contract in the history of the Trail Blazers.
The entire Trail Blazers have only played for a month this season. Except for DeAndre Miller, who is too hard-working, everyone else has been injured!
Originally, the Blazers hit fourth in the Western Conference before Aldridge was injured in the middle of the month, and their record was better than that of the Nuggets, but now they have dropped to eighth.
Today the Trail Blazers can only play eight players...
The last time a team had such a miserable situation was the Warriors last season. Last season, the Warriors couldn't get the number of players required by the league to play at least 7 players. They could only sign in the Development League. Marcus Williams is Sun Ce's current teammate.
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At 5:30 in the afternoon, the game between the Grizzlies and the Trail Blazers began.
Overwhelming advantage!
Gay saw that Roy played very actively. Although Gay was not Roy's opponent, he could also cause Roy a lot of trouble. Batum was not around, so Roy had to defend Gay himself.
And without Aldridge, no one on the Blazers side can compete with Randolph and Gasol Jr.
Randolph played 31 minutes, 13 of 17, 8 of 10 free throws, 34 points and 22 rebounds, brutal to the extreme!
Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan is no longer struggling. Who made them encounter Zach Randolph, the former star of their own team who hated them very much, when their team was at the peak of injuries.
Roy also played well, scoring 17 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, but that's all.
Sun Ce played 19 minutes today and scored 2 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. The opponent's backup point guard was signed from the Development League. Sun Ce can't remember his name. Forcing the opponent to replace Andre Miller again, the 33-year-old Andre Miller is not young anymore, he is not bad in positional warfare, but it is really difficult for him to run and play, but the rotation of the Trail Blazers The lineup can't hold the rhythm at all...
Very easily in the third minute of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies turned the score into 89-59.
With Sun Ce's 5 assists, Conley's 11+7, Gay's 14 points, Randolph's 34 points, Gasol's 12 points and 7 assists, and Jordan's 11 points and 5 rebounds, the Grizzlies finally killed the Blazers. End the two-game losing streak.
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It's a pity to play Sun Ce, the trailblazer, not because the head coach doesn't let him score points in garbage time, he firmly denies it.
It is a pity that he cannot see Roy's full output performance when he is still healthy.
It's too awful!
Sun Ce feels that the entire Trail Blazers players are too miserable!
Sun Ce also wants to ask Andre Miller what good deeds he did in his previous life so that he could not be spoiled by the team doctor in the Trail Blazers...
Sun Ce didn't have much time to feel sorry for what happened to Roy. On the evening of the 29th, after the game, he went back to the hotel to practice the Nash training method. He set off with the team for the airport at 8 o'clock the next morning and arrived in Los Angeles on the west coast.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the second back-to-back game began, an away game against the Clippers.
Why did Randolph, Gay, Gasol Jr., and Conley all play so hard yesterday, opening the point difference to more than 15 points in the first quarter.
It is because of back-to-back, which is what the team needs, and the players understand this, so they stunned the opponent from the beginning, opened the score to 20 points in the third quarter, and brought the point difference to 30 points in the fourth quarter. To prevent the opponent from breaking out and playing a wave, the main force has to go up and continue to fight.
With the run-in of the two games, Anthony Parker has been well integrated into the team. Although the offensive end has a single role, it just meets the needs of the team. Not the speed type, he's at least not a drag and has a lot of experience.
But the protagonist who broke out tonight is Jordan...
Camby's "defensive data" of 12 rebounds and 2 blocks per game is not known to be of any use. Due to Gasol's physical problems, Jordan played a lot of time with the starters. Nothing else has any effect. Playing against the Clippers He worked hard for the team. He played 27 minutes and grabbed 5 offensive rebounds, 3 of which were converted into points. In addition, he cooperated with Sun Ce for two empty catches and received a dunk from Randolph. He scored 12 points and 10 points. plate……
Jordan's first career double-double!
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ps: There is one more update. After clocking in and going home from get off work, I started to write the third chapter after going back to eat something. I still didn’t eat instant noodles, and I was going to the supermarket to buy a bag of dumplings.