Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven. The Game Between the Teams

I don't want to be the boss. Volume 377. The game between the teams After the three-game streak, Sun Ce returned to Memphis with the team.

The current basketball atmosphere in Memphis is so strong!

The kind that surprised Battier.

It's not that they didn't make the playoffs back then, but they couldn't compare with what they are now.

Sun Ce came out a little late to go to the bathroom, and seeing Battier, Randolph, Gay, Gasol Jr., and Jordan Jr., the five band teammates excitedly and flirtatiously waved at the fans, I felt so ashamed... …

Little Jordan has been absorbed by Randolph into "Bears Overlord" and has become a backup guitarist, the kind of backup guitarist who has never practiced guitar.

"Ah... Noah is here! Noah, Noah..."

Some fans noticed that Sun Ce was coming and started screaming. Sun Ce remained calm and didn’t want to be with his bandmates. Isn’t it just thousands of fans blocking the exit to pick up the plane?

At this time, the fan group composed of female fans of the University of Memphis began to shout: "Noah is so handsome...Noah...I love you..."

When Sun Ce heard the shouts of the female fans, his footsteps froze...

"Dear fans, I love you too..." Sun Cesao waved at the female fans with excitement on his face...

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The most important thing back to the Memphis Grizzlies is to rest!

Even if they play against a strong team like the Thunder tomorrow, and they are direct competitors, there is no training arrangement.

Sun Ce didn't go to training today, but had to take a good rest and make psychological adjustments. The training is not bad for half a day.

And the Grizzlies have not even confirmed the rotation to play the Thunder tomorrow.

After all, it is 4 battles in 5 days, so there are a lot of things to consider.

The players have gone home, the coaches have no way to rest, they still have a lot to do to prepare.

Grizzlies coaching staff, owner Robert Pera, director of player operations and general manager Chris Wallace, and the team's president of business operations, John Hollinger, had a meeting together less than half a year after taking office Talk about the playoffs.

Already 50 wins, even if the remaining 4 games only win the poor team Warriors and 76ers, they still have 52 wins, and they will enter the playoffs steadily. Of course, these two games against weak teams must be won. The ninth Thunder and the tenth Nuggets both have 3 games left. Both teams have 48 wins and both have a chance to win 51.

In addition to entering the playoffs, what kind of ranking to enter the playoffs is also very important.

Teams have to consider many factors, such as who is the opponent to play well, whether there is a chance to choose a better opponent, how many stars the opponent has on the price of tickets... etc. all need to be considered.

A team doesn't just say that the owner doesn't care whether it makes money or not. The local government cares a lot about it.

Just like the Kings, who have been losing money for many years and the market is in a downturn, the Kings can't even drive the commercial market around the arena. The Kings have been making trouble for many years and want to build a new arena. Sacramento is the capital of California, and they are unwilling to allocate money for land.

If the opponent is a popular team, such as the Suns, they will undoubtedly bring huge business opportunities when they come to Memphis to play away games. At least for a few days, the business of the hotels, bars, and shopping malls in the downtown area of ​​the Grizzlies will be very good.

These are all things that need to be considered as the team's president of business operations.

In the past, I didn't have to think about these things. I was going to accompany him to the playoffs, and there were no balloon stars.

But now it's different, they have Sun Ce!

There are still seven or eight days before the playoffs start, and there are already many tourists from China and Asian countries!

So the president of business operations came to the meeting.

Seeing assistant coach Joe Geer and President of Business Operations Hollinger arguing, while trying to pick the Mavericks, while trying to win the Suns, a more popular team, to bring greater business development, When a new official takes office, he always needs to make some achievements.

Coach Hollins and general manager Chris Wallace had a headache.

The boss is noncommittal about this. He thinks it would be good to play the Mavericks or the Suns. The new owner of the Grizzlies was born in 1978. He is only 32 years old. Applied technology has seized the opportunity of wireless networks on the stage of history, and is now worth $1 billion. Last year, it attracted NFL legendary quarterback Peyton Manning, former Magic star Penny Hardaway, and local textile industry giants in Memphis. The guys pooled together 90 million US dollars, plus he paid 280 million to buy the Grizzlies, a team that has been losing money year after year. He simply likes basketball. He knows he is not good at managing NBA teams, so he simply does not meddle.

This kind of boss is a headache for the management staff of a team. Although employees don't like unprofessional bosses to dictate, but this kind of boss doesn't care about anything, and sometimes it is quite a headache.

For coach Hollins, he prefers Jogel's suggestion of picking opponents.

But there are also many concerns.

They really don't have the capital to pick opponents, which may affect the enthusiasm of the players!

But picking opponents...Coach Hollins and Chris Wallace both want to do it...who doesn't want to make it to the second round?

It’s just that the current situation is very different from that in 2011 in the original time and space. In the original time and space, in 2011, at the end of the season, they will be the eighth because they have won 40 games in the 2009-2010 season. They knew from the beginning that they would definitely make it to the playoffs, because in terms of their performance last season, as long as they improved a little bit, there would be no problem in the playoffs at all, and in the summer of 2010 they spent money to strengthen bench.

Therefore, in the original time and space, the 2010-2011 season had the confidence to challenge opponents in the playoffs.

But the situation is different now. Last season, the Grizzlies got the No. 2 pick. This season is only their first season of counterattack. Except for Randolph, Battier, and Anthony Parker, everyone else is still relative. Childish, picking opponents to play...it is really likely to backfire, even if they swept the Mavericks in the regular season this season.

As a player-turned-head coach, Coach Hollins knows that the playoffs are fundamentally different from the regular season.

Combining multiple factors, Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins made a decision after discussing...

Chris Wallace knocked on the table: "Pause, stop arguing, Lionel and I have already made a decision."

Everyone, including the boss, focused their attention on the two of them.

Unlike other people who had been arguing before, they all had very aggressive eyes, Coach Hollins felt from his boss' eyes...Expectation?

My boss seems to simply want to understand how the NBA team management will choose and operate in this situation. It is not at all like a serious boss thinking with everyone. It is completely like spending money to buy a ball. Local fans who watch football!

This feeling... makes Coach Hollins feel so strange!

"We shouldn't think about commercial issues at this time. We can have commercial value because we have performed well this season..."

When Chris Wallace said this, President Hollinger was a little unhappy.

Chris Wallace continued: "...But we can't pick opponents this year. We have four talented players, Zach, Rudy, Mark, and Noah. Our future goal is to compete for the championship This year, even if we reach the second round, we have no further chances. We shouldn't play just to pick an opponent... We just played the momentum that a strong team should have, and we have been rushing this year! Our decision is the last four games Do your best to win!"

This is true, and Jogel agrees!

Hollinger heard the back... This was said for a long time, as if it was beneficial to him, of course he also paused!

Coach Hollins secretly applauds Chris Wallace...people in business just aren't the same...

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The Grizzlies are having a meeting to discuss the selection of playoff rankings. On the Dallas side, coach Carlisle and owner Cuban are also having a headache.

The Mavericks are in a slightly desperate situation right now

Can't catch up with the Lakers! In the 6 games in April, they only won 1 game in the first 4 games, and they are still 54 wins. There are two games left, 54 wins and 26 losses, while the Lakers are 56 wins and 24 losses. Only lost one game, which means that even if the Lakers lose all the remaining games, they will still be number one in the Western Conference.

That is to say, the Mavericks top the sky and are second in the West.

And the teams that are likely to enter the playoffs as the seventh in the West are the Grizzlies and Spurs...

The Mavericks lost a lot in the regular season against these two teams, and they were swept away against the Grizzlies.

And there are rumors on the Internet that the Grizzlies want to deliberately enter the playoffs as seventh and pick them to play.

Although Coach Carlisle was very angry about this, but... he can't help it! This year just can't beat the opponent.

In fact, Nowitzki was restrained by Battier, but the biggest problem was that their cobbled-together center was blown out by Gasol Jr.

Not to mention Gasol, even with Jordan on the court, the Mavericks hardly scored inside!

The Mavericks averaged only 17 points per game in the three-second zone in the three games, while the Grizzlies averaged 35 points per game in the three-second zone in the three games, a double gap!

Scoring in the three-second zone in the playoffs is very important!

Relatively speaking, Coach Carlisle and Cuban both prefer to play the Spurs. After all, they just won the Spurs in the playoffs last season. The psychological pressure of playing the Spurs is not as great as playing the Grizzlies.

The most embarrassing thing is that they won 54 wins. The Jazz, the fourth in the West, won 53 wins. They want to fall to fourth to avoid the Spurs and Grizzlies.

The owner of the Mavericks is a man who likes to get involved and has the ability, so the discussion is very simple, just the two of them.

After thinking about it, Cuban said to Carlisle: "Rick, let's rest for the next two games. The Grizzlies want to deliberately drop to seventh to pick us as opponents. Can't we avoid them..."

Coach Carlisle nodded, this is the best way, playing the Spurs is better than playing the Grizzlies...

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PS: I was a little busy in the afternoon, and I started writing at six o'clock.

Going home from get off work, there are still two chapters before 11 o'clock~

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