Four Hundred and Six. This Rookie Has Something

Unlike his first- and second-year teammates in the All-Star Rookie Game and Summer League, Sun Ce didn't know how to speak to his teammates who were all older than him.

At this time, Battier helped Sun Ce find a topic to start with: "Noah, you must have something important to talk about for calling us here so early."

Glancing at Battier gratefully, Sun Ce adjusted his mood and said, "Brothers, we are now facing a very difficult situation!"

Indeed, the current situation makes the Grizzlies players feel a lot of pressure, although they hold a home court advantage.

But the lineup of the Mavericks, Kidd who led the Nets to the finals twice + Jason Terry, the uncrowned king in 2006 + Nowitzki, who has the best scoring ability in the interior... Such a combination of the Big Three in the playoffs , There are so many high-quality role players, Caron Butler, who can average 20 points per game in another team, can only play seventh and eighth in the Mavericks. The lineup gap is really big!

Nowitzki only scored 34 points, and their Grizzlies were killed, and they were killed at home.

As soon as Sun Ce said this, the atmosphere in the lounge obviously became much lower.

Don't look at Randolph's usual idleness, but he has a tiger in his heart sniffing the roses...

Randolph picked his nostrils and looked carefree: "Noah, the Mavericks beat us yesterday because of Nowitzki's explosion. Are you worried too much..."

"What if... Nowitzki didn't explode, but he just played at a normal level last night? What if he just performed abnormally in the first two games?" Sun Ce said seriously, "Nowitzki is the same as Zach, you never It can be seen from the regular season, he can casually score more than 20 points every night like you..."

This makes sense... Although Randolph's idea of ​​helping his teammates relieve anxiety failed, Randolph felt very comfortable listening to it!

Nowitzki has been in the first team and second team four times in the past five years. This season, there is a high probability that he will either be first team or second team. Being compared in this way, Randolph not only does not feel underestimated, but is very comfortable to hear.

Just what is this kid doing? Adding pressure to teammates?

"However..." Sun Ce suddenly changed the subject: "What I want to talk about is not this, but our current mentality for this playoff."

"The mentality for this playoffs?"

The teammates were immediately attracted by the topic Sun Ce brought up again.

"Don't you realize that our current mentality is completely different from when we first entered the playoffs?" Sun Ce asked.

This kind of thing... the teammates really didn't think about it!

Now that Sun Ce brought this matter up, they thought about it carefully, and it seemed that something was wrong!

"We're under too much pressure, we're just a new team in the playoffs, why should we be under so much pressure?

Although the pressure can push us forward, but I found that we seem to have more pressure than the Mavericks!

Don't you know that? It should be that they are worried that they will lose to us. We are the challengers, but we have been changed by the public opinion of the media and fans!

We want to win, we must win, we must do our best to win, but we must treat this playoffs with a calm mind.

Just like last night, we had a chance to catch up with the score in the fourth quarter, but because we won the first two games too easily, the Mavericks suddenly played at a normal level, and we were in a hurry at the critical moment.

This is a problem with our mentality! We are too anxious, we are under pressure that we shouldn't have, maybe we can change the angle, lower our posture a little,

Don't judge our opponents from the perspective of those two games we won, we are just a rookie who just made the playoffs..."

Sun Ce spoke out the problems of the team that he discovered one sentence at a time. At the beginning, he cut into the topic from the perspective of putting pressure on his teammates. However, this pressure was not given by Sun Ce's words, but the teammates themselves. There is pressure.

Then slowly analyze sentence by sentence, let the teammates face up to the origin of this pressure...

Listening to Sun Ce's words, the teammates suddenly realized...it seems to be true!

How happy they were when the regular season ended!

Now, after winning the first game, I feel that I must win the second game, and I lost the third game. The pressure last night was so great that many people lost sleep...

At that time, everyone felt satisfied with entering the playoffs, and felt that if they fought hard in the playoffs, they would win if they could win.

At that time, even if it was confirmed that the opponent in the first round of the playoffs was the Mavericks, and they had the advantage in the regular season, they didn't feel that they had to win. Just like the team's tactical arrangement, the first game was to test it out and go with the mentality of losing. of.

But after winning the first game, everything changed...

Now they suddenly remembered that the happiness they had when they made it to the playoffs was gone now!

From winning the No. 2 pick last season to reaching the playoffs now and leading 2-1, shouldn't it be happiness and excitement?

How could it not be as fun as playing on a bad team and not making the playoffs?

They agree with Sun Ce's words now... We should not play with pressure, but play this playoffs with positive emotions!

At this time, most teammates didn't notice a little bit, but a small number of teammates noticed.

This rookie... is really different from ordinary rookies!

I'm used to playing together, and I didn't think too much about it, but now it feels... really different!

Especially Randolph, Sun Ce gave him the same feeling as Roy gave him three years ago... and even more powerful!

At this time, Gasol asked: "Noah, you mean we can just play casually in the next game?"

"No, are you stupid, we lead 2 to 1, of course we have to play hard, we are going to the second round!

I mean, let's not be intimidated by Nowitzki playing at a normal level, we also have Zach! And they must be under more pressure than us now. We can despise them strategically, work hard tactically, and balance our mentality. Don't feel that losing a home game is such a terrible thing. Tomorrow's game, they will definitely fight Do our best to regain the home court advantage, we can think about what kind of tactics they will play, instead of studying what we did not do well like last night, brothers, I already feel very good about your performance Proud..."

Just when Sun Ce was fooling... No, when he successfully completed his speech, the system prompt came.

"Because the host successfully cleared up the mentality of his teammates who entered the playoffs for the first time, the exclusive event of the leader's light was triggered..."

"Hey, hey, here we go again! I'm going to do something casually, and there will be an incident?"