Five Hundred and Forty-Four. Terrible Thoughts

Sun Ce has never experienced what it means to be "difficult to match" before. Even against the Suns last season, they won one game in both the regular season and the playoffs.

This time the Spurs have taught Sun Ce a lesson.

NBA Zhang Yining team really deserves its reputation.

After torturing himself to exhaustion and completing the Nash training method, Sun Ce returned to the room to take a shower and sleep.

The game has to be played one by one, and the days ahead are still long. Sun Ce will put aside matters related to the Spurs for the time being.

No matter how much you think about it, it is better to have more experience by playing against each other several times!

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While Sun Ce fell asleep with a heavy heart, the coaching staff was still studying the Spurs.

There are a bunch of big guys in Coach Hollins' room.

After getting over the shock of the disastrous defeat, the Grizzlies coaching staff calmed down, thought and discussed for a long time, and had a clearer direction for this season's goals.

"I firmly believe that we are the top four teams in the Western Conference. There will definitely be two teams between us, the Spurs and the Mavericks that can be in the top four. I am sure of this." Coach Hollins said to the assistant coaches.

"Yes," defensive assistant coach Joe Geer responded, "The problem now is our playoff ranking. We have the strength of the top four, but we may fall to fifth because of the relationship between the Spurs and the Mavericks. We have lost Rudy, now Noah is the only strong point on the outside, and he is too young, we have to take this into consideration."

"Yes," Coach Hollins agreed with Joger's view. "We need to make a choice in the second half of the playoffs. If there is a chance, we must avoid the Spurs and Mavericks in the first round. My plan is It’s about trying our best to get into the top three in the Western Conference before the All-Star Weekend…”

It is different from the original time and space. In the original time and space, after Gay was retired, the Grizzlies had no outside core, and Conley was unable to take on the important task. Although the defense was good, the regular season record was up and down. Basically, it was determined to be the playoffs from the time Gay was retired. A team in the bottom half.

But in this time and space, the Grizzlies have the strength to take the top four. Why don't the top four have to be tough in the first round without home court advantage?

After a pause, Coach Hollins continued: "Fourth in the Western Conference... this ranking is very bad, and we will definitely face one of the Spurs and Mavericks in the first round.

So we either have to be in the top three, or we have to go to fifth, and we must not be fourth. If we go to fifth, they should also strive for the top three and avoid us..."

Since the Nuggets and Trail Blazers are competing for first place in the Northwest Division, one team must be among the top four in the Western Conference. Therefore, if it reaches the top four, Coach Hollins' goal is that the record must be better than the first place in the Northwest Division.

The general goal before the celebrity weekend has been determined, but now there is still a problem before us.

Bickerstaff Jr. asked: "We have some leverage, but who is our ideal second-round opponent?"

This question... Coach Hollins' head started buzzing again.

Lakers, Mavericks... When he was Hubie Brown's assistant and helped the Grizzlies reach the playoffs, both the Spurs and Mavericks encountered them and were swept.

The Lakers... before they got Sun Ce, they faced the Lakers with more than ten consecutive losses in the regular season...

Coach Hollins was depressed. Why, more than ten years later, even though the Grizzlies have become stronger, the Lakers, Marriotts and Bulls are still there?

Or Kobe, Nowitzki, and Duncan!

After thinking patiently, Coach Hollins thought of the three towers of the Lakers and Mavericks... The Grizzlies have an inside advantage against most teams. Facing these two teams...

Coach Hollins thought that if he entered the playoffs as one of the top three in the Western Conference, the first round would be fine. After passing the first round, he would definitely meet one of the Lakers, Mavericks and Bulls. He believed that the Mavericks and Mavericks who introduced Yao Ming, The Spurs, who have bucked the trend and are strong again, and the Lakers, who have won two consecutive championships, will definitely advance to the second round, and they will definitely have to play against one of these three teams...

After thinking for a while, Coach Hollins came to a terrifying conclusion... It seems...

When coach Hollins faced Bickerstaff's question, he was doubting his own thoughts and asked uncertainly: "Playing the Spurs in the second round?"

After Coach Hollins asked,

Everyone in the room was stunned.

Just defeated the Spurs by 29 points, are you picking the Spurs to play in the playoffs?

You are born to be strong!

But after thinking about it carefully...it seems like this is the only way out for the second round!

Everyone has only one thought - "The West is terrible"!

Feeling the wildness of the West, coach Hollins gritted his teeth and said: "Take your time, there is still a long time in the regular season, let's first observe the changes in their strength this year... David, study more about the Spurs' offense and analyze Their tactics!”

Hearing this, as the team's offensive assistant, David Fizdale felt so much pressure!

But...this is also a responsibility!

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The Spurs caused an uproar when they slaughtered the Grizzlies. They defeated the Grizzlies, who averaged the lowest points per game this season. Their 131 points in a single game set a new season high for points scored in a single game...

The Spurs are on fire!

Relatively speaking, the Grizzlies' strength has been greatly questioned.

This is both good and bad for the Grizzlies.

The bad thing is that you get angry when you see the news, which is all about praising the Spurs and looking down on them.

But this undervalued status is actually a good thing for the Grizzlies.

From the start of the new season to their loss to the Spurs, the Grizzlies have been number one in the league for nearly a month, and they have been in the limelight.

As the saying goes, anything good in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. The Grizzlies coaching staff feels that it is better for the Spurs to bear this kind of limelight.

The more severely the Spurs are targeted, the better it will be for them to study the Spurs.

Sun Ce returned to Memphis with the team at noon on the 25th. Plus today, he has two days off. Next, he will play the Jazz and Spurs back-to-back at home, and then play the Thunder on the 30th. The first game month is over.

Putting aside the huge psychological gap of losing to the Spurs, the Grizzlies are actually in good shape at the moment.

12 wins and 2 losses. Before the season, no one would have thought that the opening game at the end of October and the 16 games in November would lead to 12 wins. It completely exceeded expectations.

Now even if the remaining three games are rested and lost, we still have 12 wins and 5 losses.

The Mavericks, currently fifth in the Western Conference, have 9 wins and 5 losses. Counting the opening game at the end of last month, the Mavericks have played 17 games in their first game month. Even if the Mavericks win the remaining three games and the Grizzlies lose, the Grizzlies will lose. After the team's first game month, they were still third in the Western Conference, because when they played directly against the Mavericks, the Grizzlies won!

Currently, the fourth-placed Nuggets are only 8-5, and the sixth-placed Trail Blazers are only 8-6. For now, the Grizzlies still have a huge advantage in winning the top three.

Before leaving the gym, coach Hollins analyzed the players, including Sun Ce. They all felt as if the world had not collapsed, but seemed... a little wonderful!

After returning to the apartment, Sun Ce went straight to the study and took out "Pick and Roll Tactics" to study it carefully.

Now we are mainly studying the off-ball pick-and-roll, with two goals.

The first is of course to enhance one's own strength.

The team has two organizational points, Conley and Gasol. The former is a reliable passer, and the latter's high-position support ability is not inferior to that of his brother. His brother only averaged 2.6 assists per game in the first four seasons of his career. The season averaged 10.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. The first time Gasol averaged more than 3 assists per game was in his fifth season, averaging 4.6 assists per game.

There must be a very obvious gap in strength between Gasol and Gasol in the fifth season, but now Gasol is as good a supporter as Gasol during his rookie contract. Sun Ce needs to take advantage of it. Use this to strengthen your personal offense.

The use of off-ball pick-and-rolls will definitely be of great help to his mid-range shooting.

After playing 14 games, Sun Ce looked at his learning section. Boss Qiao’s goal was to make 164 mid-range shots, but he has only made 24 now...

Mainly opportunity!

Just like three-pointers need shooting opportunities, Sun Ce also needs opportunities.

Most of his breakthrough shots with the ball are mainly baseline hooks and free throw line hooks. It is imperative to strengthen the off-ball pick-and-roll.

Also, to prepare for the next game against the Spurs in the second back-to-back game, it is always a good thing to study more about off-ball pick-and-rolls.

Sun Ce felt a change in his own thinking. He no longer felt complacent about his 11-game winning streak at the beginning... Although it may not be that obvious, he obviously had that kind of emotion before. He felt that this disastrous defeat... was not a bad thing!

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