Six Hundred and Fifty-Four. Mysterious Future

Although we didn't win, it didn't stop us from celebrating Christmas.

Let alone the regular season, we even lost in the finals.

Although we lost, it was the first Christmas game in the team's history. Boss Robert Pera was happy about the loss. In the past, the Grizzlies played Christmas games, which was a good thing. They paid for everyone to order food and specially asked hotel staff to help them go to the mall to buy. This 33-year-old bachelor also found a few girls to accompany a few single players, which made some people envious and jealous. Overall, everyone had a good Christmas party.

The day after the Christmas game, the three giants of the national team didn't have much chance to get together. At nine o'clock in the morning, a group of people dragged their tired bodies to the airport. Next, on the 27th and 28th, they played back-to-back away games against the Jazz and Timberwolves, and on the 30th and 31st, they played back-to-back home games against the Pacers and Suns. It was a cruel 5 days and 4 games.

The family members were also sent back to Memphis by the team charter plane. It was the first Christmas game in the team's history. Even if it was not a home game, the boss was willing to spend the money.

After arriving at the hotel in Salt Lake City at around 11 o'clock in the morning, the players all went to catch up on their sleep.

Sun Ce also slept until 3pm, then went to the gym to lift weights and practice the Nash training method.

It was quite tiring to spend the New Year in the United States, and my waist was sore.

After practicing for more than two hours, Sun Ce exhausted himself by completing all the training goals in the Nash training method. He returned to his room, took a shower, and ordered some high-calorie and small amounts of high-fiber food.

While waiting to eat, Sun Ce looked at his phone and saw a text message from Wang Keying.

According to the text message, Sun Ce turned on his computer, downloaded an online video software, and spent 58 dollars to register for a high-definition video membership, and sent a video invitation to the ID sent in the text message.

Soon, the bedroom of his apartment appeared on the screen, and Wang Keying was lying on the bed playing computer.

The "winter vacation" here in the United States is not the same as in China. It is generally from before Christmas to January 20th, which is also about a month. Wang Keying reported to the University of Southern California on January 15th and needed to study preparatory courses first. Before that, she lived in Sun Ce's apartment.

After chatting about some random things for a while, the video was hung up when dinner was delivered to the room.

While eating, Sun Ce was checking the news to learn about the two games he didn't see last night.

The match between Durant and Rose was like a collision between Mars and Earth.

The regular time was tied at 98, and an overtime was played, causing the Grizzlies and Mavericks to wait on the court for a few minutes.

Rose really performed better than Durant in the NBA this season. Facing the defense of his old rival Westbrook, Rose played 50 minutes in the whole game, 15 of 31 shots, and scored 43 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds.

Durant played 41 minutes, 14 of 28 shots, 35 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, and his overall performance was not as good as Rose.

But in overtime, Rose's physical strength was exhausted. He didn't score a point in 5 minutes, and 0 of 5 shots, which pulled down his hit rate.

Durant didn't score in overtime, and his hit rate was just 50%.

However, Westbrook, who performed poorly in regular time, scored 6 points in overtime, helping the Thunder to score 11 to 3 in the five-minute overtime, helping the Thunder to beat the Bulls 109 to 101.

Westbrook's triple-double of 14 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists made him the second active player to get a triple-double in the Christmas game after James.

Sun Ce saw a special mention in the game report that this was Westbrook's fifth triple-double so far this season, surpassing James who had already got 4 triple-doubles, and ranked second in the triple-double list.

And the first one was him, Sun!

Sun Ce looked at the special events in the event section, and sure enough, the previous triple-double comparison (6:4) became (6:5).

"Yo, Turtle is still trying to make trouble! I'm going to order this star experience card!"

In the Christmas game between the Lakers and the Heat, the Lakers were beaten.

I don't know why, Bosh looks soft against everyone, and was dunked by Sun Ce, but against Gasol, Bosh is as tough as he can be, 14 of 22 shots scored 33 points and 7 rebounds, plus James' 25 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists, Wade's 22 points, the Heat beat the Lakers 103-91.

It is worth mentioning that Kobe and Gasol of the Lakers played less than 33 minutes, and Shannon Brown played for 25 minutes.

I don't know what the Zen Master thinks, Bynum only played for 20 minutes, but Odom played for 39 minutes as a substitute, and his performance was also okay.

But Sun Ce didn't care so much. After reading the battle report, Sun Ce found the game video on the official website of ESPN, which broadcast this game live, and watched the game where the Lakers were abused by the Heat.

After eating something, Sun Ce felt sleepy again. He was really tired these days, with concerts and long-distance flights.

But it's better to rest for a while after eating and then sleep. Sun Ce yawned and browsed the news on the website.

The headline was not about today's game report, but about Rose.

Rose said in an interview after the game last night that he twisted his ankle in the fourth quarter and that CJ Watson should have played in overtime. He dragged down the team's defense, causing Westbrook to score 6 points and 2 assists in overtime.

Sun Ce watched the interview video and found that the reporter was indeed making trouble. Rose's original words were "I am to blame for the loss of this game. I accidentally sprained my ankle in the fourth quarter and failed to defend Westbrook. CJ might have played better than me in overtime."

But the headline of the news was "Rose was injured and forced to play overtime", and the content did not mention that Rose was taking responsibility at all, but criticized Thibodeau for his use of players.

Of course, Thibodeau's use of players was indeed problematic. Rose sprained his ankle and had no strength after playing 45 minutes in regular time. He was also asked to play overtime and shot 0 out of 5. It's just that the media seemed to deliberately put Rose and Thibodeau on opposite sides.

Sun Ce felt that this was because Rose was too popular and affected the status of some people. Maybe he didn't mean that, but the supporters behind those people or those who needed to make money from him wanted to bring down the Bulls; it could also be because Rose was wearing German Adidas instead of American Nike.

In the United States, this is too common.

These are not important to Sun Ce at all. As a player from a small city, he avoided these annoying things. He is not very dependent on the American market.

However, Rose and Thibodeau have a feeling of standing on opposite sides, which Sun Ce did not expect.

The main reason is that Rose was injured in the last game against their Grizzlies.

Rose's style of play and Thibodeau's use of him are always very strong when he is not injured, but after the injury, he may not be able to stop.

As long as he is not injured to the extent of suspension, Thibodeau also lets him play nearly 40 minutes per game. It is obvious that he is tired, but he still does not let him go.

Originally, in the original time and space, Rose was not injured throughout the season, so no one thought he had a problem. Those who wanted to find an opportunity to deal with Rose could not do it, and there was no chance.

But in the 11-12 season, Rose did not stop after his first injury. In the 10-11 season, except for one full-time game suspended, Rose, who missed less than 10 games in the first three years, missed more than a dozen games in the 11-12 season. It was because of this reason that in the playoffs, Thibodeau directly caused his cruciate ligament to rupture.

But in this time and space, Rose was injured in the second match against the Grizzlies because of overexertion of physical strength, and started to suffer minor injuries in advance.

Because he had no rest, after being injured in the game against the Grizzlies, Rose did not miss the next game and played for 38 minutes.

After browsing the forum, Sun Ce was more certain that someone must be fanning the flames behind the scenes. The topic about Rose and Thibodeau became more and more popular. Almost one-sidedly criticized Thibodeau for not knowing how to use people and the poor rotation, and pointed at Rose, Luol Deng, and Noah to use them to death, etc., as if he wanted to drive Thibodeau off the stage.

For this kind of thing, Sun Ce was quite happy to watch the excitement.

He doesn't care what will happen to the Bulls.

Anyway, the world has changed so much and become so crazy. Paul in his prime has gone to the Knicks to play run-and-gun. It would be more fun to do something crazier.

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After a day of rest, the Grizzlies came to the Energy Solutions Center in Salt Lake City.

After entering the arena, the group took off their coats for a long time, and they didn't plan to leave the training ground and the lounge. Anyway, there was nothing fun in Salt Lake City.

The main reason was that it was too cold outside!

The winter in Salt Lake City is as cold as the Winter Olympics.

Fortunately, the heating has started.

Gasol and Tony Allen ran to the lounge and lay lazily on the sofa, watching their teammates train.

5 days and 4 games, they must take turns to rest. The two were the first players to rest, and they felt happy.

Others looked at the energetic Sun Ce with envy and jealousy.

Really envious!

This guy was as tired as a dead dog when we got on the plane together yesterday. He probably didn't use up his waist strength last night. When we had breakfast together this morning, Sun Ce was already full of energy.

After a simple tactical meeting and running training, the coaches let the players play their own games.

When the coaching staff studied the schedule at the beginning of the season, they thought that the Jazz would be the most difficult to play against in this 5-day 4-game match. As a result, the Jazz was the third from the bottom in the Western Conference, and only the Timberwolves and Hornets were worse than them. On the other hand, the Pacers, rookie Hayward performed well in his rookie season, and Granger, who was still at his peak, and Hibbert, who was beginning to rise, became the most difficult opponent for the Grizzlies in this 5-day 4-game match.

Sun Ce remembered that the Jazz management should let Sloan go first, then sell Deron cheaply and start rebuilding directly, but he didn't know what went wrong. The Jazz just didn't let Sloan resign, even though Coach Sloan went back to Chicago for vacation.

This made Deron always worried, focusing on brushing his data to make his data look good. The Jazz really felt like they were going to compete for Irving.

A pair of small wings brought about such a huge change. Sun Ce was curious about what would happen next!

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Update before 2pm tomorrow.