Six Hundred and Seventy-Nine. Is the Grudge so Great?

Wang Keying is going to Los Angeles to prepare for school. School starts on the 15th. She has to go through the formalities a few days in advance and find a place to live. The key is that she has a job. A trendy brand has found her to be the spokesperson and is going to open a new store in Los Angeles. It will probably open at the beginning of next month. Wang Keying has to go there to negotiate the contract, etc. Her uncle will help her with these.

Originally, she wanted to find Sun Ce, but Sun Ce didn't have the time. Wang Keying took advantage of Sun Ce's popularity and got a job and income. Therefore, Wang Keying once again seriously rejected Sun Ce's idea of ​​giving her a credit card, and Sun Ce didn't force it.

On the morning of the 8th, the two parted at the airport. Sun Ce and his teammates went to Rutherford Town next to Jersey City, and Wang Keying went to Los Angeles.

Going to the Nets home court to play the game, it really is disliked by all the players in the league, including the Nets' own players.

For example, Yi Jianlian, a former Nets player of the Grizzlies, played here for a year. Although he averaged 13 points and 7 rebounds per game, this year seemed like a nightmare to him. Now he returns to his hometown without any nostalgia.

Think of Jersey City next door, one of the cities with the highest per capita income in the United States. It has a small area but a huge population density. It is the most populous city in the United States, and even in the world, the population density is very high.

The entire land area of ​​Jersey City is less than 40 square kilometers, square kilometers, not 10,000 square kilometers. In comparison, China's Jiangxi Agricultural University covers an area of ​​more than 11 square kilometers, but has a population of nearly 250,000. Almost half of the city is by the sea, and it is highly industrialized. New York Bay and Newark Bay are both under the management of Jersey City. It has a port of 15 square kilometers. In 2010, Jersey City's GDP exceeded 180 billion US dollars, and its per capita GDP has always ranked among the top five in the United States.

But the Nets did not get any economic dividends from being next to such a super-rich city.

People in Jersey City consider themselves New Yorkers, and their favorite teams are the Knicks and the Yankees. People in Newark, which is a little further away but not too far away, consider themselves Philadelphians and like the 76ers. When the Nets owner settled in New Jersey, he wanted to settle in Jersey City or Newark, the two largest cities in New Jersey, but they didn't want him and sent him to the small town of Rutherford between the two cities.

The Nets moved here, and except for the two years when they made the finals, they often couldn't sell out tickets when they made the playoffs. New Jersey is not poor, but the Nets don't feel rich at all. Instead, they have to endure the pollution brought by the two highly industrialized cities on both sides.

It is also very torturous for the visiting players to play here. They are used to staying in five-star hotels. The largest hotel in Rutherford is a business hotel that claims to be a four-star standard. This hotel has a long history. It opened in 1986 and was renovated in 1999. More than ten years have passed. The facilities are old and the service is backward... Over time,

The fact that the visiting players were unhappy when they checked in here actually became the "home advantage" of the Nets.

The Russian rich owner of the Nets said that the stadium in Brooklyn, New York is ready to be built, and they will escape from this hellhole by 2012 at the latest.

The only "good" thing here is that guns are banned here. New Jersey is one of the few states in the United States that bans guns. Chicago, New York, and some cities in Connecticut in Illinois have amended their autonomy laws since 1996 to control guns. Although it is useless and no one dares to go out at night, it at least sounds good.

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After a night of rest, the Grizzlies players woke up early the next morning and wanted to go to training. Coach Hollins saw that the players were full of energy and said they wanted to go to the Air China Arena at around 7 o'clock. How could he not know what was going on?

Coach Hollins really wanted to play in such conditions in every game. Look, everyone is so active.

It's mainly a psychological effect. NBA players generally think that this hotel is not good. As for what is not good, players from each team may have different opinions. For example, the Grizzlies team said that there are dirty things in this hotel.

When they arrived at the Air China Arena, although the opponent was not strong, the Grizzlies were still very focused in their preparations.

Because the opponent has a superstar!

In the team meeting, defensive assistant coach Dave Joerger analyzed the changes that Deron brought to the Nets.

It would be fine if this analysis was not done. The Grizzlies players felt that the Nets would not be easy to deal with after adding a superstar and Brock Lopez, a top center of the new generation who averaged 20 points and 6 rebounds per game in his third year. But after the analysis, they saw Deron's performance in the six games he played with the Nets...

Deron played 39 minutes per game in these six games, averaging 14 points, 5.2 rebounds and 13.3 assists per game. This data is so strong!

But the hit rate, 4.2 hits in 15 shots per game, 28% shooting rate, 27% three-point shooting rate, 36% ball possession rate, efficiency value 14...

The more the players listened to Joerger's analysis, the worse they felt that the Nets team was. Not to mention, Joerger himself also felt that the opponent was really bad.

But Coach Hollins was not careless about this game and made good preparations.

Because Deron has always been against Sun Ce!

Although it feels like brushing assists, but averaging 13.3 assists per game, this needs to be brushed, and you have to have the ability to brush!

In the past three seasons, Deron has averaged 10+ assists per game and even reached the Western Conference Finals. His strength should not be underestimated.

In the opinion of coach Hollins, Deron will definitely fight hard when he meets Sun Ce. He doesn't want his team to become a stepping stone for Deron's "resurrection". There are many such examples in NBA history, and he doesn't want to be one of them.

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The NBA is very realistic, and the media is also very realistic. When Deron was still in the Jazz, Sun Ce VS Deron received a lot of attention. If Deron went to places like Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, the matchup between the two would still receive a lot of attention. But now, in Deron's game, except for one of the most beautiful scenery lines in the NBA, Xiao Pang abused the gun, no one really pays attention to Deron.

The New Jersey Nets has a nickname called the graveyard of stars.

Except for Kidd who is more tenacious, other superstars have declared the end of their peak when they come here.

Some stars who came here were already at the end of their peak, but the key is that some popular superstars no longer have high popularity after being traded here. Even Carter, who is as popular as he is, played here for more than a year. In the 2006-07 season, he averaged 25 points, 6 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. Rebounds and assists set a new career high at the time, and he played in all 82 games, but his popularity dropped sharply and he didn't even make the All-Star Game.

In the 2007-08 season, Carter averaged 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game. This was the only time in his career that he averaged 20+5+5 per game. He didn't even make the All-Star bench this time.

Deron's popularity is far less than Carter's back then. When he came here, the attention dropped to the freezing point.

At the pre-match press conference in the afternoon, except for the Chinese reporters and Memphis reporters who followed the team, there were only a few reporters who followed the league officials and the reporters from the New Jersey newspaper. There was no one else. The largest filming team was actually the Guangdong Sports reporter group. Yi Jianlian returned to the home court of his old club to play the game, and fans in the Greater Cantonese-speaking area were still very concerned.

Sun Ce thought that Deron would come out and jump when he met him like he did last season, but Deron didn't come to the pre-match press conference. The one who came was Lopez, the player that Sun Ce was deeply impressed with. This seven-foot low-post center who weighed 120 kilograms when he entered the NBA and now weighs 125 kilograms, will be transformed into a 110-kilogram 3D big back who has excellent frame protection and agile running and shooting ability in the future. He is the most amazing player in Sun Ce's impression. Looking at Lopez's current body shape, he is one of the slowest players in the NBA. At this stage, except for Sun Ce, no one can guess that this guy will become one of the most flexible inside players in the future.

He can see the changes in the league, has the talent to make changes in his playing style, and is willing to change... Sun Ce feels that Lopez is a very smart player. When the same type of talented center like Jahlil Okafor can't play during the rookie contract, the 31-year-old Lopez got a big contract of more than 50 million US dollars for 4 years.

He is really smart!

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Accompanied by the cold sea breeze and the countdown to the Nets’ 30-year history in New Jersey, at 3:10 pm, the game between the Grizzlies and the Nets was about to begin, and the players of both teams entered the stadium.

Looking at the sparse fans, Sun Ce and others felt very uncomfortable.

Sun Ce roughly estimated that there might be 10,000 fans on the scene?

Currently, the Nets have 10 wins and 27 losses, tied with the Cavaliers for the fourth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference, with a poor record and low enthusiasm of the fans.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Nets have decided to move away. They have accumulated some fans over the past few decades, but since the Nets are moving away, except for some die-hard fans, or people who are bored because of the cheap ticket price, or Grizzlies fans in New York or Philadelphia who come to watch the game, there are really no people who want to watch the Nets play.

The Nets players don’t seem to have much passion.

When the home team players came out, there were boos on the scene, and some local fans took out paper bags and put them on their heads to "mourne the death of the team."

Sun Ce saw the superstar Deron Williams, who had been his mortal enemy since he entered the NBA.

In addition to Deron and Lopez, the Nets actually still have some people. Sun Ce saw Vujacic and Farmar, who were dug from the Lakers, Chris Humphries, who was dug from the Jazz, and Travis Otero, an excellent role player, who was dug from the Clippers...

In addition, this time, Devin Harris and a third-round rookie Derrick Favors were used to get a superstar point guard who was only 26 years old and averaged at least 18 points and 10 assists per game in the past three seasons. The Nets can form such a lineup, and the management operation is already very awesome.

In fact, the Nets management has always been very good, and the big trades have always been very stable. Marbury's trade for Kidd was a great operation. Without the help of the third pick, Harris + the third pick for Deron was also a great operation. Moreover, Harris was traded for Kidd who wanted to leave the team. In other words, the Nets management picked up Marbury, who the Timberwolves didn't want, for free. They used Marbury's value for 10 years, and 10 years later, they got a 26-year-old point guard who averaged 10+ assists per game!

Moreover, before the Kidd + Carter combination was broken up, the Nets were always at the playoff level, but they didn't make money with two popular players, but lost money year after year. The team was sold before the end of last season.

However, why did the Nets later fire the meritorious general manager of more than ten years, and replaced the general manager with Billy King after moving to New York in 2012? Sun Ce was very curious about the Russians' thoughts.

It was 3:25, and the game was about to start. Except for the non-local fans who came to see Sun Ce or the Grizzlies, everyone else was either lifeless or eating because they saw the tickets were cheap. The long-legged cheerleaders were not very enthusiastic in their performance.

Sun Ce came to the technical table to apply magnesium powder. At this time, Deron also came to the technical table and looked at Sun Ce while applying magnesium powder. It seemed that he had something to say...

Sun Ce thought that the other party was finally going to provoke him, but Deron said, "Lord, you can get the MVP, but don't let Paul get the MVP!"

Sloan joined the Bulls. This change completely disrupted the NBA pattern in Sun Ce's memory. The ownership of the MVP began to move towards a situation where many heroes competed for it.

Paul, the star player of the Knicks, who is currently ranked second in the Eastern Conference, is undoubtedly one of the MVP candidates. Paul, who is currently competing with Nash and Rondo for the assist king, will certainly be of great help to his MVP competition if his record is better than Rondo's team and he wins the assist king. In addition, the Knicks' record has improved so much this season, and they are located in New York. It is rare for the Knicks to have an MVP-level player since Ewing. With the Bulls entering the adjustment period, if the Knicks really reach the first place in the Eastern Conference, Paul may really win the MVP.

However, Howard and Sun Ce are still the first candidates for MVP in the East and West.

Although Deron is very unwilling that a second-year player has the opportunity to win the MVP, he is even more unwilling that his "lifelong enemy" in his mind once again stands on the stage of the MVP contender.

Sun Ce did not expect Deron to say such a thing. Sun Ce felt Deron's unwillingness very clearly.

How big is this hatred! Before he could think of how to answer Deron, Sun Ce was about to respond, but suddenly he felt something was wrong. He felt that if he responded, something bad would happen. But he habitually said "hmm~", which was a kind of doubtful and teasing sound that changed from three to one. But at this time, the system prompt came!

"Because the host accepted the unwilling request of his mortal enemy Deron Williams, the special event: Man's Promise was triggered."

"Man's Promise (*): The host and Deron Williams reached an agreement that Chris Paul could not get the regular season MVP...

Event Reward: Special Card: Deron Williams' Gratitude..."

"Deron Williams' Gratitude: If the host proposes to learn pick-and-roll techniques, Deron Williams will not hesitate to guide him because of this favor."

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Today is the boss's birthday. I didn't get home until 10:30. It's a bit late. Please bear with me. Good news, there is an extra day of vacation tomorrow. I will make a promise. There will be at least 4 updates and 12,000 words tomorrow!

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