Six Hundred and Eighty-One. The Terrifying Eastern Guard Group
A team with the potential to counterattack, at the beginning of the century, was most reluctant to meet the Spurs and Pistons, and currently is least willing to meet the Grizzlies, Celtics, and Bulls.
The defense is too stable!
Few counterattack teams rely on defense and a rookie contract player to explode like the Grizzlies and Bulls. Sun Ce is habitually explosive, and Rose has reached MVP level this season. The performances of the two and the two teams are very different when you think about it, but at a glance, the two teams seem to be of the same type.
The Nets are expected to succeed in the counterattack because they are in New Jersey, which is only part of it. They want to be neighbors with the Knicks in Brooklyn, New York, which is the least favored place for them.
But there is no doubt that the Nets with Deron and Lopez are definitely a team with the potential to counterattack. The former is 26 years old and the latter is 23 years old. They have potential and strength, but they are used to losing. They only got 12 wins last season and they really don’t know how to win. The head coach is not very good.
But tonight, Deron, a top point guard who has experience in winning games and played in the Western Conference Finals in his second year, began to play hard. He played really well in the first quarter, especially in the second half of the first quarter, which was better than the first half of the first quarter. He scored 15 points in the last 5 and a half minutes, helping the Nets to overtake by two points before the end of the first quarter and enter the second quarter.
But after entering the second quarter, the Nets, who were full of momentum, encountered the defensive sniping of the Grizzlies.
After the first quarter, the Grizzlies had sorted out several offensive routines of the Nets. Tony Allen and Gasol continued to play, with Conley, Paul George, and Battier, and locked the Nets' offense!
Deron has only played a few games since joining the Nets, and he still plays blindly and occasionally explodes, but there are limits, especially Tony Allen has found a way to defend Deron's pick-and-roll. General Johnson is not Sloan, and cannot fully exert Deron's ability to hold the ball and pick-and-roll. Tony Allen's defense against Deron began to show results.
The Nets scored 27 points in the first quarter, but only scored 4 points in the first four minutes of the second quarter, and their efficiency plummeted!
During this period, the Grizzlies played an 8-4 wave.
When Sun Ce came on the court, the score had already reversed, and the advantage was back to the Grizzlies, and it was a reverse score, so the advantage was more obvious.
Conley and Gasol played for 16 minutes in a row, and Tony Allen played for 10 minutes in a row. They were replaced and rested. Sun Ce led Morrow, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Jordan to run the offense!
General Johnson's coaching ability is really average. He saw that the team had hope of winning. The opponent only overtook by two points after almost half of the game, so he made a lot of arrangements during the timeout,
Mainly to strengthen the offense and defense of the positional battle.
But he really didn't have much ability and couldn't understand the situation. Just like being played by old Nelson in the first round of 2007, he was played again today. He didn't seem to know how bad his own defense was, and he wanted to strengthen the defense.
Then, in the second half of the second quarter, Sun Ce scored 10 points and 3 assists, plus 4 rebounds and 1 block, leading the team to a 20-9 run. At the end of the first half, he helped the Grizzlies to widen the gap to more than 10 points.
, the Grizzlies led by 13 points into the halftime break.
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As the saying goes, the momentum of the Nets was curbed by the Grizzlies, and it was difficult to turn around again. At least no one broke out this time, and no unexpected situation occurred.
In the sixth minute of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies still maintained a lead of more than 10 points. Sun Ce played in the first 5 minutes of the third quarter and scored 2 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks. In the third minute of the fourth quarter, Conley was tired and came up with Morrow, Battier, Randolph and Gasol to hold the lead steadily.
Sun Ce played for 29 minutes, got 6 rebounds and 4 blocks, Randolph played for 35 minutes, got rebounds, and finally, the Grizzlies beat the Nets with a point advantage.
In this game, the Grizzlies' style of grinding to death was fully demonstrated. The Nets played well today, but the Grizzlies still suppressed the opponent and did not give them any chance to struggle. It can be regarded as a very beautiful game.
It's a pity that no one paid attention to this game...
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After playing against the Nets, Sun Ce and Deron did not have more exchanges, and did not say a word.
If it weren't for the special event "Man's Promise" in the event section, Sun Ce only saw Deron's performance of desperately playing assists last night, and his hit rate was still at the normal level of 44%. I really couldn't believe that Deron would come to "ask for support" before the game to indicate that the abusive camp was about to be defeated.
The next morning, Sun Ce and his teammates fled New Jersey.
After arriving in Toronto, Sun Ce stayed in the room and didn't want to go out. It was too cold!
I checked the news. Last night, they scored over 100 points and beat the Nets. There was not even a homepage news. Among the news on the homepages of major websites, only the report of all the games last night mentioned that they beat the Nets. And there was only one sentence, "Randolph led the team to beat the Nets." If you want to find the details of their victory over the Nets, you have to go to the Lord Division.
However, it is different in China. Yi Jianlian's 15 points and 4 rebounds to beat his old club were written about. After all, he is the best Chinese player besides Sun Ce and Yao Ming.
When those reporters had Sun Ce and Yao Ming, two highly watched players, to criticize, Yi Jianlian was less praised. Now he is performing well and domestic fans are happy. As an NBA substitute, Yi Jianlian's performance this season is good enough. It is said that he has reached an early renewal agreement, but it has not been announced yet. Because he has bird rights, it is likely that he will wait until the reinforcement of next season to complete the renewal. After all, the price is not low, and many teams are eyeing and want to grab it. The Grizzlies boss is not short of money, but he is afraid that he will not be able to spend money like the Jazz and the Nets.
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At twelve o'clock noon, Sun Ce ate the lunch sent by the team nutritionist in the room. Sun Ce felt that the team nutritionist's cooking skills were improving more and more. Now he had to pinch his nose to eat some dishes, because pinching his nose to eat can reduce the taste of food.
At this time, the TV news was broadcasting the voting results of the first stage of the All-Star Weekend.
After the Christmas game, the All-Star voting had already begun.
This year's All-Star Weekend is the All-Star Weekend, which is held in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, hosted by the Clippers, and lasts for three days from February 16 to February 19 this year.
Since it was held at the Staples Center, and coincidentally coincided with the Grammys, the All-Star Weekend was held a few days later than in previous years, so the voting time was also relatively late.
"Huh, the old blacksmith from the West Coast is going to occupy another All-Star position..."
Seeing the temporary vote leader, Sun Ce complained.
Kobe was the only player to break a million votes in the first stage of voting, and he received 1.03 million votes in the first ten days.
The second highest was Howard, with 910,000 votes. The current vote leader in the East, the difference of more than 100,000 votes is quite obvious.
As for the Eastern forwards, although James was criticized a lot, his popularity is high, and he received 890,000 votes. Except for Howard, he still received the most votes in the East.
Stoudemire is temporarily ranked second among the Eastern forwards.
The competition for guards in the East is fierce, and the current first place is... Evans!
Just like Duncan, you may not think he is very popular, but when fans vote, they will give him a vote. So far, Evans averages 24.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game. Only he and James maintain an average of 20+5+5.
However, Evans does not have much advantage. His 550,000 votes are only slightly higher than Wade's 530,000 votes. Behind him are Rose's 490,000 votes, Paul's 460,000 votes, Rondo's 430,000 votes, and Deron's 360,000 votes... Compared with the Eastern Conference forwards and centers who often get 800,000 or 900,000 votes, the competition for Eastern Conference guards is fierce.
Comparing the Western guards, Kobe ranked first with 1.03 million votes, Sun Ce ranked second with 890,000 votes, Nash ranked third with 290,000 votes, Ginobili ranked fourth with 250,000 votes, Kidd ranked fifth with 160,000 votes, and Roy ranked sixth with 130,000 votes...
For the Western center, Yao Ming ranked first with 850,000 votes, and Bynum ranked second with 510,000 votes. In Sun Ce's opinion, Yao Ming and Kobe are the same, both of them shamelessly occupying an All-Star and not moving.
The fierce competition for Eastern guards was beyond Sun Ce's expectations, but also reasonable. Eastern guards are too strong.
But Sun Ce really didn't expect Western forwards.
Durant ranked first among Western forwards with 780,000 votes. This year, Durant and Anthony competed fiercely for the scoring title. Although he had a black history of being ridiculed for asking for bath water, fans were willing to vote for him.
But Nowitzki ranked second among forwards with 750,000 votes, surpassing Anthony, Gasol, Duncan, and Yi Jianlian!
Nowitzki is expected to be voted into the All-Star for the first time!
This is the first time that Yao Ming has such a strong power forward partner. Domestic fans are in high spirits in voting. According to the league's report, Sun Ce saw that Chinese fans voted for Nowitzki more than for Yi Jianlian!
Sun Ce still feels inferior to Yao Ming's influence. This is not comparable to his winning the World Championship MVP.
But Sun Ce is not jealous. The greater Yao Ming's influence, the better it is for him. With Yao Ming's support, he will have more freedom in the national team. Of course, he is not a player in the system, so he has a high degree of freedom, but the greater Yao Ming's influence, he will definitely be able to do many things more easily.
After reading the results of the All-Star voting, Sun Ce saw a piece of news that he has seen many times this year.
Nowitzki declined the invitation to be the spokesperson for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China...
Sun Ce can no longer remember how many endorsements Nowitzki has rejected this year. In addition to wanting to have shoes that fit his feet and cooperating with Nike to create the Nike-Air-Max-Spot-up series of combat boots, as well as endorsements in Germany, Nowitzki has no other endorsements.
This year, he became Yao Ming's teammate. Just like Anthony, McGrady, Francis, Artest and others in the past, Nowitzki received a lot of endorsement invitations from China and Asian countries and regions, but he did not accept any of them!
"Is he stupid? He doesn't want to make money?"
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