Seven Hundred and Sixty-Two. Another Bloody Battle!

Playing against the Clippers, many people in the Grizzlies have a revengeful mentality. Needless to say, Jordan was just a discarded player that the Clippers casually abandoned last season. There are too many such discarded players in the Clippers. The Clippers have abandoned Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, Brand, Maggette, Livingston, Mobley, Radmanovich... including Randolph.

Talented young players are readily available to the Clippers. It is foreseeable that most of the Clippers' current talents, such as Eric Gordon, Bledsoe, Foye, Gomez, Aminu, Rasual Butler... and a bunch of outside players will be abandoned, and Kaman in the inside is estimated to be unable to escape. In order to correct Griffin's first inside position, Kaman, who needs the ball, will inevitably be abandoned.

And the Clippers may not ask for any return, just abandon these people, just like Jordan was abandoned last season, maybe just to pay less salary.

This is what Jordan hates the most about the Clippers. If he trades the No. 2 pick like Sun Ce did, Sun Ce would at most want to fight the Warriors to regain his face. It can't be said to be hatred, but Jordan feels that his self-esteem has been hurt.

Every time he plays against the Clippers, Jordan will try his best.

Randolph was as unhappy as he could be in the half season with the Clippers. He is fat but his heart is not as big as his body.

Others are simple. Last month, the Clippers took advantage of their rest to hit them, so they naturally had to fight back this time. The Grizzlies were defending with all their strength from the beginning of this game, fighting for their lives.

Gasol was resting, and the Grizzlies' positional defense was a little weak, so the high-intensity pressure rotation defense used from the beginning, and the Clippers' disorganized offense was turned upside down by the Grizzlies.

How strong was the pressure? Griffin made 14 free throws in three quarters... but only 8 of 14! The free throw rate of just over 50% is obviously not enough to really cause damage. Even if Gasol rests, the Grizzlies still have Randolph, Yi Jianlian, Jordan, Haddadi, and even Battier and Sam Young to foul. Griffin just needs to cut the ball hard. There is no need to defend Griffin from the defensive tactics. Focus on defending others.

So, based on the 27-16 in the first quarter, the Grizzlies opened the gap to 19 points with 50-31 in the half. After the third quarter, the score was 71-45...

The scores of the two teams were lower than the previous quarter. In the rotation stage, the Grizzlies did not let the Clippers go, and continued to maintain high-intensity defense. The Grizzlies' own offense was also affected. They scored 27 points in the first quarter, only 23 points in the second quarter, and only 21 points in the third quarter.

However, the Clippers were even worse, with 16 points in the first quarter, 15 points in the second quarter, and only 14 points in the third quarter, and the gap was opened to 26 points!

Griffin played for 25 minutes in the third quarter, and only successfully took 6 shots, 2 of 6 shots, one of which was a three-pointer shot made in a fit of rage. He made 8 of 14 free throws, and was replaced with 13 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists. He was not replaced in the last quarter.

Griffin felt that the whole world was targeting him! After the All-Star Weekend, he was targeted even more! When playing against the Grizzlies, this targeting reached its extreme...

Griffin has an advantage. He rarely has malicious revenge actions. I watched him being knocked down again and again, but I never saw him fight back with the same action, because he is strong enough. This action is difficult to hurt him. His big injury in the future will not be sports injury or injury by opponents, but being sat on by the prince.

However, this kind of honest person, who is so honest that he doesn’t know how much he hates his opponents, often opponents will catch him and kill him.

His offensive actions really disgust opponents, and he doesn’t know it yet, enjoying the preferential treatment given by the league.

As the ancients said, hateful people must have sad sufferings, which is what Griffin is like. But there are always hateful things about pitiful people, and it is not unreasonable for opponents to hate him.

In this game, Sun Ce played 31 minutes in the first three quarters, and his playing time was too long. Coach Hollins arranged for him to hold the ball for a long time.

He also had many shooting opportunities. He shot 22 times in 31 minutes, 10 of 22 shots, 4 of 6 free throws, and 24 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, and 6 blocks, which is 4 times 5. He was too big and only got two steals. Otherwise, he would have many opportunities to steal when his teammates pressed the opponent to force the opponent to pass the ball. For example, Tony did a good job and got 5 steals in 21 minutes.

Sun Ce's 6 blocks + Tony's 5 steals fully wrote out the defensive strength of the Grizzlies in this game.

The Clippers' inside line was slapped by Sun Ce, and his teammates were stuck. He would be sorry if he didn't slap.

Tony Allen's mad dog pressure steals on the outside, causing Mo Williams, the core of the outside line, to make 8 turnovers. Tony Allen's head-on steals Mo Williams stole twice.

So, the Grizzlies played amazing pressure defense in the absence of Gasol, causing the Clippers to only score 45 points in three quarters!

Sun Ce scored 24 points in three quarters, the highest in the game, and the second highest was actually Jordan, who grabbed 5 offensive rebounds and scored on the second offense. Griffin, Kaman, Diogu, and Jaylon Collins' inside defense was almost non-existent. Jordan also got a lot of opportunities to attack the basket directly in the air, plus 2 of 3 free throws, and scored 21 points in three quarters!

After the three quarters, Conley pressed the team, Morrow, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Haddadi went up to brush up the data, and the game entered garbage time.

In the end, the score was fixed at 96 to 66. The Grizzlies beat the Clippers by 30 points, avenging the upset last month.

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The Clippers only scored 66 points in a single game, and the Clippers did not score more than 50 points in the first three quarters, and none of the first three quarters scored more than 20 points. The Grizzlies' revenge made the fans feel the small-mindedness of Panda.

However, this kind of scene is popular with fans. The tense battle is good, but this bloody massacre is also a good pastime.

But this scene appeared twice in one night!

After the game between the Grizzlies and the Clippers, the Lakers played against the Spurs at home at the Staples Center.

In this game, the Spurs did not rest, and the three horses played together, but...

After the first three quarters, the Lakers led the Spurs by 34 points, 85 to 51!

Odom played for 31 minutes and scored 16 points and 5 assists, Gasol played for 24 minutes and scored 21 points and 4 assists, Bynum played for 27 minutes and scored 15 points and 13 rebounds. The three of them worked together to beat the Spurs in the first three quarters!

Facing the Spurs, the Lakers' inside advantage was fully demonstrated. A certain blacksmith almost cheered for the three towers in the first three quarters, and he was well hugged. He only relied on the inside threat to get 13 points in 5 shots and was replaced to rest.

The last quarter became a complete garbage time. The Spurs played purely on the bench in garbage time, but Iverson and Richard Jefferson dared to fight in garbage time. They beat the Lakers 31 to 17 in the last quarter, and finally lost to the Lakers 82 to 102. It didn't look like they lost so badly.

But Sun Ce, who watched the game back at the hotel, was shocked by the Lakers' performance after the All-Star Weekend.

8 consecutive wins! The Lakers won 8 consecutive games after the All-Star Weekend!

The Grizzlies just won 5 games in a row, and their record improved to 48 wins and 11 losses, while the Lakers actually caught up to 46 wins and 13 losses.

This brought a lot of pressure to Sun Ce. He knew that the Lakers were strong, and he had some impression that the half of the schedule after the All-Star Weekend in the 10-11 season was the last strong time for the Lakers in the Kobe era, but he did not expect that the Lakers could be so strong that they beat the Spurs by more than 30 points in three quarters.

Sun Ce remembered this because after the Lakers brutally beat the Spurs, the Heat's Big Three were beaten by the Spurs and cried in the locker room... The score difference was exactly 30 points.

One thing overcomes another. The Zen Master is good at dealing with the Jazz's pick-and-roll. Now he is facing the Spurs who use a lot of pick-and-roll, and he is getting better and better.

Sun Ce felt that if it weren't for the old Buss's senility and handing over the team power to his youngest son instead of his eldest daughter, and if it weren't for the Zen Master's greed, the Lakers wouldn't have collapsed so suddenly, and would definitely be the biggest obstacle for the Spurs system to reach its peak... and would also become a good partner for him, Sun, to snipe the Spurs.

After the two teams finished playing, the Grizzlies, who abused the Clippers, did not cause much waves. The popularity of less than two hours was snatched away by the Lakers.

Sun Ce has another reason to hate the blacksmith... This guy grabs the headlines!

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, you will get your shoes wet. Sun Ce used to grab the headlines, and now he has tasted the taste of having the headlines stolen. A player No. 24 who did not want to be named saw the news after the game and his mouth was almost split with laughter.

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After two consecutive away games, Sun Ce and his teammates returned to Memphis. With a record of 48 wins and 11 losses, they are only two and a half wins away from the Spurs, the only team in the league with 50+ wins. The Spurs have played 58 games so far. After losing to the Lakers, the Spurs' record has become 50 wins and 8 losses.

But the Grizzlies' lead over the Lakers is only two wins, and they are only two and a half wins away from the Mavericks, who have won 9 consecutive games after the All-Star Weekend.

The Mavericks have played 60 games so far, with 46 wins and 14 losses. The Lakers have started the crazy mode after the All-Star Weekend, and the Mavericks are the same! Although the Mavericks are only fifth in the West, they are only half a win away from the third Lakers in the West.

Sun Ce returned home and looked at the latest scout report, and his head was big!

The Grizzlies found that the Spurs' ambition was not to win the regular season championship. When they felt that they had the opportunity to challenge the first place in the league, other teams would naturally not miss this opportunity. The Lakers and Mavericks were both rushing towards the first place in the league.

Sun Ce only had a preliminary contact with the battle between strong teams last season, and it was passive. The Mavericks "actively" picked them to play. Sun Ce felt the battle between strong teams at the end of the season. It was not just as simple as the game, but also involved strategy, psychological games and so on.

This season, the Grizzlies where Sun Ce is also a strong team in people's eyes, and it has indeed become a strong team. Sun Ce also began to feel the pressure of playing against real strong teams.

It's really not as simple as a simple game. After all, the Grizzlies played only 12 games with their direct competitors in the West in the regular season. The Grizzlies are currently focusing on the Western Conference Finals. They can't care about the Eastern Conference for the time being. If there is a game, they will play well. If there is no game, put it aside. Breaking out of the West is their top priority at present.

However, the decisive factor in the competition between strong teams is not the 12 games directly played against them, but more aspects of the battle.

Sometimes, just seeing the brutal performance of direct competitors can create tremendous psychological pressure.

Especially when competitors are approaching step by step, the pressure is even greater.

However, when Sun Ce set his sights on the regular season MVP award, he had already prepared himself mentally, and this was destined to be a difficult task.

That night, Wang Keying, who felt the pressure from Sun Ce, took the initiative to get into the bed from the foot of the bed after Sun Ce took a shower and lay down on the bed, and headed towards the little overlord...

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After returning to Memphis for a night's rest, on April 8, the Grizzlies welcomed the game against the Hawks at home. The Hawks are currently ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference with 32 wins and 28 losses, not much behind the Knicks with 35 wins and 24 losses. The Hawks want to surpass the Knicks before Stoudemire returns.

After the All-Star Weekend, the American cable TV station broke the news that Stoudemire's recent recovery is good and he is expected to return before April to prepare for the playoffs, which gave the Knicks players great confidence. The Knicks' record has stabilized a lot since entering March, maintaining a 50% winning rate. Relying on the good record in January, the Knicks have not fallen behind the strong teams yet.

In the original time and space, if the Grizzlies are the troublemakers in the West, the Hawks are the troublemakers in the East. The two teams have similar characteristics. They both have the strength to enter the second round, but it is difficult for them to enter the top four in the regular season. Their offense is too poor. It is difficult to win many games in the regular season, which makes the top four teams scalp numb and wish they could give the top four to them.

The Grizzlies, who had a day off, sent out a full lineup in this game, with Sun Ce, Conley, Battier, Randolph, and Jordan starting together.

The Hawks are also very strong. After the All-Star Weekend, they cut veteran Mike Bibby, letting the old Bibby who wanted to go to Miami leave, and traded for the Bulls' backup guard Hinrich, and promoted Jeff Teague. In the 7 games after the All-Star Weekend, Teague averaged 11 points and 5 assists per game, which was a good performance.

Teague is paired with the original Joe Johnson, Maurice Evans, Josh Smith, and Horford. The starting lineup is very strong, and the bench also includes Hinrich, Jamal Crawford, the favorite for the best sixth man, Marvin Williams, a swingman who averages 10 points and 4 rebounds per game, and Zaza Pachulia, a veteran of the 03 generation who is famous for being dirty. There are 9 people rotating, which is very strong.

Mainly defense!

After the game started, the two teams quickly started the defensive confrontation mode.

This season, the Grizzlies have averaged 97.1 points per game so far. After the All-Star Weekend, the average score per game has increased slightly by 0.3, but it has almost reached the limit of the Grizzlies.

The Hawks are even worse, averaging 96.1 points per game.

But the average points lost by both teams are terrible. The Hawks lose 95.2 points per game, and the Grizzlies only lose 89.4 points per game.

It doesn’t mean that the Grizzlies’ average points lost per game is 6 points lower, and they must defend the Hawks better than the Hawks defend them.

The Grizzlies were able to hold their opponents to an average of only 89.4 points per game because they defended well, and they only scored 96 points against the Clippers, not because the Clippers defended well, but because their overall offense was really bad when they didn't explode...

So, the defensive effect of the Hawks against the Grizzlies tonight was almost the same as the defensive effect of the Grizzlies against the Hawks!

It's hard to say who is stronger or weaker in defense under the basket between Gasol and Horford. Horford moves better and has better defensive prediction, while Gasol has a better overall view of defense and is taller. They are both real inside gates whose defensive effects cannot be reflected in the data.

In terms of assisting defense, the Grizzlies have Sun Ce and the Hawks have Josh Smith. Sun Ce averages 1.3 steals and 3.5 blocks per game, while Josh Smith averages 1.7 steals and 1.9 blocks per game. In terms of assisting defense, Sun Ce is slightly better, but Josh Smith can also defend alone. Moreover, with the same height, Josh Smith can carry Randolph and switch to defend Sun Ce. From the first to the fourth position, he has enough speed and strength!

In the first quarter, the two teams played a single quarter score of 17 to 17, and even the Grizzlies fans at the scene fell asleep.

The Grizzlies made 7 of 21 shots, with a hit rate of 33%, and the Hawks made 6 of 20 shots, with a hit rate of 30%. This game is unbearable to watch! It's just like the two teams in the 2005 Finals.

Sun Ce got two blocks in the first quarter, and the Hawks didn't block him like other teams, but first tested his touch. Seeing that his touch was normal, they played regular defense against him. He relied on the threats of Randolph and Morrow and Jordan who came off the bench. He played 9 minutes in the first quarter and made 2 of 5 shots, 1 of 2 free throws, and scored 5 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks in the first quarter! Only two turnovers in 9 minutes were more than assists.

In the second quarter, Sun Ce sat on the sidelines to rest. Coach Hollins made rotation adjustments according to the situation on the field. Conley played the first 10 minutes of the second quarter, and fought hard with the opponent with Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier and Gasol.

Facing a lineup of Hinrich, Maurice Evans, Joe Johnson, Marvin Williams, and Pachulia, Sun Ce was absent and the Grizzlies' ability to assist in defense in the interior weakened. Marvin Williams scored 9 points in 10 minutes. This was mainly because Joe Johnson sat in the low post for singles, which attracted Marc Gasol's defense. Gasol went to help defend Joe Johnson, and no one could do the defense like Sun Ce did. Even if Gasol tried hard to get back to his position, he could only block the bottom road. Marvin Williams had an excellent touch, catching the ball and throwing it high up the board, making 4 of 5 shots in 10 minutes, including a 2+1!

The Grizzlies were in a lagging stage in this quarter, but fortunately they had good defense against the opponent's perimeter. Sun Ce returned to the court and played for the last two minutes, but he didn't have a very good effect in catching up.

At the end of the first half, the Grizzlies were 5 points behind 35 to 40 and entered the halftime break.

Every team always has a natural enemy, and Sun Ce feels that the Hawks are the natural enemy of their team! This kind of team with a 9-man rotation and a balanced and strong lineup is too difficult for them to deal with! And they are different from the Spurs, they have real strengths.

After being beaten by the Grizzlies at the beginning of the season, the Hawks played very well in this game and the defense was also very good. The Hawks were able to lead the Grizzlies by 5 points in the first half and scored 23 points in the second quarter, all thanks to the only player who performed normally when the Hawks played the Grizzlies last time, their star player-Joe Johnson.

Joe Johnson played for 21 minutes in the first half, 4 of 10 shots, and scored 11 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists!

But Sun Ce is not afraid of this kind of defensive battle! The whole team is not afraid! Just right, put aside the win or loss, who is the strongest defensive team is more important!

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