Seven Hundred and Ninety-One. A Little Bully Who Makes People Want to Beat Him Up

But Yao Ming is not happy! The Mavericks are not happy! They will lose if they continue to play like this, but there is really no good solution, just Yao Ming.

The key is that the Grizzlies defend the outside line too well. Seeing Sun Ce jumping in and out non-stop, Yao Ming really wants to slap the national team's number one outside player to death.

Last season was okay, but this season I feel particularly annoyed when playing against Sun Ce. In terms of defense, Sun Ce's single defense is average, not dragging the team down, and his assist defense is OK, which can be considered as middle to upper first-class but certainly not top.

But he is lucky!

When he assists in the inside defense, his inside teammates help him to block; when he assists in the outside defense, his outside teammates help him to delay.

He relies on his blocking awareness, double-teaming awareness, and his particularly exaggerated speed for his body size, and he gets at least two more blocks per game!

Most of the troublesome and hard work is done by his teammates, and he is like a "cheap picker" here.

Of course, anyone with a little analytical ability can see that, because of Sun Ce's ability to complete the last move, and he worked hard to make up for the defense and did a good job, in many cases, the defense of other Grizzlies players will become easier, they will need to do less, more focused, and it will be easier to do what they need to do.

In the defensive system of the Grizzlies, Sun Ce and his teammates complement each other and play a role in amplification.

It's just that such a team makes opponents feel very uncomfortable. Sun Ce always defends the weakest link of the opponent's offense. If there is a disagreement, he shrinks in to help defend and double-team to grab rebounds...

Although Yao Ming is unhappy, he can still score singles with his personal ability.

Kidd on the outside is unhappy, but there is no way! If there is a leading advantage, he will definitely play a 4-man counterattack and compete with Sun Ce. He is not inferior to Sun Ce in this aspect.

Just like the last time when they defeated the Grizzlies, they relied on the outstanding performances of Yao Ming, Nowitzki and DeShawn Stevenson to lead by more than ten points at halftime. In the third quarter, Kidd and Sun Ce had a great time and even suppressed Sun Ce, and finally won the game.

But now he dare not, because he is 10 points behind!

Unfortunately, Nowitzki is not there, and there is no second point of containment and scoring point who can move and pick and roll. When they encounter the Grizzlies' lineup with such good mobility, the team offense cannot be played!

This is related to the fact that the Mavericks have too few games without Nowitzki.

Nowitzki has been able to dominate the NBA for many years,

and has always stood in the ranks of super giants. He has outlasted his contemporaries Duncan and Garnett, and outlasted Rasheed Wallace and Webber. Now he is competing with Gasol for the second team, relying on his extraordinary health.

Health status is an important basis for distinguishing the grades of two stars with equal strength in their peak period.

Since Nowitzki's rookie season, his attendance rate has been above 90% every season. Except for the lockout in the 1998-99 season, Nowitzki has played at least 76 games in each season in the past 11 seasons, and at least 80 games in 6 seasons. In these years, Nowitzki's attendance rate is higher than that of James, Kobe, and Duncan.

Although he rarely attends all games, Nowitzki can definitely be considered an iron man.

In the past, they were used to the play without Nowitzki and Yao Ming had not come yet, but now, Yao Ming and Nowitzki almost play at the same time. In regular time, Yao Ming is the core of the inside line, Nowitzki is the outside line point, and Kidd organizes the offense; at critical moments, Yao Ming is the outside line point, and Nowitzki plays by himself.

After playing 15 wins and 1 loss in March, they have become accustomed to this play. It is the kind of dependence generated when playing well, instead of the past two years when Nowitzki could not integrate into the team and had no choice but to rely on Caron Butler and Jason Terry.

Now that Nowitzki is not playing, it is a huge blow to the Mavericks' team offense.

In the next attack of the Mavericks, Marion's high throw missed the rebound, and Carlisle had no choice but to take advantage of Sun Ce's counterattack and cause Kidd to foul. He replaced Corey Brewer and replaced veteran Jason Terry in advance.

The Mavericks were able to lead in the first quarter, in addition to Yao Ming's 10 points, but also Jason Terry's outstanding performance as a substitute.

However, Jason Terry did not play well against Paul George's defense in the second quarter, and was shut out in the third quarter, so the Mavericks scored less than 20 points in the third quarter.

Originally, Carlisle wanted to wait until the critical moment, wait for Paul George to be replaced, and then send Jason Terry to play the role of Nowitzki, but now he had to replace Jason Terry in advance to see if there was any turnaround.

Sun Ce went to the free throw line. In the fourth quarter, the two teams seemed to have taken the old path of the third quarter. The offense was very poor. In three and a half minutes, the two teams each scored 4 points, and only Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian scored.

Now Sun Ce finally has a chance to score.

"MVP... MVP..."

Sun Ce has not won the MVP yet, but the Grizzlies fans are already impatient, even more anxious than Sun Ce.

Sun Ce adjusted his breathing. This time the free throws were great, and two hook shots were hit steadily, raising his personal data to 14 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals. At the same time, the Grizzlies also expanded their lead to 13 points, leading the Mavericks 95 to 83!

With more than 8 minutes left, the 12-point difference is not really big for a team with Jason Terry, Yao Ming, Kidd and Marion.

Sun Ce and his teammates did not dare to be careless. After retreating back, they waited for the opponent to come over very attentively.

However, Tony showed his power tonight! After Jason Terry was blocked by Tony in the third quarter and made 0 of 5 shots, Tony blocked Jason Terry's jump shot and made it hit the basket directly. It was very straight, hitting the left side of the basket.

Yi Jianlian and Randolph tried their best to hold Yao Ming, but Yao Ming showed his power this time. He pressed the two people to jump up, and with his short hands, he pressed Yi Jianlian, who had a wingspan of 222 cm, to push the ball into the basket with his 226 cm height and 220 cm wingspan!

The score difference returned to 10 points again.

Yao Ming, who scored 6 points in a row, has already scored 29 points. It seems that there is no problem for him to score 30+ for the sixth time this season.

Yao Ming judged the landing point of the rebound very well. Sun Ce could only watch Yao Ming from behind and press Yi Jianlian to dunk.

But looking back, after Sun Ce pushed forward to the frontcourt, Yi Jianlian leaned against Marion in the middle distance on the right side, and suddenly turned and cut into the inside. Sun Ce passed the ball to Yi Jianlian, and Yi Jianlian received the ball in the low position on the right side of the three-second zone and made a close-range jump shot...

Another shot!

Unlike the core players who just took the ball and shot recklessly, he used his excellent awareness of catching the ball to shoot. Yao Ming felt that Yi Jianlian's shooting efficiency had become stronger than the last time he played against him!

Yi Jianlian's progress this season was so fast that even Yao Ming felt incredible.