Eight Hundred and Five. The Regular Season Came to an Abrupt End
The Suns kept attacking wave after wave, and Carter has become very hard now, although from the perspective of a superstar, it is too late for him to work hard now.
However, from the perspective of the opponent, a veteran who is playing in his 13th season is so hard on the court to defend, run, catch the ball and shoot, cut in, pass the ball...
The Grizzlies were so excited that they were about to burst into tears, and then Sun Ce blocked Carter with Gasol Jr. and slammed Carter's dunk.
In the second half of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies' defense reached its peak!
Sun Ce, Conley, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr. played a wave of 6 to 2 in the last 4 minutes!
Maintaining a 5-point lead and expanding it to 9 points in the final moments, the Grizzlies defeated the Suns 110 to 101 and won three consecutive victories!
Although they had tried hard to limit the opponent's halftime score to 44 points in the first half, the Suns actually scored 55 points in the first 20 minutes of the second half. Fortunately, the Grizzlies held the key ball in the last 4 minutes, and Sun Ce, Randolph, and the double emperor combination who had rotated before held up in terms of scoring.
Sun Ce took advantage of the opponent's poor defense and played for 34 minutes, scoring 33 points, 10 rebounds, 14 assists and 2 blocks with 14 of 22 shots. There was no steal tonight. Nash had 16 assists and 0 turnovers in a single game. He has dominated the assists list this season, but he is still strong. The Suns' overall passing is also very good, with 29 assists for 101 points.
If it were a young team, they would have been autistic and angry if they lost after playing like this... But Nash and his group of old men saw that Carter was slapped away by Sun Ce, the outside line was blocked, and they couldn't get into the inside line. Because of their age, they couldn't run at the last moment and didn't have the wonderful running position in front. They only got two points in the last 4 minutes... After the game, they could only high-five helplessly and smile. They worked hard today and will try to beat these young people in Memphis tomorrow.
They want to enter the playoffs, but they won't feel that they can't live if they don't enter. They have seen all kinds of storms.
If there is a pity, it is that they didn't make many three-pointers today, 8 out of 24, and so many assists were almost two-pointers. There were too few three-point assists. The Grizzlies had one big and four small players for a long time. At the center position, Gasol, Jordan, and Yi Jianlian took turns to defend the inside line. Even Randolph played the center. Only when the Suns sent Frye and Gortat to partner in the inside line did they send out two bears at the same time.
The long-term use of one big and four small players was naturally to contain the Suns' three-pointers. Although the Suns cut into the basket or scored a lot of points from mid-range, the Suns' most lethal weapon was contained, which led to a final and steady victory.
At the press conference after the game, Nash also praised the Grizzlies,
and also teased Sun Ce's "luck". His early career was so miserable...
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After playing against the Suns, Sun Ce stayed in the gym and practiced the Nash training method. Several old men from the home team came to watch maliciously. They played 34 minutes for Sun Ce and practiced more, and they really practiced seriously! Originally, I wanted to wait for Sun Ce to complete the training, but I didn't have the motivation to do it.
This kid is really working hard! And it's the kind of hard work that shows progress. If Sun Ce didn't have an explosive state at the beginning of the season, it would be difficult to get 30+, but this time it can be seen that Sun Ce didn't have an explosive state, so he used the team, his own ability, and their poor defense to steadily get 30+.
Nash, Carter, Hamilton, and Hill, the four veteran stars, all felt that it was natural for Sun Ce to have so many privileges in a strong team like the Grizzlies!
But they did not practice with him. They watched Sun Ce's extra practice for a while and left. They just heard the staff talking about Sun Ce's training in the gym again and wanted to tease Sun Ce. Men will not mature, but only get old.
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After practicing Nash's training method, Sun Ce returned to the Four Seasons Hotel in North Phoenix where the team stayed, took a shower, and collapsed on the sofa to make a video call with Wang Keying.
As they chatted, they started to arrange the Spurs. As they were arranging, a system prompt suddenly came!
"Bear King Road (S) Stage 4 Event: Dominate the Regular Season.
2010-2011 Season (Failed).
2011-2012 Season (To Be Started).
Event Goal: Win the First Regular Season Championship in Team History.
Event Reward: Leader's Light C Level Upgraded to B Level.
Note: This stage event has no time limit. If completed this season, it will reach the highest rating. If not completed, it will be carried over to the next season. The highest rating of the event has been reduced to A."
"Shake my God!"
Sun Ce was shocked. How could he and his girlfriend talk on the phone together? It was just a phone call, and he didn't go out to abuse the dog. Is this a crime?
Just now he was making up a story with Wang Keying about the shameless Spurs, talking nonsense about how to knock the Spurs off the top spot. The content of their conversation was as ridiculous as it could be, such as the Hornets were useless and didn't even beat the Spurs by 30 points; I hope that the evil-looking big devil Duncan will be beaten by Howard tonight, and the Suns will beat the Spurs in the last game, and the Spurs will lose the last two games in a row, and they, the Grizzlies, will win the regular season championship.
Is this a crime to talk nonsense?
Why did a prompt of event failure suddenly appear?
Wang Keying on the other side of the computer was startled by Sun Ce's sudden swear words: "What's wrong?"
"That..." Sun Ce wanted to share his shock, but he was just making up stories with Wang Keying about the Spurs and how the Spurs would lose. Sun Ce felt stupid just thinking about it.
Sun Ce suddenly had an idea: "I was shocked when I saw the news on TV just now."
"What news?"
"It seems that we lost the regular season championship!"
"Aren't we only one win away? The Spurs still have two games to play."
"The Spurs should have just won the Magic." Sun Ce guessed that it should be like this.
"Don't they still have to play the Suns? Even if they beat the Magic, they would only have 66 wins and 15 losses, and we have 64 wins and 16 losses. How could we lose the regular season championship?"
After hearing Wang Keying's words, Sun Ce also thought so.
"I'll check it out."
Sun Ce switched the computer screen, opened Google search, and entered the T.N.T official website. Sure enough, the headline that had just been refreshed was the news that the Spurs defeated the Magic 113 to 92 and locked the regular season championship.
It seems that the manuscript has been written long ago. Anyway, it won't be a loss if it is written. If it is used, it can attract traffic in the first time.
Sun Ce read in the news that although the Spurs still have one game left, if they lose and the Grizzlies win the last two games, both the Spurs and the Grizzlies will have a record of 66 wins and 16 losses.
However, since the Spurs have a better record in the division than the Grizzlies, in the 16 division games, the Spurs have 13 wins and 3 losses, 2 wins and 2 losses against the Grizzlies, 3 wins and 1 loss against the Mavericks, and a sweep against the Hornets and Rockets, which is better than the Grizzlies' 12 wins and 4 losses in the division, so the Spurs have locked in first place in advance.