Eight Hundred and Eight. The Strongest Shot Blocker in the New Century!
On April 18, at 7 pm Eastern Time, the last game of the regular season of this season ended.
The Grizzlies defeated the 76ers away from home, and the record was fixed at a loss, refusing to lose in a row. The 76ers' record was fixed at a loss, suffering two consecutive losses, and the 2010-2011 regular season came to an end.
In this game, the two teams played at a normal rhythm. Neither team was particularly hard-working, and the rankings had been locked long ago. The 76ers lost to the Magic in the previous game, and the record could not break through to 55 wins. There was no need to fight with a tough team like the Grizzlies. If they got injured, it would be more of a loss. In the second half, the 76ers' three outside players did not play much.
Who asked the head coach of the Grizzlies to have a fierce expression? God knows how strong the confrontation would be if the game was fierce.
Sun Ce scored 22 points, 9 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 blocks, 4 turnovers and 2 steals in the whole game. He was just a little short of getting his 17th triple-double of the season, but he only played for 29 minutes today. He felt that he could play more, but Coach Hollins did not let him play in the fourth quarter tonight to brush up his data. Sun Ce did not dare to go up to ask for playing time. He felt that if he said one more word to Coach Hollins, the other party would beat him to death.
It doesn't matter if he didn't get a triple-double. He has already opened up the gap with Westbrook.
Westbrook, who has not completely entered the sewer, is still difficult to get too many triple-doubles. The opponent is already on guard against him. As strong as James is, he wants to win. So far, the most triple-doubles in a single season is only 7 times. Westbrook has tried his best and has only got 9 triple-doubles this season.
And this, in this period, 9 triple-doubles in a single season is already quite dazzling.
When the team's last game ended, Sun Ce's system screen popped up immediately, and the system prompts that kept refreshing the screen made him dazzled.
The system refreshed the screen, and Coach Hollins had a sour face even after winning the game. Sun Ce did not accept the post-match interview and ran directly back to the locker room...
Sun Ce waited for the screen to refresh, and his mind moved. The system screen listed every new prompt in detail. He thought about it and started from the first one, and immediately switched to the first one.
"Attack of the Little Overlord (s) Second Stage Event: Rebounding Randomness.
The host must rank in the top three in the league in average rebounds per game at the end of the regular season. (Completed)
Congratulations to the host for obtaining: a random skill card for off-ball offense in the interior.
This stage of the event is completed in the triggering season, and the highest score S is obtained."
The first one... Sun Ce really wants to throw it away!
What's the use of this skill card? Off-ball offensive skills for interior players,
He is a ball-holding point guard, what a joke!
Even if he has amazing bones, there is no Nash or Kidd to pass the ball to him!
It's useless, so it's useless. Sun Ce's mind moved, and the second prompt came.
"Attack of the Little Overlord (S) Stage 5 Event: Triple-Double King.
Before the end of the regular season, the host must maintain the current lead in triple-doubles (3).
Host's triple-doubles this season: 16.
Triple-double rankings this season: 2. Russell Westbrook, 9 times; 3. Rajon Rondo, 7 times, Tyreke Evans, 6 times; 4. LeBron James, 5 times; 5. Pau Gasol, 4 times.
Leading 7 times, completed.
Congratulations to the host for winning an A-level lottery card.
This event is rated A-."
A-?
Sun Ce was a little surprised to see this score, it was only A-?
It's already 7 points ahead, could it be that it's double the second place? Sun Ce looked at this score and estimated that double would not reach S-level...then it would have to break Big 0's single-season triple-double record like Westbrook did?
What a pit!
Luckily, the A-level lottery card was obtained. Although the total score of the S-level event would be lowered, there was nothing that could be done.
Putting aside the minor unhappiness, Sun Ce continued to read on. There were other rewards that could soothe his wounded heart.
"The King of the Sewer (*): The number of triple-doubles this season must be greater than Westbrook's.
09-10 season completed.
10-11 season completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Russell Westbrook 10-11 version of the star experience card."
"Only seek a losing streak (A): The host needs to help the team maintain a record of no losing streak in the 2010-2011 season. (Completed)
Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: 1 A-level lottery card."
A turtle star experience card... Although it may not be as compatible as James, it can be used as it is. The A-level lottery card makes Sun Ce very happy. He was penniless before, but now he has two A-level lottery cards!
Suddenly, the star experience card reserve seems to be sufficient, there are also two lottery cards, and there is also a skill upgrade card that can be exchanged soon...
But the most important thing is the completion prompt of the last event!
"Jordan's chosen successor (exclusive): The host must make at least 164 non-hook mid-range shots in a single regular season. (Number of non-hook mid-range shots made by the host in the 10-11 season: 169. Completed)
Congratulations to the host for winning the reward: Michael Jordan Turnaround Jump Shot Skill Card: Turnaround Jump Shot King Level 1."
"Turning Jump Shot King Level 1: When the host uses a turnaround jump shot in a high position, in this attack, the bounce is temporarily increased to B+, and the shooting effect brought by the turnaround jump shot is ignored with a rate of more than 10%. (Note: The skill level is improved with the overall mid-range evaluation, and level 2 is at least A-level.)"
Seeing this skill that was only acquired in one season, Sun Ce felt tears welling up again...
So, in the cubicle next to the bathroom, after returning to the locker room and going to the toilet, Yi Jianlian was so frightened that he almost peed on his legs. A burst of singing came from the next door that was difficult for ordinary people to appreciate, and it was a song that he had never heard before: After waiting for a long time, he finally Wait until today...
Yi Jianlian supported his little brother and couldn't help but curse: "The little bully is finally relieved of his constipation for many days? No wonder he rushes to the locker room after the game..."
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Losing, this record is simply not too good. Before the start of the season, Sun Ce never dreamed that he would be able to play like this.
On the morning of the 19th, Sun Ce had such a record, and there were so many star experience cards, newly acquired magical skills, two A-level lottery cards and a useless off-the-ball offensive skill card for inside players in the system props section that could be drawn. When I was taking the bus out of the airport, I heard the cheers of the fans outside the glass window, and looked at the massive fans blocked by the police with human walls outside the window...
This feels so good!
Getting 65 wins is something you only get once and for all. Duncan is the first to win 65+ games this season. Kobe has only won 65+ games twice, and Nowitzki and James only have 1. This time, Kidd, Nash, Howard and other teams that have won the division championship have not won it. Iverson also did not win the MVP season when he led the team before.
Most teams do not have 65 wins in their entire team history, maybe even 60 wins, and the probability of getting them in the future is also very small.
Sun Ce is not the only one who feels uplifted. The whole team is in a good mood. Coach Hollins is now in a better mood. He no longer looks at Sun Ce with evil eyes. Instead, the more he looks at him, the more he feels that this kid is a talent.
Sun Ce's coming to the Grizzlies has brought a lot of changes to the team. He knows too well.
Morrow and Yi Jianlian were traded back to cater to Sun Ce. Jordan and the draft rights to select Paul George were traded to Sun Ce in exchange for sending away Mayo, who had conflicts with Sun Ce.
Although these four are only role players on the team, they have made up for several major flaws in the team, the two most important ones being athletic ability and three-point shooting.
The improvement of these two points has given their team, which has been so slow with Tony Allen and Battier, a vitality. During the rotation period, they can play a completely different rhythm from the starting lineup!
And Sun Ce himself, as the team's defensive connection point and offensive organizer, makes the team's poor offense organized, and the defensive end is connected together, and Sun Ce himself can also use the abilities of his teammates to strengthen his personal performance... a perfect system Players!
The key is that Sun Ce has improved too fast, so fast that no one can react. He has become the number one favorite for regular season MVP by relying on his system!
As for Sun Ce's shortcomings, he always cheats people... Coach Hollins chooses to be patient... 65 wins! He never dreamed that one day he would lead the team to 65 wins.
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However, there is no time to celebrate after winning 65 games. Due to schedule issues, the first game of the playoffs between the Grizzlies and Nuggets will begin tomorrow.
This is how the schedule is arranged.
After the regular season, the top eight teams in the Western Conference are the Spurs, Grizzlies, Lakers, Trail Blazers, Mavericks, Thunder, Nuggets, and Suns.
The Trail Blazers held on, with a negative record, beating the losing Thunder to take fourth place in the Western Conference.
The top eight teams in the East are Bulls, Heat, Celtics, 76ers, Magic, Hawks, Knicks, and Pacers.
On April 20, the four opening games of the playoffs will be played between the first place in the East and the eighth place in the East, the fourth place in the East and the fifth place in the East, the second place in the West and the seventh place in the West, and the third place in the West and the sixth place in the West.
When the league arranged the schedule last summer, I never expected the Grizzlies to finish second in the Western Conference. I originally thought that based on the Spurs' performance last season, the Grizzlies would enter the playoffs with a record of second place in the division and fourth place in the conference. But the Grizzlies played too well.
Therefore, as soon as the Grizzlies regular season ended on the 18th, they had to start the playoffs on the 20th.
The Nuggets came to Memphis yesterday to prepare for the game.
Fortunately, the decision to play the Nuggets was made as early as the night of the 15th. The Grizzlies coaching staff has been preparing tactics for the Nuggets for the past four days, and now they can just start practicing tactics.
In the regular season, the Grizzlies beat the Nuggets with 2 wins and 1 loss. They have an advantage in the head-to-head record, and their record is 15 more wins than the losing Nuggets. The psychological advantage is greater, and the strength gap is not small.
The Grizzlies players and coaching staff are full of confidence.
At noon, owner Robert Pera held a simple celebration ceremony for the team, and everyone on the team, including some security guards, went to the reserved restaurant for lunch.
The players, coaching staff, and trainers did not drink, and simply ate a little. A sumptuous lunch was prepared for the team employees.
After lunch, Sun Ce and his teammates prepared for tomorrow's playoff opener under the guidance of the coaching staff.
At the visiting team's training ground next door, the Nuggets arrived at FedEx Arena in the morning to prepare for the game, earlier than the Grizzlies, and they had to work harder.
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At the end of the regular season and before the start of the playoffs, the major media lists have come out, as well as the final monthly best, best of the week and other awards.
Durant pursued fiercely in the second half of the regular season, and finally won the scoring title this season with an average of 29.6 points per game, beating Anthony who averaged 29.3 points per game.
James, who averaged 26.7 points per game, ranked third, Kobe, who averaged 25.9 points per game, ranked fourth, and Wade, who averaged 25.5 points per game, ranked fifth.
In terms of rebounds, even though Love averaged 15.2 rebounds per game, which was a lot lower than the average of 16+ rebounds per game in the first half of the season, no one could shake him and he won the rebounding title. Howard, who ranked second, averaged 14.2 rebounds per game, and the total number of rebounds was 80 less.
The third one was very interesting. Fans felt incredible from the beginning. Looking at the guy's appearance, he didn't look like someone who had so many rebounds. Looking at his body shape, although he could barely get out of the bamboo pole ranks, he was not strong, and there were not so many confrontations in the game, but...
Sun Ce played 81 games, averaging 12.7 rebounds per game, surpassing Griffin who averaged 12.1 rebounds per game, and occupied the top three in the rebounding list!
In terms of assists, Nash is old and strong, averaging 12.4 assists per game, surpassing Paul who averaged 11.8 assists per game and Rondo who averaged 11.6 assists per game, and won the assists title this season.
Rondo averaged 2.4 steals per game and won the steals title.
Block list... During the afternoon training, Sun Ce received a large gold-plated plate from the league. On the plate, a player with an unclear face was standing in a horse stance with his left hand open and his right hand gathered in the air... This was the trophy for the data king.
Sun Ce thought that the data king didn't have a trophy, but he didn't expect there was one! The shape was just like what Sun Ce remembered from the All-Star weekend one year when the league held an event to embroider the substantive honors that the All-Star players had won on their training uniforms, and the data king was the plate.
This thing was actually a trophy.
Looking at the ugly "trophy plate", Sun Ce reluctantly accepted it.
At least it was the first data king trophy in the team's history.
In terms of the block list, Sun Ce interrupted Howard's two consecutive blocks!
Sun Ce's lead was even more exaggerated than Love's lead in the rebound list. Love's total rebounds led Howard, who was second, by 80 rebounds, and Sun Ce led Bogut, who was second, by 128 blocks! However, Ibaka, who was third, only had 111 blocks, and Howard, who was fourth, only had 118 blocks.
But Sun Ce averaged 3.8 blocks per game, 1.2 ahead of the second place, which is too exaggerated.
Of course, Sun Ce's 308 blocks in a single season is not ranked in NBA history. Mutombo has 3 times with at least 300 blocks in a single season, and all of them are higher than Sun Ce, Olajuwon has 5 times; David Robinson has 3 times; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has twice in the era of block statistics, and he also played for a few years in the era without statistics...
There is no comparison with Mark Eaton's historical record of more than 460 blocks in a single season, he is more than 200 ahead of the second place.
However, Sun Ce's average of 3.8 blocks per game broke the new century average block record held by Mourning in the 2000-01 season Theo Ratliff! 308 blocks is also a single-season block record since the new century!
Of course, this season's tempo has become faster, and most teams have accelerated. The Grizzlies are a special case of a team that plays at a low tempo, averaging 97.9 points per game and conceding 89.5 points per game...
Even the Spurs followed the trend and started a brisk offense.
The Grizzlies, however, went against the trend and played like basketball at the beginning of the century, limiting their opponents to less than 90 points, the lowest in the league, and their offense was nearly two points lower than the league average of 99.6 points this season.
Although the number of blocks cannot fully explain personal defense, Howard has never averaged 3 blocks per game, but he has been the best defensive player for two years, and he will not be able to escape this season's best defensive player.
And Camby has 4 blocks, and all 4 times he averaged more than 3.3 times per game.
But Sun Ce's "record that is not a record" will definitely add to his regular season MVP award, and the same is true for his third place in the rebounding list.
MVP is different from the best defensive player. The best defensive player is purely based on defense.
The MVP is based on the overall situation. The MVP is not the highest scoring player award.
After the data list was released, Durant, the scoring champion, Love, the rebounding champion, Nash, the assists champion... did not cause much sensation. Durant was already the scoring champion last year, Nash had already won the assists champion, and Love had already been known as a brush...
Sun Ce's block champion is very popular!
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Today, the league also announced the players of the month for the last month of the regular season and the week for the last week.
The player of the week for the last week was won by Nash in the West and by LeBron James in the East.
In terms of the best coach, the West was won by Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan, while in the East, Frank Vogel, the new coach who took over temporarily in March, won the coach of the month in the second month after taking office.
In terms of the best rookie of the month, Griffin won all six best rookies of the month in the West this season, alongside James and Anthony. In the 03-04 season, the two did not let the best rookies of the month in the East and West fall to others. The two won all of them. After 7 years, another player who won all the best rookies of the month was born.
In the East, the Pacers rookie Gordon Hayward won the Rookie of the Month award for the second time.
This award basically determines that the Rookie of the Month award will go to Griffin.
For the last month's Player of the Month award, in the West, Tony Parker of the Spurs won the Western Conference Player of the Month award. Although the league is about to hate the Spurs again, and just when they thought the Spurs' play was a little cute, they immediately hated the Spurs again, but the Spurs are the best team in the regular season this season. In April, the Spurs' overall performance was the strongest in the West, and Parker's performance was good, averaging 21.9 points and 8 assists per game, so there is no way not to give it.
In the East, James, who led the team to an 8-2 record this month and averaged 28 points, 7 rebounds and 11 assists per game, won the Player of the Month award. Including winning the Player of the Month award together with Wade, James has won the Eastern Conference Player of the Month award three times this season.
However, this cannot be a bargaining chip for James to compete for the MVP, and the media still don't like him.
At noon, Sports Illustrated, and .T, the three authoritative media, announced the MVP prediction list voted by their experts, media, and well-known commentators.
There are 6 candidates for the regular season MVP this season.
Howard won two second places and one fourth place in the three major lists; Kobe won one second place and two fourth places; Rose was third in all lists.
James and Durant ranked fifth or sixth.
In the three major lists, Sun Ce ranked first with more than 60% support!
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