Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five. Terrorist Pursuit!
With Battier's three-pointer, the Grizzlies are gaining momentum!
Battier made a three-pointer, Conley made a long-range shot, and even Paul George, who had failed in two of the first three games and was rested in one game, made a three-pointer today!
After the Lakers sent Bynum, who can average 20 points per game, Bynum maintained Gasol's low-post offense and mid-range threat, and he was able to score, and he was better defensively than Gasol. The basket was blocked, and even Sun Ce, who was possessed by James, was blocked when he rushed into the paint without a chance to pass the ball.
But this is based on Artest's main defense, Odom's assist defense, and Bynum's guarding the basket. On the Grizzlies' side, Sun Ce and DeAndre Jordan use the pick-and-roll to attack the inside and bottom line. The mid-range attracts the opponent's three-man defense. Although the Lakers have Kobe and Odom, who is extremely capable of shrinking and expanding defense, to guard the mid-range. However, with the Lakers' defense, it is difficult to make long-distance shots from the bottom corner three-pointers and the top arc. Precautions are in place.
At this time, it depends on the shooting feeling of the Grizzlies' three catchers and pitchers.
The Grizzlies were already feeling hot. In the first seven minutes of the second quarter, the Grizzlies went on a 21-14 run, stretching the score to 44-35, leading the Lakers by 9 points.
In the second half of the second quarter, the Lakers suddenly changed their defensive tactics, pretending to shrink and really blocking the defense. They went on a 9-5 run in 2 minutes and 26 seconds, chasing the score to 44-49 and only trailing by 5 points. .
But in the last two minutes or so, Sun Ce caught the opponent's defensive strategy of false contraction, and scored two goals in a row with a strong drive to the basket. He succeeded in a layup, and after a steal, he counterattacked and scored 2+1 under Odom's hasty defense. In addition to an important three-pointer from Morrow who came on the rotation and Randolph's tip-in when Tony Allen caught the ball for a layup and crossed the bridge, the Grizzlies went on a 10-4 run. , at halftime, the Lakers led the Lakers by 11 points 59 to 48.
In this quarter, the Grizzlies scored 6 three-pointers in a single quarter. Battier's two three-pointers, Paul George's two three-pointers, and Conley and Morrow each made a three-pointer. They simply shot through the opponent. !
In this quarter, Sun Ce scored 10 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, leading the team to a score of 36 to 27 in a single quarter.
The Lakers' 27 points were already impressive, but the Grizzlies' 36 points were simply incredible.
No one expected the Grizzlies to play like this. The Lakers didn't realize how to defend until the second half of the second quarter. Jackson was dumbfounded by the Grizzlies' four three-pointers in the first 7 minutes.
The Lakers fans at the scene were even more dumbfounded. No one knows James better than the Lakers fans. Maybe the Lakers fans know James better than the James fans. As the saying goes, the enemy is the one who knows you best. Seeing Sun Ce's style of play , coupled with Sun Ce’s look, although it is not as flashy as James and is full of equipment,
But overall they look very similar.
You can play run-and-gun like Nash, you can play defensive counterattack like Kidd, you can play unlimited one-on-nine like Kobe, you can also play breakthrough points like James...
The fans at the scene and the non-Grizzlies and non-Sun Ce fans in front of the TV didn't know how to describe their feelings now, and they didn't know how to describe their endless complaints about Sun Ce. In summary, there was only one sentence: If you are talented, you can do whatever you want?
In the eyes of others, Sun Ce is talented, has such superior static physical fitness, can run so fast, feels good, and makes rapid progress. The key is that he can explode every time it is critical!
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With an 11-point lead, the Grizzlies' momentum reached its peak.
Sun Ce ran even harder on the defensive end in the second quarter than in the first quarter, because the Lakers' offensive performance was very fierce in this quarter. Kobe scored 12 points in a single quarter, Bynum and Gasol each scored 5 points. These three people scored 22 points, and Sun Ce continued to help on the defensive end.
But on the offensive end, Sun Ce's consumption was not as great as in the first quarter. He did not need to try his best to get opportunities. His temporary explosive power and explosive speed allowed him to get breakthrough opportunities relatively easily, and Jordan and Yi Jianlian did a good job in the pick-and-roll in this quarter. Very good, Gasol can rest for a whole quarter, and Sun Ce has a mid-range threat, allowing him to more easily go to the baseline and the basket to attract flankers.
Although he had no shooting opportunities in these two positions, except for the non-counterattack and offensive-defensive transition period when playing against Gasol in the beginning, he rushed in twice and was blocked once, but he still shot 4 of 7 in the second quarter. He scored 10 points, and his constant breakthroughs also attracted a large number of flankers, allowing him to branch out, and his teammates had good room to pass or shoot.
Compared with the first quarter, where you had to work hard to reach that position, the second quarter was actually much easier and the effect was much better!
After James joined the Heat last summer, some people analyzed that the Grizzlies were actually more suitable for James. At that time, the Grizzlies had already introduced Morrow, who averaged two three-pointers per game last season, plus Shane Battier, who had excellent shooting in college. Paul George, Conley, as well as the two bears with shooting ability, as well as James' favorite pick-and-roll aware and athletic center DeAndre Jordan with strong cutting ability. Obviously the Grizzlies have a better configuration than the Heat.
In this quarter, Sun Ce's play style similar to James's really proved this point.
However, Sun Ce knew that the fact that they could score like this in the second quarter, and lead by 9 points in a quarter when the Lakers scored 27 points, had a lot to do with the fact that it was their first time playing like this, and the opponent did not react. .
Even with an 11-point halftime lead, the second half was still difficult.
But an 11-point lead is a lead, and they are in full swing!
Sun Ce looked at his stats of 21 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and he had to keep fighting in the second half!
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During the halftime break, Coach Hollins arranged the starting lineup for the second half, arranged the defense, predicted the defensive changes that the opponent might make, and asked several players to discuss how to attack.
After returning to the court, Sun Ce and Tony Allen, Morrow, Battier, and Gasol appeared on the court.
On the Lakers side, Odom, Shannon Brown, Kobe, Artest, and Bynum appeared on the court.
The Grizzlies attacked first, and Sun Ce received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt. Coach Hollins really predicted that the opponent might make Artest play power forward and improve the athletic ability of the lineup.
But maybe the opponent predicted that they would continue to let Battier play as a power forward at the beginning of the third quarter, so the opponent sent out one big and four small players... Seeing Odom running to the right sideline with Morrow, Sun Ce realized that the opponent was still a twin tower, but Odom could keep up with the guard. Artest was guarding the basket, but he was not as fast as Odom now, so he played as a power forward in defense, which was the same as Battier was more suitable to play as a power forward now.
Sun Ce's play in the second quarter was very successful, but there was also a drawback, and it was analyzed by the opponent's Zen Master during the halftime break.
When Sun Ce played like this, his teammates were all players who received the ball and scored.
No matter how talented his teammates were, they would become players who received the ball or cut in to eat the cake. At most, they would pass the ball, but there was no more choice.
So the defense arranged by the Zen Master during the halftime break was to block the ball!
When it came to the Lakers players' on-the-spot application, they decisively let go of the long-range defense against Tony Allen and Gasol, even though Gasol made 2 of 3 long-range two-point shots today.
After Sun Ce arrived at the frontcourt, he used Gasol's pick-and-roll to break through Shannon Brown and came to close range. He was double-teamed by Shannon Brown, Bynum, and Kobe, and passed the ball back to Gasol in the high position.
After receiving Sun Ce's breakthrough pass, Gasol's first goal was to pass the ball to Battier in the right corner. Odom, who was actively switching defense, judged that Odom quickly passed the ball to Shannon Brown at the free throw line. Shannon Brown avoided Gasol and counterattacked!
Sun Ce hurriedly chased out from the baseline.
"The 4th level of the chasing cap maniac is triggered, and the host's speed is temporarily increased to S within 4 seconds..."
Shannon Brown was the first to rush out of the three-point line and ran all the way across the center line. The fans at the scene began to cheer wildly!
Here it comes!
The explosive counterattack they have had the opportunity to see for a long time is here!
Shannon Brown's actual dunk! The incredible and shocking super-bounce dunk that was like riding an elevator was coming!
The fans at the scene all stood up. It was rare to see Lakers fans destroy their throats like this. They needed a chance to gain momentum. They were suppressed by their opponents for the entire second quarter.
Shannon Brown listened to the cheers of the fans at the scene. He finally had a chance to counterattack, and it was one against zero. He was so excited that he rushed into the three-point line, took a step hard, stepped heavily on the free throw line, and jumped directly from the free throw line. For him, jumping from the free throw line to dunk was as easy as drinking water!
When Shannon Brown was in the air, his mind was full of the picture of himself being selected as the top five shots of the day, but at this moment, the cheers of the fans at the scene turned into screams, but they were not the same as Shannon Brown's usual screams, which seemed to be filled with fear.
At this time, Shannon Brown had no time to wonder. He was already one meter in front of the basket, and his head was above the basket. With his body still rising like an elevator, his right hand had already chopped the ball towards the basket... Suddenly, a hand stretched out from behind his head, and Shannon Brown watched the hand stretched out in front of him imprint on the ball he chopped, covering part of his fingers, and pressing the ball he chopped against the basket.
The basket was deformed by the force of the two people!
The two lost control of the ball, and when they landed, Shannon Brown was knocked down by Sun Ce. Both of them fell to the ground. At the same time, the rebound force of the basket after deformation bounced the ball out of the basket range, and it fell on the floor and rolled out of bounds!
Looking at Sun Ce who climbed up from him, twisted his neck and shoulders, and stretched out his hand to him, Shannon Brown's eyes almost popped out... What happened!
How could this guy press him and block him?
When he counterattacked from the free throw line, he clearly saw that Sun Ce was at least 3 meters away from him! He actually caught up!
Moreover... with his bounce speed and jumping height, Sun Ce actually blocked it!
Even if Sun Ce completed the block when he had almost pushed the ball into the basket, Sun Ce might be much shorter than him, but he was still blocked!
The fans at the scene didn't know what happened, and the fans in front of the TV didn't know what happened. The fans at the scene were always looking at Shannon Brown, and the live TV camera was also on Shannon Brown who was holding the ball and counterattacking. Until Shannon Brown jumped up and smashed the ball into the basket, Sun Ce suddenly appeared. With almost the same bounce speed and a big difference in jumping height, Sun Ce relied on his height and wingspan. When Shannon Brown was about to dunk the ball into the basket with a tomahawk dunk from the free throw line, Sun Ce relied on his long arms to push the ball into the basket from behind Shannon Brown to complete the block!
The referee was dumbfounded. When the ball rolled out of the baseline, the referee blew the whistle and the Lakers had the ball in the frontcourt.
This means that Sun Ce's block this time counts as a block, which directly negates the foul or interference!
The referee called the terrifying block of Shannon Brown against the Hawks as a foul, and the replay later proved that it was a clean super block, but the foul had already been called and could not be changed.
So the referee did not blow the whistle when Sun Ce blocked the shot this time. Even if Sun Ce knocked Shannon Brown down later, he could not call a foul, unless it was a flagrant foul or a technical foul. But when Sun Ce landed and knocked Shannon Brown down, he supported himself on the floor without pressing him. In the eyes of the referee, he was a very high-quality star.
Most of the fans at the scene who had been focusing on Shannon Brown never knew how Sun Ce "swooshed" from the baseline to the frontcourt to complete the block. The big screen at the scene did not play this scene, but the fans in front of the TV knew it by watching the replay from another angle!
Sun Ce sprinted from the backcourt, and it seemed that he was running faster and faster. It seemed that he only took less than 3 seconds to rush back from the frontcourt baseline to the backcourt free throw line and jump to complete the block!
Sun Ce judged the timing of Shannon Brown's dunk in the pursuit and blocked it, which was enough to shock the fans in front of the TV, but he was the block king after all, and people could accept that he could block it. In comparison, Sun Ce chased from the backcourt to the frontcourt and replayed the two seconds of the picture repeatedly, which was terrifying.
It was just like an accelerated GIF picture. This pursuit picture reminded people of the terrifying block when Kobe chased Andre Miller all over the court when his physical fitness was at its peak. The speed was almost the same, and the ferocity of the block reminded people of LeBron James!
Sun Ce himself was very calm, mainly because he was so moved... The Lakers finally had someone to fight back, and he blocked it, and did not waste this skill of chasing the blocker!
Seeing Tony rushing back, Sun Ce went up to him and gave him a passionate chest bump celebration.
Compared to the Grizzlies who were so excited, the Lakers players were more confused than the fans on the scene. They saw with their own eyes the scene of Sun Ce chasing and blocking the ball!
Especially Kobe, he also recalled the scene when he was intercepted in his peak period and his adrenaline burst out to chase and block the ball. Sun Ce's shot was even better than his block back then!
Although he chased farther than Sun Ce at that time, he blocked Andre Miller's layup, while Sun Ce blocked Shannon Brown's block!
It was hard to get a chance to counterattack, but in the end it became an opportunity for the opponent to boost morale. The Lakers' emotions were greatly affected.
However, the game was not interrupted for too long. The players of the two teams soon came to this half. The referee asked the two players who got up. After getting a response that there was no problem, the game continued.
Kobe immediately made a judgment that the next ball had to be scored, otherwise the morale would really collapse.
However, Kobe, who scored 21 points in the first half, failed to continue his good touch in the third quarter. His step-back jump shot against Tony Allen missed!
Gasol and Battier blocked the opponent, and Sun Ce received the defensive rebound.
When the two inside players of the other side were ready to rush, they saw that the two inside players of the other side were only concerned with blocking people and not rebounding, so they immediately retreated. Sun Ce grabbed the rebound but had no chance to counterattack, and simply fell into a positional battle.
After the brutal block at the beginning, the game fell into a long period of silence.
Both teams performed mediocrely in the third quarter.
The Lakers made a lot of defensive adjustments, and they were indeed well adjusted. In order to avoid mistakes, Sun Ce played more cautiously, but he missed more shots. Caution means that he has more shots, and his advantages will affect his playing style. Sun Ce wants to play in the inside because it is easier to score in that position. This is inevitable. Shooting is a gamble, and he definitely wants to go to a position with a better hit rate.
Compared with the adjustment, the halftime adjustment of the Grizzlies was not as effective as that of the opponent, because they were the leading side and played so well in the second quarter. It was the opponent's business to make major adjustments, and they could only respond to the opponent's moves.
But everything has its surprises. Sun Ce's bloody block affected both teams. They defended harder, and the opponent's offensive mood was also affected. Bynum was more afraid of Sun Ce's shrinking block, and he was also worried about mid-range shots.
And three-pointers... Today, the Lakers' three-pointers were average. They only scored 3 in the first half, which was the same as the three-pointers scored by Battier alone. This Grizzlies team has been sending out a large and small lineup to play high-speed rotation defense on the outside for a long time!
The Grizzlies have been maintaining a lead of more than 10 points. At the end of the third quarter, Kobe, who only scored two points by free throws in the first 9 minutes, scored two three-pointers in a row, but Conley and Paul George, who came off the bench, responded to Kobe's two three-pointers.
In addition, Sun Ce rushed to the frontcourt with a quick stop jump shot in the last 4 seconds and hit a long two-point buzzer.
After three quarters, the Grizzlies led by 15 points, 83 to 68, and entered the intermission!
Relying on the last wave of 8 to 6, the Grizzlies scored 24 to 20 in the third quarter!
The two teams scored too few points in the first nine minutes of this quarter, and the two teams only scored 30 points in the first nine minutes.
But this is what the Grizzlies want!
Entering the fourth quarter with a 15-point lead, this score difference even made the Lakers feel desperate!