Eight Hundred and Thirty-Seven. Going Further and Further on the Road of Being Beaten
It is sad, but I just mourned for three seconds to show respect for Kobe's failure to start a business halfway through his career.
As soon as the silence ended, the system prompt came.
"The seventh stage event of Attack of the Little Overlord: The End of the Dynasty has been completed.
The host helped the team beat the Lakers 4-2, ending the Lakers' two consecutive championships. Congratulations to the host for winning the reward: Lamar Odom 10-11 version (peak) star experience card.
The event score for this stage is B+."
I didn't get the Silver Horn Card of the God, and I didn't get the star experience card that Kobe was still in the first team on both offense and defense in his last year. At least I still have an all-around warrior card.
Although Sun Ce is worried about being affected by Odom's brain, it is better to have it than not, and it is not a 100% match. Sun Ce has not encountered a situation where his brain is affected. Even the skill called "Solo Fight" of Kobe's card in the 10-11 season needs to be triggered actively.
After Sun Ce finished the on-site interview and returned to the locker room, the interview in the locker room had already started. From the locker room to the training ground, there were reporters surrounding his teammates.
This time, even the main force of reporters from major American TV stations came to their side. In addition, there were already many Chinese media stationed in Los Angeles, the Chinese media stationed in Memphis came, and the Chinese media stationed in Dallas after the Mavericks advanced. Battier, a veteran who has played with Chinese players for many years, was shocked by this scene. This scene was even more exaggerated than when he and Yao Ming made it to the second round for the first time in his career.
Randolph, who was interviewed on the spot with Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian, was shocked and said to Sun Ce next to him: "There are too many reporters!"
Sun Ce said in a tone of "this is a small scene": "There are quite a lot, probably one-third of the number when I won the world championship."
Hearing this, let alone Randolph, even Yi Jianlian, who won the world championship with him, wanted to hit a certain player No. 3 who did not want to reveal his name. He deserved a beating!
But the two did not have the opportunity to turn their idea into a one-sided fight within the team. When the reporters saw the three of them coming in, they immediately surrounded the three of them and the three of them were directly separated by the media.
Sun Ce naturally had the most reporters.
The identity of a Chinese player is only one of the reasons. The more important thing is Sun Ce's performance in this series. He averaged 27.3 points, 14.6 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 3.8 blocks and 1.8 steals per game. Sun Ce's data in this series was jaw-dropping.
Although the score was pulled up by the 54-point game,
the assists were pulled up by two triple-doubles, the rebounds were more or less in each game, but generally stable, and the blocks and steals showed Sun Ce's talent and ability to cooperate with his teammates to play good defense under the playoff-level defense.
Although the performance was good and bad, two triple-doubles and one 54 points, all three games were won. In the last game, when the opponent's performance collapsed, Sun Ce also performed very well. As for the two games with average performance... Now he is the winner, no one cares.
The domestic reporter asked first: "Little Overlord, you will play against the Mavericks next. You should be able to consider the next round of opponents now, right? We have been looking forward to the playoffs between you and Yi Jianlian against Dayao for a long time."
"Haven't I only played for two years? You should ask Brother Yao about this. Why did he lose in the first round last year? Was there something wrong with the team he was on before? He made it to the Western Conference Finals in a short time after changing teams." Sun Ce responded to the other party's ridicule and continued: "But I am also looking forward to playing against Brother Yao in the playoffs. I hope I can play well at that time. He can't make a shot in every game."
It was really Sun Ce's style. Domestic reporters didn't know how to respond to this.
After turning on the "topic terminator" mode, the reporters retreated one by one... It's better to ask others. Interviewing Sun Ce is too torturous, even if he is currently the hottest player in the NBA.
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After finishing the interview in the locker room, Sun Ce took a shower, changed his clothes, and took the team bus back to the hotel. Wang Keying and Zu Ge were both asleep.
Sun Ce saw Wang Keying and Zu Goose sleeping on his bed. It seemed that they fell asleep while chatting about private matters. This was the case on the night of the first two away games in the series. He came back from the interview at almost 1 o'clock. This time, the two girls went to bed even earlier. Last time when Sun Ce returned to the hotel, he heard the two girls making up some of his bad habits.
"The chatterbox girl who deserves to be beaten actually occupied my wife..."
Sun Ce complained and could only sleep in the empty bedroom.
Lying on the bed, Sun Ce recalled the past round of the series. In his impression, the Lakers will be worse and worse every year. Generally speaking, there are problems with the Lakers management, and all kinds of eye-catching operations are emerging one after another.
Although I can't play against the Lakers who are still at the end of their peak in the future, I feel good after playing once.
Compared to playing against the Nuggets, Sun Ce prefers this kind of game, but Sun Ce still wants to become stronger, so as not to rely on his teammates to perform well when he doesn't have a star experience card. Of course, Sun Ce also likes his teammates to perform well and he will hold on to their thighs and deliver the shells. He is a point guard, and this is what he should do. However, he hopes that if his teammates perform mediocrely, he will be able to stand up, at least not miss the opportunity when it comes, just like in Game 5, if he had made two or three more shots, maybe he wouldn't have to play Game 6.
Calculated, the Mavericks have three more days than the Grizzlies, but it does not mean that the Grizzlies will play against the Mavericks after a day of rest, but they have to wait for the 76ers and the Bulls to decide the winner.
Currently, the two teams are tied 3-3. The first four games of the two teams are home advantage battles. The 5th and 6th games were both home games. The next game will be a tiebreaker in Chicago on May 17.
Sun Ce took out his mobile phone to check the news. Sure enough, the Bulls and the 76ers ended the sixth game of the series at 8 pm Los Angeles time tonight with a 3-3 tie. After the Grizzlies defeated the Lakers 4-2, the schedule for the Eastern and Western Conference Finals has been released.
On May 19, the Grizzlies started the first game of the Western Conference Finals with the Mavericks. The specific time of the first four games is the 19th, 21st, 24th, and 26th. The three pending games are on the 29th, 31st, and June 2nd.
In the East, the first Eastern Conference Finals between the Bulls or the 76ers and the Heat is scheduled to start on the 20th. The specific dates of the first four games are the 20th, 22nd, 25th, and 27th. The three games to be determined are on the 30th, June 1st, and June 3rd.
3 days of rest time is generally good. Sun Ce hopes that the Mavericks' veterans will be in poor condition after 6 days of rest...
The playoffs have been played so far, and no one could have predicted the current situation before the start of the playoffs.
But things have developed to this point. Among the three divisional finals teams and two semi-divisional finals teams, only the Mavericks still retain the "hope of veterans". The cores of the Heat, 76ers, Bulls, and Grizzlies are mostly new and middle-aged players. Randolph is a veteran, but in a young team like the Grizzlies, not many people remember that he is a veteran.
I don't know when it started, but in the fans' public opinion, the Mavericks have changed from villains to positive images, and everyone hopes that they can continue to work hard for the young team.
Sun Ce saw these news and felt that people nowadays just don't like young teams, or they love to reminisce about the past. There may also be objective factors, such as the fact that the prospective president Adam Silva began to intervene more and more in NBA basketball affairs, and nothing he did was satisfactory, which made fans have a little doubt about the future of the NBA. Can such a person succeed David Stern?
Without this comparison, no one really realized how good David Stern was.
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The day after defeating the Lakers, which was the morning of May 16, Sun Ce took Zu Goose and Wang Keying to the airport with the team owner Robert Pera and took the owner's private plane to New York instead of returning to Memphis with his teammates.
Because… he was suddenly called by the boss this morning and said that he would take him to the lottery… the draft lottery.
Sun Ce realized that the season was already the beginning of the next season.
Zu Goose and Wang Keying chattered about New York. It was mainly Zu Goose who asked and Wang Keying answered that the former had not been to New York and wanted to learn more about it. When he went shopping, whether to buy or not was another matter.
Sun Ce wanted to say, "We're just going to stay for one night and go back to Mengcun tomorrow. What's the big city for?" But he didn't want to discourage Zu Ge's enthusiasm.
It's said that three women make a play. Sun Ce felt that Zu Ge could do two. Zu Ge and Wang Keying chatted together, and he couldn't get a word in. He found a faraway position to look at the white clouds outside the window.
Just when Sun Ce was about to put down his seat to take a nap, the boss came over with two glasses of red wine. After handing one to Sun Ce, he said, "Lord, what number do you think we can get?"
What number?
Sun Ce remembered that this year the Cavaliers had 26 wins and 56 losses, ranking fourth from the bottom in the East and sixth from the bottom in the league. After the Cavaliers tried to use Mo Williams, the team's only positive asset, to trade back the first-round pick to the Grizzlies and failed, the Cavaliers fought hard to win. At least they won 7 more games than in the original time and space.
The first in the probability of the No. 1 pick is the Timberwolves with 16 wins, the second is the Hornets with 19 wins, the third is the Raptors with 21 wins, the fourth is the Wizards with 22 wins, the fifth is the Kings with 24 wins, and the sixth is the Grizzlies who hold the Cavaliers' draft pick.
Sun Ce remembered that none of the top six teams in terms of probability got the No. 1 pick, but the Clippers, which ranked eighth in probability and owned by the Cavaliers, got the No. 1 pick.
However, with such a big change, Sun Ce couldn't say for sure.
What if he really got the No. 1 pick... and chose Irving to replace himself? What the hell!
Of course, Sun Ce just thought about it. If he really got the No. 1 pick, it would probably be used for trading, split into this year's suitable draft pick + future draft picks...
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Facts have proved that Sun Ce's concerns were unnecessary.
After arriving in New York at noon and staying at the Hilton Hotel near Broadway Street, Sun Ce was taken shopping for the whole afternoon by two girls who didn't buy two pieces of clothes after shopping for half a day. In the end, the two only bought a few bottles of skin care products and two lipsticks.
At 7pm, Sun Ce and Robert Pera came to Madison Square Garden together and accepted an interview. After 8pm, the draft lottery began under the national live broadcast.
Definitely, the Grizzlies did not draw any of the top three picks.
However, the situation was different from what Sun Ce remembered. The Cavaliers who got the Clippers' draft pick did not draw the first pick, and the team that got the first pick was not the Timberwolves who had been playing badly for many years, but the Hornets who traded Paul a year in advance, abandoned everything, and played badly but still couldn't beat the Timberwolves!
And it's very sad that the Grizzlies didn't even get the sixth pick. The Jazz, who had the seventh highest probability of getting the first pick, were lucky enough to get the third pick.
The Hornets got the first pick this year, the Timberwolves got the second pick, the Jazz got the third pick, the Raptors got the fourth pick after a lot of hard work, the Wizards got the fifth pick, the Kings got the sixth pick, and the Grizzlies got the seventh pick.
The Cavaliers got the eighth pick. Starting with the Cavaliers, the rest were ranked according to their performance. The Nets, Pistons, Bobcats, Warriors, Bucks, and Rockets got the remaining lottery picks.
The playoff teams ranked the 15th to 30th picks according to their performance. For example, the Grizzlies, except for the No. 7 pick they got from the Cavaliers this year, they only have one second-round pick left. The first-round pick has been given away. In the next two years, there will be only the first round pick but no second round pick in 2012, only the second round pick in 2013, and nothing has been done in 2014.
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Robert Pera was not disappointed that he failed to draw the top three picks with Sun Ce. He felt that the team was lucky enough to trade Sun Ce back with Thabeet.
After returning to Memphis, Robert Pera, as the team's chief fan, went to the general manager's office in the arena to eavesdrop on the team's general manager and head coach's preliminary discussion on the draft. This meeting was initiated by him...
Coach Hollins was speechless. He thought the boss was going to say something, but he just listened there.
He is very busy as a head coach!
But who makes him the boss...
Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins were both very melancholy and chatted casually.
Since the lockout this summer seems inevitable, there are not many talents in this year's draft. Now many talented rookies in their first and second years have not signed up for the draft. If you are lucky enough to get the top three picks, you can use it for trading, or grab talents such as Derrick Williams, Kanter, Tristan Thompson who are still participating in the draft this year, or choose Biyombo.
Why did they want to choose Biyombo? When Robert Pera asked, Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins couldn't explain it.
After summing up, Chris Wallace gave an answer: from Africa, good physical fitness, not yet developed technical plasticity, and a center...
Why does Robert Pera feel so much like the second pick he said two years ago?
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Sun Ce sent Zu Ge back to school after returning to Memphis.
Zu Ge has been running around with him for a while, and it seems that he has not fallen behind in his homework. He is working hard, which makes Sun Ce feel much more at ease. It's great to be able to take a big loli out to play when he has nothing to do.
Wang Keying will continue to stay with Sun Ce to play in the next Western Conference Finals.
Sun Ce returned to Memphis at noon and drove to the gym in the afternoon in the heavy rain to train.
In the game against the Lakers, he didn't have much chance to use his mid-range shot. The opponent's mid-range shot defense was really good. Otherwise, it would not be so exaggerated for Nowitzki to make consecutive mid-range shots in the fourth quarter against the Lakers' defense in the original time and space.
But when playing against the Mavericks, mid-range shots may be very useful. It is better to sharpen your gun before the battle. Besides, Sun Ce usually trains very hard. It is always good to practice more.
After Sun Ce finished the shooting training in the afternoon, he took a shower and prepared to go home to practice Nash training method. Tomorrow is the time for team tactical training.
There were 6 games in the second round and 3 days of rest. The coaching staff had a holiday in the first two days. Players with poor physical strength such as Tony Allen, Gasol and Battier need more rest. For Tony Allen and Battier, two experienced NBA players, rest is sometimes more important than training.
At the same time, the coaching staff also gave themselves two days to study how to play against the Mavericks. The third rest day is tomorrow to conduct tactical training.
Just when Sun Ce took out his mobile phone to check the news after taking a shower and changing clothes, he saw an interesting thing.
A news reprinted from the official website of Dallas Daily became popular on the Internet.
The specific content is: The University of Memphis Arena rented by the Dallas Mavericks has been in disrepair and leaking a lot, so the Mavericks were forced to stop training...
And this news also has other news pushes related to the Mavericks.
On May 11, the Mavericks came directly to Memphis to prepare for the game after the Grizzlies led the Lakers 3-1. Cuban hates the Lakers very much. He has always supported the Grizzlies to beat the Lakers. He brought the team directly to Memphis for training, trying to stimulate the Lakers and make the Lakers perform abnormally.
This may have had some impact on the Lakers, but Cuban's approach also affected their team...
Sun Ce browsed through those pushes, and the content was shocking and pleasing to the eye.
On May 13, the day after the Mavericks advanced to the Western Conference Finals 4-0, they came to Memphis.
As a result, they encountered problems when they checked in that night. The hotel computers were collectively infected with viruses, and the engineers worked hard to rescue them for 3 hours...
The next day, they went to the rented University of Memphis Arena for a simple maintenance training, and encountered a "fight" between the football and basketball fans of the University of Memphis. Coincidentally, the fighting venue was the University of Memphis basketball arena. The police came and temporarily blocked the area to investigate the details of the fight...
On May 15, the power was cut off in the hotel where we stayed, and the air conditioner could not cool.
On the 16th, which was yesterday, we changed to another hotel and nothing happened that day...
It rained today, and the roof of the University of Memphis Arena was still leaking.
Sun Ce was stunned by the news.
Seeing that nothing happened in a day became news, Sun Ce almost applauded.
The local fans are so awesome!
They are making trouble for the Mavericks in various ways...Sun Ce suddenly felt something was wrong, and quickly opened Twitter, sent a tweet and tagged Cuban: "I'm sorry that our infrastructure in Memphis is not perfect, which has caused great difficulties for your preparations, but I believe that Dallas is such a great city, you will definitely help us arrange the best environment and won't let us encounter such difficulties..."