Eight Hundred and Seventy-Three. Roses Are About to Bloom, and the Overlord Covets Them
"Steve, you said the Mavericks had such a bad start, why did they have to rest?"
Sun Ce looked at Yao Ming and Marion, who were wearing suits on the bench, and was very puzzled.
Originally, he was going to take advantage of the fact that the twin towers on the opposite side were not in good shape and give the defending champions a good beating.
Now, it's not fun to beat them. No matter how average Yao Ming is, he is a threat just standing there, and the threat is obviously stronger than Nowitzki, who mainly shoots from the outside, but Yao Ming doesn't play.
And even Marion doesn't play, DeShawn Stevenson and Conley can't support the Mavericks' perimeter defense.
And all the players on their Grizzlies team went all out with a vengeful heart, without resting and without despising their opponents. Randolph scored 21 points in the first half, and now Yi Jianlian has fought back and forth with Nowitzki, who is not in good shape, and even made a low-post back-to-back jumper.
If Yao Ming is there, even if he doesn't perform well on offense, he can at least hold on for 20 minutes on defense. Chandler can play well for 25 or 26 minutes at best. He and Yao Ming's rotation of center positions ensures interior defense, which is extremely important for the Mavericks, who have performed poorly on offense at the beginning of this season.
The Grizzlies are definitely a strong team, and Sun Ce is sure that their opponents also think they are a strong team. The psychological impact of the victory or defeat of a strong match is very important.
Moreover, if they don't fight for victory at the beginning of this season, it will be difficult to compete for the top four in the second half of this shortened season.
Sun Ce didn't understand what the Mavericks were just trying to do.
In the original time and space, Nowitzki's performance in the early second season after winning the championship was extremely bad, and Kidd, Chandler, and DeShawn Stevenson, the three major champions, were all sent away to make room, waiting for the expiration of Anthony and Paul's contracts in 2013 and the expiration of the Heat's Big Three contracts in 2014. He can understand.
But Cuban renewed Chandler's contract, exchanged Kidd for Conley, who was signed and then traded, and kept DeShawn Stevenson, who averaged 24 three-pointers per game in the finals last season to help them sweep the Heat, for 6 million US dollars in two years, with a total salary of more than 96 million US dollars.
As a result, at the beginning of the new season, they played rotation regardless of the record?
"Because the record this season is not important, even if you can't win all the previous games, you may still make the playoffs in the end, and it is not necessarily the worst one. Even in the West, it is very safe to make the playoffs with 40 wins this season.
Noah, you see, the Mavericks are 17 points behind, and Nowitzki still didn't go down. The Mavericks' playing style is not chaotic. The whole team is helping Nowitzki find the feeling of playing. Don't you think Nowitzki's playing style is very similar to Yao last season?
When the Mavericks play the next game, you can continue to watch it. They will most likely let Nowitzki, who played for a long time today, rest and let Yao be the tactical core." Nash analyzed it to Sun Ce.
Hearing this, Sun Ce suddenly had an idea: "You mean they are learning how the Spurs use Duncan and Ginobili? Using Mike and Chandler as Parker?"
But thinking about it, Sun Ce felt that it was not right: "But they don't have the tactics of the Spurs that can use a group of role players to play star-level tactics. That is a system that the Spurs have spent many years to build, and it is not so easy to imitate."
"You still don't understand what I mean."
Hearing Sun Ce's doubts, Nash was very proud. Every time he talked to Sun Ce about things, Nash felt very accomplished.
He didn't know why Sun Ce had very different ideas from other players. Some other players couldn't accept things they didn't approve of, but Sun Ce could easily accept them. For example, as a player, Sun Ce didn't care about the feeling of data most of the time. Others with more than 50 points in three quarters might go up to fight for 60 points and even hope for 70 points, but Sun Ce didn't care that much.
But according to Nash's observation of Sun Ce last season, this guy is sometimes very strange. Sometimes he was one or two assists short of a triple-double, and Sun Ce had to wear a mask during garbage time, with an ostrich mentality that didn't know it was garbage time and had to get a triple-double.
Young stars from other teams were fine in the first five or six years of the new century. The rookies in recent years are mainly perimeter talents.
If they play well, it is difficult for them to be willing to defend desperately, but Sun Ce can accept it. He seems to be happy to be the team's defensive connection point, doing these jobs that young players of this era think are hard work.
But many times, Sun Ce seems to know nothing. The basketball philosophy that others have accepted since junior high school and high school, Sun Ce seems to have none of it.
In basketball, Sun Ce seems to be thinking about how to win!
But this is what Nash appreciates most about Sun Ce. When he first met Sun Ce and Sun Ce went to him for advice, he was just moved by Sun Ce's efforts at first and was willing to let Sun Ce train with him.
But slowly, Nash found that Sun Ce's hard training was not determined to score and make money, but a mentality he had never seen before.
The opportunity is in front of me, I have to fight for it and do my best to avoid regrets.
Nash admired this pure heart very much. When Bill Duffy asked him about Sun Ce's character, he chose to say something good about Sun Ce, but he did not interfere too much. It was a place where strength was king. Sun Ce had the ability to enter, and he was happy for him.
If he could not enter, Sun Ce would change jobs in the end, and Nash would not be disappointed.
Life is long, and career is only a dozen years at most. In the end, everyone will return to the life of ordinary people. Of course, only veterans like Nash can feel this. It is difficult for young players to understand, and they are often arrogant and feel extraordinary.
But Sun Ce gave Nash a different feeling.
Just like the mentality shown by Sun Ce, Nash would not think that Sun Ce would be frustrated because of the failure of the attack.
No, Sun Ce successfully scored and scored, but he still hasn't changed because he is the youngest in history. He still asks questions when he has questions, doesn't worry about losing face, and just learns what he needs to learn. Even a rookie like Klay Thompson, Sun Ce is willing to let Klay Thompson teach him how to speed up his shooting. These are still the same as when they first met two and a half years ago.
It's just that the fact that he is owed Bian has not changed, but has become more and more owed. Nash is worried that Sun Ce will be beaten on the court one day.
Faced with another question from Sun Ce, Nash explained: "They just won the championship, and they defeated all their opponents to win the championship without being favored. They have no lack of confidence. All teams are in the playoffs." They are the losers. If they lose to a strong team in this year's regular season, they will lose. It is a shortened season, and their core is two veterans. It is reasonable to lose. As long as they can steadily win the weak team, they will win. Entering the playoffs, they have a psychological advantage.
This is the defending champion!
And have you noticed that their payroll is no longer the same as before? As you said, they can’t imitate the Spurs’ tactics, they can only imitate the use of the core, but there is one more thing they can imitate to avoid the mid-level trap!”
When Sun Ce heard this, he recalled the Mavericks scouting report he read yesterday morning. It was really like this!
The Mavericks currently don’t have a mid-level contract! And the current lineup is 14 players. They exceed the luxury tax threshold by more than 20 million. They don’t have the full mid-level contract, but the mini-mid class is not used indiscriminately. According to the scouts’ predictions, the Mavericks’ goal It is to wait for the Suns to buy out Carter, and then use this mini-midlevel to win.
And Carter is also the veteran that the Grizzlies want to fight for.
Sun Ce agrees with Nash's analysis of the Mavericks' season strategy. He still remembers that in the original time and space, the Spurs were invincible from the second round of the playoffs in the 2013-2014 seasons. They beat the defending champion Heat so that the opponent had no room to struggle, but they were so close. After falling in the first round little by little, the Mavericks are really strong in the playoffs.
As for the group of people who won the championship in the 1112 season in the previous two years, almost all of them were sent away, and they failed to make the playoffs in the 1213 season. In the summer of 2013, the competition for Anthony failed, and the Mavericks reorganized the role player lineup to enter the playoffs.
Nowitzki's performance in the playoffs was very good. Until the last time he reached the playoffs, he was 38 years old and still averaged 20 per game.
He got an answer from Nash that Sun Ce thought was very reasonable. Seeing Nowitzki, who was clearly in a bad state on the court but still fighting against Randolph, Sun Ce felt that he was his biggest enemy in the playoffs this season. Maybe the Mavericks!
This somewhat disrupted his plan. After he played against the Spurs in the opening game, he regarded this year as the best opportunity to win the championship.
Because once Split plays next season, it will be very difficult for the Spurs to deal with the importance of making stingy players like the Spurs willing to give a meat shield center a three-year, 27 million contract.
Sun Ce wants to play against the Spurs, who are in their strongest form. He wants to play against the Spurs without worries and pressure from the championship. Winning the championship this season is particularly important.
Because the Spurs definitely don't have the so-called championship pressure. Parker and Ginobili both hold three championships, and Duncan has four championships. For them, championships are just an accumulation of honors and will not have any impact on their career evaluation. The so-called qualitative improvement.
Playing against a team like the Spurs in the playoffs that has an invincible future and is eager to win but has no pressure to win, Sun Ce wants to eliminate all unfavorable factors and be as fully prepared as possible.
But now the Mavericks, who have won the championship, are still trying to get in there, and the Mavericks are also the kind of team that longs for a championship but doesn't have the pressure to win.
Sun Ce really wanted to draw a circle and curse the other side.
97 to 80, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Mavericks and won 4 consecutive games.
Conley returned to his old club's home court for the first time to play and failed to win.
Nowitzki played 39 minutes today and only scored 18 points on 7-of-20 shooting.
Randolph played as long as Nowitzki played. Compared with Nowitzki's performance, Randolph made 16 of 24 shots and scored 41 points and 15 rebounds. Randolph, who had the best start of his career, could be said to be Playing against Nowitzki, who has the worst start to any season since the new century.
Sun Ce played 14 minutes in the first half and 9 minutes in the second half. He scored 14 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks and 2 steals in 23 minutes. He easily got 4 times 5 data. Their Grizzlies couldn't score in the first three quarters. High, only 69 points, but the Mavericks only scored 50 points after three quarters. Someone was holding on, and Sun Ce blocked the shot.
In the fourth quarter, Sun Ce watched Randolph beating Nowitzki. The scene was bloody.
A person who has no long-term worries must have short-term worries. From the perspective of the extremely long career Sun Ce has planned for himself, one season or two seasons is just a small stage.
Sun Ce didn't think about it when he was far away, but the worries nearby had already appeared.
Mavericks, Spurs
The weak Mavericks and the Nursing Home Spurs are now Sun Ce's biggest enemies, and they are even more troublesome than the Thunder that Sun Ce thought the day before yesterday.
For the Thunder, Sun Ce knew that they would collapse on their own, while the Mavericks and Spurs could foresee that they would be in big trouble.
Not only that, Sun Ce knew how Carlisle supported Nowitzki to maintain his condition, and Yao Ming also enjoyed such treatment. The two would play together for another two or three years.
Don't tell me, Sun Ce is still a little excited when he is worried about the near future!
The worry was only temporary. Sun Ce quickly got out of the tight schedule. After beating the Mavericks and winning the first 4 consecutive games, the new year arrived.
There was no time to celebrate the New Year. On January 1, 2012, Sun Ce took Zu Ge, who was on holiday, with the team to Chicago. After four consecutive home games in the beginning, there was a wave of five consecutive away games!
After arriving in Chicago, we had a tactical meeting in the afternoon to prepare for the game. After having dinner in the evening, Sun Ce took Zugoose to see an opera. After a night's rest, he went to the United Center Arena the next morning to prepare for the game. At 4:10 in the evening, After the warm-up, Sun Ce entered the court with his teammates.
After the entrance ceremony, Sun Ce was sitting on the sidelines chatting with Nash. The system screen suddenly appeared with two events!
"As one of the two major candidates in the Western Conference, the host is about to face off against Derrick Rose, one of the three major candidates in the Eastern Conference, and the level event: Journey is triggered."
"Journey: As a highly anticipated candidate, Host aims to be the best player this season.
The first stage event: The flower picking thief is triggered. "
"The Flower Picking Thief: The first stage of the super event journey.
Goal 1: In the next game against the Bulls, the host needs to complete at least two blocks on Derrick Rose.
Goal 2: In the next game against the Bulls, the host needs to help the team limit Rose's scoring to less than 20 points.
Goal 3: Win.
Event reward: A random player star experience card for the Chicago Bulls 2011-2012 season.
Note: The event score at this stage will affect the final score of the level 1 event journey. "
Sun Ce is continuing to ask Nash how to deal with the pick-and-roll. This cannot be explained clearly in a few sentences. As the most basic but most commonly used tactic in basketball tactics, the pick-and-roll has endless variations. It can be said to be a pick-and-roll league and is inseparable from any tactic. Open the pick-and-roll.
Two events suddenly appeared. After reading the first system prompt, Sun Ce seemed to say
"I don't want to be the best player, I just want to be a quiet and beautiful man."
Who wants to complete an event called "The Flower Picking Thief"?
However, the Bulls' random player star experience card, Sun Ce, is very coveted. The Bulls' lineup is very good. If Korver is randomly selected, he can experience the three-pointer again.
Sun Ce has been discussing with Klay Thompson in the past two days how to speed up his three-point shooting. He doesn't want to change his mid-range shooting. He shoots smoothly and is used to it.
But if three-pointers can speed up shooting, that's definitely a good thing.
And Korver is also the type who shoots extremely fast.
After stopping his discussion with Nash, Sun Ce came to the court, patted the ball and thought about today's game.
Their Grizzlies currently have 4 wins and 0 losses, ranking first in the league, while all other teams have lost. Tonight's opponent, the Bulls, currently have 2 wins and 1 loss. After defeating the Lakers and losing to the Mavericks, they defeated them at home. Defeated the menacing Heat and defeated the last team in the Eastern Conference that had not lost yet.
Now meeting the Bulls, Sun Ce is sure that the other team will definitely want to keep up their efforts and knock down the last team that has never lost, the Grizzlies!
The Bulls' thoughts are just like Sima Zhao's. They can see the Bulls' ambitions. They want to show their strength from the beginning. From Sloan, the head coach, to all the players, they want to gain momentum this season.
Sun Ce had the same idea on this point.
Originally, Sun Ce's goal at the beginning of the season was to be in the top four, but with such a good start, it seems that except for the Spurs, who are in such good shape that they "have to compete for first place", the Grizzlies have an advantage in the Western Conference during the regular season. .
Of course we have to fight for first place.
Thinking of this, Sun Ce felt that it was a coincidence. He wanted to compete with Rose and become the strongest team, even if his current goal was to be the strongest team in the regular season, he had the same idea.
Moreover, the Grizzlies attach great importance to this game with the Bulls. It is true that the Heat are regarded as the best team in the Eastern Conference, but on the night of the 30th, the Bulls defeated the Heat. Sloan’s transformation of the Bulls was slow. Results appear slowly, and it is difficult to predict what the future will be like.
Sun Ce and his team are aiming to win the championship this season. The Bulls are one of the three major imaginary enemies in the Eastern Conference. From the beginning, it seems that the Grizzlies are even more hostile to the Bulls.
In this game, Nash and coach Hollins discussed it. During the ceremony, Nash stood among the substitute teammates, and Tony Allen returned to the starting lineup to deal with Rose.
The Bulls' lineup has not changed much from Sun Ce's impression of the Bulls' lineup. Rose, Hamilton, and the three starting frontcourts are all top-level players.
The lineup is not much different from what I remember.
This is normal. The lineup given to Thibodeau in the original time and space was almost perfect. Luol Deng, who was in the third grade and at his peak, Noah, who has gradually grown into the best defensive team level and has the ability to support, and Boozer Er, a master scorer, has such a core lineup that is no worse than any other team, and there are also excellent role players such as Korver, Gibson, Ronnie Brewer, and Mike James. This season, Richard was also introduced. hamilton.
With Mike Brown in this lineup, they can reach the top four in the Eastern Conference, but Rose may not be trained to the level so quickly.
Such a lineup, for Sloan to use, is really better than Thibodeau!
The rose started blooming in a completely different way than it was originally empty. Sun Ce's hands started to itch! The Flower Picker thought his nickname was not bad!