Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine. That's Outrageous.

When Gasol went to screen Sun Ce without the ball, Duncan followed Gasol to the mid-range and switched defense with Gay.

Sun Ce and Gasol pinned Duncan and Gay on the right side of the three-second zone. Nash had good physical strength at the beginning and broke through Parker smoothly. He broke through to the close distance and attracted Blair, who had little defensive awareness, to shrink. Nash threw the ball into the air, and Randolph cut in and lifted the ball in the air, and scored two points with an alley-oop layup.

Seized the opponent's weakest defense point guard and center!

Parker did have a fairly good defense, but good defense was not enough to deal with Nash and Sun Ce. Parker couldn't defend the two without a screen.

Randolph didn't expect that he could actually eat the cake!

The main reason was that Sun Ce and Nash discussed together after the tactical meeting in the morning how to play today's game.

Sun Ce scored 65 points the day before yesterday. He knew that he would definitely be the focus of the Spurs today, so he was ready to take advantage of this.

In addition, Sun Ce has discovered one thing in the past 20 games, that is, when Nash holds the ball, he can play without the ball, run, contain, and can pick and roll for teammates or borrow from teammates, but when he holds the ball, Nash can only stand in the bottom corner and watch, like Battier as a containment point, but he does not have Battier's height, and his role is not as good as Battier.

Sun Ce does not have to hold the ball, he can still play without the first ball point, and he is also threatening without the ball. To make the effect of "two MVPs" really play out, Nash must organize the offense more according to his own judgment.

So, after the game started today, Sun Ce and Gasol both listened to Nash's command. Coincidentally, the opponent's defense from shooting guard to power forward is first-class or even top-level, and the point guard and center are weak.

Danny Green didn't dare to defend Nash and let Parker defend Paul George. In the last match, Paul George shot two three-pointers against Parker. Although Parker made up for Paul George in the first time when Paul George ran and received the ball, he couldn't interfere with Paul George who had already received the ball and jumped.

In the case of Sun Ce's huge threat, Nash made good use of this point, seized the opponent's weakness, and helped the Grizzlies to play a completely different start from the opening game.

In fact, as long as the Spurs' center who stayed under the basket had good defensive awareness, decent mobility, and enough confrontation after Duncan expanded, this weakness could be avoided. Parker couldn't defend Nash's breakthrough but could interfere with his shooting, but Blair was a pure jumping man. He could jump up when Nash entered the inside...

In the opening game, the Grizzlies started with Randolph's fierce attack and competed with the Spurs.

This time, Randolph ate the cake, and the Grizzlies could compete with the Spurs!

Although the Spurs started to play as a team after Gay played one single, and the offensive efficiency was good, the Grizzlies relied on offensive basketball to counter the Spurs' offense when Randolph and Sun Ce did not play too many singles!

The Grizzlies can play so well, there are many factors combined, Sun Ce's threat, the opponent's two obvious defensive loopholes, Paul George's containment of Danny Green, Randolph's good touch...

It may not work well for other teams, such as the Bulls with three outside players, Rose, Ronnie Brewer, and Luol Deng. This style of play cannot play a good offense. In the last game against the Bulls, when Nash held the ball, the Grizzlies could only score 96 points per 100 rounds, but Nash's mid-range and long-range shots and Sun Ce's mid-range shots just restrained the Spurs' defense. Tonight, Sun Ce and Nash's offensive tactics are really useful!

After playing for a few minutes, Popovich called a timeout in advance to change the defensive strategy.

It is important to target Sun Ce and prevent him from playing like in the last game, but it is impossible to prevent the cooperation between Nash and Randolph. Randolph easily scored 6 points. What is the difference between this and Sun Ce's good performance?

Without Randolph consuming too much energy, the Grizzlies scored 11 to 8 in 3 and a half minutes!

Popovich made adjustments and the Spurs started the overall defense.

After the timeout, the Spurs did not make any substitutions. The Grizzlies replaced Randolph with Yi Jianlian to strengthen the threat of cutting in.

But after Nash came on the court, he did not continue to focus on him. Although he got 3 points and 3 assists at the beginning, he still did not stick to the ball, but gave the ball to Sun Ce who had a high-post back-to-back opportunity.

Although Gay was booed when he came back this time, the fans were still very excited that Sun Ce, the new star, was facing the former star.

And Sun Ce played well in the high-post back-to-back against Gay. He made 3 of 5 shots in the first quarter, plus a foul caused by cutting in, and scored 8 points in a single quarter!

With Sun Ce's 8 points, Nash's two three-pointers, Randolph's 6 points, and the efforts of other players, the Grizzlies led the Spurs by 4 points in the first quarter, 28 to 24, and entered the second quarter.

When the Spurs began to emphasize overall defense, the defensive rotation speed of the two teams became the key. The Grizzlies' defensive rotation was better than the Spurs in the first quarter, especially after Jordan and Yi Jianlian both came on the court, the Grizzlies took a 4-point lead in the first quarter.

These four points are crucial, because the Spurs scored 32 to 24 in the second quarter. They shot well in the second quarter, and Danny Green and Ginobili scored a total of 4 three-pointers!

Thanks to the 4-point lead in the first quarter, the Grizzlies were able to stubbornly maintain the score difference within 5 points after halftime, and entered the halftime break with a 4-point deficit to the Spurs at 52 to 56.

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The Grizzlies played well in the first half. Sun Ce played the entire half, scored 15 points with 6 of 9 shots, Nash played 14 minutes and scored 9 points and 5 assists, and Randolph, who played only 11 minutes, also scored 10 points. The Grizzlies scored 52 points in the first half, which was better than the season average.

But the Spurs scored 56 points in the first half... That offensive efficiency was achieved with Sun Ce's crazy defense, which was simply fatal!

Sun Ce scored 15 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal in the first half. He was like a Panda after an earthquake, running desperately on the defensive end, but the Spurs still relied on 18 points in the interior to score 33 points in a single quarter.

Danny Green and Ginobili each scored two three-pointers, which was only 12 points. Duncan scored a mid-range shot, which added up to 14 points. However, the three of them, plus Gay, who rotated with Duncan and had a mid-range and long-range threat, together contained the defense. Parker, Patrick Mills, Richard Jefferson and others rotated to the court and cut in continuously to get 18 points!

This reminded the Grizzlies of the terrible feeling when they played against the Spurs twice last season.

It was simply amazing! Once the Spurs' outside line felt better, Sun Ce switched to defend the outside line more, and the inside line's cut-in offense could not be defended.

Fortunately, the first quarter was played well, especially Nash's opening style of play made the Spurs not react in the first time, so the opponent did not widen the score difference.

However, the opening of Nash's team was not only effective. For the Grizzlies, the greater effect was to make Randolph play very easily in the first half!

In the third quarter, a crucial quarter, Sun Ce, who had changed his jersey and returned, and Randolph, who easily scored 10 points in the first half, began to restart the mid-range attack mode!

Randolph played only 11 minutes in the first half and scored 4 goals, 3 of which were dunks, two points were free throws, and only one single score, and his physical strength was well maintained.

Sun Ce, took a physical potion...

The two of them started the single mode in the third quarter with sufficient physical strength just like the beginning of the game, and it was a mid-range single that the Spurs are not good at defending at present. One was on the left baseline and the other was on the right high position. In the third quarter, the Spurs collapsed!

As for the Spurs, even if they had 11 rotations today, including Parker, Patrick Mills, Danny Green, Ginobili, James Anderson, TJ Ford, Gay, Richard Jefferson, Duncan, Blair, and Split, and all 11 people played in the first half, they still had physical consumption because it was a team offense.

Randolph was resting in the first half, and Sun Ce's physical strength returned to the state at the beginning of the game, and the opponent couldn't defend!

When the Spurs began to focus on defending the two of them, Nash came on the court, using the threat of the two, especially Sun Ce who scored 7 points in the first half, to continue to feed the ball to Randolph and his teammates who were free after the sideline contraction and double-teaming.

In the third quarter, Sun Ce scored 8 points in a single quarter, and Randolph scored 12 points in a single quarter. Under the leadership of the two, the Grizzlies scored 31 points in a single quarter.

Not only did the Spurs' defense run around, but the offense of the Spurs was also affected!

31 to 23, the Grizzlies finished the three quarters and overtook 83 to 79 by 4 points and entered the intermission.

Sun Ce played the first three quarters, and scored 23 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal in 36 minutes of playing time, which can basically be regarded as his average performance in the whole game of the season without an outbreak.

In a game, it doesn't mean that if you play 30 minutes per game and get 15+10, you can play 30 minutes in a row and get 15+10. Instead, you need to rest, adjust, etc. Playing 30 minutes in a row will most likely be far worse than your usual performance.

But Sun Ce is going to collapse the Spurs. Sun Ce can get such data by playing 36 minutes under reasonable rotation. The Spurs players and coaches don't think there is any problem, but he can still play such performance after playing 36 minutes in a row...

Is this still a human?

It's not that Sun Ce's performance is so terrible. Duncan played 22 minutes in the first three quarters, got 13 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, and his average efficiency is not inferior to Sun Ce.

But Sun Ce played more than ten minutes, and his average efficiency was almost the same as Duncan...

Is there any justice?

In addition to Sun Ce, there is also Randolph who played 23 minutes and got 22 points and 6 rebounds!

The key is that Randolph is in good physical condition at present. Popovich now has a headache when he sees the Grizzlies! As long as he can make it to the finals, he is not afraid of anyone, but the Western Conference teams, especially the Grizzlies in front of him... mainly Sun Ce!

The Grizzlies were able to play such a performance in the first three quarters, and Sun Ce was in full swing in the first three quarters!