Nine Hundred and One. The Fourth Triple-Double!

The third Player of the Week was indeed a pleasant surprise. Sun Ce didn't notice that another week had passed. When he saw that he had won the Player of the Week, he remembered to send Zu Ge to school in the morning. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, Zu Ge got up early in the morning to visit the set with Lily Collins.

In the East, Howard ended the dominance of James and Rose.

In the last week of the first game month, Howard seemed to have found his own way of playing. In 4 games, he averaged 17 points, 18.8 rebounds and 2 blocks per game. Even though he had 4 turnovers and 4.8 fouls, Howard performed too well this week. The 76ers played 5 games in 7 days, including 4 games in 5 days, but the 76ers won all 5 games. The 76ers, who played 22 games in the first game month, surpassed the 14-7 Heat and ranked second in the East with a record of 15 wins and 7 losses, second only to the 15-6 Bulls!

The 76ers once dropped to fifth in the Eastern Conference with 10 wins and 7 losses, and were overwhelmed by the Celtics. However, in the past week, thanks to the outstanding performances of Evans, who averaged 25 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists per game, Howard, who averaged 17+18 per game, and Iguodala, Holiday, and Thaddeus Young, the 76ers showed signs of getting well-coordinated.

However, in addition to the top three Bulls, 76ers, and Heat, Sun Ce saw the record of the Eastern Conference, the Pacers, who ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference, with 12 wins and 10 losses.

The Celtics, who once had 11 wins and 5 losses, have only 11 wins and 10 losses, and have lost 5 games in the past 5 games; the Pacers, who once ranked ahead of the 76ers with 11 wins and 6 losses, have now been surpassed by the 76ers, with 1 win and 4 losses in the past 8 days.

Sun Ce looked at the recent data changes of the players of these two teams and found clues, thinking that their record decline is normal.

The Celtics are old and the Pacers are young.

On the Pacers side, the young core of Gordon Hayward, Darren Collison, and Roy Hibbert performed well at the beginning of the new season. With the support of the elder brother Granger who is still in his prime and averages 18 points per game, the Pacers started very fiercely.

Granger's performance has not been bad recently, and he is very stable, but the three young teammates are not stable. The second-year Hayward, the third-year Darren Collison, and the fourth-year Hibbert, these three important players of the Pacers have no experience. The second-year head coach Frank Vogel also has no experience. They started too fiercely and couldn't hold on after playing more than a dozen games.

The Celtics also couldn't hold on physically. It was purely because of their age. Garnett and Pierce's playing time was limited. Sun Ce saw that the playing time of the two was limited to less than 24 minutes in the past period of time. He knew that Rivers would rather lose some games than let these two veterans play more.

In terms of player health protection, Sun Ce has always admired Rivers. Apart from anything else, Garnett is so old after coming back from a serious injury, and he can still play so well.

It has a lot to do with Rivers' rotation strategy, at least Sun Ce thinks so.

In the first game month, the Eastern Conference Player of the Month was won by James without any surprise. Although the Bulls had a better record, James' performance was terrible!

In the first game month, Wade was injured for 6 games, Bosh missed 3 games, and Mike Miller missed 11 games. James averaged 29.1 points, 8.9 rebounds, 9.1 assists, 1.9 steals and 1 block per game, helping the Heat to a record of 14 wins and 7 losses. In 21 games, James averaged 42 minutes per game, which was cruel.

Sun Ce looked at James's data and playing time, and felt that James wanted to tire himself out.

As far as Sun Ce remembered, this season, James was MVP and the best defensive player got the second vote, and it was the kind of best defensive player who only got the second defense, and he, James, got the highest number of votes for the best defensive lineup.

After looking at the MVP rankings, he, Sun, ranked first with his outstanding performance in the last two games.

Parker second, Rose third, James fourth, Kobe fifth, Howard sixth, Durant seventh, Evans eighth, Lawson ninth...

"In other words, in addition to competing with Rose, Evans, and Durant for the MVP, James and Kobe are also going to join in? Brother Learning Machine, can we change to an S-level event, and I will compete for the best defensive player?"

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The Learning Machine ignored Sun Ce, and Sun Ce continued on his way to compete for his second regular season MVP.

It is not an easy thing to get the MVP. As strong as Kobe, Garnett, and O'Neal, they only have one regular season MVP, and he, Sun, is going to compete for consecutive MVPs...

The road ahead is difficult, but we still have to keep moving forward.

After lunch break, Sun Ce came to the stadium at 3 o'clock to prepare for the game and read the opponent's scout report for a while.

The Nuggets, who are currently ranked third in the West with 14 wins and 8 losses, have Lawson and Lowry as key players. So far this season, Lawson has averaged 33 minutes per game, scoring 14 points, 2.5 rebounds and 8.5 assists. Lowry has become Lawson's substitute this season, but his average points per game have risen against the trend. As the sixth man, he averaged 17 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3 assists per game, which is a very good performance.

The scout report pointed out that the Knicks, Heat, Bobcats, Trail Blazers, Rockets and other teams that lack point guards are interested in Lowry.

Lowry, who will become a free agent this summer, is bound to become a big fish and be sought after by all teams.

There is not much time to prepare. At 4:30, Sun Ce and his teammates began to warm up for tonight's game...

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106 to 115, the Grizzlies' 5-game winning streak was ended.

It's really impossible to defend!

Tony is not physically fit and did not play well in back-to-back games; Paul George is similar to the three young stars of the Pacers. His form has been up and down recently. He is only in his second year, and his playing time has increased sharply and the schedule is tight. It is normal for him to perform poorly.

Neil, Yi Jianlian, Jordan, Battier, and Speights all played well today, but they did not do well on the defensive end. Lawson scored 14 points and 12 assists, and Lowry scored 25 points and 3 assists. Led by the two, the Nuggets scored 115 points.

The Grizzlies wanted to defend at the beginning, but failed to do so. Sun Ce decisively started the run-and-gun style, and Vazquez, who came off the bench, also played well in offense when he was the main point guard.

But the scoring was not successful.

Sun Ce scored 22 points, 9 rebounds, 8 assists, and 2 blocks, but he could not help the team win.

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There was no time to be sad about the end of the winning streak. The Grizzlies, who had 17 wins and 5 losses, set off from Memphis to Atlanta the day after playing against the Nuggets, starting a three-game road trip in the East.

First, No. 3 and No. 4 played back-to-back against the Hawks and the Nets.

Sun Ce played very well against the Hawks. He played for 35 minutes and got 17 points, 15 rebounds, 15 assists (3 times 15), plus 1 block and 3 steals. 6 turnovers can be ignored.

Josh Smith stole two super alley-oop passes from Sun Ce to Jordan.

However, don’t look at Josh Smith’s 4 steals in a single game. He did a bad job on the defensive end. The Hawks’ inside line was completely restrained by Randolph. The Grizzlies’ outside shots were open, and the Hawks’ inside line was compressed under the basket. The main reason was that Horford played 12 games and was written off for the season. Josh Smith and Marvin Williams could not defend Randolph and could only double-team Randolph’s offensive rebounds.

Although Randolph only had 21 points, most of them were scored on offensive rebounds. Randolph, who got 8 offensive rebounds in 33 minutes of playing time, got 21+12 data.

Randolph, who was double-teamed and rushed for the offensive rebound without the ball, was a rare sight!

This time it was Nash's turn to shoot. Nash played for 31 minutes in the whole game. His touch was so good that he made 11 of 12 shots, scored 29 points and 6 assists, and got 20+ for the first time since joining the Grizzlies!

With 1 minute left in the third quarter, Nash actually made 11 of 11 shots, but in order to get 30+, he missed a shot... He didn't ask to play in the fourth quarter, and felt sorry for himself for playing so badly.

Sun Ce played for 5 minutes in the fourth quarter, and the score was 97 to 75. After widening the gap to more than 20 points, he was replaced to rest.

He played very easily, just pass the ball. Nash contributed 7 assists to him alone. Nash made 5 of 5 three-pointers tonight, and played more time, which opened up space for Sun Ce. Sun Ce and his teammates played pick-and-roll and broke through, and passed the ball very well.

However, on the 4th, when they played back-to-back against the Nets, the Grizzlies did not play so smoothly.

Currently, the Nets have 7 wins and 17 losses, which is not much different from the Mavericks, who are ranked 10th in the West. However, the Mavericks are considered the favorites for the championship, and the Nets have no chance of making the playoffs.

The Nets have lost two generals. Brook Lopez played 5 games and was reimbursed for the season. The 9-finger dunk champion Gerald Green was also seriously injured at the end of last month and is expected to be absent for 8-10 weeks, which means he will return in April.

They actually started well, with a 2-0 start. Before Lopez was reimbursed, they were ranked fifth in the East with 3 wins and 2 losses.

But in the next 19 games, they had 4 wins and 15 losses. As the game progressed, Gerald Green, who averaged 14 points per game, was also gone.

However, Deron exploded when he saw Sun Ce!

Tony Allen couldn't defend, Sun Ce couldn't defend, Paul George couldn't defend, and Battier couldn't defend. Fortunately, Nash was resting, otherwise Coach Hollins would have wanted Nash to try, after all, Fisher did a good job defending Deron...

During the double team attack, Deron's passing was also top-notch, while on the Grizzlies side, Nash and Gasol were resting, and both offense and defense were affected. The Nets once overtook the score in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Fortunately, in the second half of the fourth quarter, the Nets' outside shots began to miss, and the defense that they had fought hard also began to decline. Sun Ce, who only played for 26 minutes in the first three and a half quarters, played the last 5 minutes and scored 7 points and 2 assists, helping the team to play a 13-4 wave.

In the end, Sun Ce scored 21 points, 13 rebounds and 7 assists, helping the team to narrowly beat the Nets 98-92.

In this game, the Grizzlies really relied on Randolph's singles and offensive rebounds in the first three quarters to hold off the Nets led by Deron, who scored 38 points and 10 assists in a single game.

Fortunately, Sun Ce made 3 of 3 shots in the end, caught up with the score and sent two assists to lock in the victory.

However, there was no rest after the back-to-back game. The next morning, Sun Ce flew with the team to Boston, which is more northeast than New Jersey.

The last game of the three-game road trip - Celtics.