Nine Hundred and Six. This Overlord Wants to Steal the Spotlight!
For the other four players, Westbrook made 0 of 3 three-pointers and 0 of 2 long two-pointers. Sun Ce directly chose to shrink his defense and help defend Ibaka and Nick Collison.
In fact, Westbrook is not the most iron-clad one. He played reasonably this season, but his shooting is not good. He made 5 long-range shots, and 4 of them could not pass or break through. Klay Thompson directly shrank to block the basket. His inside teammates could not pull the opponent's inside out, and Ibaka could not make a shot, not to mention Perkins and Nick Collison. Westbrook tried to break through, but the effect was not good, so he only made a few long-range shots.
If we really want to say that the player who performed the worst in the Thunder today, or the player who performed very differently from usual, it is Durant!
From last season to this season, Durant played very well in six encounters, and he lost a lot, but he really fought every time, played well every time, scored high, and his hit rate in the first half and even the first three quarters was off the charts.
But tonight, perhaps because it was the third game of a back-to-back series, Durant made 4 of 13 shots in the first 18 minutes of the first half. He missed 9 shots in this time, which had a huge impact on the Thunder.
The Grizzlies seized the opportunity. After halftime, the score was 63-45, and the Grizzlies led by 18 points into the halftime break!
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Sun Ce played for 18 minutes in the first half, scoring 14 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks, and his performance was quite outstanding.
But his teammates were even better, scoring a total of 49 points!
In the third quarter, Durant was replaced by the Thunder to rest for a while. During this period, Westbrook and Harden recovered their touch and scored two three-pointers in a row.
At this time, Vazquez, who had rested for half a quarter and a half, did not feel cool. He first hit a three-pointer, then passed it to Randolph who cut in and scored, and also made a foul and free throw. The two teams played 6-6 in 1 and a half minutes.
The score difference was between 15 and 20 points for a long time. In the fourth minute of the third quarter, Sun Ce came up. As the opponent shrank his defense, Sun Ce came to the left sideline and received a pass from Vazquez and made another three-pointer. Then before the official timeout, Sun Ce made another three-pointer from the sideline. With Sun Ce's two three-pointers, the Grizzlies scored 17 to 15 in the first half of the third quarter!
80 to 60, the Grizzlies widened the score difference to 20 points!
This is going crazy!
Sun Ce scored 20 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists!
Sun Ce made the first three three-pointers today. The Thunder seemed to have returned to the nightmare night at the beginning of the season. Sun Ce made 8 three-pointers in a row and scored 35 points in a single quarter. In that game, Sun Ce shot his touch when they chose to leave it open, and then he couldn't hold it back!
On Sun Ce's side, after the official timeout, he continued to play with Vazquez, Paul George, Speights and Jordan.
Sun Ce played a round of defense. Durant, who came back on the court, missed a long two-pointer. Sun Ce grabbed the defensive rebound and passed the ball to Vazquez. He ran to the front court without the ball. As soon as he reached the three-point line, he was double-teamed by Sefrosa and Harden on the opposite side!
"What's going on?"
Sun Ce was a little confused by the opponent's defense. After a timeout, what happened to the opponent?
At this time, Vazquez reacted faster than Sun Ce and rushed through the center circle to the three-point line. Perkins was on the left side of the three-second zone and blocked Spetz. Ibaka, who was defending Jordan, quickly came up from the baseline to make up for the defense. Vazquez made a high lob, and Jordan rushed to the right sideline of the three-second zone and jumped. He smashed the ball into the basket through Perkins who made up for him!
Perkins has become the background again...
Since joining the Thunder,
Perkins has no idea how many times he has been the background.
His teammates all trust his role in the basket, and he does a good job most of the time, even most of the time. But occasionally he is a little slow, or encounters a situation where he cannot be stopped 100%, but he is unwilling to give up and has to go up. Just this season, the number of times he was in the background can make up the top ten shots of the half season!
Sun Ce was a little confused. He didn't understand the opponent's defense. It took him a while to react. It seemed that he got 8 three-pointers in a single quarter against the Thunder!
Sun Ce just "passively" used the "three-point threat" to help Vazquez and Jordan complete an alley-oop cooperation. Now that he has reacted, of course he has to make good use of it.
In the next Grizzlies' offense, Sun Ce kept running outside the three-point line. The Thunder really thought he was going to run and shoot a three-pointer, and they had to think so because Sun Ce really did it!
For other teams, they may not pay much attention to it, at least not as much as the Thunder, but they are the direct victims of Sun Ce's 8 three-pointers in a single quarter, and now they are a bit like a frightened bird.
Especially in the 9th minute of the third quarter, Sun Ce got a rare open position with Yi Jianlian's off-ball pick-and-roll. After receiving the ball, he adjusted hard and shot it out, and it went in again. He made 4 of 4 three-pointers in this game! And in this quarter, all 3 three-pointers were made.
This time, the Thunder team completely collapsed, the kind of mental collapse.
Last month, they finally beat the Grizzlies once, and when they played against Sun Ce again, Sun Ce seemed to have exploded again!
So... Sun Ce didn't expect that he could clock out after three quarters against the Thunder!
After three quarters, the Grizzlies led by 25 points, 92 to 67, and entered the intermission.
Durant played 30 minutes in the first three quarters, but he couldn't run anymore. The others were also in bad shape. They couldn't defend and couldn't attack. With a 25-point difference, the Thunder surrendered!
Sun Ce played 33 minutes in three quarters and made 9 of 14 shots, including 4 of 4 three-pointers. He scored 27 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 blocks and 1 steal. He clocked out in the third quarter!
In normal long-distance shooting, Sun Ce made 5 of 10 shots. His performance was good, but not particularly outstanding. However, his 4-of-4 three-pointers increased his shooting percentage to 65%. Sun Ce himself felt that Damn it, it's a pity that he only blocked 4 shots. Although it was more than Ibaka's two blocks, he didn't get the iconic overlord data, which is 4 times 5.
But before the third quarter ended, five players had already begun to take off their training uniforms, and Sun Ce could only sit down and rest.
In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies sent out a lineup of Vazquez, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, Speights, and DeAndre Jordan.
For the Thunder, the lineup of Reggie Jackson, Daequan Cook, Nazr Haywood, Nick Collison, and Cole Aldridge took the field.
It was now garbage time, and Sun Ce was already thinking about his opponent in the next game.
Nash and Gasol didn't play tonight, just to prepare for the next game against the Spurs.
Sun Ce really wanted to complete the phased incident with the Spurs after the first three games with the Spurs. He couldn't be like the Thunder and have to postpone it to the fourth game. It would be too torture. Although he won this time , and the win was easy, but it was only 2-1. The next time we play against the Thunder, the pressure will not be less than this time.
Currently leading the Spurs 2-0, Sun Ce naturally wants to solve the problem directly.
Just when Sun Ce was thinking about things with his mind wandering and his eyes blurred, I don’t know when the boos started getting quieter and quieter. When Sun Ce realized it, it was because the place was too quiet. It was so quiet that the ball hit the floor. The voices, the shouts of the players on the field, became clearer and clearer.
He came back to his senses and saw on the timer that there were only more than two minutes left in the fourth quarter. While he was dazed, the fourth quarter had already played for more than nine minutes and experienced an official timeout. However, he held on. His arm was in a contemplative state, no one bothered him, he was ahead by so much anyway, and there were no accidents in the final quarter.
But not only did no accident happen, Sun Ce looked at the scoreboard, 116 to 74...
Sun Ce remembered that after three quarters, they scored 92 points. In the fourth quarter, which lasted 9 minutes and 51 seconds, they scored 24 points. This lineup scored 24 points, which was a bit much, but it felt good today. Nothing particularly surprising.
But what happened to the other party?
Only scored 7 points in nearly 10 minutes!
40+ points difference... Sun Ce didn't expect that his team's lineup, which consisted of a second-year player, two rookies, a fourth-year center, and the team's No. 5 post abandoned by other teams, actually hit the mark. A terrifying performance of 24 to 7!
Vazquez has 18 points and 12 assists so far!
The Grizzlies were so embarrassed that they simply stopped guarding and shot from both sides. But just like that, in the last two minutes or so, for some reason, the Thunder, which insisted on shooting three-pointers, only made one three-pointer. Split the ball and only scored 10 points in a single quarter.
As for the Grizzlies, they were on the outside in the last two minutes or so. Klay Thompson and Vazquez each scored a three-pointer, finishing 6-3...
Sun Ce scored 27 points, Randolph scored 20 points, Vazquez scored 21 points and 13 assists, and Klay Thompson made 6 of 9 three-pointers for a total of 21 points.
Four of the Grizzlies scored 20 points or more, 122-77, and they slaughtered the Thunder with a 45-point difference, winning their 5th consecutive victory!
"Fuck!"
If he wins by more than 20 points tonight, even if the opponent is the Thunder, Sun Ce will not think it is a particularly big thing. The Spurs were slaughtered by the revengeful Lakers by 23 points not long ago. He was defeated by Duncan once. When he played against the Spurs, Kobe fought with all his might as if he was seeing his father-killing enemy. Paul also played well. The two of them worked together to lead the team to a 113-90 victory over the Spurs.
This does not affect the fact that the Spurs are second in the Western Conference and the Lakers are fourth in the Western Conference.
Even if the Grizzlies win by 25 points, it won't matter. Just like the last time they lost to the Thunder, not many people think that the Thunder are better than them. At most, they think that there will be winners and losers in the playoffs.
But a 45-point difference is very different...
You can tell from the post-game interview, it’s a big difference!
Before the start of the Grizzlies game tonight, the Knicks defeated the Kings 115-101 in an away game and won their seventh consecutive victory. Jeremy Lin had 31 points and 7 assists. Lin's madness continues.
Sun Ce was prepared to be asked questions about Lin Crazy by reporters after the game, but the questions asked by reporters after the game had nothing to do with Jeremy Lin!
"Have you figured out how to deal with the Thunder?"
"Do you hope to meet the Thunder in the playoffs and avoid the Lakers and Spurs?"
"You slaughtered the Thunder with 45 points tonight, so ruthlessly. Are you ready to become mortal enemies with the Thunder?"
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Sun Ce answered questions after the game, and he didn't care about how many points he won against the Thunder. Instead, he had a strange idea...
The Grizzlies have slaughtered their opponents by more than 40 points this season. They have done so before against the Clippers.
But in terms of sensation, that time was not sensational at all, the opponent was the Clippers, but this time is different, the opponent this time is the Thunder!
This is definitely quite eye-catching.
To be honest, although I admire Jeremy Lin for playing such a crazy performance with a non-guaranteed contract and before the deadline for the non-guaranteed contract to be converted into a guaranteed contract, I am still unhappy.
Because when Jeremy Lin's crazy performance was noticed by people and hyped by American cable TV stations to cause a public opinion frenzy, it happened to be during the Grizzlies' winning streak.
Who likes to be asked about other players during a winning streak, even if they are players from the opponent team, it's okay, but they are not even players from the opponent team.
Now their Grizzlies have also won five consecutive games... and this time the slaughter of the Thunder is obviously to steal a wave of limelight...
Just when Sun Ce was accepting the post-match interview with a different mind, the system prompt came...
"Because the host is extremely dissatisfied with the influence of the Lin Madness incident and wants to steal the limelight, A-level event: competing with Lin Madness is triggered..."