After playing three consecutive away games, Sun Ce returned to Memphis with the team.

Memphis has a strong basketball atmosphere right now!

The kind that surprised even Battier.

It's not like they didn't make the playoffs back then, but there's no way to compare it to now.

Sun Ce came out a little late when he went to the toilet, and it felt so embarrassing to see Battier and the five teammates of the band, Randolph, Gay, Gasol Jr., and Jordan Jr., waving to the fans excitedly and coquettishly......

Little Jordan has been absorbed by Randolph into the "Bear Domination World" and has become an alternate guitarist, the kind of alternate guitarist who has never practiced a guitar.

"Ah...... Noah is here! Noah Noah ......"

Some fans found out that Sun Ce was coming and began to scream, Sun Ce remained calm and didn't want to be with his band teammates, isn't it just that thousands of fans are blocking the exit to pick up the plane?

At this time, the fan group composed of female fans of the University of Memphis began to shout: "Noah is so handsome...... Noah...... I love you......"

Sun Ce heard the shouts of the female fans, and his footsteps froze......

"Dear fans, I love you too......" Sun Cesao waved at the female fans, his face full of excitement......

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The most important thing to do when you get back to the Memphis Grizzlies is to rest!

Even if you play a strong team like the Thunder tomorrow and are direct competitors, there is no training arrangement.

Sun Ce didn't go to training today, but had to take a good rest, make adjustments from the psychological aspect, and the training was not bad for half a day.

And the Grizzlies aren't even sure of tomorrow's rotation for the Thunder.

After all, it's 5 days and 4 battles, and there are a lot of things to consider.

The players went home, the coaches couldn't rest, they still had a lot to prepare.

The Grizzlies' coaching staff, owner Robert Pera, head of player operations and general manager Chris Wallace, and president John Hollinger, the team's newly formed commercial operations division that has just been in office for less than half a year, met together to discuss the playoffs.

It's already 50 wins, even if there are only 4 games left to win the Warriors and 76ers, there are 52 wins, and they are firmly in the playoffs, of course, these two games with weak teams must be won, the ninth Thunder and the tenth Nuggets have 3 games left, both teams are 48 wins, and both have a chance to get 51 wins.

In addition to making the playoffs, it's also important what kind of ranking you get into the playoffs.

There are many factors for the team to consider, such as who the opponent is good or not, whether there is a chance to choose a better opponent, and how many stars the opponent has on the price of tickets...... And so on are all things to consider.

It's not like the owner doesn't care if the owner doesn't make money, the local government cares about that.

Just like the Kings, who have been losing money for many years, the ball market is sluggish, the Kings can't even drive the commercial market around the arena, the Kings have been making a fuss for many years to build a new arena, and Sacramento, the capital of California, is unwilling to allocate money and land.

If the opponent is a popular team, such as the Suns, and they come to Memphis to play on the road, there is no doubt that there will be a huge business opportunity, at least for those days, the Grizzlies' downtown hotels, bars, and malls will do good business.

These are all things to consider as the president of commercial operations for the team.

I didn't have to think about this before, and I was accompanied by the playoffs, and there were no balloon stars.

But now it's different, they have Sun Ce!

There are still seven or eight days to start the playoffs, and there are already a lot of tourists from China and Asian countries!

So the president of commercial operations came to the meeting.

Watching assistant coach Jogel and the president of commercial operations Hollinger arguing, while wanting to pick the Mavericks to play, while trying their best to beat the Suns, a more popular team, to bring greater commercial development, the new official takes office, and always needs to make some achievements.

Coach Hollins and general manager Chris Wallace has a headache.

The new owner of the Grizzlies was born in 1978, only 32 years old Diamond King Lao Wu, was an engineer at Apple, in 2005, he set up his own portal to develop WiFi application technology, seized the opportunity of wireless network on the stage of history, and is now worth 1 billion US dollars, last year pulled NFL legendary quarterback Payton Manning, former Magic superstar Penny Hardaway, and Memphis local textile industry bigwigs together together 90 million US dollars, In addition, he paid 280 million to buy the Grizzlies, a team that has been losing money for many years, simply because he likes basketball, he knows that he is not good at the management of NBA teams, so he simply does not interfere.

This kind of boss is a headache for the management staff of a team, and although employees don't like unprofessional bosses to point fingers, this kind of non-care is sometimes quite a headache.

For Coach Hollins, he prefers Jogle's advice to pick and match opponents.

But there are also many concerns.

They really don't have the capital to pick opponents to play, which may affect the motivation of the players!

You can pick your opponent to fight ...... Coach Hollins and Chris Wallace both wanted to do that...... Who wouldn't want to make it to the second round?

It's just that the current situation is very different from the original time and space in 2011, when they deliberately lost at the end of the season in 2011 to be eighth, because they had 40 wins in the 2009-2010 season last season, and they knew at the beginning of the new season that they would definitely make the playoffs, because in terms of the performance of the previous season, as long as they improved a little, there was no problem in the playoffs, and in the summer of 2010, they also spent money to strengthen the bench.

Therefore, in the 2010-2011 season, he had the confidence to pick opponents in the playoffs.

But the situation is different now, last season's Grizzlies got the No. 1 pick, this season is only the first season they just counterattacked, except for Randolph and Battier, Anthony Parker, everyone else is still relatively immature, picking opponents to play...... There's a real good chance it backfires, even if they sweep the Mavericks in the regular season this season.

As a player-turned-head coach, Coach Hollins knows that there is a fundamental difference between the playoffs and the regular season.

Considering multiple factors, Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins consulted to make the decision......

Chris Wallace knocked on the table: "Pause, stop arguing, Lionel and I have already decided." ”

Everyone's eyes, including the boss, were focused on the two of them.

Unlike the other people who had been arguing before, who had very eloquent eyes, Coach Hollins felt it in the eyes of his boss...... Expect?

The owner of his own house seems to simply want to understand how the NBA team management will decide and operate in this situation, and it is not at all like a serious owner who thinks with everyone, it is completely like a local fan who spends money to buy a team to watch the game!

This feeling...... It makes Coach Hollins feel so weird!

"We shouldn't think about the commercial side of things at this time, we can have commercial value because we played well this season......

Chris Wallace said this, and President Hollinger was a little unhappy.

Chris Wallace continued: "...... But we can't pick opponents this year, we have four talented players like Zach, Rudy, Mark and Noah, and our goal for the future is to compete for the championship! Even if we get to the second round this year, we don't have a chance to go any further, so we shouldn't be trying to pick an opponent...... We just played with the momentum that a strong team should have, and we have been rushing this year! Our decision was to go all out for the last four games! ”

Qiao Georg agrees with this!

Holinger heard behind him...... This has been said for a long time, as if it is beneficial to him, and of course it is suspended!

Coach Hollins secretly applauded Chris Wallace...... People who do business are just different......

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The Grizzlies are meeting to discuss playoff standings, and Dallas, coach Carlisle and owner Cuban are also having headaches.

The Mavericks are currently at a slightly desperate point

The Lakers can't catch up! In the six games in April, they only won one of the first four games, and they are still 54 wins, with two games left, 54-26, while the Lakers are 56-24, and the Lakers have won two games and only lost one, which means that the Lakers will still be the first in the West even if they lose all the remaining games.

That is, the Mavericks topped the sky, that is, second in the West.

And the teams that are likely to make the playoffs as seventh in the West are the Grizzlies and Spurs......

In the regular season this season, the Mavericks lost a lot against both teams, and they were swept against the Grizzlies.

And there are rumors online that the Grizzlies want to deliberately enter the playoffs as seventh and pick them to play.

Although Coach Carlisle was outraged by this, he ...... He can't help it! This year, I just can't beat each other.

In fact, Nowitzki was restrained by Battier secondly, and their patchwork center was completely blown up by Gasol Jr., which is the biggest problem.

Not to mention Gasol Jr., even when Jordan Jr. is on the court, the Mavericks have almost no inside scores!

The Mavericks averaged only 17 points per game in the three-second zone in the three games, while the Grizzlies averaged 35 points per game in the three-second zone in three games, which is a double difference!

It's important to score in the playoffs in the three-second zone!

Relatively speaking, both Coach Carlisle and Cuban prefer to play the Spurs, after all, they just won the Spurs in the playoffs last season, and the psychological pressure of playing the Spurs is not as great as that of playing the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies are simply beating them.

The most embarrassing thing is that they have 54 wins, and the Jazz, who are fourth in the West, can get 53 wins, and they can't fall to fourth to avoid the Spurs and Grizzlies.

The Mavericks owner is a guy who likes to meddle in the team and is capable, so the discussion is simple, just the two of them.

After thinking about it, Cuban said to Carlisle: "Rick, let's rest for the next two games, the Grizzlies want to deliberately fall to the seventh to pick us as opponents, can't we avoid them......

Coach Carlisle nodded, this is the best way to go, it's better to play the Spurs than the Grizzlies......

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PS: I was a little busy in the afternoon, and I started writing at six o'clock.

When I got home from work, I visually checked that there were two more chapters before 11 o'clock~

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