Now, though, they Lakers have a huge upside.

Randolph is injured!

However, both Kobe and James know that the biggest problem at the beginning of their season is not cooperation, not form, but mentality.

The Grizzlies players are proud and complacent, which is understandable, they have won two consecutive championships and defended the championship, and the team's strongest player has played such a good performance in the new season, what's wrong with Piao?

And their Lakers are purely aristocratic criminals, and they will float if they don't agree with each other.

This is a problem that the Lakers have to go through every year in the regular season, winning the regular season championship last season, Paul was promoted to James this season, Leonard has improved significantly on the defensive end, really has the strength of the second defense, and has also improved a lot in singles and shooting, and has the ability to average 12 points per game in 25 minutes of playing time......

These are all reasons why Lakers players get sick.

Fortunately, Kobe Bryant has been used to being on the Lakers for so many years, and James, who has been in close contact with Kobe since joining the Lakers, has quickly learned to adapt.

At least when playing strong teams, these teammates will not let up, because in the four games they lost, three of them were the Pelicans, Suns, and Pistons.

Except for one game by the Bulls, the Lakers won all the other games against strong teams.

As the defending champions, the Grizzlies must be a strong team in the eyes of their teammates, and in the past three years, they have lost to the Grizzlies in the playoffs, and even new players will try hard to beat the Grizzlies.

At the very least, it proves that they are better than the original Lakers players!

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At 8 p.m., the Grizzlies' away game against the Lakers began.

Sun Ce saw that James really went to play point guard, and also averaged a career-high 10.2 assists per game in the new season, ranking third in the league, higher than Paul's average of assists per game, and second only to Westbrook and Rose.

averaged 25.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.1 blocks per game...... Unlike Westbrook's 41 percent shooting, James shot 62 percent!

Bryant averaged 27.3 points per game, averaging 2.8 three-pointers per game, shooting 49 percent from the field and 39 percent from three-point range, both setting career highs.

Leonard averaged 12 points, 6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game, and as a wing scorer and outside defensive gatekeeper, Leonard averaged 25 minutes per game.

The Lakers lineup, if you want to talk about the problem, is that the power forward position is very weak, and the center is rotated by Nene and Carman, which is enough, and even Sakishi has been abandoned.

But Boozer is the only big forward in the serious, and the Lakers this season except for Blake's rotation lineup, the rest of the lineup is playing brisk offense and outside rotation defense.

The starting lineup sent by the Lakers tonight is James, Kobe, Leonard, Ci Shiping, and Nene on the side.

The starting lineup sent by the Grizzlies is very straightforward, Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Richard Jefferson, Yi Jianlian.

After the game started, no one could stop anyone, and the Grizzlies started running and bombing from the beginning of the game.

Try your best to avoid the problem of lack of manpower in your own interior, maximize your strengths, and avoid grinding positions with the Lakers when James, Leonard, Ci Shiping, and Nene are all there.

Paul George was powerful when he saw Leonard, Sun Ce played hard when he saw Kobe, and there was a physical energy potion that could be used, and he should fight hard.

And there is no trigger event, although there is less "extra motivation", but it also allows Sun Ce to devote himself to the duel with the Kojan combination.

In the first quarter, relying on Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian, and Paul George to play the whole quarter, Klay Thompson, Tim Hardaway, Richard Jefferson, and Beverley took over the rotation and played, and the Grizzlies and Lakers played a 29-tie!

Watching Sun Ce play with his life and sparing no effort to play 11 points, 2 boards, 4 assists and 2 blocks in a single quarter, 11 points and 4 assists to ensure the Grizzlies' offense, two blocks and sniped their Lakers to create a lead with almost no defense on the Grizzlies' interior line, Kobe Bryant and James and others were stunned by Sun Ce's desperate play.

Sun Ce will not be affected by physical strength when he plays consecutive away games, just like seven or eight years ago, all opponents didn't want to meet Kobe, Kobe Bryant can continue to get 50+ after getting 50+ in the last game!

Sun Ce doesn't have the ability to go 50+ in a row, but he can do more in other aspects!

In the second quarter, Sun Ce and Beverley, Klay Thompson, Prince, and Gasol Jr. came on the court.

Preparing to deal with the Lakers' side's pick-and-roll lineup of James, Meeks, Mike Miller, Maddy, Boozer + three catch-and-shoot three-point shooters, the Grizzlies replaced Beverley and Klay Thompson together.

Boozer is here, and the Lakers are definitely going to play a positional battle, which is a relatively regular rotation for the Lakers since the beginning of the season.

When there is a player like James, the old Bickerstaff doesn't need to do so many tricks, stability is the most important thing.

So although the Grizzlies are understaffed, they have come up with a way to start with the rotation and arrange the lineup for the Lakers.

This lineup has pitchers on offense, Sun Ce and Gasol Jr. to organize the offense, and when the opponent has Boozer, a short but not fast interior lineman, the Grizzlies can play both offense and defense.

However, the so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, and Beverley fell in the collision with James when he changed defenses in the second quarter, and sprained his ankle severely!

So positive!

Generally speaking, if James uses the threat of a pick-and-roll + wing off-ball pick-and-roll shooter to create an offense that goes straight to the basket, even Sun Ce and Klay Thompson will not block it, let him score, it's not necessary.

But Beverley was too aggressive, too hardworking, completely ignoring the size gap between himself and James.

Of course, Beverley's spirit of playing hard is the key to his foothold in the NBA, but in this way, the Grizzlies can only replace Paul George in advance, after all, Livingston and Hardaway Jr. are not good defensively, and Tony Allen is not offensive.

But then, Prince was injured again......

In this wave of five consecutive visitors, two games in a row, 3 Grizzlies were injured!

The Grizzlies have done a good job of injury protection in the past few years, but there is a limit to everything, and this season, the Grizzlies have also fallen into an injury wave in the defending season of the two-time championship!

Originally, the Grizzlies had to rely on more outside rotation to ensure offense and defense, and now the outside line has injured two people in a row, which is a huge blow to the Grizzlies.

Among them, Prince, a veteran who can be put from the No. 2 position to the No. 4 position, retired injured, and when Gasol Jr. was on the field, there was no suitable power forward available!