The coaching staff is not as good as before, but compared with the previous Nash, Double Bears, the Grizzlies' current lineup, if it is not for too many injuries, has the trio of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Paul George, who are in such good form this year, and it is no problem to hit 60 wins.

It's all hurt like this, and there is still a chance to hit 55 wins.

It's purely that I'm used to being rich and expensive, and now I'm not very comfortable with a well-off life.

And team friendliness is extremely important for a superstar, even James and Kobe Bryant need teammates, not to mention Sun Ce, who is not so strong in personal ability and extremely dependent on teammates.

It's like tonight, his teammates feel good, and he has an assist!

This may be a special case, but usually, it often happens that Sun Ce himself feels bad and is blocked from scoring, and then relies on his teammates to score.

Also, Sun Ce has a bad hand, and when Klay Thompson feels good, he can still drive him Sun someone!

The outstanding performance of his teammates tonight allowed Sun Ce to easily win a triple-double.

After the third quarter, Sun Ce got 18 points, 13 boards, 13 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals.

At 85-63, the Grizzlies led by 22 points at the end of the third quarter and went into the final intermission.

Today, the Grizzlies are in good shape, while the Jazz are average as a whole, so the Grizzlies' lead in the first three quarters gradually expanded, and the overall situation is like flowing water, and the victory is locked cleanly.

Coach Hollins is a bit average, and if he knew that Prince would be rested tonight, then Gobert could be sent, and now he can only change the lineup of Livingston, Hardaway Jr., Paul George, Prince, and Valanciunas in the final quarter.

The Jazz also replaced Jimmy Butler, who had 18 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal in the first three quarters, Kanter and Alec Burks, Marvin Williams and others were also replaced, leaving rookie Trey Burke to lead the team, the same is to train young players, there is no suspense in the game, no matter whether the losing side or the winning side, you have to do something, you can't waste game time, and maximize the benefits.

There was no suspense in the final quarter of the game, the Grizzlies did not continue to open up the point difference, and the Jazz team could not catch up with the point difference of more than 15 points.

Sun Ce, Coach Hollins and Paul George sat down to discuss the upcoming fixtures.

After this game, there are 15 games left, because many of the previous games were home games, 9 of the remaining 15 games are away, and after this wave of three consecutive home games, the next 9 away games and 4 home games will follow.

The content of the discussion is more of a complaint, but it can be regarded as a little more than a few home games before the rejoicing.

In such an unfavorable situation this season, it is still ranked fourth in the West, and the foundation laid in the first half of the season is very important, otherwise it will be overtaken by the Warriors with a wave of 10 consecutive wins.

Before February, the schedule was relaxed, there were many home games, Sun Ce made great strides this season, and the double 3D had the talent and the heart to take on the responsibility...... This has largely mitigated the impact of injuries.

Just when Sun Ce and the others were chatting and waiting for the end of the game, something unexpected happened!

Valanciunas actively scramble for an out-of-bounds ball and fell out, but the cameraman outside the baseline couldn't dodge it, knocked it down, and was injured!

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It's really unlucky that people are stuffed between their teeth when they drink cold water!

Sometimes this luck is really bad, just like the Warriors before Sun Ce joined the NBA, in the 08-09 and 09-10 seasons, the Warriors often injured and the minimum seven-man appearance list was not enough.

In the game with the Jazz, Grizzlies center Valanciunas and the cameraman were both injured, and the cameraman was directly knocked out by the 120-kilogram Valanciunas and the camera, Valanciunas was relatively fine, but only relative to the cameraman, he had a stress fracture of his palm when he was on the ground, at this stage, there is no doubt that the season will be reimbursed!

At 108-95, the Grizzlies defeated the Jazz to improve their record to 46-21, but lost another inside!

Randolph, Stoudemire, Valanciunas, this season the Grizzlies are full of injuries, and the three are reimbursed!

Other players, Yi Jianlian, Larry Sanders, and Prince are also injured, and Amir Johnson and Gobert are two completely healthy players.

On the night of the game against the Jazz, the Grizzlies submitted a report to the league that Valanciunas had a fractured metacarpal bone in his right hand, requesting an injury exception.

Now there are 13 people on the team, including two rookies Hardaway Jr. and Gobert, that is, 11 people can be used in the playoffs.

Especially on the inside, even if Prince and Richard Jefferson are used as power forwards, plus Yi Jianlian, Amir Johnson, and Larry Sanders, there are only 5 people.

Counting Valanciunas, the interior line is also in a weak state, and none of the interior lines that the Grizzlies currently have can have the strength of Gasol Jr. or Randolph, which can be said to be worse now.

The league quickly approved the Grizzlies' request for an injury exception, Valanciunas was temporarily removed from the 15-man roster, and the Grizzlies received a $1.8 million injury exception.

On the morning of the 21st, before the Grizzlies had their next home game against the Pacers, before 8 o'clock, the coaching staff and management were already meeting in the conference room of the arena.

"Chris, what other centers are there in the free market?" Boss Robert Pera asked.

Chris Wallace shook his head: "Now the free market doesn't have an inside line that can help us substantially, there are some veterans, but not those excellent veterans, they can't be qualified, it's better to give Rudy a little more playing time......"

The last sentence, Chris Wallace said it hurt, can say such a thing, it means that he stayed up all night last night, with the secretary and scouts to collect all the inside lines that have not been signed by a team after being cut this season, and even the inside lines who have not found a job since last summer......

At this time, unless a veteran of any team wants to hug their Grizzlies thighs inside, and take the initiative to buy out with the original team, the original team is willing to let the veteran chase his dream, otherwise it is impossible at all.

But the characteristics that the Grizzlies have shown this season is that Sun Ce has survived until now with a double 3D and a lineup full of injuries, and they want to buy out the championship team and go to the Lakers, Spurs, and Bulls.

But after the Grizzlies' application for injury exceptions was passed in seconds last night, more than a dozen players had already applied for tryouts before 12 o'clock last night, and early this morning, some players from Europe and Asia applied for trials.

The Grizzlies don't have big expectations for this, and most of the players who try out are players who have been abandoned by NBA teams in the past and gone overseas to find opportunities to play, and may play in summer league or development leagues.

However, with the mentality of giving it a try, the Grizzlies decided that they still wanted to try out.

Coincidentally, tomorrow's opponent Pacers has a game tonight, and their Grizzlies game against the Pacers tomorrow is their Grizzlies back-to-back first game and the Pacers back-to-back second game, and the Pacers will play the Hornets tonight.

At 8 o'clock, Coach Hollins saw Sun Ce coming and began to prepare for tomorrow's game, and what needs to be done now is still to be done.

Meanwhile, assistant coach Tim Hardaway and trainer Stockton and manager Battier were at the away team's training ground preparing for the tryout.

After screening, out of 31 players who applied for trials, the coaching staff decided to accept five players' trial applications.

There are several conditions, the first is to be young, between 24 and 28 years old; The second is height, starting at seven feet, not less than seven feet, not ability, but standing under the basket to scare people; The third is that you have to be able to come here by 12 noon today for a tryout.

The requirements are very strict, but it's about money and time, you can't delay your own time, it's best not to delay other people's time, it's impossible to sign people casually, there are so many players who try out every year, 1 out of 100 trial players can get a 10-day short contract, thank God.

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33 triple-doubles, but one less teammate...... Sun Ce felt a little numb now.

Sun Ce reviewed the career situation of those superstars, because the careers of superstars are usually relatively long, after more than ten years of career, anything can be encountered, among them, the team's injury wave is even more unavoidable.

Magic, Jordan, Olajuwon, O'Neal, Kobe, Duncan...... I have encountered them, mainly because their team is strong, and after playing particularly good results for two or three consecutive years, such as consecutive regional finals or consecutive finals, the following seasons will basically have a wide range of injuries.

It's just that what hurts him is that those players all encountered such problems at their peak, and his grandson is only in the fifth year of his career......

Last night, the news came out that the Grizzlies had requested an injury exception from the NBA, and in today's tactical meeting, Coach Hollins officially announced Valanciunas' season reimbursement to the players.

Not to mention Sun Ce, everyone on the Grizzlies side is used to it.

Thanks to the large number of players available to them this season, they can rotate as many as they can if they can rotate 12 or 13 players, otherwise they may really be injured like the Warriors in the 08-09 and 09-10 seasons, and they are ready to sign two 10-day contracts from the Development League every game.

After the tactical training in the morning, Sun Ce ate lunch and ran to the away team's training ground curiously, and before 12 noon, the five players they had tried out had already arrived.

The common denominator of these five players is that they are all from the southeastern region of the United States, some play in the Development League, continue to look for work after the season, and some play outside the United States and return to their hometowns to rest at the end of the season.

When Sun Ce arrived at the away team's training ground, several trial players were not there and met Hardaway Sr.

Sun Ce learned that the five players who tried out had already done a physical fitness test when they arrived at the stadium in the morning, then had lunch first, rested for two hours, and had a technical trial at three o'clock in the afternoon, Gobert, Hardaway Jr., Yi Jianlian, and Richard Jefferson will be used as sparring partners.

Seeing that the physical fitness test report in the old Hardaway hand was printed several copies, Sun Ce asked for a copy, wanting to know about the players who might join the team, and the old Hardaway did not refuse.

After getting the physical fitness test reports of the 5 trial players, Sun Ce returned to the home team lounge, and as soon as he opened the physical fitness test report of the first player, Sun Ce's eyes were already wide when he saw the name!

Name: Hassan Whiteside; Permanent Address: Gastonia County, North Carolina......

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"Hassan Whiteside, 25 years old, 213 cm tall, 109 kg weight, ability assessment B+...... Physical fitness S-...... Rebound S+...... Cap S......"

Sun Ce couldn't understand what kind of talent Whiteside had that allowed him to play in the NBDL and NBL, two teams in the development league in China and the United States, for three or four years, and still be able to improve to the NBA starting level?

It's true that Whiteside has nothing but physicality, rebounding awareness, and block awareness, but rebounding and blocks built on S-level physicality are too strong!

"Noah, I remember you said that this guy is very powerful, but I didn't expect his strength to be even better than he imagined, and he is not as prickly as rumored." David Fitzdale was also surprised by Whiteside's tryout performance.

After the morning fitness test report came out, the afternoon trial at Whiteside attracted the entire Grizzlies coaching staff and owner Robert Pera, and Sun Ce also came.

The position of the offensive rebounding ball is better than that of Yi Jianlian; On the defensive end, he moves and has a good sense of position, which is better than Gobert; The block smell even surpasses that of Larry Saunders......

However, not everyone liked Whiteside that much.

After the trial, the elder Hardaway asked Whiteside to go back to the lounge and wait for the notice, as for the other four trial players, they purely went through the motions, and they had already booked their tickets for tomorrow, and they could go back from wherever they came, no way, with a player like Whiteside with physical fitness and trial performance, others really have no chance, the NBA is so cruel.

The coaching staff and management immediately held a meeting, Sun Ce was also called over, and when the trial list was decided early this morning, someone in the coaching staff remembered that Whiteside was a player recommended by Sun Ce.

At such a critical moment, it is not such a casual thing to decide to sign a player, and now that they don't do it well, they may fall out of the top four in the West!

Even if it's a 10-day short contract, you have to think about it, a short contract must mean that you have to play, otherwise what to sign for, as for the long contract......

"Sign him! 4 years contract longest contract! Get your hands on it! "Sun Ce was really excited this time.

However, the response of the coaching staff and management has been mixed.

"I think we can try to give him a longer non-guaranteed contract, it's worth trying." David Fitzdale was very supportive of Sun Ce's idea.

"I don't like his defense, he only seems to defend against blocks, the two-on-two training just now, Sean and Rudy blocked, Whiteside didn't even leave the three-second zone to defend, and Sean easily got an open shot, although Sean didn't shoot and was grabbed by Whiteside to rebound, but it's not a good defense, the tryouts are like this, I'm worried about the game." Defensive assistant coach Dave Joggle made it clear what he didn't like.

"A player like him may have good stats, but it doesn't work, he likes to stop when he gets a defensive rebound, not an outside line that he pulls out to pick up, he has to look for teammates, and he shouldn't have vision without his height." Stockton was also not very happy with Whiteside.

"John, you're talking too tactfully, he has a clear tendency to brush up on the data, I didn't see him leave the three-second zone during the entire half-time trial, whether it's grabbing offensive rebounds or defensive rebounds, he can have good blocks and rebounding efficiency, but he's on the floor, he can't do anything except defend within the three-second zone......"

Sun Ce listened to the comments of the teaching assistants, and he was very confused, Da Baibian has such a big flaw? So bad that you don't even want to give a basic salary?

Sun Ce knows that Whiteside has a lot of problems, and the flaws analyzed by the coaching staff are really there, and he is unwilling to give his teammates a position, poor blocking and pick-and-rolling, and anti-blocking and dismantling are equal to not being infinitely long-range shots, blocks and defensive rebounds by the opposing ball-handling players as if they are not playing a role in the team's defense, but there are many side effects.

But people also have advantages, offensive rebounding is strong!

Forget all of this, this is a pure blue-collar center with an average of 10+10 ability per game, a player who has almost no independent offensive ability and can have B+ level starting strength purely by physical fitness and rebounding awareness!

Sun Ce remembers that it seems that Whiteside was rejected by the teams every year when he went to the tryout every year in the original time and space, or in the middle of the 14-15 season, the center of the Heat team was injured and no one was there, so he was signed for a top.

Sun Ce has never understood that Whiteside's physical fitness, where to go for a trial, he won't even be able to get a 10-day short contract, right?

Whiteside, who has been in the development league and the NBL for a few years, has also gone to the former thorn attribute, and today's training is called a low-key, and everyone takes the initiative to say hello.

Sun Ce interrupted the coaches who were talking non-stop: "That...... This, I want to ask, aren't we signing a base salary center?

If Whiteside didn't have the flaws you mention, would he still have a base salary? Even if he his head again, he won't be able to hit the ball, right? We're not going to get a chance to try him out! ”

As the saying goes, wake up the dreamer!

Hearing Sun Ce's words, the coaches, trainers, and management personnel who kept talking about it all shook their heads.

They were completely distracted by Whiteside's physicality, rebounding awareness and blocking awareness.

Whiteside is not the kind of "physicality" that fans call it, but the kind of physical fitness of Duncan after suffering a major injury with plantar fasciitis at the beginning of the century.

231 cm reach, mid-range athleticism of an interior player.

plus a blocking sense comparable to Sun Ce's sense of blocking, and an offensive rebounding awareness comparable to Randolph's...... Everyone present found that they were discussing Whiteside in terms of "critiquing" an All-Star, and this guy, due to those obvious flaws, is estimated to have no All-Star chance in his life.

The most important thing is that they just want a base salary center!