1664. The Perfect Start (5000 Words for Subscription)
112-98, no player broke out on the Grizzlies tonight, Sun Ce scored 27 points, Klay Thompson 16 points, Aldridge 17 points, Paul George 14 points and 9 assists, the Grizzlies still firmly pressed the Mavericks for a whole game, and finally won by 14 points.
Started with 5 consecutive wins!
After the Spurs' 107-108 home game was interrupted by Harden's step-back three-point shootout and 4 consecutive wins, there are currently only two teams in the league that have not lost, one is the Warriors, who have won 5 in a row in the opening game, and the other is their Grizzlies, who have also won 5 in a row!
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The second game against the Mavericks completely established the confidence of the Grizzlies, and perhaps at the beginning of the season, even if they have not run in well, they are already one step ahead of other teams, and their players are in better shape than other teams.
Relying on the deterrent power of 5 consecutive wins, on October 28, the Grizzlies defeated the Pacers 101-81 at home, winning 6 consecutive victories!
The Pacers really can't do it this season, David West has slipped badly, averaging only 12 points and 6 rebounds per game in the first five games of the season, which is the worst performance of his career since he started the game.
Darren Collison is gone, there is a gap in strength between George Hill and Darren Collison who was poached, Stephenson is gone, and Hibbert has a bad relationship with all his teammates...... Hayward felt like he was too hard! He knew that he would not renew his contract, and he heard that Larry Bird was ready to take the blame and resign.
Now everyone can see that they collapsed last season and traded Granger, and now even if they want to sign Granger back, it's useless.
Granger's status as a big brother comes from the deterrence that he played for the Pacers when he entered the NBA, and he was the boss of the team, but he was traded once, and even if he came back, his image in the eyes of his teammates was not so tall, or in the past, those who were just suppressed by his deterrent personality instead of really treating him as a big brother will no longer obey him.
But the four-year, 72 million contract offered to him by the Mavericks was matched by the Pacers, and Hayward could only continue to hold on.
From 72 wins last season to now having to fight for the playoffs at the beginning of the season, such a gap is simply torture for Hayward.
Look at Paul George on the other side, people are running for the championship again!
Also, Hayward didn't know where to offend Paul George and Klay Thompson, who were trying to defend him when they saw him......
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With six consecutive wins, the Grizzlies continued to soar, and on October 30, the fourth game of the five-game streak, and the last game of the month, the Grizzlies ushered in a game against the Hornets at home.
The Hornets got off to a terrible start, playing six games with a 2-4 record.
At the beginning of this year, the state of each team is obviously divided into 3 gears, the first gear is the Grizzlies and the Warriors, the players' individual competitive state is better than other stars, and they are more advanced to the run-in, and the defensive adjustment is faster, and both teams have won 6 consecutive games since the beginning.
The second pot is most of the strong teams, Lakers, Spurs, Bulls, 76ers, Knicks, Mavericks, Thunder, they are not in very good shape, but they already have the feeling that the Grizzlies and Warriors have just started the season, although they are one step behind the Warriors and Grizzlies, but they are much better than other teams.
The teams in Pot 2 are basically considered championship-level teams.
Ordinary teams in the playoffs or on the edge of the playoffs are in trouble, and the team that beats the bad team does not necessarily have the opponent to play well, and the team that fights for the championship is crushed.
The Hornets have lost McRoberts, the tactical core of last season, Lance Stephenson failed to soar to the top player after the transfer like Maddy and Joe Johnson back then, and his performance has declined, Lance Stephenson averaged 13 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game last season, but that was when the Pacers occupied the first place in the league for most of the season.
When teammates aren't that good, Lance Stephenson is just a good role player.
Tonight, the Hornets met the Grizzlies, one of the two teams with the best start of the season, 95-110, the Hornets didn't make much of a struggle, the Grizzlies were all high, and Paul George even gave Klay Thompson an empty dunk three......
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7 wins in a row at the beginning!
After the first two game weeks, the Grizzlies won all 7 games!
However, on the 31st, the second week's Player of the Week was announced, and Sun Ce failed to win the Western Weekly Player of the Week for two consecutive weeks.
Sun Ce won the best of the week without any suspense in the first week with 3 wins + 63 points in the opening game, and the strong Paul won the best of the week in the first week in the east.
But Sun Ce's performance in the second week was tepid, averaging 24 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 3.5 blocks per game in four games...... Curry won all three games, averaged 27 points per game, and made six three-pointers per game to win the Western Conference Weekly Championship in the second week.
In the east, Griffin won the second week of the week.
Sun Ce can't help it, their whole team performance is so good, and before you know it, his average playing time per game has dropped to 31 minutes...... This is still the opening game played for more than 43 minutes, barely maintaining an average of more than 30 minutes per game.
Sun Ce knows that this situation can't last forever, but if he can, he hopes to extend it as long as possible, so that they can create more lead and have more time to adjust.
After playing against the Hornets, the Grizzlies have two days off before playing the final game of a five-game game against the Magic on Nov. 2.
Due to changes to the schedule, the season of the best month has been changed, the second half of October and November, as a race month, and the first 20 days of April, will also be incorporated into March, from this season, a season of the best number of times, only 5 times, which can be regarded as a boost to the gold content of this award.
Sun Ce regretted missing the best of the week, and he didn't immediately get the 30th weekly best of his career, and he didn't care too much, he was still far from the 45 weekly best of James, who is currently the first in history, and there was also a significant gap from the 37 weekly best of Kobe, who was second in history, and it was unlikely that he would catch up this season, so he was not in a hurry.
Looking at the schedule for the next few months, Sun Ce feels so wonderful, the most competitions in a month are only 15 games!
In fact, compared to last season, that is, two games were drawn for the two tightest months of the schedule, and then one game for each of the other three months except for April, all of which were played in October, so naturally the schedule of those months was easier.
There were only 13 games in November, and there was no back-to-back at once, which was good for their Grizzlies.
As the season deepens, the league feels that the players of each team have gradually become accustomed to the new rules, so the referee blowing penalties are not so severe.
The Grizzlies, who are in better form than other teams, have established an early advantage in the last few games, with more opportunities to adjust the details of the defensive end.
The main thing is to have a sharper response, the opponent can fight before the shooting action, but how to grasp the degree of confrontation, when the opponent makes a shooting action to exert pressure and prepare to make a shooting action, stop in time and turn to interfere with the shooting instead of interfering with the opponent's shooting action...... It takes time to get used to.
But they have adapted a step earlier than the other teams.
In the next month, Sun Ce estimates that all teams will start to get into shape, and the Grizzlies, who have adapted first, will have to take advantage of the fact that they are one step ahead of their opponents and quickly improve the team's chemistry.
It's a matter of starting out in form and getting a little bit of a form advantage as the season progresses.
In the back, it is the hard power of the stars, tactical coordination, and the chemistry between the players that are the most important.
In the middle and late stages, it is easier for the Mavericks, Spurs, and Hawks teams with clear tactical systems, steady running tactics, executing tactics, and team-first teams that have a clear tactical system from the beginning, regardless of the state, are more likely to enter the best state.
Fighting for the state in the early stage, fighting for the team in the middle and late stages, and fighting for the stars in the playoffs, the extension of the NBA schedule this season shows these three points vividly.
Soon, the first day off passed, and a new month came, and on November 1st, the Grizzlies began to prepare for the game.
However, the object of preparation is not tomorrow night's opponent Magic, nor is it the first opponent Clippers team on the 4th after starting a 5-game road trip, but the opponent Lakers on the 6th!
Sun Ce feels that the team really looks down on the Magic and the Clippers.
However, on November 2, the Magic took the lead in proving that they really don't need to be looked down upon by their opponents.
In 2015, Towns and Okafor made people drool when they looked at it, too many teams wanted to get them, and Embiid's rookie season selected in the draft was completely reimbursed.
129-108, the Grizzlies played well tonight, and they didn't defend much from the second quarter, but the Magic still couldn't narrow the gap to within 20 points, and the Grizzlies easily won eight straight games.
After playing the game against the Magic, the Grizzlies started a five-game road trip the next morning.
The first 4 games were Western teams, and the last 14 played the Bucks.
The first stop, Los Angeles, challenged the Clippers and Lakers.
Zu Goose also followed, Lily Collins has entered the due date, Sun Ce thinks it's really a coincidence, the last time he gave birth to a baby, it was when he was about to play a game with the Lakers, and this time too!
Because he was going to Los Angeles, Sun Ce did not ask for leave like last time, but followed the team to Los Angeles after playing the game with the Magic team.
It hadn't been seen for almost three months, and Sun Ce saw Lily Collins in a circle...... Sure enough, when the video was opened, the beauty was opened!
With two children in his belly, Sun Ce felt that Lily Collins' belly was even bigger than last time.
Watching Sun Ce study her belly like a toy and study the past, Lily Collins was angry and funny - sure enough, men can never mature.
In addition to watching Lily Collins, Sun Ce also took a look at Gohan Xiao by the way, I haven't seen him for a few months, Gohan has grown up a little bit again, and the child grows up very fast, Sun Ce remembers that when he left Los Angeles and returned to China to play the national team game, Gohan Xiao had just learned to walk, and now he was walking very well.
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After spending an afternoon in the hospital and handing over the goose to his mother and Lily Collins, Sun Ce returned to the hotel in the evening to continue his preparations.
His wife gave birth in Los Angeles, and Sun Ce hopes to get a touch of the luck of NBA players here who love to have daughters, preferably twin daughters.
He and Lily Collins didn't ask the doctor whether the boy was a girl or a girl, and Sun Ce's mother didn't ask, anyway, with Xiao Gohan, it didn't matter if the second child was a boy or a girl, with the mentality of scratching the lottery.
After a night's rest, it was Nov. 4 that the Grizzlies were preparing for the morning...... It's still the Lakers.
At 7 p.m., the Grizzlies' away game against the Clippers began.
Since Jokic won't be in the NBA until next season, the Clippers' goals this season are two-fold — to develop Wiggins and play badly.
This season's Clippers decisively started with a nine-game losing streak and firmly occupied the bottom spot.
The game was not much to watch, and the Clippers didn't want to win this season, especially when their general manager Sam Singey made it clear in an interview that he was going to swing badly, which brought a lot of psychological blow to the Clippers players.
The team is not good for the team, but the players must play hard, and it is clear that they have to play badly, which is a bit of a blow to their confidence in the role player lineup.
But the Clippers don't care, at present, they only focus on Wiggins, the second focus is Motai Yunas, and the main scorer is Jamal Crawford, whatever he wants.
Wiggins has lived up to his name, averaging 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.1 steals per game since the beginning of the season, with high athleticism, talent, and ball quotient.
Because of his size, Wiggins was compared to Paul George and Guy, and it was concluded that Wiggins was even more talented than Guy, who averaged 20+ per game in his sophomore year.
But Sun Ce felt that Wiggins needed to hold a thermos cup in his hand to match his noble temperament......
104-91, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Clippers to win nine in a row.
The score in this game was not high because the Grizzlies were practicing their own tactics, and the difference between the two teams was even only 4 points after the first half, but in the third quarter, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson began to exert their strength under the tandem of Paul George, and the two scored 5 three-pointers in a wave of bombing, and after playing a wave of 15-5 to stretch the difference to 14 points, they locked up the victory.
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9 wins in a row!
Sun Ce is very excited, the progress of their run-in this year is very good, it is not good to say anything else, there are three sets of combinations of defense has done a very good job, the effect is definitely not as good as before the rule change, it is inevitable that the NBA's average points per game will increase significantly, and they can only adapt to the existing rules.
Moreover, the league's overall average points per game has increased significantly, and their Grizzlies have also improved, so far this season, in 9 games, their Grizzlies have averaged 122 points per game!
Although it is certainly impossible to stay that high all the time, they took advantage of this time to make multiple sets of defensive coordination attempts.
The Grizzlies' offense this season is from the outside, but the defense is still dominated by the inside, with Randolph and Larry Sanders at the core of the three defenses, Gobert and Aldridge, Larry Sanders and ...... Sun Ce.
The trio, Randolph and Larry Sanders, work well in a fast-paced competition in regulation time; Falling into positional battles, Aldridge and Gobert defended best in combination.
As for the fast attack that needs to be defended, Sun Ce, Larry Sanders, and Paul George are the most suitable to partner in the frontcourt.
If it is purely a hard attack, Yi Jianlian and Richard Jefferson are more suitable.
As the schedule progressed to the beginning of November, the other teams began to find their groove and start to work on tactical run-in, and began to practice tactics to see what they were suitable for in the new season and what they needed to improve...... And so on and so forth, they Grizzlies have already gotten through that phase and have a very clear direction.
The direction to be adjusted on the offensive end and the clear core on the defensive end have all been figured out!
However, their Grizzlies started with 9 consecutive wins, and they are not the first in the league!
Played one more game than the Grizzlies, played a back-to-back Warriors at the beginning of the month, and started a 10-game winning streak!
The Warriors have had a blasting start to the season, their popularity has been soaring since last season's All-Star Weekend, and now, the Warriors' wave combination is no less in the limelight than their Splash Brothers and Lakers' god emperor combination.
The Warriors and Grizzlies, who have not tasted defeat since the start of the season, are the two teams that fans are focusing on at this stage.
Which of the two teams will lose first?
This has become the scene that the fans want to see the most, and the streak will definitely come to an end, and the fans know who will end their streak.
The Warriors are okay, they started the season against stronger opponents, and the next few games are not worth the strength of the opponents.
On the contrary, it is the Grizzlies, after 9 consecutive wins, the opponent who is expected to snipe their winning streak is coming!
The Lakers, who are in third place in the West with 7 wins and 3 losses!
Although the opening performance was not as strong as the Grizzlies and Warriors, the Lakers adjusted quickly, and they have a similar advantage to the Grizzlies with a deep lineup, but their core players are not as fast as the Grizzlies' group of young players.
By now, the Lakers have almost entered a normal rhythm, and many people believe that the Lakers are expected to end the Grizzlies' winning streak.
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The Grizzlies outside triangle and the Lakers' strongest outside combination meeting was originally one of the biggest highlights of the regular season, and now the Grizzlies are challenging the defending champion Lakers with a winning streak away from home, and even Warriors fans are paying attention to this game, at this moment, except for Grizzlies fans, everyone else is Lakers fans.
In the eyes of the media and fans, the Grizzlies' 9-game winning streak naturally wants a longer winning streak, and the Lakers definitely don't want to be the background of the Grizzlies' 10-game winning streak, and after more than half a month of the season, the Lakers' veterans are starting to enter the state, and it is bound to be a wonderful battle!
In the past few years, the Lakers and Grizzlies have never disappointed fans!