1603. The lord is so miserable (5000 words for subscription)
Originally, Sun Ce's 50+ triple-doubles in the All-Star Game properly locked the headlines, and Lianzhuang All-Star MVP was the second player to win Lianzhuang All-Star MVP after Hawks legend Bob Petit.
But when the league announced that it was going to name the All-Star MVP the Kobe Bryant Cup...... Sun Ce's headlines were snatched away!
In the past, it was Sun Ce who grabbed other people's headlines, but now it is finally Sun Ce's turn to be robbed of the headlines.
All-Star Game 50+ triple-doubles, if you want to grab the headlines of such a performance, if it is a major event that happens in basketball itself, there are really few things that can be done, coincidentally, the naming of the All-Star MVP trophy is just enough to attract attention.
This is the second time in NBA history that the last player to receive this award was Bill Russell, and although the All-Star MVP cannot be compared to the Finals MVP, this is also the second person in history.
NBA trophies are named by people: All-Star MVP Trophy Bryant Cup, Finals MVP Trophy Russell Cup, Best Coach Trophy Auerbach Cup, Championship Trophy O'Brien Cup, Regular Season MVP Trophy Morris Podorov Cup, and nothing else.
Some experts once suggested that the scoring champion trophy be named the Michael Jordan Cup to reward its historical No. 1 scoring per game and the No. 1 scoring champion, but Zhang Erwan, who scored 100 points in a single game, and Abdul-Jabbar, who ranked first in the total scoring list, finally failed.
There are also experts who suggest naming the Block King Trophy after Olajuwon, but there are no statistics in ancient times, and there are all kinds of things, and it is said that Chamberlain and Russell averaged 5+ blocks per game.
And the Most Improved Award, the Best Sixth Man, etc., it's hard to say who is the most inspirational or which sixth person is more representative, and there are really few trophies that are suitable for naming stars for the time being.
After the Finals MVP trophy was named after Kobe, fans on the Internet began to wonder what trophies could be named, and in the case of almost no way to find them, they really found them, but basically they were all All-Star Weekend trophies.
Some fans voted on Twitter and Facebook, and the highest overall votes were: Three-Point Contest Championship Trophy - Reggie Miller Cup, Slam Dunk Contest Championship Trophy - Vince Carter Cup, Skills Challenge Championship Trophy - Steve Nash Cup, Rookie Game MVP Trophy - Lords Cup.
In addition, the Most Progressive Award Trophy - the Lord's Cup...... This is even more recognized by fans than the trophy naming of the All-Star Weekend, the three-point contest, the dunk contest, and the skill challenge are all debated, but the fastest progress award is thought to be Sun Ce, who is the only player who has won the fastest improvement award many times.
Judging from the experience of Russell and Kobe, the name is related to the number of times they have won awards.
Kobe's name was used as the title of All-Star MVP, which caused waves of topics, so Sun Ce was miserably robbed of the headlines, and instead became a hot topic on Google and Twitter...... It's even hotter than when he got a 50+ triple-double in the All-Star Game and won the Kobe Bryant Cup!
"The Lord is so miserable"
After the All-Star Game, the topic became popular.
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Looking at the discussion on the Internet, Sun Ce also felt that he was so miserable.
The three-point contest championship trophy, the All-Star MVP trophy, two trophies to take home, but there is nothing to be happy about.
But this has little to do with the name of the All-Star MVP trophy, it hurt a lot last night, but I don't feel it when I get up after sleeping, what can I do about this kind of thing?
Kobe Bryant is indeed one of the key players who supported the NBA's ratings and popularity in the first ten years of the NBA after Jordan's retirement, and he deserved this award, but the time he came made him sad and turned into a back.
However, if you win a prize, you will win a prize, and if you win a three-point contest trophy, although you can't get a reward, you will always be angry!
And it's a bit of a legend, with the lowest score in history in the previous year and the highest score in history in the second year, neither of which is likely to be broken.
Also, he got the 2nd All-Star MVP trophy, which is 4 short of surpassing Kobe Bryant, but I don't know if James will find a way to help Kobe get another one before Kobe retires, with Sun Ce's understanding of James, this is possible.
This is something uncontrollable, Sun Ce knows that it is surprisingly difficult to surpass Kobe's 5 times, and it may be more difficult than three consecutive championships, and there are only two players who have 4 All-Star MVPs in NBA history, which is much less than the number of three consecutive championships.
Sun Ce's pain is that he returned to Memphis after recording a new song this afternoon, and as soon as he got home, he saw the ancestral goose flying up, he was about to hug it, and the ancestral goose passed by him, and when he reacted, the ancestral goose had already opened his suitcase, snatched the two trophies, and ran to the honor room.
When I got back to my room, I saw Lily Collins listening to the All-Star Weekend live version of "Sugar," laughing as she listened.
Lily Collins and Sun Ce know the roots, and of course they know what Sun Ce wants to express.
When the parents returned, they also circled Gohan and Lily Collins.
Sun Ce felt that he had nothing to love, and sure enough, a man with a child has no status at all, and it is useless to struggle!
Sun Ce could only come to the training hall to practice the Nash training method, and tomorrow he had to prepare for the 30 games at the end of the regular season.
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All-Star Weekend is over, and the NBA is back up and running in an orderly manner.
The Grizzlies got two days off after the All-Star weekend, and started the game on the 22nd, Sun Ce and the team returned to Memphis for a day of rest, and on the 21st, they began to prepare for the next home game against the Knicks, who also came to Memphis on the 20th, and Dragic still came to Memphis on a Grizzlies charter flight.
And on the 21st, some teams have already started the game.
Sun Ce looked at the schedules of other teams, and in the remaining 8 days of the month, other teams all had 3 games, and even some teams only had 2 games, and like the Hornets and Pelicans, who only had two games, they started on the 21st.
But the Grizzlies have four games, starting with No. 22, having one game at No. 24, and back-to-back at No. 26 and No. 27......
The schedule is like this, and it can only be accepted.
After the All-Star Weekend, Tony Allen and Stoudemire returned, these two are very hard players, but both have suffered serious injuries, Tony Allen is okay, Stoudemire's side, as a high school rookie, has never had any skills, practiced ball control, practiced mid-range shooting...... But injuries still didn't let him go.
The comeback of these two has given Sun Ce more confidence in the 30 games after the All-Star Weekend.
At present, their Grizzlies are 36-26, and it is unlikely that they will win 60 games, and to win 60 games, they will have to play a 24-6 record after All-Star Weekend, which is an 80 percent win rate...... The Spurs and Lakers had a winning percentage of about that before the All-Star weekend, and the Grizzlies were a little too hard for them to play like that.
Sun Ce estimates that only the Lakers and Spurs have a chance to win 60 in the West this year, and only one team in the East has a possibility, in Sun Ce's view, it is not the 46-7 Pacers, but the 41-13 Bulls.
At the end of the morning training and the rest time after lunch, Sun Ce looked at the record ranking in the east, and the competition was fierce!
The 30-24 Knicks are only eighth in the East, but they are not weak, Dragic, Pierce, and Howard are all healthy, and the role player lineup is not bad.
However, it is not very strong, and it is generally unstable, they have the Lakers who overturned the menacing team at home, and they also lost at home to the Kings team whose star Cousins broke Howard.
The Knicks don't have a truly dominant player, and the best player is Dragic, who averages 21 points, 3 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game.
After analyzing the situation on the Knicks' side, Sun Ce took a nap for an hour, got up at two o'clock in the afternoon, and trained his teammates to defend under the guidance of the coaching staff.
The All-Star Weekend has passed, and their Grizzlies' goal of grinding in defense must be launched as soon as possible, and they can maintain their record by averaging 111.5 points per game in the regular season, but in the playoffs, they still have to fight defensively!
As far as Sun Ce's understanding goes, even the Warriors, who have the best three pitchers in the league who have completely entered the small-ball era, are also a team with a very strong defense, Klay Thompson, Durant, Iguodala, Draymond Green, the defense of this four-man group is very strong! Three of them together, paired with a rim-protected center, and Curry, who has almost average defense, is definitely one of the best teams in the playoffs.
Therefore, when some experts criticized their Grizzlies for being "stubborn" and always thinking about finding back defense and not knowing how to change with the development of the times, Sun Ce directly sprayed it.
Defend to win a championship and always work in the playoffs!
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After a day of preparation, on February 22, the game day between the Grizzlies and the Knicks arrived.
At 5 p.m., the game began.
The Knicks' effort tonight was far below the expectations of Sun Ce and his teammates!
The Knicks have only one goal tonight - to flank Sun Ce like crazy!
On the Grizzlies' side, Coach Hollins seized the opportunity to make adjustments and let Sun Ce use his vision advantage to pass.
The Knicks' approach, Time Warner Cable Sports' commentator Arroyo, who was broadcast live in New York and Tennessee, guessed the reason they were playing the way they did.
First, he was beaten by Sun Ce and lost the idea of confrontation; On this basis, the second reason is extended, two days ago, Sun Ce got a 50+ triple-double in the All-Star Game, and three days ago, Sun Ce's three-point contest was hot; No. 13, Sun Ce 64+37...... The Knicks players are mentally prepared, even if they lose miserably tonight, they don't want to be the background of Sun Ce's outbreak, and they were beaten by Sun Ce by 70 points at home, not only breaking the historical record of 62 points in the third quarter in the conventional sense, but even Chamberlain's 69 points in the first three quarters of 100 points in a single game, which is generally not regarded as the highest score in the third quarter of the third quarter!
Regardless of whether Sun Ce broke out tonight or not, the Knicks didn't dare to take chances, and just lock Sun Ce directly.
In the first three quarters, Sun Ce played 29 minutes, got 11 points, 13 boards, 15 assists, 4 blocks and 3 steals, the offensive end protected the ball, seized the opportunity to pass the ball, grabbed the board, blocked, stealed, played hard to pounce, easily hit the rebounds and assists to double digits, in the 11th minute of the third quarter, Sun Ce struggled to grab the offensive rebound and caused a foul and made two free throws to increase the score to 11 points, and then Coach Hollins signaled Beverley to foul, was replaced.
Triple double for the 27th time of the season!
When Sun went down to rest, the Grizzlies led by 22 points, 85-63.
In the end, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Knicks, who had no desire to survive, 113-95.
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After playing the game against the Knicks, they had a day off, and on the 24th, the Grizzlies welcomed the Clippers, who were the last in the league.
It wasn't easy to win this game, and it was mainly due to the Grizzlies' own operation, and Coach Hollins didn't care about the score at all, and tried to adjust the defense.
Anyway, the probability of hitting the top three in the West is not high, and the probability of falling out of the top five is not very high, encountering an opponent like the Clippers, who is neither a playoff powerhouse nor a direct competitor, and the Grizzlies have mainly experimented with defense in the first three quarters, and they have done ...... It's okay, but the offense was affected, scoring only 63 points in the first three quarters, and trailing the Clippers by 8 points 63-71 into the fourth quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies were nervous, but the Clippers were also playing with Jamal Crawford and Motai Yunas.
In the final quarter, the Grizzlies and Clippers began to attack again, playing a single quarter score of 37-29 and entering overtime tied at 100!
The overtime game was ugly, the Clippers only scored 1 point, or Larry Sanders ate a technical foul and Redick hit a free throw, and the Grizzlies went on a 4-1 overtime score to narrow the Clippers 104-101.
Sun Ce scored 41 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks and 1 steal tonight's iconic 4 times 5 data, increasing his 40+ times in a single game this season to 15! In the case of almost being overtaken by Durant, the average points per game returned to 33 points, beating Durant, who scored 20 points in the first game after returning from the All-Star weekend to 32.9 points per game.
The Grizzlies improved their record to 38-16 after returning from the All-Star weekend, and Beverley was injured again......
There's no way to stop it, you can't let Beverley play and not fight so hard, right?
No one would do that, and neither would Sun Ce, because Beverley relied on this hard work to get the admiration of Coach Hollins and Tony Allen, the former chose to sign him, and the latter patiently coached Beverley after he joined, allowing him to play at the level of the best defensive team in his second year.
People rely on hard work to eat, and they also rely on hard work to win the respect of their teammates, and the core of the defense he relies on to survive is the strongest hard work in the league, and there is less hard work...... With Beverley's short stature, no skills, and only unstable open three-pointers, there is no way to survive in the NBA.
Sun Ce knows that Beverley misses nearly 30 games due to injury almost every year, and this teammate is very good in the game, daring to shoot and defending well, but his injury situation has to be borne by the team.
Thankfully, Tony Allen is back and the team can get through.
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After playing two home games, the most difficult game at the end of February, the back-to-back games against the Hornets and Lakers at home are here!
Given that a player was injured in the game against the Clippers and had to play one of their direct rivals, the Lakers, Coach Hollins was particularly cautious in this trip to Charlotte.
Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Richard Jefferson were rested in turn, and Coach Hollins put 11 players in the activation list in this game, and all three did not go to Charlotte and stayed in Memphis to rest.
Two of the team's four top scorers did not participate in the game, and the Hornets are strong this year, with a starting lineup composed of Kemba Walker, Henderson, McGegie, Josh McRoberts, and Al Jefferson, playing quite strongly in this game, but the strength is the defense, and the Grizzlies are not significantly behind!
The Grizzlies have 11 players playing tonight, even Gobert has played, and only 7 players in the Grizzlies team scored, but 5 of them scored double-doubles, except for Sun Ce, who threw 37 times, everyone else scored 10 points and 11 points......
Sun Ce shot 16 of 37, including 5 of 14 three-pointers, plus free throws, and hurricane 42 points, 14 boards, 4 assists and 6 blocks, but the Grizzlies only scored 89 points as a team!
Klay Thompson had 11 points, Motai Yunas had 10 points, Hardaway Jr. had 11 points and Stoudemire Jr. had 10 points off the bench...... The other two players who scored, Mr. Tony with two points and Amir Johnson with two points......
In the end, Sun Ce couldn't move, and he made 37 shots in 40 minutes......
In the end, the Grizzlies lost 89-95 to the Hornets, and the winning streak was ended.
In this battle, Sun Ce's personal record reached two more milestones, he reached 16 times in a single game 40+ times this season, tying his 16 times in a single game 40+ last season, and then, the number of 20 iron times in a single game reached 23 times.
Sun Ce has the impression that McRoberts is very suitable for the Bobcats' style of play, with Al Jefferson, McGegie, and Kemba Walker, he played a very good offensive and defensive performance, and Sun Ce feels that McRoberts is a real thigh in this game! On the offensive end, McRoberts' presence is too strong, with 9 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists, and it feels like the Hornets have McRoberts everywhere on the offensive end.
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The loss to the Hornets turned the Grizzlies to 38-17 and lost the chance to pick up 40 wins before heading into March.
For the first time in four years, apart from a shortened season, the Grizzlies have failed to complete four game months and win fewer than 40 games.
For the rest of the Grizzlies, even Paul George and Klay Thompson, they think this is normal, the record is always good and bad, and the 38-17 record, which ranks fourth in the West, is already a very good record.
It's just that Sun Ce is used to a good record, and he hasn't tried to fail in college, so he feels that this record is not good.
The reason why those superstars in the 80s and early 90s wanted to play four years of college before entering the NBA was that in addition to wanting to polish their skills and enter the NBA to shine, college basketball was actually just as cruel, and if they lost the knockout round, they would be directly out, and most stars could not win the championship during the NCAA period, and they could use this to hone their minds.
In this regard, Sun Ce still has to practice!
At this point, Sun Ce was also helpless after getting feedback from the veteran, he won 50+ games in his rookie year, and he had never experienced too miserable failures, so he couldn't get used to it......