693. The Gambler's Master and Apprentice (Part 3, Nearing Chapter 5K)
Paul's confident mid-range shot instead of breaking through was the fatal mistake he ever made.
Sun Ce likes the kind of opponent who is obviously at a big disadvantage in stature but wants to rely on ball quotient, rhythm, and technique to deal with him, especially the opponent who has not played for a long time.
Because opponents who are at an extreme disadvantage in terms of size and other aspects often have to do the limit to successfully shoot him in a one-on-one jumper from the outside, especially if the opponent has been successful in this area before, he may be more confident.
Then, relying on Olajuwon's hand strap to increase the speed and bounce when blocking, Sun Ce gave Paul a big hat!
Seeing Sun Ce's arrogant appearance, Paul really wanted to jump up and knock this guy on the knee!
Isn't the progress remarkable?
However, the speed of progress of Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian, two Chinese players, made Paul feel terrible, not only them, but this season, many players have made great progress.
Love, Rose, Evans and Sun Ce, there are four such players in a season, I don't know how many years ago, anyway, Paul has encountered this situation for the first time in his career.
Paul came to the sideline to receive the serve and was glued to Tony Allen again!
Tony Allen, who has the strongest single defense in the guard line, Sun Ce, who has excellent help defense ability, Paul George, who has excellent defensive talent, Battier, who is very good at shooting short big forwards like Shaun Williams, and Yi Jianlian, who has good mobility ability......
Now that the space is so open, Paul would love to give the ball to Stoudemire for a single, which is the easiest way to solve the problem.
But this can't be done, the team relies on him and Stoudemire to support, he plays an average of 39 minutes per game, and Stoudemire plays an average of 37 minutes per game.
That being the case, Paul stepped back from the top arc and made a long-range three-point shot......
Paul's three-point improvement this year is indeed very great! Such shots were all stable and positive, but unfortunately the force was a little bigger, and it bounced off the back edge of the basket.
Yi Jianlian quickly stuck Stoudemire, and Sun Ce quickly closed in to grab the defensive rebound and counterattacked!
Sun Ce quickly advanced to the frontcourt, the Knicks didn't defend well, but the retreat was so fast that they couldn't do it, they defended at two points, Stoudemire retracted to the basket, and when he encountered a player who burst in, he could block it, and if he couldn't cover it, he quickly picked up the ball and served; The outside line tries its best to block three points, and the middle shot loves to vote but not to vote.
When Sun Ce rushed to the frontcourt, although the Knicks' retreat position was completely manned, and the people they were staring at were not the ones they should be defending, the retreat was in place!
Sun Ce saw Sean Williams in front of him, did not slow down, and sprinted directly to the right side, Sean Williams is okay with the big forward, and it is difficult to defend the small forward, otherwise he will not be made by D'Antoni to play the center.
Sun Ce rushed into the inside line without hindrance, at this time Paul rushed from the sideline violently, Sun Ce grabbed the ball and took three steps towards the three-second area, Yi Jianlian, who had already entered the inside line, hurriedly walked away, Stoudemire saw Sun Ce's posture of blocking the buckle, and chose to take a step back.
Sun Ce put the ball into the basket with a one-handed smash.
Sun Ce dunked the ball in, and while it was still on the ground, Stoudemire returned to the basket, received the ball that bounced off the floor, and immediately sent it to Paul.
The Knicks are rushing again!
Stoudemire usually came up to score a few points in the team's offensive phase, and then relied on his own containment to affect the opponent's defense, and tonight the Knicks continued their excellent performance over the past month.
Stoudemire pinned down the defense, Paul pushed on the counterattack, and Paul himself was extremely threatening, the quasi-180 shooting superstar, and Sean Williams, who rushed to the bottom corner, was vacant again!
After receiving a pass from Paul, Sean Williams hit his second three-pointer of the game!
The Knicks offense ran fiercely, and the position was also very chaotic, Yi Jianlian has been playing in the Grizzlies' rotation lineup for so long, and he judged that it was time to serve quickly, and when Shaun Williams made a three-point shot and fell from the basket, he immediately picked up the ball from the stuck position and withdrew from the bottom line, and quickly sent it to Sun Ce, and the Grizzlies also counterattacked!
In terms of advancing the counterattack, Sun Ce will not lose to Paul, the opportunity is so good, of course Sun Ce will not let it go.
The two teams started running!
The game became such a situation, the happiest thing was the fans, the two teams were really good-looking, the last time I saw such a confrontation that didn't care about defense at all, it was the 06-07 season when the Suns played the Warriors.
The players on both teams also played well, with D'Antoni and Paul on the Knicks' side happy, but Coach Hollins on the Grizzlies' side not happy.
Sun Ce is still too young!
This lineup seems to be suitable for running and bombing, but he arranged this lineup to play not to fight against the opponent, but to defend!
If you really want to run and bang, Mo Luo + Shuangdi and Sun Ce are not much stronger than this, and the two seven-foot big men rushed in and Stoudemire were going to cry.
But the experience, judgment, and decision-making ability on the court, Sun Ce is still too far behind Paul.
Sun Ce didn't even know that he had been educated by Paul!
But it has already been played like this, and it is unlikely that it will be adjusted temporarily, and when it came to the official timeout, Coach Hollins did not stop continuing to play the run-and-bomb, but replaced Battier and Tony Allen with Morrow and Jordan Jr., plus Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian, and Paul George, and replaced them with the most suitable lineup for the run-and-bomb.
It's really not a wise choice to fight with the Knicks on offense, the opponent has too many three-pointers! In the 8-9 man rotation, except for Mozgov, who has not appeared in the first quarter, the other seven or eight people, including Stoudemire, have a three-point shooting rate of more than 35 percent!
Coach Hollins really wondered how D'Antoni could find so many shots from a pile of "rags", and it was not the first time, there were two "pick-ups" during the Suns' time.
After the first quarter, the Grizzlies trailed by 4 points 33-37 and entered the intermission, if it wasn't for Yi Jianlian's final dunk, they would have fallen behind by more than 5 points in the first quarter!
The Grizzlies are good at maintaining their advantage when they are ahead, but they are not so good at turning the tables when they are behind by a large score, and in that case, they generally rely on Sun Ce.
The Grizzlies are generally a slightly strengthened version of the Spurs' defense and weakened offense at the beginning of the century, and the weakness is not that the Grizzlies team's offense is not as good as the Spurs at that time, but that they do not have invincible players like Duncan who were at their peak.
Duncan's first MVP season, averaging 25 points per game, since the new century, except for O'Neal and Yao Ming, no interior player can score 25 points per game in a team with a sparse offense like Duncan, and Stoudemire is not very likely.
Randolph was originally the object of Coach Hollins' expectations, but it turned out that it was possible for Randolph to get 30+ in eight consecutive games, but after playing a wave, what followed would be a long period of malaise, Randolph scored about 18 points per game is the best choice, and can maintain long-term stability, so that he can occasionally break out, and finally at the end of the season, he will average 20+10 per game in the season.
Coach Hollins has a lot of headaches, the game is always not quite what was expected, especially now that he is trying to command the team from the big picture, thinking more and feeling more troubled when there is change.
Keep running until halftime to make changes? Or is it a quick decision?
It depends on Sun Ce!
Coach Hollins called Sun Ce over: "Noah, ...... today"
"Get my jersey ready!"
“……”
Coach Hollins looked at Sun Ce, who turned around and went to the technical table, as if he rushed up and kicked the dead child to death.
Is it okay to give the manager a chance to finish his talk?
However, there was no problem on Sun Ce's side, Coach Hollins chose the first of the two ideas and began to equip Sun Ce with a suitable partner......
In fact, Coach Hollins enjoys strategizing, not opening easily in regular time, and pretending happily, but he has to win!
I can only hope that the first half can be held, and the plan for the second half can be implemented smoothly!
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Sun Ce came to the technical station to wipe magnesium powder, the TV commentator saw Coach Hollins arranging tactics for the players over there, Conley did not take off his training clothes, and only three players did not wear training clothes, Sun Ce seemed to be going to play in the second quarter, but he didn't listen to the tactics, and rubbed magnesium powder in front of the technical table.
The commentator of the Canadian TV station first sprayed a wave and said that in the signal on the US side, the commentator of the American cable TV station is okay, mainly because he is used to it.
On the domestic TV station, Su Qun began to wipe Sun Ce's ass again for not listening to tactics......
Although Sun Ce didn't find out that he was driven by Paul, he also knew that his performance was not as good as Paul.
The first quarter was not too tiring, and it was no problem to run and play all out in the first half.
He now has 9 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, Paul's side has 6 points and 6 assists in a single quarter, from a team point of view, he really doesn't play as well as Paul, and he has to score more by himself, which is also related to the fact that the pitcher is not as much as the other side, but this is something that can't be helped, and the other side is not as many as their interior manpower.
It's just that the shooting form of the opposite side is really good.
The intermission is coming to an end, Sun Ce looked at the goal of tonight's events, he didn't have a chance to dunk Stoudemire twice, and the assist was just as good as Paul's appearance, and Stoudemire fought for dunks, and people dunked 3 times, and he only had 1 time.
Rather, he has beaten Paul once, averaging 3.6 blocks per game this season, with three more ......
Sun Ce had to admit that it seemed that the effort of capping was relatively easy to do.
But the key is to win!
His stats look better than Paul's, and it's better to compare the two with their average data per game.
But as long as you are not blind and watch the game, you know that Paul's performance is obviously better than him.
Even if he didn't know that his rhythm was brought to Paul's side, he knew that he didn't perform as well as Paul, and the score was obvious!
"Take a gamble! Let's continue to fight first, and bet on that card! ”
Sun Ce and Coach Hollins have the same idea this time, and the gamblers are dispatched to master and apprentice!
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Back from the break, on the Grizzlies' side, the lineup of Sun Ce, Jason Williams, Morrow, Randolph, and Yi Jianlian played.
The Knicks, for their part, fielded a lineup of Paul, Derrick Brown, Novak, Sheldon Williams, and Turiaf.
Looking at the group of role players on the Knicks' side, if they were going to play for the Grizzlies for free before the season, Coach Hollins wouldn't want it.
But now, most of these players, whose contracts will expire this summer, have become sweets and have doubled in value!
The Knicks' role players play well, and D'Antoni's suggestion that management give them a one-year contract, a one-year contract year for players to play the hardest and hardest when they join a new team, which is D'Antoni's experience.
There is also a point that Coach Hollins is very jealous, the opponent did not send Paul + Mozgov in the first half of the second quarter as usual to slow down the rhythm, obviously, the mustache of the opponent judged that their side was going to focus on offense in the second quarter!
The game is difficult, but it has to be calm, Coach Hollins sat on the bench lightly on the surface, and he was panicked in his heart!
Fortunately, the offense on their side is not very bad, Yi Jianlian and Randolph's interior combination mobility is okay, and the two pitchers Jason Williams and Morrow also shoot well, giving Sun Ce a chance to compete with Paul.
However, Sun Ce is more actually scoring by himself, Paul consciously asked his teammates not to pinch Sun Ce, if Sun Ce breaks into the interior in a positional battle or counterattack, he would rather let Sun Ce face the "center" one-on-one to score easily, trying to affect the Grizzlies' outside shooters' feel, although the Grizzlies have an offensive rebounding advantage, but not every time they can grab it.
However, Paul's teammates fought together, but there was no specific defensive tactical arrangement, and they would listen to the arrangement when Paul emphasized it, but after a round or two, they forgot that Sun Ce did a good job of passing the ball to his teammates.
Halfway through the second quarter, relying on Morrow's three-point shot, the Grizzlies were still very strong to narrow the gap to two points.
This is all due to the fact that the Grizzlies' lineup is better than that of the opposite side, even if the group of water cooler administrators on the opposite side are under D'Antoni and play well on the offensive end as if by magic, but the strength is still far from the starting ones.
However, in the seventh minute of the second quarter, after the Knicks re-replaced Stoudemire, the Knicks went on a 14-9 run in the last five minutes, stretching the difference to seven points and entering the halftime break.
With 64 points at halftime, the Grizzlies did their best, but the Knicks scored 71 points in the half!
The last few minutes are really just over, and the situation is like this, without entering the intermission or halftime, Coach Hollins does not dare to adjust the style of play at will, but it can still form a confrontation, rather than taking risks, it is better to play until halftime.
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Back in the locker room, Coach Hollins began to arrange the defense, in the second half, there was a strong rhythm mutation, Coach Hollins is not worried about the rhythm change on his side, Sun Ce, as the core of the ball, is very capable in this regard, which is also incomparable to Conley.
In the first half, when the lineup was rotated, Coach Hollins also consciously let the three key players who pressed the rhythm rest, and their rhythm was controlled by Sun Ce, and theoretically they would not be affected too much by the first half, especially after a halftime break, there should be no problem.
Whether you can prevent it, whether you can contain the rhythm of the other party, it depends on this wave!
Sun Ce ran wildly for 24 minutes in the half, although he was running and bombing, he was tired enough, he had to score! Teammates alone are not enough to support such a high score.
I'm going to change my jersey, but this time I didn't use stamina potions......
"Uncle Learning Machine, you are the master! Use the Quad Double Card! ”
"The host uses a random star experience card of four doubles players in a single game to randomly select the ......"
See Chamberlain, Olajuwon, Elwin Robertson, David Robinson, Nate Thurmond...... There is also a stereoscopic image of his grandson himself appearing in the system screen, this time it is really a gamble!
If you draw yourself, or Elvin Robertson, you're really done.
Draw yourself this season...... It's not much different from physical energy potion, and when he thinks about it this way, Sun Ce himself doesn't know whether to be sad or happy......
Sun Ce's most painful point is that the general manager of the Pacers played a steal in three quarters, but he didn't get four doubles!
The guy who was drawn was clearly the best fit in every way!
Just when Sun Ce was thinking nonsense, the system prompt came.
"Congratulations to the host for getting the Hakim Olajuwon 1989-1990 version of the Star Experience Card,
Hakiem Olajuwon 1989-1990 Edition, 27 years old, Ability Rating S+, Offensive S-, Defensive S+...... averaged 24.3 points, 14 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 2.1 steals and 4.6 blocks per game...... Matchmaking bonus......"
"I'm a! What kind of fairy data is this! ”