At halftime, the Grizzlies led the Suns by three points at 59-56 and went into halftime.

Sun Ce played 14 minutes in the first half, with 4 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 block, while Nash played the whole first half, with 11 points and 9 assists, almost a double-double in the half.

When Coach Hollins replaced Sun Ce with Conley, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Jordan Jr.'s lineup to grind defense, the Suns didn't replace Nash.

Gentry knew that the team had little chance of making the playoffs, and of course, the team still shouted "we will definitely make the playoffs" on the team publicity, but look at the Trail Blazers, who are currently eighth in the West, with 19 wins and 13 losses in 32 games, while the Trail Blazers were fourth in the West at one point.

The top eight teams are all monsters, and Gentry is pretty sure they don't stand a chance.

So when Nash is in good shape, let Nash play more, Nash plays well, the game is good, the fans are happy, Nash is happy, Gentry is happy, and returning to the home court can still attract fans to sell tickets, the owner is also happy, everyone is happy.

Because of the coach trade between Sloan and Thibodeau, the head coaches of many teams with poor records have begun to be cautious, and the most feared is the head coach who has the ability and the team has a big problem, and it is okay to be traded to a big city, such as New York, the capital of the United States, Gentry is happy to continue to play happily, but in case he goes to Minnesota......

Although the probability is not high, he Gentry still has to be on guard, after all, he is also a very good coach in the league.

However, Nash played really well tonight, Conley and Tony Allen led the team to consciously press the rhythm of defense, but still could not suppress the momentum of the Suns, fortunately, Morrow scored two three-pointers in a row in the second half of the second quarter to withstand the impact of the Suns.

The rhythm can't be suppressed, and it is directly related to the lack of Gasol Jr., originally the Grizzlies had Gasol Jr. and Tony Allen outside, and the two played together, with Sun Ce or Conley, Battier or Paul George, plus Randolph, can grind any team off a layer of skin.

But Gasol Jr. is not there, and it is more difficult to really grind out the opponent's slow-paced play.

Just as important as Randolph is on the offensive end, the bears are the foundation of the Grizzlies.

The tactics are around Sun Ce, from the beginning Sun Ce only came off the bench to drive the rotation, and now it has gradually become Sun Ce's presence, and both offensive and defensive ends are closely revolved around him.

In fact, this style of play has great flaws, for example, Sun Ce goes down, and the offense is very single, leaving only Gasol Jr. and Conley to cooperate with the organization of the attack and have to go up together and Randolph singles these two roads.

But the Grizzlies are not afraid of a single offense, they can score goals and score points, their focus is on defense, and no matter how bad the offense is, it will not be as bad as the Bobcats.

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Coming back from halftime, the Grizzlies continued to field a lineup of Conley, Tony Allen, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, Jordan Jr. and the opposite mill.

On the Suns' side, Nash was also substituted for a break, replaced by Brooks, Carter with the team, and Dudley, Hakeem Varik, and Lopez Jr. were on the team.

With Nash, the Suns can still have the strength of the Eastern Conference playoff team, and the offensive firepower is ferocious, without Nash, with Brooks controlling the ball, Carter can't touch the ball!

The game began to revolve around rebounding, and the duo were clearly much better than Lopez Jr. and Varik, who was already 29 years old and had a declining physical fit.

Little Jordan and Yi Jianlian have been playing together for a long time, and they have also cultivated a tacit understanding and have some small cooperation.

Relying on the speed, the two will cooperate if they have the opportunity to cooperate with the offensive rebound, the one directly below the basket is responsible for the card position, and the farther one is responsible for rushing.

If you play a team like the Lakers, Mavericks, and Celtics, where there are a bunch of big men on the inside and these big men have excellent card skills, this trick is not easy to use, and it will occasionally be used in reverse, such as when playing the Mavericks.

But playing the Suns, who have not had the habit of playing in positions for many years, the more dexterous Yi Jianlian is paired with little Jordan, whose card skills are getting more and more powerful, Yi Jianlian has 6 points and 3 boards in the first half of the quarter, all offensive rebounds!

The Grizzlies have rebounding on their side, and Brooks is purely giving Jordan Jr. a board.

With the two of them combined for eight rebounds in the first quarter, the Grizzlies went on a 14-6 scoring shockwave.

At 73-62, the Grizzlies led by 11 points.

When the Grizzlies stretched the margin to 11 points, Gentry called a timeout.

After the timeout, both sides sent out their own point guards.

Sun Ce took the field with the lineup of Morrow, Paul George, Sam Young, and Yi Jianlian.

Nash, for his side, took the court with a lineup of Josh Childres, Dudley, Hill and Frye.

It's all a lineup that runs offensively.

As long as Nash is there, Gentry will definitely be worthy of running and bombing the lineup, and without Stoudemire, they have nothing to pursue, just play happily and try to win.

Coach Hollins chose to resign himself to his fate.

This time back, Nash did not have the magic of 11+9 in the first half, and he didn't rest for a minute at halftime, which was a little tiring for Nash, after all, he was 37 years old for more than a month, and playing 30-33 minutes per game was his limit.

Of course, veterans will occasionally break out after a decline in physical strength, but it can't happen every day, at least not in this game.

The Suns didn't close the gap, Carter returned to the court and singles didn't work, and Hill couldn't support it.

Carter + Nash + Hill, the trio that could have been regarded as a dream combination at the beginning of the century if they were unharmed, can now only watch the opposite side sweat wantonly.

In the 11th minute of the third quarter, Sun Ce Yi Jianlian blocked and broke into the middle distance on the right side, and when Hill switched defenses, he faked his right hand to catch the ball but did not touch the ball, but slapped the ball to the right with his left hand, shaking Hill away!

Tim Hardaway occasionally played heads-up with Sun Ce in addition to Sun Ce's training, Sun Ce deliberately learned this little move, and used it coldly in the high-speed position change!

Sun Ce jumped to the right side, and the beautiful frame singles moved sideways and jumped!

At this time, Carter pounced, and the difference was 20 points.

Sun Ce jumped up and down with this action, and he didn't notice where his teammates were, and the bounce height was not high enough to pass the ball in the air, so he could only lean back as hard as he could to avoid Carter's block......

When Sun Ce lies back more than 60 degrees, the system prompt comes!

Sun Ce pushed the ball out in a position close to lying flat, but the shot was perfect!

The ball was thrown out to avoid such a big old jumper, Carter, who was still a big jumper, and hit a mid-range jumper one step away from the free throw line!

When the ball was thrown, the fans at the scene were all exclaiming, and they were scared in their exclamations, afraid that Sun Ce would be injured.

But I didn't expect Sun Ce to actually throw the ball in!

And the balance is well maintained, and it lands steadily!

Watching Sun Ce throw the ball in, fall to the floor, and then quickly get up and pat his ass and run back, Gentry on the sidelines called a timeout.

Isn't this Nima Nash's back-lying jumper?

Such a big one, a huge figure that is 1 cm taller than Nash, can actually play this hand!

This flexibility, this balance......

Gentry has always been very concerned about Sun Ce and has great admiration for Sun Ce's attitude of always training hard, yes, as a head coach, Gentry must use admiration to describe such a player.

But I didn't expect this guy to practice all these strange tricks!

Even Nash, who was watching the performance from the side, couldn't help but laugh.

He felt that one day everything he would learn from this kid!

Sun Ce himself is very high, otherwise he will definitely wail and try to see if he can deceive the referee, and he will definitely not throw himself into it and run away.

90-69, it was rare for the Grizzlies to score such a high score, and Sun Ce walked back to the bench, knowing that he would be replaced.

I took a look at a rare prompt from the system prompt just now.

"Steve Nash's Backward Shooting Skill Level 2 triggered, and the host's step-back jumper ignored the loss of balance caused by excessive leaning."

Ignoring the impact of the face-frame sideways step-over jumper on the take-off and the loss of balance due to excessive flinch back...... The skills that one Novitsky got from and the one that Nash got here were unexpectedly combined!

The two of them really practiced skills together!

It's just a matter of combining these two tricks...... Sun Ce didn't know how he got the ball out just now, so he felt his blood go up, so he got the ball in.

Let him do it again, he really can't do it.

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Sure enough, both teams replaced their main players, and due to the opposite garbage time sent Brooks, Conley on the Grizzlies' side also replaced, and pressed with Morrow and Battier, with Sam Young and Haddadi on the inside.

Jason Williams still wants to show off a wave of passes to Sun Ce, so he can only wait for the next opportunity.

He's going to show the team that he can now switch perfectly between normal and normal passing.

Jason Williams feels like he's in pain!

At the peak of athleticism, I didn't combine these two things, and when I played a game for seven or eight minutes at most, I had such awareness, ability, and experience.

This is the difference between ordinary stars and real superstars.

In the end, the Grizzlies defeated the Suns 119-101 to win the third game in five days and four games.

5 days, 4 games, 3 wins and 1 loss, which is a very good result.

Sun Ce scored 19 points in the third quarter today and got 11 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists, which is not as good as Nash's 14 points and 11 assists, but it is not bad, Sun Ce has a lot less playing time.

In fact, Nash still has A+ level ability, but it's a pity that he is missing a superstar insider.

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The Grizzlies had a beautiful finish this year, 25-7, second in the West! Second in the league!

After playing the Suns, the Grizzlies got three days off, and although No. 4 and No. 5 were back-to-back, there were only 13 games in the entire month of January, and the overall was very easy, just No. 4 and No. 5 back-to-back this time.

It's just that after practicing the Nash training method, Sun Ce, who went home and took a shower and hugged his little sister to sleep, looked at the team manual sent after tonight's game, and saw the two opponents No. 4 and No. 5......

Magic, Mavericks!

Play these two teams back-to-back at home!

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Update by 2 p.m. tomorrow.