Fighting the Timberwolves actually used a physical strength potion, and Sun Ce was a little painful.

However, for the sake of Nash's arthritis and back muscle tension, two injuries that have plagued him over the past two years, Coach Hollins did not let Nash enter the activation list this time around.

Vazquez played 4 minutes and was tackled twice by Rubio, only to be reached by Sun Ce.

Played 20 minutes in the first half, went all out, and halfway through the third quarter, Sun Ce couldn't hold on, and the advantage of his style of play is that it is easy to take advantage of the opportunities created by his teammates, and he can cooperate with his teammates to complete a high-quality game at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

But relatively speaking, his consumption is continuous, he can't do nothing on the defensive end like the top rookie of the Hornets, and he can't squat under the basket like Lefou, he has to keep moving at any time on the defensive end like Kirilenko and Ibaka, and Kirilenko and Ibaka, both of them have 30 minutes of playing time, and they don't care about offense, so Sun Ce's physical strength has always been stretched.

The Timberwolves are not hot and have a big lead, their Grizzlies defense is okay, mainly because the offense is average, and several pitchers feel the impact back-to-back.

Sun Ce wanted to use himself to regain his physical strength and find an opportunity to catch the opponent off guard, but the opponent was very hard to defend and consumed a lot.

The result is good, one more game won at the beginning, and if you win, a physical potion for a win is obviously earned, but if you don't win, you will die.

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The morning after the Timberwolves defeated, the Grizzlies' ice and snow journey continued, arriving in the same icy Salt Lake City.

When they arrived at the hotel, Sun Ce and Zu Ge met the Stockton family.

Let the left and right protectors send the luggage to the room, and Sun Ce took Zu Gee and the Stockton family to meet.

"Noah, this is my wife Nada...... Nada, this is Noah, my boss. Stockton introduced.

"Of course I know the Lord, the whole world loves Noah, and I'm also a fan of the Lord, it's nice to meet you." Nada Stockton reached out.

Seeing the elder stretching out his hand, Sun Ce immediately stretched out his hand and shook it with Stockton's wife: "Thank you, the first time we met, you are as beautiful as I expected." ”

Of course, the sycophant is going to take a picture, the first time I saw Stockton's wife, it was almost the same as Sun Ce imagined, except for the eyes, she didn't look particularly similar to Stockton's two daughters, she was dressed very shrewdly and capably, and she was the standard image of a woman who served as a state government dignitary.

After a pleasant exchange, Stockton's wife took her two daughters, her youngest son, and her grandfather goose to chat.

Sun Ce asked Stockton, "Why did you come here?" ”

"My wife came skiing with her kids on vacation, and you guys came here to play away, so I came with me, and I was with you when the Jazz went to Los Angeles."

"That's great......"

At this time, Coach Hollins came over after getting the room card, and when he heard Stockton's words, Coach Hollins said: "John, it's great that you're back, although we have been winning recently, but there are more problems, you can come back to help us think of a lot of ways, should you turn to an assistant coach when you come back this time?" Robert is willing to offer a very high salary. ”

"Oh, it's tempting, but it's still not okay, I can't be as free as I am now, the land in Memphis is great, I just bought a piece of land and I'm going to focus corn." Stockton refused with little hesitation, and judging by the tone, the reason was genuine.

"It's a pity, but you're right, but if you want to farm, you can play with Mark more, he bought the land behind his house and planted a vegetable garden......"

Seeing Coach Hollins and Stockton chatting, Sun Ce didn't bother, but thought for himself.

Stockton's return has given Sun Ce one more person to ask questions, and Nash is also a good blocker, but the difference between the two is quite big, both of them have experience that Sun Ce can use, but there are also places where Sun Ce can't learn.

And in terms of tactics, in Sun Ce's view, Stockton, who has long been out of the player's identity and can look at the game from an outsider's eye, may be able to provide the coaching staff with some help that he and Nash, Battier, Gasol Jr. and others cannot provide.

Since the start of the season, Sun Ce feels that their Grizzlies team has had a lot of different changes from what they planned before the start of the season, some have solved them, and some have thought of how to solve them in the next games, but there are always places where they can't think of a way.

Don't look at the grizzlies who started with a mighty seven-game winning streak to steal the limelight, including the opening game, the Thunder, the Bulls, and the Timberwolves, all of which relied on the amazing performance of Nash and Sun Ce.

In Sun Ce's view, Randolph is the cornerstone of the team's offensive end, Gasol Jr. and Tony Allen are the cornerstones of the defense, and if these three lead the team, even if they are paired with those excellent role players, they will be the strength of the bottom half of the Western Conference playoffs.

Sun Ce has a reason to think so, he can't remember very well, but he knows that even if the Grizzlies reach the Western Conference finals season, the regular season record in the Western Conference playoffs is average, not the top four teams, and even without him, the Grizzlies' role player lineup has always been great, but with him, role players have become more than just role players, although they are only role players at present, but Klay Thompson, Jordan Jr., and Paul George do not have the potential to become stars or even superstars.

At this stage, these people are not able to take charge alone, and the fact that these four games can be won is really because Sun Ce and Nash have raised the team's ceiling.

Of course, he and Nash are part of the team, and all the team needs them to do is raise the ceiling.

Let's just say that Stockton is back, probably the most pick-and-roll player in NBA history, and Sun feels he can do what he and Nash are supposed to do as a team.

……

At noon, Sun Ce and Zu Ge had lunch with the Stockton family.

In the afternoon, Sun Ce took the ancestral goose who wanted to ski and followed the Stockton family to the ski resort.

Sun Ce can't ski, the NBA has rules, but it's still okay to look at it, and skiing and playing turns into a snowball fight......

Sun Ce felt that the people of Salt Lake City were really strange, there were ski resorts that had hosted the Winter Olympics, but there were no locals skiing here, almost all of them were people from the southern United States who came here for sightseeing and skiing.

Since the Grizzlies came to play in Salt Lake City, there were also some more Asian faces, and there were also domestic fans who came to Sun Ce to take pictures.

Sun Ce didn't know if there were no locals skiing in the three eastern provinces of his country, but he thought it was strange here in Salt Lake City.

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After a relaxing afternoon, Sun Ce returned to the hotel and practiced the Nash training method, and the next day, January 7, the game day between the Grizzlies and the Jazz arrived.

Unexpectedly, the team held a birthday party for Sun Ce in the locker room, and he thought that no one remembered it, and Wang Keying, who was filming, hadn't called until the evening.

On the 4th, that is, on Sun Ce's lunar birthday on the eleventh day of the lunar month, Sun Ce's mother called over, and Sun Ce ate a small cake with Zu Goose in the evening.

Sun Ce was covered in cream by his teammates and forced to take a shower before the game......

Maybe it's this bath that has ruined your luck!

When playing the Timberwolves, Sun Ce didn't feel good in the first half, throwing 11 times in the third and first half of the fourth quarter, 2 of 11, before he raised his hand in the middle of the fourth quarter.

This time, Sun Ce's own start felt good, but his teammates collectively pitted!

In fact, it's just a matter of form, and there will be times when the Spurs, who scored 88 points in the third quarter, in the opening game, will shoot doubtful life.

Klay Thompson, in particular, is the most amazing in Sun Ce's opinion, and when the team has not yet made up its mind to put the order of developing him in a higher position in the order of making good use of Neil's instant combat power, he seized the opportunity and threw everything that should be thrown.

But the team decided to develop him next time Moreau, he began to pit, the last game was a good fourth quarter, this time pulling Paul George, Battier, Nash together, the four of them combined 1 of 12 three-pointers......

Sun Ce made 2 of 5 three-pointers tonight, and he couldn't stand up to his teammates adding up to shoot as many three-pointers as him, except for Sun Ce and Battier, the other one who scored three points was not Neil, Neil didn't shoot three points, it was Speight, who came off the bench, had no choice but to throw one in.

Randolph on the inside was ordinary, scoring 20 points and 7 rebounds on 8-of-15 shooting.

Sun Ce made 10 of 17 shots and scored 27 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists.

On the Jazz side, this season is aiming to return to the playoffs, the strength is very strong, and it really has the level of the Western playoffs, and it is proper to change to the East to enter the playoffs.

Millsap, rookie Kanter, sophomore Derrick Favors, and sophomore Judu have a good interior rotation, with Harris, rookie Burks, Josh Howard, CJ Myers, and Raja Bell on the outside.

Sun Ce called Raja Bale last summer to recruit Raja Bale to be the team's 14th player on the squad at the time...... In fact, he, Kobe, and James called Raja Bell one after another, but Raja Bell rejected them all and renewed his contract with the Jazz for two years and 6.6 million.

The Heat's full mid-range don't want it, the Lakers' veteran base salary doesn't want it, and the Grizzlies' money that originally signed Spetts can also be used to sign him, but he doesn't want it.

After the grizzly period of the start, the Grizzlies, who entered the slump, suffered a heavy defeat on the road, 84-95, Rao is Sun Ce scored 27 points, and Randolph also scored 20 points, but the whole team scored double figures on the two of them, and everyone else scored scattered.

Sun Ce felt that there were a lot of problems that needed to be solved, and he originally thought that the new season would be more difficult at the beginning, and so many teammates would be changed.

But the beginning was actually 7 consecutive wins!

It wasn't until Game 7 that the Timberwolves began to reveal problems, and now they need to be addressed.