While Popovich was jealous of the Grizzlies, Coach Hollins was jealous of the Spurs.

Does a defensive team necessarily have an advantage over an offensive team in the playoffs?

Not necessarily.

At the beginning of the 04-05 season, the Spurs played four times in the playoffs as a representative of the defensive team and the Suns, the representative of the offensive team.

Except for the 04-05 season, the Suns just started the era of running and bombing, and they couldn't beat the Spurs at all, and after the next three meetings, the advantage of the Suns in the 06-07 season is already obvious, and who is stronger than the Grizzlies and the Spurs in the 06-07 season?

In the 07-08 season, the Suns self-destructed their future, Steve Kerr traded Marion for O'Neal's wise operation comparable to the Magic team management, and was defeated by the Spurs 4-1 in the first round of the playoffs.

By last season, the Spurs were still defensive, but the offensive end was rotten to the end, and they were directly swept by the Suns.

It is difficult to compare who is sharper and stronger than the spear and shield.

Most fans may only look at the playoffs and the fans like to see the media promote it in this direction, but as the head coach, Coach Hollins is very jealous of the Spurs' sudden upswing in offense.

If you put aside the great achievements of the Spurs in winning 4 championships in the past ten years, the Spurs last season and the Spurs this season are separated...... It's really not lower than the contrast between the Suns in the 03-04 season and the Suns in the 04-05 season!

The Spurs in the 03-04 season were a bad offensive team with an average score of 94 points per game, and the defense was not good, both offense and defense were below the average, and they became the league's No. 1 offensive team in the 04-05 season.

This season's Spurs are second only to the Knicks in offensive efficiency in the league, and even higher than the Warriors!

Both Coach Popovich and Coach Hollins took the game as a test.

At 7 p.m., the game officially began.

After the game started, the Grizzlies quickly fell into the disadvantage and played extremely uncomfortable!

Even Sun Ce had studied in advance and was impressed by the Spurs system, but he really encountered a team that had suddenly changed to the other extreme from last season's style of play...... What's more, although his defense will not lag behind in the improvement, the Spurs' offense is far above average, beating the Grizzlies 36-26 in the first quarter!

The single quarter was opened up by 10 points!

Sun Ce studied his opponent so hard, thought about it based on his own memory, and intended to remind his teammates during the warm-up, but he himself was used by Richard Jefferson to shoot at the bottom of the shot, not to mention others.

Even if he replaced Mr. Tony to defend Ginobili and Paul George to defend Parker, he was blown up by the opponent's infinite off-ball blocking and on-ball blocking and pick-and-rolling!

Popovich despises pick-and-roll tactics and three-point play, despises and hates them, but he may now be the coach who is the best at using pick-and-roll and three-point points!

In Sun Ce's opinion, Popovich's ball-holding blocking may be worse than Coach Sloan, but Coach Sloan's ball-holding blocking tactics are the best in the league, one cut worse than him, and they are also top-notch! And the off-ball pick-and-roll...... The Spurs are invincible without the ball!

Every time Sun Ce wants to keep up with Richard Jefferson or Gary Neal and Steve Novak, who came off the bench, and after playing a few rounds, he began to pay attention to the opponent's off-ball blocking, but he was always blocked at the critical moment, and then the opponent's pass ball should be as fast and fast, not fast, but the opportunity came out, and the whole team was not greedy, and the pass should be passed.

Coach Popovich's substitution is also very timely, even if Duncan shoots twice in a row, Coach Popovich will immediately make a substitution, not caring about the feelings of the star at all, Sun Ce switched to Parker or Ginobili to prevent the ball and block and keep up, Parker and Ginobili immediately gave up holding the ball, preferring to give Gary Neil or George Hill the ball, without the slightest feeling of wanting to use his ball-holding offensive ability to teach the opponent a lesson.

The Spurs' style of play has a sense of being out of contention, but ...... It's ridiculously strong!

He shot 70 percent from the field in the first quarter, shooting 14-of-20......

Completely broke the Grizzlies!

The Grizzlies are extremely unaccustomed to the Spurs' style of play, but the Spurs are relatively well adapted to the Grizzlies' style of play.

Although the Spurs really couldn't defend their opponents, Randolph scuttled Duncan and Antonio McDyce off the bench under the basket in the first quarter, scoring 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting, and Sun Ce pressed the opponent's outside hook to score 6 points, and the two offensive cores combined for 20 points.

But the Grizzlies' proud defensive counterattack almost didn't come out, the Spurs couldn't prevent the invincible offensive Randolph, and the outside couldn't prevent Sun Ce, but the defense without the ball shot was still excellent.

And...... Even though the Grizzlies' 26 points in a quarter exceeded their season average, the Spurs scored 36 points in a quarter......

Seventy percent of the shots...... Sun Ce understands the Heat's desperation when they faced the Spurs in the 2014 Finals.

It's really hopeless!

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After playing for a while in the third quarter, Coach Hollins strategically abandoned the game, and was already 25 points behind at that time, Coach Hollins directly replaced the lineup of Wazquis, Paul George, Moreau, Yi Jianlian, and Haddadi, and announced that he would admit it tonight.

It's too strong!

Six players as the core, on the offensive end is really the Spurs played the "infinite triumvirate" feeling, Parker, Ginobili, Duncan, George Hill, Gary Neil, Richard Jefferson, three of the six will always be on the court, as the offensive finishing core of the team.

Sun Ce found one thing in the game, the other party may have premeditated the construction of the Spurs system, some of their players have been playing in the Spurs for several years, and now the Spurs are all players who can pass the ball, are willing to defend without the ball, and have a certain shooting ability, all of them have shooting threats, and the passing ability is good!

If the Lakers' triangle offense has reached the twilight stage, then the Spurs' style of play is clearly ahead of this era!

Since the Spurs were blacked out by the Grizzlies has always been a matter of talk among fans, Sun Ce also has the impression that the Grizzlies had a disadvantaged record against the Spurs in the regular season in the 10-11 season, and did not play a game against the Spurs until after the All-Star Weekend......

The Spurs once beat the Heat 110-80 at the end of the regular season in the 10-11 season, and this game was played by the Grizzlies behind the Spurs, proving that the Spurs did not decline in strength after the All-Star weekend, but that the Grizzlies did find a way to deal with the Spurs' offense.

Sun Ce is out of line, he really has no way, he doesn't know how to deal with the Spurs system...... But he was more curious about what Coach Hollins, Bickerstaff Jr., and Jogle were talking about since the second half of the third quarter.

Sun Ce saw the difference of more than 20 points, and there were only a few minutes left before the game was about to end, Sun Ce was very curious and wanted to know, how did he find a way to deal with the Spurs in the back with such an extreme offensive firepower gap, and finally beat the Spurs when he had been losing in the front?

He thinks it may be because he has only played against the Spurs for the first time this season, and it is the first time he has encountered this very special offense, and he is not used to playing and losing so much.

This is for sure, the Spurs don't have many offensive rounds, mainly because of their strong tactical execution, high success rate, and good hand today.

But how did you make up for such a big gap?

The Grizzlies haven't quite gotten together at the start of the season? This is not a reason, Sun Ce believes that they are now better than the Grizzlies in the original plane.

And the Spurs were still a team that grinded defense last season, even if they have been preparing for two or three years, this season has just started to play this system, and it can only be said that Popovich is awesome, and he will run in quickly......

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In the case of non-stop discussions among the Grizzlies coaching staff, Sun Ce's stuffy head thinking, and low morale of the whole team, 102-131, the Grizzlies fell behind the whole process, and finally lost to the Spurs by 29 points!

Tonight, Sun Ce played 17 minutes in the first half, scoring 14 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists on 5-of-10 shooting, rebounding a new low this season, and there was no defensive rebounding to grab......

This shooting percentage, grab a ghost rebound!

When the final whistle blew, the system prompt came.

"Because the host lost the first game against the Spurs......"