With a 19-8 record, the Grizzlies are back in their 70s.

In the past 6 games, with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss, Sun Ce and others were surprised.

In November and December, the schedule before the Christmas game, in general, compared to most other teams, they had a relaxed schedule during this time, so they were able to get through this difficult time relatively smoothly.

During this time, it is not the schedule that is difficult, but the impact of injuries and physical strength.

And now, the real hardship has just arrived!

The next three games of December will be a trip to Dallas to play the Mavericks, then a home game against the Warriors, and then a game in Houston.

The last one is okay, the first two are tough battles!

The morning after the Christmas War, Sun Ce and his teammates set off for Dallas.

At 12 noon, the NBA officially announced that voting for the All-Star Game began!

Sun Ce looked at the news, and his vote was moved to the front by the alliance......

Obviously, to make room for the western defenders.

Curry and Harden, Irving, Westbrook...... The league wants to see a new All-Star starting starting guard in the West.

Kobe Bryant's form continued well, but he was in his 18th year of career, and at the end of his career, he had to find a replacement.

This was expected, and there were rumors before, such as a columnist on the NBA's official website saying that he should not be put on guard...... Sun Ce doesn't care about this, he can't lose the starting position in the frontcourt, but the other frontcourts in the west have to be sad, and he Sun Someone and James will definitely occupy the two frontcourt starting positions.

Now we should pay attention to the next 4 games, Randolph still can't play, he didn't come out with the team to play away, but stayed in Memphis to continue to lose weight, the next time he can play is the second game of the back-to-back away game on January 4 against the Nuggets, which is the third game of a wave of consecutive away games, and it is estimated that he will not play, and he may not play until the last game of the 4 consecutive away games on January 6, the Pistons, to prepare for the game with the Spurs on January 8.

Sun Ce arrived at the hotel and studied the schedule in January, in fact, there were only 14 games in January, compared with the schedule last season, it was actually divided into 3 games in January to November and December, and the schedule in February, March and April was the same as last season, 12 games in February, 17 crazy games in March, 9 games in April, and more difficult in February and March.

Sun Ce felt that the league arranged the schedule like this because they were afraid that they would have too many injuries due to too many games in January.

Therefore, Sun Ce feels that the difficulty in January is not the schedule, but the mentality!

After Christmas, Sun Ce obviously felt that his teammates relaxed a lot, not that after Christmas, his teammates didn't want to play well, but that his mentality was really relaxed!

This situation ...... There are both good and bad, and he can only play game by game, and Sun Ce feels that he will always get through.

After all, this is the first time they have encountered such a situation.

The game is going to be played one game at a time, and Sun Ce focuses on Durant, who has just returned.

There is a place that Sun Ce thought of but still felt that the egg hurt - after Durant's comeback, Westbrook greatly reduced his shots, frantically passed the ball for Durant, and soon helped Durant find a shooting feeling!

In the two games of the comeback, Durant averaged 33 points per game!

This guy is definitely going to hit the scoring champion after his comeback!

Although missing 28 games, Durant still has a chance to win the scoring title, which requires at least 60 games or a total of more than 1,200 points, and if Durant averages more than 1,200 points per game, he will definitely exceed 1,200 points.

If he hadn't relied on that single game of 70+, he might have been tied by the newly returned Durant by now!

And Durant now has a very good chance to compete for the scoring title!

Westbrook's first 28 games, more than one shot, an average of 22 shots per game and an average of 27.5 points per game, but Durant came back in these two games, Westbrook shot 13 times a game, 12 shots a game, and kept feeding Durant, Westbrook scored more than a dozen points in both games, obviously didn't care how many points he scored, as long as he could get a double.

Sun Ce feels that these two are actually really the most suitable teammates, one sticks the ball and the other catches and throws strongly, whether the latter likes to be a pure pitcher or not, but it is really compatible, the former has good physical strength, and the latter needs to play slowly.

Take a look at Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka...... and Harden, Sun Ce feels like the Thunder management draft is like an eye-opener.

Sun Ce wants to compete with Westbrook for triple-doubles and Durant for the scoring title, two major opponents, a player with an average triple-double per game, and a favorite for the scoring title, these two are actually on the same team!

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After the Christmas game, it is the middle of the season, which means that the "observation period" of each team in the early part of the season has passed, and some teams that want to make adjustments in the middle of the season have begun to act.

Grizzlies management, for example, has begun to test some of the team's ideas.

In the early two months of the season, some players in the league have changed, and some players who used to play poorly have improved greatly this year; Some talented players have improved as expected; Some players who were very good in the past have avalanche this year; Some players who are considered talented are still not improving......

Survival of the fittest, the NBA is also such a law of survival, some teams are ready to give up some players, maybe this season or the next season or two seasons, many players in the league this season, will be updated, after all, 60 rookies join every year, even if only 80% of them get a formal contract, then there must be forty or fifty old players every year.

It's brutal!

On the morning of December 27, Sun Ce and his teammates came to the American Airlines Center in Dallas to prepare for the race.

As soon as the pre-game meeting ended, Sun Ce saw a news - the Warriors and the Celtics made a deal!

The Warriors sent David Lee, rookie Dwayne Diamond, Gerald Wallace to a garbage contract from the Celtics, and second-year interior swingman Jarred Sallinger!

The deal came very suddenly, and it was a big surprise for the media and fans!

After Iguodala joined, the Warriors' record was not as good as last season, although this made the Warriors get a lot of criticism, but not many people blamed David Lee, who has played 24 games and missed 4 games, averaging 18.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and is still performing well.

As an inside line, it is not good to cooperate with the outside line, it is definitely not his reason, the inside line is passive in terms of cooperation, which has to be blamed on the outside line.

But David Lee was actually sold!