1665. Goal: Longest opening streak! (5000 words for subscription)
On the morning of November 5, the Grizzlies players, who won the game easily last night, came to the Toyota Center Training Complex, the Lakers' training center, to prepare for the game.
Compared with playing the Clippers, who can only have a stadium on the day of the game, and having to go to the training hall rented by the Clippers to train before, Sun Ce feels that playing the Lakers at least gets much better treatment before the game.
Sun Ce and the others have been preparing for tomorrow night's game for several days, and have been adjusting according to the changes in the form of the Lakers.
It's certainly best to look at the opponent and know who you are, and seeing how other teams adjust can also help the Grizzlies.
After a few days of preparation, the Grizzlies have done their best to figure out the best way to deal with the Lakers at this stage, as for whether it works well or not...... Just try it out in the game.
On the home team's training ground, preparations are also in full swing.
The Lakers currently have a 7-3 record, and in the second half of October, the Lakers played eight games, one more than the Grizzlies.
At the end of the morning training session, Kobe Bryant took the scout report and looked at Sun Ce's performance so far in the new season, averaging 31 minutes per game, averaging 31 points, 11.5 boards, 4.8 assists and 3.3 blocks per game...... The 63 points in the opening game greatly increased Sun Ce's average points per game, allowing Sun Ce to maintain an average of 31 points per game to rank second in the league even though he was in his early 20s in the past few games.
Kobe Bryant knew the Grizzlies were going to get stronger this season, but the Grizzlies started a little too strong.
Sun Ce's shooting rate in the first 9 games was 57 percent! Forty-three percent three-point shooting!
Of course, Kobe Bryant knew that Sun Ce's shooting rate would become normal as the season progressed, such as Sun Ce's improvement in free throws, Sun Ce scored a total of 80 free throws in the first 9 games, and scored 66 free throws, with a free throw shooting rate of 82.5 percent.
This increase in shooting percentage is normal in Kobe's opinion, compared with last season's 79 percent free throw shooting rate, the increase is not large, but it is not normal.
If Sun Ce can maintain a shooting rate of 57+43+82 this season, it will be abnormal.
If a player has improved to a certain point, even if he has improved a lot in an offseason, maybe in the game, judging from the data, there may not be any significant improvement.
Because Sun Ce's previous statistics are good enough, last season Sun Ce was the only player in NBA history to be unanimously elected as the MVP of the regular season, except for the dazzling statistics in the fifties and sixties, people can no longer imagine anyone who can play a better performance than Sun Ce in the regular season last season.
Now it is time for Sun Ce to pay attention to details, reduce mistakes, and strengthen his performance to help his teammates, he is no longer the player who needed to rely on his teammates to play well.
Sun Ce can come hard and get the data on his own, but it's not necessary to win!
Kobe Bryant could guess Sun Ce's thoughts this season, and he didn't know how to describe his thoughts on Sun Ce.
Let's say that Sun Ce is mature...... How can this guy look a little mature?
But to say that Sun Ce is immature...... He's very good at playing.
Thinking that he is in the 19th year of his career, and he can still stand with a player like Sun Ce to compete for the championship, Kobe Bryant feels excited when he thinks about it!
Kobe, who has already won 6 championships, is now not less eager to win the championship, but even higher!
Last season, he won the 6th crown with James, although he Kobe did not win the Finals MVP, but after the 6th crown, he had a new nickname.
Jordan is the god of basketball, and this is an image that has been ingrained in people's minds.
And Kobe Bryant, the nickname he got is the god of basketball in the new century, although this nickname is weaker than the god of NBA basketball, and it sounds a bit fake, but it has made Kobe very satisfied.
But satisfaction does not mean that his pursuit is over, he also wants to win another championship with James and Leonard, if he can establish a dynasty again, it will be even better!
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Kobe, who has reached the age of 36, has an ambition that is as clear as Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows that Kobe wants to surpass Jordan in the number of championships.
On the side of the away team's training ground, Sun Ce also took the scout report and watched the performance of the three outside stars on the opposite side after training.
Their Grizzlies team because of the first nine games of the powerful opponents on the Mavericks and Pelicans, their Grizzlies team except for his grandson, other people's playing time may be more mixed, because try to tactical cooperation, only when they are about to lose or need to open the score, only shoot the outside triangle, Aldridge + Gobert or Randolph + Larry Sanders or Yi Jianlian + Richard Jefferson lineup to rush a wave.
And because the opponent is weak, it often overwhelms the opponent with a wave of impact.
Therefore, the data of their Grizzlies team is relatively scattered, and as the season deepens, it will definitely be gradually fixed, but the current data opponents of their Grizzlies team are really difficult to study, only knowing that Sun Ce can score more than 20 points per game.
And the data on the Lakers' side is easy to study.
James played in 10 games and averaged 24.2 points, 6.5 rebounds and 10.8 assists per game, ranking second in the league in assists, behind Derrick Rose's 11.1 assists per game and higher than Westbrook, who averaged 10.5 assists per game, and Paul, who averaged 9.8 assists per game.
Leonard played only six of his first 10 games, averaging 17 points, 7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game, and his performance improved again, but his shooting percentage dropped to only 45 percent, compared to 53 percent last season.
Sun Ce can analyze the reason, James will be 30 years old by the end of the year, Kobe Bryant is a year older, and the Lakers will definitely let Leonard take on some more responsibilities, mainly in singles.
Leonard is the type of person who is steady and progressive, and although he is not crushed by the increased pressure with a big heart, he can't do more for the time being, so he can only do his best.
Kobe Bryant, who played the first 10 games, averaged 21.6 points per game, in fact, looking at the efficiency, Sun Ce found that Kobe's efficiency was not much worse than last season, with a shooting rate of 48 percent and a three-point shooting rate of 37.5.
With Kobe Bryant's pure pitching style, the efficiency is maintained well, and the reduction is the playing time, Kobe Bryant's average playing time this season is 28 minutes per game, which is the least playing time since Kobe Bryant started the game.
James is well-rounded and gives him a group of pitchers to ensure the team's lower limit; Kobe Bryant's steady shooting and key shots; Leonard is improving and improving his singles ability, and he is talented......
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At noon, James made an appointment with the Grizzlies' three outside linemen and took Kobe Bryant and Leonard to lunch together.
I didn't call anyone else, just the six of them, and this was the dinner time of the "strongest trio".
Everyone is also very familiar, Double 3D is a philatelic enthusiast, James is a good man in the Gu family, Kobe Bryant is good at messing with flowers, Sun Ce unconsciously messes with flowers, Leonard doesn't even know what his teammates are thinking......
chatting and chatting, I don't know how to talk about the characteristics of the outside combinations of each team, speaking of which, Sun Ce began to complain: "Kobe, LeBron, Kowai, your Lakers outside trio is learning from the three of us, right?" Seeing that we won the championship like this, you also followed? ”
Learn from you?
Leonard didn't react, and Kobe and James were confused.
But when I think about it, James has been a pure playmaker after joining the Lakers, with passing as the first goal, although he has become the team's scoring champion this season, but the main reason is that Kobe Bryant's playing time has decreased, Leonard has not fully grown, and the role players are very good, and their average points per game are scattered.
In terms of play, James thinks Paul George is quite similar to him.
Klay Thompson, who plays without the ball, is also very similar to Kobe's current style of play, but Kobe Bryant prefers to find mid-range shooting opportunities, and Klay Thompson prefers three-point opportunities, the difference between the two is that James is easier to use Kobe's mid-range shooting to contain and create three-point opportunities for the outside; Paul George is easier to use Klay Thompson's three-point containment to help his teammates create cutting opportunities, and the score is definitely higher for Kobe Bryant, but Klay Thompson has a better defense than the current Kobe Bryant.
Leonard and Sun Ce are the team's main singles players......
Thinking about it this way, Kobe Bryant and James both feel that the characteristics of their two teams are really similar!
The point is that the Grizzlies' outside trio came out first, and after winning two championships, their Lakers' outside trio was put together!
The order is like this, yes, but Kobe Bryant and James want to vomit blood, what do they call them to learn from the Grizzlies?
In the past few years, it was Paul George who ran to him to organize an attack; Obviously, Sun Ce went to Kobe Bryant to learn technology......
Kobe Bryant was so angry that he didn't want to look at Sun Ce, but James felt that the current atmosphere was so familiar - every year Sun Ce can come up with a hundred ways to gas Kobe, and it is not the same every year!
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It's game day for the Grizzlies to take on the Lakers on the road!
Today, Sunday, many fans have been looking forward to this game since the morning, with children pestering their parents to watch the game with them, those who have money to go to the scene, and those who do not have enough money to buy live TV......
Everyone, whether it is Sun Ce's fans, black fans, or even trolls, knows that Sun Ce, who failed to win the championship last year, will definitely make a comeback this year.
No, the Grizzlies started the new season with a 9-game winning streak, and they were devastating all the way.
In the eyes of fans, the Grizzlies are in better shape than the other 28 teams, which was ignited by Sun Ce's 63-point explosion in the opening game.
With a nine-game winning streak between the Grizzlies and the defending champion Lakers, it's game day when it comes to game day, and all basketball fans who have time are talking about the game.
At the moment, online "Lakers fans" occupy an absolute dominant position, and public opinion generally hopes that the Grizzlies' winning streak will be ended anyway.
won the championship last season, Kobe Bryant and James fans are in the honeymoon period, the god of basketball in the new century + the little emperor, and their fans have come up with the nicknames of "God Emperor Combination" and "Di Mamba" combination.
The strength of 23+24 was very intuitively shown to fans in the series between the playoffs and the Spurs last year, and the two were paired with Leonard, a top defensive player who already has the ability to defend on the outside, a center with a protective frame, and a wing 3D, so strong that they don't want to.
Fans have more than enough reason to believe that the Lakers can beat the Grizzlies, Grizzlies fans seem so small in front of the two major fan groups of Kobe Bryant + James, and there are also Warriors fans who hope that the Grizzlies will be influenced by public opinion to start the streak in the middle of the game......
However, on the night of November 6, from 7:30 to 9:58, after two hours and 28 minutes of play, the Grizzlies defeated the Lakers 119-105 and won 10 in a row to win 10 in a row!
Nothing else, just the difference in form and the depth of preparation for the game.
The Lakers' overall current state is almost the same as the Grizzlies' state after playing their first three regular season games, and it's good that the Lakers have been able to adjust to this from the impact of the shortened preseason that they don't adapt to the rhythm of the schedule.
But the Grizzlies have already passed this stage, and they have even found a lot of problems with their own team and are starting to prepare to make changes in the next games.
In terms of preparation for the game, the Lakers' side, 7 wins and 3 losses are not so easy, they have an unstable start to many games to fight, and they have aristocratic disease, the first 10 games have 4 times in the third quarter behind the final quarter of the comeback.
On the Grizzlies' side, they have been studying the Lakers' style of play long before playing the Magic, and the Lakers are analyzing the changes in the Lakers' state after each game and making targeted defensive arrangements.
Tonight, relying on Sun Ce's 19 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists, Randolph's 11 points, Aldridge's 17 points, Paul George's 26 points, Klay Thompson's 12 points, Yi Jianlian's 9 points, and Carter's 8 points...... The Grizzlies made their whole team exert their strength, and defeated the Lakers with a crushing momentum in the unexpected offensive style of play launched by Sun Ce!
In this game, the Grizzlies played very unrestrained, because of the accurate shooting, after Klay Thompson scored two three-pointers at the beginning, the Lakers did not dare to let go of him, and Sun Ce took the opportunity to connect the offense well.
The process of the game was that the Grizzlies created a lead at the beginning, and the Lakers tried their best to fight back, but the effect was not obvious, and because they were too anxious, their offense did not play very well.
The first triple-double of the 14-15 season came later than in previous seasons, and it was only after the 10th game that Sun Ce got the first triple-double.
On the Westbrook side, he has played 4 triple-doubles in 10 games, averaging 22.6 points, 9.5 rebounds and 10.5 assists per game.
It was easy to win against the Lakers, and Sun Ce felt that the strongest outside trio on the opposite side had lost their temper.
But Sun Ce knows that this is just a difference in form, and as the season deepens, this advantage will become smaller and smaller, until there is none, and when everyone finds the best form they can find, and enters the middle and late stages of the season, they will have to fight for their real strength.
But, no matter what, they the Grizzlies won! The more wins you win, the better chances you have later.
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The day after the game against the Lakers, Sun Ce followed the team to Portland.
Originally, Sun Ce thought that Lily Collins would have a baby in these days, because the due date coincidentally included a few days when he went to Los Angeles to play away, but no, Lily Collins could still be alive and happy.
Sun Ce discussed with the team, after playing the Trail Blazers, he took two games off, and the last two games of the five-game game were not played against the Rockets and the Bucks, and went to Los Angeles to accompany Lily Collins, and the team agreed.
Sun Ce was really anxious this time, and on the evening of November 8, in the game between the Grizzlies and the Trail Blazers, Sun Ce was obviously out of shape, and was hatted twice by his teammate Whiteside last season!
Fortunately, Aldridge and Randolph both broke out tonight, Randolph is very fierce as long as he plays the Trail Blazers, and Aldridge is very surprised that he was booed, he was traded, and he didn't take the initiative to leave...... Then Aldridge chose to listen to Sun Ce, since the fans of the former team hated him, let them hate him even more!
Randolph got 21 points and 14 boards, Aldridge got 30 points and 7 boards, under the strong performance of the two, although Sun Ce played 33 minutes and only 6 of 15 shots and got 15 points, 6 boards, 3 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals, the Grizzlies still played an excellent second half in Paul George's reasonable distribution of the ball, and when they fell behind 46-55 at halftime, the Grizzlies finally reversed the Trail Blazers 107-101 and won 11 consecutive wins!
In this game, Sun Ce was pitted on the offensive end, but the Grizzlies still had an unexpected gain, they were pitted on the offensive end, and when they had to play a good defense, they did a really good job!
Although he was scored 16 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks by Whiteside and 31 points by Lillard, when he had to defend in the second half, the pressure came, and the execution and effect on the defensive end increased.
Sun Ce also put himself on the defensive end in the second half, playing 16 minutes in the second half with 2 blocks and 2 steals, and also returned a block to Whiteside.
Coach Hollins almost thought that their Grizzlies were going to fall in Portland after a 10-game winning streak, but he really didn't think that the Trail Blazers' new season record did not meet expectations, and their player stats were good, but the record was not good.
Fortunately, Aldridge scored 19 of his 30 points in the second half, and Randolph had 11 points and 8 rebounds in the half, and the two teamed up to lead the team to victory.
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On the night of the game against the Trail Blazers, Coach Hollins booked a plane ticket for Sun Ce and took a plane to launch Sun Ce to Los Angeles, out of sight and out of mind.
In the first half of the game against the Trail Blazers, Sun Ce's 15 minutes on the court were not as good as not being there, and Blake was estimated to play better than Sun Ce.
However, Coach Hollins can also understand Sun Ce's situation, whose child is about to be born and be a father can be calm?
Therefore, instead of letting Sun Ce stay on the field and drag his feet, it is better to let Sun Ce stop playing and accompany the mother with peace of mind.
And the next two opponents are not very strong, the Rockets are competing for the top pick, and the Bucks start with 4 wins and 8 losses.
The focus is on the first opponent who returned to Memphis after 5 consecutive road trips, and on November 16th, he will host the Warriors!
The Lakers, on their side, didn't get into the groove as quickly as their Grizzlies, but the Warriors were also one of the first two teams in the league to get into the groove.
Even if Sun Ce doesn't play, in the next game with the Rockets and Bucks, Coach Hollins will definitely let the players go all out to win.
It's already 11 consecutive wins, and the Rockets are just 4 games away from winning their first 15 consecutive games, so it's stupid not to fight! Coincidentally, the 15th opponent was the Rockets again, and the game against the Rockets tied the Rockets' record...... Coach Hollins is hid when he thinks about it.
Although in an interview with the media, he has always said that he is not interested in such a thing as a winning streak and that the run-in is the most important, but in fact, both he and his players are working in this direction!
Just the 14th opponent, the Warriors...... That's the most troublesome!
Their Grizzlies have never played against a team in such good form this season, except for playing the Pelicans, who are in excellent form, and the strength of the Pelicans is definitely much stronger than the Warriors, who play until the middle and late stages of the season, at most only the team in the lower half of the Western Conference playoffs.
Moreover, after watching a few videos of the Warriors' games this season, Coach Hollins feels that the Warriors are really strong!