In the West, the basic goal of the season is the second round of the playoffs...... Quite bold!

In the West, it's not uncommon for teams that are considered championship contenders at the start of the playoffs to be eliminated in the first round.

Up to now, there are 3 black eight in NBA history, two of which are normal black eight in the West, but the black eight in the East is a shrinking season, the first eighth in the East is 6 wins away, if the Celtics who won 50 wins last season beat the Cavaliers who won 61 wins by 32 points, the Black Eight in the East is actually just a close series, and the Knicks only won by one point.

So apart from the championship contenders, there are hardly any Western team management that has made it so clear to the players at the beginning of the season that they will at least make it to the second round.

Generally speaking, it is a very general statement, such as the Rockets' "Our goal is the championship, don't underestimate our championship heart".

But for Grizzlies players, it has become a way to motivate them.

It represents the confidence of the team!

It's also a pressure for the Grizzlies' young players, who played last season and want to take the next step this season, but it's also motivation.

On October 9th, Sun Ce and his teammates first arrived in Miami, and then flew for nearly nine hours on a charter flight to Madrid's Barajas Airport.

It was lunchtime when I took off from Miami, and after flying to Madrid, it was breakfast time on the 10th...... It's a really sour feeling.

If the time difference reaches between 8 hours and 16 hours, it is relatively easy to adjust, and the time difference of 6 hours is really uncomfortable.

Sun Ce was stunned to watch TV in the hotel and saw the evening, and then went to the gym to practice the Nash training method.

On the 11th, the day of the match against Real Madrid arrived.

At breakfast time, most of the players had difficulty adapting to the six-hour jet lag, mainly because of the jet lag.

But this morning there was an interview, at noon there was an appearance on behalf of the NBA to Madrid for a public welfare event, in the afternoon there was time to rest again, and in the evening I had to play against Real Madrid.

But when everyone else was half-dead, they saw Sun Ce energetically wandering among the media......

Envy!

This physical recovery ability is too stronghold!

Sun Ce's physical recovery ability is well-known in the NBA, which is commonly known as grass resistance, but the new teammates are still shocked to see that Sun Ce has to practice after training every day and can recover every day.

Even Paul George, a rookie who is half a year younger than Sun Ce, is far inferior to Sun Ce's physical recovery ability.

At 7 p.m., the Grizzlies' away game against Real Madrid kicks off.

After more than a day of delay, the Grizzlies players finally recovered some of their form in the evening, as the Champions League semifinals and league champions last season, Real Madrid's strength belongs to the top group in the current European Basketball League, and the strength is not bad, and the Grizzlies and Real Madrid team played very fiercely.

Spain has several stars who have the strength to impact the NBA and have the strength to start the NBA, including the 19-year-old Nikola Mirotic, who made 7 of 12 three-pointers in this game, and shot the Grizzlies not to be wanted, Randolph, Yi Jianlian, and Battier took turns to defend uselessly.

The basketball strength of the Spanish team, if the strongest players are fully deployed, such as playing the Olympics...... Truly number 2 in the world!

The strength of the world basketball world, Sun Ce estimates that it should be the only one in the United States, the second one is the only one in Spain, and other countries are not in the first two gears.

Players like Mirotic were not selected for this year's World Championships......

Thunder's Ibaka, after becoming a naturalized member of Spain, is not currently selected for the Spanish national team because he is still too green.

Sun Ce didn't play much today, and he was substituted after a few minutes on the bench, mainly because Vazquez adapted to the rhythm of the adult game on the field.

Both teams played anxiously in the first three quarters, because the Grizzlies used a rotation lineup and fringe players most of the time, and the Grizzlies' 15-man roster was full, without signing a training camp contract, and directly began to run in the role player lineup.

Like Sun Ce, his characteristic is that he can adapt quickly to most of his playing styles, so it is mainly other people's tactical cooperation drills.

In the first three quarters, they tried the pure defensive lineup of Conley, Tony Allen, Battier, Yi Jianlian, and Gasol Jr.; Tried the quasi-European tactical play of Vazquis, Moreau, Paul George, Battier and Gasol Jr......

Mainly because the Grizzlies have the mentality of running-in tactics, the Real Madrid team can compete with the Grizzlies.

In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies sent a lineup of Conley, Tony Allen, Gay, Battier, and Gasol Jr. to play a 26-14 score in one fell swoop.

Gay scored 15 points in the final quarter to help the Grizzlies complete the comeback from a 77-80 deficit in the third quarter, and reversed Real Madrid 103-94 to win their first preseason victory.

The focus is still on defense! Battier is the one who has the best defense against Mirotic, who scored 33 points in a single game, of course, it is relative, Mirotic still scored 7 points in the last quarter, but the aggressive defensive combination composed of Conley, Tony Allen, and Guy on the outside is even the top outside line in the NBA, and there is a small Gasol Jr., who only played 9 minutes in the first three quarters and the fourth quarter, and his physical strength was almost full in the fourth quarter.

It is true that NBA playoff-level teams and strong teams in the European League still have a great strength advantage, and the game is mainly a tactical run-in.

Sun Ce played for 7 minutes, although he had a strong recovery ability, the coaching staff still wanted him to rest as much as possible before the start of the regular season, anyway, on the whole, there was no need to worry about Sun Ce and his teammates running-in.

The coaching staff knows Sun Ce's terrible adaptability very well, and he doesn't have to play the first game, and he has to show his face more in the next Chinese game, just like playing Real Madrid Gasol Jr. for 12 minutes in the last quarter today.

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After playing Real Madrid, the next day, at seven o'clock in the morning of the 12th, the Grizzlies flew to the imperial capital of China......

Coincidentally, it's another 6-hour time difference!

This time it was relatively better, it was a direct flight from Madrid Barajas Airport to Capital International Airport, and I arrived at the imperial capital at 10 o'clock in the evening, and returned to the hotel to start sleeping.

This time was a relatively favorable experience, the players were stunned on the plane and did not sleep until they arrived at the hotel in the imperial capital, and by the next day, the Grizzlies players were in much better spirits than when they went to Spain.

On the 13th, the Mavericks also came to the imperial capital after playing the game against Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.

There are 3 days left before the China game on the 16th, and the clash between two teams with China's three major NBA stars has ignited a domestic basketball storm!