On the evening of Feb. 17, Sun Ce returned to Memphis with four teammates who had participated in the All-Star Weekend, and the first game day of the second half of the season came the next day.

By the middle of the season before All-Star Weekend, everyone was exhausted, and physical strength was actually only in second place, and the mental exhaustion of the long schedule and the pressure of the record was even more critical.

However, this week, those who participate in All-Star Weekend can go and play with many stars in Dallas and relax; If you didn't participate in All-Star Weekend, you can also watch it; If you don't want to play, you can also stay at home with your family or go on a trip......

It's been a very important week for the Grizzlies, and after a week of getting back together, their teammates are back energized!

It's just that as soon as they returned, the Grizzlies ushered in the most brutal schedule in the second half of the season, and it was even more terrifying than the Devil's seven-game game in the first half of the season......

8 battles in 11 days, four back-to-back in a row!

The good news is that the Grizzlies will be better prepared for the first game, during which time the coaching staff has stayed in Memphis to prepare for the second half of the season, and on the last day of All-Star Weekend on the 16th, some players who had gone out to play have also returned to Memphis to start preparing.

After Sun Ce, Randolph, Conley, Gay, and Gasol Jr. returned to Memphis, the already prepared coaching staff led the players to start methodical preparations, and the tactical meeting and tactical training in the morning were carried out very well.

Whether it can be adjusted well is one thing, the coaching staff has worked very hard and hard, after all, tactics are just tactics.

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Break after lunch.

Sun Ce and Randolph walked around the arena and took a sneaky look as they passed by the away team's training ground.

The other party is also very serious!

Back in the lounge at the home team's training ground, Randolph said: "Two days ago we were practicing together, and today we are enemies. ”

Stoudemire and Nash came to Memphis with the Grizzlies five yesterday evening, and the Suns also arrived yesterday evening to meet Nash at the airport.

At that time, we had a good chat, and today we are opponents.

Sun Ce looked at Randolph strangely: "Zack, you actually feel the time when you are in tears?" It's none of your business today. ”

"When you are moved, the dew of the flowers is like tears? Noah, you're literate! Randolph complimented in surprise.

What a brain circuit! The black line at Sun Ce's end.

But the sun is hitting today...... It's not very important.

The Suns, for their part, also took the second half of the season seriously, and their record at the beginning of the season was so poor that they lost the opportunity to compete with the Lakers for first place, and they had to fight the Mavericks for second.

In fact, the Suns and Lakers are only 4 wins away, and the Mavericks and Lakers are only 3 wins away.

However, if the Western team loses two or three more games, the impact is very big!

For example, the Grizzlies have a two-wave winning streak, but they can't rush to the top four in the West before the All-Star weekend, because of the huge impact of the opening 4-6, and the Lakers started with 8 consecutive wins.

Thankfully, the coaching staff didn't put much pressure on them for the remaining eight games in February.

In the morning playbook, the coaching staff emphasized that there were only three opponents that must be won, the Raptors, the Nets, and the Knicks, and none of these three teams were playoff teams.

It only takes three wins to reach the passing mark that the coaching staff expects.

The other five opponents, the Suns, Heat, Lakers, Hawks, and Bobcats, can win one game, even if it exceeds expectations.

In fact, if the schedule is not so tight, the Grizzlies and the Hawks are about the same, and the Grizzlies are even stronger than the Heat and Bobcats.

But four back-to-back in a row, it's a completely different story.

Who let the Grizzlies be treated like a fish belly when the league was setting the schedule in the summer, who knew that the Grizzlies would get Randolph and that Randolph would be good.

Later, Thabit + Mayo were exchanged for Sun Ce, Battier, Jordan Jr., and Anthony Parker, and the Grizzlies formed an eight-man core rotation, which really has playoff strength, which is even more unpredictable.

However, the Grizzlies coaching staff has always had their own ideas, such as playing the Suns tonight......

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By 5:15 p.m., the Grizzlies' home game against the Suns was about to begin, and players from both teams were already in the room.

Nash and Coach Kentry want to vomit blood when they see each other's starting lineups!

"Don't you want to get off to a good start in Game 1 after All-Star Weekend? What does this debut mean? ”

The Grizzlies fielded a starting lineup of Son Ce, Gay, Carroll, Sam Young, and Jordan Jr.

Conley, Battier, Gasol Jr. and Randolph sat behind the home team's bench in suits.

Nash found Sun Ce with a pale face: "What are you guys doing?" So many people take turns off? ”

"Uh...... There will be news after the game, I'll tell you just how bad we are, Zach sprained his ass while dancing;

Mark went to Dallas for a week, and when he came back, the flowers at home were all withered, and he cried so much that his heart hurt;

Sean has been practicing the piano hard recently, and you know that he can't play for a few years, so he wants to prepare for finding a job after retiring, and accidentally injured his finger;

Mike had a hangover because he was afraid that we would steal his drink, so he drank all the wine hidden in the lounge last night, so he ......had a hangover."

Hearing Sun Ce's words, Nash wanted to hit someone: "What kind of strange injury is this?" This sounds like Noah, you're, okay! ”

The Suns also had a temporary meeting last night to discuss today's game, and they felt that the Grizzlies, an emerging playoff team, would definitely want to get their morale up in the first game after All-Star Weekend and get off to a good start in the second half of the season.

So the Suns players and coaching staff studied together until midnight, and came to the FedEx Arena at 10 o'clock this morning to prepare for the game, and they also saw that the Grizzlies practice at the training ground, so they trained harder and were very focused on preparing for the game.

But the Grizzlies coaching staff has always dared to think and do, and in the 10-11 season, they deliberately lost from sixth in the West to eighth in the West to the first in the league, let alone the first game after the All-Star weekend.

As for the Grizzlies' tactical training...... Not for the Suns, but for tomorrow's back-to-back teammates away from home, the Raptors, although not a playoff team, have a win rate of close to 50%, currently 23-28, and must also prepare carefully.

As for what Nash said about Sun Ce, he was talking nonsense...... He can't help it! Randolph told the coaching staff that Sun Ce was educated, and the reason for the injury made Sun Ce think, and Sun Ce could only think of this......

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PS: Sorry for being late.,When I opened the background and was about to write after four o'clock.,I saw a prompt.,I was asked to review the full text of all the books independently.,The old book can only be put behind.,First roughly filtered all the content of this new book.,Before I started to write new chapters.,Delayed for an hour.。

When I go back after work, I have to read through the whole text carefully.,Review it all.,It's still about 9 o'clock in the evening.,Write it first and then start the review.。

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