900. The Importance of Nash (3rd Monthly Pass)

The process of this game is very different from the process that people expect.

In the first three quarters, the Grizzlies only played the first half of the second quarter, and they didn't play well, scoring only 11 points, resulting in only 24 points in a single quarter, and the Spurs led by 4 points at halftime into the third quarter.

But the Grizzlies have a lead in positional battles!

After the third quarter, the score was overtaken back.

The most important thing is that the game is played well!

Both teams had clear defensive goals, defensive enthusiasm, and were trying to find ways to play against each other on both ends of the floor, and they scored 83-79 in the third quarter.

And then...... The fourth quarter has not lost its ornamentality!

On the Grizzlies' side in the fourth quarter, Nash, who played 20 minutes in the first three quarters, continued to board, Sun Ce, Neil, Randolph, and Jordan Jr.'s lineup appeared, or playing positional warfare, mainly defensively, but the offensive end did not fall, Randolph and Sun Ce's singles with good physical condition, Nash tended to defend Sun Ce and Randolph on the other side's defense, in fact, it was mainly Duncan or Richard Jefferson, who came off the bench, to the right high position, under the basket, and when it was vacant, Nash began to block and dismantle Jordan Jr. to break through the basket.

By the time of the official timeout in the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies tied the score at 98-91 and led by seven points!

The tactics assigned by the coaching staff against the Spurs, and the details discussed by Sun Ce, Nash, Gasol Jr. and others restrained the Spurs!

Although they didn't play the Spurs in the playoffs last year, they were well prepared, and this year the Spurs are as strong as last season, and most of the holes in the playoffs have been filled, and the Grizzlies coaching staff continues to see the Spurs as the most dangerous imaginary enemy and has been studying how to deal with the Spurs.

In this season, when the Spurs are missing a key center, the Grizzlies have to restrain the Spurs more and play their advantages to the limit!

After the official timeout, the lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier and Gasol Jr. came on.

Nash, who played 28 minutes and had 14 points and 11 assists, and Randolph, who played 29 minutes and scored 25 points and 8 rebounds, were rested, and the Grizzlies began to play defense.

One big and four small, Gasol Jr. guarded the basket, and the outside foursome changed defenses infinitely, shrunk a lot, and blocked the basket...... Coupled with his own offense, he only scored five points in six minutes.

But the Spurs only scored eight points in six minutes.

In the end, Sun Ce played 48 minutes and got 33 points, 16 boards, 6 assists, 4 blocks and 1 steal, Nash 14 points and 11 assists, Randolph 25 points and 8 boards, Gasol Jr. 10 points, 6 boards and 2 assists, Jordan Jr. and Yi Jianlian each got 6 boards...... Under the performance, the Grizzlies defeated the Spurs 103-99, won 5 consecutive wins, and improved their record to 17-4!

In this game, the focus of the Grizzlies is actually on defense, and the offensive end is purely based on change, so that the Spurs, who have encountered Nash's style of play for the first time, have not been able to make an ideal response.

The Spurs, who averaged 105.7 points per game and 15-5 before this game this season, only scored 99 points, and the Grizzlies defended quite successfully, and the Spurs only conceded 96.9 points per game before this game this season, and the Grizzlies scored 104 points, and the offensive performance was very good!

After the game, Popovich looked at Nash, the MVP of the game, who was interviewed on the spot after the game, and when he traded before the draft, he sprayed the Suns on the head to show off, and actually sent Nash to the Grizzlies, spraying the Grizzlies to rob, completely ignoring that he had just robbed Guy, and only allowed the state officials to set fire.

But he still thinks that Nash will also bring the Grizzlies' run-and-gun lineup, and the positional battle is a defensive hole, so he can only serve as a pitcher, after all, the Grizzlies' positional battle hates not suitable for Nash.

In fact, in many games, Nash's positional performance can only be said to be qualified, not good.

But against them Spurs, Nash actually found a way to cooperate with his teammates, and it seems that only the Spurs found a way to play them...... Originally, it was not easy to play against the Grizzlies, and when the Grizzlies played their Spurs, the weakness was not in defense, but in the positional warfare, the offensive firepower could not keep up, and there was no way to run and bomb the whole game.

There is the mid-range of Sun Ce and Randolph, the blocking and pick-and-roll attack of Nash, and the high post of Gasol Jr...... The focus is on elevating Conley to Nash, with a scoring point and playmaker who is much stronger than Conley.

Popovich has the heart to strangle the Suns management!

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"Wild Bear: S-Class Event and the Strongest System as the Enemy Phase 2 Event.

Event Goal: In four meetings with the Spurs this season, the host needs to help the Grizzlies gain an advantage in the head-to-head record. (The host's team has a 2-0 record against the Spurs.) Ongoing)

Event Reward: Troika Peak Random Player Peak Star Experience Card......

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Sun Ce just finished practicing the Nash training method and took a shower and collapsed on the bed, watching the progress increase to 2-0, and then he will play two games with the Spurs, as long as he wins one more game, he can get this star experience card.

However, although this game was won, it was not easy to win, and with Guy's Spurs, it was much stronger than last season!

He played 48 minutes and scored 33 points on 12-of-26 shooting, which was really his best, but even so, he was still behind by 4 points at halftime, but fortunately, the whole team played a balanced amount of time except for him tonight, and kept defending throughout the whole process, so he limited the opponent's offense in the second half and completed the comeback.

Although he won the first two games, the next encounter, on February 21, Sun Ce estimates that it will be difficult, the other party must be prepared, and Nash's side will not be as easy as this time to help him drive other people's attacks so smoothly.

With Gay, there is one more outside singles point, and there is one more small forward with better defense, even if the Grizzlies have improved for another year and added Nash, the Spurs still scored 56 points in the first half! If Nash hadn't done a good job of scoring and tandem teammates with 9 points and 5 assists in the half, plus he was ready to use star experience cards or physical potions, he did his best to complete the defense while scoring 15 points in the first half, maybe the opponent not only scored 56 points, but they couldn't score 52 points.

Fortunately, the defense went well in the second half, Sun Ce used physical medicine, did not change his style of play, and did not have a situation that could disrupt the team's rhythm, relying on Randolph's excellent performance in the third quarter, and his stable performance of 7-10 points per quarter, the team won the victory.

Sun Ce once again felt the importance of Nash, maybe without Nash, their team would have thought of other ways to deal with the Grizzlies, but with Nash, it is obviously easier to find a clear direction, and Nash is comfortable with Parker and guards such as George Hill and Patrick Mills.

In the midst of a paralyzed review of the details of tonight's game, Sun Ce fell asleep......

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On the first day of the new month, Sun Ce got up early, and after breakfast, he sent his grandfather to school.

In the second month of the new year, Lily Collins was also busy, going on a business trip to Miami for a while, shooting commercials for a swimsuit brand and endorsing Miami.

Even in Miami, the tourist season doesn't start until mid-March, but you can't advertise during the season, you have to do it in advance and get the publicity in place, so that you can attract enough traffic from the beginning when the season comes.

After sending Zu'er to school, Sun Ce came directly to the FedEx Arena.

When we played the Spurs yesterday, the Nuggets were already in Memphis.

From December 25 last year to yesterday, the first competition month passed.

In 38 days and 21 games, Sun Ce felt long and difficult when he saw the finished schedule, but his personal experience was that it passed quickly.

Sun Ce felt that this strange feeling was normal, after playing a game, at most a day off, it would be another game, there was a wave of 5 consecutive visitors and a wave of 6 consecutive passengers, that is, half of the time was to take a plane the next day after the game, and then the next day was a game, the work was very compact, and naturally felt that time passed quickly, just like people who were doing other work in this era of faster and faster pace, they were busy every day, and accidentally a year, two years, and three years passed like this.

Taking a closer look at the schedule for the new month, Sun Ce saw that from the 1st to the 22nd, there were 13 games, only once there was a two-day break, and the rest of the time was either a day off or back-to-back.

Looking at this schedule, Sun Ce thought: "It's probably going to be a large-scale rotation......

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In the morning team meeting, as Sun Ce guessed, tonight back-to-back games against the Nuggets, Nash, Randolph, and Gasol Jr. were rested, and Wazquez and Jimmy Butler were all on the activation list.

The team is currently 17-4, two wins ahead of the Spurs, who are second in the West and 15-6 in the West.

After the personnel adjustment and tactical arrangement in the team meeting in the morning, it was disbanded, and the game at 7 o'clock in the evening did not have a training arrangement, just a simple arrangement of tactics and rotational arrangements.

Sun Ce practiced two more sets of left-handed layups, and after practicing today's 300 left-handed layups, he ended today's training, returned home, waited for lunch, and went to the stadium to warm up and prepare for the game after taking a nap in the afternoon.

At 12 noon, when the maid's eldest sister informed Sun Ce to have lunch, Sun Ce answered, got up from the sofa in the study, turned on the computer, and opened the webpage of the NBA official website.

After last year's award announcement method was complained about, this year it has changed back to the previous model, announced on the official website.

Seeing the list of the best of the week and the best of the month announced today, Sun Ce exclaimed excitedly.

The fifth game week of the season, the best of the Western Week, is him - Sun Ce!

The first contest month, the best of the month in the West, is also him!

Relying on 65 points in one game and 33 points in one game in the last two games, Sun Ce not only locked in the best of the month, but also won the third weekly best of the season with a record of winning all 4 games in the last week!