342. Bloody Massacre of Madison! (Fourth, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommended ticket)
After checking in to the Four Seasons Hotel on 59th Street on Fifth Avenue in New York, Sun Ce, Gasol Jr., and Jordan Jr., three first- and second-year players, put their things away and went to Madison Square Garden, a landmark building in New York, to take a look.
This is the most special away game in the entire NBA in Sun Ce's mind, and it is more special than playing the Lakers away.
This is the third time Sun Ce has been here, the first time was in the draft, and the second time was when he was still with the Warriors, and he came here with Curry to play against Tony Douglas and Wilson Chandler's rookie peck.
Sun Ce didn't think there was anything about the so-called basketball mecca, but after waiting for 30 teams to "flip" in the lounge of this stadium in June last year, this stadium became a little special in his heart.
He finally knows why every NBA player has a plot of basketball mecca...... That is, the plot of coming here as a player of the away team to play well.
As for playing here as a home team...... Sun Ce thinks it's better to forget it, thinking that as a Knicks player, 41 home games every year are ready to be abused at any time.
It's a terrible feeling to think about.
Like most tourists, Sun Ce and his entourage took a photo outside the Madison Square Garden arena before heading back to the hotel.
As for going in and shopping...... They all said that they were tourists, and they were going to play here tomorrow, and they couldn't see anything.
Just a simple look, little Jordan fell to the second round because he fell from the small green house here, Sun Ce was selected by surprise without expectations, and Gasol Jr. did not come here to participate in the draft, this is the third time in his life to come to this arena, the first time was his brother's draft in 2011, the second time was to play here last season to play away, and the third time is now.
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After a night's rest in the hotel, Sun Ce came to the Big Apple and completed the Nash training method as always.
On the morning of the 10th, Sun Ce and the team went to the away team training ground at Madison Square Garden to prepare for tonight's game.
It's good to come here to play, even the hotel conference room does not need to be rented, and the away team training ground has a meeting room.
When the tactical meeting was held at ten o'clock in the morning, Sun Ce felt ...... The coaching staff is horrible!
This tactical arrangement is to beat the Knicks, a team that is already in chaos now, to the death!
After a morning set-up and a tactical training session, the Grizzlies held a pregame press conference after lunch.
Unlike the last time Sun Ce came here, this time Sun Ce was the absolute focus.
Ten days ago, on February 28, he beat the Knicks and got a triple-double of 37+10+15, and today's Madison Square Garden is Sun Ce's home court!
There are more American reporters than Chinese reporters, and the Chinese reporters were already surprised last time, and this time there are even more, which makes the Chinese press corps that has always had an overwhelming numerical advantage in chasing Sun Ce very surprised.
Sun Ce seems to be more popular in the United States than Yao Ming in the United States!
At least when playing the New York Knicks!
The first to ask questions was the home reporter, a New York Times reporter who has always had a bad relationship with Knicks players, and asked, "Do Noah like coming to this arena again?" ”
"I love it here, it's always a different feeling to play here." Sun Ce replied politely.
"Do you want to join the Knicks to replace their outside core?"
The question was so direct, Sun Ce smiled and said, "I still want to win." ”
After a burst of laughter, another reporter asked: "The last time I got a big triple-double, will I have a good performance in the previous game today?" ”
Although the Grizzlies suffered two consecutive defeats, Sun Ce's performance in both games was remarkable, and he played well personally.
Sun Ce thought about the tactical arrangement of the coaching staff...... "We'll play hard, my personal performance will help the team, my personal data is not important......"
The interview was so harmonious, from beginning to end, the New York reporters attacked the Knicks, and everyone felt that it was normal, including the Chinese reporters who had worked in the United States for some years, and they also felt normal.
New York reporters touted Sun Ce, which is more normal.
But when the game started at seven o'clock in the evening, it was not so harmonious......
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Ten days ago, when they played against the Knicks, the Grizzlies failed to defend against each other, relying on the run-and-bomb team led by Sun Ce to fight against the opponent, relying on their own run-and-bomb core, and defeating the Knicks with offense.
In fact, before that game, the Grizzlies coaching staff was prepared to defend the opponent well, but the day before they won the Bobcats, they temporarily decided to let Gasol Jr. rest for another game, and Guy and Anthony Parker also rested, completely without a defensive system.
But this time it's different!
The Grizzlies took out the defensive preparation that was prepared to win the game, and the starting lineup played with full strength, and played the strongest defense of the Grizzlies!
Conley, Battier, Gay, Randolph, Gasol Jr., this lineup of Tianke runs and hits the team!
Battier, Gay, and Conley intercepted players advancing on the counter-attack, and Randolph could also keep up with Harrington's speed, forcing the Knicks into positional battles, and then engaging in strangulation positional defenses.
From the beginning of the game, the Grizzlies felt like they were going to torture the Knicks to death, and it didn't matter if they played well on their side, they had to give the Knicks players a physical confrontation and consume the opponent's touch.
By the halfway point of the first quarter, when Sun Ce and Anthony Parker, Gay, Cook, and Jordan Jr. came on the court, the Grizzlies only scored 13 points, and the Knicks ...... Only 7 points in 7 minutes!
This score gives Sun Ce the illusion that he is using the Knicks as the ultimate poor version of the Mavericks or the Suns to experiment with defensive tactics.
The Suns still had to play run-and-shoot in the starting stage, but if the run-and-shoot didn't work at the beginning, they switched to the interior combination of Stoudemire and Lopez Jr. to play positional battles.
On the Mavericks' side, due to the ongoing system adjustments, this season is not well adjusted for the time being, and most of the time it is a quick offense with Kidd as the starting point.
At the end of the official timeout, Sun Ce put aside those bizarre thoughts and went on the court with four teammates.
Sun Ce came on the court, and the Knicks players felt that the sky had fallen.
The opponent's blocking and dismantling combination that can run and bomb better than them is here!
Originally, the Knicks didn't play well on offense today, and they were tortured by the Grizzlies starters so much that they had no outside touch, and seeing Sun Ce, the rookie who bloodied them ten days ago and got a big triple-double, the game was even more chaotic.
The offense is to shoot from the outside, and the defense is to block Sun Ce and Jordan Jr.
Guy cut as simple as he could, and took the initiative to bring the defender towards Jordan Jr., and Jordan Jr. also cooperated with the savage cut, and took away the people who defended Guy at once, and Guy could cut loosely.
If the opponent shrinks the interior and makes up for the defense from the outside, Sun Ce passes Anthony Parker and Brian Cook on both wings, Cook got some playing time after the All-Star weekend, and he did well, playing in 7 games, averaging 1.3 three-pointers per game, and the veteran is more consistent at this time.
At the end of the first quarter, the Grizzlies scored 29 points, only 13 points in the first seven minutes, and 16 points in the next five minutes!
Sun Ce felt that the other party was really stupid...... What are you doing blocking him?
Sun Ce scored only one point in the first half and made 1 of 2 free throws, but had four assists in five minutes......
Sun Ce feels that the efficiency of playing the Knicks is so high!
On the Knicks' side, they only scored 13 points after the first quarter, almost scoring one point in one minute.
After the start of the second quarter, the Knicks' hand did not have any tendency to recover, and once five consecutive offenses did not score goals and free throws, and only scored 6 points in the first 5 minutes of the second quarter, and the Grizzlies played a wave of 14-6.
43-19, the Grizzlies stretched the difference to 24 points in one fell swoop!
At this time, the Knicks finally slowly regained some of the feeling that was tortured by the Grizzlies in the starting stage, and before the official timeout, they scored two three-pointers in a row, chasing the score to a 20-point difference of exactly 20 points at 25-45, stopping the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies called a timeout into the official timeout.
Originally, the Knicks thought they were going to start a counterattack, but the Grizzlies switched back to the starting lineup......
One reason the Grizzlies coaching staff was serious today was to get a big win in New York, to come here once a year and boost morale with a big win.
Second...... Sun Ce guessed that the Grizzlies coaching staff was treating the Knicks as a bankrupt version of the Suns or Mavericks to practice!
The Knicks felt good, so they used the starters to grind the position, and the Knicks felt cold, so they asked Sun Ce to take the rotation lineup to open up the difference......
Sun Ce is very sympathetic to the Knicks players!
Really sympathetic!
So he doesn't score anymore, every time he rushes in with a pick-and-roll, he just holds back the defense and passes to his teammates, how compassionate, how selfless, how loving......
Sun Ce had 1 point, 1 board and 4 assists in the first quarter, played half a quarter in the second quarter, got 2 points, 3 boards and 5 assists, and 3 points, 4 boards and 9 assists in the half, and the Grizzlies led the Knicks by 59-30 points at halftime!
After putting the Knicks to just seven points in the first seven minutes, the Grizzlies' starting lineup created an even bigger tragedy, and the Knicks scored only five points in the second six minutes of the second quarter......
The slaughter is underway!
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From the beginning of the first quarter of the game, D'Antoni sat in the arena with a red face and no longer yelling.
The Knicks players were already not united, and they had completely collapsed at halftime.
Sun Ce was replaced in the third quarter and played for 4 minutes, the Knicks blocked him from scoring, unlimited packing, Coach Hollins saw that Sun Ce did score and couldn't get a double-double, and after Sun Ce got the fifth rebound, he replaced him.
Sun Ce played 16 minutes and got 5 points, 5 rebounds and 12 assists.
However, even if the Grizzlies replaced most of their main forces at the beginning of the fifth minute of the third quarter, leaving only Conley and Jordan Jr. with Marcus Williams, Sam Young, and Cook on the court, the point difference still hasn't narrowed, and the Knicks have collapsed!
The Grizzlies don't want to continue to open up the difference, but there is no way, the other side can't shoot, and they have a chance to shoot! Even Marcus Williams can shoot, and the opposing team is all incarnated as Harden on the outside...... No, it's the Uchiha family, standing in front of the Grizzlies players symbolically stretching out their hands......
The main reason is that the Knicks have no desire to shoot their own shots, and even their desire to score has collapsed!
When the final whistle blew, the score was 111-60......
A difference of 51 points!
The Grizzlies slaughtered the Knicks and refreshed the largest single-game point difference this season!
Coincidentally, the previous biggest point difference was also related to a certain No. 3 player on the Grizzlies!
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