571. We Are All T-Rex (5K chapters)
Griffin started with a sneak attack and a surprise deduction, and the fans at the scene were very nervous, for fear that their team would be used as a stepping stone for Griffin's prestige.
In terms of spectacle, Griffin's playing is more enjoyable than Sun Ce and Evans, and it is more enjoyable than Duncan, who flew all over the sky with David Robinson in his rookie season.
Griffin played such a strong performance, and the league praised it, Griffin really has a little bit of a white Duncan trend.
Their Grizzlies are indeed a lot better than the Clippers, but Griffin played really well in his rookie season, quite like Sun Ce and Evans last season, and in terms of impact, he is slightly better than Sun Ce and Evans.
There is no shortage of young players in the NBA to use strong teams as stepping stones, and Sun Ce did this kind of thing many times last season, beating the Mavericks in the playoffs with 50+ triple-doubles.
Compared to the playoffs, there are too many examples of the regular season to count.
However, compared to the occasional cheers from Sun Ce and Evans when they played well on the road, Griffin was scolded wherever he went.
The difference is still a bit big, Evans is likely to be selected as an All-Star starter in the East, Sun Ce is an All-Star starter in his rookie year, and Griffin is only ranked fifth among Western Conference forwards in the All-Star voting survey starting on the 1st.
Griffin wanted to block Randolph that time, the action was really disgusting, if it wasn't for Sun Cehat's arrival, the fans at the scene would have sprayed the referee.
But...... Just when Griffin started angrily and the fans' hearts were hanging, Sun Ce and Little Jordan had a bloody cap Griffin twice!
Seeing Randolph and Jordan Jr., the former Clippers interior pair, jumping up and hitting their chests in celebration, the fans at the scene were also high!
It's still the Clippers, with only 1.7 seconds left!
It's rare to have three shots in a round, and three service shots, not to grab an offensive rebound.
Carman served outside the sideline, Griffin was hatted twice in a row, and there was no motivation to run to catch the ball, Barang Davis was glued to Battier, Battier was really positive, Conley also followed Eric Gordon closely, and Eric Gordon basically stood and watched when Griffin was on the spot.
Only Foye was active in running, and the role players were miserable, so they finally took advantage of Sun Ce's failure to follow up and ran out of the vacancy, and received Carman's serve and made a direct three-point shot......
Miss! Smash the basket on!
The ball hit the right side of the basket and bounced back to the left, just in the direction where Griffin was, and it seemed that Griffin, who didn't have the opportunity to catch the ball and attack the basket for two seconds, had no enthusiasm for the opportunity to attack the basket in an instant, and wanted to rush in to grab the rebound, but was blocked by Randolph!
Originally, Randolph would still take this kind of rebounding ball that bounced directly to himself, but this time he didn't take this kind of ball, and if he wanted to grab it, he might really be stolen by Griffin, a physical fitness monster, so Randolph was full-time Kagriffin tonight!
Sun Ce lost Feye, and when Feye received the ball and jumped, Sun Ce hurriedly retracted the basket, but fortunately, Feye didn't shoot, and Sun Ce received the defensive rebound!
Griffin had a lot of problems in the early part of his career, such as having unclean hands and relying on the referee's whistle when attacking, but he was not lacking in motivation!
He felt that if he wanted Sun Ce and Evans to remember him, he had to perform well in front of them in order to be valued by the two strongest players in the same class who had already played a lot in the NBA.
After the start of the new season, Griffin studied Sun Ce a lot, and when he saw Randolph's movements and Sun Ce's figure floating in, he didn't fight anymore.
Sun Ce grabbed the rebound and immediately counterattacked, and when he rushed across the halfline, the Clippers only Griffin retreated alone, which Sun Ce didn't expect.
Ben was about to make a mid-range pull-up jump shot after reaching the three-point line, but after glancing at his teammates, Sun Ce rushed straight to the basket.
Griffin was very focused on guarding the basket, and when he saw Sun Ce coming in, his footsteps moved quite quickly.
Before the meniscus resection, Griffin's defense was also okay, his consciousness was average, but his physical fitness could keep up with the defender's breakthrough, just like now, after Sun Ce broke through the inside line, Griffin's short-distance explosive speed kept up! Sun Ce accelerated and changed direction in one step inside the free throw line and went around Griffin's back, Griffin turned around and covered Sun Ce's shooting space, and did not jump around, this time Griffin's defense was very successful.
Just as Griffin was ready to block, he saw Sun Ce throw the ball into the air with a cupola, and then run directly out of the baseline......
What kind of shot is this?
Griffin couldn't get a hat, and it wasn't in the way he expected him to make a layup, which was completely unexpected!
Just as Griffin jumped up to grab the ball that had fallen, he saw a big long arm appear ten centimeters above his finger, and he held the ball first, and then ...... Griffin felt a huge impact from behind him and threw him forward!
"Bang ......"
With the wail of the basket, Griffin was knocked out of the bottom line by Jordan Jr. and hit the sponge in the basket before stopping, and Jordan Jr. dunked Griffin!
The fans blew up!
Sun Ce + Little Jordan, one offensive and defensive round, blocked Griffin twice, and blocked the line once in the air!
Seeing Griffin's little short hand holding the basket, he turned his head sideways and looked at Sun Ce and Little Jordan calmly high-five...... The Grizzlies fans at the scene felt a little sorry for Griffin.
It's really miserable!
Little Jordan of the 08th class is now a high-profile new generation of potential centers, Sun Ce and Griffin are in the same class, and the three are representatives of the new generation of stars.
I couldn't see it in the first round, but now this time it's ...... Especially Sun Ce and Little Jordan this time the empty connection, everyone can see that the two have obviously discussed.
Griffin was toyed with by the geniuses of his time!
But seeing the picture of Little Jordan sneaking up on Griffin behind the big screen, some fans at the scene couldn't help laughing, when Griffin and Little Jordan jumped to the highest point, their heads were parallel, because Little Jordan was a run-up jump, and Griffin was jumping on the spot, that is, Little Jordan's bounce was actually slightly inferior to Griffin, but!
Little Jordan actually grabbed the ball with an advantage of more than half a palm!
Little Jordan is only three or four centimeters taller than Griffin, and this arm span gap is directly exposed!
When Sun Ce and Jordan Jr. returned to defense, they looked up and saw the picture on the big screen, and after returning to the backcourt, they saw Barang Davis advancing slowly, Sun Ce couldn't help but put his arms between his sides when Jordan Jr. ran into the three-point line one step later, and made a claw posture with both hands.
Little Jordan's eyes lit up when he saw this action, and he also pulled Sun Ce after learning Sun Ce's movements.
When the fans saw the interaction between the two, they didn't react at first, and then they thought of the picture of Griffin being blocked by Little Jordan just now, and the audience burst into laughter.
Griffin, who ran in behind Jordan Jr., saw the two men's movements...... It's infuriating!
How could he, the White Demon Beast, ever suffer such humiliation!
In college, he was in the limelight, beating Thabit, Harden, Evans, and Rubio to become the NBA's top pick, and after entering the NBA, he broke out in one fell swoop, averaging 20+10 per game at the beginning.
Now being played by the Grizzlies!
How could he stand it!
Griffin is furious, he's going to explode!
After Baron Davis advanced to the frontcourt, Griffin was desperate to find an opportunity to cut to the basket, constantly changing direction without the ball at close range.
But! Griffin's short-range burst speed is amazing, and Randolph is not bad!
Sometimes anger doesn't mean confusion, Griffin is angry, and his analysis of defense has become more organized, Griffin's "cake-eating" ability is a little different from other cake-eating players, after all, he is a player who averages 22 points per game, he can have so many opportunities to catch the ball under the basket and attack the basket, physical fitness is one thing, and the grasp of finding space and timing is really powerful!
As a result, Griffin discovered that in addition to Randolph following him close to his constant physical contact, Jordan Jr. had a tendency to shrink, and even ...... There is also a Sun Ce behind him who is ready to take care of him at any time!
Baron Davis, who is not a vegetarian either, saw that Griffin alone attracted the defensive attention of three people, and immediately hung it to Carman, who made a fake move to pass the ball to Griffin, and Jordan Jr. really pounced on Griffin.
There was a bunch of people who could shrink the inside at any time, Carman didn't get close to the basket, retracted the pass, and made a jumper from the free throw line...... Today Kaman may not feel good, ridiculously crooked!
Jordan Jr. and Randolph scolded Griffin together, and Sun Ce, who was ready to shrink at any time, rushed in to win the rebound!
Counterattack with offensive and defensive transitions!
It's Griffin who comes back from defense, Eric Gordon runs fast but doesn't seem to be willing to run, and may not be mentally prepared to change from the team's strongest rising star last season to Griffin's little brother, although he averages 20+ per game, but his enthusiasm is average.
Sun Ce rushed to the front court, leaned over and accelerated when he entered the free throw line...... Acceleration on the move!
Sun Ce stepped to the left side of the three-second zone, grabbed the ball and made a move to throw it up, Griffin immediately looked at the middle, little Jordan just ran into the three-point line, and this time Foye and little Jordan followed very closely, the other party did not have an empty action, and he was in the middle of the plan!
This was also a matter of an instant, and when Griffin turned his head to look at Sun Ce, Sun Ce had already jumped on the spot and put the ball into the basket with one hand.
The Grizzlies went on a 6-2 run! Moreover, hit two fast breaks in a row!
The new head coach of the Clippers, Vini Negro, couldn't stand it and called a timeout!
The score is not the key, it is normal for them to fall behind the Grizzlies, and they were beaten 6-2 at the beginning, Negro didn't feel wrong, the other party played so seriously, it must be more robbed than them.
But the process was unsettling for Negro.
Griffin was bullied so badly!
Sun Ce and his teammates jointly locked Griffin, just two or three rounds, the key is Sun Ce's counterattack...... Negro didn't expect his team's defense to be so bleak, and he was forced by Sun Ce to fight back twice!
And the background is all Griffin, Sun Ce is completely playing Griffin!
Watching Griffin sit on the bench with a blank face after only a few rounds of play, Negro knew that Griffin had been hit hard.
In terms of personal ability, Negro feels that Griffin will not lose to Sun Ce, but with NBA-level game experience and cooperation with teammates, Sun Ce is much better than Griffin.
Negro knows that Griffin is difficult to compare with Sun Ce in the game, Griffin's data does not seem to lose to Sun Ce, but it is the kind of data that is mixed with water, and unlike Sun Ce's rebounds and blocks, Griffin has water in scoring.
When the Clippers fall into positional battles, they usually play seventeen or eighteen seconds a round, if nothing else, just waiting for Griffin to keep running, waiting for Griffin to find a cut into the line and get inside to catch the ball and shoot.
This style of play is perfect for Griffin's scoring, but it hurts the feel of outside shooting, because Negro gave Baron Davis the task of getting Griffin to receive the ball more inside, so Baron Davis will not pass the ball to these people even if he sees players with mid-to-long-range shots such as Foye, Carman, Eric Gordon or Ryan Gomez, who comes off the bench, run out of position, and has to wait until Griffin can't run into the position before passing to these people.
When it came time to pass to these people, these people probably had missed the best shooting opportunity and could only shoot defense-oriented in most cases, so Foye, who averaged at least 1.5 three-pointers per game with an average three-point shooting rate of 39 percent in three seasons in the first three seasons, has plummeted to 30 percent in the Clippers' three-point shooting without any change in the number of three-point shots.
It is precisely because of this choice of playing style that the Clippers, who have Griffin and Carman, two All-Star-level interior lines, can't even touch the edge of the playoffs.
Today they continue to play this way, Carman and Foye didn't score two mid-to-long shots, that's it, Negro doesn't care about winning or losing, the key is to practice Griffin's inside catch and shoot ability, but Griffin can't even get data today!
The most troublesome thing is that Negro has no room to operate, and he has ways to adjust, such as using Griffin's containment to set up team tactics.
Negro has developed Rose, and he has done a lot of work to build the foundation for the first two seasons of his career, and he knows how to develop a rookie, and he knows that he can use Griffin the same way that the Grizzlies used Sun Ce's containment in the next few games to make Griffin develop in the direction of leadership.
Ability is not a problem, Griffin's talent is very good in the history of the NBA, in the early stage of his career, it should be like cultivating Rose, cultivating leadership ability, and the strength can naturally be improved, Griffin has a good training and game attitude.
As for Sun Ce's ability to lead, personal ability, and ability to lead the team go hand in hand, Negro said he was unwilling to compare.
But the approach demanded by Clippers management was a bit difficult for Negro to accept...... The Clippers need Griffin's dunk as a selling point to sell tickets, and they have to keep giving Griffin dunk opportunities, and he is not allowed to let Griffin score less.
Even...... Couldn't replace Griffin to calm Griffin, Negro didn't have that right, so he could only call a timeout to let Griffin take a break.
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After the timeout, Negro highlighted the running positions of Foye, Carman and Eric Gordon and continued to put the starting line-up on the field.
On the other hand, Sun Ce, Randolph, and Little Jordan ravaged Griffin and became addicted, and they had a heart!
The strength of the opponent is indeed not as beautiful as the data shows, in general, it does not help to win, which Randolph is very experienced, he played a similar style back then, that is, scoring for the sake of scoring, taking the rebound for the sake of rebounding, without thinking about the card position, without thinking about how to help his teammates contain the defense by scoring.
They can see that Griffin's running position is purely for himself to score, and when Griffin is running, he can draw out coldly to help his teammates block people and then cut in, which can attract at least two defenders to help his outside teammates get a big gap......
But the other party doesn't use this trick, for Sun Ce and others, it's very easy to do.
The second phase of the sniper griffin begins! Lock up the Griffin!
Originally, Griffin was not pleasing to the opponent, and at the beginning of the game, there was a move to press Randolph's arm partition, and Tony Allen and Paul George, who replaced Conley and Battier, also did not have a good impression of Griffin.
Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Randolph, and Jordan Jr. formed the "Kill Griffin" combination, although Coach Hollins wanted to complain when he heard Sun Ce say the "nickname" of this combination, but defensive assistant coach Jogel saw through the Clippers' strategic thinking, understood the thoughts of his own players, and arranged tactics that really killed Griffin.
Thereupon...... After returning from a hibernation, Griffin suffered the darkest night since the start of his career......
When Griffin was in good physical strength, Randolph went up to catch him, although Randolph could only consume Griffin, he couldn't block it, and he didn't dare to shrink, and the space for Griffin to rush up was really unbearable, but now it's not just Sun Ce and Little Jordan who are flanking, these five-person group, the team defense is fighting, and whoever gets close to Griffin will go to the finch at the right time.
Moreover, when the attack is flanked, the other people can change their defenses faster than when Battier and Conley are there!
The defensive ability of the rookie Pickle Pepper is far inferior to Battier, but his physical fitness and mobility are stronger than that of Battier at the peak!
Griffin's mentality is about to collapse!
At first, he was capped and buttoned, and then he was frantically targeted, except for pulling to the outside to catch the ball alone, it was difficult for him to have a chance to cut and catch the ball!
The counterattack can't be done, the little Jordan on the opposite side stared at him, the speed and height were not worse than him, Griffin felt that this was no longer targeted, and the other party wanted to play him to death!
As a rookie, Griffin has never experienced this kind of battle, the first time he played against the Grizzlies in his life, he encountered a defense that he had never encountered before!
The most annoying thing is that he was tired of running, so the Grizzlies replaced Sun Ce, Randolph, and Jordan Jr., and when he was young and strong, he regained his strength, and the Grizzlies replaced these three guys who wanted to kill him......
In the ninth minute of the second quarter, Sun Ce seized the opportunity again, and when Griffin grabbed the offensive rebound and wanted to press Yi Jianlian for a dunk, he slapped the ball on the rebound from behind!
Griffin was about to break down, half the game was almost over, he only had three minutes off, but after 18 minutes, he took 8 shots, only made two shots, and most of the time he didn't even get close to the basket!
It was not easy to press the top to the center position to make up for the post-defense position, Yi Jianlian grabbed an offensive rebound and was capped again!
Seeing Yi Jianlian snatching the ball that Sun Ce had bounced off on the rebound, Griffin couldn't help but go up and pull Yi Jianlian's arm and pull the ball off.
Randolph next to him stopped doing it, and walked up with his head buried and pressed against Griffin's body.
Seeing Randolph looking down at his eyes full of whites, Griffin instantly woke up, this is the Grizzlies!
Seeing Sun Ce, Randolph, Tony Allen, and Paul George standing next to Yi Jianlian, Griffin was about to cry: "What did I do wrong? You're going to bully me like this? ”
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