The Grizzlies started the game with turnovers and only 10 offenses in about six and a half minutes, nine of which were completed on 5-of-9 shooting, including one three-pointer and one of two free throws.

The Thunder, for their part, had 11 offenses, shot 6-of-11, made two three-pointers, and hit two free throws.

Because the Thunder team attacked first, although the Grizzlies' momentum was suppressed by the opponent, in fact, the Grizzlies overall, resisted the Thunder's offense.

That is, although the two teams suppressed the rhythm and reduced the opponent's scores, the Thunder still relied on Durant to play a season average opening performance.

Perkins' role adjustment has brought a significant improvement to the Thunder, they have Ibaka, Perkins can honestly block the basket, and he doesn't need to think of himself as the top five defensive warriors in the league in the league in defensive efficiency and limiting the opponent's scoring to rank in the top three centers, and making good use of his experience to command the defense and drive the defense is the right way.

And this is definitely not a good thing for Sun Ce, an opponent.

However, Sun Ce has never underestimated any opponent, he knows that they are getting stronger, and the opponent will definitely try to become stronger and find a way to become stronger.

Just like in the original time and space, the Warriors had Durant joined, and they were invincible to that point, and other teams did not give up, wanting to end the Warriors, Harden almost did it, and Leonard really did it.

Generally speaking, as long as it is not a smart move by the NBA executives, the emergence of a strong team is certainly not a bad thing, and they will push other teams to improve, such as the yellow-green battle in the 80s, the Bulls dynasty in the 90s, the Lakers 5 championships and the Spurs 3 championships in the first decade of the new century, all of which have made the NBA qualitatively improved.

Sun Ce also wants to be the one who promotes the development of basketball, and has been working hard.

In this game, the Grizzlies once again fell into passivity, playing three times with the Thunder this season, and losing badly the first time; In the second encounter, relying on activating the Westbrook Mamba attribute, Sun Ce exploded and scored high, and the Grizzlies won; In the third meeting, Randolph's state has returned to the A+ level, and the Thunder team was caught off guard, and the Grizzlies won easily.

But this time, after a season on the Thunder's side, the run-in was better, and Westbrook and Durant also played better...... The improvement on the Grizzlies' side was not enough to suppress the Thunder, and when Durant played calmly and Perkins was honestly doing what he could do well on the defensive end, the Grizzlies were slightly at a disadvantage.

Fortunately, isn't there still a big move that hasn't been released?

Coach Hollins has the same idea as Sun Ce's current idea, the goal is to activate Westbrook's Mamba Soul!

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Coming back from the timeout, the Grizzlies fielded a lineup of Son Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders.

The Thunder, on their part, sent a lineup of Westbrook, Ellis, Durant, Ibaka, and Nick Collisson.

The Grizzlies came up with the first offensive attack of Larry Sanders to steal the offensive rebound that Klay Thompson missed for a three-point shot and the second offensive dunk for the second time.

Perkins' tonnage still has his role, and it is obvious that the top card awareness is matched with tonnage, and Howard in his prime can't grab too many offensive rebounds on Perkins' head, and Nick Collison is much worse in this regard.

14-16, the difference narrowed to two points, and when the Thunder attacked, Westbrook continued to break through, and his physical strength was so good that it reminded people of Kobe Bryant in the No. 8 period.

Westbrook, following a reading of the Grizzlies' defensive formation, suddenly got to a position where he felt he could attract Sun Ce or Larry Sanders to the middle, and had managed to get a pull-up shot from Paul George's one-on-one defense, passing the ball to Durant, who had just been picked up by Larry Sanders after Larry Sanders hesitated to fill the inside after Durant and Ibaka blocked on the left side of the three-second zone.

But this time, Larry Sanders is not hesitating to fill the interior as Westbrook thinks, but hesitating to ignore Westbrook.

The moment Westbrook grabbed the ball and pushed it out, Larry Sanders made the decision to switch to Durant, saw the ball fly over, and slammed it out......

Although he didn't make a steal, Larry Sanders flew his racket off the baseline, blocking the connection between Westbrook and Durant, and draining the Thunder's 24-second offensive time to just nine seconds! That is, the next Thunder team to continue to attack, must make a decisive choice.

This is the beginning of the Grizzlies' desire to put Westbrook in a singles maelstrom!

But......

Before the story has even begun, it is already over, and Westbrook calls a timeout!

The official timeout came back, and before a round was finished, the Thunder called a timeout again!

"What are they doing? Could it be ......?"

Sun Ce had a sense of foreboding.

After a short 20-second timeout, the Grizzlies didn't make any adjustments, and the opponent's timeout made them feel inexplicable.

This is different from them starting the game badly or the Spurs starting the game badly for a minute or two and calling a timeout, the Thunder side just called a timeout before they got into any trouble.

The short timeout passed quickly, and when Sun Ce heard the long whistle of the substitution at the end of the timeout, there was a clear guess.

Sure enough, Westbrook sat back on the bench and Reggie Jackson came off the bench!

Sun Ce looked at another talent selected by the Thunder in 2011, a second-year point guard with first-class star talent, and he really didn't know what to say about the Thunder's draft vision.

The draft is like a hanging, and the operation is the same as being a virus.

Sun Ce has the impression that when Westbrook didn't play for most of the season, Reggie Jackson played right away, and then the Thunder scattered the money again and sent Reggie Jackson away, and then Reggie Jackson went to the new team to get the 5-year salary cap before the salary cap skyrocketed.

However, Reggie Jackson's glass man attribute Sun Ce is also impressed, and he is the player with the biggest salary drop in the league in a future season.

Reggie Jackson is a very good off-ball cut-off offensive basket, a good size shooting guard who can switch to defense, and a strong point guard, and when he came up, the Thunder's style of play directly changed to Ellis and Durant taking turns single.

When Westbrook is on the floor, except for Ellis's occasional singles with the ball, Durant will not take the initiative to hold the ball until critical moments, but if necessary, Durant is definitely one of the most terrifying single players in the league.

Without the "obstruction" of Westbrook, who can't run without the ball to catch the ball and shoot or cut into the search for opportunities, Ellis and Durant's front line can't be stopped!

Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Larry Sanders' outside blocking, Randolph's defense under the basket, didn't take advantage!