704: Listen, the Grim Reaper's footsteps are approaching

Mike. When Conley advanced with the ball, the fans were cheering for him.

Lillard thought he could continue the 38-point run in the last game to finish Conley and cement his selection to the All-Star bench today. But to his surprise, he was beaten all over the ground by Conley today.

At this point, the game was in the final 38 seconds of the second quarter, and the Grizzlies were on offense. Although the half game is not over yet, on the scoreboard, the Grizzlies have reached 59 points.

If this goal is scored again, the Grizzlies will have to score 60 points at halftime.

And the number next to the Trail Blazers is still stuck at 46. Their score hasn't changed for a few rounds.

The 13-point gap was on the Trail Blazers, leaving every Trail Blazers player in a black away jersey breathless.

Including Lillard.

Today's game was played from the very beginning, and the Trail Blazers have been suppressed until now.

At the start of the game, Link led an 11-0 offensive surge with his own takeaways.

After a timeout, Stotts calmed down a little bit for the Trail Blazers. Subsequently, the calm Aldridge scored 7 points in a row to stabilize the situation.

People thought that this was the beginning of the Trailblazers' counterattack, but as everyone knows, it is already the final struggle.

After that, Link and Conley showed their powers again. Conley assisted Link on an aerial relay during the breakaway, and Link broke through and assisted Conley to hit a three-point shot in the bottom corner......

After a single operation, the momentum of the Trail Blazers was choked. By the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers were already trailing by nine points.

However, in the second quarter, Link directly played "health basketball". On the offensive end, it's all about passing, passing, running, and running, and on the defensive end, Link only needs to make a "you kid want to take a risk" look to make Batum stop.

Conley took the initiative to carry the scoring banner, and his all-round skills made the slightly frizzy Lillard suffer a lot.

In the second quarter of the game, Lillard's mentality collapsed directly, and both offensive and defensive ends were eaten to death by Conley.

As a result, Lillard had already allowed Conley to score nine points after scoring only four points in the second quarter. If this goal is scored again, then Conley will score 10+ points in a single quarter!

In the second quarter of the game, the Grizzlies' final offense, at this time, Link was already sitting firmly on the chairlift, talking and laughing with his teammates on the bench.

Seeing this footage, those who are eager for the Trailblazers to cause problems for the Grizzlies must be very disappointed.

Instead of having any trouble today, Link seemed to be having a good time.

Can you not be happy? Eating the opponent to death at the beginning of the game is the most energy-saving way to play.

On the pitch, Conley became the spotlight. Now, neither the fans nor the coaches of the other 29 teams can turn a blind eye to him.

He controls the tempo from beyond the three-point line and consumes as much time as he can. With only 5 seconds left in the 24-second offensive time, Conley skilfully commanded the pick-and-roll.

Azeli immediately rose to the top of the post, and Lillard was ready to bypass cover at any moment.

Once the cover was in place, Conley began to accelerate towards the side of Azeli's block. Lillard immediately walked in front of Azeli, not giving Conley any space.

Lillard's defense was not bad this time, and he posted Conley as soon as possible. It can be seen that even though the game was caught by Link in the first quarter and beaten by Conley in the second quarter, Lillard did not completely lose his fighting spirit.

Just when Lillard thought his defense was successful, Conley, who was originally accelerating, suddenly stepped back in a huge arc and retreated outside the three-point line!

Lillard couldn't follow the brakes in time due to inertia, so he rushed a few steps to the basket before stopping.

Kang took advantage of a nice step-back step and shook Lillard three or four steps away!

The fans in the stadium exclaimed, even Hubi. Brown stood up happily.

The impression of Conley is low-key and simple. But just then, Conley showed his true charm. He told the world that Dangling was not Irving's patent. Conley can do that, but a lot of times he doesn't have to.

In the midst of the exclamations of the fans and Lillard's lost eyes, Conley shot a three-point shot. The moment the basketball entered the net, the 24-second offensive time was just exhausted.

Conley's control of the pace of the game was incredibly precise!

At this point, there were only 14 seconds left for the Trail Blazers, not a single second more. With this goal, Conley scored 12 points in a single quarter and 17 points in the half, turning the score into 62-46.

Link stood up the moment Conley scored, dancing with the crowd on the bench.

Tony. Aaron and Jimmy. Butler and the others twisted like that, but Link's movements felt less like dancing and more like an electric shock.

Looking at Link's lame dancing, countless Grizzlies fans in the stands covered their foreheads.

They couldn't understand how they had fallen on such a sand sculpture in the first place.

"Mike. Conley's performance was simply faulty, with 17 points at halftime and Lillard. It turns out that if you give him a chance, he can put on a great performance, and the reason why Conley has been tepid and ignored before is because he has always been a playmaker and rarely has the opportunity to show himself to the fullest. If you want me to say, Mike definitely qualifies for the All-Star bench! ”

It wasn't old Hubi who said this, but Mike, who has always been more neutral. Brin.

Link is now convinced that he will not be alone in his All-Star journey this year.

Conley's goal not only gave the Grizzlies a 16-point lead, but also completely shattered the Trail Blazers' self-confidence.

On the next offense, Lillard's three-point jumper narrowly missed. This offensive loss left the Trail Blazers without a single point in the final 1:38 of the second quarter and had to swallow a 16-point deficit going into halftime.

Conley walked off the pitch with a smile and Link rushed up to give him a bear hug.

I don't know why, making an original all-star pearl become a highlight, Link is very fulfilled. Perhaps, this is the refreshing effect of changing history.

After halftime, few people still thought the Trail Blazers could beat the Grizzlies.

Link led the Trail Blazers by 16 points in the second quarter without much effort. In the second half of the game, Link only needs to exert a little force, plus Conley, who opened his heart today, to destroy the Trail Blazers in minutes.

Stephen. A. Smith approached Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts at halftime and asked him why the game was the way it was.

Stotts turned blue and his lips were bloodless, "We tried a lot of things, but to no avail. Everybody, including myself, thought we were ready to face the defending champions. But in fact, we don't. ”

"Do you mean that the Grizzlies are too strong for you to deal with?" Smith doesn't let Stotts go easily, his questions are always vicious, and he doesn't let his interviewees get through easily.

Stotts gave Smith a blank look, but in the end, he nodded slightly, "Well, the Grizzlies are strong, and we all got the intensity of this game wrong." ”

After saying that, this former assistant Rick. Carlisle's white coach who led the Mavericks to a championship in 2011 is gone.

When a team's manager is beaten to the point of lack of confidence, it's hard to imagine how he can move his players.

In the second half of the game, the Trail Blazers really couldn't hold on. In the third quarter, the Trail Blazers first relied on Lopez to score four points in a row. But in the next 7 minutes, the Trail Blazers were actually prevented from scoring in the field of action, and only relied on free throws to score 3 points!

Lillard, Aldridge, Matthews, Batum...... Under the Grizzlies' defense, the Trail Blazers' star players were collectively lost.

The Grizzlies didn't stop, and during this time, Link and Conley opened their bows left and right, widening the gap to 24 points in one fell swoop.

After that, Link never played again. Clocking in and out of work in three quarters, this is the best ending.

Mike. Brin and Stephen. A. Smith was shocked, today ESPN got a national live broadcast level configuration for this game. As a result, the game was just spent?

I really don't know whether to say that the Trailblazers are not competitive, or that the Grizzlies are too ruthless.

Meanwhile, Kevin, who was watching the game at his home in Oklahoma. Durant angrily turned off the TV. He, like everyone else, was expecting the Trail Blazers to take down the Grizzlies. However, this game fulfilled what it means to say that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

Durant believes there must be a lot of people who are just as disappointed as he is right now. But they were disappointed, and not just because the Trail Blazers lost.

It's that they all know that after the Trail Blazers, no team can stop the Grizzlies!

When the Grizzlies stood in front of the Thunder again, they were just one step away from regaining a 10-game winning streak!

Durant doesn't mind getting Link three times in a row, but Link's revenge this time will definitely be unprecedentedly fierce. Link has always been true to his word, he said that if he gets up from where he fell, he will do it even if he tries his best!

The next meeting between the Grizzlies and the Thunder is still nearly a week away, but Kevin. Durant had already started to get nervous early.

The scythe-wielding Chinese had reaped all the obstacles that stood in his way, and his footsteps were getting closer and closer to Oklahoma City.