This season's Clippers can be described as a sudden rise, six years ago, the team led by captain Elton Brand and two deputy Chris Carman, Corey Margetty led the Clippers all the way to the second round of the playoffs, and the bombardment of the Suns in seven games before losing regrettably, and then Brand was seriously injured, the Clippers fell into a sinking and gradually became the number one weak chicken in the league, and the previous Grizzlies rebuilding model, the dismal winning rate for consecutive years gave the Clippers a large number of high-quality draft picks, but unlike the previous Grizzlies, the Grizzlies picked up a net of waste, In 2008, the Clippers searched for a talented center in the second round, Deandre Jordan, although Jordan Jr. lacks offensive ability, but thanks to his unique physical fitness, he has gradually become the Clippers' interior guardian and a high-quality finisher on the offensive end, and in 2009, the Clippers selected the super-popular power forward Blake Griffin with the top pick, Griffin's style of play is explosive, his style of play is violent, and he has contributed one breathtaking dunk after another, but obviously, These two rookies weren't enough to help the Clippers make the playoffs, so the Clippers made a big deal with the Hornets this season in exchange for a Hall of Fame-caliber super-guard, Chris Paul!

The trio of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan turned Los Angeles into an empty city and became the most violent and good-looking city in the league, with a bunch of high-quality characters, three-point shooter Randy Foye, singles little prince Nick Young, veteran All-Star level small forward Caron Butler, potential guard Eric Bledsoe, Morris Williams, who is still at the peak of the offensive power, and Reggie Evans, who are still at the top of their game, all the way to the Clippers, who have not entered the playoffs for six years. brought to the fourth position in the West, its player configuration, overall strength, far above the Grizzlies!

However, grizzly bears never know what it means to be afraid! It doesn't matter who you are, it's done!

In the first game between the two sides, the Grizzlies did something that will remember history, but alas, it was a negative thing......

In the first quarter of the game, Xiao Jia completely broke Jordan Jr., scoring 10 points in 5 of 6 in a single quarter, sending 4 assists and grabbing 2 rebounds, while the Clippers' three major scorers, Paul, Griffin and Butler, were extremely sluggish, and the Grizzlies led the Clippers 34-16 in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Grizzlies' rotation players began to play, Speights made two consecutive shots, Pondsett hit a three-point shot, Randolph, and Mayo also scored each, and the Clippers couldn't open the firepower point for a long time, and could only rely on Nick Young's scattered personal ability to barely bite the score, and in the third quarter, Conley made a wive, and the outside shot consecutive three-point guns, and scored 13 points in 4 of 4 three-pointers in a single quarter, and the Grizzlies led the Clippers by as many as 27 points at most! But in the last two minutes, the Grizzlies failed to complete a positional offense, relying only on Guy's free throws to score one point, and the Clippers relied on Chris Paul to score seven points in the last two minutes of the third quarter, and finally the Grizzlies led the Clippers by a huge margin of 21 points at 85:64 to the fourth quarter.

The fourth quarter of the game was the most reluctant to review in all the history of the Grizzlies, as if the Grizzlies suddenly couldn't play and let the Clippers slaughter ......

In the first four minutes of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies were still the whole game, the two teams attacked and defended each other, the Grizzlies led the Clippers by 95:71 by 24 points, the Clippers had completely given up the game at this time, all benches, but the whole team gave up, and there was one person in the Clippers who would not give up, and he was Chris Paul.

Paul suffered an elbow injury at the end of the playoffs this year, and the final game was played intermittently, but in the face of such a game, Paul was still unwilling to give up, Paul actually assisted Reggie Evans, played two and one against Randolph under the basket, missed the free throw, Griffin made a dunk, scored 4 points in a row, and the Clippers closed the score to 75:95, and there were still seven minutes before the end of the game!

Paul broke through the layup between Conley and Jr. to score 2 points, Randolph hit Reggie Evans with his back, missed the left-handed throw, Nick Young missed three points, Bledsoe grabbed the rebound in the front court, dribbled two steps back, and scored 2 points in the long two-point shot, Guy singled Griffin and didn't shoot in the middle, turned around and the Clippers played a three-point attack, Griffin feinted to attack Xiaojia, and gave the ball to the outside Paul, Paul did not hesitate to pass to Bledsoe in the bottom corner of the right side, Bledsoe was unguarded three meters away, his hand was up and down, and he hit a three-point shot!

The Clippers went on an 11-0 run* to push the score to 82:95, with five and a half minutes left before the end of the game!

The Clippers' continuous scoring still did not arouse the alarm of the Grizzlies, who were still loose on the defensive end, not at all like the ferocious Grizzlies during the regular season!

Conley's breakthrough caused Griffin to foul, one of two free throws, Griffin singled Speights, two consecutive turns and swayed, shook Speights and Guy, and made a layup, Conley faced Nick Young, brainless long-distance shooting could not score, and then the Clippers, who were chasing points very strongly, also suffered a scoring drought, Paul missed, Bledsoe made mistakes, Nick Young brainless and difficult shots, with the loss of time little by little, the players of the Clippers on the court are in a low mood, and Paul has always been communicating with every player, encouraging them to play for them, But the Grizzlies didn't strike while the iron was hot during this time, Speights couldn't score an open position under the basket, Guy returned with three waves of offense, the breakthrough was stealed by Reggie Evans, the mid-range shot was not, the breakthrough was blocked by Reggie Evans, and by the last 3 minutes of the game, the Grizzlies led the Clippers by 12 points at 96:84!

The game entered the white heat, Nick Young faced Guy's defense and hit a three-pointer to close the score to only 9 points! Mayo didn't shoot in the middle, Chris Paul ran all the way with the ball, and distributed it to Nick Young outside the three-point line on the right side from the middle line, and Nick Young pulled up and threw the ball directly into it!

"Brush!"

The whole season has been silent!

At this point, the Grizzlies only led the Clippers by 6 points at 96:90! There are 2 minutes left in the game!

Conley didn't break through, Paul fought back again, the same attack as the previous round, and gave the ball to Nick Young on the right side, saying that he was strong and he was strong, Lao Tzu Nick Young, Nick Young was in almost the same position on the right side, facing Guy who pounced, and threw the ball out with his body floating!

"Brush!"

It's in again!

Nick Young made three three-pointers in a row! Simply pulled the Clippers back from the line of death!

Hollins grimaced and called a timeout.

After the pause, the Clippers pressed the ball to the front court and passed it to Xiao Jia, the Grizzlies sought stability, or played the high and low positions of Xiao Jia and Randolph, but this used countless tricks to be recognized by the Clippers, Bledsoe stretched out his hand in front of Randolph to break the ball quickly, Xiao Jia fell to the ground to save the ball, but the ball was controlled by Griffin, the whistle sounded, and Xiao Jia fouled! Griffin hit both free throws!

The Grizzlies' lead is only one point! In the past seven and a half minutes, the Grizzlies have been unbelievably beaten by the Clippers in a wave of 27:1 offensive frenzy!

Randolph singled Evans, although Evans is not tall, but the strength is very strong, Randolph resisted twice, resisted, turned around and threw back and couldn't throw, Paul ran to the frontcourt, faced Xiao Jia's defense had no chance, dribbled the ball to the three-point line, after singles Xiao Jia, feinted to make a real pass, and distributed the ball to Reggie Evans who cut in the middle, Evans sacrificed an awkward big loop layup, the ball stumbled and went into the basket!

Overtake!

The Grizzlies are one point behind!

At the critical moment, there was a problem with the Clippers' defense, Paul inexplicably turned to Guy who was holding the ball, and Guy who was tall immediately ate Paul alone, and sent the ball in the middle of the back, and the Grizzlies struggled to pull the score back! With 28 seconds left in the game, the Grizzlies led by one point, but the Clippers had the ball!

At the last moment, Tony Allen defended Paul, but fouled in defense, violated Paul's cylinder, and awarded the Clippers two free throws, Paul hit it steadily, and the Grizzlies fell behind by 1 point!

At the last moment of the game, the Clippers chose to use Kenyon Martin to defend Guy, Martin is tall and has long arms and fast speed, Guy broke through to the left, and used a small jump after the breakthrough, but Martin only stuck to Guy, Guy's small jump only jumped to the free throw line, and could only be forced to shoot backwards from the middle distance, but under Martin's interference, the ball shot small, knocked on the front of the basket, Griffin grabbed the rebound, and the game ended, the Grizzlies led by 27 points and lost the game inexplicably.

In this game, the Grizzlies lost in the second half, especially in the last quarter, the premature big score difference made the Grizzlies give up their vigilance, thus making them pay a huge substitute, and the Clippers played a 35:13 attack wave in the final quarter, and the Grizzlies became the team with the second most points reversed in the playoffs in NBA history, and was nailed to the pillar of shame (the first was the 1989 Lakers reversal 29 points in the second round of the playoffs to defeat the SuperSonics), if you count the 27 points in the second half of the reversal, the Grizzlies are the first in history... …

In this game, the data is pale in everything, and it is enough to prepare directly for the next game.

In the second game, the Grizzlies led the Clippers by 4 points in the first half, but they did not make the mistakes of the previous game and won the game steadily, Guy scored a team-high 21 points on 9-of-13 Mayo scored 20 points on 6-of-16, and the veteran ruffian Randolph played in the education playoffs rookie Griffin, although Randolph's physical fitness was not as good as Griffin's, but his experience was far better than Griffin's, Randolph scored 15 points, 8 rebounds and 5 front boards on 6-of-11, while Griffin scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and 1 front board on 9-of-15.

In the third game, the Grizzlies lost by 1 point at 83:84, no shutout, Guy almost saved the team at the end of the game, and there was one minute left that the Grizzlies trailed the Clippers by 4 points, Paul's strong attack caused Mayo to foul and hit both free throws, Guy hit a three-pointer, leaving the Grizzlies only 3 points behind, with 12 seconds left in the game, Bledsoe made one of two free throws to pull the score back to 4 points, Guy hit three points again, and the Grizzlies only fell behind by 1 point, and then the Clippers did not have difficulty to create difficulty, Evans and Bledsoe missed all four free throws in a row, But Guy's late rush missed a three-pointer, and the whistle blew and the game was over.

In fact, Guy was not efficient in this game, scoring 24 points in 5 of 13, with 4 turnovers, and the last two three-pointers in the game were all of Guy's three-pointers, Randolph scored 17 points in 6 of 13, Mayo was the worst player in the team, 1 of 8 got 6 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 5 turnovers, and graduated with 6 fouls in the final moments of the game.

In the fourth game, the two teams fought for overtime, Randolph caused a foul on Randy Foye in the last 20 seconds, and scored two free throws into overtime, but in overtime, Conley, who performed well throughout the game, was blown up by Paul, scoring 8 points on 4-of-5 in overtime, leading the Clippers to win their third game 101-97, Conley scored a team-high 25 points on 10-of-15 in the game, Guy was still not efficient, hitting only 8 of 25 shots to score 23 points, and Griffin shined all over the court, He finished with a game-high 30 points, five rebounds and seven assists on 10-of-15 shooting, while Paul had 27 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

In the first four games, the Grizzlies fell behind 1:3.

The Grizzlies, who have stepped into the threshold of the game with one foot, broke out with the strongest combat effectiveness, and the black and white bears in the first quarter of the fifth game were powerful, and the two of them scored 27 points in 12 of 14, leading the Grizzlies to win the Clippers by 14 points in a single quarter 36:22! They didn't make a second mistake, leading all the way to the end of the game, and finally defeated the Clippers 92:80, ushering in a respite for themselves, in the sixth game, Gasol Jr. scored 13 points and 7 rebounds in the first quarter to lead the Grizzlies 25:16 lead the Clippers, and in the last moments of the game, it was Randolph who continuously bombed the Clippers restricted area to ensure the Grizzlies' final victory, and finally, the two sides ushered in a new round of tie-breaking!

Six consecutive difficult games, so that the players on both sides are almost exhausted, the first quarter of the seven-game game, both teams are not in shape, the Grizzlies only scored 13 points in the first quarter, and the Clippers are not much better, only 16 points, the second quarter The two teams slowly returned to the right track, Gasol Jr. and Gay scored in a row, and the Clippers relied on this Paul to support alone, and the Grizzlies trailed the Clippers by 1 point at 38:39 at the end of the second quarter!

In the third quarter, Guy was powerful, scoring 10 points in a single quarter, mid-range shots, breakthroughs, free throws, everything, and the Clippers were supported by Paul and Butler, and at the end of the third quarter, the Grizzlies overtook the Clippers by 1 point at 56:55!

In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies were defeated, or defeated by the king of heaven, Nick Young!

Nick Young hit three points at the beginning, and then shot inside and outside and added 4 free throws to score a total of 9 points, Nick Young's style of play does not match the Clippers' tactics at all, but it can score, and Mayo played another disappointing game, in the most critical final quarter, all six shots missed only relying on free throws to score 1 point, Mayo only hit 1 goal in 11 shots in the whole game, and scored 4 points in the game, and the Grizzlies lost seven and were eliminated.

In the whole series, the most disappointing thing in the Grizzlies is undoubtedly Mayo, averaging only 8.9 points per game in seven games, 2.1 assists accompanied by 2.6 turnovers, the shooting rate is a miserable 27.4%, and the three-point shooting rate is less than three percent. Once again, he proved that he didn't have the ability to attack the city and make the most of the crucial moments that the Grizzlies need, and he was an inefficient scorer at best.

At the end of the season, Mayo's four-year rookie contract ended, and after a disappointing performance in the playoffs, he did not receive a contract extension from the Grizzlies, and the talented star who had given the Memphis high hopes left the Grizzlies with a slightly embarrassing result.

Although Mayo's development did not meet the Grizzlies' expectations, in the Grizzlies' short team history, Mayo, who has been efficient for the Grizzlies for four seasons, is still at the top of many statistics, ranking seventh in team history with 4,584 total points, ninth in team history with 818 assists, eighth in team history with 333 steals, and fourth in team history with 477 three-point hits.

In the 2012 NBA Draft, the Grizzlies used the 25th pick in the first round to choose Tony Rotten from the University of Washington.

Luo Teng is 198 cm tall and plays the second position, his style of play is similar to that of Kevin Lowry, a veteran of the Grizzlies, with excellent physical conditions and good at attacking the basket frequently, but the number of three-point shots and shooting percentage are not ideal, the defense is average, easy to shake, and it is a good material for the opponent to make fouls.

On July 11, 2012, the Grizzlies signed Jerry Bayless for 2 years and 6.13 million to supplement the backup guard selection.

Bayless is 191 cm tall, has strong offensive ability, is fast, physically coordinated, can break through but mostly chooses jump shots to finish rounds, has three-point ability, but is unstable, limited to size, has a natural weakness on the defensive end, and is not good at organization, in general, Bayless is a qualified bench scorer.

On July 25, the Grizzlies sent Cunningham to the Timberwolves in exchange for point guard Wayne Ellington.

Ellington, who is 193 centimeters and plays the No. 2 position, is in his third year of playing and is an excellent three-point shooter to supplement the lack of three-point ability that comes with abandoning Mayo.

And the selection of Roten in the draft, the signing of Bayless, and the exchange for Ellington is the biggest gain of Grizzlies management this summer......

The starting five Tigers Conley, Allen, Gay, Randolph and Gasol Jr., on the bench sat Speights, Bayless, Poundsetter, Roten, Ellington, and later welcomed back Darrell Arthur, who returned from injury, to be honest, such a lineup is not very good, but in the regular season, the Grizzlies' ferocious style of play still terrified the whole league, after the start of the season, the first game lost to the Clippers, followed by a wave of eight consecutive wins. In six of these eight games, the Grizzlies scored more than 100 points, and the fierce defense and the Grizzlies who can still score are the nightmare of the whole league.

On January 23, in order to reduce the luxury tax, the Grizzlies sent Speights and Ellington to the Cavaliers, in exchange for Joey Loyle and a trade exception worth $6 million, this transaction saved the Grizzlies $6.2 million, Loyle is 208 cm tall, plays as a forward, is the No. 10 rookie in the second round in 2011, has good interior footwork and mid-range shooting, is not strong enough, and lacks defensive ability, but Loyle has a good professional attitude, plays actively, dares to fight, and throws 100,000 energy into every game, with such a fighting attitude, it can also allow Loyle to play well on some nights, but on the whole, it is relatively average, and it is obvious that players who cannot defend are obviously not in line with the expectations of the Grizzlies, and Loyle has played tricks this season, but at the end of this season, the Grizzlies still chose to renew Loyle's contract and signed a three-year, $3 million contract.

On January 28, 2013, the Grizzlies defeated the 76ers 103-100 away, Guy performed very well throughout the game, grabbed the frontcourt rebound that Bayless missed in the last 14 seconds of the game, and the rebound gave the Grizzlies a one-point lead over the 76ers, and then after being fouled by the 76ers, two free throws were also solid hits, helping the team win the game, Guy scored 26 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in 10 of 17 in the game, but Guy can play such a game, which is rare throughout the season, most of the time, Guy's shooting was spent in the "dangdang" iron, averaging 17.2 points per game and the lowest since his rookie season, 40.8% shooting percentage dropped 5 percentage points from last season, a career low, and 31% three-point shooting rate was also a career low, not only shooting inefficient, but also a set of data that better illustrates Guy's problem.

In the 42 games that Guy has played this season, free throws (only free throws are not scored) 4 times, including less than 4 times (two breakthrough kills), accounting for 27 games, accounting for 64.3%, this is Guy's old problem, the offensive end likes to end the round with projection, and the opponent's killing ability is insufficient, but the key problem is that Guy's projection is not very accurate, 40.8% shooting rate and 31% three-point shooting rate are corroborated, under the accumulation of these data, You've seen an inefficient scorer who doesn't shoot more and more, doesn't shoot more and more, stacks up scores with a lot of shots, and more importantly, Guy has been around for seven years, and this criticism has never improved.

The number of games under four free throws per game, Guy was 78.2% in his rookie season, which you can explain as the reason for the lack of playing time, but there were also 27.7 minutes, 64.6% in the second year, 60.7% in the third year, 56.2% in the fourth year, 61.1% in the fifth year, 64.6% in the sixth year, and this year, playing until now, it is 64.3%, which shows that Guy has not constrained and made up for the shortcomings in this regard, as a comparison, let's take a look at the same data comparison of the league's No. 3 excellent scorer, In James' seventh year of debut, the number of games below four free throws is 8 games, accounting for 10.5%, you can say that he plays inside, then Kobe Bryant's seven years of entry with less than four free throws is 17 games accounting for 20.7%, and Maddie is 16 games accounting for 23.8%, you can say that Gay's scoring ability is far inferior to James, Kobe and Maddy, but at least, there is not such a big gap between 64% and 20%!

Given these reasons for Guy, the Grizzlies decided to trade Guy despite winning 29 of their first 42 games.