Memphis, the Trump-owned hotel.

Howard is in a very depressed mood right now.

His mood is strange, if another superstar loses in the finals, and because of this game, he and his team have become another player's stepping stone to the road to supergiants, he will definitely be very angry and unhappy, and want to teach the other party a good lesson in the next meeting, and try his best to compete with the other party.

But Howard wasn't, he was very depressed.

The last time he reached the finals, Kobe Bryant regarded it as a grand final, which allowed Kobe to get rid of the saying that he couldn't win the championship without O'Neal.

Now it's another situation, and Howard is so unhappy that he didn't even attend the player meeting led by Iguodala and stayed alone in his room.

The likes of Evans and Iguodala have become accustomed to Howard's bizarre personality, and this guy is not the character of the big boy he deliberately showed to fans.

Fighting defense actually lost, what they are best at actually lost, and it became a stepping stone for others to establish superstar status, Howard was very frustrated in the face of such a situation, but the rest of the 76ers were very unhappy, they wanted to win, they wanted to win the championship, they wanted to get back face in the Grizzlies and Sun Ce!

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On the afternoon of the 15th, Sun Ce tried to adjust his mentality, trying to make himself not affected by the name "superstar", and came to the arena to prepare for the second Finals game with his teammates tomorrow and the 76ers.

In the first game, the 76ers suppressed the defensive performance so well, and the public opinion about the championship in the Finals has completely turned to their Grizzlies.

But the more this is the case, the more Sun Ce feels that he can't be careless, and the increasingly heated discussion about whether he is a superstar can easily lead them to become complacent and even conceited.

In addition to Jordan's Finals supergod, there was also the public opinion at that time that the double evil was going to end Jordan's two consecutive championships, which caused the Bulls to be excited, and the Jazz players were a little floating, the second Jazz team began to float, losing at home, the third Jazz team was slaughtered by the Bulls by more than 40 points, and the fourth game of confidence collapsed, although the fifth game of the Jazz team regained its strength and won one, but the sixth game of the Jazz team lost again and lost the championship.

Originally, with the strength of the Jazz team that year, it would not have lost three consecutive games in the finals, and the influence of public opinion was very great!

Fortunately, their Grizzlies team has two veterans with a calm mentality, Nash and Battier, and Tony Allen, who has played in the Finals twice.

Just as the 76ers have Iguodala as the leader to instigate his teammates to fight back, the Grizzlies' Sambo also gave psychological counseling to his teammates after arriving at the arena to calm down their teammates.

Nash wasn't complacent about his 20-point half-time performance in the last game, but said to his teammates: "I'm 38 years old, I can't play yesterday every night, that's just my luck, to win you need to play better, you have to throw that ball, you have a chance to win the championship in the future, but I'm old, I need you to win the championship!" ”

Originally, even if Sun Ce worked hard to adjust, he was still a little distracted by public opinion, and anyone would be affected by this kind of thing, but when he heard Nash's words, he really calmed down and focused on the finals game itself.

It takes Nash's good mentality to be able to blacken himself, and it's good to start being seen as a superstar, but it's important to win a championship.

Nash's words also moved his teammates, last night's game, in addition to Sun Ce's defensive explosion to take the team's defense to a higher level, Nash's 20 points in the half are more important, he alone scored more than half of the team's second half scores, and it was Nash and Sun Ce who teamed up to save the team!

Nash is so humble, what right do they have to be complacent?

Moreover, they really want to help Nash win the championship, after all, Nash is so good, only one year after coming to the team, the team's veteran players all regard Nash as a big brother, and they can't let Big Brother down.

Moreover, winning the championship is not for others, but for yourself!

No matter what the future holds, a young player with a championship resume will be in demand wherever he goes!

Tactical training began at 2 p.m., and last night the Grizzlies coaching staff stayed up all night to study the strong defense that the 76ers showed in the first game, and Evans was very puzzled by this, scoring 27 points on 10-of-22 shooting in 36 minutes, and also had 13 rebounds and 9 assists.

After making up for sleep in the morning, Coach Hollins got up at noon and saw the storm of public opinion caused by Sun Ce in the news, and their Grizzlies team was frantically touted, which made Coach Hollins a little worried.

But when he came to the stadium to organize the players to prepare for the training after lunch, Coach Hollins found that the players' mentality was calmer than they imagined, and they didn't need to deliberately understand, he knew that this was a good thing for the team's three treasures, and it was a really good thing!

Coach Hollins feels like Son Ce fooled Nash last summer, which is simply great!

Battier and Tony Allen can do the same, but certainly not as much as the impact of Nash, the former superstar

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At 7:30 p.m. on June 16, 2012, after preparing for the game yesterday afternoon and today, Sun Ce and his teammates ushered in the second game of the finals with the 76ers.

The Grizzlies continue to field the starting lineup of Nash, Sun Ce, Paul George, Randolph and Gasol Jr.

The 76ers didn't change much either, with the starting lineup of Evans, Holiday and Iguodala, Thaddeus Young and Howard coming in.

After the game began, the 76ers took the lead in a fierce confrontation!

Tonight, the 76ers have been more aggressive on both offensive and defensive ends from the beginning, but fortunately, the Grizzlies were also prepared to withstand the fierce confrontation that the opponent brought up in the first quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, the Grizzlies scored 19 points in a single quarter thanks to Randolph's 8 points in a single quarter, Paul George and Battier who came off the bench to score a three-pointer each, as well as a baseline hook from Sun Ce and a dunk from Gasol Jr. under the basket, and Nash's 1 free throw.

Despite the 76ers' ferocious performance in the first quarter, Evans scored 13 points in a single quarter to help the 76ers score 21 points in a single quarter, and the Grizzlies didn't fall behind too much.

Sun Ce was targeted and defended very tightly tonight, in the past, he relied on the bad gambler to contain the score, just like in the first half of the last game, he scored 18 points, but today the roles are reversed, he is targeted by the opponent here, so Randolph in the low post on the other side got more single opportunities, and got 8 points and 3 boards on 3-of-7 shooting in the first quarter, two of which were offensive rebounds.

In the second quarter, the 76ers switched to a one-star four-shot mode, with Howard and Louis Williams leading Iguodala, Meeks, and Lavoy Allen to play a one-star four-shot to rest Evans, who had 13 points and two assists in the first quarter.

This became the turning point of the game, Nash played 4 minutes in the first quarter and was replaced by Tony Allen, and then came on the court in the second quarter, bringing Klay Thompson, Sun Ce, and Shuangdi to the court to score points!

This is an adjustment made by Coach Hollins based on the extremely rough confrontation between the two teams in the first quarter, where they shot 7-of-21 from the Grizzlies and 7-of-20 from the opposite 76ers, both shooting low percentages.

The confrontation has taken both teams' shooting touch to this from the start, with both Louis Williams and Meeks both on the court in the first quarter without hitting a single shot.

Based on this situation, Coach Hollins chose to block the basket and counterattack with impact!

In the second quarter, Sun Ce played 4 minutes and was replaced, Nash led his teammates to play the whole quarter, playing a score of 23-18 in a single quarter, and at halftime, the Grizzlies overtook the 76ers by 3 points at 42-39!

In the second quarter, 76ers head coach Doug Collins went crazy!

Howard was still working the defensive end, and when the 76ers were still playing anxiously with the Grizzlies, Howard played very calmly, but the lineup that was not there in the face of Sun Ce, Randolph, and Gasol Jr. couldn't take advantage, Howard began to be not calm, and the defensive end was okay, but on the offensive end, Howard began to sit in the low post and ask for the ball to make continuous offensive fouls.

Originally, it was still relying on the Louis Williams tandem team to compete with the Grizzlies, but in the second half of the second quarter, Howard committed two consecutive offensive fouls, because he had already eaten a foul in the first quarter, and in the 10th minute of the second quarter, after Howard committed three fouls, Doug Collins could only replace Howard with Spencer Hawes, this time there was a problem, in fact, even when Howard made two consecutive offensive mistakes, the 76ers still did a good job of defense, but Howard made two offensive fouls and couldn't play in the last two minutes of the first half!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nash led the Grizzlies to overtake the score at halftime!

Overtook by 3 points at halftime, and Little Jordan felt that although it hurt to be overturned, it was too profitable! He wished Howard would give him two more calls.

Howard's two fouls in a single quarter completely changed the situation of the game.

If the 76ers play calmly and steadily, they Grizzlies really don't have a good way to improve their offensive efficiency on the offensive end.

Defensively, the Grizzlies are indeed better than the 76ers, and their Grizzlies can't deal with the 76ers' defense, and the two things don't conflict.

However, Howard's own lack of calm led to a foul crisis, which gave the Grizzlies an advantage all of a sudden!

In the 3rd minute of the third quarter, Sun Ce cheekily pasted Howard continuously, and finally succeeded in causing Howard's fourth foul in the game!

Doug Collins was also furious and didn't let Howard go off the court, allowing Howard to continue playing the third quarter with four fouls.

When the official timeout came back in the third quarter, Howard, who had exploded in mentality, overturned Aaron Gray when he grabbed Iguodala's three-point offensive rebound, and the official timeout was before he fouled into the official timeout, Howard ate the sixth foul of the game and was sent off for six fouls!

In the seven minutes of the third quarter, the 76ers had already outscored the Grizzlies by one point at 54-53, but Howard committed six fouls, and the situation turned around again, and the Grizzlies regained the initiative!

When Howard pushed Aaron Gray to win the rebound, heard the referee's whistle, and saw the referee's gesture of six fouls, Howard angrily smashed the ball to the ground, ripped his jersey and walked directly to the player's tunnel.

The referee blew the whistle again and gave Howard a technical foul!

This stunned the Grizzlies, Sun Ce looked at the back of Howard who only had a pressure suit left on his upper body, and he didn't feel tragic at all, he really didn't expect Howard's mentality to be so fragile that he would make trouble for his teammates after six fouls left the court!