406. This rookie has something (1st update)
Unlike in the All-Star Rookie Game and Summer League, when they were all first- and second-year teammates, Sun Ce faced all his teammates who were older than him, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.
At this time, Battier helped Sun Ce find a topic entry point: "Noah, there must be something important to say about when you call us so early." ”
Glancing at Battier gratefully, Sun Ce adjusted his mood and said, "Brothers, we are now facing a very difficult situation!" ”
Indeed, the current situation is putting the Grizzlies players under a lot of pressure, despite having a home-court advantage.
But the lineup of the Mavericks, Kidd, who led the Nets to the Finals twice, + Jason Terry, the uncrowned king of '06 + Nowitzki, who has the No. 1 scoring ability on the inside...... Such a playoff triumvirate combination, and so many high-quality role players, Caron Butler, who can average 20 points per game if he changes teams, can only play the seventh man and the eighth man in the Mavericks, and the lineup gap is really big!
Nowitzki just scored 34 points before they got rid of the Grizzlies, and they were killed at home.
As soon as Sun Ce's words came out, the atmosphere in the lounge was obviously much lower.
Don't look at Randolph's usual hanging, but there is a tiger in his heart to sniff the roses......
Randolph picked his nostrils and grinned: "Noah, the Mavericks were able to win us yesterday because of Nowitzki's outburst, are you worried too much......
"What if...... Nowitzki didn't break out, he just played at a normal level last night? What if the first two games were just his dysfunction? Sun Ce said solemnly, "Nowitzki, like Zach, you can see from the regular season that he can score more than 20 points casually every night like you......"
That's right...... Although Randolph's attempt to help his teammates dispel their anxiety failed, Randolph felt comfortable listening to it!
Nowitzki has been in a two-team four times in the past five years, and this season is likely to be either a first-team or a second-team, and Randolph not only feels underestimated, but listens comfortably.
It's just that what is this kid going to do? Does it add pressure to your teammates?
"But ......" Sun Ce's words suddenly changed sharply: "What I want to say is not this, but the problem of our current mentality towards this playoffs." ”
"What is the mentality for this playoffs?"
The teammates were immediately attracted by the topic that Sun Ce had re-thrown.
"Don't you notice that our mindset is completely different now than when we first entered the playoffs?" Sun Ce asked.
This kind of thing...... My teammates really didn't think about it!
Now that Sun Ce brought up this matter, they thought about it carefully, as if they really felt that something was wrong!
"We're under so much pressure, we're just a playoff rookie, why are we carrying so much pressure?
While the pressure can push us forward, I find that we seem to be under more pressure than the Mavericks!
You know? It should be that they are worried that they will lose to us, and we are challengers, but we have been made to change our minds by the media and the public opinion of the fans!
We're going to win, we're going to win, we're going to do everything we can to win, but we're going to approach this playoff with a cool mind.
Like last night, we had a chance to catch up in the fourth quarter, but because we won the first two games so easily, the Mavericks suddenly played at a normal level, and we were in a hurry at the critical moment.
It's something wrong with our mentality! We are in too much of a hurry, we are carrying pressure that we should not have, maybe we can change the angle and lower our posture a little,
Don't judge the opponent by the perspective of the two games we won, we're just new to the playoffs......"
Sun Ce said the problems of the team he found one by one, and at first cut into the topic from the perspective of putting pressure on his teammates, but this pressure was not given by Sun Ce's words, but the pressure that his teammates themselves were carrying should not have.
Then slowly analyze sentence by sentence, so that teammates can face up to the origin of this pressure......
Listening to Sun Ce's words, his teammates suddenly discovered...... It seems to be true!
How happy they were at the end of the regular season!
Now, after winning the first game, I feel like I have to win the second game, and I lost the third game, and last night I was so stressed that many people lost sleep......
At that time, everyone felt satisfied with entering the playoffs, and felt that they would fight for a wave in the playoffs and win if they could.
At that time, even if it was determined that the opponent in the first round of the playoffs was the Mavericks and had the advantage of the regular season, I didn't feel that I had to win, just like the team's tactical arrangement, the first game was ready to test and go with the mentality of losing.
But the first one was won, and everything changed......
Now they suddenly remembered that the joy of making the playoffs was all gone!
From winning the list last season to now making the playoffs and still leading 2-1, shouldn't it be happy and exciting?
Why can't you play in the playoffs on a bad team before?
They now agree with Sun Ce's words...... We shouldn't play with pressure, we should play this playoffs with positive emotions!
At this time, most teammates didn't notice a little, but a few teammates did.
This rookie ...... It's really different from ordinary rookies!
I'm used to playing together, and I didn't think about it too much, but now I feel ...... It's really different!
Especially Randolph, Sun Ce now gives him the same feeling as Roy gave him three years ago...... And even more!
At this time, Gasol Jr. asked, "Noah, do you mean that we can just play casually in the next game?" ”
"No, are you stupid, we are 2-1 ahead, of course we have to play hard, we are going to get to the second round!
I mean, let's not be intimidated by Nowitzki's normal level, we've got Zach too! And they're definitely under more pressure than us right now, we can despise them strategically, work hard tactically, balance the mentality, don't feel like it's a terrible thing to lose a home game, tomorrow's game, they will definitely do their best to regain home advantage, we can think about it, what kind of tactics they will play, instead of stuffing our heads like last night to study what we didn't do well, brothers, I'm proud of your performance......"
Just when Sun Ce flickered...... No, it was time to successfully complete the speech, and the system prompt came.
"Due to the host's success in dredge the mentality of gaining and losing teammates entering the playoffs for the first time, the Leader's Light exclusive event triggers ......"
"Eh, here we go! Lao Tzu, this is just doing anything, you have to have an incident? ”