Looking at Sun Ce's data on the big screen, Howard's mentality was about to collapse.

25 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists, 6 blocks and 1 steal in the third quarter, 3 fouls and 5 turnovers are nothing, and the main scorers or main ball-handlers of both teams have many turnovers today.

The key is that Sun Ce had 6 boards, 4 blocks and 1 steal in a single quarter in the third quarter, and Howard himself only had 4 boards and 1 block in a single quarter!

Although the Grizzlies are widely regarded as the league's strongest defensive team, Howard has been unconvinced, as they are the team with the lowest points limit to opponents in the playoffs, and are the only team to concede less than 90 points per game in the entire playoffs this year, compared to neither the Bulls nor the Celtics.

The Grizzlies have conceded an average of 94.5 points per game in 16 playoff games in the West, so Howard feels that their 76ers are not afraid to play defense with any team, because they have eliminated the Celtics, Bulls, and Heat in a row by relying on defense.

But now, with the Grizzlies on defense, their 76ers are actually suppressed!

Howard didn't care about the number of rebounds and blocks, if he wanted to get rebounds like Love and get blocks like Camby, it would be easy for him, but that style of play would be at the expense of defense, and his defensive strength lies in deterrence and ability to interfere with shots, not to get stats.

But that was based on the fact that his team and any team's defense did not lose to the opponent, and now that his team's defense was down, he was very concerned about why he was inferior to the opponent, and then he noticed Sun Ce's data.

Isn't this an explosion of mentality, the team's defense has not just been good, and the personal data is not as good as the opponent!

The rest of the 76ers, while not as affected as Howard, or as overly sensitive, as Howard, have also taken a big hit in terms of confidence.

Fighting offense, their 76ers offense is the last among the strong teams in the league, not the Grizzlies' opponent; Fighting defense, I couldn't fight it.

How can this be fought?

And, the feeling of Evans and others is that they relied on defense in the final minutes of the first half to close the gap, which angered the Grizzlies, who played a desperate defense in the third quarter.

When you think about it, the blow to their confidence is even greater.

Rao is that they are eager to win by defense, after all, everyone is saying that defense wins championships.

No matter how enthusiastic and motivated they are about defending, and they feel that it may be because they are playing the finals for the first time, and they feel extra motivated to defend desperately, but they can't resist the fact that their confidence is starting to crumble!

Iguodala sensed that something was wrong and quickly began to mobilize his teammates, not to be discouraged, 11 points difference, and a full quarter of the game.

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On the other side, Sun Ce sat on the bench to rest, there was nothing to arrange in the final quarter, Coach Hollins emphasized that vigilance and the speed of rotation defense should not slow down, these things have already been played, and it is right to continue, there are no detailed tactics available, but he and his teammates are not under pressure.

Sun Ce watched Nash have 8 points and 1 assist in a single quarter, he Sun scored 7 points in a single quarter, and he and Nash combined to score 15 points in a single quarter, and the result was that Randolph came off the bench to score two points, Jordan Jr. and Aaron Gray each scored 1 point, and no one else scored!

That is, they defended well, and if they were a little bit more than two goals by the opponent, the situation would be very different.

Sun Ce felt the effect of the side effects of the buff of "Iron and Blood Field", if the opponent's defense is better, the side effects of the whole skill are significantly higher than the positive effects, and if he fails to get 5 blocks in a single game, the side effects are far greater than the positive effects.

Sun Ce was curious about what Mo Ning had done this season?

Sun Ce used Tim Hardaway's mobile phone to check Mourning's career and found that Mourning's career was divided into two ends, Mourning entered the NBA until the end of the 99-00 season, that is, before he got sick, Mourning played 534 games, a total of 144 times at least 5 blocks per game, that is, a healthy Mourning has at least 5 blocks in a single game every four games.

The '98-99 season was undoubtedly the peak of the season, with Mourning playing 49 games and 29 times with at least five blocks per game, or at least five blocks in almost every two games.

Mourning relied on iron-blooded defense to lead the Heat to the first place in the East, and almost won the MVP, which was less than two percent of the scoring gap, and there were conspiracy theories that year, saying that the MVP in the 98-99 season should have been Mourning, but the NBA sacrificed Mourning in order to compensate for the 97-98 season Malone who did not get the MVP.

This season, Mourning is synonymous with defense.

However, Mourning was blackened in the 98-99 season, and the same iron-blooded Knicks limited the Heat to only 79 points in the first five games with a more iron-blooded defense.

"That's why this skill has this characteristic? Playing a team with bad defense has an advantage, playing a team with good defense, and one will accidentally be eaten by side effects? ”

Turning off the search and returning the phone to Tim Hardaway, Sun Cedan hurt the buff skill of this pit father, and actually transformed the characteristics of Mo Ning's black eight into it.

Fortunately, in the first half, he Sun Someone had already completed two blocks, and at the beginning of the third quarter, while Thaddeus Young and Howard did not have two blocks, he quickly met the requirements of 5 blocks, and there was a greater threat to the opponent to enter the basket to shoot, Sun Ce's 4 blocks in the third quarter were actually concentrated in the first half of the quarter, and the opponent avoided him in the second half of the quarter, and would rather shoot outrageously than try to avoid him, and enhance his basket block threat to a similar effect to Howard, and their Grizzlies slowly gained the upper hand in defense.

As the timeout was almost over, Sun Ce began to adjust the rotation after hearing Coach Hollins emphasize that he could not be careless, and stood up and prepared to go on the court to continue fighting.

Although the egg hurts the side effects of Mourning's iron-blooded field, don't they still have an advantage in the Grizzlies now, isn't it just fighting defense, then fight to the end!

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The Grizzlies sent a lineup of Sun Ce, Nash, Klay Thompson, Paul George, and Randolph.

What's the most incredible thing about defending a game?

That is, your team has Nash, and in the game of defense, Nash played the third quarter and continued to play the fourth quarter.

But today, Nash's performance was good! 8 points, 1 assist and 1 steal in the third quarter, without his two open catches and 4 free throws, maybe the third quarter score was lower.

In the regular season, Nash kept playing, just for the playoffs and the Finals, in 16 Western Conference playoffs, Nash averaged 12 points and 6.8 assists per game, which played a very obvious role, and in the first game of the Finals, Nash performed better and played a key role on the offensive end.

On the 76ers' side, Evans, Holiday and Iguodala, Thaddeus Young and Howard will play the entire second half with their starting lineup.

The 76ers are mainly in the eight-man rotation in this year's playoffs, and there are countless cases where players play the whole game.

The break ended and the fourth quarter began, with the 76ers attacking.

Holiday pushed forward and gave the ball to Evans, who waited for his teammates to settle down and watch the defense.

played 24 minutes in the first three quarters and got 17 points, 8 boards, 6 assists, 1 block and 2 steals, Evans' performance was really no worse than Sun Ce, but he didn't expect to be prevented from collapsing in the third quarter!

However, Evans may have the best mentality among the 76ers players, calmly analyzing the situation on the court, playing well, and trying to win.

Observing Randolph relying on brute force in the low post and Howard's card position, and seeing Sun Ce's defense of Thaddeus Young, Evans immediately looked for Howard to block and dismantle.

Howard really didn't have the ability to block and dismantle, and he pulled it out, but he turned around and cut it in before he could block people, that is, it didn't play a role in blocking and dismantling at all.

But that's enough for Evans! Because it was not Randolph who expanded with Howard, but Sun Ce, who switched to Howard!

Sun Ce, who followed Howard to defend and prepare to block and dismantle, saw that Howard didn't really block people, turned around and rushed to the basket directly, and hurriedly followed, but he was a little uneasy in his heart, if Howard rushed up this ball, if he directly caught it empty, he would definitely not be able to prevent it except for fouls! He has already committed 3 fouls!

However, Howard didn't know what to think, he suddenly reduced his speed, and the Evans ball who wanted to pass to the air was raised, and he quickly stopped, he saw Howard move to the low post, turned around and stuck Sun Ce, and asked for the ball to be singled in the low post!

Rao is Evans's temper is good, and he almost vomited blood, a perfect anti-run and didn't hit the line, so he had to go to the low post single? But Howard should have had an advantage in playing Sun Ce, and Evans hoisted the ball to Howard.

When Sun Ce saw Howard relying on himself to ask for the ball, he frantically greeted Howard's ancestors for eighteen generations, and he could only work hard to defend.

Howard does have an advantage, Sun Ce can show the S- power of a power forward, but Howard's strength evaluation in the center position is more than S-, Sun Ce can't stand it at all! Howard knocked Sun Ce back into a reasonable collision zone in one step, grabbed the ball and turned around to dunk it......

However, Howard did not choose to hit the back buckle again, but chose the front dunk Sun Ce, which was Howard's biggest mistake in this offense!

Howard turned around and just picked up the ball, but before he could lift it, it was cut off!

Sun Ce had already been prepared, if Howard wanted to buckle like O'Neal, he Sun Someone would have no way at all, but Howard seemed to be obsessed with turning around, so Sun Ce had been waiting for Howard to turn around and cut hard!

The ball was slapped on the floor and bounced, Sun Ce grabbed the ball first, and hurriedly gave it to Nash to play an offensive and defensive switch!

Although he couldn't really play a fast attack, the speed of this ball was rarely raised, taking advantage of the 76ers' unstable defensive foothold, Nash arrived in the front court with the help of Sun Ce's blocking and breaking into the interior, Howard was stolen and quickly retreated from the defense, and followed Nash to a big hat! But......

Nash jumped up and down after entering the reasonable collision zone, but did not throw, but waited for Howard to jump and smashed the ball into Howard's crotch and bounced it behind Howard's back.

After passing it out, Mr. Na, who didn't jump high, quickly landed and ran away.

Howard secretly screamed that it was not good, but it was too late, and there was a huge impact from behind him, followed by the wail of the basket...... Withheld again!