Nice low-post pass and cut fit!

The main thing is that Sun Ce has practiced in the past two months to attack the new posture of the basket frame and score the ball!

Ellis on the sidelines looked at Sun Ce's folding layup, jumped not high, and the bounce speed was fast, and soon reached the highest point, and when he shot, he had already begun to fall, which was difficult to ensure the stability of the action, but Sun Ce really used it in the game!

With such a large body size, Rao is Durant has a size advantage, and he is powerless to interfere!

4-0 in the opening game!

This offense, if you have to say how good it is, may be an average coordination, these two rounds of offense purely rely on the personal ability of Randolph and Sun Ce to score goals that should not be scored in theory.

But the Grizzlies can bring out the individual abilities of the team's two best scorers, not the kind of wasted shots, but rely on cooperation to get relatively easy shooting opportunities, compared with the last time the Grizzlies attacked, there has been a earth-shaking change!

The last time they met, the Grizzlies averaged just 95.5 points per game!

At that time, the Thunder relied on the defense of about 4-8 in the league, although they were also defended by the Grizzlies and only scored 93 points in a single game, far lower than the average of 107 points in the season at that time, but they also defended the Grizzlies to only 83 points, and they can win by defense, after all, they are also a top defensive team, so far this season, they have averaged 106.3 points per game, conceded an average of 95.9 points per game, and the goal difference is frighteningly high.

But this time, they couldn't contain the Grizzlies from the start!

It's mainly Perkins who has lost his previous low-post defensive dominance!

Fortunately, in the next offense, Durant gave a force, received a pass from Westbrook twice to meet Paul George's long two-point shot, plus a three-point shot from Sefrosa in the bottom corner, the Thunder scored three goals in a row and blocked the Grizzlies once, bringing the score to 7-6.

But then, when Sun Ce held the ball and Randolph blocked and dismantled, he handed the ball to Gasol Jr., who was pulled to the left side of the three-second area, and after Sun Ce used the block to pull the opponent's basket into the air, he entered the inside line to receive Gasol Jr.'s high-level ball, and the overlord buckled 2 levels to trigger, and the top opened the recovered Ibaka and smashed the ball into the basket!

Sun Ce scored 6 points in a row!

8-7, the Grizzlies didn't fall behind!

Thunder head coach Brooks called a timeout and replaced Perkins.

Howard's confidence is not an exception, most players who have played at the top level for years in one area are the same, and they are very confident in themselves, especially when they are young.

Perkins is a player of the 03 platinum generation, this is the tenth year of his career, but he is a high school rookie, born in November '84, just turned 28 years old, theoretically speaking, it is the year of playing, he himself thinks so, so he doesn't feel that he is declining, but he feels that he hasn't found his form yet, in case he gets it back in one round?

So in the past few rounds, when Perkins was defending, he still used his previous movement ability, bounce, and explosiveness to make defensive decisions, and he was played by Sun Ce and Randolph.

Not only on the defensive end, Perkins was also a 60 percent shooting rate back then, but this season he has a 44 percent shooting rate, which is a poor shooting percentage as a pure cake eater on the offensive end.

Perkins' average of 25 minutes per game this year is not as good as the 21 minutes per game of Nick Collison, who replaced him.

The Grizzlies didn't make any substitutions, they started the game well, just keep consuming, and use Paul George and Jimmy Butler to wear down Durant first.

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After the timeout, Durant played well at the beginning of each game when he was at his most energetic, receiving a pass from Westbrook, and Durant hit a three-point shot after Sun Ce's change of defense.

Looking at Westbrook's already 3 assists, Sun Ce felt that there was really no one, except for awesome, he couldn't use other adjectives to describe it.

Sun Ce was under a lot of pressure, scoring 6 points in a row at the beginning, and he mainly relied on the opponent's fear of his mid-range shooting defense, and created scoring opportunities for himself by blocking and dismantling or Randolph's low-post single threat.

But after Nick Collison came up, the veteran was different from Perkins, who was once the league's top defensive center, and did what he could, without being overconfident, which was the biggest help to Westbrook with A-level defense, Se Rosa with A+ defense, Durant with A-level defense, and Ibaka with S-level defense.

This caused Sun Ce's chances to deteriorate a lot.

On the other hand, the current starting lineup of the Grizzlies is indeed not as good as when Mr. Tony and the president were there, and after a stalemate at the beginning, they slowly fell behind!

When the official timeout reached the first quarter, the Grizzlies trailed the Thunder by 4 points 14-18!

The two teams began to change players.

The Thunder switched to a combination of Westbrook, Ellis, Lamb, Durant, and Ibaka.

On the Grizzlies' side, the lineup of Nash, Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Lopets Jr. played.

After this lineup came on the court, the Grizzlies' offense was able to compete with the Thunder.

Compared with the beginning of the season, the Grizzlies have not said earth-shaking changes, but whether it is the mutual adaptation and cooperation of teammates in the new year, etc., they have made great progress.

But although this lineup is strong in offense, it does not have the ability to decide the outcome of the game, when the opponent's offense is also strong, it is the defense that determines the outcome of the game, so this lineup can have a slight upper hand, and it has actually become Sun Ce and Ibaka's defensive ability to fight Biao!

In contrast, Sun Ce's side does not have a group of teammates with good defense, and it is indeed inferior to Ibaka, but fortunately, the overall offense of their Grizzlies side is better, and the offensive lineup of the Thunder team is still based on sudden points, and I don't want the Grizzlies to pass except for Lopez Jr.

The Thunder have been playing with the Grizzlies for a long time, and they also understand the characteristics of the Grizzlies, so they run and play fast offense and reduce confrontation, and Thunder head coach Brooks is also willing to do this, Durant can rely on this style of play to catch and shoot and reduce confrontation consumption.

In the middle, both teams made substitutions, and they played until the halfway point of the second quarter, and in 11 minutes and 44 seconds, the Grizzlies scored 29 points, the Thunder scored 28 points, and the two teams were tied at 43-46, and the Grizzlies trailed by 3 points and entered the official timeout again.

Returning to the bench and sitting down, Sun Ce felt that it would not be possible to fight like this!

Westbrook's side got 7 assists in a quarter and a half, which was terrible, the Thunder were obviously very well prepared for them, and started the game with Jimmy Butler and Randolph, the offense was better than Tony and the president, but the defense was more than a notch off!