1172. Never let your opponent slash empty! (2nd Ticket Request)
Seeing that Gasol has no ball in his hand, no interior position, a center blocked under the basket and can't go to the high post to play the pass and cut the coordination, and the defense can only stand in the bottom corner and chat with Battier, an old teammate...... Gasol Jr. caught Howard hard!
In the past few years, little Gasol has been bullied by Howard so badly, and now he finally has a chance to bully Howard!
If you want to look at the data, Howard is really good, he played 9 minutes in the first quarter, got 5 points and 3 boards, and the data of 15+12 in one game can't run.
But the 76ers only scored 13 points in 9 minutes!
23-13, when the 76ers called a timeout, the Grizzlies took a 10-point lead!
Finally able to replace Howard, 76ers head coach Doug Greens replaced the interior combination of Howard and Lavoy Allen, replaced with Big Gasol, who was replaced in the 4th minute, and Thaddeus Young, the outside Evans and Holiday remained unchanged, the two played an average of 40 minutes per game this season, and the small forward position was replaced by Nick Young.
On the Grizzlies' side, Sun Ce shot 3 of 3 in the first 9 minutes of the first quarter, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 3 of 3 free throws, and got 10 points, 2 boards, 1 assist, 2 steals and 1 block.
If the 76ers don't say that they have the best defense in the league last season, even if they have a first-class level defense, Sun Ce will play hard.
But Sun Ce, with the hard work of playing the 76ers last season, faced the 76ers' defense that was less than the league average this season, and played much easier than expected!
Without Iguodala, the front defensive gate, even if the opponent uses Howard and Lavoy Allen, the interior defense is better than the twin towers, but Howard has slipped again, and the two are superimposed, and the 76ers' defense has really collapsed!
The 76ers are not without the ability to adjust their defense, in Sun Ce's view, there is also Howard with A+ level defense, plus Holiday at the level of second defense, and Evans with first-class defense at level A, which can still be adjusted.
But Howard still regards himself as the best defensive player to defend like before, and he is reluctant to play with defense, thinking that he can support the interior defense, and Holiday is a point guard after all, with the same limitations as Paul and Tony Allen, and he is not as good as these two defenders, Evans does not like to defend the opposing front, and defending Sun Ce is Evans' last insistence......
The 76ers were reluctant to make drastic changes, for fear of upsetting Howard, who was in the contract year, and cut off Iguodala with one of their own arms......
As a result, Evans started the mode of chasing points with the team on his shoulder.
In this situation, Sun Ce feels the same as Kobe Bryant in the 12-13 season in the original time and space.
However, Evans is really good, in the case of Sun Ce's position is uncertain, and the league does not know whether Sun Ce will be placed as a forward or a guard when selecting the best team, Kobe Bryant has almost locked a position for a while this season, and Evans and Paul, Ross The other team of guard positions is fiercely competitive, and in the case of the team's record is far inferior to the other two opponents, it can still compete, how good Evans' performance can be imagined.
On the Grizzlies' side, they sent a run-and-gun combination of Nash, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Lopez Jr.
Evans and Pau Gasol worked together to help the 76ers narrow the deficit to four points at the official timeout in the second quarter, trailing 35-39 and looking promising.
But after the official timeout, the lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Jimmy Butler, Randolph, and Larry Sanders came up, facing the combination of Holiday of the 76ers, Nick Young, Jason Williams, LaVoy Allen, and Howard, and played a wave of 7-0 and 0 points in more than 3 minutes.
Howard used to face the fat version of Randolph, maybe he couldn't chisel, but he could force a jump in the air and throw the ball to the basket, but now Howard singled Randolph, his explosiveness dropped, and he couldn't jump completely!
Led by Howard, the 76ers trailed the Grizzlies by 13 points, 40-53 at halftime.
Sun Ce played 15 minutes in the half, scoring 14 points, 4 boards, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks......
Evans, who played 18 minutes in the half, scored 20 points, 3 boards, 3 assists and 1 block, and performed no worse than Sun Ce, but after a 6-minute break, the difference between 4 points and 12 points was changed......
Sun Ce felt sorry for Evans, so in the second half, Sun Ce relied on the team's 13-point lead to start a wave!
In the second half, Sun Ce played 22 minutes, 7 of 15 shots, including 3 of 8 three-pointers, and scored 22 points in the half, plus 4 of 6 shots in the first half, including 1 of 2 three-pointers and 5 of 6 free throws, 11 of 21 shots in the game, 4 three-pointers, 36 points, 15 boards, 6 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks, helping the Grizzlies defeat the 76ers 98-91!
Evans also scored 15 points in the second half, scoring 35 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists on 12-of-25 shooting, but he was powerless!
But Sun Ce felt that the opponent was "lucky" that Evans was not the highest scorer in the game and had no time to cut......
Watching Howard score 15 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks on 6-of-10 shooting, but with 6 turnovers in a single game, Sun Ce really understood why the Lakers were so miserable in the 12-13 season in the original time and space.
Howard's performance is not bad, but his attitude makes the situation look bad, Howard has very few successful singles, only relying on singles to score 4 points tonight, and there were 4 turnovers in singles, and the other 11 points are almost all won by empty cuts and offensive rebounds, but Howard is unwilling to block people and then cut in, when blocking people, it often puts Evans or Holiday in a situation of being sandwiched, and when he can't catch the ball at the first time, Howard stands still outside the three-second zone.
Another point Sun Ce discovered was that Howard was obviously unwilling to cooperate well with Pau Gasol, obviously Howard had the possibility of a top blue-collar power forward, but he was unwilling to cooperate with this teammate who had defeated him in the Finals.
Of course, the inability of Pau Gasol to return to the position of power forward is also a problem for Pau Gasol.
The 76ers also have problems with their strategy......
Sun Ce lamented that failure is not a one-person thing, often a team collapses, all of which are multifaceted, which makes Sun Ce very glad that he came to the Grizzlies team that is on the rise, and everything is developing in a good direction.
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Taking advantage of the collapse of the 76ers, Sun Ce scored 36 points, stabilized the Hangzhou Army's average of 33.9 points per game, and the Grizzlies' record also improved to 18-6, with 3 games left unplayed this month.
Sun Ce mourned for Evans, he felt that this world was still fair, Kobe Bryant gave up his core position, maybe he could extend his career, Evans got a better opportunity to develop, like 077, he became a top superstar, but he also faced the grinding from the beast......