Three days is not a long time, but if you are waiting for an unknown opponent, it will seem like a long time.

On the morning of the 29th, after the team meeting, Sun Ce and his teammates were very active in preparing for the game.

This kind of enthusiasm shocked everyone on the coaching staff, and at the end of each set of running training, they had to ask their teammates to refrain from getting excited.

Coach Hollins can understand the excitement of the players, and when it comes to the Western Conference finals, it is only one step away from the finals, that is, the championship is not far away.

No one on the Grizzlies team has ever won a championship except for Mr. Tony, and they are all very hungry.

Mr. Tony's 07-08 playoffs were basically not played, and he only played 18 minutes in the six finals games combined, and he was eager to prove himself and win the championship as the team's best defensive player.

Relative to the teams in the East, there is no doubt that the Lakers in the West are the most difficult to deal with.

Kobe Bryant has never lost in the West!

The opponent is strong, and Sun Ce and others feel that they have "wasted three days", and they should be more active in training.

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Coach Hollins held another team meeting to suppress the overly excited emotions of the players.

It's good to be motivated, but it's too exciting, and it can backfire.

For the past three days, the coaching staff has not been idle, although it does not know who the opponent is, but it is also able to prepare, and does not know who to prepare for...... Then the two teams will prepare together, anyway, the Spurs and Lakers don't look like they will be able to decline for a year or two, and it's always good to study more.

In addition, the Lakers and Bulls are important opponents in the eyes of their Grizzlies, and they have been studying them since the beginning of the season, and in three days, Coach Hollins and defensive assistant coach Dave Jogel have studied the Lakers' playoff style and performance, regular season style of play and performance, and have planned a very good defensive strategy.

In terms of lineup on the offensive end, Coach Hollins and Stockton, offensive assistant coach David Fitzdale and others have already drawn up plans based on the Lakers' defense.

With 3 more days of rest, there must be an advantage, Sun Ce and his teammates did not slack off, they trained every day, studied the opponent and defended alone, and the state was not lost, on this basis, they Grizzlies had more time to prepare tactics, and when the Lakers first started planning tactics, they had already prepared tactics to start training.

Also, it's the physical advantage!

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In the evening, Sun Ce watched the Bulls and the 76ers steal the seven-game battle, the defense of the two teams was really strong, and in the end, the experienced Howard did a very good job of defense in the last few rounds, and in the last two minutes he gave Rose and Rohr Deng a big hat in a row, and in two minutes, the Bulls only Boozer grabbed an offensive rebound and made a free throw to get two points, and the 76ers played a wave of 5-2 to extend the lead to 7 points, and finally the 76ers defeated the Bulls 97-90 and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals 4-3.

Because of the four teams in the Eastern and Western Conference finals, the Grizzlies in the West have a better record, so the first game of the Western Conference finals between the Grizzlies and the Lakers will start on June 1, and the first game of the Eastern Conference finals between the Heat and the 76ers will start directly on May 31.

After watching the last tie-break battle in the second round, on the 30th, Sun Ce and his teammates trained according to the plan of the coaching staff.

Another day of training passed, and on the 31st, the Lakers, who had been preparing for two days in Los Angeles, arrived in Memphis.

The Grizzlies and Lakers have their final day of preparation, and it's also the first game day of the Eastern Conference finals.

At 1 p.m., at the FedEx Arena in Memphis, the atmosphere at the home and away team training grounds was completely different.

While preparations are in full swing at the away team's training ground, the home team's training ground is quiet.

On the Grizzlies' side, all the preparations that can be done in the past two days have been done, and this morning is really a strengthened training effect, after the morning pick-and-roll rotation training, there will be no training in the afternoon, and everyone will go home.

The defensive preparation couldn't be better, and I continued to struggle with some unsolvable problems such as Kobe Bryant's time, and I couldn't think of a way not to say it, which may backfire.

Can that kind of thing be solved, and Kobe Bryant can still win all seven finals?

There are some things that don't have to be too entangled, just do what you can do, and winning is the most important thing, Tony Allen has provided a very good way to defend the Lakers, although he was not the main force when the Celtics killed the Lakers in 08, but I saw how the combination of Pierce + Garnett defended Kobe, and in 10 years the Celtics and the Lakers played a tie-break, and he was already the main force in defending Kobe.

As for the extra Paul...... After the first game, you know how well the planned defense is working.

When the Lakers were still seizing the last day of preparation and training hard, Sun Ce had already returned home, sitting on the toilet in the bathroom of his room and watching the video of the Lakers and Spurs' Western Conference matchup, watching it for a while and pondering for a while.

As the saying goes, the toilet is the easiest place to find inspiration.

This afternoon's toilet time to find inspiration really gave Sun Ce some ideas.

After spending an afternoon in the bathroom, Sun Ce turned on the system screen and looked at his latest ability evaluation.

"Competency assessment A-,

Physical Fitness A: Speed S-, Strength B, Endurance A, B-, Static Confrontation B+, Leg Explosiveness A (Burst Acceleration, Bounce Speed), Explosive Confrontation Ability A+......

Shooting evaluation B+: three-point C+ (three-point B- on the right sideline, three-point B--), mid-shot A (mid-distance A+ on the right side of the baseline, A+ mid-distance on the front of the basket, A+ mid-distance on the right side of the three-second zone, mid-distance B on the left side of the three-second zone, A--) on the left baseline in the three-second zone), A+ for layup......

Technical evaluation A-: Left hand control B-, right hand control A+, pass A, block and pick up jump shot B+, dribble shot A-, emergency stop jump shot C+, low post back body skill A, high back body skill A, triple threat standing position D-......"

There has also been an improvement in this playoffs!

The three points on the right sideline have broken through from the quasi-good level to the edge of the good level! The bottom corner on the right side and the entire sideline on the other side, as well as the positions on both sides of the top arc, have not yet broken through, and it seems that it is a matter of course.

The low-post back-to-back skills have also broken through to a truly top-notch level of A-level after using Boozer's Star Experience Card.

In addition to these boosts, there's a new skill!

In recent days, Sun Ce has been working hard to practice his left-handed dribbling after training, because when he tried to practice his left-handed ball control a few days ago, Sun Ce had been puzzled why the new skill that had not been activated yet - the activation prompt for opening the bow left and right suddenly came!

"Left and Right Open Bow Level 1: If the host develops a left-handed dribble, it will have the same dribbling feel as a right-handed dribble.

Note: This skill can only be upgraded through training, when the level of the left hand dribble is the same as that of the right hand possession. Level 2 Effect: Layup. ”