953.April Madness Begins (Part 3)
Even if he snatched Klay Thompson away, the other team also selected Leonard, who has good defensive talent and can be slowly polished on the offensive end, and signed Nate Robinson and Brandon Rush.
On the inside, David Lee is already in place, Tabit has been patiently cultivated for 3 years, and he also has the strength to score 9.7 points, 8 rebounds and 2.7 blocks in about 30 minutes of playing time, which is not good, but the strength of a qualified defensive starting center is still there;
It's just that this group of people are used to losing, or they have just entered the NBA, so their desire to win is not high, and the hellish Curry is still injured, so he has a poor record when the lineup is already good.
The management of the Warriors, who had no choice, was ready to break and stand up, and Ellis, who was unlikable to his teammates with his style of play and personality, was used......
Now that the Warriors' role players are playing better and better, Ellis is also working hard with his teammates, and it looks like he is taking revenge on the Warriors management, at least the media and fans have joked about it.
But it does bring out the strength of the Warriors' good roster of role players, and it also increases Ellis' trade value!
"Did I think too much?" Sun Ce had such a question, but ...... The other party has a logo man, and it's really possible that this is the case!
Sun Ce's fear of the Warriors is getting deeper and deeper, but now the Warriors are not on his list of opponents.
It is obvious that Ellis and Curry are not so compatible, and they can't play the effect of Curry and Klay Thompson in the early days, Ellis is stronger than Klay Thompson in the early days, this is for sure, but Ellis is here, Curry has to accommodate Ellis as a pitcher, these two are obviously not suitable, and Curry has always been making concessions.
The rise of the Warriors, Sun Ce feels that it can't be stopped, the other party is not only not stupid, but very shrewd, he Sun someone robbed a Klay Thompson, and the other party will make up for it from other aspects, the logo man will definitely find a way to make the Warriors stronger from all aspects, and it is impossible for him Sun to stare at the Warriors every day.
For example, Sun Ce guessed that it might be the operation of the Warriors management to train role players, and Sun Ce only now feels that after all, the Warriors are a bad team that is now ignored, and how can Sun know what kind of tricks he is doing in private.
But if the Warriors want to be really strong and strong enough to compete for a championship, they will have at least two years to go, and they don't have to pay too much attention to the Warriors for the time being.
What will happen in the future, who can say clearly? It's long been very different from his grandson's impression.
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Putting aside his fear of the Warriors first, Sun Ce saw a rumor that made him not so happy......
After a night's rest in Auckland, Sun Ce got up the next morning and found a courier company.
After thinking about it last night, this prop that has been left for more than two years is still ready to be given away, and it hurts to spend 129 US dollars to send a courier known as the American Express Mail, that is, the same courier he sent flowers to last time, from Auckland to New York, 3 days to arrive.
After sending something, Sun Ce had a feeling of doing something bad, but then he selectively forgot about it, just give it a try, if it is useful, he should not know, and if it is useless, he should not know.
Returned to the hotel and waited until 11 o'clock in the morning, Sun Ce followed the team to take a charter flight back to Memphis, after arriving home, Sun Ce slept well all afternoon, and was called by Zu Ge in the evening, when he arrived home, Sun Ce sent a message to Zu Ge to ask her to wake him up after returning from school.
There were no games today, and the NBA was suspended for a day to make way for the NCAA finals.
After dinner, Zu Ge accompanied Sun Ce to wait for the NCAA finals while doing his homework.
Sun Ce didn't watch much of the NCAA games this season, and he didn't go to the University of Memphis to watch the game once, there was no way, the time was too tight.
This year's finals between the University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas finally don't have to be missed, and on the charter flight back to Memphis, Coach Hollins told them to watch tonight's game.
Waiting for the game to start, Sun Ce brushed the news, today the major websites are basically discussing the NCAA finals, at least in North America, but there are more discussions about the scoring title battle between James and Kobe Bryant in China.
Brushing and brushing, Sun Ce swiped a piece of news about the Knicks.
The Knicks fired D'Antoni and former Hawks coach Mike Woodson became the new head coach of the Knicks.
Sun Ce feels that Jeremy Lin's New York tour should be almost over, and Mike Woodson doesn't like to run and shoot, he is a defensive-first head coach.
The game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas was good to watch, and the quality of the players was ...... It's hard to say, most of the stars in the NCAA can only play in the development league after leaving college, and most of the team's main players have nothing to do with professional players after retiring.
But the kind of hard work of the players who are not mixed with too many other factors and work hard for honor wholeheartedly, watching them play games has a different feeling.
And the two teams together have 12 players who are predicted to be selected in this year's draft, which can be described as star-studded, and in terms of the strength shown by the players, it is indeed the strongest of Sun Ce's three finals in three years.
In the end, the University of Kentucky narrowly defeated the University of Kansas 67-59, and Anthony Davis, who had already locked in the top pick in the 2012 NBA draft, scored 6 points, 16 boards, 6 assists, 6 blocks and 2 steals to win the semifinals MOP.
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After a short afternoon break, another night passed, and on April 7, the Grizzlies had a back-to-back home game in six days and five games......
In this game, the Clippers really didn't want to grind defense, they didn't have any defense, but Sun Ce on the Grizzlies side put all his effort into the defensive end from the beginning, and Tony Allen, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Jimmy Butler, Battier, Jordan Jr., Aaron Gray, Ridno, Neal, Gasol Jr. and others also went crazy defensively.
No way, Nash and Randolph rest tonight, Yi Jianlian doesn't play, there are 12 players left, most of them are defensive players, Klay Thompson and Paul George, who have a bad hand in the three-game away, are also ruthless tonight, they can't shoot, and they have to make the opponent can't shoot!
So the two teams played a brutal performance of 33-29 in the half, and both teams almost didn't break 70 points in the whole game.
After a tough defensive battle, the Grizzlies beat the Clippers 71-67 to improve their record to 44-10.
Sun Ce played 46 minutes tonight, and the physical medicine was also used, leading the team to defend with high intensity throughout the whole process, except for Lewis, the remaining 11 of them could defend, so that the Clippers only scored 67 points, and Sun Ce personally struggled to get 12 points, 19 boards, 3 assists, 5 blocks, 3 steals and 6 turnovers.
1 to 2 assist-to-turnover ratio ......
For Griffin, fortunately they were not won by 40 points by the Grizzlies tonight, and they were also limited by the Grizzlies to 70 points in their first meeting of the season, and they hadn't played at that time, and if the Thunder didn't reach out and lose by 45 points, the worst loss of the season was that they lost to the Grizzlies by 40 points.
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After beating the Clippers, on April 8, the Grizzlies welcomed the Suns back-to-back at home.
In the last game of 6 days and 5 games, the Grizzlies didn't even have the strength to defend, and this wave of fixtures was simply amazing.
However, in the game, Gentry the head coach of the Suns had to let Ronnie Price and Marbury's cousin Telfair defend Sun Ce, and the two were on guard the whole time.
Although Nash and Randolph appeared today, Nash's pass to the wing pitcher was inaccurate, and Randolph's hand was not very good, and Sun Ce's shooting feeling was average today.
But when encountering these two people, Sun Ce fell infinitely low, and relied on the explosive impact to turn around and score easily under the basket again and again, and the Suns began to shrink and pinch Sun Ce, and Sun Ce got a chance to pass twice.
In this game, the Grizzlies picked up the Suns' desire to compete for the top show, Sun Ce shot 14 of 22, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, 12 of 14 free throws, and scored 41 points, 16 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks in 35 minutes of playing time, helping the team beat the Suns 106-89, winning two consecutive victories, and improving the record to 45-10.
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After playing this rare wave of 6 days and 5 games, the Grizzlies finally got two days off.
Sun Ce got the 4th 40+ of the season when he played the Suns, which can be regarded as helping his teammates reduce consumption.
It was so miserable that Randolph was complaining to Sun Ce that he had lost two pounds a week......
On the morning of the 9th, Sun Ce slept well, and didn't get up until noon, and when he was eating lunch, he saw that he was selected as the best player of the week last week.
In the past week, from Tuesday to Sunday, 6 days and 5 games, the Grizzlies have a 4-1 record, Sun Ce's performance is really good, using the strength of his teammates to play well is one thing, in the last two games when his teammates did not perform well, Sun Ce dominated the game with defense, and won the game with a team with a 40+ scoring list.
In the East, James also won the Weekly Awards, and it was the fifth weekly best of the season, in the past week, the Heat played 4 games, 3 wins and 1 loss, and James averaged 31 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists per game.
"Brother Rose, can you give some strength?" Sun Ce couldn't help but complain when he saw James get another weekly best.
But there is no way, from all aspects, James has entered the peak two years of his career, of course, James has played very well in other seasons, but these two years are the best two years, and Rose, who is still in the growth period, has to go to the hard steel with James...... It's just that!
Rose is only 23 years old, he has been slowly polished by Sloan, the future is still long, the Bulls are not stupid, if they can get the MVP, it doesn't matter if Rose is wasted, even if the champion signs All-Star strength, even if it is not a loss, a champion is signed for an MVP...... It's so profitable! But there is no chance, of course, just think long-term.
After breakfast, Sun Ce looked at the rest of the schedule.
Today and tomorrow are off, from the 11th to the 27th, 17 days, 11 games, 4 of them back-to-back!
Fortunately, the other teams in the league are similar, and they will pass after a while.
The most crucial thing is to play a back-to-back away game tomorrow - a trip to the same division, back-to-back games against the Mavericks and Spurs.