1111. Unlucky Anthony (Part 1)
93-63, the Grizzlies slaughtered the Bucks with a 31-point difference, improving their record to 3-1, second only to the Thunder who won 5 consecutive games in the opening game and the Spurs and Mavericks who won 4 consecutive games in the opening game.
After the competition, after the physiotherapy and interview, Sun Ce returned to the hotel, and Sun Ce was still thinking about the newly acquired skills.
"My grandson's style of play last season was said to be like Jordan after the age of 35, and now he is going to switch to Iverson's style of play......"
Sun Ce felt that his style of play changed so abruptly, and at the beginning, his template was Kidd.
Thinking about the fact that he learned to cross steps and change directions, if he deliberately went to learn Iverson's exaggerated movements, Sun Ce felt excited when he thought about it.
"Is this me replacing Jennings?"
Sun Ce came up with a very strange idea, this "pseudo" flower-wearing butterfly step is obviously a skill transformed by Jennings's playing style.
Lying on the bed, when Sun Ce was about to fall asleep, he suddenly thought of something and asked in his heart: "By the way, is it possible to get skills by just letting a genius of the same era change his playing style?" ”
The learning machine immediately replied.
"Rewards can only be obtained when the system determines that a hidden target is triggered."
Seeing this reply, Sun Ce chose to sleep, and it seemed that the next direction of development was destined to be Iverson......
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At the end of the 8 game days, each team played 4-6 games, and at noon on the 9th, when Sun Ce flew back to Memphis with the team, he saw the announcement of the first game week, that is, the 8-day period from last Sunday to last Sunday, the Thunder star Durant in the West and the Heat star James who also won 5 consecutive games in the East.
The Grizzlies will play two consecutive home games and will continue with a home-court rotation.
The schedule is relaxed, but there is always a balance, and if the schedule is not tight, it is natural to arrange games with the schedules of other teams.
The next two opponents are the Rockets and the Heat.
Of these two opponents, the most difficult to deal with are naturally Anthony and James.
Seeing the Heat team led by James to win 5 consecutive games at the beginning, Sun Ce remembered that this season was the peak of James' personal performance, and the Heat team seemed to have won more than 20 consecutive games...... And also without a big center.
Anthony, on his part, is theoretically at his peak, and his individual performance is indeed like this.
It may be that the activation roster has become 13 players this season, and it is obvious that most of the team data this season is more scattered, just changing the 12-man roster to 13 players, and the NBA has begun to make significant changes.
Generally speaking, at the beginning of each season, it is the time when the data of major stars explodes, because many players may not really enter the state of the season, and the players who enter the state early can dominate the big data lists early.
But this is not the case this season, only 4-6 games have been played in the new season, and there are only 3 players who have averaged 30+ per game, and his grandson has averaged 36.5 points per game in 4 games to rank first in the league, Kobe Bryant has played 4 games and averaged 34.5 points per game to rank second in the league, and Anthony has played 6 games and averaged 34.3 points per game to rank third in the league.
Durant, who is in fourth place, averages 29.1 points per game, which is the worst scoring performance in the opening game since Sun Ce entered the NBA for four seasons.
And the players who have averaged 25+ per game since the beginning of the game, in addition to the four of them, only James has averaged 26.2 points per game.
The 11-12 season is special and difficult to calculate, but in the 10-11 season, even at the end of the season, there are still 7 players who average 25+ points per game, and at the beginning of the season, there are up to 11 players who average 25+ per game, and there has been a significant decline in this season.
Sun Ce feels that the league is now in a delicate stage, and the rhythm of the league has not yet been fully raised, but each team has begun to have a "team-oriented" trend because of the addition of 1 place to the activation list.
That's good for them Grizzlies! They need that slower tempo, but they also need an additional activation roster that allows them to make better tempo changes and ensure that Nash can play a beautiful run and help the team maintain the rotation of the offense.
Thinking that Nash didn't play in last night's game, they only scored 91 points, Sun Ce was in pain, as the defending champion, he heard that the commentators of some TV stations didn't want to explain their games, this season has just begun!
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On September 10, the Grizzlies defeated the Rockets 96-91.
In this game, Anthony got 37 points, 11 boards, 5 assists and 2 steals, Sun Ce really felt that Anthony was unlucky, and at the same time was confused by Anthony's many mysterious operations, 03 When the contract of several major stars and rookies ended, they chose to renew the contract 3 + 1, Anthony wanted to renew the contract 5 + 1, and in 2010, he executed the contract for the 2012-2013 season in advance, resulting in the fact that he can't leave now, and the Rockets can't sell him in a trade, and other teams only want to empty gloves White Wolf.
Anthony played very well in this game, Nash didn't play tonight in order to prepare for the game with the Heat the day after tomorrow, and the Grizzlies just defended the whole time, but whether it was Paul George or Klay Thompson, Battier, Prince, they couldn't prevent Anthony, and Mr. Tony couldn't prevent it, and it wasn't the same position at all.
Sun Ce also got 30 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks tonight, two of which were still given to Anthony, but the key to winning was not him.
The key players were Klay Thompson and Gasol Jr., who shot 2-of-9 from three-point range tonight, but he hit two three-pointers and passed to Klay Thompson, who on both occasions relied on the effect of the splash to find a shooting sensation and shoot three-pointers.
Although Klay Thompson only scored 11 points tonight, those two three-pointers were crucial.
Gasol Jr. scored 14 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, if he hadn't helped Sun Ce and other teammates limit Anthony, the Grizzlies, who had no players who could harden Anthony, would have been disrupted by Anthony.
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The focus battle with the Heat is about to be ushered in, the Grizzlies have a 4-1 start despite stumbling, and the easy schedule in the first game month has given the Grizzlies a good opportunity to adjust, Sun Ce is trying to adjust his style of play, and the Grizzlies coaching staff is also trying to figure out a way.
On the morning of the 11th, Sun Ce got up at 3:30, started training at 4 o'clock, rested for an hour after finishing training at 6 o'clock, came to the stadium early after breakfast, and began to follow Tim Hardaway to learn to change direction at 7:40.
This is the first time that Sun Ce has practiced cross-step change of direction with Tim Hardaway after getting the "pseudo-flower-piercing butterfly step", and he feels that the feeling of practicing is very different from before!