Memphis just opened last year Trump's hotel, the Lakers came to Memphis and stayed in this hotel.

The Lakers, who have just won five in a row, are in a very good stage, mainly because the run-in has paid off.

As soon as they arrived at the hotel, Paul and Kobe Bryant came to Gasol's room to discuss the game against the Lakers tomorrow night, focusing on the details of their three-man cooperation, and having a deeper discussion on the areas where they had worked well together in the previous 10 games, and the problems that arose.

Paul, along with Kobe Bryant and Gasol, are all willing to make sacrifices from different angles.

Bryant's assists per game average has slipped to 4.4 in recent times, his lowest since 2000.

Pau Gasol's 3.2 assists per game is also a new low since joining the Lakers.

But correspondingly, Kobe Bryant's scoring efficiency has been far greater than in the past three years since Paul's playing time gradually stabilized, as if he had returned to the feeling of the peak of the 07-08 season.

And Pau Gasol averaged 20.4 points per game this season, which is also a career high for the Lakers.

Both men conceded possession, but also made both of them more efficient in scoring.

Paul is not without sacrifice, and when he encounters a strong team under the opponent's basket, such as the Mavericks, Knicks, and Bulls, he will choose to let Pau Gasol go to the high position, give up the ball, and use Gasol's ability to respond to the high position to pull out the opponent's defensive center.

This is something that Paul would not have done before.

If Paul met Griffin's interior teammate who was still in the development stage, he wouldn't care about Griffin's thoughts, he would definitely have stronger ball control, and by the time Griffin was twenty-five or sixteen years old, his skills would have been polished, and the daylily would be cold.

But if it's a teammate like Gasol who has proven himself to be a championship-level center in the playoffs, Paul is willing to accommodate, he is not yet 27 years old, at the peak tail of Kobe Bryant and Gasol, how good it is to win the championship early, if he can win the championship in three years, he is not yet 30 years old, and the sea and sky are bombarded.

Paul's state of mind is related to what has happened in the past three years.

One word – injury.

Two major injuries, although both recovered well, Paul is very crisis-conscious, winning the championship early and getting a big contract is a very urgent need for Paul at present.

Without experiencing the two crises of destruction in three years, he would not have understood Paul's sense of urgency, and both major injuries were more than six months of recovery, and the difficulties Paul encountered during that period are unimaginable to ordinary people.

But they talked and discussed, and somehow they talked about the strongest opponents this season and the next two years.

The three disagreed, with Paul finding the Thunder scary and Gasol finding the Mavericks the most difficult to deal with.

"I think Nowitzki and Yao will definitely get better in the playoffs." This is the opinion of the great Gasol.

"Thunder, right? Westbrook's breakthrough was too difficult to defend. This is Paul's view.

But both Kobe Bryant shook their heads: "If it was the Mavericks in last year's playoffs, they would be the strongest enemy, but I think Paul, you are in better shape than Nowitzki this year, the Thunder are very good, but in terms of strength, we don't lose to them, the handling of key balls is very important, we have a chance to win both teams, and there is a team that I feel is difficult to play against in the playoffs." ”

"Duncan?" Paul and Pau asked in unison.

"No, it's our opponent tomorrow."

"Lord?"

This made Paul and Gasol look at each other puzzled, in their opinion, Sun Ce is a bit like James during the Cavaliers, not strength, but leading the team.

James's side relies on individual strength, Sun Ce's side relies on the performance of the team, has the greatest chance to win the MVP, and the regular season record is very good, if it weren't for the Spurs' record last season, which was too terrifying to overshadow everything, the Grizzlies' record was shocking enough.

But in the playoffs, neither of them is very optimistic about the Grizzlies' chance to go to the end, not that they look down on the strength of the Grizzlies, and they don't want to play against the Grizzlies in the playoffs, but if they really want to say that they are afraid of the strength of the Grizzlies, this is not true.

"Paul, have you forgotten how we lost to the Grizzlies last year?" Bryant asked.

"We've got Chris this year, so we don't have to worry about the lord anymore." Gasol replied.

Gasol was very pleasantly surprised by Paul's performance after his return, and it was also the key to his willingness to give up the core position of the organization, in his opinion, Paul has done a very good job of adjusting his style of play, and he is still the league's No. 1 point guard.

"If the Lords are just point guards, I don't have any worries, Chris is the strongest point guard, but when he beat us in the playoffs last year, there was very little real point guard play, he claimed to be a two-way guard, and he also established a position called the big center guard." Kobe Bryant's scalp tingled when he thought of meeting the Grizzlies in the second round last year, "Chris, you have been injured for a long time in the past two years, you may not have paid too much attention, and the Lords may be an epoch-making player." ”

When he couldn't see Sun Ce's face, Kobe Bryant still had a high evaluation of Sun Ce.

Previously, Paul and Gasol agreed with most people's views that Sun Ce just had first-class strength and played an MVP-level performance with the addition of the team.

Although it is very powerful, there is always some prejudice, and he always uses Sun Ce's true strength in people's minds to judge Sun Ce's next performance, and to judge an objective fact wrongly.

Although Paul has been beaten by Sun Ce in direct combat, he has always felt that if he gave Sun Ce those teammates, he could do better, and this is indeed a recognized thing.

Gasol listened to Kobe, Kobe Bryant said everything right, Paul saw that Kobe Bryant was so proud of Sun Ce, and he began to pay attention to it.

looked at the data from Sun Ce's scouting report that was used in the previous discussion on the coffee table.

He averaged 23.6 points per game, sixth in the scoring list this season, 13.6 rebounds per game, second in the league in rebounds, 24th in the league with 5.3 assists per game, first in the league with 3.9 blocks per game, and 1.6 steals per game and 15th in the league......

This data is too buggy, and Garnett couldn't do it back then!

Pau Gasol has played so well this season, averaging 20.4 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.6 blocks per game, which is very strong, but it is comparable to Sun Ce......

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On the other side, the Grizzlies were still in a tactical meeting about the Lakers when they arrived in Memphis, which was 11 a.m.

This tactical meeting is relatively long, because there are only two games left in the regular season and the Lakers this season, and they are all in this month, after playing the Lakers tomorrow, after the three consecutive home games, the last game of the three consecutive away games is against the Lakers.

These two games are important, and the Lakers are still their most serious playoff opponents for the Grizzlies, and they will play against at least one of them anyway, and possibly anyone.

Both the Spurs and Lakers have a chance to drop to fourth, or both teams are in second or third place and have a chance to play in the Western Conference finals, and the Mavericks may also end up playing fifth.

It's just one more Thunder and a little more variable, but it's a difficult one for the Grizzlies to prepare them for the playoffs for four teams.

But that's the way to win, and it's tough.

Paul is in very good form for his comeback, averaging 13.1 points, 8 assists and 2.2 steals in 28 minutes of playing time per game in 10 games, and only played 12 minutes in the game he just played.

This efficiency is better than Nash, who played 30 games and averaged 10.5 points and 8.8 assists in 26 minutes per game!

In these two games, Coach Hollins wants to find out the bottom of the Lakers and prepare for the playoffs, after all, there are only two chances to meet.

Judging from the current media and fan recognition, Kobe Bryant is the best scorer this season, and Pau Gasol is the best power forward this season.

And Paul's performance after his comeback is the same as Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol's opinion of Paul, the Grizzlies also feel that Paul is still the league's No. 1 point guard, even if their team has Sun Ce, they also think that Paul is the strongest, just like in the original season when Rose won the MVP, not many people thought that Rose was the strongest point guard, these are two different things.

So, at a glance, the Lakers, who have been relatively low-key this season, have a scoring champion, the first big forward, and the first point guard.

Originally, when the Lakers traded Bynum for Paul, the Grizzlies coaching staff crossed out the Lakers from the ranks of playoff competitors, but the Lakers' performance changed in the month after Paul's return, from being difficult to compatible at the beginning, to gradually becoming tacit, making them see the Lakers as a rival again.

And it's a tough opponent to deal with!

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After the team meeting in the morning and the tactical training for the Lakers in the afternoon, Sun Ce stayed and practiced left-handed shooting, practiced 500 yesterday, and came to the arena at 7 o'clock this morning to practice 200, there are still 200 left, Sun Ce wants to complete the first ** of his self-created skills "left and right bow" today.

After seeing the end of Sun Ce's team practice and being interviewed by Sports Illustrated and the Imperial Court, he returned to the training ground to warm up again and start to continue training, but the others were okay, got used to it, and left on their own, even Paul George and Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, who trained very hard, could not continue training with Sun Ce.

But Lidno, who had just arrived, couldn't accept it a little, and said to Sun Ce: "Lord, don't you rest?" I'm going to play the Lakers tomorrow, so I have to take care of my strength. ”

"It's okay, I'll recover after a good night's sleep, I'm super resilient."

It's good to get some sleep...... Thinking of playing the Suns away, Sun Ce played 45 minutes, went to the Denver Plateau the next day, and ran to the park to practice two-handed ball control under the guidance of Tim Hardaway...... Ridno said he might as well take his leave.

The world of genius is so hard to understand!

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After his teammates left, Sun Ce began to practice his left-handed throw, take his time, a ball takes a few seconds, but he still didn't choose to practice layups, the last two hundred, sometimes the sense of ritual is very important, although most of the time the sense of ritual has no specific effect, but life, the needs of the spiritual level are sometimes more important.

It took almost 10 minutes for each group of 50, counting the feeling of resting, thinking, and adjusting the shooting feeling of the left hand, it took a whole hour, and it was close to 6 o'clock, and Sun Ce finished the 200 left-handed shots, which was far from the right hand two seconds and 5 minutes to easily get 100 training shots.

But Sun Ce practiced very happily, when the last left hand was thrown out and turned around on the basket and fell into the frame, Sun Ce jumped up, and the system prompt came!

"Humility:

Self-created skills: Left and right bows,

Stage 1**: Complete 10,000 effective left-handed shots. (Completed).

Congratulations to the host for triggering Stage 2**: The World of the Left-Handed. ”

"The world of left-handers:

Humility learns self-created skills in the section: left and right bows, stage 2**.

Goal: The host needs to collect four left-handed star experience cards to use to experience the world of left-handed players.

Progress: Collected and used left-handed players: James Harden 15-16, Lamar Odom 10-11.

Note: The same left-handed star experience card is not accumulated if used multiple times. When the host encounters a left-handed celebrity, it will trigger the exclusive**. ”

"Huh?"

When Sun Ce saw the target, he was about to vomit blood, there were few left-handed players, and they had to be "famous players", so they had to be stars, even less!

But seeing the progress, Sun Ce remembered that he had used Odom and Harden's star experience cards.

Wait, Sun Ce remembered one thing and asked in his heart: "James is also left-handed, right?" ”

This time, the words of the answer appeared on the system screen: "LeBron James is left-handed, but he uses his right hand as his basketball habitual hand in the game, and is not considered a left-handed celebrity." ”

"I'll ...... Let me see, what other left-handed celebrities are there? Does Conley count? Forget it, Ginobili? I don't know if he will play against the Spurs next month, can Beasley be considered a celebrity? Not a ...... Who else? Uncle Huang? Little Assassin? Are these two famous players now? It's not easy to collect two! ”

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When the second stage ** was about to be triggered, Sun Ce was looking forward to it, and after it was really triggered...... He felt that it was better to practice left-handed shooting every day, so that he could have a hope.

This second phase is a bit of a stretch, and I really don't know when it will be completed.

After a night of nothing, on March 14, the Grizzlies' home game against the Lakers arrived.

Three days off, which is not too wonderful for the Grizzlies.

After a sleep, Sun Ce first put aside the ** of the development of the "left and right open bow", and when the opponent who is judged by the system to be counted as a "famous general" appears, there will be ** trigger, and usually if you get the star experience card of a certain team, if you can randomly go to the left-handed famous player in the history of their team, it should also count.

For example, the random player star experience card of the Bulls in Sun Ce's hand in the 11-12 season, if you draw Boozer...... Sun Ce is a little devastating when he thinks about it, there are Roel Deng, Hamilton, Rose, and Korver, why do you have to draw a slow-motion power forward......

But Sun Ce first focused on tonight's game, came to the arena at 8 o'clock in the morning, and practiced two sets of three-pointers and mid-range shots, at 9 o'clock, the Grizzlies held a team meeting again to make some adjustments to yesterday's tactical arrangement, mainly based on the adjustments made in yesterday's training, and some defenses were tried in training but couldn't be done.

Although there were some troubles, Sun Ce and his teammates discussed with the coaching staff very carefully.

Klay Thompson passed the team doctor's examination yesterday morning and can play tonight, and Jordan Jr. has to miss one game, which is another big problem.

But towards the end of the team meeting, Coach Hollins announced the good news: "We have reached an agreement with Rashad Lewis to join us by the 20th at the latest, and he will reach a buyout with the Wizards!" ”

This news is undoubtedly a boost for the Grizzlies players, due to injuries and rotations, mainly injuries, Yi Jianlian and Jordan Jr. are absent in turns, and Randolph and Gasol Jr. are unable to cancel the playoff rotation, which often leads to a shortage of interior manpower on the Grizzlies' side, and Battier is not a serious power forward after all, just like when he played the Nuggets, he was paired with players like Faried......

Aaron Gray is similar to Ostertag of the Jazz back then, he's great, but you can't expect him to do much.

After sending Speights out, although there was a pursuit of Carter, after entering the injury period after the All-Star weekend, Sun Ce and his teammates were more eager to have a new interior teammate join.

However, Sun Ce thought about a lot of people, such as Oku, who played well with the Suns last year, Austin Tatsuno, a third-year interior line for the Pistons, Ryan Hollins who the Cavaliers wanted to cut, and so on.

Sun Ce didn't have the luxury of getting too good an inside line, he could hold it up, as long as he had some characteristics.

Who knows, the management actually hooked up with Lewis! He had seen the Wizards open up Lewis's right to communicate with other team management, and conditionally, because the league had not yet issued a new rule, and the summer team owners had to meet collectively to change the rules, which is the "claim" clause, the Wizards put forward similar conditions for Lewis.

The pardon for Lewis is definitely a pardon, but how much money Lewis gets from the new club, the buyout fee has to negotiate how much less, otherwise the amnesty will be granted after March 30, so that Lewis will not be able to represent the new club in the playoffs.

The Wizards' approach has been criticized by many media and fans, but Sun Ce feels that it is understandable, Lewis has not made any contribution to the Wizards, the Wizards want to save money, there is nothing wrong, and it is not to let Lewis take less money, but he doesn't want to give Lewis more than 20 million and let Lewis play with other teams' salaries, they are now rotten, it doesn't matter if Lewis is used for another two years, anyway, they have to pay the salary.

When Sun Ce saw that the Heat, Spurs, Lakers, Knicks, and Bulls were all exposed to contact with Lewis, he didn't miss Lewis at all.

The Spurs and Knicks were excluded by Sun Ce, but the Heat, Lakers, and Bulls are strong teams and big city teams, so they don't have to go to join in the fun, there is no need to kneel and lick.

But I didn't expect that the management actually did it!

That's Lewis! A 39.4 percent three-point shooting percentage so far in his career, a 120 million pitcher who has averaged 1.9 three-pointers per game! At his peak, he averaged 2.8 three-pointers per game!

If this signing is made, their team's offensive tactics will be more diverse!

Although I don't know how the team managed to do this, snatching Lewis from the Lakers, Heat, and Bulls......

Sun Ce feels so good now, he feels that his life has reached the peak......