"The Memphis Grizzlies are the perfect team."

After the season opener, David . Blatter's words were completely on fire. After all, it's a rare thing to get the manager of your biggest rival to admit that you're perfect.

Of course, Blatter's words still caused some controversy. According to inside sources, some Cavaliers players were very disappointed with the head coach's statement.

As a head coach, it is undoubtedly a very demoralizing thing to praise the strength of the opponent without comforting his own players.

Although I don't know if this rumor is true or not, at least people did see David. Blatter's shortcomings. Sometimes, once a crack appears, it gets bigger and bigger.

The combination of the Big Three + European Meritorious Coaches is far from as good as everyone thinks.

The Clevelands' hopes of winning the championship were overshadowed from the start, and Link and the Grizzlies finally got rid of those doubts.

People are starting to believe that the Grizzlies should have six or seven people to make the top 50 list, as Link suggests. Because yesterday Tobias. Harris is better than Love, and even Jimmy. Butler has played better than James.

In just one game, the Memphis Grizzlies turned the tide of word-of-mouth. Now, almost the whole world thinks the Grizzlies can win this year's championship. If even the Cavaliers can't, then there's no second team in the league that can stop the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies did play their devastating offense, and after the opener, they won back-to-back victories over the Pacers, who were the second-best team in the East last season.

On October 31, the Grizzlies traveled to Indianapolis against the Pacers on their first road trip of the new season.

This game was originally a highlight, after all, George and Link's scoring battle was also very eye-catching.

But because of Paul. George was injured in pre-season training camp and the game also lost its biggest appeal.

Speaking of which, George really can't escape his fate.

In the summer of 2014, George suffered a horrific 90° fracture in his calf during a Dream Team training match.

However, in this plane, George did not suffer such a devastating blow. All summer, George was uneventful.

Link was complacent, thinking that his arrival might have saved George. As a result, George was still injured in pre-season training camp.

Although the injury was not as serious as the original 90° fracture in the lower leg, George still needed to rest for half a season.

In addition to George, another member of the Pacers, David Brown. West is also out with injury. Plus George, who left this summer. Hill and Stephenson, the Pacers are now in tatters.

Without George, without Hill, without West, without "No. 1 Jam" Stephenson, just one Hibbert can't support the team.

As a result, the outlook for the Indiana Pacers this season is very worrying.

Facing the Pacers, who were missing four of their five starters last season, the Grizzlies won 99-82 on the road.

Looking at the downcast appearance of the Pacers fans, Link sighed.

Who would have thought that this team, which had been fighting the Big Three of the Heat for two consecutive years, would suddenly fall?

Four of the Tigers were missing from the starting five due to injuries and transfers, which is a huge blow to any team.

After the Grizzlies won the Pacers, the new NBA season has started four days and has a total of 26 games. All 30 teams have also been unveiled one by one.

However, this season is like a curse. In just 4 days, in just 26 games, each team has had injuries of varying degrees.

The worst of them is the Thunder, who were still aiming for a championship this year, but Durant suffered a fracture of his right metatarsal a week before the start of the season and will not return until December or January.

If that's all there is, it's not too bad. Relying on Westbrook, the Thunder can survive 2014.

As everyone knows, Westbrook will follow suit in the second game of the new season.

Yesterday, in the game between the Thunder and the Clippers, Westbrook played only 9 minutes before he went off the court with a fractured right bone. Previously, Durant, Reggie. Jackson, Jeremy. Lamb and other players have already entered the injury list, and now they have injured Westbrook, and the Thunder have only eight players available to play in an instant.

To do this, they had to go to the development league to pan for gold. The Thunder's record is only difficult to hold up before Durant's return.

The Thunder is just a portrayal of serious injury problems this year, and after the time enters November, the Grizzlies have basically no complete lineup of opponents.

On Nov. 1, the Grizzlies played the former Bobcats, which changed their name to the Charlotte Hornets, and the Grizzlies only allowed the opponent to score 69 points in the game. The Hornets scored so low, in addition to their own lack of strength, but also because of the Hornets' Al. Jefferson, the team's leading scorer, was absent due to injury, so the Hornets' offense was a mess and couldn't be organized at all.

Boss Joe was worried off the pitch, and this summer, he brought in Stephenson and Gary. Neal and other powerful players, coupled with Jefferson and Kemba. Walker's two cores thought they could successfully impact the playoffs in the East where they were not very competitive.

But because of Jefferson's injury, the Hornets are now losing all 3 games! As soon as he started, he was hit in the head.

Playing the Pelicans on Nov. 3, Pelicans guard Holiday was absent due to a fractured right leg. Although Davis attacked fiercely, after all, "thick eyebrows" are not fully formed yet. Once again, the Grizzlies won comfortably. Before you know it, you have already won 4 consecutive games in the opening game.

But this time, even Link himself wasn't very excited. Because in these 4 consecutive wins, except for the Cavaliers in the opening game, the Grizzlies have not played a team with a full lineup.

Such a 4-game winning streak is indeed not very high.

And this large-scale injury also made Link a little worried.

After the game against the Pelicans, ESPN also reported on a large number of injuries this year. According to statistics, in just one week since the start of the 14-15 season, the number of injured players in each team has reached nearly 100!

Injuries are like dominoes, after the first one falls, the rest simply can't stop.

Looking at the entire history of the NBA, it seems that no season has experienced such a brutal start. What is the concept of an injury list close to 100 people? That's the number of players on 7 teams!

While some of the 100 players are on short-term contracts for 10 days, even aside from these unconventional rotations, the injury problem is quite serious.

"If it goes on like this, it may not be the All-Star Game yet, and the NBA will break up."

"The league should reduce the number of regular season games, or stretch the regular season game time! It turns out that the current format is very detrimental to the health of the players! ”

"The Thunder and Pacers have basically been scrapped by injuries this season, and hopefully other teams won't follow suit."

Fans are also starting to worry, after all, what is the charm of the NBA without stars to play?

The Grizzlies are also paying close attention to the physical problems of their players, and the reason why the Grizzlies have dominated the league in the past two years is not only because of their own strength, but also because the Grizzlies have miraculously not had any major injury problems in two years.

Over the past two seasons, all of the Grizzlies' major rotation players have played more than 70 times, making them the healthiest teams in the league. In the playoffs, there have been almost no injuries.

Health means everything, and if a team can't stay healthy, no matter how strong a squad is on paper, it won't help.

However, even with a high level of attention and caution, the defending champions had bad news after two years of good fortune.

On Nov. 5, the Grizzlies travel to the rebuilding Suns. There was no suspense or excitement in this game, but a rebounding scramble by Randolph in the second quarter of the game changed the calm game.

Randolph suddenly fell to the ground without warning, and Link at first thought that "Big Black Bear" had just slipped his foot and was about to pull him up, complaining about his increasingly bulky body.

But when Link saw the pained expression on Randolph's face, Link's heart suddenly "chuckled".

The Flood Beast finally came to the door.