The Pelicans didn't have much effort to make it to the second round, and they faced the Memphis Grizzlies, who won a surprise 4-2 win over the Thunder in the first round, with Randolph and Tony Allen suspended.

The Grizzlies are in good shape, Van Gundy was full of solemnity before the game, and if the Grizzlies can play a team chemistry like the Spurs, they may show more power than the Spurs.

The Pelicans' starting five are point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Li Feng, power forward Millsap, and center Al Jefferson.

The Grizzlies' starting five are point guard Mike Conley, scoring guard Tony Allen, small forward Prince, power forward Zach Randolph, and center Marc Gasol.

The two teams competed for the ball in the middle circle, and at the beginning of the game, the Pelicans gave the Grizzlies an accident, and Al Jefferson was stunned to dial the ball from Gasol Jr. to Li Fengdi, and the Pelicans started to attack first.

In terms of offensive style, the two teams really have a lot of imagination, because the same person lays the foundation to build a team, and at the bottom of it is to precipitate the same goal, when Li Feng dribbled and advanced to the front court of the Grizzlies, Millsap immediately came out of the high post and covered continuously, first blocking Li Feng, and then immediately moving laterally to block and dismantle Rose.

Sent Rose to the vacant position, Li Feng passed the ball back to Rose's hand in time, Rose received the ball a little Conley, but Conley didn't eat Rose's feints at all, and his hand was in front of Rose.

Rose used Arenas' cover to finally break through the Grizzlies' interior, and the Grizzlies are also very backward in defense, and Hollins and current coach Pera are both head coaches who value defense.

As soon as Rose moved, the Grizzlies were ready to pinch Rose in the middle, and the Grizzlies' defense was indeed in place, but the Pelicans were also full of fighting spirit.

This Rose knew that he didn't have a chance, but he still jumped violently and focused the defense on himself. Then he secretly threw the ball inside quickly, which gave Millsap a chance to relay in the air, and the Grizzlies' defenders were all on top of Rose, and he was completely empty here, and Millsap had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

Jumped up, caught the ball with both hands, and smashed it on the Grizzly Bear's basket with a violent "boom", which opened with a violent dunk of the air relay, and the opening was a punch to the Grizzly Bear's head and face, and fought hard with the Grizzly Bear in an absolutely tough way.

The Pelicans started the game with a fierce game, and this situation was extremely intuitive on the court. The Memphis Grizzlies have been a very rough and ferocious team in history, but today's Grizzlies are absolutely not rough and ferocious.

The Grizzlies' five players are very perfect in terms of functionality, but in terms of specific personalities, none of the five players are the kind of players who can take charge of themselves alone, and they all have their own strengths and weaknesses.

And in terms of ball style, although the Grizzlies are disciplined and have iron-like tactics. But it's definitely not the kind of rough and ferocious team, on the contrary, the Grizzlies have a lot of veterans on the team, and they have a little bit of that when they play, they sometimes lack an explosive force. Lacks the same striking force that bursts over a period of time.

The Grizzlies played an aerial relay at the beginning of the game by the Pelicans, but the Grizzlies were not in a hurry, and they did not have a particularly angry expression, although Randolph was once rotten tofu. But as he grew older, his temper and nickname became more and more unworthy of the name, and the blue fat man became more and more soft.

Conley used his body to cover the basketball and dribble to the Pelicans' half court. While dribbling and observing the situation on the court, the Grizzlies' entire team is like a machine, moving forward step by step, not being disrupted by others, and there is no way to make great strides forward, in the first round of the opening game, the Grizzlies hit one of their most stable points, Prince immediately used a cover of Tony Allen as soon as he arrived at the Pelicans' half, and quickly slipped the bottom line interspersed with runs, Prince's play is characterized by fast interspersed runs, and then catch and shoot.

Prince suddenly shook off Li Feng and ran inward along the bottom line, at this time Mark Gasol and Randolph, the double meat wall was blocked on the Grizzlies' bottom line, Li Feng desperately ran over, bypassing Tony Allen, but he was still a step slower, just to see Prince dexterously drill into his team's double inside.

Li Feng took a step inward, but crashed into Gasol Jr., he could only watch Prince drill out from the other side, his own defense was lost and embarrassed, and he completely lost people.

Conley is the kind of player who can grasp the overall situation very well, and the timing and passing skills are in place, once he saw that his teammates had completely run out of the tactics, Conley immediately threw the ball with one hand and sent the ball to Prince, who had just run out of the encirclement.

Prince runs, catches the ball, strides, and then turns, a series of running, catching and shooting actions are simply practiced, seeing that Prince's offensive timing has been formed, just look at Arenas on the side, suddenly pounced, the general defense is protective of himself, but Arenas is completely different when he pounces from the side, in terms of speed, in terms of momentum, it can be seen in strength.

Arenas's defense was really open, and Prince saw that Arenas pounced, he was also frightened, his hands shook, and he didn't throw the ball into it for a while.

Arenas didn't stop it because of the fierce pounce, and crawled on the board, but his desperate defense stopped Prince's shot.

The basketball jumped on the basket, and when it was about to fall, it was seen that the Pelicans' basket had been integrated, and the Grizzlies were black and white, and the strength on the inside far exceeded that of the Pelicans, so that the Grizzlies had an absolute advantage in rebounding and interior defense, and the black and white bears of the Grizzlies surrounded the Pelicans' two interior lines.

But today Al Jefferson and Millsap desperately stuck in the inside line, and stuck the two black and white bears with more tonnage and height than themselves.

After Al Jefferson got stuck with Marc Gasol, he violently took off the basketball, and with a "bang", Al Jefferson's rebound was also a fierce catch, and after taking off the rebound, he immediately passed the ball to Rose to counterattack.

The two sides fought in the first round, and one shot down, and the Grizzlies were the dominant one. But as soon as he stretched out his hand, he immediately found that the other party was not coming to learn skills by himself, but he was desperate with himself, even if the grizzly bear was originally relatively high in martial arts, but no matter how high he played, he was afraid that he would not die.

So the Grizzlies trembled a little psychologically, and they softened a little, and ESPN's Albert saw that the Pelicans played like this, and he immediately said:

"The Pelicans were in a lot of momentum today, and it felt like it wasn't a second-round playoff game, but a feud at Christmas."

"Of course. They are not vendettas, but they are enemies of life and death, it seems that the Pelicans are coming up today to fight with the Grizzlies to the death, don't you see, from Rose's lifeless impact, Arenas's desperate block, Al Jefferson's desperate card position, this Pelican has gone crazy, and their goal is to tear each other apart. ”

Derrick Anderson has a clear view of the behavior of the Pelicans and his gang.

"But it seems. Robert Pera and the Grizzlies didn't seem to be ready, and their reaction to the Pelicans' desperate struggle seemed numb. ”

Anderson was a little agitated as he spoke, this guy was craving a real mad dog fight.

But it was destined to disappoint him, and the Grizzlies now played mechanical basketball. The rigor of the requirements is precise, emotional, adrenal outbursts, and personal heroism. Even emotions are an unnecessary by-product, and the team moves forward as if it were a machine, following the dictates of Brown and Conley. For them there is simply no superfluous emotion.

Maybe the grizzly bears are a little old, and the passion is really fading, maybe the grizzly bears are a little too old, and the rage and passion are also gone in their faces.

At this time, Conley, a Grizzlies player on the court, clearly saw the Pelicans' defense in Pingming, creating obstacles for his team, but at this time, Conley believed that the passion and fighting spirit would eventually fade, leaving only the basketball itself, mechanical and accurate running, and targeted defensive tactics.

Pelican has a few passions, but any passion is not short-lived, as if it is a rainbow that cannot last long, and it can't stop us at all.

At the beginning, the Pelican gave the Grizzly Bear a huge pressure in its momentum, and the competition between the Pelican and the Grizzly Bear was like a confrontation between two strong men, one of them used the most intimate hand-to-hand combat to fight each other as soon as he came up, and there was nothing left at all, either you die or I die.

Li Feng didn't defend Prince at all just now, so he had some regret in his heart After half-time, he immediately stretched out his hand and shouted loudly in the lively court:

"Give me the ball, give me the ball!"

Rose saw Li Feng's already fiery eyes, he looked at Prince beside Li Feng again, a cruel smile immediately came out of Li Feng's mouth, and quickly sent the ball to Li Feng's hands.

At this time, Li Feng thought very clearly before the game, if he faced Prince, his most prominent advantage over Prince would definitely be his physical strength, and once he carried the basket, he would occupy a huge initiative.

And the Pelicans are very rich in low-post tactics, as soon as Li Feng received the basketball, the other players of the Pelicans immediately opened up the space, prepared to respond outside, and quickly transferred, creating favorable conditions for Li Feng's back singles.

The current Pelicans really seem to be an army, no one cares about their own losses, all the goals are only one to attack the Grizzlies, Li Feng can see that he has an advantage when he eats Prince on his back, so the Pelicans' players run very clean and resolute.

Li Feng saw that everyone had made enough preparations for himself, he didn't talk nonsense, broke through one step, and then immediately turned around and "bang" two steps, dribbled with his left hand, turned around and shook his body continuously, and did a dribbling feint with his back.

Prince didn't want him to be the Wizards at that time, but he saw that Mask Man's body was thin and the defense was afraid that he couldn't eat, Li Feng's two blows, really ate Prince, and Tony Allen just started to think about the pinch.

Li Feng "slammed a step to suppress Prince, and then immediately held the ball with a large horizontal feint, shaking off Prince's center of gravity, Li Feng immediately turned around and jumped at this opportunity, the posture is not beautiful, the steps are not beautiful, but absolutely practical.

As soon as Li Feng made a move, Robert Pera felt bad, really bad, it seems that Li Feng was prepared, and the basketball slammed into the neck of the basket. The forward standing long jump jumped into the basket.

Now the Pelicans are very desperate on defense, and they are really cold-blooded on offense, which is to seize your weaknesses and play, and everyone is in the service of hitting your weaknesses.

Although the Pelicans played very seriously and enthusiastically, at this time, these Grizzlies had just defeated the Thunder, and they were also full of confidence.

The current Grizzlies are the top powerhouses in the league, although they can't play well for a while, but the Grizzlies don't look at the Pelicans at all, according to their ideas. Don't worry, don't worry at all, now it's almost up to par, and as soon as the third or fourth quarter is exerted, the Pelicans will be completely killed.

This tactical strong team is generally used on the weak team in this way, which is the same as a long-distance running race, I am faster than you, I am better than you, but I am not a waste of body and energy. I fought with you in the early stage, but followed you first, not too much difference from you, and in the end, I made a force. If you exceed you, you're done.

You haven't had a chance to overtake me yet, I haven't wasted my body yet, and now the Grizzlies have this plan, and they don't take the Pelican as a thing at all. But with one force, you can kill all of you and knock you down.

Conley had no expression on his face, simply indifferent to the current form.

Just now, Prince suffered a series of losses. Marc Gasol couldn't do much offensively, but Randolph could speak for his brothers and came over ready to get stuck in the Pelicans' low post.

As soon as the blue fat man showed this meaning, Millsap immediately took a step forward and resisted the blue fat man and didn't let him in, the blue fat man quickly turned around and wanted to continue to card the position, but Millsap reacted faster than the blue fat man, and didn't give him a chance at all, and immediately turned over and screwed in front of the blue fat man.

The confrontation between Millsap and Randolph is absolutely, the tip of the needle is against Maimang, as if it is played in many movies, the two masters represent the two extremes of one positive and one negative, and Spider-Man has Black Spider-Man, and there are heroes and demons, the two people have the same tricks, but they are definitely not in the same camp.

In the face of this entanglement, Zach Randolph, who is experienced in the game, shook off Millsap's center of gravity with a feint, and then immediately stuck a position on the left side of the basket.

Conley, who had been watching the situation inside for a long time outside the three-point line, once again used his simple but ubiquitous pass to send the ball to Zach Randolph's hands, and once Millsap, who was stuck in the house, lost his position, he immediately frantically resisted the blue fat man from behind and did not give him space to take a step forward.

The blue fat man pressed his back back, but at this time he felt as if he was being held up by the momentum and couldn't move at all, there was no way at all, if he wanted to attack, he could only test his skills.

In fact, there are many aspects of the Blue Fat Man's defense, and it really relies on talent completely.

The size of the blue fat man shows that this person eats by talent at all, relying on his natural feel and the skills he practiced in his early years, and he is not up to standard in strength and physical training at all.

Compared with the fat belly of the blue fat man, the muscles under Millsap's baby face are all trained in the gym of the hard state, although the blue fat man looks bigger than Millsap, but he can't stand it at all, and today Millsap is still desperate, so the blue fat man can't stand it at all.

He can only rely on technique and shoot backwards, and his step-back step was forced out by Millsap, because he couldn't move, and the roll over to the middle was too tiring, so he could only roll back and then jump.

The blue fat man's choice was inevitable, but his inevitability did force the pelicans to force it out, and the blue fat man took a step back and turned to go out, and saw Arenas launch it as if it were a cannonball.

The unconventional baseline pinch attack, pounced from behind Millsap, and the two of Millsap worked together to squeeze Zach Randolph on the sideline, so that the blue fat man's retreat action was not complete at all, and he could only shoot halfway through the action.

To say that at the beginning of today, Arenas's one supplementary defense and one auxiliary defense are really in place, and it is also good looking for the Grizzlies, and the blue fat man who made Prince's second pounce was not completely done.

The blue fat man's shot was completely unreliable, just gently rubbed the edge of the basket, and it fell straight down, Al Jefferson did a very good job in the back position, although he couldn't squeeze Gasol Jr., but the position was not lost, and he couldn't grab the ball to Millsap and Arenas.

Arenas looked like a monkey and took the basketball into his hands with neat hands and feet. Then immediately dribble forward to kill his side, where he silently muttered:

"Arenas did a fantastic job today."

Arenas's opening two shots today are really good, and the defensive shots can be said to be classic, unusually fatal, and unusually ferocious.

Arenas's change may seem a little strange, but that's often the way things go about playing with a strong team, and after a long time, you will inevitably be stronger, and you will always be fooled around with a weak team, and you will eventually become weaker.

People can influence each other. There's nothing wrong with that, Arenas seems to be a mad dog, and after grabbing it in his arms, he immediately passes the ball to Rose in front of him, and after Rose receives the ball on a dribble, he is not in a hurry to attack.

In the fast break, the kind of immediate galloping one or two strokes that require the ability to solve the battle Ross does not have, without this ability can only seek stability, and require a steady dìng to achieve a half-court offense.

That's what Rose thought, and the Pelicans immediately opened up to play inside in the first half. said that Millsap and the blue fat man have some imagination, but after all, this is a difference between the two people in terms of physical conditions.

The Blue Fat Men have a bit of a three-point range, but Millsap has a little more options for attacking inside, and Millsap's footwork is better than that of the Blue Fat Guys. He can cut inside and break through, which is rarely the case with the blue fat man.

Because Millsap can cut in, when receiving the ball and preparing to attack inside, he came out to catch the ball much farther than the blue fat man, and took a big step from the waist of the three-second zone before catching the basketball in his hand.

The Fat Blue saw Millsap receiving the ball in this position. There was a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, he knew Millsap too well what kind of ball this guy could play. The blue fat man himself could not be clearer.

I saw Millsap holding the ball on the side, and the author feint carefully in front of Randolph, both sides knew each other's pounds, it was a close contest, and the tension and firmness on Millsap's face were a little out of line with that baby face.

The muscles on the forearm jumped rhythmically, and the whole body was walking in preparation for the sprint, and the old blue fat man - Wallace's nerves were also a little nervous, and he was also observing Millsap, and this old player knew that the current situation was a little disadvantageous to him, and the ratio of cutting into the breakthrough was impact and explosiveness, and a good swing man could not be in an inside player at all.

Besides, there is still such a big man in front of him, and now it seems that Millsap is playing very softly and has no strength, but when Millsap was at his peak, the impact and bounce speed were very good, dribbling one step at a time, and the shot that jumped directly under the opponent's basket was his hallmark.

When facing the blue fat man Wallace, Millsap also used the simplest offensive move, shook a little, and directly took the most powerful right side to break through and slammed into the Grizzlies' interior line.

Simple, fast, but absolutely effective, the simpler, the more effective it is, although the blue fat man is indeed inferior to Millsap in footsteps, but he has experience and judgment, he has long felt that Millsap must be a breakthrough on the right side, two horizontal sliding steps, Millsap is still in front of Millsap when he hits the basket.

I expected it to be confrontational, this is the pure body element, the face-to-face competition, the comparison is who jumps high and jumps fast, Wallace's body is good, but this big forward is definitely not a person who relies on the body to play.

Don't look at Zach Randolph, his round eyes are staring, as if he is very rude and fierce, but when this person is playing, he absolutely plays with skill and wisdom, even if the defense is not stupid to defend with his body, more often than not, Zach Randolph is using his own experience and awareness to defend.

Now it's time for the most critical moment, Millsap looks baby-faced and has a kind smile, but Millsap plays absolutely with his body and talent, and finally Millsap jumped up on Zachlandorf's head and simply shot a two-pointer. (To be continued......)