At 6:40 pm on March 31, 2014, the last day of the month, a focus battle was about to begin, and the Grizzlies who played away were entering the court.

When Sun Ce entered the stadium, he felt the enthusiasm of Thunder fans, and booed the entire stadium, deafening.

Sun Ce felt how popular Westbrook is in Oklahoma City this year. Locally, Westbrook's popularity has surpassed Durant.

This also made Sun Ce feel from the side how popular Westbrook is this season. If Curry hadn't been too popular, Westbrook, who averaged a triple-double this year, had a great chance of becoming an All-Star starter.

When Sun was put in the frontcourt position by the league in the All-Star starting voting, it was said that it was not for Curry to move his position, but for Westbrook.

But no one can avoid being attracted by Curry's three-pointer!

Compared to Sun Ce's three-pointer showing strength in the past two years of "I'm going to throw you to death", Curry's "I just made a shot" is even more crazy.

In addition, there is a guy who has dominated the All-Star Starter for more than ten years in the Western Conference defender. Westbrook was in a bad mood and could not even make it to the All-Star Starter per game.

It’s just him, Mr. Sun, is too popular, that he doesn’t feel much about Westbrook’s popularity being hyped by fans and media this season.

But at least from the Thunder home court, Sun Ce learned that Westbrook's popularity in the local area has become higher than Durant.

And he, Mr. Sun, is the existence that beats Westbrook in the triple-double list, is definitely the image of a big villain in the eyes of the fans here.

Soon, the pre-match preparation time ended and the players of both teams came on the court.

On the Grizzlies, Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Richard Jefferson and Yi Jianlian's lineup came on.

On the Thunder, Westbrook, Seifrosa, Durant, Ibaka and Adams' lineup are on the court.

The two teams are already very familiar with each other. After the game started, both teams went all out. Based on the opponent's status today, the opponent's All-Stars play after the weekend and past experience in fighting, they played fierce offense and defense.

war.

The Thunder do not like playing routines like the Warriors in a period of change, so they just have to be hard-pressed!

On the offensive end, he relied on Westbrook to break through and pass the ball, Durant and Ibaka restrained and received the ball and shot, Adams cut into the score, and Sefrosa played so-called "She's so-called" style.

On the defensive end, you should defend alone, and if you should defend, you should defend as you should defend, Durant defends Sunce, Saifrosa defends Paul George, Westbrook defends pitcher, and Ibaka selectively shrinks and assists.

As Durant had last match tonight, he was mainly responsible for restraining and shooting on the offensive end and focusing on defense.

On the Grizzlies, Sun Ce played very steadily tonight. Yesterday, his ability evaluation broke through to the s-level. In fact, compared with the day before yesterday, his skills did not have a real substantial improvement. The ability evaluation breakthrough was a cumulative effort over the past season.

The improvement, but the improvement of panel evaluation gave him stronger confidence.

His steady performance made his teammates play very steadily. Their lineup is the offensive firepower league first, and they are already strong. When the mentality of shooting outside is stable, it reduces the impact of the impatient mentality of eagerness to win after three consecutive losses,

The overall offensive performance is excellent!

Relying on the restraint of the outside trio, Yi Jianlian's three-pointer and mid-range shot from the sideline, and Richard Jefferson's cutting in, played very well!

When the Thunder failed to make a shot and Sun Ce grabbed a defensive rebound, Klay Thompson scored a three-pointer, Paul George's cut to catch the ball and hit the basket and setter can also play.

The first half of the first quarter played 5 minutes and 47 seconds, and the Grizzlies scored 18 points!

However, the Thunder also scored 16 points steadily.

In terms of offense, the Thunder cannot beat the Grizzlies, but they caught the Grizzlies' weaknesses very well. Adams scored 7 points in less than half a quarter. The Grizzlies' lineup is defending Durant and Ibaka

The mid-range shot was good, but it was not good to defend Westbrook's breakthrough or pick-and-roll breakthrough, and then Adams kept cutting into the game and attacking offensive rebounds, because they all went to make up for the defense of Westbrook's breakthrough, Westbrook

When you get to the basket, you score.

According to the new regulations, the first timeout after 5 minutes of each quarter is considered to be an official timeout. Sun Ce, who scored 6 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal, was replaced and rested.

Coach Hollins chose to let Sun Ce take a break after less than half a quarter, mainly because the team attacked very steadily tonight.

And the most important thing is that Sun Ce played very steadily!

Although Sun Ce has always shown himself as if he has strong confidence, tonight, Coach Hollins found that Sun Ce has become more calm, not his behavior, but his temperament, the kind of confidence from the heart, which is more than the past.

There is a little difference.

Maybe it is taken out separately and there is no difference, but this little detail changes make Sun Ce seem more at ease in the game, especially with these teammates who have played the strongest offensive five-man performance in the league.

When he was on the court, Sun Ce scored 6 points and 3 assists in these 5 and a half minutes, without a single mistake or even a bad pass, and played very stably.

In addition, the entire team's offense was very stable!

Sun Ce has shown the team's tone of stable offense and defense, and the next step is to rely on the performance of the whole team.

If the other party performs well, then try to be in good condition.

While competing for the state, the head coach's personnel adjustment and tactical changes are very important.

Coach Hollins replaced Livingston, Klay Thompson, Prince, Amir Johnson and Whiteside.

On the Thunder, Dewey III continued to play, and Andre Robertson and Nick Collison's lineup came on.

The Grizzlies' lineup came on the court, and the defense at the basket suddenly improved!

If you are playing against the Heat, Whiteside will be suspicious of his life if you are replaced by Paul's pick-and-roll shooting, but if you play against Westbrook or James, Whiteside's role will be infinitely magnified!

In the second half of the first quarter, Whiteside made a breakthrough layup with Westbrook twice, making the Thunder's offense blocked!

Since the Grizzlies were not the Heat who had collapsed to the edge of the Eastern Conference playoffs when they got Whiteside in time and space, the Grizzlies had a clear understanding of Whiteside and knew how to take advantage of Whiteside's advantages.

Avoid disadvantages as much as possible. If the disadvantage is too big, you should not use it. But when the advantages are great, of course you should use it more!

From the second half of the first quarter to the entire first half, Whiteside played 18 minutes and 13 seconds, scoring 8 minutes, 8 rebounds and 6 blocks!

In the half game, he grabbed three times, gave Westbrook twice, once to Perkins, and gave two big hats to Adams at the basket. Durant's cut-in gave him a big hat!

Thanks to Sun Ce's stable start with 2 of 3 shots, he scored 6 points and 3 assists, Klay Thompson was left to cooperate with Livingston and others to continue his offensive performance in the second half of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Sun Ce and Paul George came back, with Beverly, Yi Jianlian, and Whiteside, who was specially selected by Westbrook, scored 16 points in the first 5 minutes and 47 seconds, and the next 18

In 13 minutes, the Thunder only scored 30 points! Not even two points per minute!

Both sides performed well in the overall shooting of the perimeter. When both teams had strong tactical execution, the Thunder could not cope with the changes on the Grizzlies' side!

The Grizzlies took advantage of Westbrook's weak shooting ability on the perimeter. Westbrook's weakness means that he is not good at pick-and-roll offense. He used Whiteside's ability to defend the basket to restrain Westbrook's

Breakthroughs and scores and passes, allowing Ibaka and Durant to take more shots.

Although the Grizzlies only scored 54 points in the half, lower than their average performance in the season, they still led the Thunder 8 points to enter the break with 54-46!

The Grizzlies took the initiative to fall into the position and fought against the offense and defense, and relied on Whiteside to score 5 offensive rebounds in the first half, which was almost guaranteed to score.

Mainly, it's good defense.

However, with Whiteside's six blocks at halftime and almost the Thunder's score in the entire three-second zone, the Thunder can still score 30 points in more than 18 minutes and maintain the gap within 10 points.

, This is something the Grizzlies didn't expect.

In the last 18 minutes and 13 seconds of the first half, Durant scored 18 points, and his score alone accounted for half of the Thunder's score during this period!

Sun Ce played for 15 minutes, scored 11 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals. Without blocks, all the blocks were taken away by Whiteside!

Back in the locker room, looking at Whiteside who was so tired, Sun Ce knew that Whiteside could not play in the third quarter. Today's game was not sure that he could win, so he had to let Whiteside rest

At critical moments.

Facing the Thunder, who doesn't like fast breaks, Whiteside's restraint on Westbrook and his restraint on the opponent's breakthrough and pass-through style are the key to their Grizzlies' winning!

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After returning from halftime, the Grizzlies sent their starting lineup again in the third quarter, and the Thunder also replaced four major starters, but instead replaced Sefrosa with Andre Robertson.

After the third quarter started, Sun Ce began to attack with all his life!

In the first half, except for Sun Ce's first half of the first quarter, he played steadily and hard in the first half of the first quarter, he played slowly for 10 minutes in the second quarter. During that period, he only made a three-pointer and a counterattack dunk, and at other times he fell.

He entered the position and scored a goal in the high position to the running pitcher. He relied on his teammates' wave shot and Whiteside's offensive rebound to protect his score, and he happily assisted.

In the third quarter, it’s time to fight!

Because of Sun Ce's style of play in the first half, the Thunder team was very afraid of Sun Ce's pass, and was suddenly hit by Sun Ce's style of shooting inside and outside in the third quarter. When they realized it, they played continuously.

Sun Ce, who was a little tired after 5 attacks, needed to slow down, started passing the ball again.

After all, the Thunder cannot defend against the attack of the Grizzlies lineup. They cannot defend against it. No team in the league has truly successfully defended the Grizzlies lineup.

Of course, if the Grizzlies play in the first half of the first quarter at the beginning of the third quarter, the Thunder with preparedness can still play a great restrictive role, but Sun Ce does not play like that, just to be hard-steel.

For the Thunder, it is no big deal to be played by the Grizzlies in a good offense, but the key is that their offense failed to continue in the third quarter!

Durant made 9 of 14 shots in the first half, scoring 24 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block with a super high shooting percentage, but played the whole first half, especially in those 18 minutes and 13 seconds, throwing 11 times

After 18 points in 7 of 11 shots, the shooting performance in the third quarter declined significantly!

When Durant missed three consecutive shots, the Grizzlies began to shrink and block Westbrook!

The Grizzlies have long known about Durant's average physical strength since they have seen so many Thunder games.

That is, Westbrook is powerful enough to compete with the Grizzlies by breaking through and killing.

The Grizzlies played the run-and-boom lineup for the most part, and the second half was Sun Ce, Hardaway, Paul George, Amir Johnson, and Yi Jianlian ran the second half. After three quarters, they led the Thunder 86-75.

The team entered the quarters with 11 points.

In this quarter, Sun Ce scored 17 points and 28 points in the third quarter, and he caught up with Durant's score!

After the third quarter, Sun Ce scored 28 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 block and 2 steals.
To be continued...