631: Leaning back and twisting the old waist
Since the beginning of the new season, the Grizzlies have been playing very smoothly.
Link scored a 30-point triple-double in the opening game of the new season and helped the Grizzlies kill the Spurs by 15 points, they were out of control.
On November 1, the Grizzlies encountered some troubles against the Pistons behind Josh Smith this summer.
The Pistons scored in double digits in this game, as if the Spurs possessed them.
But Link completely beat Josh in the game. In the last few key rounds, Link scored consecutive goals, but Josh became a little transparent. In this way, the Grizzlies defeated the Pistons by 5 points at home and achieved two consecutive victories at the start of the game.
Josh scored 19 points in this game, which seemed pretty good. But for these 19 points, Josh paid the price of 23 shots. Among them, Josh missed 11 of them outside the three-point line, which made him feel numb.
7 of 23 shots, 3 of 11 three-pointers. The nickname "Central Shooting Beautiful" is well-known. Once Josh starts shooting, one team will be in trouble. But this unlucky team is usually the Pistons themselves.
In contrast, Link had 28 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists in the game, with a shooting percentage of 58.3%. If it weren't for the Pistons' performance of the super level today, there would be no need to play until the last moment in the game.
On November 2, the Grizzlies' first back-to-back game in the new season, and the defending champion Grizzlies beat the Mavericks with a score of 111 to 98.
Cuban signed Monta Ellis, just like signing Mayo last season, with high hopes for them, hoping that they can be reborn in Dallas and become the new signature of Dallas.
Nowitzki has said more than once that he is willing to retreat to the second line and support Ellis with peace of mind. Last season, the "old driver" also said the same to Mayo.
But in the end, Dirk realized that he could not get rid of the fate of becoming a "thigh".
In this game, Dirk scored the highest 24 points in the team on 7 of 16 shots. Ellis, who was treated as the core of the Mavericks, only gave 18 points with a shooting percentage of 35.7%.
Nowitzki felt so distressed. He wanted to hug his thighs, but in the end he found that he was the thighs.
Ellis can't make any efficient attack when facing the Grizzlies' defense.
Link easily scored 25 points on the elderly Marion and Old Carter, which is undoubtedly the easiest game that the Grizzlies have won this season.
One day later, the Grizzlies beat Stevens' Celtics 95-88. At this point, Link and the Grizzlies won four consecutive victories like a devastating move. It seemed that they were still unstoppable.
At this moment, Anthony Davis defeated James and the Heat at the American Airlines Center and became famous.
After this game, people believe that if anyone is most likely to give Link the first loss in the season, it is Anthony Davis!
The Grizzlies, who have won four consecutive victories and the Pelicans, who have won three and lost one, are about to meet under the attention of everyone.
Link did not expect that he and Davis could be fired together by the media. After all, at the beginning of the season, the Pelicans were not highly concerned. There was no Pelicans player in the 50-season ranking of espn's new season.
But after looking at the Pelicans' current lineup and performance in the past three games, Link also found that the Pelicans do not seem as easy to mess with as people imagine.
Pelicans owner Tom Benson doesn't seem to be a particularly patient person. He is 84 years old, and his sluggish market and his excessive age will not allow him to continue to waste his time.
This summer, Benson spent a lot of money to make the team's paper lineup look talented. There is no doubt that he doesn't want to play badly. What he wants is to use a bunch of talented players to create its own glory for the Pelicans.
Ju Holiday, Eric Gordon and Tyrek, Evans, and the Pelicans collected the core guards of the three bottom teams last season. This back line is worth hundreds of millions and should not be ignored.
In other words, except for Anthony Davis, the Pelicans' configuration is actually quite good. No wonder the Heat will make a comeback on the Pelicans.
But even so, the most concerned thing people are the showdown between Anthony Davis and Link, even if they are not actually facing each other.
Regardless of whether the two face each other or not, they will inevitably collide in the next game. Once Link breaks through the penalty area, their showdown will be a foregone conclusion.
This originally ordinary game suddenly became popular, and Davis defeated James. He was like a brave challenger who broke the rule and began to attack the original order of the league.
James fell, and the fans and the media were not satisfied. Next, they were willing to see Davis knock down Link.
Overnight, countless people became temporary fans of the Pelicans and Davis. Link made countless enemies, and the Grizzlies were the defending champions. What else is more exciting than watching the defending champion fail?
During the training day before the game, Link found that the reporters were extremely excited. The questions asked were mostly related to Anthony Davis.
At the routine press conference after training, the reporters were still asking questions about Davis unyieldingly.
Link couldn't stand it anymore, so he commented on Davis, "There is no doubt that he will become a superstar. Whether it is hardware or software, he has the capital to become a superstar."
Link's extremely high evaluation of Davis made the media excited. Could it be that Link gave in advance? I would praise Davis first, even if he loses tomorrow, it would be embarrassing.
"But," Link did not disappoint the reporters, he still had the
"He only played four good games, and I really welcome him to visit our championship pennant at the Federal Express Arena. By the way, experience what the real defending champion is."
Link is not a good guy, and he praises rookies without reservation? That's not Link's style.
He has no prejudice against Davis, but he wants to let those who want to see themselves fall to understand one thing, "Don't think that you can just find someone to bring me down."
If LeBron James loses, that's James' business, and it doesn't mean Link will also lose.
Link's remarks aroused strong dissatisfaction among many people. However, Link didn't care at all. As a big villain, he did not exist to please the fans.
"Link is such a player, he's high above and despises all the challengers. But my teammates and I will do our best, and we will win at the FedEx Arena. Maybe after the next game, he won't question me anymore."
When Anthony Davis faced the camera, his thick eyebrows slightly bent, revealing a sunny smile.
The contrast between Link and Davis is simply too big. One is the sunny Warriors and the other is the dark villain leader. It goes without saying which side the fans prefer.
In ordinary movie scripts, the sunny and handsome young warriors usually win. But in Memphis, nothing follows tradition.
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Zach Randolph was extremely serious in training today. Although he was 32 and a half years old, Randolph still looked as energetic as a young player today.
Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis... In the past few days, the whole world has been discussing the No. 1 pick with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
People took him and LeBron Jamesby, and Linkbee, but Randolph, who really wanted to play against Davis, was ignored.
This made the old bastard Zach feel very dissatisfied.
Link is now a well-known bastard character in the league, but in Randolph's opinion, Link's bastards are taught by himself!
In Randolph's opinion, Davis's opponents in the previous few games did not have any decent inside players, so he got such good data. Randolph would not be slaughtered, and he would let people see what ginger is or how spicy it is.
In the next game, he will definitely let Davis taste the power of the veteran!
Randolph averaged 18.2 points per game last season, which was the Grizzlies' well-deserved second scoring point. It was just his lukewarm scoring method, which made people often ignore his power. At his peak, he was also an average of 20+10 per game.
Today, Randolph was particularly serious and needed to adjust his condition to the best.
What Anthony Davis, these kids don’t understand what confrontation is!
During training, Randolph leaned against Azeli to make a back jump shot. However, he didn't know that Azeli was a little sensible and blocked it very closely.
Randolph's eyes were about to be covered, so he increased the curve of his tilt. But he was already in his thirties, and he was not the omnipotent and flexible fat man he used to be.
Randolph suddenly leaned back and shot the basketball, and fell heavily to the ground because of a loss of center of gravity.
Finally, Randolph's shot was still in. People thought Randolph would get up and yell, but they didn't know that Randolph was lying on the ground with his waist on his back.
"Oh, Cao, hurry up, little brat, help me up." Randolph greeted Azeli with an exaggerated expression and helped him up, and then found that his waist was in great pain.
The team doctor immediately entered the court. After a simple examination, he almost couldn't help laughing, "That's not serious, I just twisted my waist. But I guess I can't play in the next game. At your weight now, don't play such a big leaning back. You can't bear it. People should obey the old, Zach."
"Puff!" Everyone onlookers almost couldn't help it. It was a very sad thing for teammates to be injured, so why did Link just want to laugh?
With a backward jump shot, Randolph can do this in the whole league!
"I can't play the next game!? Damn, what's the matter!" Randolph regretted it. If he had known that this old waist could not stand the toss and he wouldn't pretend to be sexy just now.
Link shook his head, sure enough, Randolph was the most cruel. However, Randolph was absent, and the Grizzlies' reserves in the fourth position immediately became stretched.
Chapter completed!