Chapter 176 A bloodbath
Grizzlies' head coach Fretello was definitely possessed by the god of decline, at least he really thought so.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why his miserable luck this season was so wrong. Before the new season began, the team's main core was injured, and Paul Gasol had been off for several weeks.
This directly made the Grizzlies' pre-season training a piece of nothing. As for tactical training, they didn't even have a shadow. Fretlow had a premonition that this season would be afflicted.
Sure enough, the Grizzlies started with a losing streak, not as excited as last season, and they didn't look like a team that could make it into the playoffs.
It’s not that Fretello had thought about how to save the Grizzlies, but he, a chef who is not even a clever man, would definitely not be able to deal with a team that was not incompetent, and at most he could only support him.
Without a good player in hand, no one can become a god. Even Phil Jackson must have Jordan.
Fretello finally returned the hope of Espanyol's hope for the moon, and before he could start to rebuild the Grizzlies' main lineup with Gasolvi's core.
The Bulls began to openly seduce the Spaniards to defect, and the price offered not only made Gasol's heart moved, but the team's management was also a little shaken.
This is no longer news. Memphis is not a standard business center. It is far less attractive than Los Angeles or New York to retain players.
Compared with Memphis, Chicago is an advantage in addition to the urban environment, the Bulls' personnel structure is more reasonable, and the calves are also more motivated and are far more competitive than the Grizzlies.
People go up high and water flows down low. Gasol can run from the Iberian Peninsula to the United States in order to make a name for himself. The pursuit of the highest honor of basketball is all nonsense.
Who doesn’t want to win a championship? What a cool thing to bring a championship ring back to Spain!
Moreover, the price offered by the Bulls this time is indeed not low, and even the outside world has begun to speculate on how long the Grizzlies' resistance will last.
Even the local media in Memphis are rumored that they do not choose to trade now, but they are waiting to sell.
If Fretello hadn't kept gritting his teeth and insisting, someone would have probably begun to propose whether to trade Gasol away, but his persistence would not have resulted in the bottoming rebound of the Grizzlies.
I don’t know if it was the losing streak after the start of the new season that made the players lose their spirit of winning, or if they had recently encountered strong teams, which made the Grizzlies a little confused and didn’t recover.
Anyway, they lost in the two games after Gasol returned to the team, one was defeated by Paul's Hornets, and the other was ravaged by the Warriors of Old Nelson.
They lost more than 100 points per game in these two games, but their offensive firepower was only 91 points. This gap is often widened to more than ten points of loss, which makes everyone feel pressured.
The strength is inferior to the opponent and the momentum is inferior to the opponent. There is no explanation for the loss of this game. Even Flatlow himself admitted that after losing two games in a row, the Grizzlies are in a terrible state.
However, this guy is also a stubborn guy and has never let go of the possibility of entering the playoffs. It's like he can keep the Grizzlies at a high winning rate in the remaining sixty games.
Just like last season, they were able to make it to the playoffs at the last moment, but now their enthusiasm is completely different from last season.
It is estimated that this can only be Fretello's own beautiful imagination. No one is optimistic about the Grizzlies' fourth consecutive playoffs.
Even Gasol said in a low mood when facing the Spanish media, "We are sliding into the abyss, and this year's playoff gate is almost closed to us."
Even the main player is so depressed, not to mention that other players have already spread negative emotions in the Grizzlies, and no one can stop them.
Teams that are on the verge of collapse in their emotions and state need a burst of heart aid, and a victory is the best recovery medicine. At this time, the Grizzlies are extremely eager for a victory.
Fretlow thought that meeting the Celtics, who had a poor record recently, would make him turn over and sing.
As a result, Rivers gave him a blow head-on, and in the first quarter he directly used sharp attacks to widen the gap between the two sides. In the second quarter, Pierce led a scoring frenzy and widened the gap to 25 points!
In the third and fourth quarters, the Celtics' offenses were extremely fierce. Their posture was completely like hitting the dog, purely taking advantage of it, not taking advantage, bastard!
That tide of offensive tide made the Grizzlies lose even the chance to chase points, and those fans who vented their dissatisfaction had already begun to choose to leave the court during the halftime break.
By the fourth quarter, the remaining fans in the entire FedEx Arena, even less than 3,000 people were present. It is estimated that only those loyal supporters could tolerate the Grizzlies' poor performance.
The gap between the opponent was widened by the opponent by nearly 30 points, which was completely one-sided, and even when the Grizzlies met the Suns, they did not perform so much.
But in front of an opponent whom they thought they could win successfully, they were facing a more fierce attack, which made the Grizzlies' already lack of confidence and began to collapse.
This is not something that anyone can save, even Flatello was almost hoarse in the first two quarters.
But even if Fretello called out several timeouts in a row, it would not be possible to save the fact that the Grizzlies were defeated.
As for the booings and the weak commentary on the scene, it made people feel that Fretello's doom is coming soon, and the person involved could only sit on the sidelines without saying a word, frowning.
Especially in the fourth quarter, Fretello never even called for a timeout, and even the substitution was a bit mechanically dealing with it. In this mental state, don’t expect him to cheer up with the players.
It is estimated that Fretello's appearance will make him look like he is still thinking about the game. As for whether he is really thinking about the game in his head, only God knows it.
However, looking at the fans' reactions, the team management who left early in the morning, everyone can imagine what the outcome would be like for Fretello.
In fact, this unlucky guy has worked hard enough. Since taking over the team, he has entered the playoffs for two consecutive years. After all, he can be considered a decent move, at least he is a little better than the Timberwolves.
But NBA is so realistic. Your past achievements will never win you much say.
When you fail, those past achievements are more like a burden, because you have not reached the previous level. For fans and teams, you are a loser. There is no doubt about this.
Moreover, Fretello is really not a handsome man in his on-site strategy. At most, he is a successful person. He does not have the iron-fisted method of Old Brown, and his tactics are even more unreasonable.
Rudy Gay, who was highly anticipated by him in the first quarter, was forced to move by Spreville.
When Fretello began to put all his hopes of chasing points on Gasol, the Spaniard, who was equally unlucky as him, encountered a bald wild boy who was extremely gangster.
Spreville played for less than twenty-five minutes, scoring eight points, four rebounds and two steals, but he also sent four assists. This all-round performance can be regarded as a perfect comeback.
Under his care, Rudy Guy did not make any contribution, but only scored thirteen points in garbage time, but everyone can see how much moisture the score is.
This was thought to be the biggest weakness of the Celtics' defense, but it turned out to be the toughest link in their perimeter defense. Even Rondo was sighing when he looked around. That old guy was so defensive!
Not only Spreville's performance was very strong, but mainly because the Celtics' collective ferocity completely defeated the Grizzlies, the Novak guy even scored 10 points in the third quarter.
Mainly, Chen Feng beat Gasol in the inside, and Jefferson scored a lot against the brain-dead child Swift, which completely compressed the Grizzlies' defense range to the three-second zone.
With such a large space to make Novak comfortable to take action, he was simply crazy to be happy. He didn't have this freedom when he was in Houston, not to mention that Rivers wanted him to take more shots in the open space.
"Pitchers always rely on games to accumulate touch. Since they are so much ahead, why not let this kid get familiar with his cooperation with his teammates, and can also use the Grizzlies to sharpen his three-point flying knife."
With Rivers' tactical thinking of fighting to the death, do you still expect the Celtics' animals to miss the opportunity to ravage their opponents? They beat their opponents hard throughout the game.
The Grizzlies want to use them as a good recipe for recovery. These Boston bandits also want to use the opponent's sacrifice knife. The games they lost in the previous games have made them angry for several days, and they are now caught.
That's really the whole nation. Even Perkins, who came on the bench, scored 11 points. You can imagine how cruel the starting players were. Pierce scored 31 points in the whole game.
Of course, the guy who is the least human must be the beast who touched Gasol's chest with his head bare head. This lunatic didn't score many points, but he only scored 16 points in the game, which is a bit unmanned!
Even Thibodeau muttered in a low voice, "This guy is just not giving the other party a way out..."
Way to survive? Well, Chen Feng's kind of person who just kills and doesn't care about burying him, what kind of face can he leave for others and what way to retreat? The whole game was 15 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks, and the beast beat Gasol frowned.
By the end of the game, Memphis media reporters remembered the wild boy who had to touch Gasol's whole body, "Our Paul was ruthlessly ruined..."
Uh, it's really the case, but is that little guy ruined?
Of course, he will definitely continue to ruin it until he ravaged all the opponents in this league, otherwise he would not have stopped.
The Celtics, who were ready to go, began to step back into their playoffs after killing the Grizzlies. Although it was only December, the fierceness of these guys was accumulating.
Chapter completed!