One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty-Two. Injury Wave

However, the Lakers now have a huge advantage.

Randolph is injured!

However, Kobe and James both know that the biggest problem for them at the beginning of the season is not cooperation, not state, but mentality.

It is understandable that the Grizzlies players are proud and complacent. They are the defending champions for two consecutive years, and the team's strongest player has played such an outstanding performance in the new season. What's wrong with being proud?

And the Lakers are simply suffering from aristocratic disease, and they get proud when they disagree.

This is a problem that the Lakers have to go through every regular season. Last season, they won the regular season championship. This season, Paul has been upgraded to James, Leonard has made obvious progress on the defensive end, and has truly become a second defense. He has also made great progress in singles and shooting, and has the ability to average 12 points per game in 25 minutes of playing time...

These are all the reasons why the Lakers players are sick.

Fortunately, Kobe has been used to it after being in the Lakers for so many years, and James, who has been in close contact with Kobe since joining the Lakers, has also quickly learned to adapt.

At least when playing against strong teams, these teammates will not relax, because in the four games they lost, three of them were against the Pelicans, Suns, and Pistons.

Except for one game against the Bulls, the Lakers won all other games against strong teams.

As the defending champion, the Grizzlies are definitely a strong team in the eyes of their teammates, and they have lost to the Grizzlies in the playoffs for the past three years. Even the new players will try their best to beat the Grizzlies.

At least, this can prove that they are better than the original Lakers players!

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At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Grizzlies' away game against the Lakers started.

Sun Ce saw that James really played point guard, and he also averaged 10.2 assists per game in his career in the new season, ranking third in the league, higher than Paul's assists per game, and second only to Westbrook and Rose.

Averaged 25.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 1.3 steals, and 1.1 blocks per game... Unlike Westbrook's 41% shooting percentage, James' shooting percentage is 62%!

Kobe averaged 27.3 points per game, 2.8 three-pointers per game, 49% shooting percentage, and 39% three-pointer percentage,

all set career highs.

Leonard averaged 12 points, 6 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.8 steals per game. As a wing scorer and perimeter defense gate, Leonard performed very well in his 25 minutes of playing time.

The problem with the Lakers' lineup is that the power forward position is very weak. The center is rotated by Nene and Kaman, which is enough. Even Sakishi has been abandoned.

But Boozer is the only serious power forward. Except for Blake's rotation lineup this season, the other lineups of the Lakers are all light offense and perimeter rotation defense.

The starting lineup of the Lakers tonight is James, Kobe, Leonard, Metta World Peace, and Nene.

The starting lineup of the Grizzlies is very direct, Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Richard Jefferson, and Yi Jianlian.

After the game started, no one could defend anyone, and the Grizzlies started running and gunning from the beginning of the game.

Try to avoid the problem of insufficient manpower in their own inside line, maximize their own advantages, and try to avoid the battle with the Lakers when James, Leonard, Metta World Peace, and Nene are all there.

Paul George showed off his power when he saw Leonard, and Sun Ce fought hard when he saw Kobe. There was a physical potion to use, so he fought when he had to.

And there was no trigger event. Although there was less "extra motivation", it also allowed Sun Ce to devote himself to the duel with the Kobe-Jan combination.

In the first quarter, Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian and Paul George played the entire quarter, and Klay Thompson, Tim Hardaway, Richard Jefferson and Beverley took turns to play, and the Grizzlies and Lakers tied at 29!

Seeing Sun Ce's desperate efforts to score 11 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks in a single quarter, 11 points and 4 assists ensured the Grizzlies' offense. The two blocks also sniped the two reverse runs and cuts that created the Lakers' lead when the Grizzlies were almost unguarded in the interior. Kobe, James and others were stunned by Sun Ce's desperate play.

Sun Ce will not be affected by physical strength when playing consecutive away games. This is just like seven or eight years ago, all opponents did not want to meet Kobe. Kobe was able to get 50+ in the last game and continued to get 50+ a day later!

Sun Ce does not have the ability to score 50+ in a row, but he can do more in other aspects!

In the second quarter, Sun Ce and Beverley, Klay Thompson, Prince, and Gasol Jr. came on the court.

Prepared to deal with the Lakers' lineup of James, Meeks, Mike Miller, McGrady, Boozer's pick-and-roll + three catch-and-shooters, the Grizzlies substituted Beverley and Klay Thompson together.

With Boozer, the Lakers must play positional warfare, which is a relatively fixed rotation for the Lakers since the beginning of the season.

When there is a player like James, old Bickerstaff does not need to do so many tricks, stability is the most important.

So although the Grizzlies are short of manpower, they have thought of a way to start with rotation and arrange the lineup against the Lakers.

This lineup has shooters in positional warfare offense, and Sun Ce and Gasol Jr. organize the offense. When the opponent has Boozer, a short but slow inside player, the Grizzlies can play both offense and defense.

However, as the saying goes, when it rains it pours. Beverley fell down in the collision with James when switching defense in the second quarter, and his ankle was severely sprained!

Too active!

Generally speaking, if James uses the threat of pick-and-roll + wing pick-and-roll without the ball to create an attack directly to the basket, even Sun Ce and Klay Thompson will not block him and let him score. There is no need.

But Beverley is too active and too hard-working. He completely ignores the huge size difference between himself and James.

Of course, Beverley's spirit of fighting for his life is the key to his foothold in the NBA, but in this way, the Grizzlies can only replace Paul George in advance. After all, Livingston and Hardaway are not good at defense, and Tony Allen has no offense.

But then, Prince was injured again...

In this wave of five consecutive away games, three Grizzlies were injured in two consecutive games!

The Grizzlies have done a good job in injury protection in the past few years, but everything has its limits. This season, the Grizzlies have also fallen into an injury wave in the defending season of two consecutive championships!

Originally, the Grizzlies had to rely on more outside rotations to ensure offense and defense due to the lack of inside players. Now two outside players have been injured, which is a huge blow to the Grizzlies.

Among them, Prince, a veteran who can play from the second position to the fourth position, was injured. When Gasol was on the court, there was no suitable power forward available!

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