Chapter 105: Losing 35 points at home

Author: Dust and Flowing Years

Chapter 105: Losing 35 points at home

Time has come January 23, 2008.

The Grizzlies' record has reached 12 wins and 31 losses. Judging from the Western Conference playoffs record in previous years, the Grizzlies have basically bid farewell to the playoffs.

After the massacre of the Supersonics, the Grizzlies won and lost.

After losing back to back to back to Bobcats, the conflict between the players became increasingly greater.

Guy didn't like Li Tian, ​​and Li Tian also didn't like Guy either.

Mark kept thinking about what the team should do next.

After defeating the Bulls, the Grizzlies continued to face the Orlando Magic at home.

The Magic chose Super Center O'Neal in the 1990s, but in the East during the Jordan era, all teams were overshadowed and destroyed in the long river of history.

Due to the renewal of the contract, O'Neal went away to Los Angeles and achieved the Purple and Gold Triple Crown Dynasty.

Another team core, McGrady, had never made any breakthrough in the playoffs, and after the team selected high school No. 1 pick Howard in 2004, he traded McGrady to the Mosaics.

After McGrady was traded by the Magic, the Magic mainly focused on cultivating Howard in the next few years.

After several years of training, Howard has not suffered a lot and has gradually grown into the team's new core.

When I came to the locker room, I felt the atmosphere in the locker room was a bit weird and indescribable, but it can be seen that the players did not communicate at all.

Halfway through the season, many teams have begun a new round of operations.

The bottom team began to consider the next season, wanting to start preparing to play badly and strive to get a good draft pick next season.

You can also trade some players who are not in line with the team's future construction, but who can bring some help to the team when they are strong, and then get some future draft picks.

Strong teams can trade to the team championship puzzle.

I also heard some transaction messages, but they had no impact on him. No matter which team he went to, what is the meaning of it, as long as he could play.

The competition begins.

Magic starter: Tekoglu, Lewis, Howard, Evans, Arroyo;

Grizzlies starter: Guy, Gasol, Conley, Miller, Milicic.

Guy returns and returns to the bench again.

I have long been a little dissatisfied with the changes in playing time and position.

Lowry is also dissatisfied with the team's arrangement. Since Conley became the starting player, his playing time has become less and less, and he averaged less than 15 minutes per game. It is precisely because he needs more playing time to improve his playing time.

Next, I have expressed my dissatisfaction with the team's arrangements many times.

"Lorry, what's going on?" Lowry was thinking about something in the game on the court.

"It's nothing, Lee, let's talk about it after the game." Lowry glanced at Mark and stopped talking.

Gasol, who played the first quarter, only got two mobile phone calls, which made Li Tian feel a little incredible.

Howard is in the basket, and there is indeed a great threat. Howard and Gasol are different types of players.

Howard relies on his unique physical fitness, his violent dunks and super bounces are just a rebounding monster, and his disadvantage is that he has no skills; Gasol is a technical player, not the kind of player who flies and escapes the earth, using his footsteps and

Skills to get scoring opportunities.

In order to fight Howard, Mark arranged Gasol and Li Tian to play at the same time in the second quarter.

Gasol fought with Howard at the basket, and his physical strength was exhausted, limiting Gasol's performance.

Gasol, who had consumed too much physical strength and decreased physical strength, made continuous mistakes, his shooting efficiency dropped sharply, and he even made 1 of 5 shots. He only scored 4 points with free throws.

At the end of the second quarter, the score reached 58-48, and the Grizzlies were 10 points behind.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to go back to the locker room, Li Tian came to Gasol.

"Paul, what's wrong? I feel like you're performing a little abnormally." I couldn't help but ask.

"What else can you do? If you keep fighting with that pervert Howard, you will lose your touch." Gasol said angrily.

Howard is 2.11 tall and weighs 120 kilograms; on the other hand, Gasol is 2.13 tall and weighs 113 kilograms. The explosive power of black people is stronger than that of white people, Gasol's strength is not the same level as Howard.

"Haha, no, Paul, you are a power forward, why are you against Howard?" He kept laughing, just intentional, and after playing on the court for so long, he didn't know why.

"Li, damn it, can you not know why?" He said that, and walked back to the locker room quickly.

Mark couldn't help seeing Gasol's performance.

"Paul, you have to be tougher, not so soft, be aggressive in his defense. You must also control your mistakes. You have made two consecutive mistakes."

Listening to Mark's scolding, Gasol's expression changed.

I stared at Mark tightly, without saying a word, and felt that I would explode in the next second.

But Gasol still held back.

Without the restraint of the inside, the Grizzlies' ability to break through the outside is not strong, so Li Tian only got a few outside phones, and the touch was not good. He made 1 of 5 shots and only scored 3 points.

The Magic opened the score by more than 20 points at the beginning of the second half.

The difference in scores is getting bigger and bigger.

In the fourth quarter, the team was completely useless, and the Grizzlies were beaten 26-13.

At the end of the game, the Grizzlies lost 35 points and lost the game 120-85.

After losing the game, I returned to the locker room and saw that all the players had no communication after the game. The main reason was that the eyes of the other party had also changed.

The first idea is that the team may have to trade.

Li Tian, ​​who rarely watches news, doesn’t pay much attention to this issue. He only trains every day and stays in the training hall all day long.

I feel every day that my abilities have improved, but I feel that my skills have improved recently.

"Lowry, what happened before the game? I saw that no one said anything, especially Paul, his condition is not right at all today." Li Tian felt that Lowry must have known some inside story.

"Don't you know? Have you not paid attention to the recent trading rumors?" Lowry felt that this was a monster. In the league, he didn't even pay attention to trading.

"Trade, what kind of transaction?" He didn't know about transactions, and he didn't even read the news.

"Mark is here, let's talk later, and I'll talk when I go back." Lowry stopped talking.

Mark walked into the locker room.

"Some players did not perform well today, and some players didn't even listen to my tactical arrangements. At the beginning of the game, I arranged for you to attack from the outside," Mark said for 5 minutes.

Lowry snorted gently and said, "Hmph!"

"Conley, Guy, you want to increase your attack power. You have to use your breakthroughs to score for the team and help your teammates create offensive opportunities." Mark continued, as if he was not tired, "Paul, you want to grab it."

Rebound, you must keep the rebound.”

Listening to Mark's words, he simply treated Gasol as a lively blue-collar worker.

This is to treat Conley and Guy as the core, and Gasol is running away from the Grizzlies in a change of direction.

After hearing Mark's words, Gasol couldn't sit still.
Chapter completed!