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Chapter 516 Another Battle of Focus
Chapter 516 Another Battle of Focus
On November 11, the Grizzlies played against the Cleveland Cavaliers, one of the league's biggest players.
Since the Cavaliers lost James, they have instantly changed from the favorites to win the league. This has to be said to be the strength of James and the sorrow of the small ball market.In this kind of small ball market, who would like to go to a free agent with a little wrist?This is not Texas, where there are tax incentives, this is the gradually declining central industrial city group.And Cleveland is still far from Detroit, which is also located in the middle, and it is even more different from New York on the east coast and Los Angeles on the west coast.
The Cavaliers were lucky. They won the No. 2011 pick in [-] and chose the talented point guard Kyrie Irving from Duke University.
It's just that Irving will continue to be absent in this game, so the team's leaders have become this year's No. 4 pick Dion Waiters and last year's No. 4 pick Tristan Thompson.
The backup point guard Jeremy Pargo, who performed poorly in the Grizzlies last year, served as the Cavaliers' starting point guard in this game. You can imagine how poor this team is.
There was no suspense in the game. The Grizzlies led the game and finally easily defeated their opponents, ushering in two consecutive victories.
After two consecutive victories, the Grizzlies continued to lead the Western Conference with a record of 10 wins and 2 losses.
Who would have thought that the Grizzlies, which had undergone major personnel changes during the offseason, would be the leading team in the Western Conference, not the Lakers who formed F4, nor the Thunder, the runner-up last season, and the Spurs, who ranked first in the regular season.
In the latest regular season MVP rankings, Heat star LeBron James ranked first, while Xie Kai, who led the Grizzlies to lead the Western Conference, ranked second!
This is the first time Xie Kai entered the top 3 of the regular season MVP rankings. It was not because of his poor statistics, but because the team's record has not been particularly high, which restricted his competitiveness for the regular season MVP.
Barkley naturally didn't make much noise during this period. Obviously, although Xie Kai is currently in second place, it doesn't mean that he will definitely not have a chance to win the MVP at the end of the season.
Of course, the Grizzlies' No. [-] ranking in the Western Conference is not really that stable. The season has just begun, and many teams are still in the process of running in. Generally speaking, it is after the All-Star Game that each team will see the truth. when.
On November 11, the Grizzlies will host the Toronto Raptors.
The Grizzlies are currently ranked first in the Western Conference, while the Raptors are ranked second to last in the Eastern Conference with a record of 3 wins and 12 losses. The current situation of the two teams is simply that one is the sky and the other is the earth.But it was such a game that did attract a lot of attention before the game.
The reason for the attention is not any grievances between the two teams, but the focus on a few people.
The few people in focus are all related to the Grizzlies, namely the current Grizzlies Xie Kai and the Black Bears and the current Raptors' Rudy Gay.
The battle between Gay, Black Bear and Xie Kai dates back to the second round of the playoffs last season.That round, because of infighting, was one of the reasons the Grizzlies were swept.
The fierce battle continued until the offseason. At the earliest, the Grizzlies could only keep the big and let go of the small, and traded Gay.
Just when everyone was planning to watch them play, the Grizzlies that introduced the old prince actually played the best start to the season in team history, which surprised those sunspots.
The record of the Raptors who introduced Gay is worse than last season, and they are currently only half a game away from the last place in the Eastern Conference.
Before the game, Gay said in an interview with reporters: "The regular season has just started, and the current record does not mean nothing. I will let the Memphis Grizzlies know that trading me was a mistake!"
Xie Kai didn't say anything about the clamor before the game, but the black bear couldn't help it. He wrote on his Twitter: "Welcome to Memphis, get ready to get kicked, hahaha..."
All of a sudden, gunpowder was everywhere, and the topic and the smell of gunpowder were already very strong before the game started.
Originally, this was just an ordinary regular season, but it turned into a focus battle. The attention was not even lower than that of the Grizzlies vs. Lakers before. It was really dumbfounding.
The Raptors and the Grizzlies are quite similar. Both teams were part of the NBA's overseas expansion plan at the time. They were both Canadian teams at the time, one in Toronto and the other in Vancouver.Both teams were established in 1995, and neither has won a championship so far.
But from the current point of view, the Grizzlies are obviously much better than the Raptors.From the Carter era to the later Bosh era, the Raptors are now entering into reconstruction. So far, they have not found the cornerstone of the team that can lead the team's revival.
But the Grizzlies are different. Their team building is very clear, which is to use the black and white bears on the inside + Xie Kai on the outside as the core, and cooperate with other players.The current record of the two teams also reflects the gap in strength.
Once the tickets for this game went on sale, they were sold out immediately.As Gay's first game back at FedEx Arena, Grizzlies fans wanted to see how the game would go.
Can Gay make the home team regret it? Can he lead the team to defeat his old club in the stadium he is familiar with?
It is difficult to reveal the suspense until the moment the game ends.Although the strength on paper is dominated by the home team, this is competitive sports, and anything can happen.
On the evening of the 29st, FedEx Arena.
The sky above the arena is still empty, and fans are looking forward to what the team can add here at some point in the future.In fact, this team was only 3 victories away from the Western Conference championship at the time, but if they didn't get it, they didn't get it.
During the practice period before the game, Gay almost broke up with the Grizzlies players, so he didn't come over to say hello to his old teammates.
Ed Davis, who has already been traded to the Grizzlies, talked and laughed with his old teammates in the past. Although he has not yet gotten a rotation opportunity in the new team, he has been training diligently and looking for opportunities to appear in regular time. .
In this game, the starting lineup of the Grizzlies at home is still the same as before, which is still the double bears + Xie Kai + Conley + the old prince.
The starting lineup of the Raptors in the away game is: center-Jonas Valanciunas, power forward-Andrea Bargnani, small forward-Rudy Gay, shooting guard- — DeMar DeRozan, point guard — Kyle Lowry.
The Raptors also have twin towers inside. The two European big men are both over 211cm tall. Compared with the black and white bears, they even have an advantage in height.
Lowry was selected by the Grizzlies with the 2006th pick in the first round in 24. He played for this team for more than 2 seasons and was then traded to the Rockets.After the Rockets played out, he was traded to the Raptors.
(End of this chapter)