basketball god

Chapter 88 Winning the Nuggets
After the announcement of the All-Star lineup, the league announced again, the skill competition, the three-point contest, the slam dunk contest, and the list of rookie challenges.

The All-Star game is on February 2, and there are still about 17 days before the official start.

In these three days, the Grizzlies have only one game against the Denver Nuggets, currently ranked fourth in the Western Conference.

Coincidentally, the venue for the All-Star Game this season happens to be in Denver.

The next day, all the Grizzlies boarded a Denver flight, and the game was played at Best Center Arena at [-] o'clock in the evening.

In this game, the Nuggets' starting shooting guard, Ruben Patterson took turns, and the starting lineup changed.

Point guard: Andre Miller, shooting guard: Carmelo Anthony, small forward: DeMar Wilson, power forward: Kenyon Martin, center: Marcus Camby.

The Nuggets lineup, except for Miller who is 1 meters, everyone else is over 88 meters tall, which can be said to be a very athletic lineup.

But this lineup also has an Achilles' heel, which is space. They don't have outside shooters who can stretch out. Even Anthony, who is the most accurate from the three-point line, only has a 24.3% shooting percentage.

So before the start of the game, Nelson decided on the defensive tactics of the game based on the opponent's lineup, two-three defense.

After playing, the Grizzlies' defensive measures were really good. At the end of the first quarter, the Nuggets were only defended by 16 points.

But the problem is that the Grizzlies don't score. No wonder everyone says that Denver's home game is not easy to play. The Nuggets' home stadium, the Pepsi Center, is 1606 meters above sea level, which makes the Grizzlies' state collectively decline.

Fortunately, the Grizzlies still maintain a three-point lead. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Grizzlies' own offensive tactics revolved around the outside three-pointer.

But looking at the posture of the Grizzlies, they wanted to smash the basket. Then the Grizzlies tried to attack inside, but the opponent's double-teaming was too fast and the defense was too fast.

This made Gasol very uncomfortable, so the Grizzlies' offensive possession was virtually concentrated in Yang Zhan's hands.

Maybe the Grizzlies didn't notice that Yang Zhan has become the most dependent person on the team besides Gasol.

Although Yang Zhan's condition is also not good, he has a very obvious height advantage when facing Miller.

Taking advantage of this, the Grizzlies used Yang Zhan as the core of their offense. At the end of the second quarter, they actually led the Nuggets by 5 points.

This time you can imagine how bad the Nuggets' offense is!

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Nuggets took the lead. Anthony, who had not played much, took the lead in receiving the ball.

From the free throw line in the left corner, he put on a three-threat posture, took two tentative steps, and faced Eddie Jones.

This ball looks very positive, can it be scored, can Anthony stand up?This, boom!strike iron.

Although he didn't enter, there was no commotion among the fans at the scene, because this happened more than once today.

Hope again and again, in exchange for bang!Boom!Boom!

Anthony's performance in this game was seriously abnormal. I don't know if it's because he's not in good shape, or because he's not used to playing shooting guard for the first time.

The game time passed a little bit, and the fourth quarter was almost over, and the "melon" that the fans were looking forward to never came back.

At the end of the game, the Grizzlies defeated the Nuggets 87-79.

The best of the game went to Yang Zhan, who played 33 minutes and scored 17 points, 1 rebound, 9 assists, 4 steals, 1 block, and 2 turnovers. As for the shooting percentage, let’s not talk about it.

Carmelo Anthony played only 28 minutes in this game due to poor hand feeling, and scored 36.3 points, 12 rebounds, 8 steals and 2 turnovers with a shooting rate of 5%.

Of course, Anthony also has bright spots in this field. Among the 8 rebounds, there are 6 offensive rebounds.

After the reporter's interview, the Grizzlies threw Yang Zhan and Gasol here, and all boarded the flight back to Memphis.

Among them, Yang Zhan didn't even hear a word of blessing, and walked in an unusually chic way, as if grandma's h didn't want them two for a long time.

For such a situation, Yang Zhan can only think that it is all Gasol's fault!
(End of this chapter)