One Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-Four: 10 Consecutive Wins for the First Time in the Season

Kendrick Nunn sat on the bench, his eyes blank.

This 24-year-old guard, who is known as the strongest undrafted guard after Link, has quite dismal statistics today.

Now that the game has entered the fourth quarter, Nunn made only 3 of 13 shots and scored only 10 points.

At first glance, 10 points for an undrafted player is pretty good.

But only scoring 10 points on 13 shots is not the same thing.

As the saying goes, if my grandma had 13 shots, she would have scored 10 points.

This may be the game in which Nunn has looked most like an undrafted player in his career so far.

Almost from the first quarter, he completely lost his rhythm.

And all of this is because of Grizzlies No. 0.

Link's strong performance and sharp trash talk caused Nunn to completely lose his confidence, so much so that he became very hesitant on the court.

Hesitation, this is quite fatal on the basketball court.

In the NBA where opportunities are measured in seconds, every hesitation is equivalent to a wasted opportunity.

Nunn wasted a lot of opportunities on the court today. When he should pass the ball, he hesitated. When he wanted to pass, the passing route was blocked.

When he had the opportunity to shoot, he didn't shoot. After he hesitated, he shot against the defense.

Nunn did not behave like a player who has worked hard in college for four years today. Generally speaking, older rookies are definitely quite calm on the court even if they are not very strong or talented.

But Nunn was like a headless fly on the court today, making completely negative contributions.

That's why he's sitting on the bench now. Since Nunn's performance today was so disastrous, Spoelstra replaced Nunn early with the experienced Dragic.

Nunn didn't feel upset when he was substituted, but was very happy.

His first thought after being replaced by Dragic was: "I'm finally saved."

But now,

Nunn was extremely distressed.

At this time, on the basketball court, Link passed Butler from outside the three-point line, broke into the basket and forced a layup against Adebayor's block.

In the air, Adebayor raised his arms high. Link also leaned back because of the confrontation with Adebayor.

But Link was stunned when he tilted his body and threw the basketball steadily towards the backboard, and then refracted it into the net.

The referee blew the whistle and the score was valid, another 2+1!

This extremely difficult forced layup doubled the noise in FedEx Arena.

At the other end of the court, the players on the Grizzlies bench were also excited. Howard even rushed onto the court and waved a towel so wildly that he was almost given a technical foul by the referee.

But Kendrick Nunn was sitting calmly in his seat at this time, which was incompatible with the atmosphere of the scene.

The reason why Nunn was so calm was not because he looked down upon the goal just now, but because he had been shocked by Link several times today.

Link has performed such tricks in front of Nunn countless times today. Every time Link scores a goal, Nunn will sigh in his heart, "How could this guy do it?"

As a result, now that he has been completely shut down, Nunn is no longer surprised.

Even if Link scores an incredible goal, he won't be surprised. Because he knew that Link was such an incredible player.

Seeing how excited the fans in the stands were, Nunn wanted to stand up and shout at them: "Sit down, it's just normal operation."

Beside Nunn, his coach Spoelstra also lowered his head.

After the goal just now, Link had already scored his 37th point of the game. The point difference between the two teams was once again stretched to 26 points.

Today, the Heat were widened to 20 points by the Grizzlies in the first quarter. As a result, the subsequent development was as Spoelstra expected. The Heat broke their legs and failed to catch up with the Grizzlies.

Until now, the score difference has not been close.

After the first quarter, the Heat's closest point difference was only 12 points behind.

During that time, Link took a break, and the Grizzlies' super sixth man Rose led the team to fight with the Heat.

As a result, as soon as Link came back, he expanded the point difference to more than 20 points by dividing three by five and dividing by two.

Spoelstra smiled helplessly. A few years ago, he was unable to play against the Grizzlies with the Heat's Big Three.

Nowadays, it seems that they really don't have the strength to win against the Grizzlies.

Link made a free throw and scored his 38th point of the game. Spoelstra called a timeout and stood up.

Jimmy Butler was sweating profusely and walked to the sideline. Spoelstra opened his arms and planned to hug his star.

During the hug, the Filipino coach put his mouth to Butler's ear and said softly: "Rest, Jimmy, you are exhausted today."

After hearing this, Butler froze on the spot and lowered his arms.

He knew that Spoelstra was planning to let the game enter garbage time.

Although the Heat have lost 7 games this season, none of these 7 games has been a major defeat.

In every game, the resolute Heat picked up the bayonet and fought bloody battles with his opponents until the last minute.

Just like the Heat's loss to the Lakers a few days ago, although James and Davis scored 61 points together, and both shot over 50%.

But the Heat didn't lose until the last second of the three-pointer.

Until now this season, Butler doesn't know what garbage time is.

But today, the Heat were completely defeated.

Facts have proved that in the face of the absolute gap in strength. A stubborn heart is of no use at all.

"I know." Butler replied softly, then sat back on the bench and covered his head with a towel.

In this game, Butler scored 20 points, plus 5 rebounds and 7 assists.

To be honest, his performance wasn't too bad.

However, Butler's performance is indeed not on the same level as Link's.

His performance was not enough to lead the Heat to reverse the situation.

When he was with Link in the past, Butler always felt that no matter how big the gap was, as long as he was determined enough and the game was not over, there would definitely be hope.

But now he understands that it is because Link silently shouldered everything, and it is because Link has the ability to lead the team to reverse the game.

The same thing happened to him and there was nothing he could do about it.

Butler and Nunn just sat on the bench without saying a word.

They may be very similar to Link and Butler back then, but they are just similar.

A combination that can lead a team to establish a three-consecutive championship dynasty is not so easy to copy.

After the game restarted, the Grizzlies also replaced all the main players in a tacit understanding. Although Link scores one more goal, his personal score will exceed the 40 mark.

But Link has never been very interested in things like scoring points.

Whether he scored those two points or not, he was the biggest winner today.

124 to 105, the Heat relied on "catching up" in garbage time and finally narrowed the point difference to less than 20 points.

But that still doesn't change the fact that this game was the Heat's worst loss of the season.

The "replica grizzly bear" that was given high hopes was powerless to fight back against the original version.

After the game, Link raised his arms very proudly.

He rarely celebrates so excitedly after an ordinary regular season victory, which only shows that the victory in this game means something special to Link.

The first ten-game winning streak this season is indeed of great significance.

From last summer to now, the Grizzlies have experienced the dissolution of the dynasty lineup, the contempt from the outside world, and the storm of Link's retirement.

Almost no one believes that the Grizzlies are capable of winning four consecutive championships. No one thinks Link can surpass Jordan with his performance this season.

So from the beginning of the season, Link held his breath. He wants to prove that the Memphis Grizzlies are still as strong as before! He wants to prove that this team will never decline as long as he is around.

Finally, he did it.

Despite everyone's doubts and insults, we have faced extremely competitive teams this season.

The Grizzlies finally got their first ten-game winning streak this season!

This is the end of a phase, and of course, the beginning of the Grizzlies' road to dominance!

At this time, Jimmy Butler, who had been extremely indifferent to Link before the game, took the initiative to walk towards Link.

The game was over, and so was their hostility. Now, Butler is willing to have a heart-to-heart talk with Link.

"Congratulations Link, although I'm actually very reluctant." Butler shook his head. He was still in the opening match, but he didn't know he was beaten so badly.

"Keep working hard. I believe you and the Heat will go further. You have a group of outstanding teammates, Jimmy." Link patted Butler on the shoulder, even though Butler was already 30.

But in Link's heart, he will always be the little brother who needs encouragement.

"What's the use of going further? I can't beat you...Okay, let's not talk about it anymore. Don't take it lightly. There are many strong teams this season."

"Hahaha, you should worry about yourself, Jimmy."

After the two of them finished speaking, they both let go of each other's hands and prepared to turn around and leave.

At this moment, Link suddenly stopped on the spot and called Butler again.

"Jimmy."

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just want you to tell that guy Nunn not to make me angry again next time you come to FedEx Arena. Otherwise, I will make him a good boy again."

"Pfft!" Butler covered his head speechlessly. As soon as Link opened his mouth, he knew it was the old boss.

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