Seven Hundred and Four: Listen, the Footsteps of Death Are Approaching

The crowd cheered for Mike Conley as he pushed the ball forward.

Lillard thought he could continue his 38-point rush in the last game today to kill Conley and consolidate his sequence to the All-Star bench. But to his surprise, he was beaten up by Conley today.

At this point, the game has reached the last 38 seconds of the second quarter, and the Grizzlies have the offensive ball. Although the half game is not over yet, but on the scoreboard, the Grizzlies have reached 59 points.

If this goal is scored again, the Grizzlies will have to score 60 points in the half.

The number next to the Blazers is still at 46. Their score has not changed for several rounds.

The 13-point gap weighed heavily on the Blazers, leaving every Blazers player in a black road jersey breathless.

Including Lillard.

From the very beginning of this game today, the Blazers have been suppressed until now.

At the beginning of the game, Link led an 11-0 offensive climax with his catches.

After Stotts' timeout, the Blazers players calmed down a bit. Subsequently, the calm Aldridge scored 7 points in a row, which stabilized the situation.

People thought this was the beginning of the Blazers blowing the horn of a counterattack, but it was the last struggle.

After that, Link and Conley showed their magic again. In the process of Conley's breakthrough, Link assisted Link to succeed in the alley-oop, and Link's breakthrough point assisted Conley to hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner...

After an operation, the momentum of the Trail Blazers was cut off. By the end of the first quarter, the Blazers had trailed by nine points.

However, in the second quarter, Link directly played "health basketball". The offensive end is to pass the ball, run and run. On the defensive end, Link only needs to make a look of "Are you kidding me?" to stop Batum.

Conley took the initiative to carry the scoring flag, and his all-round skills caused Lillard, who was slightly frizzy, to suffer a lot.

In the second quarter of the game, Lillard's mentality collapsed directly, and Conley was eaten up on both ends of the offense and defense.

As a result, Lillard has already given Conley 9 points when he only scored 4 points in the second quarter.

If this goal is scored again, then Conley will score 10+ points in a single quarter!

In the final attack of the Grizzlies in the second quarter, Link was already sitting on the chair lift, chatting and laughing with his teammates on the bench.

Seeing this shot, those who were eager for the Blazers to cause trouble for the Grizzlies must be very disappointed.

Not only did Link encounter no trouble today, but he seemed to be having a good time.

Can you be unhappy? Eating the opponent to death at the beginning of the game is the most energy-saving way to play.

On the court, Conley became the star of the show. Now, neither the fans nor the coaches of the other 29 teams can turn a blind eye to him.

He controls the tempo from beyond the arc and consumes as much time as possible. When there were only 5 seconds left in the 24-second attack time, Conley commanded the pick-and-roll skillfully.

Ezeli immediately mentioned the high position, and Lillard stood by, ready to bypass cover at any time.

After the screen was in place, Conley began to accelerate towards the side that Azeley was blocking. Lillard immediately walked around Azeri, giving Conley no room.

The quality of Lillard's defense is not bad this time, and Conley was posted immediately. It can be seen that Lillard did not completely lose his fighting spirit even though he was caught by Link in the first quarter and beaten by Conley in the second quarter.

Just when Lillard thought his defense was successful, Conley, who was accelerating, suddenly took a huge step back and retreated to the three-point line!

Lillard couldn't follow the brakes in time due to inertia, and he rushed to the basket for a few more steps before stopping.

Kang used a beautiful step back to fly Lillard three or four steps away!

The fans in the audience exclaimed, and even Hubie Brown stood up happily.

In my impression, Conley is low-key and has a simple style of play. But just then, Conley showed his true charm. He told the world that Huang Fei's opponent was not Owen's patent. Conley can, too, but a lot of the time he doesn't have to.

Amid the exclamations of the fans and Lillard's lost eyes, Conley made a three-pointer. The moment the basketball entered the net, the 24-second attack time just ran out.

Conley's control of the rhythm of the game is extremely precise!

At this point, the time left for the Blazers was only 14 seconds, and there was no more than 1 second. With this goal, Conley scored 12 points in a single quarter and 17 points in the half, turning the score into 62-46.

Link stood up the moment Conley scored, leading the crowd on the bench to dance wildly.

Tony Allen, Jimmy Butler and others were still twisting like that, but Link's movements didn't feel like dancing, but as if he had been electrocuted.

Seeing Link's lame dance, countless Grizzlies fans in the stands covered their foreheads.

They couldn't understand why they had become a fan of such a sand sculpture in the first place.

"Mike Conley's performance can't be faulted. He scored 17 points in the half, and Lillard was shaken. Facts have proved that as long as you give him a chance, he can also put on a good performance. The reason why Conley was tepid before has always been criticized. Neglected because he's always been a playmaker and rarely gets the chance to show himself to the fullest. Mike definitely deserves the All-Star bench if I say it!"

It's not the old Hubby who said this, but Mike Brin, who has always been neutral.

Link now firmly believes that he will not be alone in this year's All-Star trip.

Conley's goal not only gave the Grizzlies a 16-point lead, but also shattered the Blazers' self-confidence.

On the next offense, Lillard's three-point jumper was almost untouchable. The failure of this attack left the Blazers scoreless in the last 1 minute and 38 seconds of the second quarter, and had to swallow a 16-point difference to enter halftime.

Conley smiled and walked off the court, and Link rushed up to give him a bear hug.

I don't know why, but to make an original All-Star bead become a high-profile, Link has a sense of accomplishment. Perhaps this is the joy of changing history.

After halftime, few people still thought the Blazers could beat the Grizzlies.

Link led the Blazers by 16 points in the second quarter without much effort. In the second half of the game, as long as Link exerted a little strength, coupled with today's open-minded Conley, he could destroy the Blazers in minutes.

Stephen A. Smith approached Blazers coach Terry Stotts at halftime and asked him why the game had turned out this way.

Stotts' face was blue and his lips were bloodless. "We thought a lot, but to no avail. Everyone, including myself, thought we were ready to face the defending champion. But in fact, we weren't."

"Do you mean that the Grizzlies are too strong for you to deal with?" Smith won't let Stotts off easily. His questions have always been venomous, and he won't let interviewees easily fool them.

Stotts glanced at Smith, but in the end, nodded slightly, "Well, the Grizzlies are strong, we all got the intensity of this game wrong."

After that, the white coach who once assisted Rick Carlisle in leading the Mavericks to win the championship in 2011 walked away.

When the head coach of a team is played with no confidence, it's hard to imagine how he can mobilize his players.

In the second half of the game, the Blazers really couldn't hold on. In the third quarter, the Blazers first relied on Lopez to score 4 points in a row. But in the next 7 minutes, the Blazers were actually prevented from scoring goals in sports, and only scored 3 points by free throws!

Lillard, Aldridge, Matthews, Batum... Under the Grizzlies' defense, the Blazers' famous players were collectively lost.

The Grizzlies did not stop. During this time, Link and Conley opened their bows left and right, widening the difference to 24 points in one fell swoop.

After that, Link never played again. This is the best ending.

Mike Brin and Stephen A. Smith were shocked. Today ESPN got a national live broadcast configuration for this game. As a result, the game is so spent?

I really don't know whether to say that the Blazers are unsatisfactory or the Grizzlies are too ruthless.

Meanwhile, Kevin Durant, who was watching the game at his home in Oklahoma, turned off the TV angrily. Like everyone else, he expected the Blazers to take out the Grizzlies. However, this game fulfilled what is called the bigger the expectation, the bigger the disappointment.

Durant believes that there must be many people who are as disappointed as he is now. But they were disappointed, and not just because the Blazers lost.

But they all know that after the Blazers, no team can stop the Grizzlies!

When the Grizzlies stood in front of the Thunder again, they were just one step away from regaining their 10-game winning streak!

Durant doesn't mind getting Link three times in a row, but Link's revenge this time will definitely be unprecedented. Link has always kept his word. He said that if he wanted to get up from where he fell, he would do it even if he tried his best!

It's nearly a week before the Grizzlies' next meeting with the Thunder, but Kevin Durant is already starting to get nervous.

The Chinese man with the scythe harvested all the obstacles in his way, and the sound of his footsteps was getting closer and closer to Oklahoma City.