The Grizzlies beat the Suns 122-114, and the Grizzlies played a good game and the Suns also lost a convincing ball. The Grizzlies have beaten the Suns twice this season, the last time the Grizzlies won against the Suns was the waist king's anti-heavenly kill, and this time the Suns lost. The lineup that the Grizzlies have can't be said to be completely third- and third-team, but at least the Grizzlies have removed a few main players. The starting lineup only showed Brooks, Williams, Melton, Sledgehammer, and Dillman, and the remaining four were basically substitutes for most of the time, including the third substitute.
As soon as this lineup is put out, you can know that the Grizzlies are weaker on the bench today, and the Grizzlies still use a nine-man rotation, even if the head coach is sent off halfway, the Grizzlies still have a good execution of tactics, the execution of play, the Suns still lost. Although the Grizzlies are intentionally resting in the rotation, the Suns are really trying to break the record and win the game. Booker scored 41 points in 37 minutes and wanted to win the game and to touch the Grizzlies in this game. But even if you don't break the record, you can also lose to the second or even third lineup on the opposite side, which is not good. But the game also gave the Suns a wake-up call, and the playoffs are coming.
The Suns have been soaring all the way this season, in addition to winning is winning, from the beginning of the season to the end of the season, the Suns have locked the first position in the league, until now there are only two teams with more than 50 wins in the league, the Suns have 62 wins, and the Grizzlies only have 55 wins. It can be said that the Suns have achieved the goal of the season, but it is not right to play with it. I thought that the Suns' remaining goal after winning the league first place should be to break the season winning record in team history, but what is the feeling of the Suns as a team? It is clear that he wants to win the rest of the games and strive for one not to lose, which is the statement of the sun.
The team history record has been set aside, and the Suns want one thing: win wildly until the end of the season! In fact, this is already a problem, to win, then the core players have to play hard, 35 minutes to play, 40 minutes is the norm! But what time is it? It's the playoffs! This reminds people of two examples, one is a Warrior in 16 years, and the other is a Spurs in 14 years! The 16-year-old Warriors actually locked in the league's first record early, but in order to impact the record of 73 wins, the players were almost desperate to fight, and the core players were fighting harder. 73 wins is a fight, but by the time it comes to the playoffs, the Warriors players are tired.
No way, the regular season was too fierce, everyone was thinking about winning, and physical strength greatly limited the Warriors at that time. Another example is the Spurs of 14 years, after gradually locking in the top two positions in the West, the Spurs did not rush to fight, but began to take a break, Popovich began a large-scale rotation, and even once personally ended his 19-game winning streak, not letting the team win all the time, but letting the team lose a game, so that the player's mentality was put down, and the subsequent games were slowly rested. So when you go to the playoffs, you will find that the core main players of the Spurs are very good physically, and in the Finals, the Heat are almost physically won by the Spurs.
The same is true of the sun now, the first record in the league is locked, and then there is no need to fight so hard, Monty Williams may be able to consider taking a break, appropriate to give the core players a holiday, winning the championship is the ultimate goal of the sun this season!