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On January 11, the Spurs continued to face the Grizzlies at home.

Joey faced the toughest"battle" since he started.

The style of the whole game was extremely depressing. The Grizzlies used their"catastrophic" extreme positional defense to drag the Spurs into the quagmire.

This duel between the first and third defensive efficiency in the league was not as"Mars hit the Earth" as imagined. There were only ugly and difficult transition goals one after another...

Joey played for 40 minutes, setting a record for the longest single-game appearance in his career.

In the duel with Tony Allen and Rudy Gay, the most balanced offensive and defensive combination in the league (don't ask why it is balanced, Tony"completely" does not attack, and Gay"completely" does not defend) forward combination.

The young and strong Joey still had the last laugh.

While limiting the overall hit rate of the Grizzlies' entire outside players to less than 40%, he used 11 shots to exchange for 7 goals, including 5 of 6 three-pointers, setting a personal career single-game three-pointer record.

Scored 20 points, 10 assists, 4 steals and 1 block, helping the team to a difficult 98:101���Victory.

In this game, the Spurs, apart from Joey, are the most solid"background board" in the Holy City. Duncan contributed 17 points, 13 rebounds and 6 blocks, and built the"Great Wall" of the Spurs with his own strength, inviting all the Grizzlies to eat hot pot.

Unfortunately, the black and white bears are the last"peak" of this Grizzlies.

Randolph continued his style of restraining the stone Buddha in this game, turning the Spurs' paint area upside down, and all kinds of back-to-the-basket attacks were at hand. He once led the Grizzlies to establish a 10-point lead in the ATT Arena, and also shook Duncan into the"Top Ten Plays" of the day.

The black bear scored 26 points and 9 rebounds, and the white bear was not to be outdone. Xiao Jiasao made 7 of 9 shots in the game, and rarely"missed" free throws, 4 of 8, contributing 18 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks, a near triple-double.

Gay, as the team's most stable outside firepower point, scored 21 points.

These three people alone accounted for most of the Grizzlies' points, not to mention Conley, Tony and others.

Leonard's performance was not satisfactory -

Kawhi and Tony formed the"Crouching Dragon and Phoenix" duo of this game, one scored 6 points with 1 of 9 shots; the other didn't score at all, and he got two free throws in three shots, but he didn't make them!

Hey, it's outrageous!

At the end of this game, the Spurs ushered in a wave of five consecutive victories, defeating Eastern Conference powerhouses Celtics, Knicks, and 76ers, and ushered in two consecutive home wins.

With a regular season record of 32 wins and 9 losses, it is half a win ahead of the Clippers with 31 wins and 9 losses, and is currently ranked second in the West.

Looking at the current record table of the top eight teams in the West, the old man has already begun to make his own calculations.

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On January 13, all the Spurs players flew to the cold Minnesota.

Speaking of this team, it is not known whether it is deeply affected by the"curse" of the playoffs or what, but the previous star players here have always been criticized for their poor record. The once explosive"white dunker" Tom Gugliotta, the wolf king Garnett, the Mavericks Marbury, the"inside offensive kaleidoscope" Jefferson, the"double-double monster" Kevin Love... and later the little wolf king - Soft Candy, who only gets tough when he meets his enemy, Towns.

Almost all of them have excellent personal data, but the team's record is not good, and they are angrily criticized by fans as"data brushes.""、""Not up to expectations".

Among them, Kevin Love is undoubtedly the best. He has scored

"30+20" 5 times in his career so far, averaging 20+10 per game all year round, the league's record holder for consecutive double-doubles after Elvin Hayes (53 times, Hayes 55 times), rebounding champion, the season's most improved player...

In this era when Westbrook has not yet fully evolved into a"sewer turtle", the four words Kevin Love represent the epitome of"data brushes".

Unfortunately, this guy has not even started this season, but because of the bizarre reason of"doing push-ups", his palm was fractured.

Uh... how to say it... it's like Wall is out for the season due to taking a shower, and Buck's hand is burned due to milk burns. Cornea, Kevin Johnson's shoulder was dislocated by his teammate (Barkley) after his buzzer-beater, MJ almost cut off his index finger while cutting a cigar... the same level of"injury reasons".

And now this Timberwolves team, except for the"new wolf king" Love, no one can cause trouble to the Spurs who are in the limelight.

So, facing the Timberwolves' outside line composed of Luke Ridnour, a mountain in Puerto Rico (Barea), and the"European Golden Boy" Rubio, Joey changed his conservative traditional point guard style of play and kept attacking the basket to increase his lethality.

He relied on his abnormal body to"fight" throughout the game, got 15 free throws in the weak inside of the Timberwolves, and caused one of his draft templates.

"AK—47", Kirilenko, who has already started to decline, left the court with six fouls.

Joey contributed 34 points, 6 assists, 7 rebounds and 1 steal. Following the game against the Knicks a week ago, he scored 30+ for the second time in his career. It is worth mentioning that Brandroy, the former NBA All-Star and the first leader of the Trail Blazers in the new century, who announced his comeback last year and signed a 2-year 10.4 million contract with the Timberwolves, also appeared in this game.

While Rubio, Budinger and others were"tortured" by Joey, he led the Timberwolves bench to chase 7 points in the third quarter and almost stopped the score.

Unfortunately, Joey made the current Timberwolves feel extremely difficult. As soon as Duncan, Manu and Leonard, who were resting off the court, came on the court, the Spurs played an absolute offensive and defensive battle of 18:4 at the end of the third quarter, and directly clocked out in three quarters to take the victory away.

It has to be admitted that even if Roy, who was tortured by injuries and only had the third level of peak skills left, was still a qualified rotation player at the NBA level. If the two menisci in his knees had not been removed, he would have completely become a"glass man""……

It can only be said that God is jealous of talents!

The yellow Mamba, who once staged a"counter-kill" in the playoffs, could not resist the erosion of the injury wave

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On January 16, the Spurs will face the Grizzlies away from home

��This is the third game of the season between the two teams that can be called"old rivals". The Spurs won the first two games miserably.

This game is a little different. With the preparation of the first two victories, Popovich already has a way to deal with the Grizzlies.

He deployed his troops and sent out the defensive team of Joey + Duncan + Leonard + Dio + Green to play the trick of"using magic to defeat magic" with the Grizzlies.

Don't you Grizzlies want to play the ultimate positional defense?

Well, my Spurs have so many defensive forwards just to compete with you to see who can"suppress" the offense more!

I also have the young version of Joey + Leonard + Green."GDP"Playing a high-efficiency defensive counterattack, you, Mr. Tony, simply can't keep up with the impact of the three horses. Even if we are evenly matched in defensive tactics, but I have one more efficient scoring method than you, you can't beat me...

I played the obvious card of"young people are full of vitality, small and fast."

In the end, the Spurs won the game from Memphis with a score of 101:95.

Since then, the"Grizzlies problem" that has troubled the Spurs for many years has been completely solved, completing the season's triple kill achievement

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Joey continued his offensive firepower from the previous games in this game, scoring 24 points with 8 of 16 shots, and was the most stable firepower point for the Spurs during the stalemate in the positional warfare.

The old Stone Buddha also tried his best to fight the black and white bears, contributing a double-double of 16+13 in this game, which was not inferior to Randolph's 20 points and 7 rebounds.

Manu was like a nobody in the Grizzlies' defense line that was like a quagmire and quicksand, and scored a season-high 31 points.

After the game, Joey received a call from Bill Duffy in the locker room, and he was stunned by the news:

""Joey, get ready. The league will announce the Eastern and Western Conference Player of the Week awards for Week 10 later!"

Duffy said calmly, as if this matter was just a small matter to him.

Joey only had one thought in his mind:

Can he get such a valuable honor so soon?