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Chang Tiancheng stayed in Yin Tianyi's house for one night.

After a night without words, Chang Tiancheng just got up early the next morning, and found that Yin Tianyi seemed to be still asleep in the room, thinking that he still had a game to play tonight, so Chang Tiancheng quickly got up from the sofa and sent a text message to Yin Tianyi with his mobile phone, informing him that he had returned to San Antonio first. Then he gently pushed open the door and left Yin Tianyi's home.

When I returned to San Antonio, it was almost noon, so Chang Tiancheng had a simple bite to eat, and after resting for a while, he drove to the team's training hall again. He's going to spend the rest of the day in the gym.

As time went by, Chang Tiancheng's teammates also came to the training hall one after another to start a simple warm-up, and then they practiced some tactics according to Popovich's instructions to prepare for tonight's game.

The Spurs will face the Grizzlies, who finished second in the West last season, tonight. Although their star player Morant has not yet been released from the offseason suspension due to gun-owning, the Grizzlies have been able to maintain a high winning percentage this season and are second in the league behind the Spurs.

It can be said that today's game is a well-deserved matchup, and it is a game that fans have been looking forward to for a long time.

One of the reasons why the Grizzlies have been able to play such a surprising performance this season is because of their strong defensive performance.

In the offseason, the Grizzlies participated in a three-way trade with the Celtics and Wizards, bringing Smart Smart, one of the Greenshirts' team souls, a former Defensive Player of the Year and possibly the best outside defender in the league, to Memphis.

The deal takes the Grizzlies, who already had last season's DPOY Jaren Jackson Jr., to the next level of defense, leading the team in defensive efficiency by a wide margin.

Even the Spurs, who have a BUG-level defensive barrier like Wembanyama on the inside, are not as efficient as the Grizzlies.

On the other hand, there is the addition of Derrick Rose in the offseason.

As we all know, Rose had a fantastic freshman season at the University of Memphis that year, which led to his selection in the NBA as the top pick and was drafted by his hometown team, the Chicago Bulls.

Rose has also said on more than one occasion that Memphis is his second home and wants to bring a championship trophy to Memphis.

But when Memphis actually signed Rose, Rose was no longer the high-spirited man he was at Memphis. Now he is 34 years old, has experienced several major injuries, and at one point had the idea of wanting to retire, and finally got back on his feet.

No one believes that one such Ross will lead Memphis to where they are, and they think that this signing is just a kind of return to Rose's roots, like wanting to fight for another year in the place where their dream began before retiring, and more like a way to make up for regrets.

But it was this Ross who broke out in the city of Memphis with amazing combat effectiveness. Not only did he take on the task of leading the locker room, but he also played his best season since the MVP season.

Rose is averaging 17 points per game this season, which doesn't look as good as his MVP season, but it's very efficient, and it's pretty good to still score points despite the fact that the number of shots per game is far inferior to his MVP season.

What's more, this is already the twilight of Rose after a major injury, and his average of 17 points per game can be said to be very outstanding.

At the same time, Rose also took on the responsibility of organizing the team's offense. He is averaging 8.7 assists per game this season. It doesn't seem like much, but that doesn't show how much he can help the team.

Now he is more and more like the elderly Kidd on the passing end, and to a large extent he no longer relies on his speed to break through the ball, but more steadily delivers the ball to the right people.

This style of play is essentially not dependent on the ball in his own hands, and even if Rose doesn't have the ball in his hands, he can rely on his big picture to command his teammates, which also makes this season the Grizzlies a team that everyone is fighting for.

While the Grizzlies were founded on team basketball a few seasons ago and didn't rely too much on a single star's individual play, Rose managed to amplify that.

The reason why the Grizzlies have been able to maintain the second-best record in the league this season is that Rose has brought these things can be said to be very important.

Rose's appearance even made the audience gradually forget about Morant, who was once the most expressive of the Grizzlies, and began to appreciate the former son of Memphis again.

This Grizzlies team was also the Spurs' biggest imaginary enemy before Giannis reported to Dallas. Not only the fans, but also the Spurs players themselves are looking forward to this game. They want to test their level of quality by using the best teams in the league other than them.

And the Grizzlies don't have much difference in winning with the Spurs at this time, so they also want to take this opportunity to beat the Spurs and give themselves a chance to compete with the Spurs for the first place in the league in future games.

The game was played at the home of the Spurs, and to the cheers of the crowd, the starters from both sides took on the field in turn.

The Grizzlies' starters are: Rose, Smart, Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Adams.

And for the Spurs, the biggest good news of this game is that Drummond, who was previously suspended for multiple games for fighting each other on the court, can finally return today.

As a result, the Spurs continued the lineup they used to win all the way at the beginning of the season: Chang Tiancheng, Keldon, Sochan, Wembanyama and Drummond.

For Drummond's comeback, there is no one happier than Wembanyama. Although Collins, who replaced Drummond temporarily, actually has the quality to be the starting center of a team, Collins is certainly not as good as Drummond when it comes to helping Wembanyama share the pressure on the court.

What's more, Collins has been running in with the Spurs' second team for a long time, and his being called to the starting lineup actually hurt the strength of the Spurs' second team to a certain extent. Now that he can return to the second team, the Spurs' entire starting lineup and bench form a virtuous cycle of great threat.

The game soon kicked off with the cheers of the crowd.