One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-Nine: Leave some Memories for Them Too

This time, it's not just Draymond Green who wants to win the Grizzlies.

After the Warriors' unexpected three-game losing streak in early March, they were completely left behind by the Grizzlies.

Now, everyone knows that "regaining the first place in the Western Conference" has become a blank check, and it is no longer possible for the Warriors to cash it.

The Grizzlies' winning streak in March has indeed demonstrated their dominance to the fullest.

Whether against a weak team or a strong team, the Grizzlies are guaranteed to win.

With very little left in the regular season, it is almost impossible to overcome such a huge win gap.

The battle for first place in the Western Conference is actually dead in name only. The Warriors had already lost this competition when they lost three games in a row.

Are they willing? of course not!

As the defending champion, the Warriors are one step behind the Grizzlies this season in terms of popularity and record. If this kind of thing happens to any defending champion team, they will not be happy.

Although he has become the king of the world, he has not received the treatment that a king of the world deserves.

This sense of gap is not acceptable to everyone.

It's just that Durant, Green and others are louder and quarrel with Link more, so on the surface it seems that they have always been against Link.

But in fact, Curry, Thompson, Kerr and everyone else on the Warriors are extremely eager to defeat the Grizzlies.

Now, with no hope of ranking first in the Western Conference, the last meeting between the two sides during the regular season is the Warriors' only chance to save face.

They will block the honor, pride and dignity of the defending champion and fight the Grizzlies to the end!

Playoffs? The playoffs are about the playoffs.

In the regular season, the Warriors don’t want to lose either!

Therefore, at this time, other Warriors players except Green and Durant are also gearing up.

March 26th, they will never let this day become a sad day for the Warriors!

Once again, the match between the two teams was wildly publicized by the league and major television stations.

Although Durant is missing, this has not reduced the fans' enthusiasm for this game at all.

Two days before the game started, fans from both sides faced off in the square outside Oracle Arena.

For this reason, the local Oakland police had to deploy three times more police officers around the arena to prevent conflicts between fans from both sides.

ESPN's ads also repeat the trailer of the Grizzlies vs. Warriors in a brainwashing way.

For everyone, this is the last focus battle of the regular season this season.

It can also be said that this is a preview of the playoffs.

Because the confrontation between the Grizzlies and the Warriors is definitely playoff level!

The day before the game, Durant, wearing a suit and tie, appeared on a talk show on a local TV station in Oakland.

Although he sprained his ankle, Durant never disappeared from everyone's sight.

This time the program invited him to appear on the talk show, undoubtedly to seize the popularity of this game and promote it.

Therefore, on the talk show, the host and Durant discussed very sharp topics.

"Tell the truth, Kevin, what do you think the Grizzlies' winning percentage is without you?"

"I can't calculate the exact probability, but I know the Grizzlies' chances are very small. I trust my teammates, and I can't wait to see them beat the Grizzlies." Durant was talking and laughing in front of the camera, but in fact he was panicking. Get a batch.

Without him, who should the Warriors pit against Link? This is a problem.

Green? If Green defends Link, then who will care about the Grizzlies' European twin towers?

Matt Barnes? Come on, Barnes is a villain to others, but to Link he's a docile sheep.

When did that guy face Link and wasn't beaten to death? Durant even felt that Barnes was about to become "linophobic".

Ian Clark? If Clark could handle Link, the Grizzlies wouldn't have won 13 consecutive games recently.

Durant is sure to win every time in the show, but in fact, the Warriors have not found a way to contain Link until now!

Cole couldn't sleep that night. His eyes were bloodshot, but he still stared at Link's game video.

He had been working on a strategy to defend Link, but then he gave up.

Without a defensive expert like Leonard, talking about defending Link is nonsense.

The only guy in the Warriors who could play against Link was absent due to injury.

In tomorrow's game, with the current lineup... we can only compete with the Grizzlies.

They have no way to defend Link, the only way is to score more points than Link.

But in the head-to-head matchup, Cole was a little worried...

Because he didn't know whether it was the Warriors players or Link who were going crazy on the offensive end after the shackles were completely released.

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On the night of March 26, the entire Grizzlies team walked into the visiting team's locker room at Oracle Arena.

Link stood in front of a locker in the middle of the locker room, staring at the door of the locker and standing there blankly.

"What? Are you meditating?" Wade, who was changing clothes, asked jokingly without understanding what Link was doing.

"No, I'm thinking about what happened here last summer." Link said, touching the locker door.

Last summer, Link led the Grizzlies, who were full of injured soldiers, to overcome the Trail Blazers and Spurs and walk to the Warriors.

Facing the "Galaxy Battleship" with Durant joining, Link really couldn't withstand the impact of this fierce firepower.

In the end, the Grizzlies were eliminated by the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals with a total score of 4-2.

In Game 5 at Oracle Arena, when Link lost the game and watched the Warriors get match point that night, he was extremely upset.

So after returning to the locker room, Link punched the locker at Oracle Arena, causing a dent.

Jokic still remembers the suffocating silence and how scared he was.

Seeing Link getting angry, he didn't even dare to breathe.

Although this was not the first locker that Link broke, Link didn't say anything else after that.

But this scene is still fresh in everyone’s memory to this day.

Wade was still playing for the Heat last season, so he didn't know what was happening in the visiting team's locker room at Oracle Arena.

Link touched the locker door as if touching his own scar.

Last summer's experience in the Western Conference Finals can be said to be the most serious injury Link has suffered in his career so far.

Inexplicable injuries, a poor lineup, being eliminated by a mortal enemy, the collapse of four consecutive championships...these wounds have not yet completely healed.

After a minute, Link shook his head, then sat down and started changing.

The locker room is still very quiet, but it's different from the dead silence last summer.

This kind of quietness today is a kind of quietness that is ready to go!

After Link changed his equipment, he stood up and jumped twice. Then he clapped his hands, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on him.

"Guys, the loss here last summer is still fresh in my mind. You thought I was going to take advantage of the situation and say a bunch of motivational nonsense, right? No, I'm not that boring, and I know you don't want to hear it either. , I just want to tell you..."

Link paused, then knocked on the locker behind him, "I just want to tell you that it's time to leave some indelible memories for the Golden State Warriors!"

"Roar!"

The Grizzlies players rushed out of the locker room howling like a pack of hungry wolves.

They just love this kind of "idle" leader, and that's what they'll do.

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