After the two sides started playing, as the only player in the Grizzlies team who currently received the maximum salary, O'Neill naturally wanted to perform well.

This series is nominally the Western Conference finals, but everyone knows that this is actually the finals, because it determines the championship.

Not to mention 100%, the winner must have at least a 90% chance of winning the championship.

But after playing for a few minutes, O'Brien and the Grizzlies players discovered something strange.

Xiao Ou's offensive and defensive enthusiasm is very high, but his efficiency is extremely low. All three shots in the opening game were blocked by Rashid.

It's not like the two have never played against each other before. Whether it's the offensive or defensive end, O'Brien's performance is obviously better than Rashid's.

As a result, as soon as the game started today, Xiao Ao was completely beaten by Rashid.

Xiao Ao's condition is very wrong!

Grizzlies head coach Mike Dunleavy looked calm on the sidelines. He may have thought that O'Brien just couldn't find his form for the time being. After a few minutes, when he regained his form, it would be the time for the Grizzlies to completely defeat the Trail Blazers.

But a few minutes later, Xiao Ao was still in an unbelievably sluggish state.

Is this person on the court really Jermaine O'Neal, who is known as the fourth power forward in the league? Why does his technical level look so immature, as if he is a rookie?

The fans' perception is indeed correct. After Xiaoao's attributes were deprived of his attributes by Jiang Dongbing, his strength has been greatly reduced.

The worse his performance was, the more Ou wanted to get back into shape, and as a result, he took up a lot of the ball.

This also caused the Grizzlies to show a disadvantage in the hands of the Trail Blazers after the start.

Dunleavy finally couldn't help it. If the advantage established by the Trail Blazers was too great, it would not be so easy to win back this game. After all, he also knew that the Trail Blazers were not made of mud, even if their combat power was not as good as the Grizzlies.

, is also the top team in the league.

Xiao Ou was replaced and Kirilenko was replaced, and the game started again.

After Kirilenko came on the court, the Grizzlies immediately regained their dominance. The two sides clashed with each other, and the Grizzlies obviously had the advantage.

Jiang Dongbing thought for a moment, feeling that only Xiao Ao's attributes were deprived of him, as if the grizzly bear was still too strong.

This is also my fault. When I was building the Grizzly Bear, I never thought that one day the Grizzly Bear would become my opponent.

Although Jiang Dongbing said at the press conference that he knew the weaknesses of the grizzly bear because he built it with his own hands, he actually knew very well that the grizzly bear had no weaknesses at all.

Whether it's offense or defense, whether it's the frontcourt or the backcourt, whether it's inside or outside, the Grizzlies are a team without any flaws.

Seeing that the advantage he had just established was about to be wiped out by the Grizzlies, Liu Li simply initialized David's attributes.

David is definitely the top priority of the Grizzlies lineup. If David is unable to play his role, the Grizzlies will be cut off from two bear paws, and their combat power will decline sharply.

Sure enough, with David's state in terrible shape, the Trail Blazers once again had the upper hand.

The Grizzlies fans at the scene were dumbfounded. What happened? What happened to the super twin towers inside that the Grizzlies are proud of?

It is no exaggeration to say that the Grizzlies' pair of interior towers, David and O'Brien, is the strongest interior combination in the league, bar none!

But the current state of the Twin Towers is really hard to describe.

No matter how hard O'O played, he couldn't score, and he couldn't defend Rasheed. The situation on David's side was even worse. The rebounds were completely dominated by Big Ben, and he couldn't score on the offensive end.

"Are our twin towers releasing water?" the fans couldn't help but speculate.

Both of these two players were single-handedly promoted by Jiang Dongbing. Before they came to the Grizzlies, they both had extremely unpleasant experiences with the team.

David is known as the top draft pick in the Clippers.

And Xiao Ou wasted three years in the Trail Blazers.

Being able to be promoted by Jiang Dongbing, one can imagine how grateful they are to Jiang Dongbing.

However, this is just a speculation in the minds of fans, and they have no real evidence. Moreover, the playoffs have reached this point, and the Grizzlies are only one championship away from building a dynasty.

If these two people really want to repay Jiang Dongbing, they will have many opportunities in the future, and they will not make a mistake at this crucial time.

Dunleavy was scared to death. It didn't matter that O'Neill was in bad shape, but David, the backbone of his team, also had a problem. What should he do?

The key is that he still doesn't have players who can replace the Twin Towers!

Due to salary reasons, it was naturally impossible for the Grizzlies to bring in any decent inside stars after Jiang Dongbing left. They even let go of their originally good big players.

This has led to the fact that the Grizzlies' current inside line only has Ou, David and Kirilenko.

Now both O'Neill and David are acting very strangely and have no effect at all on the court. Dunleavy wants to make substitutions, but he suddenly finds that he has no one to substitute.

Now he can only let David stay on the court and continue to waste time, looking forward to the birth of a miracle.

The Grizzlies' perimeter lineup, when Artest was there, was a perfect, super-iron lineup.

The defense is indescribably strong.

But now Artest has come to the Trail Blazers, Dunleavy has moved Ginobili to the shooting guard position, and Jackson has played small forward.

There is no doubt that Ginobili's offense is outstanding, but his defense is definitely not comparable to Artest's. The two are simply not on the same level.

Maybe Ginobili's defense is better than Reed's, but it's definitely not much better.

Artest, Reid plus Payton faced Jackson, Ginobili plus Billups, and as a result, both sides' perimeters were almost on the same level, both offensively and defensively.

With the Grizzlies losing their inside pressure, what can they do to win?

"Dudududu!"

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the Grizzlies, a super powerhouse that had dominated the league for two years, lost to the Trail Blazers in the first game of the Western Conference Finals series.

The fans at the scene were shocked. In addition to being shocked by the Grizzlies' loss, they were also shocked by Jiang Dongbing's amazing coaching ability.

Last season, the Blazers were completely beaten by the Grizzlies. In such an important series, no matter how many games they played, the Blazers had absolutely no hope of winning.

As a result, the two teams changed their head coaches this year, and the Trail Blazers actually won? And they still won at the Grizzlies' home court!

"Uu..." The fans at the scene booed in dissatisfaction.

Head coach Dunleavy is naturally the first target. Many fans originally looked down on him, and now it is even more clear that he is not suitable for the Grizzlies.

Dunleavy looked embarrassed. The game had just ended and he immediately returned to the locker room with several players.

Of course Jackson and others would not be so rude, after all, the head coach opposite was his mentor Jiang Dongbing!

"Coach, you are really lucky. Our state is really bad tonight." Jackson sighed and said to Jiang Dongbing.

Jiang Dongbing laughed, "It's indeed good luck."

"Why does your head coach look so unhappy?"

Jackson shook his head, "Ignore him, he is just a puppet, no one cares what he thinks."
Chapter completed!