Refusing to make it 0-2, the Grizzlies, who are no. 2 in the West, beat the Score to 1-1. In this game, the Grizzlies withstood the Timberwolves' counterattack, and in the second and third quarters, the point difference was widened, and the team played 11 people, 10 people scored, only the starting Adams did not score. Morant led the team to completely ignore the opponent in the third quarter, taking a 19-point lead and completely ending the suspense of the game, winning 124-96.
In the first game, the Timberwolves beat the Grizzlies on the road and won the game. In this game, the Grizzlies have no way to retreat, Morant needs to take on more responsibility, and their overall advantage of the whole team is still very obvious. In the first quarter, the two teams played very fiercely, with two replays in 3 minutes, the first was Beverley putting down Morant, who was blown for a technical foul, and the second was Adams punching Vanderbilt in the face and being blown up for a first-degree malicious foul.
In the first quarter, the score of the two teams did not pull apart, there were as many as 20 fouls, the Grizzlies were 11, the Timberwolves were 9, and the two teams had 33 free throws in the first quarter, which is also a rare statistic. By the second quarter, the Grizzlies' rotational lineup advantage began to show, and Tillman and others could stand up, and they won 10 points in a single quarter, widening the point difference and taking an 11-point lead at halftime.
In the third quarter, Morant began to threaten, he did not score in the second quarter, but in the third quarter of 7, with 12 points and three assists, led by him, the Grizzlies completely suppressed the Timberwolves, and won another 8 points in the single quarter, and the point difference reached 19 points after the third quarter. The final quarter lost suspense, the Timberwolves lacked stability, they could not reverse the score, and the Grizzlies won.
From the full-court statistics, Morant got a quasi-triple-double of 23 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists, and played very comprehensively. Jackson had 15 points, Bain 16, substitute Clark 13, Tillman 13, Jones 10 and Williams 13, with four bench points in double figures. In this game, they only let the starting center Adams play for 3 minutes, and the 11 players who played, only Adams did not score, which is the overall combat effectiveness of the Grizzlies, and on the road, they can only regain home advantage if they continue to play like this.