At 7:30 Beijing time on April 22, the NBA playoffs played a focus battle, and the Timberwolves played at home to meet the Grizzlies. At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves temporarily led by 18 points at 39-21. Too fierce, the Timberwolves are in full control of the rhythm, beating the league second to the extreme.
Although the Grizzlies achieved the second-best record in the league in the regular season, in everyone's concept, they are not a championship-level strong team, but a young dark horse, and how much combat power such a team can play on the big stage of the playoffs needs to draw a question mark. As a team that came up from the playoffs, the Timberwolves are not afraid to wear shoes barefoot, and their mentality is more comfortable, and they are naturally at ease. Of course, this is also inseparable from excellent strength.
In the opening stage, the Timberwolves gave the opponent a downward strike and stopped the opponent 8-0. Upon return, the Timberwolves continued their rampage, a wave of 12-0 to establish a double-digit advantage. Beverley taught Morant a lesson, giving his opponents a big hit in terms of score and confidence. Then, the Grizzlies began to counterattack and forced the score closer, but the good times did not last long, and the Timberwolves' offensive frenzy returned.
Russell, Towns, Beasley, including Vanderbilt all began to play, quite a bit of a national soldier, the score was also getting bigger and bigger. The Grizzlies couldn't stop the Timberwolves' offense at all, watching the opponent score more than 20, break through 30, and approach 40, there was no way but to disrupt the opponent's rhythm by constantly calling a timeout, but it didn't seem to be useful.
Who can break the game? Expect star Ja Morante? He seems to be quite depressed today, the opening was constantly hit by Beverly, with foul shackles on his back, not much time to play, few shots, and a bad shooting rate, depressed to the extreme. Morant is the epitome of the Grizzlies, the second worst in the league.