"Levitating" ignites the playoffs, and the battle for supremacy is the real chapter!
If today's Warriors win over the Nuggets and the Lone Rangers win the Jazz are the result of the battle of wits between the players and coaches of the two sides, then the game between the Timberwolves and the Grizzlies is really difficult to interpret from the technical and tactical aspects.
After all, no matter how the technical tactics are interpreted, it is difficult to understand how the Timberwolves can lead 25+ in one game in a row, and finally be reversed.
The Timberwolves led by as many as 26 points in the second quarter and 25 with 2:57 left in the third quarter, but they lost the game.
26 points is the largest single-game reversal record in the Timberwolves' playoff history, and if you count the regular season, this number can also be ranked third.
What's even more amazing is that when the Grizzlies hit a 21-0 super attack wave, Timberwolves coach Finch didn't even call a timeout.
If you expand the time to the last 15 minutes, the Grizzlies will have a 50-16 offensive climax.
In game three of the series, the Grizzlies changed their strategy, they simply abandoned Adams, and the interior line was composed of Anderson and Jalen Jackson Jr., which was the most convenient lineup for the Grizzlies in the first two games, after all, Adams was easy to be caught by Towns and Edwards on the court.
But such a lineup changed how the Timberwolves could not be defenseless, so the game began when the Grizzlies' interior line was almost overwhelmed by the Timberwolves, and the Timberwolves directly played a 12-0 start. In the first quarter, the Timberwolves led by 18 points, and the penalty area scored a 18-4 lead.
In addition to constantly attacking the frame, the Timberwolves also did one thing is to "name" Morant, the first quarter just came up, Beverley back to single Morant, after shaking off the layup hit, Beverley then compared to the "too small" gesture.
In the second quarter, Beverley also faced Morant's defense and threw a smashing board to pay tribute to Kobe Maddy.
Throughout the first half, Beverley played like a supergiant, and even James sighed on Twitter: "The Bulldog is showing off!" lock! ”
It stands to reason that in such a game, the Timberwolves have a good chance of winning the game. After all, in the early part of the second quarter, the Timberwolves led the Grizzlies by as many as 47-21 by 26 points, but they suddenly muted in the middle of the second quarter to the beginning of the third quarter, scoring only 6 points in 10 minutes.
During this time, the Timberwolves are a variety of squanders, such as directly pulling out three points when they are down, or randomly passing the ball than the Grizzlies, and handling the ball during the period is very casual.
So the Grizzlies took the opportunity to play a 23-6 point difference, and the Timberwolves only led 53-44.
You think the momentum was pulled back by the Grizzlies? The story is not so simple, and then the Timberwolves have made another wave, playing a 26-10 offensive climax.
The reason is no other, because the Grizzlies fight as casually as timber wolves. Although Morant finally got a triple-double of 16+10+10, he was very confused throughout the game, and with three minutes left in the third quarter, the Timberwolves still had 25 points ahead.
But after that, the Timberwolves suddenly collapsed. In the last 5 minutes or so from the end of the third quarter to the beginning of the fourth quarter, they were blasted out of a 29-4 wave.
Among them, when the Grizzlies hit a 21-0 super attack wave, Timberwolves coach Finch didn't even call a timeout.
Of course, it's not that there was no timeout and no adjustments were made, during which Time Finch tried to change the rhythm with substitutions, and the team came on 10 times, but the team did not change.
Explaining his reasons for not calling a timeout after the game, Finch said: "We called a timeout too much before, and I just wanted to get the game into the fourth quarter quickly. ”
Apparently, at first Finch felt much ahead, so don't worry too much. But the problem is that the Grizzlies all blasted 16-0 in the third quarter and a half minutes, and they didn't see Finch call a timeout.
In fact, it is not really how well the Grizzlies play, and the way they play during the scoring period is not very methodical, but the Timberwolves pull without warning.
If the Timberwolves had chosen a backbeat man after the game, Towns would have been the first to stand up.
Downs played a total of 33 minutes, shooting 3 of 4 and 2 of 2 from the free throw line, with only 8 points and 5 rebounds.
For 38 minutes, from 6 minutes and 49 seconds left in the first quarter to 3 minutes and 36 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Towns did not score a single goal, nor did he make a free throw, not a single point.
With 4 shots, can you imagine this being Downs' game? What about the kaleidoscope of attacks?
Asked after the game why Towns had taken so few shots, Finch replied: "Opponents are blocking Towns everywhere, and they are always in the low position ready to deal with Downs with 3 people. ”
Towns himself simply said, "The next question." ”
Even hotter than Downs' performance on the offensive end was his foul. In this game, Downs made five fouls early in the third quarter, and fouls have long become the most common situation for Towns.
Of course, Towns himself is the foul king, averaging 3.6 fouls per game in the regular season. Coupled with the fact that he was always blown offensive fouls, so the game was played, and Downs's presence on the field became weaker and weaker.
The regular season is fine, everyone plays their own routines, but when it comes to the playoffs, Downs's foul is really unbearable. In the four games from the play-offs to now, he has only played one good game.
It was the game in which the Timberwolves won the first game, when Downs made 11-of-18 and scored 29 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists. But the remaining three games, Downs is too much to pull.
Playoffs against the Clippers, 3 goals and 6 fouls; second game against the Grizzlies, 4 goals and 5 fouls; third game against the Grizzlies, 3 goals and 5 fouls.
With 16 fouls in three games and even more fouls than he scored in athletic battles, how can such a performance not be sprayed?
So when searching for Downs' name after the game, the search engine came up with towns soft.
After the last game, I made a joke that Towns became soft as soon as he met the bear, and now Towns is getting closer and closer to this sentence.
Today, the Timberwolves are the only team in NBA history to have twice led their opponents by 25+ points and reversed.
Who would have thought that the Timberwolves would be nailed to the column of shame after playing a playoff game, and if Downs and Finch did not carry the pot, who would carry it?
Another game between the Warriors and the Nuggets, can only be said that Mr. Yo did his best this game, 37 points, 18 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals.
I feel that after playing this game, Teacher Yo can lose five pounds, which is much more intense than the jumping exercise with Liu Qihong, and even his teammates are not so paddling today, and they have left the suspense until the end.
But in the end, Teacher Yo really ran out of oil.
Coach Malone even brought out the words "we have to finish the last bullet" after the game, which shows that the team has reached the point of exhaustion.
Anyway, the Warriors are too fierce, substitute Curry needless to say, just say start Pooler. It is reasonable to say that a cup of tea brewed three times, how can it be a little lighter, but this pot of Pu'er is still full of tea aroma.
Poole hit nine of 13 shots today, including 3-of-5 from three-point range, for a total of 27 points, three rebounds and three assists.
Not only did he tie curry for the team's highest score on the Warriors side of the game, but he also made NBA history.
Since the merger of the ABA and the NBA, the first guard to score 25 points in three consecutive games in the playoffs and shoot more than 60% from the field.
Considering that Poole was the player with the most "violations" of all players in this game, the Nuggets' defense against him has reached the level of a core player, but still has not limited him.
When Curry can only play on the bench, how else to play?
The game against the Jazz hurt Doncic's lone ranger, but there was a feeling that the more people hit people, the more they hit. Following brunson and Kléber coming forward in the last game, Josh Green came out on the Bench today.
Throughout the game, Josh Green played 18 minutes and scored 12 points, with 3 rebounds and 6 assists, 3 of 5 shooting from outside the three-point line, and the efficiency value was tied for the third-highest +10 on the team.
Of course, the hero ball is still Brunson's, this game he was injured and returned to the locker room, but returned to the game in the second half, and when the Jazz narrowed the point difference to single digits, he faced the Jazz's guard line again and again to break through strongly, using his physical advantage and the flexible footsteps under the basket to play "2+1" many times.
Even James exclaimed, "Brunson dominated the game from the start of the jump to the end, it was a big win. ”
Throughout the game, Brunson hit 12 goals in 22 shots, scored 31 points and five assists, and he also became the seventh player in Lone Ranger history to score 30 points in two consecutive playoff games.
To sum up, the Lone Ranger has almost penetrated the Jazz's defensive routine, so someone will continue to stand up and hit a target.
Otherwise, just look at the Jazz's adjustment, when Gobert committed four fouls in the third quarter, Schneider even sent Pascal and the Lone Ranger to play five small lineups.
When the three-time best defensive player is reduced to making the manager difficult in the playoffs, doesn't that mean anything?
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