Grizzlies 111-109 Timberwolves, playing until the last second to decide the winner, this is what I am looking forward to Tenno Mountain!
With 12 seconds left in the third quarter, the Grizzlies trailed the Timberwolves by 13 points 72-85.
At home, the Battle of Tianwangshan, the whole team is inseparable, the Grizzlies have been pressed and beaten, the sky above the FedEx Arena seems to be covered with lead clouds, the home fans seem to be choked in the throat, and the momentum of the Grizzlies team is getting lower and lower.
They needed someone to save it all, and everyone looked at the little man of 191 and wondered, could his lean body really afford it all?
Morant had the ball in control of the logo, and with 8 seconds left in 24 seconds, Clark came up to cover him, which meant the Grizzlies were about to attack. Clark set him cover on the left, McDaniels' center of gravity slightly off to the left, Morant instantly caught, and he suddenly started from his right hand like a cheetah that had been on the move for a long time.
fast! Too fast! Before McDaniels could react, he could only see Morant's taillight, and if it was placed in "Head Text D", there should be a passerby who exclaimed "86, it is 86"!
McLaughlin on the right pretended to block and retracted, Reed, who was also at the top of the arc, was as out of reach as McDaniels, and Prince on the left had to look at Bane in the bottom corner, so Beasley became the unlucky egg that blocked Morant's path.
Morant popped up below the free throw line, jumped, and grabbed his arms, ignoring Beasley in front of him. Morant's body stretched extremely well in the air, exceptionally graceful, but the moment the basketball was blown into the basket, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day that cut through layers of clouds, and the whole arena was instantly fried.
The emotions that had been backlogged for a whole time were finally released at this moment, and Morant was the light that illuminated the Grizzlies!
But the thunderbolts were only a moment after all, and the Grizzlies were still 11 points behind at the end of the third quarter, and their three points still showed no signs of opening.
Space is important to the Grizzlies, Morant can be seen as a smaller but better passing alphabet brother, the Bucks' space for the letter bonus, and the letter breakthrough for the space feeding, in the same way as Morant and the Grizzlies outside the line.
But in the first three quarters, the Grizzlies only scored three three-pointers, and the most accurate Bane was under the strict defense of the Timberwolves, 1 of 5.
In the first half of the fourth quarter, Bane finally shot two more three-pointers, and then a second turning point came.
With seven minutes left in the game, Towns caused Jackson Jr. to foul on three points. At this point, the Grizzlies trailed by 8 points at 88-96, and if Downes hit all three free throws, the point difference would return to 11 points, exactly the same as at the end of the third quarter, which means that the Grizzlies played in vain in the first 5 minutes.
More importantly, this was Jackson Jr.'s sixth foul. From the beginning of this series, we have been talking about the importance of the pairing of Jackson Jr. and Towns, and now Jackson Jr. has been beaten down, and Towns is still on the court.
Downs did hit all three free throws, Jenkins replaced Jackson Jr. with Jones, the good news is that Jones is the most accurate three-point Grizzlies player in this series, the bad news is that Clark was moved to the fifth position and was thin, and Bane was only 196 centimeters on the top three position, and Dillon on the fourth position was only 201 centimeters.
The Grizzlies are too short relative to the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves have Towns, van der Biao and McDaniels, have a high degree of guaranteed rebounding, and on the offensive end have Hanako and Beverley to break through, and in theory they should have a huge advantage, so it seems that the Timberwolves have already taken the victory into their pockets.
But fighting is not the same thing, the Timberwolves are most likely mentally wrong.
First of all, on the offensive end, the Grizzlies are so short, Clark on the inside is so thin, and the Timberwolves are playing inside, but the Timberwolves are still floating on the outside.
It wasn't until 4:26 that Beverley named Morant to score a throw, at which point you can see Beverley's judgment of the situation, and it was also the first time that the Timberwolves hit the inside line after Jackson Jr.'s six fouls left the field.
Then Russell tried to hit Jones in the low back, and was fouled by Jones, I dripped a mother, Russell went to the low post, so where is Downs?
Towns opened up in the bottom left corner, and I thought Downs was just low, but then I realized that he had no low ability at all. But a seven-foot-long man floating on the outside is a very dangerous thing.
There is also an advantage to going to the inside line: that is, there are fewer long rebounds, you can take more frontcourt boards by height, refer to the Pelicans to play the sun, and the worst can leave more time for their own outside line to retreat, so that the Grizzlies will not get long rebounds and fight back.
When it comes to rebounding, the Timberwolves' height doesn't keep them. The Timberwolves had 10 rebounds in the final quarter, but the Grizzlies grabbed 18, including eight frontcourt boards, which cost the Timberwolves dearly.
In the fourth quarter, at 4:40, Morant missed a throw, Clark continued to fight the frontcourt board, and the Grizzlies chased only 1 point;
1:05 ahead of the finale, it was Clark who dialed the frontcourt, Morant received the ball and hit a three-pointer, and the Grizzlies overtook the Timberwolves 107-106.
What was the Timberwolf's response after this turn?
The Timberwolves chose to have Towns receive the ball behind his back at the free throw line, then turned to the basket to attack, turning him to either shoot or burst, but when he turned halfway, the ball was cut by Bain who came to pinch and down, and Towns made a mistake.
It is very dangerous for a big man to float on the outside line, and the more he gets to the end, the more so it becomes. Do you see who the Grizzlies are using to defend the Downs?
It's 2.01m Dillon, because the Grizzlies also know Downs won't go low. Then the two sides failed to hit each other, and the Timberwolves had to foul Morant, who hit both free throws to give the Grizzlies a three-point lead at 109-106.
At this time, the Timberwolves finally remembered that there was a young man named Hanako on their team, and Hanako should have played the role of the main attacker in this series, and he scored 14 points in the first half today, but the second half seemed to be forgotten again.
Fortunately, in the last 4.8 seconds, Hanako still feels the feel, receiving the ball and shooting a three-pointer against Clark, which is really difficult enough.
But how the lyrics are sung, "You are the legend of the devil from heaven", the last round Hanako is still a hero, the next round he rushed to grab the opportunity to get rid of him.
Morant will not miss such an opportunity, catch the ball and kill to the basket to pull the lever to score, kill!
So far, Morant's 18 points in the final quarter, including a key counter-over three-pointer and the final kill, in fact, from 4 minutes and 40 seconds After Clark's frontcourt board, Morant won the team's final 13 points.
This rand, what a drop too fierce!
There are talented people in the jiangshan generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. Grizzlies scored 3-2 Timberwolves!
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