Grizzly Bear vs Timberwolf Mt. Tenno.
Bane and Clark kept the Grizzlies from collapsing.
Morant scored a playoff-high 18 points in the fourth quarter, including the Grizzlies' final 13 points.
Fifteen years ago, in the Battle of King Mountain in the Eastern Conference, LeBron won the lightweight version of the team's last 25 points.
The game was full of wrong in and out, full of unreasonable shots (101 shots from 177 shots on both sides, 13 free throws for the Grizzlies), a total of 38 turnovers, 19 steals, 14 blocks. Ding-ding light, you come and go.
No wonder: The fourth and sixth youngest teams in the league, also caught up with the Grizzlies' decision to fight the Timberwolves, putting down the team's first veteran, the 29-year-old Adams.
After dropping Adams, the Grizzlies were able to keep up with the Timberwolves' rhythm, and as a result, they lacked cover and transfer the ball. Heavy armor was removed on both sides, and the stabs were slashed.
It's also full of mood battles: After Downs hits a three-pointer in the fourth quarter, he will make a gesture, "Shhh! Morant received the ball to dodge Edwards's gambling steal, and after shooting the winning ball, he also fought back happily.
In "The Tale of the Flying Fox", there is a section of Hu Fei vs Dustless Daochang, similar to this style:
"The two of them fought quickly, what moved to dodge, attack and defense changes, and then they couldn't say anything, but they just closed their eyes and fought fiercely, only to listen to the clanging when the swords collided, like hail falling randomly, like horses galloping, and like several facets of karma drums hitting at the same time, the dense sound, the speed is difficult to say."
But the fight is chaotic, and it's not just because it's fast.
Barkley made a point about the fact that he thinks the Timberwolves are the dumbest team in the league — a shocking statement at first, but think about it, the Timberwolves are really not collectively smart.
The Thunder are also young, but have Kitty; the Pistons are also young, but have Cunningham. The Hornets also played recklessly, but the three-goal and Hayward that was really smart.
On the Timberwolves' side, Beverley's intelligence is mainly focused on the defensive end, and Downs' overall feeling cannot be said to be old and cunning. The team's best judgement seems to be Russell? But he's not Allah control, so the Timberwolves are invincible, but they'll also catch up with being beaten 0-21 or something — without a timeout.
This may be Edwards' subject.
After Clarke's opening dunk today, the commentator shouted that Clark was Skywalker; then when Edwards returned to a sluggish layup, I thought to myself, "Edwards is the real Skywalker..." The series moves as fast as electricity, Edwards and Morant are above everyone, and Edwards is scary: he is a swingman's physique, and he is hard enough. The progress he has made in shooting and dribbling over the past year is obvious to all.
But this series has been played until now, and Edwards' ball quotient has been revealed.
He's not alone or a black hole, but the trouble is that he needs the ball to play, and he's not an organizer.
This makes him sometimes appear Jordan or Wade possessed, often look like Starkhouse, and occasionally play like McCantz.
Today he himself admits that it was a foolish mistake to let Morant kill him in the end, and he gambled to copy the ball.
Let go of the giants and only fight pure talent, and the timber wolf is above the grizzly bear - after all, the two yuan are on the shelf. But while the Grizzlies are fierce and violent, there is a little more possibility.
For example, the performance of Bane and Clark today, and the decision of Coach Jenkins.
After Towns scored a 13-point lead on a three-pointer in the fourth quarter and booed the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies relied on Morant's strong attack to chase a moment; after Jaren was beaten, Coach Jen directly let the Grizzlies on the guard, a large number of up-and-down shots, willing to gamble and lose.
Morant's 18 points and final kill in the last quarter today are a wash away the reputation of "Morant's series is not playing well", but to say something that no one necessarily cares about - Morant has 10.4 assists so far in this series.
So far in the playoffs, it is second only to Paul.
In the regular season, the Grizzlies played more of a four-corner offense, and Morant often broke through or shifted the weak side after the wing side held the ball to start. He averaged 6.7 assists per game and only 7 in his career. He averaged 48 passes per game in the regular season and 55 in the playoffs. In the playoffs, the Grizzlies asked him to start more at the top of the arc, and today's fourth quarter gave him the ball, but he admitted the moment.
There is both the courage of the flesh and the wisdom of the spirit - although there are also messy mistakes, in the chaotic situation of hot blood, it is a kind of cleverness to be able to play steadily.
Edwards admitted after the game that he was a foolish mistake to gamble on the ball; Downs said he had felt good and thought he was going to extra time.
Morant described his pre-kill mentality this way: "Go and throw a ball, JA! ”
The gift of body and technology is always easy to see at a glance.
But how to control this talent is also a talent in itself.
Bridges today scored a career-high 31 points for the Suns — but that wasn't his most important performance of the game, he said later.
Interestingly, he scored 12 goals, all from his teammates' assists.
The Pelicans had just 14 assists for the team.
The Suns against the Pelicans in the third game, Paul opened to feed Ayton, and then shifted the weak side to find Shamet and Bridges, the inside and outside lines were unfolded, and he finished the fourth quarter with 19 points.
In the fourth game, the Pelicans countered, using Avarado and Jones to stir up and back, at the expense of the inside line being fed by Ayton and McGee, pinching Paul and locking the Suns on the line; Valansunas offered Ingram necketer space, and the Pelicans won.
Today Coach Monti gave a counter-attack one by one.
Against Ingram, Paul and Cayo used stickers to encourage him to break through and pick up the ball as soon as he broke through.
Ayton's fewest 6 defensive rebounds in the series, unblocked, and Valansunas grabbed 5 frontcourt rebounds opposite valens, which at first glance seems to be Ayton's dereliction of duty. But today, Ayton, McGee and Bismarck's three centers all mentioned the three-point line to pinch the defense and delay the Pelicans' perimeter.
So today Valansunas was happy, with 5 rebounds and 17 points in frontcourt.
But Ingram had to go beyond 11 free throws, shooting 3-of-10 from outside the penalty area and making five turnovers. CJ shot 7-of-22, including 1-of-8 from three-point range.
Suns 10 steals.
The Sun's strategy is:
"I'd rather let Bruce Brown beat us than lock up Durant and Irving!" - Oh no, it seems to have run on the wrong track...
Paul played much more cunning today after his last encounter with a pinch. The opening game was clipped to give Ayton a hit pass without mentioning, running to catch the ball, quickly out of the ball, chasing and feeding Ayton. Ayton fed paul the first two goals today, and the third was the most interesting: Paul was clipped and gave the ball to Claude in advance, and Claude did not stop the ball and dunked directly to Ayton.
Paul Claude Ayton.
Curry's inner cut of the Dream Warriors.
Ayton: I want to be a dreamer too!
Paul: Okay, you too!
In the final moments of the fourth quarter, Paul was pinched and hanged Ayton; Ayton was sent to the ground by the free throw line, and Bridgesnes was dunked.
Paul Aytonbridges.
Paul's passing order often shows his idea of playing.
Yesterday in Dallas, Luca fed the center with two assists, followed by three assists to find the perimeter.
Today Paul's first two balls were of course fed to Ayton, followed by the vacant Cayo and Shamet; by the second half, Paul's passes were all for Bridges.
Bridges has never been superior in his ball-handling attacks, but he has long legs and fast hands and moves quickly. A minute into the third quarter, after Ayton scored three points to score his 16th point, the sideline commentator shouted "Ayton is dominating the inside!" Then from there until the end of the game, Ayton scored just three points.
Was it Paul who wouldn't let him vote? Did he miss the shot?
No, it's the sun turning strategy.
Paul used Ayton's upline to pinpoint Bridges, a weak side bottom corner.
Paul used his high block with Ayton to upset the situation, and Cayo gave Chebridges a dunk on the line to score a three-pointer.
And of course also includes the final game, Paul Aytonbridges.
And at the last minute, the big picture is decided, and Paul has to rush to the front and feed Bridges a dunk.
It shouldn't be disrespectful to Bridges, but he shot 12 goals today — four three-pointers, four layups, four dunks — all from passing from teammates, all from the Suns' graceful transfers, from Paul, from Cayo, and even more from the Suns' true thigh Ayton.
Today, Ayton only had 19 points and 9 rebounds, the numbers were not eye-catching, and even the alignment data was not as good as the 17 points and 14 rebounds of Valanshenas opposite. But today, he's a real center. For a long time, especially when Paul and Booker were there, Ayton was often a high-level blocking machine, efficient eating cake inside line, inside line guard. Therefore, the efficiency per unit of time, McGee and Bismarck are often not under him, giving people a sense of "in fact, give Paul a center, can be almost the same".
But today Ayton is a real center. The defensive end swept to the three-point line, and did not forget to actively make up for the position; the offensive end in addition to blocking Paul's internal cut, also jump shots, but also face the basket single, but also sent a Jokic-style high and low connection to Claude; just after the half-time scored 16 points, he and Paul's virtual two turned into the sun's starting point, he was also quite willing, do not grab the credit, vacate the penalty area, let Bridges bottom line shuttle into no man's land - that is the space he pulled out, which McGee and Bismarck could not do.
Faith, selflessness, and goodness do not come out of nowhere.
Back to Bridges.
Paul said bridges, "He's not missing games, he's defending against the best players, he scored 31 points. ”
Paul just didn't mention it, and the last four of his 11 assists were fed to Bridges. He and Payne snapped up the next frontcourt rebound and fed it to Bridges. He ended up grabbing a rebound in the backcourt and fed Bridges a dunk to give Bridges 31 points.
Like no one will mention, Cayo, who started in place of Booker, gave Bridges four of his five assists today.
Bridges, who only had a minute off today, laughed happily after the game, "I'm ready to play tomorrow, I'm full of energy, my teammates push me forward, I love being with my teammates, they're my best friends, everything is easy." ”
Does he like to score points on the pitch? No.
Today, bridges is 31 points away, but more important: when he defended CJ, CJ only shot 1 of 9. Ingram was defended by Bridge to 1-of-5 shooting.
If you know that your teammates are ready to block people for yourself, the legendary organization defenders are ready to feed you the ball, as long as you actively run to the empty teammates will definitely give you a pass, you will also be willing to fight the whole field, play the best defense, and take the ball for your teammates, right?
The so-called team culture is not so complicated in the end.
Watching my teammates play happily or not, it's all inside.