There's only one game in today's NBA playoffs, and that's the Memphis Grizzlies vs. Minnesota Timberwolves.
The rest of the first round of the showdown is over, waiting for the winner between the Grizzlies and Timberwolves. The two teams played 3-2 in the first five games, with the Grizzlies leading and only needing to win one more game to advance. Today, through a fierce battle, the Grizzlies played a 12-0 attack wave in the final quarter, bombarded 40 points in a single quarter, and finally reversed to beat the Timberwolves 114-106 to advance 4-2.
In this game, the Grizzlies' star Morant did not perform well, contributing 17 points, eight rebounds and 11 assists on 4-of-14 shooting. Fortunately, the Grizzlies scored in double figures with a total of 6 people, including two on the bench, truly achieving a national soldier.
What made Morant suffer was no one else, it was the Timberwolves' champion Edwards. Edwards has unwittingly become the Timberwolves' most reliable point of attack, more important than Towns. In the game against the tough, Edwards still has a higher certainty of scoring than Downs.
In this game, Edwards played nearly 41 minutes, contributing 30 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 10-of-24 shooting, in addition to 2 steals and 2 blocks. By comparison, Towns had 18 points and 10 rebounds on 6-of-19 shooting, significantly inferior to Edwards.
Although the Timberwolves were eliminated by the Grizzlies and ended the season's journey, they can clearly see that there is a relatively high ceiling in the game, and if the defensive quality can be further strengthened and directly established edwards as the core, this team can go further. The Timberwolves lost, but Edwards lost.