At 117-116, the Warriors narrowly defeated the Grizzlies by one point to win the first game of the series. Reasoning, this ball is a real peak showdown, the two sides are non-stop glue duels, the game once hit the moment of life and death, and finally won the Grizzlies with 1 point. The Grizzlies suppressed the Warriors on the outside, Morant scored two consecutive three-pointers and one layup to slash eight-pointers, while the Warriors scored points here Thompson, Curry, and Wiggins, and the two sides began to frequently glue each other. Then the Warriors began to get into foul trouble, just the first quarter of the game Curry two fouls, Payton two fouls, Thompson two fouls, the Warriors began to fall into passivity.
In the second quarter, the Warriors' bench began to exert force, and Poole began to frantically "face it", but the Warriors still could not solve the problem of fouls. Jaren Jackson and Morant's frequent basket breaks for the Warriors were nowhere to be found, and Thompson made three fouls and had to play only two minutes in the second quarter before taking a break. The Warriors began to slowly regain their feel by relying on the empty cut of the inside line, and gradually controlled the game. However, at the last moment, the second-degree malicious foul under the Green basket was directly expelled, and the Grizzlies took advantage of a wave of 5-0 to end the first half of the attack, and it seemed that the Warriors were a bit unable to resist.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the two sides have two words: right! Jackson shot 4 three-pointers in a single quarter, Curry scored 13 points in a single quarter, Poole also soared three points in a row, and the entire third quarter was a confrontation between the two sides, no one was vain, no one continued, the Warriors and the Grizzlies have been alternately leading, but players on both sides have begun to fall into foul trouble. Jackson ate fouls in a row, and Curry began to eat fouls non-stop. The two sides played in the fourth quarter and were constantly tug-of-war, but the Warriors' side was less Green, the inside line appeared to be weak, and the Grizzlies kept impacting the basket, and the two sides were even more glued to the final five minutes of the showdown.
Morant's one-goal killing basket, the Warriors' one-goal playing tactics, is completely your back-and-forth attack. At the moment of life and death, the mouth brother made a foul under the basket, and the mouth brother who had been making two penalties and one shot before was all two penalties at the key moment, followed by the dunk under the basket, and Morant's side scored under the basket continuously, and the two sides once drew. Life and death ball Morant again killed the basket to lead by 2 points, Curry turned his head to shoot three points, the mouth brother killed out to spell out the rebound in the front court, and finally kept moving the ball, and the Grizzlies went out of bounds. In desperate moments, the Warriors' sideline ball tactics, Thompson came out of the arc to shoot three points, the Warriors led by one point, and there were less than 24 seconds left in the game.
Then the dramatic scene came, Thompson received the ball on the sideline, the Grizzlies fouled, and then Thompson actually missed two free throws, but the Grizzlies failed to control the ball, the two sides jumped the ball, and the Grizzlies got the ball. With 3.6 seconds left, Morant started at the backcourt, rushed to the basket to miss the basket, the time was over, the Warriors won thrillingly, and Thompson made a big mistake by missing two free throws. The three-man scored 30+ points in the game, the Grizzlies here Morant 34 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists, Jackson 33 points and 10 rebounds, the Warriors here Poole 31 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, Curry 24 points, mouth mushrooms 6 of 14 cut 17 points and 7 rebounds.