Beijing time on May 2 news, the NBA playoff division semifinals began today, the away Golden State Warriors in the first game of the series to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 117-116, to achieve a series of big score 1-0 lead.
Today's victory was not easy for the Warriors, the whole team was whistled off as many as 25 fouls in the whole game (including as many as 15 fouls in the first half alone), and Klay Thompson, Steve Curry, and Payton Jr. suffered foul trouble at the beginning of the game, with the three of them committing two fouls each in the first quarter, and one of the core Drummond Green was sent off after only 17 minutes.
But even so, the Warriors didn't give up, and they rose to the bottom half after trailing by 13 points at one point, completed the score reversal in the third quarter, and won in the final moments of the game with Thompson's key three-pointers and two consecutive blocks from him and Curry against Morant.
After the game, the expelled Green came to the players' tunnel to hug his teammates one by one to celebrate, and Green said to Curry, "You said you wanted to get today's victory, you did it."
In addition, for today's penalty, many people in the industry are also questioning, such as the famous data media on its social blog to dig a hole in today's refereeing situation, "The first 47 minutes of today's game, has been through the replay of the penalty; in the last minute of today's game, they have been by picking the ball to judge the penalty." ”