On May 2, Beijing time, the second round of the Western Playoffs between the Warriors and the Grizzlies officially started, and in the end, the Warriors narrowly defeated the Grizzlies 117:116 away from home, thus winning the opening record of this series. Curry, the warriors' star, had 24 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, Thompson's game stats were 15 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists, and Jordan Poole, who came off the bench, eventually won a team-high 31 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, and also handed over the team's high +10 plus-minus data.
It is worth mentioning that for this round of playoff series clashes between the Warriors and the Grizzlies, the 20-member expert team of the US media ESPN is currently giving record predictions, of which 20 experts all predict that the Warriors will advance to the playoffs Western Conference Finals, but in terms of the final series results, the 20 experts' current series predictions are divided into three categories. First of all, 16 experts also predicted that the series score would be the Warriors' 4-2 victory over the Grizzlies, while 3 experts predicted that the Warriors would be 4:1 the Grizzlies, and finally 1 expert predicted that the Warriors would win the 4:3 to advance to the Western Conference Finals.
It is not difficult to see that although the Warriors are currently the first game of the series, the expert team is not optimistic that the Warriors can sweep the Grizzlies in the series, and the mainstream view predicted by the expert team is that the Warriors will enter the Western Conference Finals stage in the last 6 games, which is also a fairly reasonable prediction of the performance. After all, the Grizzlies themselves are also a strong Western team, and the G1 Grizzlies in the series are only 1 point in the end, it seems that the Grizzlies can still win 2 games on the Warriors, so this round of NBA playoff series does not seem to end early.
Due to the NBA regular season record ranking advantage, the next series G2 will still be the home of the Grizzlies, and from the current G1 game situation, the Grizzlies obviously have a geographical advantage, referee and other advantages in their home field, so the next game is afraid that the Warriors will be difficult to continue to win away from home. However, I believe that when the series comes to the Warriors' home, the Warriors, who are no longer subject to various external factors, will definitely have a greater probability of winning the series. Not surprisingly, the Warriors will basically be the final winner of this series, and now it is also especially expected that Curry, Thompson and others will contribute to this series!