On May 4, Beijing time, the fierce semifinals between the NBA's east and west began again. The Green Army continued to sit at home against the Bucks, and after learning the lesson of the previous defeat, the Celtics took on the Bucks in a new look and defended a victory.
The Western Conference semifinals were equally wonderful, the Grizzlies also lost home advantage with a 1-point difference in the last game, and the three armies used their lives in this game to vow to defend this home. Sure enough, as soon as the first quarter came up, the Grizzlies were full of momentum, and under Morant's leadership, the offensive wave was a bit like trying to swallow the Warriors directly.
On the defensive end, it is also very daring to fight. Shortly after the start, Dillon made a malicious foul on Payton, hitting Him in the head at the moment Peyton Jr.'s layup and leaving with a direct fracture. Dillon himself was banished by the referee. It can be seen that both teams are extremely eager for today's victory.
The Grizzlies have conceded a win that they've moved into significantly faster. Although there was no main player in the first quarter, the opposing Warriors also lost an outside defender. Without Payton's stalking, Morant was instantly much more relaxed, and under his tandem, the Grizzlies exploded for 33 points in the first quarter, 8 points ahead of the Warriors into the second quarter.
After the start of the second quarter, after the Warriors experienced the double blow of not having Payton and Green being hit by the eye injury, head coach Kerr also dispatched troops in time, Curry, Thompson and Poole on the bench have sacrificed their ultimate strength, after all, leading the 2:0 advantage is naturally needless to say for them to return to home advantage.
Defensively in this quarter is the key word, with the two sides playing a lot more physically than the smooth offense of the first quarter. The Warriors recovered 3 points in this quarter, and although they only scored 26 points in a single quarter, they also blocked the Grizzlies' offense, only allowing their opponents to get 23 points, and after halftime, the Warriors only trailed the Grizzlies by 5 points.
In the first half, Morant was the most eye-catching of the players on both sides. Although the Warriors' Curry and Thompson combined to score 25 points, Morant alone scored 23 points, which shows that Payton is indeed very important to the Warriors' defensive importance on the outside. Although other players can also be quickly added, the effect on Morant's defensive pressure is still more obvious to Payton.
Halftime 5 points for the Warriors let them see more confidence, for the Grizzlies home to take the victory is also greater, the third quarter of the game although the Grizzlies once pulled the point difference to 2 figures, but in the face of the old hot Warriors, the Grizzlies are still young, after stabilizing the mentality of the whole team, Curry, Bigmouth Wiggins, Cuminga and others began to counterattack, a wave of scoring to the young Grizzlies a little blindfolded, this section of their offense is really a little bit of a tragic split.
In particular, the last few minutes of the third quarter were pinched by the Warriors. Although the Warriors only scored 26 points in a single quarter, the Grizzlies themselves only had 21 points, and the gap between the two sides was directly smoothed out, and the two teams returned to the same starting line from 77:77.
In the fourth quarter, the contest between the two sides is mars hitting the earth, and both the Warriors and the Grizzlies have shown the strength of the bottom of the pressure box. Here the Warriors took the lead, 3 points ahead of the Grizzlies, and before the Warriors could return to their senses, the Grizzlies immediately responded with a wave, directly smoothing out the lead at the same time. In this way, the two sides have been pulling at a single-digit point difference, and no one can directly defeat the opponent.
The game in the last quarter is really addictive to the fans, the two sides have always been in a state of draw, this status quo has continued until the game is less than 6 minutes left is 89:89 draw, the Warriors side is not easy to expand the score to 3 points, this side Morant immediately played a 2 +1, the two sides again draw.
It wasn't until less than 5 minutes left in the game that the Warriors led 2 goals 95:91, but Morant immediately scored another goal and returned to a one-goal gap, the two sides were so anxious, and the balance of the final victory was still more in favor of the Grizzlies, and they won the victory with difficulty!