The NBA Western Conference Semifinals fought again, the Grizzlies, the second-ranked youth in the West in the regular season, faced the experienced Warriors in the playoffs, and after four hard fights, they finally won 106-101, thus chasing the big score of the two sides to a 1-1 draw, and the two teams also returned to the same running line. Seven best-of-four games are already destined to play at least five or more, which is certainly good news for fans. Of course, fans have their own understanding of the final victory and defeat of this game and the whole process, such as some fans who believe that Payton II was maliciously fouled by Dillon shortly after the start of the game, and his elbow was fractured, which affected the overall trend of the game. Warriors coach Kerr also spoke to reporters in an interview with reporters, saying that he would impose heavy penalties on players who maliciously fouled them, and even if they caused the opposing players to suspend for as long as they could not play, they should say how long they could not play the game. This was also interpreted by the majority of fans as an emotional reaction to Kerr's defeat and the injury of Peyton II. But if we ask the Warriors from a championship-level team, obviously one less starter, and it is an accidental injury during the game, and the team should not be completely out of rhythm on the court, and can not find the offensive feel, in general, the Warriors themselves have problems from offense to defense, and the Grizzlies have also seized the opportunity in this game, so how to look at this two-game battle between the two sides? When did the Grizzlies win, and in what ways did the Warriors lose? Let's analyze one or two together.
First of all, the NBA's playoff competition is often the competition for the team's top stars, in this peak game, the Grizzlies can win, or should thank the team's number one star, The whole game contributed 47 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists Morant. Although he is still very young, his competitive temperament is still very good, the stronger the opponent, the more dare to play, and it has become a label on him. In the last game, he lost to the Warriors by one point, and Morant scored the highest score of 38 points for the players on both teams, and in this game, he scored nearly half of the total score. In a way, his courage to play on the court, the courage to play, is the first element of the Grizzlies to win. The Warriors have some errors in judgment when defending him, because the Warriors' defensive strategy against Morant in this game is not to let him rush to the inside line, try to let him shoot three points on the outside, and because of this defensive strategy, it also gives Morant a lot of three-point opportunities for big empty shots. Apparently, Morant seized these opportunities, and it was this opportunity that allowed Morant to throw his hand, so he would have 47 points in the game. Truly achieved a burst of inside and outside shots, both inside and outside the line have scored, his multi-point variety of ways to fully blossom, but also let the Grizzlies offensive aspect of the overall prevailing. For most of the fourth quarter of the game, the Grizzlies were in a lead, and even though they were caught up by the Warriors for a short time, the score was re-achieved.
The second aspect is that the Warriors in the Grizzlies have quality and strength of the defense, or there is their own offensive shooting rate is low, especially the three-point shooting rate is low, and the Warriors intentionally let the Grizzlies shoot outside the three-point line, the Grizzlies are still very good at the Warriors' three-point defense, often can be effective defense, so that their three-point rarely have the opportunity to shoot in the big open, and it can even be said that it is often a difficult shot. The many turnovers and low shooting percentage have also become the key words in the three-point shooting of the Grizzlies. They hit just seven of their 38 three-pointers and shot just 18 percent from the field. Not to mention that in the NBA League, even if two teams in the CBA league are not much different, if a team has only 18% shooting rate of three-point shooting and close to 40 shots, it is difficult to win the final victory of the game.
Overall, the Grizzlies can be said to be crazy in this game, the offensive end continues to be strong, and the defensive end also causes the Warriors' shots to often become personal hard shoulders, and the Warriors' experience not only does not help them, but also makes them give Curry and Thompson the main offensive opportunities in the game because they want to control the court too much, when the offensive efficiency of these two people is not high enough, especially when the three-point shooting rate on the outside line is low (Curry's three-point shooting is 3 of 11, Thompson is 3 of 12), and the entire team loses the last chance to win. Of course, for the Warriors, in such a downturn, they still only lost 5 points, it can be said that they did not lose the opportunity to win on the court until the last 40 seconds, which is enough to show that as long as the Warriors themselves solve the team's own offensive problems, then in the third or fourth game, they still have a competitive advantage over the Grizzlies, as long as Curry and Thompson slightly guarantee their own outside offensive shooting rate, then the game victory will still belong to them. Let's also continue to look forward to the G3 battle between the two sides.