Such a warrior & such a letter Who can beat it?

In these two series, after the big score was chased to a 1-1 draw, the third game was crucial.

The Bucks and Warriors withstood the pressure today, guarded their home stadiums, and took the advantage of the series back into their hands, let's talk while it's hot.

One, the outbreak of the alphabet brother

The alphabet brothers of the first two battles actually did not perform so amazingly in the face of the green army's defense. Although the Bucks won the Celtics in the first game, he only shot 9-of-25.

Not to mention the second game, the first 10 shots alphabet brother only hit one goal, the first half of 12 2. In the second half, by reducing the number of balls held and passing hands with defenders, it blocked Shun's no-ball attack and pulled the shooting rate back to 11 of 27 shots. But after two games, Alphabet Brother shot 20 of 52, 1 of 6 from three-point range and 11 of 20 from the free throw line. This is less than 40% of the overall shooting rate, definitely not the normal play of the alphabet brother. Especially in the second game, the Celtics did not choose to pack the letter brother at all, both Grant Williams and Horford single defense, the letter brother did not take advantage of half of the cheap, more or less let people somewhat unexpected.

But today's pre-match visiting letter brother said: "I know what my strengths are, I will try to read the defense in front of me and play with my intuition. Sometimes I play the right choices, sometimes I make mistakes, but as long as I play within my own range of strengths, we have an advantage. "

Speaking of doing it, it is obviously more aggressive and lethal on the field, and in the first two games, he also has some technical flow actions such as turning over jump shots, and today he began to play violent aesthetics from the opening letter brother. He frequently pounded the Celtics' penalty area to overwhelm opponents. He set a personal high in the playoffs this season with 30 shots in the game, 18 of which were made in reasonable collision zones. At the same time, his 9 of 12 free throws were also the best free throws in this round.

What can be said? This is the basic disk of the alphabet brother. Whether you like him or not, you have to admit it.

When Middleton is out of the game due to injury, he has to get so many points and cause such a large penalty area to make the Bucks' offensive system work. He did do all that he did. Especially in the final moments of the game, when the Celtics were in the lead, he first faced Gwee's defense and directly broke through to score points, and then gave Jaylen Brown a block. This attack and defense is really the performance that a superstar should have in this kind of game.

After playing this game, Alphabet Brother averaged 29.6 points, 12.6 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game in the playoffs, and all three technical statistics were in the league's top five. Today, he is also the seventh player in NBA history to have at least 40 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks in a single game in the playoffs.

Compared with the eye-catching performance of the alphabet brother, the Celtics lost today to Tatum, the top star.

Look at the old and strong Horford can also hand over 22 points, 16 rebounds and 5 assists of the comprehensive data, Brown also has 27 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists of the outstanding performance. As a result, Tatum was actually defended by Matthews, a low-salary veteran who was shorter than him and almost 10 years older, saying that a set of statistics that you may not believe: Tatum faced Matthews' defense today, 10 of 10.

Tatum shot 4-of-19 from the field and shot 21 percent from the field, which was also the second worst single-game shooting percentage in the career playoffs.

To sum up: the Green Army today, in addition to Tatum's abnormality, the whole game is not bad, and at one point it overtook the score when it was 14 points behind. But in the face of a 20-point deficit box score and an 11-21 fast-break score, they still lost to the overly powerful alphabet brother.

Second, how strong is the Warriors offense today?

At the beginning of today, the Warriors and the Grizzlies seemed to have exchanged souls, the Grizzlies hit 6 three-pointers in a row in the opening game, the Warriors scored a 20-6 penalty area score in a single quarter, the Grizzlies became a three-point team, and the Warriors became a killer in the box.

In the second quarter, the Warriors' offense went into rage mode. In a single quarter, the Warriors shot 14 of 19 and 4 of 5 from three-point range, which team can stop this 73.7% + 80% exaggerated shooting rate? Thanks to Morant's incredible three-point shot, he barely managed to keep the deficit within 10 points.

Today, the Warriors used a lot of joint defense and 1-4box defense to suppress Morant's breakthrough kill, and the Grizzlies really couldn't find a way to attack the joint defense in the second quarter, thanks to Morant himself still maintaining a good state, so that the team survived the first half.

But in the third quarter, when players other than Morant were 3 of 13, he also struggled with two fists and four hands, because today's Warriors not only played well on the defensive end, but also maintained an extraordinary level of projection in the offense. Porter, who had been inaccurate in his three-pointers before, hit two three-pointers in the second quarter, and even Green could shoot in the third quarter, which was a bit of a blow to the Grizzlies' confidence.

The start of the second half of the third quarter went into garbage time. In this series, as long as the Warriors can ensure that the rebounds are not lost to the Grizzlies, and are not caught by the Grizzlies, even if there are more mistakes (14 warriors made 14 mistakes in the first half today), the Warriors' extremely high offensive standards in the half are not matched by the Grizzlies.

After the game, according to the data after cleaning the glass to eliminate garbage time, the Warriors today scored 137.3 points per 100 rounds, with an effective shooting rate of 73.2%, which is almost the highest level of offensive performance in a single game in history.

According to ESPN, the single-game shooting rate is more than 60%, the three-point shooting rate is more than 50%, the free throw shooting rate is more than 90%, and in history, in addition to today's Warriors, only the Philadelphia 76ers in 2001 have done it once, and Iverson scored 52 points alone, unlike the Warriors today.

The game showcased the terrifying offensive firepower of the Splash Tea Trio, and the Warriors' rebounds were also commendable. Facing the league's number one rebounding Grizzlies, they grabbed 38 rebounds today, nine more than the Grizzlies. After three games, the Warriors did not lose the Grizzlies in rebounds, which is arguably the most unexpected. In addition to the Warriors' wonderful performance, Morant's accidental injury has also become the focus of everyone's attention.

Morant himself was not satisfied with One of Poole's defensive moves against him, quoting Cole's criticism of Dillon Brooks' defense of Peyton Jr., saying that Poole's move was "out of bounds." He then deleted the tweet himself.

After the game, Poole defended himself that this action was just a basketball action, not a direct attack on people.

How to say it? Poole's action is indeed a bit redundant, but Dillon's previous action is even more excessive, as a ball review, weak hope that in the later games everyone can focus on the reasonable confrontation on the field, reduce some unnecessary actions, and the fans can also have less quarrels that have nothing to do with the game.

If there's any suspense in the Celtics and Bucks series. With no loss in rebounds, the Warriors' winning side is already very large. Of course, a healthy Morant is still a key figure who can change the series, and I hope that curry and Morant's showdown can be more exciting than one.