"Crossing the line" again? Morant's injury was pointed directly at Poole, was that a non-basketball move?

The game has been going on until now, and if I had to use one word to sum up the Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies duel, I would like the word to be "out of bounds."

During a round of the Grizzlies' away game against the Warriors in game during the third game of the Western Conference semifinals on May 8, Warriors guard Jordan Poole wrapped up Grizzlies guard Ja Morant near halftime, and he grabbed a handful of Morant's right knee during the defense. With 6 minutes left in the game, Morant limped off the pitch.

Game 3 of the series, the Golden State Warriors beat the Memphis Grizzlies 142-112 at the Chase Center to give a 2-1 lead on aggregate. This game almost made history.

After the game, the Warriors shot 63.1% overall and 76.1% from the field, both of which ranked second in NBA playoff history. In the 2020 first round of the Dallas Mavericks' fifth game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Clippers' true shooting percentage was 77.8 percent, the highest shooting percentage in NBA playoff history. The 142-point team-wide score is also very unreal, and it makes Warriors coach Kerr sigh "this is a lot of points", which is also the highest single score in the playoffs in the past 55 years. Kerr also bet reporters that the Warriors should have scored higher in the playoffs when Nelson Sr. was in charge. After the reporter confirmed and told Kerr that the Warriors when Nelson Sr. was in charge did not score higher than this in the playoffs, Kerr quipped: "Remember this, Nelli (Nelson Sr.). ”

"When we trust each other, we can hit the empty space and we have so many good shooting opportunities." Klay Thompson said.

Well, these decent questions are nothing more than pre-dinner desserts, and then the reporters are of course going to order hard dishes.

Morant, who was injured, left the arena without being interviewed by reporters, but he tweeted with a video of Poole grabbing his knee, which read: "Out of bounds." "Or break the rules, that's what it means anyway." He then voluntarily deleted the tweet himself, which had been retweeted more than a thousand times.

Apparently, Morant is responding to the Warriors by quoting what Warriors coach Steve Kerr said about his teammate Dillon Brooks. In the second game before the two sides, Brooks viciously fouled Warriors guard Gary Payton II, resulting in the latter's fracture. Brooks was immediately expelled on the spot and later banned by the league.

Cole slammed Brooks hard: "[Brooks] this move is dirty. His movements were completely out of bounds. The series has thus become more controversial, and as Klay Thompson puts it, there is now enough "playoff talk."

"A lot of things happened, but we're going to fight for ourselves, (Morant is injured) unfortunately, you never want to see something like that." Grizzlies interior lineman Jarren Jackson Jr. said after game three, "But nobody here is dirty, it's just that we've been talking about 'crossing the line' throughout the series. ”

This discussion will not stop.

So far, every game in this Western Conference semifinals has been a controversial topic, with people being evicted. In the first game, Draymond Green grabbed Brandon Clark's shirt and dragged him out of the air during a defensive round. Green was immediately convicted by the referee of a second-degree malicious foul and was sent off early.

In the second game, Dillon air-raided Peyton Jr., and there was no doubt a malicious foul in the second degree. In this game, Grizzlies forward Kyle Anderson was sent off for two consecutive technical fouls, and the Grizzlies were emotional when Anderson was sent out.

After seeing the video at a press conference, Jordan Poole said of this action when he was defending, he said: "This is a basketball action. Obviously I don't want to see anyone get hurt. I'm going to grab the ball. I'm not the kind of player who [hurts]. ”

Thompson agreed, refuting The Poole and any Warriors trying to hurt Morant. Thompson thought for a moment and said, "That's the playoff talk. Personally, I've experienced a serious knee injury and I don't think Poole has any ill will. I don't even think he's strong enough to hurt someone's knee. He doesn't pick up and hit someone in the back of the head on a quick attack. We play the right way and I will support him. ”

Stephen Curry also said: "Poole has no malice, his behavior is fundamentally comparable to the behavior of Dillon or Draymond, he does not have that gene." The discussion about this is so unfortunate. ”

Grizzlies head coach Tyler Jenkins didn't explicitly say Poole's move was deliberate. Jenkins said in a post-match interview about Morant's injury that we just watched the replay. As he dribbled, Poole grabbed his knee and jerked it. That's what triggered everything that happened at the time.

Reporter: You just said that Poole grabbed Morant's knee and tugged hard, are you saying that Poole did it on purpose?

Jenkins: I didn't say he meant it, he grabbed (Morant's knee), I was just curious about what happened. This remark quickly sparked a heated discussion.

American medical expert Rajpal Brar talked about the moment of Morant's injury, saying: "If you think Poole's drag is the cause of Morant's knee injury, please stop thinking about it!" That lack of strength can cause injuries to his knee. A few seconds earlier, Poole's knee had reached the outside of Morant's knee, potentially putting pressure on the inside of his knee, which was where Morant and his trainers were examining. ”

For the Grizzlies, the next lack of Morant would be difficult but not seemingly insurmountable. After all, this season, the Grizzlies have achieved a record of 20 wins and 5 losses in Morant's absence. In the fourth game, Brooks returned, let's see if the "No Mo Bear" who has been soaring all the way in the regular season is still that good.

Finally, I want to say a little bit about the physical confrontation of the playoffs.

The playoffs are accompanied by physical contact from beginning to end, and it has a stronger confrontation and greater intensity than the regular season. At the same time, the playoffs are knockouts, a battle in which you live and die, you enter and retreat, and it is impossible without a single action. When we look to the East, where the Eastern Conference semifinals are a hand-to-hand battle. On the floor of the Bucks and Celtics, every game has people falling on the ground. Jason Tatum was put down by Glenson Allen, and the referee ignored it, which was tantamount to acquiescing to the intensity that was allowed by the game. Robert Williams was dizzy when he grabbed a dark elbow from Bobby Portis while grabbing a rebound. Rowe was so big that he sat on the field for half a day, and the team doctor was afraid that he would be hit by that concussion. It wasn't long before Rowe was back on the field.

The Playoffs in the East have always been iron-blooded, and it is customary to give strength to the opponent first, regardless of the technology. In the first round, Embiid used his back and shoulders to chisel into the Raptors' interior line one after another. Turning back, the Raptors greeted Embiid with their long arms and elbows. Siakam was also not a vegetarian, and an elbow broke Embiid's brow bone and concussion, causing the Philadelphiaman to lose two games in Miami. Those guys on the Heat, if the defense wasn't tough, wouldn't have played.

According to the ethos of the West, according to the indignation of the Warriors and Grizzlies fans after the game, the Eastern Conference stadium is playing homicidal basketball, and now it is a corpse. However, the eastern division matches were played one after another. Blow you fiercely, blow you not fiercely, why not be cruel? Moreover, the moment on Purlamorant's knee was not a ferocious foul.