The NBA semifinals competition continues, compared to the past few seasons, this season's playoff competition is significantly more intense, in the already concluded semifinals G4 scramble, the 3 group semifinals are all tied 2-2.
This means that the Warriors alone in the semifinals are likely to establish a 3-1 lead, in which case the Warriors continue to play against the Grizzlies at home in G4.
Due to injury, the Grizzlies Morant missed this game, but considering the Grizzlies' performance without Morant this season, the Warriors cannot relax in the slightest, and Warriors coach Kerr also missed the game because of the new crown positive.
As soon as the game began, Morant's absence clearly made the Warriors slack, and the Warriors looked helpless against the Grizzlies' big lineup of two towers.
While the outside was clearly better than in the first three games, the Warriors' Curry, Klay and Poole were all inaccurate, giving the Grizzlies the opportunity to strike back quickly.
The Grizzlies, who were firmly on the counter-attack and inside, established a lead early and still held a four-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two teams were caught in a defensive battle, and because the Warriors were slow to open the offensive situation, the two teams began a very boring defensive battle.
The Warriors scored just 18 points in a single quarter, and the Grizzlies, who lost the counterattack, scored only 17 points, leaving the two teams to score low points of 38 and 41 points respectively at the end of the half, and the Grizzlies still led by three points.
Easy to fight again, the Warriors' previous three-guard lineup became a short board, giving the Grizzlies the opportunity to use their height to attack the inside line, Anderson Jr. and Kyle Anderson played exaggerated offensive efficiency, successfully stretching the point difference to 8 points.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the content of the game began to increase, and the Warriors finally gave up the 3-guard lineup and took the big forward Otto Porter to the court to ensure that the Warriors did not lose rebounds again.
As Potter hit back-to-back three-pointers, the Warriors continued to narrow the gap, but the Grizzlies continued to improve their defensive intensity, and after a brief dud in the Warriors quarter, the gap was pulled open to double digits by the Grizzlies.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Warriors showed their life-saving moves and the basis of their standing, the offensive end Curry opened a personal offensive show, the defensive end chased dreams continuously, successfully strangled the point of Jalan Jackson Jr., and finally the Warriors completed the counterattack, defeating the Grizzlies 101-98 and rewriting the series score to 3-1.
Throughout the game, the Grizzlies were the ones who did most of the right thing, so they were leading most of the time, and the team was a loser.
Morant's absence not only did not collapse the team, but shared the ball more smoothly, defended more actively, and insisted on defensive counterattack and inside high on the offensive end, creating huge trouble for the Warriors.
Among them, Jalan Jackson Jr. blasted down 21 points, 5 boards, 2 breaks and 5 caps, Brooks 12 points, 5 boards and 8 assists, Adams 10 points, 15 boards and 3 assists, Jones 19 points, 6 boards and 5 assists, kyle Anderson 17 points, 8 boards, 2 breaks and 2 assists.
Helplessly, even if the Warriors make mistakes that can be made, as long as they can drag the game into the decisive moment, the team still occupies an absolute advantage.
Because the team completely crushed the Grizzlies in handling the ball in key moments, the Kuchai connection killed the game at the critical moment, chasing dreams on the defensive end and Curry ended on the offensive end.
In the case of only 4 of 14 three-pointers, Curry still bombed 32 points, 5 boards and 8 assists, can only say that the wind knows the grass, in such an unfavorable moment, can see who is the Warriors' real killer and irreplaceable player, Curry and the dream once again proved this.