The Warriors struggled to win the G4, and the significance of winning the G4 game can be said to be crucial for the entire series. Because winning is a 3-1 lead, and losing is a 2-2 decisive battle against Tianwang Mountain, which are completely two different concepts. The most important thing is that the battle of Tennoyama is still at the home of the Grizzlies, which is actually the most troublesome. The Grizzlies overpowered the Warriors for almost three quarters + 11 minutes, and the Grizzlies have always been on the dominant side at this stage, but finally lost? Where did you lose? Losing to the stars, Curry finally stepped forward to take over the game and forced the team to win.
Curry just look at the efficiency today is good? It's almost a mess, 10 of 25 shots, 4 of 14 three-pointers, very inefficient. But Curry scored 18 points on 4-of-7 shooting in the entire final quarter, and he only scored 32 points in total today, which means that Curry's performance today is basically in the final quarter. The first three quarters are obvious, the Warriors have been playing iron, Curry iron can no longer be iron, dead or alive is not thrown, three points of iron without edge, the big empty three points have not even been thrown in. But in the fourth quarter, the ball was almost the ball on the wound of the Grizzlies, three points + free throws + mid-shots, and Sheng Sheng pulled back the inferior situation of the whole game.
Especially in the last minute of the free throws, Curry was like a needle in the sea, steadily hitting one after another! In contrast, today's Poole played a bit "virtual". 4-of-12, 0-of-3 from three points, 14 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 turnovers and 3 fouls, if you just look at the data, Poole's performance is at least better than Thompson's, but the game is not that thing. Throughout the game, the ball was always in the hands of Curry and Poole, and the others did not hold the ball. But what's the difference? The difference is that Curry is calm about this big scene, and Poole seems to have some lack of confidence.
The most intuitive embodiment is that Poole does not dare to attack, and does not dare to shoot when he has a three-point opportunity. After the first three quarters of the shooting was not accurate, Poole did not even dare to try a three-point shot in the fourth quarter, even if there was a good chance, but did not dare to rush to shoot, which is not his style of playing at all. And after killing the basket and being shocked by jackson's basket, Poole appeared to be a little creepy, and the decisiveness after getting the ball was very poor, coupled with the defense could not withstand people, for a period of time Poole became a defect on the court. At this time, Curry showed that the ball as the core master of the big scene must not panic the ability.
Although you are covered by Jackson's hat, you can't be afraid at this time, you are afraid of it, you have to find a way to play in the ball, and you have to show the value of the core players. Of course, Poole can't compare with Curry, but this ball should be a good teaching ball for Poole, learning to be like Curry in the first three quarters, even if it is iron to the margin, but the fourth quarter still has to have decisive confidence and judgment. It is said that Pooler's playoffs this season have grown very quickly, but in fact, Poole has not experienced enough things, this game is that Poole has learned something again, as a core defender, the first point must be to hold the ball at the key moment.