With Morant nearly announcing season reimbursement, the Grizzlies' playoff journey may end here. After all, before the start of this game, the series score was already 1-3. For the Grizzlies, they don't have half a chance, especially after Morant's injury, and the team's hopes of reversing are even slimmer. Even many fans said that the Grizzlies could choose to give up.
But in fact, the Grizzlies did not give up, but played a stronger momentum. Since the start of this game, the Grizzlies players have shown a different spirit, and it can also be seen that the team has made changes in attack and defense. The Warriors, who were relatively slow and hot, and somewhat light enemies, were quickly overwhelmed by the strong offensive of the other side. At the end of the half, the Grizzlies led the Warriors by 27 points at 77-50.
I thought the Warriors would fight back, but faced a huge point difference and an imposing opponent. The Warriors failed to counterattack, but the opponent further widened the point difference. When the point difference was the largest, the difference between the two teams was 54 points, which was jaw-dropping. As a team aiming to win the championship, the Warriors were slaughtered by the Grizzlies without Morant in the playoffs, which is not a shame. Originally, the Warriors had some obvious advantages, but somehow fell into a huge passivity.
In contrast, the Grizzlies, the more players play, the more confident they are, and the probability of the team advancing has also increased. After the Grizzlies pulled back one, Morant, who watched the game silently from the sidelines, may be slightly troubled. In his absence, the Grizzlies played a phenomenal performance to help the team win in a desperate situation. These, in the first place, seem to have reduced his importance. Of course, these claims are just ridicule.
Speaking of games, the main reason why the Grizzlies were able to break out in this game is that these aspects have done better. The first is the change in the overall linkage of the team, which has been forcing the Warriors to make mistakes. Without Morant's absolute ball, every player can participate in the attack and limit the opponent with a complete defense. If Morant is on the pitch, a lot of the ball is bound to be in his hands. The Warriors need to do very simply, and that is to limit Morant as much as possible. Without Morant, the Warriors could not guess the Grizzlies' moves, and they had today's powerlessness.
This was followed by an excellent offensive and defensive conversion that helped the Grizzlies play a fluid offense. When they influence the Warriors' offense through the team's integrity, they can start the offensive and defensive transitions they're good at. There is no shortage of players with excellent athleticism in the team, and once the opponent makes a mistake, he gets the ball and immediately launches a quick attack. So repeatedly, the Warriors' players will be greatly depleted, and the performance on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends will naturally be more depressed.
In addition, it is an excellent defensive system that makes the Warriors scenery away. This season's Grizzlies have formed a defensive system based on Jones, Dillon and Bain on the defensive end, these players are defensively active, move fast, whether it is joint defense or supplementary defense, can make opponents suffer. Compared with single defense, the Grizzlies' defensive system is more of a headache for opponents. Curry and Thompson in this game also lost themselves in such a defensive system.
The last point, which is also important, is immeasurable spiritual power. The Grizzlies are on the brink of extinction, and they don't want to end there. As long as there is still a chance, every player will give it their all. So the game started from the start, and every player came up with a posture of fighting to win. They played very excitedly, strictly implemented the newly designed tactics, and soon overwhelmed each other in momentum.
Although the Warriors' overall strength is better, in a continuously passive environment, it is undoubtedly too difficult to reverse. Coupled with the fact that the Grizzlies have shrunk the interior in this game, making the interior space smaller, it is naturally more difficult for the Warriors to break through to the basket. The outside shot is not accurate, the inside line can not burst in, what can the Warriors take to win? Of course, the Warriors still have the advantage now, but after being beaten by the Grizzlies, they will have to find a way to deal with it. Otherwise, if you lose one more game, the two sides will return to the same running line. At that time, the warriors will really have no way back!