In the first quarter, Randolph slashed 19 points and 4 rebounds, setting a new high for a single quarter of his playoffs!

Sun Ce played the whole first quarter, got 3 open shots, shot a baseline shooter and a long two-point jumper on the right side of the free throw line, and a counterattack to receive Paul George's second pass under the basket to cause Durant to foul and make two free throws, 6 points, 5 boards, 1 assist and 1 block in a single quarter, and Gasol Jr. played the first quarter with 2 points, 1 board, 3 assists and 2 blocks.

Under Randolph's leadership, the Grizzlies scored 31 points in the first quarter!

On the Thunder's side, they only scored 19 points in the first quarter, if it weren't for Seifrosa who threw two open three-pointers, and Fisher, who replaced Westbrook, broke through to the basket twice in a row and scored a total of 5 points, Mr. Tony only shot 1 of 3, and the difference could have been even greater.

At the end of the first quarter, the Grizzlies led the Thunder by 12 points, 31-19.

The Grizzlies had a clear advantage after the start of the game, and there is a clear difference in the competitive form of the two teams at the moment.

This is related to the current game awareness of the two teams, the Thunder won the first round very easily, and it was won by Biao's offense, plus the Thunder head coach Brooks has been emphasizing the need to play a good offense when preparing for the game, the purpose is to deal with the Grizzlies' defense, so the Thunder team wanted to attack from the beginning, but Westbrook and Durant were limited to death by Mr. Tony, Paul George, and Gasol Jr. Sun Ce, and the outside line was guarded by Sun Ce, and the inside line was targeted to death by Gasol Jr.

The main reason is that after the first round of the Thunder players, they played confidently, because it was too easy to win, and it was just careless to lose one.

Also, it's not just the media touting them, after the first round, they themselves feel that this season is completely different from last season, this season they really have the strength to win the championship, although they are still young, the oldest Durant in the core players is less than 24 years old, which makes them full of expectations for the future, and because they feel that they and others will be stronger in the future, they feel that they are strong now.

Confident, and Westbrook and Durant were anxious to play well against the Grizzlies, the two played very badly in the first quarter, Mr. Tony and Paul George, who had become better defensively after a series with the Mavericks, withered with the help of Sun Ce and Gasol Jr.

On the Grizzlies' side, in the first round, they have been facing the Mavericks with high-intensity defense throughout the whole process, and in terms of defense alone, there is a gap between the Thunder and the Mavericks with Conley, DeSean Stevenson, Marion, Yao Ming, and Chandler, and the Thunder team attaches too much importance to offense, resulting in insufficient preparation on the defensive end, and the level of defense shown by the two teams is not at the same level.

It's not the players' fault, the players can do better, the Thunder went to the playoffs, although the defense was not as good as the Mavericks, but they were close to the top level, but today they didn't even have a first-class level.

Especially the first round experienced by Durant and Randolph is completely different, Durant averaged 36 points per game in the first round of 5 games, and played only 35 minutes per game, extremely efficient, Gallinari's defense is okay, but it is also a good level, Durant plays him like playing, but now the outside line has to face Tony's single defense, cut in to meet Gasol Jr., and occasionally have to be defended by Sun Ce......

Randolph played badly in the first round, 6 games, Average 14.3 points per game, most of the points are still fighting to grab offensive rebounds, encountering the Thunder inside, Randolph fought hard, want to prove himself, Perkins to help defend is not very good, Ibaka defense may be the best in the league at present, but the single defense is also a good level, especially can not prevent Randolph's type, good mobility usually means that tonnage and stake defense is not good; Perkins can withstand but slow, occasionally Randolph can win offensive rebounds with one pick two.

In the first quarter, the starting lineup of the Grizzlies played the whole quarter, and Sun Ce was replaced after the start of the second quarter, leaving only Paul George and Randolph as the two starters, and Nash, Klay Thompson, and Yi Jianlian were replaced.

Sun Ce returned to the bench to rest, and played too easily in the first quarter, making a total of 4 shots, 3 shots were successful, two shots were made, and there were not many passes, and he gave Durant a big hat just now, which was so cool.

However, it was not just Dewey and the Thunder who played badly, these two were targeted today, plus their own head coach was indeed of average level, and the tactical strategy was wrong, so it was expected that the two were restricted.

There is also Harden, who came off the bench after the official timeout, and his performance was not as good as Sai Rossa, and in the face of Sun Ce's defense, Harden did not use his strong body comparable to Wade to break through, but floated on the outside to play and retreat.

This Sun Ce is not afraid, the interference is dead, the Thunder team in the first half of the first quarter when Syflorosa threw two three-pointers, in fact, the offense is not so bad, at least the difference is still within ten points, the Grizzlies are relying on Harden to come up with three shots all not scored, in the first quarter 6 and a half minutes to 10 minutes 02 seconds The Thunder called a timeout for more than three minutes stretched the difference to 16 points in one fell swoop, forcing the opponent to replace the Fisher + Se Rosa guard combination, thanks to the good performance of these two people, to help the Thunder team narrow the difference.

It was Fisher who surprised Sun Ce, who played better than Westbrook, not only in this game, but Sun Ce noticed when preparing for the game, Fisher averaged 2.2 three-pointers per game against the Nuggets in the first round, and the three-point shooting rate was 50 percent, which is a three-point performance of 11 of 22.

So just now he ran to make up for Fisher's outside shot, and Fisher seized the opportunity to break through to the inside and scored two consecutive goals, one of which was still 2+1, narrowing the difference to less than 15 points.

Originally, their Grizzlies led by 16 points at one point, and the Thunder scored only 11 points in the first 10 minutes, and Fisher, who came on in the last two minutes of the first quarter, scored five points in a row, and in the last two minutes, he played a wave of 8-4 to narrow it to 12 points.

Now Nash, Randolph and Yi Jianlian have two pitchers to run and run, and Sun Ce is happy to rest on the sidelines.

The eyes returned to the court, after the Grizzlies entered the run-and-shoot stage, the center of gravity of the defense was one, Klay Thompson and Paul George took turns to give Durant physical contact, and it didn't matter if the others could defend it or not, Westbrook took Harden to play a run-and-shoot, Harden caused 2 fouls in the first half of the quarter, 4 of 4 free throws, and a three-point shot, and scored 7 points on 1 of 1 shooting in the half quarter.

Seeing the change in Harden's playing style, Sun Ce sighed, this guy still embarked on this path.

When I watched the Thunder's first-round series report before, Sun Ce noticed that although Harden averaged 16 points per game in the first round, he only had a 35 percent shooting rate, purely relying on 8.2 free throws per game to support the scene, and only averaged 10.6 shots per game and 3.8 shots per game, including only 1 of 4 three-point shots.

I thought it was unaccustomed to running and playing Harden in the first round, but now that I look at it, it seems that there is really something wrong, and it is too far from the best sixth-man level offense who averages 18 points per game in the regular season, and it does not reflect his first-class strength in the A-level...... In other words, it has changed its way to show the strength of the A-level.

The Grizzlies didn't care too much about it, mainly to consume Durant, and the others didn't care about it first, their Grizzlies offense could continue, when Harden was playing well, Yi Jianlian took advantage of Randolph's counterattack threat and Nash's pass to score 7 points, two dunks, and a three-point shot on the sideline, and returned the color to Harden.

Durant wanted to perform, but he was targeted too badly, in the first quarter, he encountered Mr. Tony's hard work at all costs, and in the second quarter, he was defended by Klay and Paul George, and only relied on free throws to score two points in the first quarter!

The main reason is that Thunder head coach Brooks did too poorly prepared for the game, failed to predict the situation clearly, and panicked when he arrived in the game, except for sending the best players, there were almost no offensive adjustments, and the defense was not done well.

Durant doesn't know what the team's management and coaching staff think, the team obviously has a good defensive lineup, and the regular season defense is also quasi-top, but it doesn't seem to pay so much attention to defense, obviously the lineup is quite deep, but the coaching staff just likes to point to a few of the most talented players to the death, which is forgotten, the key is that you can't even tell which players are talented......

By the time of the official timeout in the second quarter, the Grizzlies had already led the Thunder by 15 points at 49-34!

After Nash hit a three-pointer to stretch the deficit to 15 points again, the Thunder called a timeout and entered an official timeout.

Led by Nash with 5 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, the Grizzlies went on an 18-15 run!

It's a joy to stretch the margin to 15 points, but an even bigger joy for the Grizzlies is that Durant and Ibaka have been playing 18 minutes straight!

Since he ran so happily, of course he had to continue running, and after entering the official timeout, Sun Ce was called by name and was replaced with Nash, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Jordan Jr......

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Who would have thought that after the start of the second round, the Grizzlies ushered in a hearty victory!

In the first game, Sun Ce played 31 minutes, 18 minutes in the first half, and 13 minutes in the second half, shooting 8 of 14, 1 of 3 three-pointers, 6 of 7 free throws, and scored 23 points, 11 boards, 5 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals.

It was really easy to win, Sun Ce played 8 minutes in the third quarter, was substituted after 5 minutes in the fourth quarter, and the last 7 minutes became garbage time.

Nash played 21 minutes and got 8 points and 8 assists, Yi Jianlian got 20 points and 6 boards, Jordan Jr. also had 14 points, plus the other pitchers performed okay, and the Grizzlies had the advantage throughout the whole process.

On the Thunder's side, Durant scored only 25 points on 9-of-26 shooting, Westbrook had 13 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, Harden scored 17 points, Fisher and Sefrosa actually scored the most points except for the three, both of them scored 8 points, Ibaka, Daquann Cook and others played badly, and the role players who spread from the core scorer to other offensive aspects played poorly.

Under the leadership of Randolph, who scored 37 points and 10 boards, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Thunder 117-99 and won the first win of the series!