877: Half game, full time stats (1/5)

Steve. Kerr would never have imagined before the game that his warriors would actually encounter such a thing as being taken away by the opponent in a wave.

Usually, it is his team that suddenly explodes with three points and takes away the opponent in a wave.

But today, on the contrary, the warrior was pressed to the ground by the other party and rubbed.

Five minutes, 20-0, the Grizzlies' offense came as soon as it was said, and Kerr was not at all defenseless.

The Golden State Warriors thought they could turn the West upside down, but Link hadn't said yes yet.

Of course, fans are now clearly more interested in the image of Link shaking down Green than the 20-0 offensive climax.

During the pause, the footage is looped from all angles.

Link's graceful movements, swift turns, and a flowing lever at the end of the face of Bogut...... This perfect sequence of actions seems to only appear in a posed basketball movie.

And what about Green? The impatient blocking, the embarrassed fall to the ground, and the unwillingness to hammer the floor after being shaken down.

This scene vividly shows Green's embarrassment.

Before the game, he viciously provoked the opponent, but was easily tricked and shaken down during the game.

Green now dug a hole for himself and jumped for himself.

On the big screen at the scene, the picture of Green being shaken down was also being replayed.

The fans at the stadium were so happy to watch it that no matter how many times they watched it, they would scream for it.

Green, on the bench, was so angry that his lips were shaking.

Forget about being humiliated, the picture of being humiliated has to be replayed over and over again in front of so many people......

People with poor psychological quality are estimated to collapse on the spot.

"Draymond, leave that replay alone! We still have time, it's only 19 minutes, and we haven't been sentenced to death yet! Kerr frowned, he didn't have the heart to reassure the players right now.

Green nodded slightly, clenching his fists.

Now, if you want to get rid of this great humiliation, there is only one way - to fight back!

Crazy counterattack, fierce counterattack, so that Link Grizzly can feel the pain of the counterattack!

As long as the Warriors can win the game in the end, then Link won't be able to shake the opponent down one more time.

If it is an ordinary team and is beaten 20-0 by the Grizzlies, it will be basically difficult to turn over.

But the Golden State Warriors are the only team that has just won 16 in a row, and if they are capable of that, they will never be able to keep their winning streak that long.

There are eight teams in NBA history that have won at least 22 of the first 25 games of the season, and all eight of them have made it to the Finals that season.

The Warriors now have a 20-3 record, which is very close to that record. In other words, they're half a Finals-caliber team.

Such a team will naturally not be intimidated by the 19-point difference.

Link also knows that the Warriors are not ordinary opponents, and as the saying goes, any point difference is not worth mentioning in front of consecutive three-pointers.

The Warriors only need to make four consecutive three-pointers if they succeed defensively to close the gap to just five points.

And what the Warriors are best at is making three-point chains.

So next, the Grizzlies have to focus on the defensive end.

Joggle then replaced Carter, who had been heavily guarded, and went on to Tony. Alan. Replaced Tobias. Harris, let Link play the No. 4 position and Butler the No. 3 position.

The Grizzlies have a lineup of one big and four small, as long as they can resist this wave of counterattacks, the game will be nine out of ten!

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. With a score difference of nearly 20 points, maybe in the first five minutes, the lagging side will do their best to chase the points.

But if the difference still doesn't come close after chasing the old man for half a day, I'm afraid that the morale of the lagging side will only get lower and lower with the passage of time.

This time, Link muttered a few words in Whiteside's ear before he came out.

A few minutes earlier, Link had "chanted a spell" in Carter's ear, and Carter had scored three in a row.

This time, no one knew what kind of bastard thing Whiteside was going to do again.

"The game restarted, and the Grizzlies adjusted their lineup. Now they are the same as the Warriors, playing one big and four small. However, the defensive strength is much stronger than just now. ”

Green couldn't help but be a little nervous when he saw Link on top of the number four.

This villain is already a little scared by Link.

The first offense the Warriors made when they returned, and they began to look for opportunities from beyond the three-point line.

Grizzlies have apparently expected this, though. Conley's defense of Curry is still tight, and now Conley doesn't have to worry about the organization or scoring, so he can put 100% of his energy into defense.

Curry and Klay crossed positions, but Curry still didn't have much easier.

Because after the Grizzlies changed defenses, they became Tony. Allen goes to defend Curry!

In desperation, Curry had no choice but to return the ball to Klay, after all, Klay faced Conley and had some height advantages.

Klay jumped up and shot almost against the defense.

Thompson is 16 centimeters taller than Conley, which is indeed a big difference. But when Conley raised his arms and jumped, the difference in height between them wasn't as exaggerated as 16 centimeters.

In the end, Thompson's shot was a fraction of a millimeter away from the field.

But if you don't score, you don't score, the shot is not a target, you have to hit the heart to score.

The Grizzlies' defense has left Kerr desperate, and now the situation is in which, unless he throws more three-point shots and plays at a faster pace. Otherwise, it's hard to make a difference.

But if you want to do that, you have to play super small lineups...... Cole shook his head, he wasn't ready for it.

After the Grizzlies attacked, Whiteside began to play pick-and-roll with Link.

No matter how the style of NBA games changes, blocking and pick-and-roll is the most basic and effective tactical coordination.

This unpretentious block and tear down made Stockton the assist king and allowed Malone to score 36,000 points.

The power is huge, you can see it.

Link's and Whiteside's pick-and-rolls can't reach the heights of Malone and Stockton, but they're more than enough to deal with a scarred Bogut and an overly short Green.

Bogut didn't change his defense, and the Australian knew that if he changed his defense and played the wrong game with Link, it would be a dead end, and he didn't want to be shaken down by Link.

Therefore, he let Green bypass the cover and continue to stay in front of Link.

Seeing that Green immediately bypassed the cover and continued to stick to Link, Bogut let out a big breath, he thought it was safe.

At this moment, Whiteside quickly cut into the penalty area, full of aggression!

As soon as Bogut turned around to chase back, Link threw the ball straight into the air.

"Damn, it's too much of a bully!" Bogut knew what Link and Whiteside were trying to do, but with his current physical condition, there was nothing he could do about it......

Whiteside sprints and leaps to his feet, easily receives Link's pass, and dunks the ball into the basket hard!

Empty dunk, bullying is that Bogut can't jump.

It doesn't matter if Green switches defenses, because Green is also not an athletic player, not to mention that his height and reach don't have an advantage.

In any case, this high point on the Grizzlies' interior line, the Warriors are difficult to limit.

It's true that a team can't kill a game with a simple and brutal air catch.

But relying on this to open the score, it is more than enough!

Sure enough, as long as Link mutters to a teammate before going on the field, nothing good is going to happen.

Instead of narrowing the gap, the Warriors were pulled away by two more points by the Grizzlies.

With 21 points behind, the Warriors must make seven consecutive three-pointers and not let the Grizzlies score even one point during this period to close the hole.

"Ahead of the division finals, the Grizzlies have certainly taught the rising Warriors a good lesson." Hubi. Brown shook his head, and if he continued to play like this, it would be difficult for even the Warriors to make a difference.

Before this game, the Warriors' devastating offense could shake the entire league, and it seemed that the Grizzlies couldn't stop the Warriors' iron hooves.

But this game made Hubi. Brown remembered what Link once said, "A champion is still a champion until it falls." ”

Look at the two championship pennants on the dome of the Federal Express Arena, those two flags were not given by others.

After Whiteside dunked, he was even more excited on the defensive end.

Once the Warriors break through, they will have to face Whiteside's "fly swatter" arms.

And the outside line, Conley, Tony. Allen, Butler, and Link form a defensive chain that makes it difficult for the Warriors to move an inch, and almost every shot must be shot against the defense.

Both the inside and outside lines were blocked by the Grizzlies, and the Warriors' counterattack could only calm down amid bursts of iron.

In the end, by the end of the second quarter, the Grizzlies had widened the gap to 26 points!

Curry made 2 of 7 three-pointers in the half, and Thompson made just 1 of 5 shots. The entire Warriors team shot less than 30% of their three-pointers in the first half, which is not even up to the league average!

The Grizzlies are the only team that has allowed the Warriors to shoot below 30 percent of their three-point shooting in the half of the season since the start of the season.

At the end of the half, Steve. Cole was approached by reporters and did a halftime interview.

Kerr faced the camera and shook his head vigorously, "The defense of the Memphis Grizzlies is a notch ahead of all the other teams in the league." Yes, such a tight defense is something we have never seen before. Of course, Link also caused us huge trouble. His comeback gave the grizzlies a new look. ”

As a rookie coach, Kerr's previous achievements can be described as making him high-spirited.

But now, he frowned and grimaced. When he used to comment on Grizzlies games, he didn't have a clear understanding of how powerful the Grizzlies were.

After competing against the defending champions as a Grizzlies opponent today, Kerr learned what it means to be terrifyingly powerful.

Speaking of Link, Hubby. Brown couldn't help but look down at the data sheet.

By halftime, Link had 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists.

Again, he used only half a game to play statistics that no one else could get in the whole game.

Judging from this trend, the seventh consecutive triple-double is already a sure thing.

These historical records seem to have become less valuable to Link.

Breaking the record at two ends in three days, what kind of words......