Because the Thunder's defense was okay, Westbrook's offense couldn't score and the defense was very desperate, which made his teammates offset the frustration of not getting the ball on the offensive end, and the Grizzlies only scored 6 points in the last 5 offenses, only 2 of 5 shots, but fortunately Sun Ce and Klay Thompson opened the splash connection and scored a three-pointer each.

After a 6-3 run, the Grizzlies led the Thunder 97-89 into the intermission!

This score, the Grizzlies are playing with a lot of brains!

The loss was the first 9 minutes of the third quarter, because Westbrook had been playing alone, and the rest of the Thunder team was frustrated that they couldn't get the ball, and the defense was not done well, otherwise the opponent scored 89 points in the third quarter, and their Grizzlies were basically finished.

Fortunately, they scored more points, scoring 33 points in the third quarter to go 33-28 and extend the five-point lead at halftime to seven!

Westbrook went from only three shots in the first quarter and a half to score five points, and by the end of the third quarter, the number of shots became 32, that is, the next 29 shots, which took only one and a half quarters......

With 15 of 29 shots, the efficiency was really terrible, but the free throw was only 5 points, and there were 4 turnovers!

40 points on 16-of-32 shooting, which is very powerful, in fact, it was even more powerful a few minutes ago, a few minutes ago it was 15-of-28 shooting! But in the last 1 of 4 shots, Westbrook's shooting percentage was limited to 50% by the Grizzlies!

After the start of the fourth quarter, Westbrook still singled twice regardless of it, and the Grizzlies defended better, Westbrook made a close-range pull-up jump shot, and a layup under the basket was interfered with by Sun Ce, although the Grizzlies prevented Westbrook from scoring in these two rounds, and after blocking Westbrook for the second time, Sun Ce counterattacked and made a mistake out of bounds, but relying on Sun Ce's strong three-point shot at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies are currently 100-89 ahead of the Thunder by 11 points!

After Sun Ce's mistake, Thunder head coach Brooks called a timeout after only two offensive plays.

He finally reacted now, and he was pitted by Huo Bald!

Westbrook, who is only in the fifth year of his career, is not a very good scorer, he has the ability to average 234 points per game, but the limit is like this, in the real face of the Grizzlies' normal defense, Westbrook can score 20 points with a shooting rate of more than 4%, it must be said that Ellis's strong offensive ability is stronger than the current Westbrook, Ellis is a top scorer who can get an average of 25 points per game with a 45% shooting rate, and Westbrook has not played a 45% shooting rate in his career so far, not even averaging 20 points per game!

That bald man just wanted to make Westbrook not calm, so he gave Westbrook such a good singles opportunity and let Westbrook fall deeper and deeper!

Hurry up and replace Westbrook, Brooks loves Westbrook the most, but he also knows that Westbrook, who is only 24 years old, is not so good, but has good talent.

At this time, it is still Durant to rely on!

With 11 points and 10 minutes and 22 seconds remaining, Brooks felt there was still hope and replaced the lineup with Fisher, Ellis, Durant, Ibaka and Nick Collisson.

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On the Grizzlies' side, Coach Hollins accurately grasped the timing and replaced the lineup of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders.

Looking at the lineup changed by Huo Bald on the opposite side, Brooks cursed this bald man frantically in his heart, despicable and shameless!

Although they led by 11 points, Sun Ce and others did not dare to be careless, and wanted to rely on not letting Ellis and Durant catch the ball to consume the feelings of the two, which ...... It seems unlikely.

And it is unlikely that the fighting spirit of the two will be discouraged by cutting off tactics.

Sure enough, after the timeout came back, Ellis showed off a wave of close-range acceleration and folded throws in the face of Sun Ce's supplementary defense when he singled Paul George.

Unlike Sun Ce, who learned the skills of accelerating and changing direction while on the move, and relying on skill bonuses to have explosive acceleration, Ellis is purely relying on physical fitness to complete such movements, although he has been playing for the eighth year of his career, but as a high school rookie, Ellis has just turned 27 years old, and he has the best combination of athleticism and technique!

Fortunately, immediately afterwards, after Gasol Jr. responded to Paul George in the high post, Paul George passed to Sun Ce under the basket, and Sun Ce smashed the ball into the basket through Nick Collisson.

Ellis and Durant are standing and watching Westbrook play a quarter and a half alone, the offensive end consumption is small, and they can still fight at their best at this time, they see Sun Ce has been attacking and defending with all his strength for almost 40 minutes, and if he can fight like this, his head will explode.

Even though Ellis just broke through one, the Grizzlies still insisted on grinding their defense and stumbling to the end!

Durant and Ellis helped the team score hard, and the Grizzlies worked hard to score the ball and hold on to the slight advantage they played.

After the official timeout in the fourth quarter, seeing that the difference narrowed to 5 points and the score became 107-102, the Grizzlies replaced Jimmy Butler, Klay Thompson, Randolph, and Larry Sanders, and played three minutes with Sun Ce, relying on Randolph's low-post strong eating and secondary offensive rebounds and outside shots, the Grizzlies played a wave of 8-6, and after the official timeout came back, the opponent fought for more than two minutes in the small half of the quarter, and once again stretched the difference to 7 points.

Randomly, after the Thunder called a timeout to adjust, the Grizzlies played a scoundrel here, with the lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr. playing.

Defend to the death!

After Randolph's form is getting better and better, the Grizzlies have the capital to play rogue!

The familiar Grizzlies are back!

This lineup, even Ellis and Durant, looks numb!

In the last two minutes, the Grizzlies only scored two points, or Sun Ce took the opportunity to make a basket to score two points, but Ellis and Durant, who went all out to attack at the last moment, only scored 4 points, and they all scored free throws!

In the end, the score was fixed at 117-112, and the Grizzlies relied on the iron-blooded defense of the rogue at the critical moment to narrowly defeat the Thunder by 5 points!

Sun Ce made 14 of 31 shots, including 5 of 8 of the most critical three-point shots, and scored 38 points, 11 boards, 12 assists, 5 blocks, 3 steals, 4 turnovers and 5 fouls, helping the team win narrowly at home!

Westbrook finished with 40 points, seven rebounds and eight assists on 16-of-34 shooting, Durant scored 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting, Ellis had 17 points and Ibaka had 12 points......

The Thunder side looked like the stats and shooting percentage were good, and it seemed that the Grizzlies played better offense to win the game.

Fans who watched the game also felt that this was the case, because the offense was really efficient, and Westbrook and Sun Ce seemed to be doing well in scoring and assisting.

But that's not how the Thunder players and coaching staff feel that way at all!