One Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty. This Bald Guy Is so Despicable!
Since the Thunder's defense was okay, Westbrook struggled on the defensive end because he couldn't score on offense. This allowed his teammates to offset the frustration of not getting the ball on the offensive end. They defended very hard. The Grizzlies made the last 5 offenses. He only scored 6 points and only made 2 of 5 shots. Fortunately, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson started a splash connection and each scored a three-pointer.
After a 6-3 wave, the Grizzlies led the Thunder 97-89 into the intermission break!
With this score, the Grizzlies are having a headache!
The loss was in the first 9 minutes of the third quarter. Because Westbrook kept playing alone, the rest of the Thunder team was frustrated when they couldn't get the ball. They didn't do a good job in defense. Otherwise, their opponents scored 89 points in three quarters. They were basically equal to the Grizzlies. Finished.
Fortunately, they scored more points, scoring 33 points in the third quarter and scoring 33-28, extending their 5-point halftime lead to 7 points!
Westbrook only took 3 shots and scored 5 points in one and a half quarters. By the end of the third quarter, the number of shots had increased to 32, which is the next 29 shots. It only took a quarter and a half...
15 of 29 shots, the efficiency is indeed terrible, but the free throw score was only 5 points, and there were 4 turnovers!
He scored 40 points on 16-for-32 shooting, which is very impressive. In fact, it was even better a few minutes ago. A few minutes ago, he was 15-for-28 from the field! But in the final 1 of 4 shots, Westbrook's shooting percentage was limited to 50% by the Grizzlies!
After the start of the fourth quarter, Westbrook still played two singles regardless, but the Grizzlies defended better. Westbrook made a short-range pull-up jump shot, and a layup from the basket was blocked by Sun Ce. Interference, although the Grizzlies guarded Westbrook and did not score in these two rounds. After guarding Westbrook for the second time, Sun Ce counterattacked and made a mistake and went out of bounds. However, Sun Ce hit a three-pointer with a strong shot at the beginning of the fourth quarter. , the Grizzlies currently lead the Thunder by 11 points 100-89!
After Sun Ce made a mistake, Thunder coach Brooks called a timeout after only two attacks.
He finally realized now that he had been tricked by Huo Tu!
Westbrook, who is only in the fifth year of his career, is not that good a scorer. He has the ability to average 23 or 4 points per game, but that is the limit. When facing the normal defense of the Grizzlies, Westbrook It would be good to score 20 points with a shooting rate of more than 40%. It must be said that Ellis's offensive ability is better than that of Westbrook. Ellis can at least achieve a shooting rate of 45%. A top scorer averaging 25 points per game, Westbrook has never hit a 45% shooting rate in his career, or even averaged 20 points per game!
That bald man just wanted to make Westbrook irritable, so he gave Westbrook such a good singles opportunity and made Westbrook sink deeper and deeper!
Replace Westbrook quickly. Brooks loves Westbrook the most, but he also knows that the 24-year-old Westbrook is not that good, but he has good talent.
At this time, Durant is still the one to rely on!
With an 11-point difference and 10 minutes and 22 seconds left, Brooks felt there was still hope and replaced the lineup with Fisher, Ellis, Durant, Ibaka, and Nick Collison.
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For the Grizzlies, coach Hollins accurately grasped the opportunity and replaced the lineup with Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders.
Looking at Huo Tu's lineup on the opposite side, Brooks cursed the bald man crazily in his heart, he was despicable and shameless!
Although they were leading by 11 points, Sun Ce and others did not dare to be careless at all. It seemed impossible to rely on not letting Ellis and Durant catch the ball and consume their hands.
Moreover, it is impossible to use cut-off tactics to dampen the fighting spirit of the two people.
Sure enough, after returning from the timeout, Ellis faced Sun Ce's defense when he was singles against Paul George, and showed off a wave of close-range acceleration and direction folding throws.
Unlike Sun Ce, who learned the technique of accelerating and changing directions while traveling, and relied on skill bonuses to achieve explosive acceleration, Ellis completed such actions purely by relying on his physical fitness.
Although he is in the eighth year of his career, as a high school rookie, Ellis has just turned 27 years old, at the peak of his athletic ability and technology!
Fortunately, right after, Gasol passed the ball to Paul George from the high post. Paul George passed the second pass to Sun Ce under the basket, and Sun Ce smashed the ball into the basket through Nick Collison.
Ellis and Durant stood and watched Westbrook play alone for a quarter and a half. The offensive end consumed little, and he could still fight at his best at this time. They saw that Sun Ce had been fully attacking and defending for almost 40 minutes, and he could still fight. If you fight like this, your head will explode.
Even though Ellis just broke through, the Grizzlies still insisted on grinding defense and fought to the end!
Durant and Ellis helped the team score with difficulty, but the Grizzlies worked hard to score the ball and held on to the slight advantage they had gained.
After the official timeout in the fourth quarter, the score difference narrowed to 5 points and the score became 107 to 102. The Grizzlies brought Jimmy Butler, Klay Thompson, Randolph, Larry Sand Si substituted and played with Sun Ce for three minutes. Relying on Randolph's low post attack, secondary offensive rebounds and outside shooting, the Grizzlies went on an 8-6 run. After the official timeout came back, the opponent fought hard. More than two minutes of buffering in the second half of the quarter once again opened the point difference to 7 points.
Randomly, after the Thunder called a timeout to adjust, the Grizzlies went rogue, and the lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol came on.
Fight hard on defense!
After Randolph's condition got better and better, the Grizzlies had the capital to play rogue!
The familiar Grizzlies are back again!
This lineup, even Ellis and Durant, looked scalp numb!
In the last two minutes, the Grizzlies only got two points, and Sun Ce took the opportunity to tip in two points, but he only defended Ellis and Durant who were going all out at the last moment to get 4 points, and they were all free throws!
In the end, the score was fixed at 117 to 112. The Grizzlies relied on the rogue-like iron-blooded defense at the critical moment to beat the Thunder by 5 points!
Sun Ce made 14 of 31 shots, including 5 of 8 three-pointers, the most critical, and scored 38 points, 11 rebounds, 12 assists, 5 blocks, 3 steals, 4 turnovers, and 5 fouls, helping the team win at home!
Westbrook scored 40 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists with an efficient performance of 16 of 34 shots, Durant scored 24 points with 9 of 16 shots, Ellis scored 17 points, Ibaka scored 12 points...
The Thunder team's data and hit rate seemed to be very good, and it seemed that the Grizzlies played a better offensive performance to win the game.
The fans who watched the game also felt that this was the case, because the offense was indeed very efficient, and Westbrook and Sun Ce seemed to have good scoring and assists.
But the Thunder players and coaching staff did not feel this way at all!
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