The Warriors called a timeout a little earlier into the official timeout, and that detail was well utilized.

When you hear the whistle of the official timeout, the players who are used to being substituted for rest during the official timeout in the first quarter will feel "it's time for me to rest" mentally, and then the physical aspect will relax a little.

While the Grizzlies don't necessarily do it every game when they take an official timeout in the first quarter, they do it most of the time.

Like Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Richard Jefferson, they all have such mental and physical habits to a greater or lesser extent.

The Warriors, who were only one point behind even if Sun Ce made both free throws, only trailed by three points, called a timeout at this time, and it was suggested by the Warriors' new assistant coach Alvin Gentry for the purpose of this.

They didn't fall behind obviously, even if Sun Ce hit both free throws, they had a chance to tie the score with a three-pointer, but they just called a timeout in advance.

If the Grizzlies rotate now, they can face the Grizzlies for less time, even for a minute or two.

If the Grizzlies don't rotate, it's even better if luck does disrupt the Grizzlies' offensive rhythm.

Even if it doesn't work at all, it's not a loss to go into the official timeout early, the official timeout always has to go in, and they can still make adjustments on the defensive end.

Coach Hollins is not very incomprehensible about the opponent's initiative to call a timeout, and always feels that there is a problem, and he has to speculate, but there is no big problem.

But the starting stage did not play a clear advantage, which is a troublesome thing, the opponent's combination is really powerful, the wild 22-6 record after the All-Star weekend, so that the Warriors have been greatly improved in the two aspects of coordination proficiency and confidence.

The key is a good lineup!

Originally, Coach Hollins wanted to use the interior combination of Aamir Johnson and Larry Sanders in the regular season to play and switch to a defensive lineup, and the opponent must be a big four next up, and the opposing backup power forward is as tall as Klay Thompson, and in the eyes of their Grizzlies team, he is the same as a small player.

The Warriors rotation is more rigid, and Mark Jackson is not a coach who dares to take risks, but he Coach Hollins is!

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After the timeout, on the Warriors' side, Harden rested first, and the combination of Curry, Iguodala, Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green, and Jermaine O'Neal came on.

Mark Jackson is definitely in the regular rotation, as Coach Hollins expected.

But what Mark Jackson didn't expect was that the Grizzlies replaced Whiteside, who was blown up by the block in the last meeting of the regular season! And Yi Jianlian didn't go down!

The combination of Sun Ce, Beverley, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Whiteside is on the court!

Sun Ce walked to the free throw line, the first hook went in, and the second hook was iron!

However, when Whiteside was blocked by O'Neal Jr., he was stunned before Drummond and Harrison Barnes, relying on his height and arm span advantage to point the ball first, point the ball to the rebound, and bounce into the basket!

This offensive rebounding advantage, the Warriors feel crazy, since Rodman, there has never been a player like Whiteside, the offensive rebounding is too fierce! Reggie Evans, Jordan Jr., Drummond, Adams, and Stoudemire are all inferior offensive rebounders.

And Whiteside has a height advantage that Rodman doesn't have, and this is a serious 213cm big center.

At 16-13, the Grizzlies led the Warriors by three points.

The Warriors attacked, Iguodala remembered the last meeting of the regular season when he saw Whiteside, Curry used the block to attract the pinch, although Curry did not score much, but helped Green get 9 assists in a single game, advanced through the half, handed the ball to Curry, and continued to open up the space to prepare to cut in or catch the ball.

Iguodala himself doesn't care about the stats, he got a 4-year contract, he just let himself go, and his average of 10 points per game is gone.

Curry looks for O'Neal Jr. to block and dismantle!

O'Neal Jr.'s blocking is very porcelain, and people remember Garnett, Rasheed Wallace, Duncan, and Boozer at the beginning of the century, but it is easy to ignore O'Neal Jr., who was selected to the All-Star team three times in the four years before the Auburn Hills palace incident.

This is an all-around center who is very good at pick-and-roll, catch-and-shoot, mid-range face rim and even low post back, and won two monthly awards in one season in the 03-04 season, almost stealing Garnett's MVP.

Now O'Neal Jr. is no longer as brave as he used to be, 35 years old, but he still works very well with Curry or Harden in blocking and pick-and-roll, averaging 8.8 points, 5 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.1 blocks per game this season.

In the last meeting, against Whiteside, O'Neal Jr. and Curry's pick-and-roll combination beat the Grizzlies to a bad match.

But this time, after Curry and O'Neal Jr. blocked and dismantled, Beverley and the expanded Yi Jianlian went directly to Curry!

Curry was about to look for O'Neal Jr., and found that Sun Ce was directly receiving from the left sideline to make up for O'Neal Jr.! At this time, Curry wanted to run to Iguodala at a 45-degree angle on the left side, and was sandwiched by Beverley and Yi Jianlian, and the long pass at this angle was likely to be stealed, and only Draymond Green on the left baseline had a gap.

Curry hurried over, and Draymond Green received the ball and stepped inside to shoot...... Before the ball was about to reach the highest point, Whiteside, who pounced, grabbed the ball directly with a cover!

Coach Hollins secretly called "Oyeer" from the sidelines.

The temporary change of formation, at least the effect of the first defense is very good!

Curry is a first-class passer, but there is a clear difference from the top, give him absolute possession, he can average 8+ assists per game, but in that case, the Warriors will certainly not have a good record, and the strength will not be great, he is a comprehensive and all-round guard on the guard line and shooting as the strongest point.

Unlike Sun Ce, who observes two teammates most of the time and can take care of up to three or even pay attention to the overall situation, Curry, like other ball handlers who have a sense of passing and accurate passing, has an obvious "choice" for passing, that is, to see teammates have opportunities first.

This is the second biggest gap between Curry and Sun Ce in terms of organizing offense, and the first is the gap in vision.

Like Iguodala and Harden, you can observe more teammates, but Curry just found that the first pass target was made up before looking for other teammates who were released, although it may only be a 1 second or even 0.5 second time difference, but even if the Grizzlies' defense has slipped this season, the outside line is still very good, forcing Curry to pass to Draymond Green.

Draymond Green, who is averaging just 40 percent shooting per game this season, went to the basket and was snapped straight by Whiteside.

Draymond Green, who was caught in the hat, pressed up and wanted to steal, obviously annoyed and angry, and the action was very big, Whiteside's personality is much better now, but his temper is still there, and he was punched by Drummond and elbowed directly!

Draymond Green is taking advantage of Randolph's absence to get fat and go wild, who knows that Whiteside is more reckless than him, and the two are immediately entangled.

The referee reacted quickly and immediately went up to separate the two and stop the other players who came up to them.

Iguodala hugged Whiteside and pulled Whiteside away, and Draymond Green had already been pulled away by Curry.

Iguodala has always been a good person, and his behavior of going up to pull Whiteside away was not treated as a fight by the referee, and the referee didn't think about Iguodala at all.

Whiteside and Draymond Green each ate a technical foul that was offset and no free throws were made.

In fact, the referee was about to blow the whistle when Draymond Green punched Whiteside, and he noticed Draymond Green's small movements, but Whiteside reacted too violently.

The loss is that the two players who clashed are not stars, and it is the home court of the Grizzlies, so the referee did not punish Whiteside who waved his elbow, and that action, if it wasn't for Draymond Green's quick dodge, would have rushed straight into the eye.

Whiteside, who calmed down, was a little afraid, but when he saw Sun Ce come up and smile and punch him in the chest, Whiteside was not afraid, he was worried that his uncalm behavior would be blamed by his teammates and the coaching staff, but Sun Ce's actions were obviously not to blame, but to appreciate!

After a short mid-section of the race, the race continued.

The Grizzlies continued to attack, and Beverley received serve and pushed toward the frontcourt.

The conflict just now, the scene has become manic! Originally, Grizzlies fans were very jealous of the rising Warriors, and now they are even more unhappy to watch!

Obviously, it was Draymond Green who made a small move first and almost caused the baby center they dug up to be sent off, and now Grizzlies fans have hated Draymond Green, an unknown 12-time rookie.

Beverley arrived in the front court and encountered Harrison Barnes's defense, Sun Ce went up to help Beverley block Harrison Barnes, and Beverley took the opportunity to break through!

Sun Ce pulled away to the right after the pick-and-roll, Harrison Barnes and Iguodala both made up for the stretching Sun, and Beverley made an unguarded throw from inside the free throw line......

Miss!

But Whiteside grabbed the offensive rebound on the heads of O'Neal Jr. and Draymond Green!

Whiteside, who won the offensive rebound, had a weird pass vision, which was very different from the fact that he only found someone half a day after grabbing the defensive rebound, and immediately passed it to Beverley.

At this time, Harrison Barnes and Iguodala, who took back to help protect the rebound, both pounced on Beverley, and Beverley distributed the ball to Sun Ce, who ran to the right side of the top arc, and Sun Ce received the ball in the open position and made a three-point shot......

Entered!

This is Sun Ce's most accurate point, and the vacant shooting is extremely high!

This wave of offense and defense played a defensive strategy that Coach Hollins had thought of before perfectly!

There are many flaws in this defensive method, too many to count, and it is the kind of flaw that is linked one by one, so it has not been regarded as a tactic by Coach Hollins, and has not even been practiced in training, but it should be simple, just outside joint defense, pinching, and changing defenses, and completely ignore the basket.

Under the basket, he pointed to Whiteside to defend, and it was even possible to let Whiteside defend two under the basket, one person to prevent the other two people to cut in.

But once Whiteside defended the basket, the Grizzlies could defend very well without the Splash Pair being on the floor at the same time!

Whiteside, who came up and was enraged by Draymond Green's small actions, appeared on the playoff stage for the first time and immediately exploded!

Whiteside defended the basket very well, and even interfered with the layups twice in a row when facing Draymond Green and Harrison Barnes when they cut in, although he was able to defend the first defensive rebound and did not block, but Whiteside's defense under the basket was too horizontal!

Playing on the Warriors' side, he was forced to float on the outside to shoot, the Grizzlies outside defense mid-range shooting directly 4 defense 3, Draymond Green, who can only shoot 0.7 goals per game outside the three-second zone, was directly empty, he didn't step on shit tonight, he didn't score twice, and his teammates didn't pass it to him.

Coach Hollins caught the Warriors off guard with this wave of operations, and in more than 5 minutes, the Warriors only scored 10 points!

On the Grizzlies' side, Sun Ce, Beverley, Klay Thompson, and Yi Jianlian, whoever has a mid-to-long-range shooting opportunity will throw it directly, and try to open up the space as much as possible, so that Whiteside, who is in a violent state, can have better space to rush for rebounds.

There are the best offensive rebounding players, whether you can grab it or not, the Grizzlies have confidence anyway! Throw decisively, and throw well.

At 10 minutes and 55 seconds in the first quarter, Sun Ce singled Iguodala to hit a three-point shot in the second offensive round after Klay Thompson's three-point shooting, and also caused Iguodala to foul!

If the goal is effective, a penalty will be added!

32-23, if Sun Ce adds a penalty to score, the difference will be stretched to 10 points!

With 1 minute to go, the Warriors head coach made another substitution, replacing Iguodala with Harden, who had already replaced Draymond Green with Gerard Wallace, who was made mentally exploding by Whiteside.

Draymond Green likes to bully honest people, but when he encounters Whiteside, who is more sideways than him in rebounding, better in defense than him in the three-second zone, and has a more weird temper than him, and his personality used to be even hotter than him, he was completely fine.

It's a pity that Sun Ce didn't score this time, and in the last minute, Harden hit two consecutive breakaway layups against Whiteside, and Yi Jianlian Klay Thompson scored a three-pointer on the Grizzlies' side.

At 35-27, the Grizzlies led by eight points into the break, unfortunately narrowly stretching the margin to double digits.

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Entering the intersectional break, Sun Ce was replaced.

Sitting on the bench, looking at his 10 points, 3 boards, 4 assists and 1 steal on the big screen, 3 of 7 shots were not bad, and 2 of 5 free throws were miserable.

However, it didn't matter, and in the second half of the first quarter, their lineup changed and the opponent couldn't cope with it for the time being.

Whiteside played 6 and a half minutes and got 4 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks, and interfered with the opponent's catch-and-shoot shooting under the basket many times, and played very well!

The last time the two teams met, it was the Warriors who won, and to some extent, their Grizzlies have more room to adjust this game, because if they lose, they will naturally lose because they have more trouble and more problems to solve.

And the winning side suffers in this regard.

Of course, not all problems and troubles can be solved by finding a way, there is no strength, the coaching staff does not have that kind of thinking, and they dare not try boldly if they think of a lot of disadvantages, and they can't solve the problems when they encounter them.

But tonight, the Grizzlies played a game that the Warriors couldn't think of for a while at least in the second half of the first quarter.

It's a pity that the two important players of this tactic are going down after the first quarter, and he has to rest.

There is also the fact that Whiteside can't prevent Harden's layup, Harden is no worse than Whiteside, and Whiteside's continuity is not enough, he can perform amazingly in terms of data every time he plays, but his physical strength is really average, and the last 1 minute of the basket defense declined significantly, and Harden's last two offensive forced layups were scored, helping the Warriors control the difference within 10 points.

However, it is already very good that Whiteside can do what he can do so well, just these 4 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks are already worth it, and the base salary center of more than 1 million US dollars cannot find a second one who can be as powerful as Whiteside.

At the end of the break, the Grizzlies sent a combination of Beverley, Tony Allen, Paul George, Amir Johnson, and Larry Sanders to go up and grind the defense with speed.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Warriors sent a combination of Harden, Bazemore, Jordan Crawford, Speight, and Thabit, and this lineup was picked up by Harden alone.

On the Grizzlies' side, this lineup is not as good as when Gasol Jr. was there, and it was not as good as Larry Sanders and Randolph's partner, but the rotation defense was very strong, Curry was not there, the Warriors' outside shooting containment became weaker, and the defensive role was still very good, and the offense was a bit of a tank corps.

Originally, the Warriors and Grizzlies would not have sent such a combination, such a combination could only bite the score at most and not let the opponent play an offensive climax, but the offense was very poor and could only be supported by Paul George.

However, the Grizzlies had an 8-point lead in the first quarter, and the Grizzlies had the money to play!

And, tonight Paul George is on fire!

In other words, in the playoffs, Paul George has improved significantly as he did last year!

Paul George is weaker on the offensive end than Harden, but the defense is better, if it weren't for Sun Ce's delay this season and his failure to connect the overall defense well, the team's record is not one of the top four teams, otherwise in this season's season when no defensive master locks up the best defensive player, Paul George is not without a chance to rush to the best defensive player.

And tonight, Paul George broke out in a mid-range shot!

He started the game well, and when Harden went all out to avoid the Grizzlies' team defense in the second quarter, and the efficiency was very good, Paul George carried it!

With 8 points and 2 assists in the first quarter, Paul George was stunned to create more rest time for Sun Ce and Klay Thompson with Harden scoring 11 points in the first half.

After 6 minutes and 28 seconds in the second quarter, when the Grizzlies called a timeout for substitutions, they still led the Warriors by 7 points at 48-41!