Original title: NBA comprehensive: Trae Young slumps, Eagles stop in the first round, Morant lore Grizzlies to win Tianwang Mountain
On the 27th, the Bulls and the Nuggets will challenge the Bucks and Warriors with match point on the road respectively.
Xinhua| Final Four.
In the two “Battles of Tianwang Mountain” in the West, Morant made a glide-lever layup and led the Memphis Grizzlies to a 3-2 lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves in the series; Mikal Bridges scored 31 points, Phoenix scored 31 points The Suns beat the New Orleans Pelicans for match point.
In this campaign, Heat stars Butler and Lowry were sidelined due to injuries, but the team opened with Oladipo’s leadership and the Hawks clinched the score. In the second quarter, Max Struth scored 10 points in a row, and the Heat set off a 17-0 climax, ending the first half with a double-digit advantage. After changing sides, Clint Capela of the Eagles retired with an injury in the third quarter, but DeAndre Hunter scored consecutively, chasing the difference to 2 points. At the last moment, Danilo Gallinari suffered a double-team pass error, and the Eagles lost by 3 points.
In the Heat array, Oladipo scored 23 points and Adebayor scored 20 points and 11 rebounds. The Eagles Hunter scored a game-high 35 points, and the team’s star Trae Young continued to slump. He scored 11 points on only 2 of 12 shots and made 30 mistakes throughout the series.
The Grizzlies, who returned to the home court, were the first to enter the state and made a 13:2 start, but Patrick Beverley’s “3+1” sounded the horn of the Timberwolves’ counterattack. Since then, “Double No. 1” Towns and Edwards have both blossomed inside and out. , the Timberwolves entered the distal quarter with an 11-point lead. At the critical moment, the Grizzlies head Morant suddenly broke out and scored 9 points in a row, and seized the opponent’s defensive mistakes at the last moment, completed a difficult layup lore, and helped the Grizzlies beat the Timberwolves 111:109.
For the Grizzlies, Morant had a quasi-triple-double with 30 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists, and Desmond Bain contributed 25 points. For the Timberwolves, Towns hit 5 three-pointers and scored 28 points, and Edwards scored 22 points.
In another game, the regular-season Western Conference leader Suns defeated the Pelicans 112-97. The Suns suppressed from the beginning of the game and resisted the Pelicans’ counter-attack in the final quarter. Mikal Bridges scored 31 points, Paul scored 22 points and sent 11 assists. The Pelicans were collectively misfired on the outside, shooting only 20% from three-pointers, Ingram scored 22 points, and McCollum scored 21 points.
On the 27th, the Bulls and the Nuggets will challenge the Bucks and Warriors with match point on the road respectively.