Warriors vs Grizzlies
Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies handled the Warriors with a 106-101 win to tie the series up 1-1. Thanks to Ja’s historic night finishing with 47 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals the Grizzlies are proving the doubters wrong, very few fans and members of the media picked Memphis to have any sort of chance to make it this far, especially because they’re one of the youngest teams in the playoffs. Besides Ja, none of the other players from Memphis had a big night, in fact the second highest scorer on the Grizzlies was Ziare Williams with 14 points.
Now for the Warriors they need to look themselves in the mirror, especially Klay Thompson who has for the most part looked like a shell of himself this season and in particular the playoffs, Klay finished with 12 points on terrible shooting {5-19} and even on the defensive side the Grizzlies have been targeting Thompson which used to make him that all star plus kinda player. For the rest of the Warriors they have been good for the most part, Stephen Curry had another good game finishing with 27 points on below par shooting but nonetheless is still giving you the production you need from him.
Celtics vs Bucks
The Boston Celtics torched the Milwaukee Bucks last night 109-86 to even the series up 1-1 on Boston’s home court. With an explosive game from Jaylen Brown {25 points in the first half} the Bucks had no answer for Brown in game 2, Brown filled up the stat sheet with 30 points, 5 boards, 6 assists, 2 steals and a block on high efficient shooting {61.1% FG, 60% 3PT}. Also Jayston Tatum had a good game finishing just under Brown with 29 points. Boston brought the physicality last night and the Bucks had no answer for it.
The bigger concern was why did Giannis have such a poor game? Yes it looks like he had an alright game if you’re looking at the box scores but through the first half Giannis only had 5 points on 2-12 shooting which for his standards is awful. The Celtics have to feel pretty good for themselves right now considering there’s no Khris Middleton this series, they handled the Bucks without Marcus Smart last night and the Celtics defense shut down Giannis.
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