Basketball|Tuomas Iisalo’s troops drooling in the playoffs.
Tuomas Iisalo striving for the first playoffs in his NBA head coach with Memphis Grizzlies on Finnish time early Wednesday morning, when his team meets Golden State Warrios in the playoffs.
The winner of the match advances to the playoffs from seventh place in the western block and will face Houston Rockets in the first round of the playoffs. The loser will get one more chance and meet the winner of the winner Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings on Friday.
The winner of this match will become the eighth and last team of the Western Conference Plageup Chart.
“The difficult part of the playoff game is that you will not get a new chance. It’s one game. If you lose, you get another game but you won’t be able to play against the same opponent again. My approach is that we are not tomorrow. after.
“The biggest thing that gives me confidence is how the guys have taken it up, and generally we are in a good situation when we go to the playoffs.”
Mixed Memphis and Golden State has started well behind him, but in the end the 48 season wins.
Before the star break, Memphis had won 36 matches and lost 18, even though he had to play 21 games without his star tag And Morantia. After that, the slope began, which led to the end of March Taylor Jenkins for dismissal and Iisalo as a temporary head coach.
At the end of the Iisalo regular season coaching of nine matches, Grizzlies won four.
“I am self -confidence that every day in practice, guys do their best. I think we played really tough opponents in recent weeks,” Iisalo said.
Golden State Won three of the teams of four regular season meetings. The last of these was the third match of Iisalo’s head coaching season, which Warriors took 134-125 Stephen Curryn 52 points.
Curryn, Draymond Greenin Ja in the middle of the season acquired Jimmy Butler With the help of the Warriors, the playoffs are even bulging compared to Grizzlies.
After the Butler store, Green has played more as a central striker in the early part of the season. It means Memphis’s significant advantage, but a 222-centimeter entry center Zach Edeyn You have to do well in defense against the Warriors movement so that Iisalo can play her.
Golden State and Memphis were confronted with the spring 2021 playoff qualifier, when Memphis took the winning 35 points with Morant.