On December 16, Beijing time, the Pelicans played against the Thunder away from home, and the Pelicans successfully defeated the Thunder 113-110 at the end of the game. Although the Pelicans made trades this season in the offseason, Zion's injury problems still made the Pelicans perform badly, and now they are also in the bottom position in the West, but the Thunder are also a rebuilding team, so the Pelicans still have some chances to win this game. After the game began, the Thunder played a good form to take the lead, but in this game Ingram had a good offensive state, under his leadership, the Pelicans gradually caught up with the score, and the next two teams were even more immortals fighting the score was very sticky, and finally the Pelicans hit the backcourt three points to complete the kill to defeat the Thunder.
After the first quarter of the game, Ingram and others helped the Pelicans take the lead, but after the Thunder blossomed more than a point to complete the reversal, alexander also helped the team extend the lead, and the Thunder led by 4 points at the end of the first quarter. The Pelicans tied the score in the second quarter, after which the Thunder once again took the lead under the play of Muscara and others, and the Thunder led by 6 points at the end of the half. In the third quarter, the Pelicans played a wave of 10-0 rebound, after which Alexander and others scored to stop the bleeding, Ingram responded, but under Alexander and others, the Thunder were still able to bite the score, and then the Thunder completed the counter-overtaking, and the Thunder led by 3 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the two teams played fiercely, and Ingram stepped forward to help the team take the lead at the critical moment, but then Alexander hit a three-pointer to tie the score, and finally when the game was about to enter overtime, Graham hit the backcourt to score a three-pointer, so that the Pelicans won the game.
In this game, the Thunder are not without effort, among which Alexander is even more in the game to do his best, in the fourth quarter key moment Alexander hit a super difficult three-point is not easy, but after Graham's backcourt three-point shot made Alexander have no chance to lead the team into overtime, the end of the game Alexander got 33 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist data, after the end of the game Alexander also left the field in frustration, after all, he had already seen the hope of playing overtime, But Graham's three-point shots like this are really no way. Among the other Thunder players, Gidy had 17 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Favors had 2 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and Beziley had 2 points and 2 rebounds.
At the same time, the Thunder side of the Lakers' old Muscara in the game is an explosive performance, but his explosive performance did not help the team win into useless work, the end of the game Muscara 6 of 4 got 16 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist data. On the other hand, it is not easy for the Pelicans to win this game, Valanciunas is still playing steadily in the game, varanciunas at the end of the game 8 of 10 got 19 points and 16 rebounds, and Graham, who hit a super three-pointer, got 15 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists in this game, and Hart got 11 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.
Although Graham's final three-point shot was very surprising and made the Pelicans very happy, in fact, if it were not for Ingram's play in the game, the Pelicans would still be difficult to win, after all, in the fourth quarter of the key moments, Ingram stepped forward to help the team score, his consecutive points also helped the team to take the lead, and finally the Pelicans also won the game with a thrilling pass, and Ingram got 34 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game.