On April 22, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Pelicans challenged the Thunder away. The Thunder, who have risen to prominence this season under Alexander's leadership, are in first place in the West and have been waiting for the Pelicans for many days. The Pelicans passed the play-offs, first losing to the Lakers, and also causing Zion to be injured. In the end, without Zion, he won the king and entered the play-offs in a thrilling way. Zion continues to be absent for this game.
At the beginning of the game, the Pelicans continued the victory of the last game against the Kings, and continued to feed Varland the ball and play inside. And the Thunder's interior line is already weak, and Varan also lived up to his mission, scoring 2 goals in a row. Subsequently, the two teams began to hit the iron, and all the players were inaccurate, with Jones on the Pelicans side shooting 1 of 6 and Ying Ge shooting 1 of 4. On the Thunder's side, Holmgren shot 1 of 7, Williams shot 1 of 3, and only Alexander maintained the level, scoring 9 points on 4-of-6 shooting. At the end of the first quarter, the two sides were tied at 17.
Alexander breaks through and scores
The second quarter continued, and the Pelicans took the lead in attacking, Murphy hit two three-pointers in a row, and McCollum also hit a three-pointer, and the Pelicans led by seven points. Subsequently, the Thunder responded immediately, Holmgren made a backhand layup, Jay Wei played 2+1, the Thunder responded with a wave of 7-0, and tied the score, and the two sides fell into anxiety again.
Javy 2+1
Then the two sides alternated scores, and the game entered a white-hot half-time, and the two sides fought to a 43-all draw!
In terms of statistics, Pelicans McCollum had 9 points, Yingge had 8 points, Wallan had 6 points and 10 rebounds, Thunder, Alexander had 11 points, Williams had 9 points, and Holmgren had 7 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks.
Holmgren's amazing hat!
Yibian fought again, and the two sides still had tight scores, and no one could convince anyone. Subsequently, Alexander continued to erupt, leading the Thunder to a wave of 11:0 to pull the score away. Then Murphy III hit his fourth three-pointer of the game to close the score. The Pelicans are very tenacious and always hold their breath to keep the suspense of the game. At the end of the third quarter, the Thunder led the Pelicans 74-68.
Alexander scored in singles
In the crucial fourth quarter, as soon as he came up, Murphy caught the ball and hit his fifth three-pointer, McCollum also hit a three-pointer, and the Pelicans instantly narrowed the gap to 3 points. The Thunder, on the other hand, were somewhat lackluster offensively and struggled to support themselves on Alexander. With less than 4 minutes left in the game, as Ingram counterattacked Europe and made a layup, the Pelicans directly overtook 2 points at 18:6!
In the last 1 minute of the game, Alexander hit a key ball to chase the score to 90 draws. There are 32 seconds left in the game, and Alexander is again, beating McCollum to make it 2+1, the Thunder is leading by three points, and at the critical moment, it is up to Alexander to save the Thunder!
In the end, McCollum jumped out of the frame, and in the end, the Thunder narrowly defeated the Pelicans 94-92.
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