On April 22, Beijing time, the Thunder played at home against the Pelicans, and the Thunder successfully defeated the Pelicans 94-92 at the end of the game. Although the Pelicans successfully advanced to the playoffs, it is quite beneficial for the Thunder to see the Pelicans advance to the playoffs, after all, the Pelicans have injury problems here, and the Pelicans' strength is greatly damaged after the lack of Zion.
After the start of the first quarter of the game, the two teams' offensive bombardment scores alternately rose, but then the two teams' offenses stalled, Varan took the lead to score to help the Pelicans take a 2-point lead, and the next game was chaotic, the two teams played an offensive iron not to mention that there were many mistakes, the Thunder relied on Alexander to bite the score, and then Dort finally hit three points, but Alvarado was also able to help the Pelicans score, and the two teams tied at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, McCollum and Murphy fired three times to help the Pelicans open the score, but soon the Thunder blossomed a wave of 7-0 to tie the score, but under the leadership of Ingram, the Pelicans quickly stabilized the situation, and the next game The two teams played even more chaotic, and the Thunder caught up with the score at the end of the game under the play of Jawell and others, and the two teams tied at halftime.
In the third quarter, Murphy helped the Pelicans take the lead, but Jay and Alexander responded quickly, and then the Pelicans played chaotically, and Holmgren scored a shot to give the Thunder a five-point lead over the Pelicans. The next game continued to expand the lead, McCollum scored at a critical moment to stop the bleeding, and then Murphy also hit three points, although the Thunder once led to 9 points under the play of Jay and others, but soon Alvarado and McCollum responded, and the Pelicans also successfully bit the score, but unfortunately the Thunder played a wave of 9-2 at the end of the game, and the Thunder led by 8 points at the end of the third quarter. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Thunder once led to 10 points, but fortunately, Murphy stepped forward in the next game, McCollum hit three points after the Pelicans directly chased 3 points, and the two teams played stalemately, but in the second half of the game, the Thunder offense was powered off, and the Pelicans directly overtook 2 points with a wave of 5-0 at the critical moment, and at the critical moment, Alexander stood up and played a wave of 5-0 to help the Thunder regain the lead, and at the last moment, McCollum hit three points, and finally the Thunder narrowly beat the Pelicans.
In this game, the Pelicans almost beat the Thunder, the Thunder was only 2 points ahead at that time, and McCollum did find an opportunity to shoot three points, but unfortunately McCollum missed the three-point shot, and McCollum got 20 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists at the end of the game. And Ingram should really take the blame for this game, after all, Ingram performed badly in this game, and when the Pelicans were in trouble, it was Murphy, Jones and Nance Jr. who helped the Pelicans chase points, but Ingram did not step up at a critical moment, so the Pelicans lost the game Ingram is to blame, and at the end of the game, Ingram got 12 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in 5 of 17.
And Alexander also successfully proved that he is the superstar of this team, after all, in the second half of the fourth quarter of the game, the Thunder lost power, if it wasn't for Alexander standing up and scoring in a row, then the Thunder may not be able to win, and Alexander got 28 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game. As for Holmgren's redemption in this game, in fact, Holmgren's performance in this game was not very good, but at the critical moment in the fourth quarter, Holmgren showed a good defensive state, and at the critical moment in the fourth quarter, Holmgren's blocking of Nance Jr. was really crucial, and in the end, Holmgren got 15 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists and 5 blocks.