On April 22, Beijing time, the NBA ended a passionate battle in the playoffs, and what was thought to be the least suspenseful game played the biggest suspense, CJ McCollum missed the shot, and the Thunder narrowly defeated the Pelicans by 94-92 points at home.
And after this game, it should be able to see that James and his Los Angeles Lakers are indeed the biggest losers, they could have picked the opponent to pick the Thunder, they didn't pick, but they ran into the Nuggets they were most afraid of, didn't this suffer a big loss? After this game, you can find that the strength of the Thunder is really not good, it seems that the Lakers picked the Nuggets, but in fact, the Pelicans picked the Thunder.
At the critical moment, the Thunder suffered in all aspects, they played an eighth-place Pelicans, as the No. 1 team in the West, not only did not do it, but even almost overturned. Even if CJ played a little better in the last ball, the Thunder was gone, and the Thunder did not have any advantage in the whole game, the two sides had 20 alternate leads, Alexander is a young man, although there was an important 2+1 at the critical moment, but he made more mistakes, in the last 6 minutes to 2 minutes, 1 of 6 shots, 0 of 3 three-pointers, 1 block, 3 turnovers, not that he pulled his hips and couldn't play the last.
Alexander can't do it, and neither can the Thunder's interior line, the whole court was pressed and beaten by the Pelicans, and he directly grabbed a full 18 offensive rebounds, and the interior line was blown up. Except for Holmgren, they had no one to protect the rebounds consistently, and Varland had 20 rebounds. This is still a Pelican without Zion, and with Zion Thunder I don't know how to fight.
In addition, a group of young people on the team, the outside shooting percentage is not guaranteed to play in the playoffs, 10 of 32 shots, it can be said that they made too many mistakes in the whole game. The first in the West and the eighth in the West has become the most anxious game in the first round, you will find that the Thunder is still too tender, it seems that the Lakers chose the Nuggets before, in fact, the Pelicans really deliberately picked the Thunder, and they also found that this team is the best team to play.
On the other side, you can play like this with a fat tiger Zion Williamson, and if the fat tiger is there, Holmgren's body can directly smash the Thunder's interior line. At this time, Zhan Huang and the Lakers are really speechless, you look at the strength of the Thunder now, the Lakers are drooling, but if they deliberately let the water lose to the Pelicans at that time, let them go to play the Nuggets, they don't have to be beaten like this, the first round of the Thunder, then don't you hold the handle? It is estimated that the Thunder can win at most one game in the hands of Zhan Huang and the Lakers, and they may be beaten home 1-4, the Lakers are indeed the biggest losers after this fight, the Thunder team is really weak, don't you win casually if you change the Lakers?
Do you remember that when the play-offs were play-offs, even the Lakers' own media reporters were suggesting to this team, do you want to deliberately consider releasing water to lose to the Pelicans and don't play the Nuggets? Playing the Nuggets is really not beatable, losing to the 8th place to play the winner of the Warriors and Kings, now it looks like playing the King, the Lakers play the King, although the regular season was swept, but after all, the Kings no longer have Monk and Huerter, the Lakers are no longer afraid of them, as long as they win one game to the eighth beat the Thunder, this is equivalent to a straight road to the Western Conference Finals.
In this way, you can avoid the Nuggets and Timberwolves before the Western Conference finals, and even if you enter the second round, there is no problem with the Clippers, the Lakers are also 3-1 in the regular season of the Clippers this year, and they are also 3-1 in the Thunder, you dare not go on such a good road, you must go to fight the Nuggets. Now that the Nuggets have been beaten up for a while, and they are going to create shame in the first round, the Lakers have suffered a big loss in this wave of play-offs, and the rankings of others have not changed, and the Lakers have become playing the Nuggets when they beat the Thunder, isn't this a loss?
So this game seems to be very fierce between the two sides, and Zhan Huang and the Lakers have actually become the biggest losers, which once again proves that their previous behavior of not picking an opponent is the most wrong move. If James travels in the first round, he will lose the play-offs and win the Thunder at that time, and when Zion comes back, the Thunder will most likely be blackened. Isn't the young team's fear of the old ruffian?