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Pelicans (home) vs Thunder preview 4:00 a.m. Beijing time
*Recent situation of both teams: The Thunder won the match point 3-0 in this series, and the Thunder defeated the Pelicans 106-85 away in the last game.
* Analysis: This series is played by the Thunder, who ranked first in the West, against the eighth Pelicans, who were in danger of passing the playoffs, and now the big score is 3:0 to get the match point, from the first three games, in addition to the first game Thunder narrowly won by 2 points at home, the second and third games won by 32 points and 21 points respectively, the Pelicans look completely powerless, is the strength comparison really as real as the Western rankings?
The first is that the Pelicans lost three games without the team's top All-Star power forward Zion Williams, because Zion suffered a second-degree strain in the play-offs, so he had to stay away from the court for at least two weeks, just missed the first round of the game with the Thunder, resulting in the Thunder inside Holmgren and Jalen Williams in the game to take demand. The second Thunder team is mostly young, when the Thunder implement the run-and-gun tactics, the shortcomings of the Pelicans' main center Valanciunas will be infinitely magnified, resulting in the Pelicans rushing to grab the frontcourt rebound failure, the Thunder quickly change the rhythm of the offense, and the Pelicans will not be able to cope. Third, the Pelicans' main players except Valanciunas are basically strong in offense and weak in defense, when the shooters Jones, CJ McCollum, Ingram, Murphy and other main shooters face the playoff intensity of the defensive level increases, the weakness of the lack of hard solution ability is reflected at this time, resulting in too inefficient scoring.
In the fourth game of this series, if the Pelicans want to avoid being swept in the series at home, in addition to the first and second points above, the third point needs the Pelicans to have key players to step up in time to help the team continue to survive. As for whether the Thunder have the motivation to continue to play well on the road, it is one of the highlights of this game. In addition, before this game, the Pelicans had faced the Thunder with 5 consecutive defeats, and only won 1 of the last 8 games, and the Thunder can be called the Pelicans' bitter master.
* Match prediction: Thunder wins