On April 30, Beijing time, the Pelicans played against the Thunder at home, and the Pelicans lost to the Thunder 89-97 at the end of the game. Originally, many people in this round of the series thought that the Thunder didn't want to pass easily, but in the G2 and G3 games, the Thunder played quite well in the game, but the Pelicans were in a bad state in the game, it can be said that at this time the Pelicans saw that the lack of Zion was very passive, although Wallan had an inside advantage, but when Holmgren found the outside three-point touch in the game, Wallan's advantage was also disintegrated, and because the outside three-point state was sluggish, the Pelicans played quite uncomfortable in the game, and then Ingram, If McCollum can't improve yet, then the Pelicans' playoff journey may be coming to an end.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the two teams played fiercely, under the play of McCollum and others, the Pelicans were biting the score, and then Jaylin and others tried to help the Thunder open the score, but Marshall hit three points to continue to help the Pelicans bite the score, and the next game The two teams played chaotic, McCollum fouled offensively, and Ingram also hit the iron, but the Thunder's offensive state was not good, and then Marshall scored a layup, and Alexander hit the iron with three points at the last moment, and the two teams tied at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, the Thunder's outside three-point slump, but Holmgren hit the inside, Jalen also hit the shot, so the two teams still played very closely, but unfortunately the follow-up Pelicans offense can continue, Wiggins scored a layup not to mention hit three points, Varan and Murphy scored inside to stop the bleeding after Alexander easily broke through to score, and in the follow-up game, although the Pelicans did a good job in the details and made mistakes, fortunately, Murphy and others were able to continue to score, and the Pelicans fell behind by 1 point at halftime.
In the third quarter of the game, the Pelicans took the lead in the outbreak of Wallan, but soon Dort responded, and when the follow-up Pelicans offense failed to continue, Alexander and Keady hit the inside line to help the Thunder overtake by 1 point, but McCollum hit the inside line in this game to achieve good results, but Alexander was able to hit a three-point chase body, so the score of the two teams was very stale, and then Alexander helped the Thunder open the score, fortunately, Marshall broke out with three points, and Ingram scored a free throw at the last moment, and the Pelicans led by 1 point at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the two teams played fiercely, and Varland and Marshall helped the Pelicans take the lead, but Holmgren responded without saying anything, and the Thunder tied the score after Keady hit a three-pointer. After the timeout, Keady continued to hit three-pointers, Jay also hit three-pointers, and the Thunder slowly led to 8 points. In the next game, the Thunder held the lead, and in the end, the Pelicans were unable to recover and lose the game.
In fact, the Thunder still played a little difficult in this game, after all, the Pelicans still gave a lot of physical confrontation in this game, and the Pelicans relied on Marshall's play to bite the score for a while, but there are too many people who can stand up here for the Thunder, not to mention that Alexander can continue to maintain his state here, and more importantly, Jay has a big explosive performance in this game, and Keady broke out on the outside three-point in this game, so the Thunder can firmly occupy the lead. At the end of the game, Alexander had 24 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists, Jay Wei had 24 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and Keady had 14 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, including 4-of-6 from the outside line.
After the Suns were swept out yesterday, the Thunder became the second team to sweep the opponent 4-0 to advance to the second round of the playoffs, and the Pelicans really tried their best in this game, but Ingram's offensive state in this game was too bad, and when other players performed better, the ball was still here in Ingram, and in the end the Pelicans lost the game Ingram is really to blame, Ingram got 8 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists in 2 of 14 at the end of the game. As for the Pelicans bench titan Marshall really tried his best, after all, Marshall was in a hot state in this game, when the Pelicans were in a difficult situation, it was Marshall who stepped forward and hit three points to help the Pelicans bite the score, but unfortunately Marshall still lost after Marshall got 16 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist.