On the morning of May 19, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Dallas Mavericks sat at home and continued to face off against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Halfway through the first quarter, Doncic made an exaggerated two-step back and hit a three-point shot. In the next round, Doncic did the same, turned and stepped back, and staged a three-point two-game combo.
How good does Doncic feel? In the first four shots, Doncic hit all of them and scored 12 points.
In the second half of the second quarter, Doncic completed his sixth shot of the game, with the cover of Lively, when Dort's defense was somewhat delayed, Doncic took a decisive three-point shot outside the three-point line and hollowed into the net. The Mavericks finally took the lead, but a series of low-level turnovers, coupled with the Thunder's increasingly accurate projection, after a wave of 24-6 attacks, the Thunder entered the second half with a score of 64-48.
Doncic finished with 15 points, four rebounds and three assists on 5-of-6 shooting from the field, including 3-of-4 three-pointers, but also had five turnovers, while Irving scored just four points on 2-of-5 shooting.
After three and a half minutes in the third quarter, Doncic rushed to the basket with three slow steps, made a layup to make it 2+1, and caused Dort's fourth foul. After that, Irving and Doncic made a three-pointer and hit two consecutive layups, and the Mavericks chased the difference to only eight points.
How aggressive is Doncic's targeted offense? Dort quickly picked up his fifth foul, and at the end of the third quarter, the Mavericks trailed the margin to just seven points.
Three minutes into the final quarter, Doncic faced Jalen's defense, moved laterally and drifted to shoot, and the difference between the two teams was only 4 points.
The Mavericks had three military lives, and Donci made a wonderful pass to Washington with a three-point shot in the bottom corner, and the two teams were tied. In the next round, Doncic broke through Dort with the ball and made a sharp stop in the low post, starting from 42-41, the Mavericks once again overtook the score.
With two points left in the final quarter, Doncic once again delivered a key assist, and Washington hit his second three-pointer of the game to give the Mavericks a three-point lead.
In the final moments of the game, the two teams were still deadlocked, and the Thunder led by one point with two seconds left in the final quarter. Doncic passes the ball to the corner, and Alexander fouls Washington.
Washington hit the first two free throws, the Mavericks led by 1 point, the third free throw deliberately missed, Jalen made a three-point shot in the backcourt and failed, and the Mavericks completed a 17-point reversal at 117-116 and advanced to the Western Conference finals with a score of 4-2.
Doncic was quite efficient on 9-of-15 shooting, scoring 29 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and his performance was still stable.