THE NBA playoffs Continue on Sunday with the other four rounds of first rounds to reverse you. The seeds n ° 1 and n ° 8 will face the other, in addition to the seeds n ° 2 against n ° 7 in each conference.
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Here are the results and key dishes of Sunday matches:
Thunder 131, Grizzlies 80
There are eruptions and then there is what the Thunder n ° 1 did the Thunder to the Grizzlies n ° 8 in their opening match of the playoffs. This was probably an eliminatory match of the NBA in the first round resembled a university basketball pre-season match in which a candidate in the national championship played a directional program in mid-me-in-law. Maybe even a junior college.
Journalists will have to check later if there are nine chalk contours for Memphis players in the Paycom Center court to mark the crime scene. What was perpetrated will have to be cleaned before these two teams play on Tuesday in match 2.
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The assault was relentless from the start
Memphis has never been lucky in this game. The Thunder seemed everyone in the championship and well rested with a week off after the end of the regular season last Sunday. After the Grizzlies took a brief advance of 9-8 five minutes after the start of the first quarter, Oklahoma City triggered hell, finishing the first 12 minutes with an advance of 32-20 and by ahead of the 31-10 grizzlears in the second quarter.
If the Grizzlies had aspirations to be more competitive in the second half, the Thunder quickly broke this notion with a sequence of 10-0 which led to a possible third quarter of 44 points. If it was a boxing match, the corner would have thrown the sponge. The team would probably not have let the Grizzlies go out to play in the second half.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander only played 23 minutes and scored 15 points, almost passed Easter Sunday.
The Thunder front area dominated in the total gap
Oklahoma City had a huge advantage on the front line, led by 20 points by Jalen Williams and 19 from Chet Holmgren. On the other side, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Zach Edey only scored four points.
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The Thunder had eight team blocks, annihilating all the attempts by the grizzly ones to take the ball to the basket. Being satisfied with exterior shots did not work either, Memphis pulling 6 out of 34 out of 3 points and 34% in total.
Yes, it was just a match in a series of best seven. But how do the grizzles recover to put together a kind of challenge? Match 2 was running Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. he.
– Ian Casselberry
