No 20 -point lead is sure in the NBA qualifiers for this year. The good news for Oklahoma City Thunder is a 49 -point lead is still quite safe.
In the middle of a three consecutive section with massive returns from the NBA qualifiers, the Thunder hurt a team from Denver Nuggets who surprised in match 1 And really paid the price for this Wednesday in A victory of 149-106 OKC. The series now on equal 1-1, the two teams will go to Denver for match 3 Friday.
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The match was actually in a few minutes in the third quarter and was definitely finished at the end of the third quarter, when Nikola Jokić gang up and the Thunder began to shoot starters.
“We were punished”, the acting coach of Nuggets David Adelman told journalists after the match.
It was an OKC overwhelming group effort, but the engine was still clearly Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The favorite of the MVP (the fans of Sorry Nuggets) displayed 34 points out of 11 out of 13 with eight assists and set A record for the Play-by-Play era NBA With a more-51 note in its 30 minutes of play.
The Thunder looked like the Thunder in the game 2. (Photo by Joshua Gateley / Getty Images)
(Joshua Gateley via Getty Images)
Thunder set the NBA qualifier record with 87 points in the first half
After a slow start in match 1, the Thunder struck the first minutes of match 2 as a high -speed train.
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Six minutes after the first quarter, they were up 11 points. At the end of the first quarter, they increased by 24 points. And at halftime, they increased by 87-56, establishing a record for the NBA qualifiers to mark in the first half.
This half-time saw six Thunder players different scoring two-digit and the team committed two reversals, while out of Denver 30-21. The Thunder also kept its foot on the gas in the second half, leading to 49 in the fourth quarter.
It was the kind of avalanche that we saw the Thunder unleashed throughout the regular season, which ended with The team sets an NBA record to mark a differential.
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Not the best night of Nikola Jokić
In match 1, Jokić was once again the star of the Nuggets, displaying 42 points and 22 rebounds in a duel between the best MVP candidates in the League. It went less well in match 2.
The Thunder has essentially done everything possible to make Jokić miserable, holding the MVP quarter at 17 points on 6 shots out of 16 with eight rebounds, six assists and six reversals. He committed a fault in the third quarter and did not particularly prospered the defense either.
It turned out to be the impossible limit this season for the Nuggets to win a match when they become upgraded with Jokić on the field. They were upgraded by 36 points in 32 minutes on Wednesday.
