Aaron Wiggins scored 21 points from the bench and Jalen Williams added 20 in the 1st game of Oklahoma City Thunder’s Western Conference Playoff series.
Thunder had plenty of explosion victory in the normal season and broke an NBA record for the margin score to escape the best seed in the west. They also passed Gizzlies with 13 or more points at four normal season meeting.
However, this explosion was at a different level.
According to ESPN, Oklahoma City’s 51 -point victory was the fifth largest victory in the history of NBA Playoff and the largest in the first match of a Playoff series.
Thunder drowned Memphis from the very beginning with the highest -level defense of the league.
Grizzlies’ two top scorers, Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. It was 6 out of 6 of Moral Deep.
Memphis managed only 20 points in the first quarter, and things worsened.
Oklahoma City played with a 23-2 run to the second quarter and turned the game into an explosion.
After getting 20 or more points in the last 72 matches of the normal season, Oklahoma City finished with only 15 points in 4 out of the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 13 shots.
Gilgeous-Alexander, only 7 of the 3-point range was only 1, and only the 3-Officers in the closing moments of the second quarter, thunder took the lead 68-36. Thunder’s MVP favorite did not get less than 18 points in a game in a normal season.
Oklahoma City continued to pour in the second half and scored the first 12 points of the third quarter.
Chet Holmgren received 19 points and 10 rebounds, and Isaiah Hartenstein added 14 points to Thunder’s Fast MIRPMA scores 27-5 and 24 points from 24 Grizzlies’s turnover.
Oklahoma City did not play in a week, and Grizzlies played a pair of games to reach the series.
Morant and Marvin Bagley III directed Memphis with 17 points each. Bagley finished 8 out of the field, including a buzzer jaw hit beyond Half Court to end the third quarter.
Grizzlies was only 6 (17.6 percent) of 34, and 34.4 percent in total.
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