Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made a slow start to earn 31 points to win 114-88 home win against Minnesota Timberwolves in the 1st game of the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday.
Gilgeous-Alexander won the fourth match with 30 or more points in a row and eighth in the 12 Playoff match this season. The game added nine the highest assists.
In the fourth quarter, he moved towards the basket for seven minutes before the Gilgeous-Alexander, and began to fall, turned the ball into the bucket as he fell.
Before the ball fell, he briefly rolled around the rim and Jaden McDaniels was called foul.
Gilgeous-Alexander finished three-point games to increase Thunder to 14. He finished 10 of 27 from the ground and 0 of 4 of 4 points, but he made 11 out of 14 from the free throw line.
Initially, Timberwolves’ defense Gilgeous-Alexander gave the team and pulled it from only 13 to 2 in the first half.
Oklahoma City remained slightly more than a minute in the first half before it was closed in a 6-1 run to cut the deficit of Thunder.
In the second half, Thunder coach Mark Daigneault Gilgeous-Alexander who had a wholesale, and probably helped the most valuable player to find a rhythm.
Gilgeous-Alexander scored 12 points in the third quarter and left behind Oklahoma City Minnesota 32-18.
Gilgeous-Alexander increased the pressure on the offensive, while the defense of Thunder, who played the biggest role in the victory.
In general, Oklahoma City 19 scored 31 points in the turnover of Timberwolves. Minnesota managed only 10 points from Thunder’s 15 gifts.
Jalen Williams from Oklahoma City produced 19 points and eight rebounds, while Chet Holmgren added 15 points and seven wooden.
Thunder’s 50 percent of the field and 21 (52.4 percent) from the arc (52.4 percent) 11 (only 34.9 percent from the ground and 3 points from 51 to 15 (29.4 percent) rose.
Julius Randle directed Minnesota with 28 points and scored 20 goals in the first half. After going to 5 in the first half in the first half of the 3 -point trials, Randle did not try to make a shot from Ark in the second half.
Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was injured by 18 points and nine rebounds. While playing seven minutes in the fourth quarter, he tried only one shot, I missed it.
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