Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder’s 5th game of the western conference semi-finals on Tuesday, the 112-105 home win against Denver Nuggets’dan finished with 31 points.
At the nine, 8 1/2 minutes to go, Thunder left Nuggets 34-19 in the fourth quarter and went ahead 3-2 in the best series.
Oklahoma City from Nuggets Center Nikola Jokic (44 points, 15 rebounds), will overcome a monster game, will proceed to the Western Conference finals on Thursday with a win in Denver.
During the closing stages, Oklahoma City came to the heat in defense and warmed beyond Lugentz Dort Ark.
While Denver went for more than seven minutes without field goals, he missed nine shots in a row, and the four hit a 3 -point triple to help the thunder approach. Oklahoma City tied 92-92 to 5:42 in two free throws of Jalen Williams.
A minute later, Dort chased Gilgeous-Alexander’s kidnapped 3-Officers and hit Williams, who found Chet Holmgren for an order that balances it in 94-94.
Nuggets did not score a goal from the field, until Jokic stayed for more than three minutes until it connects the game to 98-98.
Jokic proved to be too high thunder, while thunder was shot in three consecutive Denver items to keep Nuggets inside.
Jokic, 1:40 After connecting a remaining Fadadway 3-Successive, Williams quickly hit another train in the next property, Gilgeous-Alexander quickly hit and Thunder finished the game on the free throw line.
In the last two matches, Oklahoma City left behind Denver 63-37 in the fourth quarter.
Jokic fought in the last three games, but on Tuesday, he was perfect, five assists and only two turnover. Jokic hit 17 of 25 of the field and pulled 5 out of 7 beyond arc.
Jamal added 28 points for Murray Nuggets.
Thunder’s six players had received a dozen or more points, put Williams 18 and Isaiah Hartenstein 15.
While it was noticeable for late stretch thunder, Oklahoma City was close to the first half.
Thunder finished the first half in a row with nine points to reduce a 11 -point gap to two.
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