What had to happen when two teams are measured in extreme situations. The Thunder, complete and fully, gave a championship to the nuggets, short and physically destroyed. The strange thing is to reach the seventh game in this series. That speaks well of Denver, who survived as far as the forces endured. Was until the final stretch of the second quarter (42-41). Then there was only the local team, which ended up winning 125-93 and getting into the west final. The first one that will play since 2016.
Es Where Thunder was expected, the best and broader NBA team, the leader of the regular season after stacking 68 wins and the top ring applicants. With the Celtics already eliminated, there is no discussion about it. For a place in the grand finale, Oklahoma will see them with the Timberwolveswho had been waiting for a long time. A very hard and tremendous confrontation.
Alex Caruso celebrates a Thunder's action.
He looks like the triumph will have a prize for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The base scored 35 points and in the next few days should receive the MVP. It has only the regular season, but strange that the NBA has delayed more than other courses the award delivery. If I was not waiting for the outcome of the series, it seemed. Nikola Jokic, the other applicant, stayed at 20 pointsalthough nine of them arrived from the free kick. Like many of his teammates, especially Jamal Murray, the accumulation of minutes during the playoffs was noticed.
Aaron Gordon's heroic
Nuggets did not save them the heroic, represented by Michael Porter Jr.dragging problems in the shoulder for a long time, and, above all, for Aaron Gordon. He was diagnosed with a distension in the tendon of the corva of the left leg and gave him a month off, but he started. In spite of everything, he made eight points and 11 rebounds. A titanic, but sterile effort. In your team, only Christian Braun (19 puntos) It seemed not to be at the limit of collapse.
Nikola Jokic, during the seventh game against the Thunder.
Above, they ran against A force of nature, some thunder that showed its version of the regular season. In their best days, they are a sea of muscles and arms that absorb their enemies. A team did not answer his legs or head, the other was in ecstasy. Hence LNuggets lost 23 balls and nuggets put 27 points after taking advantage of them and 37 against. The meeting could be explained from there.
Denver was only better at the beginningtaking advantage of your experience in seventh games to stand on the track before. Braun scored and defended Shai and Thunder trembled their hand from triple, failing the first six. By 11 the nuggets went in the first period (10-21)but The premises of the premises, with Alex Caruso, Cason Wallace and Andrew Wiggins, modified the panorama setting one more march in intensity.
Two demolish partials
Between the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second, A 13-0 partial made the wind change direction. Jokic had sat down and his team had been disoriented. Upon his return, he recovered the compass to reach the 42-41. Then he took the wrong way, one full of triples failed by far and ball losseswhich led him to the edge of the precipice. Jalen Williams scored 11 of his 24 points in the 16-3 partial that closed the second quarter (60-46). The nuggets missed balls and he flew.
After passing through the changing rooms, only one team came out to the parquet. The Thunder started with A 9-0 partial that caused his rival to define definitively. Soon The rent extended to 23 (81-58). The nuggets were the impotence personified, arriving a second afternoon at all, without precision in the shot or in the passes.
Jalen Williams celebrates a basket.
Opposite, A voracious set that did not prison in his search for the west final. He won by 43 turning the Paycom Center to a party for almost the entire second. With 106-74 on the scoreboard, the Nuggets sat Jokic in the absence of 9:36 for the end. Clear surrender signalalthough they could have done it much earlier. The Thunder had crushed them. They did not fail on the key day are the great favorite to the ring, although in these playoffs bets usually jump through the air.
