Shai Gilgeous-Aexander scored 34 points to lead Oklahoma City Thunder for 149–106 home blowouts of Danver Nagets in his Western Conference Semi-final series on Wednesday.
Thunder, who set a franchise single-game playoff scoring record, was ahead of the best series 1–1 in Danver on Friday.
After losing on the 3-pointer in the concluding second of the game 1, Thunder ensured that the Nugets would not have a chance to pull the shocker. Oklahoma City quickly inserted it, scored 45 first quarter points and gained more than 10 minutes in the game.
Thunder tied the NBA playoff records for a half points with 87, increasing more than 35 before the interval. During Postsen, the only team to score 87 points in half was a milvoki box in the second part of the second round against Nagets in 1978.
Oklahoma City extended the profit to move fourth for 48 points in the third quarter.
By that time, Denver star Nikola Jokik had foul, and the only question was how big the margin would be.
Denver with retreat with 41 points and over a minute in the third quarter, Jokik was called for his second aggressive dishonesty in less than a minute to finish his night.
After his 42-point, 22-rebound performance in Game 1, Jokik scored just 17 points in Game 2 and eight rebounds. He shot 6 out of 16 from the ground.
Gilgus-Alexander soon came to an end after another reason.
Before going to the bench to see the Thunder Bench in the fourth, the most valuable player in the last second of the quarter is two free throw hits.
Gilgas-Alexander finished 11 out of 13 from the floor and hit all of all of his free throw. He terminated eight assistant couples and Plus -51 in Plus/Minus.
Jalan Williams of Oklahoma City added 17 points and Chet Holmagren, who missed a pair of important free throw, just before Aaron Gordon’s Game 1 winner, ended with 15 points and 11 rebounds. The Holmagren was 7 out of 7 from the free-thro line.
Russell Westbrook led Nagets with 19 points, and Jamal Murray contributed 14. Gordon, who had 22 points and 14 rebounds in the series opener, ended with only 10 points (3 -12 shooting) and five boards.
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