MVP King vs. King! Jokic defeated Alexander! Gordon scored a three-pointer and Westbrook went home and fought desperately!

The Nuggets and the Thunder played the first game of the Western Conference semi-finals. Thunder starts: Jaylenway, Homgren, Haltenstein, Dortmund, Alexander! Nuggets starters: Porter, Aaron Gordon, Jokic, Braun, Murray!

At the beginning of the first quarter, I asked the teacher to score continuously in the inside, and Murray also opened on the outside, and Hartten responded with consecutive throws on the Thunder. After Gordon made a mid-range shot, Alexander stood up and scored consecutively, and the scores of both sides rose alternately. After the teacher made a tip-in, he entered the timeout 15-12. Back at the game, the two teams still played hard, Alexander made a foul and Westbrook came up. Murray scored 5 points in a row with free throws, Westbrook made another mid-range shot, and the Nuggets led by 8 points. Alexander made a throw stop. After the Thunder made a steal, Caruso made an empty basket and chased after 20-24, and the Nuggets called for a stop. After the timeout, Chet scored consecutively, Alexander overtook the mid-range shot, and Westbrook counterattacked and layup stopped the bleeding. At the end of the first quarter, the Thunder led by 1 point 27-26.

In the second quarter, the two sides rotated the lineup, the Thunder came up with a 7-0 climax. Wallace followed up with a layup and scored 2+1, and the Nuggets called for a stop. After returning from the timeout, Murray stopped the bleeding from the mid-range shot and Westbrook made a foul and free throw. Both sides gave each other a hat, Westbrook made another shot and the Nuggets caught up with only 6 points. But the Thunder three-pointers from the outside were like rain and hit a continuous hit. Asked the teacher to pull the jump shot and stopped the bleeding slightly. Porter finally opened his own shot, and then Jokic scored in a difficult situation and chased to 39-36. Back to the game, the Thunder made consecutive steals and counterattacks, Dortmund scored two three-pointers in a row, and Alexander made a foul and free throw, and the gap had reached 14 points. Gordon's death latching cutter 2+1 stops bleeding. Teacher Yo also stood up and scored with free throws, then Murray assisted Braun to receive an all-dunk. At the end of the first half, the Nuggets fell 10 points behind 50-60.

The second half changed sides and then played again. Caruso stole the layup from the third quarter. After asking the teacher to score in the inside, he yelled at Porter to replace the defense. After Dortmund made a three-pointer, Alexander still had a mid-range distance, and the Nuggets were suspended for 67-54. Back to the game, Braun made two fouls and made two free throws, and then received Jokic's assist and three-pointer to catch up to single digits. After the Thunder challenge was successful, the Nuggets failed to challenge Jokic's offensive foul. Alexander played 3+0 on Murray. After Gordon made a tip-in, Dortmund made another three-pointer, and the two teams fell into a tough tug-of-war again. The Thunder led by 14 points with a full three-pointer from the outside. However, the Nuggets blossomed at more than one point. After Westbrook scored 2+1, he responded to a 9-0 climax and only 5 points away from chasing. Caruso made two three-pointers to stabilize, and the Nuggets' offense basically relied on Westbrook's hard support. At the end of the third quarter, the Thunder led by 5 points 90-85. In the early stage of the last quarter, the two teams scored three-pointers from the front, Caruso made a contribution to offense and defense, Jaylenway broke through and layup the Thunder led by 10 points, and the Nuggets were timed. Back at the game, he asked the teacher to continue scoring at the basket, Alexander made a foul and Gordon made a three-pointer. Asked the teacher to turn around and break through and hit Dortmund's head, the referee went to watch the replay and gave a first-level malicious foul. The Thunder scored 4 points in one round, and asked the teacher and Murray to score 5 points in a row to respond. Chet dunked and dunked, and asked the teacher to commit two fouls. At the critical moment, Alexander stepped forward and made a three-pointer match between CET and Murray. The Thunder failed to challenge Jokic for free, and the two teams played back and forth fiercely, and the Nuggets narrowed the score to 4 points. Gordon fell to the ground to save the ball and shouted a timeout. After the timeout, he asked the teacher to score another three-pointer and scored 1 point, but Westbrook missed a three-pointer, and Gordon was shot by a tip-off. Alexander made two free throws and the Thunder led by 3 points, and the Nuggets called for a timeout to arrange the last attack. The Thunder adopted a penalty kick tactic to send the opponent a penalty kick, and after Alexander dunked the ball in an empty basket, he continued to penalty kick. But Chet missed two free throws, Gordon scored a three-pointer.

In the end, the Nuggets reversed the Thunder 121-119 away and led the series by 1-0. Let's take a look at the specific performance of the players!

Alexander scored 33+10+8

The biggest highlight of this round of series is the showdown between two new and old MVPs Jokic and Alexander. Today, Alexander also won the appointment with the teacher first.

In the first quarter, he played with all firepower for 12 minutes, made 6 of 8 shots, 2 of 2 free throws, scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists. In the first half, Alexander made 6 of 12 shots and 3 of 4 free throws, contributing 15 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, leading the team to widen the gap in the second quarter.

Alexander scored 5 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists in the third quarter, and his personal performance was not as good as his teacher. However, after returning from the fourth quarter, he showed his MVP strength and scored consecutive key points to help the Thunder resist the Nuggets' counterattack. In the last few rounds, Alexander's free throws and dunks helped the Thunder maintain a weak lead, but ended up being a desperate kill.

In the whole game, he played for 40 minutes, made 12 of 26 shots, 2 of 6 three-pointers, 7 of 9 free throws, and scored 33 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals.

MVP King met the king, and Jokic defeated Alexander

Today, Jokic can be said to have tried his best. He played very well in his personal game, defeating Alexander.

In the first half, the teacher made 7 of 13 shots, 0 of 1 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 16 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal. He made 3 mistakes.

The third section of the teacher was even more full in a single quarter, but he was repeatedly called for fouls and was mentally stubborn. He tried his best in a single quarter, scoring 8 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, helping the Nuggets narrow the gap. After playing in the third quarter, Jokic has scored 24 points, 20 rebounds and 5 assists.

After Jokic came back in the fourth quarter, the offensive end was worthy, and he helped the Nuggets to catch up with only 1 point, and saw hope of a comeback.

In the whole game, the teacher played for 42 minutes, made 15 of 29 shots, 2 of 6 three-pointers, 10 of 13 free throws, and scored 42 points, 22 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks.

Thunder missed two free throws to ruin the team

Although Thunder Chet was thin, he was really hard, and he was hard on the inside, but he was hard on Jokic.. In the first half, he was both offensive and defensive, contributing 6 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks.

Homegren still played well in the third quarter, scoring, rebounding, stealing and blocking. But the last two free throws ruined the team, giving Gordon a chance to win.

Westbrook went home and fought desperately

Today, Westbrook returned to Russia. As the greatest player in the history of the Thunder, Westbrook made 3 of 6 shots, 0 of 2 three-pointers, and 1 of 2 free throws to score 7 points.

Westbrook made passionate shots in the third quarter, 4 of 5 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, 1 of 1 free throw, and scored 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 block! The final final assist was passed down by the young master.

In the whole game, the young master played for 30 minutes, made 7 of 13 shots, 1 of 5 three-pointers, 3 of 5 free throws, and contributed 18 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

Gordon scored a three-pointer to win

Gordon played his career masterpiece today. In the whole game, he played 39 minutes, made 7 of 15 shots, 3 of 6 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, and scored a large double-double with 22 points and 14 rebounds.

In the last attack, the Nuggets did not stop. The young master advanced to the frontcourt and passed it to Gordon, making a decisive three-pointer to complete the final kill.