Oklahoma.i start – Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers, the best seeds in the playoffs and owners of the best regular season records in the NBA, they find a great need for victories while receiving game 5 in the semifinals of the conference on Tuesday night.
Oklahoma City could have He kept his season with a 92-87 victory in Denver On Sunday that tied the West Conference series with two victories each. The Thunder finally won a closed game in the series on Sunday after losing game 1 in a last second shot and game 3 in extra time.
“I think we fight, we stayed the course, we played the game,” said Thunder Shai Gilgeous-Alexander guard. “Especially in this series, it has almost been so random. He is throwing us different things. I think we have been able to maintain the course and gave us a afternoon time. We closed it.”
The Thunder recovered the advantage of Homecourt that they worked so hard to obtain in a better regular season of the 68-14 franchise. But they lose on Tuesday, and go to Denver 3-2 and face elimination.
“I want to say that there is no relief at all,” said Thunder Chet Holmgren striker after Sunday’s victory. “It is still a really competitive series with a good team on the other side. There is no relaxation until … there is simply no relaxation.”
Cleveland, seed number 1 at the East Conference with a 64-18 record of the regular season, is on the verge of elimination after be impressed 129-109 in Indiana Stay behind 3-1.
The Pacers, who arrived at the final conference finals last season, know that there is work ahead to return.
“You must be able to enter hostile territory and be able to stay focused,” said the center of the Myles Turner Pacers. “I think people are going to start talking about us now, ‘We are this, we are this, we are that.’
When/Where to see: Game 5, 7 PM EDT (TNT)
Series: Leader Pacers, 3-1
Betmgm Sportsbook: Cavaliers by 7.5.
What to know: the state of the star of the star of Cleveland Donovan Mitchell is not clear for Tuesday’s game after the left ankle was hurt during game 4. It was limited to 12 points in 20 minutes and the second half was left out after the Cavaliers were left behind 80-39. He had a magnetic resonance on Monday. Mitchell scored 48 points in game 2 and 43 points in game 3 before being limited in game 4. Darius Garland de Cleveland scored 21 points in game 4, but is still recovering from an injury to the feet. Indiana won the first two games in Cleveland, and the Pacers are 3-1 on the way in this year’s playoffs. The Pacers tied a NBA playoff record With a part -time advantage of 41 points in game 4. Indiana has scored at least 120 points in the three victories.
When/Where to see: Game 5, 9:30 PM EDT (TNT)
Series: tied, 2-2
Betmgm Sportsbook: Thunder by 9.5.
What to know: Oklahoma City has bothered Nikola Jokic de Denver more than most. In its last three games, the three -time MVP of the League has been limited to 21.3 points per game in 33.3% of shots from the field and 18.2% of shots from the range of 3 points. It exploded for 42 points and 22 rebounds in game 1. has also had some fault problems, with five in game 1, in union of game 2 and committing four in game 4. Jaylin Williams, a backup center, seems to have done the best job to bother him. Shai Gilgous-Alexander of Oklahoma City has averaged 33.5 points and fired 59% in the games at home this series and 21.5 points in 36.6% of shots on the road.
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