Melissa Rohlin
Fox Sports NBA writer
The Oklahoma City Thunder showed that they are no accident.
With a trip to the western conference finals in the line in a game 7 of winners, everything that faced the two main MVP contenders with each other in Shai Gilgous-Alxander and Nikola Jokic, the Thunder demonstrated that its season with qualified classification with NB-Classified and qualified rating with ERTINE rating and classified with classification with ERTine rating.
The youngest team in the postseason not only faced a Denver Nuggets team that had won a championship two years ago and defeated the clippers in a game 7 in the first round of these playoffs, they annihilated them.
After the Nuggets jumped to a 11-point advantage in the first quarter, the Thunder responded by surpassing in the second period, 39-20, and led by up to 43 points in the fourth quarter.
It was an impressive victory for a team that It seemed Great, but the battle was really tested. Last season, the Thunder also ended with the No. 1 record at the West Conference, but crumbled against the Dallas Mavericks in the second round of the playoffs.
This was his opportunity to demonstrate that they had real Postsemps pasteliers.
The Thunder emphatically answered a question about whether they were ready for this stage. They transformed a team of nuggets tested into battle with a superstar that is widely considered the best player in the world into a group of rags that seemed deflated and stunned separately from the first quarter.
While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the offensive position of Thunder with 35 points, Alex Caruso was the chief of the snake at the other end of the court. The former player without demand of 6 feet and 5 inches almost without help unravels the Nuggets offensive sometimes, stealing them with his trust.
Caruso, a former NBA champion that the Thunder acquired last summer at times like this, ended with the highest of any person on the court (+40). He helped forces Nuggets to commit 22 ball losses, more than double the nine of the Thunder. The Thunder surpassed Nuggets at fast points, 27-14.
The Nuggets wrinkled after the first quarter, despite 20 points, nine rebounds and seven assists from Jokic, 19 points of Christian Braun and a brave Swonon Gordon, who played despite suffering a tension of the grade 2 sticks in game 6.
As for Thunder, they are moving forward to their first conference finals since 2016, with game 1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves established for Tuesday. The Thunder will try to win its first title since Seattle moved in 2008.
And although they are young and are not tested, they sent a strong message to the three removable equipment in the postseason.
Oklahoma City Thunder is not just a regular seasonal phenomenon that cannot handle the bright playoffs of the playoffs, when the pressure intensifies, banks shrink and physicalness reaches a feverish level.
They are more than ready for this moment.
Melissa Rohlin is a NBA Fox Sports writer. She previously covered the Sports Illustrated League, the Los Angeles Times, the news group from the Bay area and the San Antonio Express-News. Follow her on Twitter @Melissarohlin.
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