It ended early in the morning Lone ranger and Thunder In the semi-final G3, the lone ranger won at home and took a 2-1 lead in the series.
In the third match of this group of duels, both sides are basically playing cards. The three players on the field, Alexander, Doncic and Owen, were all treated as sandwiches. In particular, Thunder's defense of Doncic can be described as "crazy".
Once Doncic got the ball, Thunder would stack as many defensive players as possible on the strong side, and completely empty Jones and Washington on the weak side. The lone ranger is also a similar strategy, which is to encircle Alexander's players who have failed to shoot Gidi and Dort.
Thunder gave Dongqi enough physical confrontation. In this series, Dongqi's knee has always had problems. In the last game, there were more than one knee bleeding, but Dongqi always stayed on the court.
In today's fierce match, Doncic was injured many times, and Alexander elbowed him on the face when defending; After fighting with Dort for the ball in the air, he fell to his waist and then fought for the ball; Dort directly raised his foot and kicked Dongqi when he grabbed the screen, which was really a big move.
The Thunder simply did not give Dongqi any time to breathe on the court. In this game, Dongqi hit 7 out of 17, hit 1 out of 4 in 3 points, and got 22 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. In such a fierce confrontation, Dongqi didn't give any advice at all. In the last few quarters, he grabbed the ball in the fight and played very "blue collar".
With the "sandbag" of Doncic, Owen will certainly face a better defensive environment, and Owen once again saved the team in the last quarter. In the whole game, Owen hit 10 in 17, and scored 22 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steals and 1 blocks in 4 in the last quarter.
Owen scored 8 points in the first half and 14 in the second half. In the face of Thunder's close hand to hand defense, Owen can also constantly respond with difficult goals. At the last minute, the breakthrough throw that killed the suspense of the game, Jay interfered with it with his hands and blocked it with his lower limbs. In fact, it had already formed a foul, but the referee did not blow it. Owen directly passed Jay's throw, and God's left hand reappeared in the Jianghu.
In fact, Owen's "one to five" moments are very few. Most of the time, Owen played extremely reasonably. At the end of the day, after Doncic took the initiative to give up the stage, Owen began his performance. Sometimes you even think that if only Owen could play more uniquely. But after coming to the Lone Ranger, rationality became the label on Owen's field.
Today's lone ranger is not a "lone ranger" at all. Owen and Doncic both shot 17 times, and PJ Washington shot the most. 11 out of 23, 5 out of 12 out of 3 and 27 points, the highest score of the whole team in the second game in a row.
Eastern Europe is very determined to feed the ball to Washington today, as long as it sees that Washington is empty, it will pass it to Washington. Even if Washington's three points today were far less magical than the last game, he still kept on shooting. Washington himself also won and became the role player that decided the outcome of the game.
In the face of Washington's 27 points, Thunder felt a little helpless, and even used the move of chopping Leffley in the last quarter. Leffley's free throw is really not good, just 50% of the way. But today, Thunder's plan failed again after 8 out of 12.
Alexander scored 31 points again today, 10 out of 23, and the three points he was short of also threw 2 out of 3, which was good. It's not much fun for Alexander to assume more ball rights in this game. The key is to see whether other players who have been released can respond like Washington.
This relentless hand to hand combat will undoubtedly last until the end of the series. How long Dongqi's knee can withstand is also a question. But fortunately, Dongqi now also knows how to relieve himself of pressure and no longer blindly take charge of everything.
Thunder is the number one seed, and the lone ranger is the number five seed. But now, the lone ranger has become the more advantageous side in this group of duels.
The 32 year old Owen, bearing the last glory of the older generation of stars, is still moving forward.