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The 42-point tragedy, the net loss of 32 points on the court! The boring Western Conference Finals, the embarrassing MVP! The league miscalculated

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NBA West Final G3, after returning to home, the Timberwolves faced the Thunder, the biggest favorite to win this season, and the final score was frozen at 143-101. The Timberwolves completed a 42-point victory. In just one game, they smoothed out the pit of net loss of 41 points in the first two games! To be a joke, the Thunder's game really attracted Paul, not just because of his old club. In the first round of the series, the Thunder won 51 points, which was expected to break the embarrassing 58-point record that Paul maintained in the playoffs that year; in the second round, the Nuggets were tied for seven, and the Thunder led by up to 43 points, which also gave Paul hope. Including the G3 in the Western Conference Finals, the Thunder fell behind by up to 45 points, but it disappointed Paul. The 58-point score difference record in the playoffs cannot be broken in a short time! As the biggest favorite to win the championship this season, is the Thunder matched?

According to statistics from the US media, in the history of the NBA playoffs, there have been 30 cases where the final score difference is more than 40 points. The loser did not win the championship in the playoffs that year! The record is used to be broken, but the most embarrassing thing about this record is that once the Thunder really wins the championship this season, looking back at the Western Conference Finals, it is indeed a bit embarrassing! How embarrassing is the Thunder in this game? From the beginning of the game, they obviously couldn't match the Timberwolves' rhythm. Perhaps it was the first two big wins + two consecutive games to widen the score difference in the third quarter, giving them the illusion: the Timberwolves are vulnerable, and if we exert a little force, you will be knocked down! But what's different in this game is that the referee did not favor the Thunder!

Thunder made various low-level pass mistakes. After Edwards led Randle and McDaniels to open the three-point touch, he took a 20-point lead early. Thunder still disagreed, or they couldn't exert their strength. A relatively embarrassing reality: As the new MVP of this season, Alexander, the first player in the league, has no scoring methods in position battles without free throws and unable to play a conversion attack! Alexander played for 28 minutes in the whole game, made 4 of 13 shots, 4 of 4 free throws, only scored 14 points and 6 assists, and had 4 turnovers, with a net loss of 32 points on the court! Like the Nuggets before, when the referee no longer favored the Thunder, Alexander did not dare to take action behind the ball, and hesitated to hold the ball and could only play with the ball!

Why did the Thunder lose so badly? There are three reasons: First, the Thunder have no players who can control the field with the ball, the Timberwolves and Old Conley. When the team plays in a mess, they will hold the ball and suppress the rhythm so that they will not be able to get a small climax by the opponent in a row. Alexander is not, and others are even worse. When the referee agreed that the Timberwolves would return to the intensity of the playoffs and were unwilling to give the Thunder some false free throws, the Thunder played like a headless fly. Second, the Thunder's regular season wins + consecutive eliminations of the Grizzlies and Nuggets in the playoffs are too dependent on conversion and offense. However, in this game, they only scored 15 points by making mistakes in the Timberwolves and only scored 12 points in the fast break. Young people like the Thunder did underestimate the enemy.

The third and most critical point is that the Thunder is very good at playing with the wind, and the opposite is that the ability to play against the wind is extremely poor! It is of course easy to play with the wind. With their strong defensive pressure and the continuous output of substitute offensive firepower, they will easily widen the score difference in most teams, but as long as the start is not smooth, or Alexander is invisible at a certain stage, the Thunder are young because of their young lineup. This is the case when the Timberwolves completed a 25-point reversal in the regular season, and the same is true for the 42-point defeat in this game! After being widened, Alexander did not dare to take action, nor did he have the ability to score continuously, and he relied more on "smart fouls", but the referee did not give this game, and Alexander's mentality also changed and he made various mistakes!

Ugly Western Conference Finals, an awkward MVP! To be honest, after watching the first three games of the Western Conference Finals, it can be said that it is the most boring set of series in the playoffs this year. Whoever can easily play against his opponent at home is fine, it’s better not to be allowed in the fourth quarter! The Thunder won the first two big games and relied on the referee's call to make a profit. The biggest benefit was not those more free throws, but changed the Timberwolves' defense intensity and confrontation methods, making Timberwolves players afraid to make moves easily. Originally, the playoffs should not have become a scoop meeting. The G3 Timberwolves won a big victory, but the referee returned to normal level of harness. Unexpectedly, the Thunder were so vulnerable and didn't even have the strength to resist. Even when both sides set up their third lineup in the fourth quarter, the Thunder was still not as good as the Timberwolves. The

alliance has indeed miscalculated! As the first person in the league this season and as the new MVP, Alexander, who has the opportunity to win MVP + scorer + championship + finals MVP this season, has repeatedly staged embarrassing and ugly games in the playoffs. In addition to this game, he made 7 of 22 shots in G3 in one game in the Nuggets Series and only scored 18 points, including 4 of 13 shots in one game against the Grizzlies. When he couldn't get a free throw, he had no dominance at all. So can such a player be worthy of MVP? The answer is in everyone's mind. Maybe the Thunder will eventually win the championship, but the way this team wins this season cannot win respect.

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