Carried by a huge Jalen Williams (40 points) while in the opposite camp, Tyrese Haliburton, diminished, he, he, he, OKC won against Indiana on his parquet floor (120-109) during match 5 of the NBA final. The Thunder is only a victory for the second title in its history.
Forty-six years after its only title, acquired in 1979 under the name of the Seattle Supersonics, the Oklahoma City Thunder is on the way to winning its second title of NBA champion. There is only a victory now at Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, still excellent (31 points, 10 passes and 4 counters) and his teammates, again winners of the Pacers (120-109), Monday evening on the Paycom Center prosecution during match 5 of this NBA final who had seen the Indiana franchise to carry out on his opponent The lead.
At the best time, many specialists will say that the statistics prove: 75% of the teams that won this fifth appointment called Pivot then lift the trophy. The story, with a match 6 in two days with the Pacers, will tell us if this will be the case again. The fact remains that this first match ball, it is OKC who has just offered it thanks in particular to a XXL performance by Jalen Williams.
A match to forget for Haliburton
This is also the number 8 of the Thunder, unleashed Monday in front of his audience (40 points at 14 out of 25 at the shots including 3 out of 5 to three points), which gave it from the end of the meeting to his team while the visitors, reputed to be specialists of the genre, had still managed to erase a fairly enormous delay of 18 points to return to only two lengths of the Thunder in the wake of a TJ McConnell Quarter and the inevitable Pascal Siakam, author of 28 points in this match 5.
Probably still marked by the scenario of the first match of this final, which had seen the pacers overthrow OKC at the buzzer on a shoot of Tyrese Haliburton, Williams immediately sounded the revolt this time and allowed his family to spend an 18-4 to the players of Mark Daigneault of which the latter, not at all helped on Monday by a Haliburton, certainly decreased by a pain Absent subscribers (4 points at 0 out of 6 on shots including 0 out of 4 to three points), never recovered.
