The Oklahoma City Thunder and Isaiah Hartenstein have not transformed their first match ball in the quarter-finals of the NBA play-offs. In the decisive seventh game that takes place on Monday night, everything is now about.
Isaiah Hartenstein awarded the first match ball with Oklahoma City Thunder in the quarter-finals of the NBA play-offs. The team around the 27-year-old lost game six at the Denver Nuggets with 107: 119 and conceded the equalization to 3: 3 in the best-of-Seven series.
Hartenstein scored all four of his throws in a little more than 25 minutes, scored a total of eight points and came on six rebounds. However, this did not change the defeat. The decision is now made in game seven, which takes place again in Oklahoma on the night of Monday (CET). With the Minnesota Timberwolves, the possible semi -final opponent has already been determined. These won the series against the Golden State Warriors 4: 1.
Every game an “intensive exchange of blows”
At OKC, top scorer Shai Gilgeous-Alexander collected 32 points. The winning guarantee for Denver, on the other hand, was once again superstar Nikola Jokic with 29 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists, Jamal Murray contributed impressive 25 points despite an illness – and made a major contribution to a furious comeback. Oklahoma was already twelve points ahead in the second quarter. But the champions from 2023 also turned the game in round two because of the accurate bank players around Julian Strawther (15 points).
The series is “still there,” said Nugget’s interim coach David Adelman: “I know it is a cliché, but each game is a chapter, a matter of its own, and different people will stand out.” His team is happy about the “chance”. Each game of the series is an “intensive exchange of blows”, says Oklahoma coach Mark Daignult.
His team, the best team in the main round, had to play in the crucial duel “as we did all season,” he said.