The young Thunder overcame their relative inexperience Sunday night to outlast the Pelicans in a tightly contested playoff opener, one that featured 20 lead changes.
After missing the playoffs the past three seasons and working on a rebuild, the Thunder's reward as the top seed in the strong Western Conference was facing the 49-winSeven of the 11 Thunder players who took the floor Sunday night were playing in their first playoff game. The relative inexperience showed itself at times in the fourth quarter, but the team also came through when they most needed to."Everybody that came in played their role," Gilgeous-Alexander said.
"I was just trying to make a play," Holmgren said."I didn't want to leave things in the hands of the other team, so I was trying to go up and make a play, whether I was going to be late and it was going to be a goaltend or not."The Pelicans answered with a quick 2 on their next possession and Holmgren hit one of two free throws to make it a 2-point game., and Wallace was switched on to him.
It was still the most hotly contested game of the NBA playoff weekend. There were 20 lead changes, compared to 19 lead changes in the other seven games combined.but didn't score again until there were 26.5 seconds remaining. In fact, the Pelicans went 1-of-7 in the final 3:09 with four turnovers.
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