Lakers - Thunder serían er ekki búin

Þó Kevin Durant hafi verið mjög slakur í síðasta leik þá er vert að hafa eftirfarandi í huga:

Will Durant find himself? Well, Michael Jordan wasn’t so hot in his playoff debut 25 Aprils ago. In a 109-100 loss at Milwaukee in 1985, Jordan made seven of 19 shots and scored 23 points. If you hadn’t heard, Jordan eventually worked out his playoff problems.

Of course, the 1985 Bucks didn’t have Ron Artest giving MJ mouth-to-mouth. The orange-haired Artest, one of the NBA’s best defenders, dogged Durant most of the game and will again Tuesday night in Game 2. [...]

Durant doesn’t need much wiggle room. And better yet, he doesn’t slump. Durant won the NBA scoring title in part because he followed poor games with a stretch of great games. Thirty-point games won’t come easy in the playoffs, but don’t expect another 7-of-24.

And Phil Jackson’s referee-politicking didn’t pay off. Durant got 11 foul shots; Artest finished with five fouls

Lakers - Thunder serían heldur áfram í kvöld þar sem annar leikur fer fram í Los Angeles.  Talandi um Michael Jordan þá var Chris Webber að minnast hans um daginn í útvarpsviðtali og hvernig það var að mæta honum í úrslitakeppninni þegar hann var upp á sitt besta.  Óhætt að segja að þar hafi nagli með sjálfstraust verið á ferð.

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