In the face of the American Professional League and one of the elite players in the league, Cleibers They should be at their best on Sunday if they have to extend the winning chain to six games.
But they failed to hand over in the last seconds against Oklahoma City Thunder and Gilgos Alexander teaLoss 103-101 In a tense battle in the Intuit Dome.
DERICK JONES JR. By doing one free throw with 1:22 left, leaving Clippers at 101-100 before things collapsed.
Two expensive, including one before Evica Zobak After crossing the ball from the border with the left 1:01, ended one chance to take the initiative. Then, with 21 seconds staying, Norman Powell He missed a shot, and after Zobak got an offensive recovery, Kohi Leonard He missed a shot with four seconds.
The Cleibers loss fell to the eighth in the West.
Gilgos Alexander, who was held at the shooting on the seven against 29 of the ground, ended with 26 points. He made all 11 attempts, including two last seconds.
Leonard was 25 points and 10 counterators. James HardenWhich ended with 17 points, achieved to the past Musa Malon On the eleventh on the scoring list at all in the American Professional League. Zubac was 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Thunder, which swept the season chain against Clippers (40-31), has the best record in the American Professional League at 59-12, league goals and the most valuable candidate in Gilgus Alexander (32.9 points per game).
Not every bad news for Clesitors – the coach Tyronn Lue He was on the sidelines. He missed five previous games due to back pain, as Cleibers went 6-1 on this extension with coach Brian Show at the head.
Lue thanked the training team for keeping the team in good condition.
“I feel a great improvement,” Louis said. “I will take it day and day, a game in the game … … pain from my shoulder and a kind of descending in my leg a little … I feel really good as my back and shoulder. Now, he just tries to improve the leg part, but I feel better in this regard. This was what gave me the most problems.”
