7 embarrassing data behind the Thunder’s devastating defeat: Jaylen Williams makes history with positive and negative values

On June 20, in the NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the Indiana Pacers 91-108, and the series scored 3-3, and the game will enter the tiebreak. In this game, the Thunder's statistics were disappointing, especially Jaylen Williams, who had performed well before, suffered a heavy blow in this game.

First, in the previous battle of Tianwang Mountain, Jaylen Williams scored 40 points in just 35 minutes, becoming the first player in NBA Finals history to score such a high score in such a short period of time. However, his plus-minus value reached an astonishing -40 in this game, setting a record low in the NBA Finals. In this game, Jaylen Wai found 27 minutes of playing time, made 6 of 13 shots, 0 of 4 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws, finally scoring 16 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, accompanied by 3 turnovers.

Secondly, the Thunder made a shocking number of mistakes in this game, with a total of 21, while the Pacers made only 10 mistakes. Especially Alexander, his mistakes alone were as high as 8 times, which was incomprehensible.

Third, the Thunder performed extremely poorly in the first half, with only 30% of the three-point shooting percentage (8 of 30 shots), of which he only made 1 of 11 shots in the first half, and most of the scores appeared in garbage time without any suspense. On the other hand, the Pacers showed excellent outside firepower with 15 of 42 shots.

Fourth, the Pacers successfully restricted the cooperation between the Thunder players. In the whole game, the Thunder only received 14 assists, while the Pacers easily scored 23 assists, showing the huge gap between the two teams in team cooperation.

Fifth, the Thunder were stolen by the Pacers in this game for a full 16 times, which set a single-game steal record in the Finals in the Pacers' history and tied for third in NBA history.

Sixth, only one player of the starting five players hit a three-pointer, while the Pacers' Obi Topin contributed 4 three-pointers, forming a sharp contrast.

In the end, although the Pacers only scored 108 points in the game, they still forced the Thunder to score only 91 points, making it the first time in the playoffs that the Pacers won the game without reaching 110 points. It is worth mentioning that before that, the Pacers maintained a perfect record of 14 wins and 0 losses in the 110+ score in the playoffs, while 0 wins and 7 losses under 110 points. These data show the Thunder's poor form in this game, and coupled with the Pacers' outstanding performance, the tiebreak battle will be very interesting.