Winning 5 consecutive victories! The Thunder defeated the Hornets easily. Three facts were clearly seen in this battle. There is no suspense about the MVP.

The NBA regular season continues. The Thunder, No. 1 in the Western Conference, challenged the Hornets away. Before this game, the Thunder had a 4-game winning streak, while the Hornets lost to the Bucks in the last game. In addition, the team's Ball was absent in this game. The strength gap between the two teams is visible to the naked eye. The game also lost suspense early. Alexander on the Thunder's side clocked in for three more quarters. In the end, the team easily defeated the Hornets and won 5 consecutive victories. Winning 5 consecutive victories! The Thunder defeated the Hornets easily. Three facts were clearly seen in this battle. There is no suspense about the MVP.

After the game started, the two teams quickly entered the state and the scores alternately increased. The Hornets playing at home maintained an excellent touch from the outside and hit one after another, while the Thunder continued to score through the inside. The two teams played very lively. Alexander then continued to output on his personal offensive end, helping the team take the lead. However, as the game progressed, the Thunder made mistakes one after another, and the Hornets seized the opportunity to overtake the score again. At the end of the half, the score difference between the two teams was only three points. It has to be said that the Hornets' performance in the first half was quite outstanding, and they were able to seize the Thunder's mistakes and bite the score.

The game suddenly changed in the third quarter. Alexander continued to output. He scored 15 points on 6-of-8 in a single quarter. He once led the Thunder to a 16:1 attack, and the point difference also expanded to more than 20 points. The Hornets had problems on the offensive end in the third quarter. Various mistakes and iron blows led to the team only scoring 18 points in a single quarter. In the final quarter, the Thunder continued to expand the point difference, but the Hornets did not give up their attempt to narrow the point difference and maintain the suspense of the game. The Thunder adjusted and stabilized the situation. In the end, they easily defeated the Hornets 109:96, giving their opponents a losing streak while winning 5 consecutive games and continuing to lead the standings.

The overall performance of the Hornets in this game was not good. After a stalemate in the first half, they suffered a collapse in the third quarter. The Hornets' Konipel was in a very sluggish state in this game. He only hit 3 goals in 10 shots and had only 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, with a plus-minus of -16. For him, the downturn in this game still needs to be adjusted. After all, his performance so far this season is quite good, and it is understandable to have occasional downturns.

The Thunder easily defeated their opponents again. Three major facts can be seen clearly in this game. The first point is that Holmgren's condition has improved. In the last game against the Lakers, he only scored 11 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks. In this game against the Hornets, Holmgren entered the rhythm early and scored 14 points and 6 rebounds in the first half. At the end of the game, he hit 10 goals in 20 shots and scored 25 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists with a 50% shooting rate, which greatly helped the team in the paint.

The second point is that the Thunder lineup is too deep. Four people in the starting lineup scored in double figures. Mitchell on the bench still helped the team's stable output. Although the offensive efficiency was a bit low, he still scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists. Now he has steadily become the team's bench output to help the team. The results achieved so far this season have been achieved by the Thunder despite frequent injuries and the absence of their second-in-command. For this Thunder, when the lineup is complete, who can stop them from hitting the championship?

The last point is that there seems to be little suspense about Alexander becoming MVP this season. So far this season, Alexander has played in 14 games and has clocked in three quarters eight times. This was the case again in this game. He scored 15 points in the third quarter and led the team to a great performance. The whole game lasted less than 30 minutes. He made 13 of 19 shots and scored 33 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals. He was efficient and productive and continued his performance of 20+ games in a row.

It is worth mentioning that even though Alexander has played in three quarters in many games, what is incredible is that he still leads the league in scoring at critical moments. Alexander scored 56 points at critical moments, which was much higher than the second place (second place 33 points). In addition, Alexander has scored 30+ points with 5 or fewer free throws 4 times, the most in the league. Do you think Jokic and Doncic can compete with Alexander for MVP?