Then it was a glimpse of his mother dancing autour during a period of waiting and, magically, the ball started to go through the net.
During scored 39 points for the best exit offensive series, Russell Westbrook had his first triple-double game and the Oklahoma City Thunder advanced to the final of the Western Conference with a victory of 105-90 on the Memphis Grizzlies in the seventh game Sunday.
"I knew that she had these dance movements," said during. "It used to do this all the time when I was young." It was fun. "I was pleased to see that".
Earlier, it was fun, too - and Thunder are two-stepping in Texas for appearance frankness of the in the finals of the West since lost as the Seattle SuperSonics in 1996 NBA Finals.
Game 1 against the Mavericks is Tuesday night in Dallas.
During, the champion of marking of NBA in the course of the past two seasons, followed of the lowest game score of his two playoff appearances with one of his best. He heated in the second quarter after the entertaining Exchange with his mother, put the Thunder review towards the end of the third, then put later with a pair of slams in two hands in the fourth.
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant, Center, shoots between Memphis Grizzlies Center Marc Gasol, left, of the Spain and guard O.J. Mayo, to the right, in the first quarter of game 7 of a second round series basketball NBA Oklahoma City, dimanche15 may 2011.
"During a special player, one of the best players in the NBA, said Memphis star Zach Randolph, who was limited to 17 points and 10 rebounds inefficiency." The kid is a gym - rat room, he works hard. It is one of my favorite players. You have to give him its congratulations and give him respect.
"See you what it is night and night out, and it is just unrelenting.".
Westbrook, criticized throughout the playoffs to take too many shots, was at his best competition General individual with 14 points, matching his season high with 14 assists and producing additional possessions with 10 rebounds. It is only the fifth triple-double in a game 7, according to information provided to the Office of the Elias Sports team. Larry Bird, Jerry West, James Worthy and Scottie Pippen also achieved the feat.
"It gets selected on a little, but one of the things (with) Russell, he keeps playing," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "He keeps improving, it keeps getting better and this evening he has controlled the game."
Mike Conley scored 18 points to lead Memphis, which had never won a playoff game until this year and made an offer to become the first No. 8 seed to reach the finals of the West.
"We thought fair we could play with anyone," said Randolph, who had averaged 28.3 points and 14.7 rebounds in three WINS for Grizzlies in the series. "We were competing as this throughout the year." We wasn't see nationally and many people knew not about us because were not much TV, but we were playing good basketball throughout the year and compete with the best teams. ?
James Harden added four Launches 3-points and 17 points in Oklahoma City, and Nick Collison had 12 rebounds.
O.J. Mayo scored 14 for Memphis, but could not provide the same amount of room for Randolph as he did after moving in partante in game 6.
It was the seventh first game of playoffs, 2011 in the quarry during the first and most other players on two of the rising NBA teams. They were both younger than lists of the League last season, but quickly became two of the best - as some of the traditional engines of decreased.
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