Pelicans Graham beat the Thunder with a record-breaking ultra-long buzzer
12/16/2021, 08:47With less than a second left before the end of the game, Terrell Graham made a very long 61-foot shot, and there was an uproar in the audience, which made the New Orleans Pelicans scored 113-110 on the road. Beat the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Pelicans head coach Willie Green said that this is a game that is undifferentiated, and that the result of this game is the craziest. He said that the two teams are deadlocked and expressed this is very Fierce competition. But fortunately, he stood on the side of victory, drawing a good end to the road trip.
In the first half of the game, the Pelicans' state was not stable. The Thunder led 49-37. However, after the intermission, the Pelicans' Brandon Ingram entered the state and led the team in the game. At the end of the half, the score was closely chased to 45-51.
Entering the second half, the Pelicans overtook the Thunder, but the good times didn't last long and they were quickly tied with the Thunder to a score of 55-55. Graham hit a three-pointer and scored 5 points, giving the Pelicans a lead. But the Thunder once again tied the score. Alexander and Josh Gidi scored three-pointers. Before the end of the third quarter, the Thunder led the Pelicans with a score of 78-75. The two teams are evenly matched, tying the score and overtaking the enemy. With 8 seconds left in the game, Ingram made a shot to help the Pelicans lead 108-105. But Alexander soon pulled the gap between the two sides to one point.
With 1.4 seconds left in the game, the Thunder's Shay Gilges-Alexander hit a 30-foot long shot to tie the score. And when some of the Pelicans players felt frustrated that the game was about to enter overtime because of the draw, Green quickly passed the ball to Graham, who caught the pass from the inside while running and dribbled the ball. He threw the ball out and successfully prevented the overtime with a super long shot and won. The Pelicans count on every second, because just now, the Thunder fans were cheering for Alexander's pitching. They never thought that the Pelicans would go ahead and win without a second.
This is the second time this season Graham has hit the buzzer for the Pelicans in the final seconds. Against the Utah Jazz on November 26, Graham made a three-pointer with 1.3 seconds left, giving the Pelicans a 98-97 victory over the Jazz.
According to ESPN's research, Graham's shot is the longest buzzer shot in the past 25 years, surpassing Tyreke Evans's 50-foot shooting record for the Memphis Grizzlies in 2010.
In addition, this is the first game in the league in the past 25 years in which there were multiple draws or overtakes from a range of more than 30 feet in the last 5 seconds of the game. Such a fierce and crazy game is enough to shock the football world. Graham broke the historical record in less than 1 second and hit a super-long three-pointer, defeating the Thunder with a score of 113-110 to end this crazy game.
So far, the Oklahoma City Thunder have lost their third game in a row, with 8 wins and 19 losses, and the ranking has fallen again. The New Orleans Pelicans will face the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, and whether Graham can break the long-range shooting record again, let us wait and see.
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