"Boogie" Activated!

[Knicks 71:70 Thunder]

The first half ended.

The score difference between the two teams remained just one point.

One could imagine how tense this game was.

The second half began.

They switched sides and battled again.

Boom!

Su Yan opened with a thunderous dunk right in their faces, igniting the arena.

Right after that, Cousins bullied Chandler aside in the paint, secured the rebound, then rose up from a standstill and hammered home a two-handed slam.

Chandler reacted and rotated over a beat late. Their bodies still collided in midair.

Cousins still completed the dunk, knocking Chandler off balance. Chandler landed unsteadily, staggered, and fell to the floor.

Cousins's attack had been extremely forceful.

The Thunder coach immediately sensed that Cousins wanted to take over the game.

It just so happened that the other players' matchups against the Knicks had also reached a stalemate.

They needed a different offensive approach to break through the barrier.

Ibaka was an interior player, but his best performance tonight had come from his Mid-range shot on the perimeter.

As a result, the team had not shown much aggression inside.

But Cousins had it.

He had not received many offensive possessions in the first half. Even that dunk in the second half had come after he grabbed the rebound himself and converted the Second Chance Points.

Once the Thunder coach realized this, he decisively gave his players a look, telling them to feed Cousins more in the post.

Slap!

Cousins caught the ball and faced Chandler's defense head-on.

In their first clash, Cousins did not hesitate at all. He put the ball down, turned his body, and drove straight into Chandler with full force.

Chandler was not afraid of physical contact.

Their brutal, body-to-body collisions were incredibly fierce, painful even for the fans