Under Budenholzer's excellent tactical adjustments, Zhang Yang led the whole team with six players scoring in double-digits: Kobe scored 17 points with 6 assists, Gasol had 10 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 assists, Nash contributed with 13 points and 5 assists, Ed Davis posted 10 points and 11 rebounds, Meeks with 11 points... Overall offense was much better than the last game.
On the defensive end, excluding the Thunder Team's three core players, the rest were held to only 25 points, disrupting the Thunder Team's offensive strategies completely. It could be said that this was their best defensive performance in the Western Conference Finals, even better than Game 4.
Zhang Yang continued to primarily defend Durant tonight, doing even better than the last game and holding Durant to just 10 out of 24 shots, including 1 out of 4 from three-point range, with 5 out of 5 free throws, scoring 26 points.
