The NBA regular season continued, and the Focus Battle between the Warriors and the Nuggets ended with the Warriors' defeats, and the Warriors' winning streak after the loss was ended. The Warriors' performance in this game was a surprise. Although many players on the team can not play, Green is also absent due to health and safety agreements, but the Warriors ushered in the return of Wiggins, such a lineup at the end of the half behind the opponent 24 points, the whole game only scored 86 points (a new season low) such a performance is obviously not the normal level of the Warriors, the downturn in the first half to the crazy counterattack in the final quarter let us see the Warriors' ability to adjust, the final key moment once equalized the score, but unfortunately finally lost the game by three points. The Warriors have no chance to reverse, Kerr talks about the team's loss, and the Tough will take the initiative to take responsibility, Curry said.
After the start of the game, the Nuggets entered the game faster, putting a lot of pressure on the Warriors on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and they had a clear tactic that was to limit Curry, and achieved good results. Curry had only 2 shots in the first quarter without scoring, and in the second quarter Curry made 1 of 4 shots and did not hit 5 shots in the halftime. That puts the Warriors in a slump on the offensive end. At the same time, at the defensive end, the Nuggets limited the Warriors with their excellent performance, and the whole game data compared to the Nuggets completed 10 steals, forcing the Warriors to make 17 mistakes, and seized the mistakes to play an effective defensive counterattack, using the mistakes to score 15 points, these data are higher than the Warriors.
After the start of the second half, the Warriors we are familiar with gradually returned, first they began to actively fight and defend on the defensive end, limiting the opponents to only score 29 points in the half, and it is important to know that the Nuggets scored 31 points and 29 points in the first two quarters. Offensively they also found the rhythm to start not to close the score, the last quarter Curry turned on the scoring mode, a single quarter to cut 15 points, with one minute left in the game to tie the score, but helplessly Jokic's attack and defense in the last moment helped the Nuggets win the game.
The Warriors have one statistic in the game that stands out, especially in a game where they only lost three points, and that was their free throws, shooting as little as 51.6 percent from just 16 of the 31 free throws, which is far below their usual level. Cumminga made 3 of 10 free throws and Anderson made 1 of 6. After the game, Anderson talked about the free throw problem, saying that it was one of the reasons for the loss, and losing 5 free throws would bother him for one night, and tomorrow he would practice 500 free throws. At the same time, he replaced the players who played in Green, and they didn't do well when the team needed help, which he was the first to blame. After the team loses, the player can find the problem and take the initiative to take the initiative, who would not like such a player?
Although Curry set a new record in this game (becoming the first player in NBA history to hit 3,000 three-pointers), the team eventually lost the game, and Curry, who was the core of the team after the team lost, seemed a little lonely, knowing that they were only one step away from winning the game. In an interview after the game, Curry said that the team did not perform well in the game, Green was absent from the game, and in the later games they needed to adjust to let the team meet the game in just the right state.
After the game, Warriors head coach Kerr talked about the strength of the team in an interview, he believes that the key to the Warriors' loss in this game is that the team lacks the vitality of the game, the Nuggets set the tone for the game in the first quarter of the game, they are very aggressive at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, forcing the Warriors to carry out a large number of transfers and not play their own rhythm. At the same time, it also mentioned the team's counterattack in the second half, and it can be said that Cole pointed out the reason for the team's loss and expected them to adjust.
The Warriors are currently in first place in the West with 27 wins and 7 losses, 0.5 wins ahead of the Suns, and it is worth mentioning that the Warriors' opponents in the next game are still the Nuggets, looking forward to their adjustments and looking forward to their performance in the next game.