On January 6, Beijing time, the Nuggets suffered a second consecutive defeat to the Jazz 109-115. In this game, the Jazz's Rudi Gobert and Hassan Whiteside were absent due to injury, Snyder let Azub iqk play the center, the Jazz rotated the whole team of 9 people, the Nuggets side has always been injured, but there is no Gobert and Whiteside two interior Jokic on the inside is very advantageous. Unexpectedly, the Jazz's Bojan broke out in this battle, and Clarkson and Guy on the bench also became the Odd Soldiers, and finally the Jazz won in the absence of the twin towers.
In this game, Nikola Jokic has a great advantage on the inside line, the Jazz's starting Azubuik only played 15 minutes, in other words, most of the time the Jazz are a small lineup, Jokic's height of 2.13 meters is an unsolvable BUG on the inside line, but Jokic does not seem to have too strong offensive desire in this campaign, only 1 shot in the first quarter, only 5 shots in the first half, but the data is already a quasi-triple-double of 10 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists and 1 block.
In the first half, the difference between the two teams was only 1 point, but in the third quarter, the Jazz's small lineup suddenly sent out Bojan 11 points in a single quarter, Mitchell 8 points, O'Neal 5 points, they played a wave of small climax to open the point difference to 10 points, the third saving Kirch saw that the whole team could not score the ball before he began to dominate the offense, 9 of 4 in the single quarter, 1 of 2 three points to get 12 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, the Nuggets 22 points 14 points related to Jokic.
With 7:21 left in the final quarter, Morris hit a three-pointer and trailed just three points, but Clarkson immediately responded with a three-pointer, and O'Neal hit a three-pointer to return to 10 points, and then the Jazz took control of the overall situation and won. Jokic only had three shots in such a crucial moment in the final quarter, scoring 4 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block on 3-of-3 in a single quarter, and his statistic was to score 20+20+10 but the team lost.
The whole game Jokic 37 minutes, 17 of 10, 3 of 3 three points 1 took 26 points, 21 rebounds, 11 assists and 2 blocks, shooting 58.8%, three-point shooting rate of 33.3%, the fly in the ointment is that there are 5 mistakes, giving people the feeling that Jokic is too humble, he has a few more hands to win 30 + 20 + 10 is very easy, this is also Jokic's mileage sad night.
Jokic scored 26+21+11 in this game, completing the second career 20+20+10, becoming the most player in Nuggets history since joining the NBA in 1976, and another 45-year record.
Text/eyeliner