In last season's NBA Western Conference, Mitchell and Gobert led the Jazz in the regular season, relying on excellent overall basketball to play the proud record of the first in the West, although in the playoffs lost to the core of the Clippers, but they still let the fans see a good fighting ability, after the start of the new season, the Jazz continued last season's performance, in the top of the standings, but because of the absence of the best defensive player Gobert, the team's defensive dominance fell sharply, before encountering a wave of four consecutive losses And in this game with another Western power nuggets, Gobert made a strong comeback, the dialogue between the defensive iron gate and the offensive kaleidoscope Jokic, to a large extent, determined the trend of the game, although Gobert has done his best to limit the play of Jokic, but the MVP's ability is not a waste, Jokic still played a very efficient personal attack on his own in the game, and also revitalized the team's attack, but the second team performed poorly, making Jokic an air slasher, The Jazz eventually beat the Nuggets 125-102, ending their four-game losing streak!
In the jazz backcourt core Murray is still in the recovery period can not play the situation, Jokic's performance, directly determines the Nuggets combat effectiveness, and in this game, Jokic encountered the best defensive player French Gautagobel, after the game began, the Jazz once relied on Gobert's deterrent power in the interior defense, as well as Mitchell and Clarkson's offensive firepower, to establish a 13-point lead, but after the start of the second half, Jokic began to lead the Nuggets to launch a counterattack, Relying on his flexible pace and comprehensive personal offensive means, Jokic played a very comprehensive personal data, hitting 10 goals in 18 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, and one contributed 25 points, 15 rebounds, 14 assists and 2 steals.
Although Gobert is not as gorgeous as Jokic in terms of personal data, only 18 points, 19 rebounds and 2 blocks, his role on the court is still obvious, the inside line has him in the seat, greatly increasing the difficulty of the Nuggets players to break through the scoring, can only choose more to shoot three points on the outside, which also makes it easier for other Jazz players to defend, insisting on the strategy of stepping on the three-point line to limit the opponent's three-point shooting, and achieved good results, the Nuggets' three-point shooting rate in the whole game was only 25.6%, It's also the key to the Jazz's ability to win.
In the case of about the teacher to play a ruling personal data, the Nuggets still can not win the game, the main reason is that other teammates are not as good as the opponent, the whole game is known for the depth of the lineup of the Nuggets, the second team only has a total of 22 points, while the Jazz's best sixth man Clarkson alone scored 16 points, and their offensive core Mitchell, although under the Nuggets' oppressive defense, only 5 of 12 points, but he still cut 31 points, With 5 rebounds and 4 assists, that's the key to their ability to win.
A very important reason why the Nuggets' second-team combat effectiveness has declined so obviously is the injury of many of the team's core rotation players, and this is also the biggest difficulty for them to go further in the playoffs, hoping that Murray can return to the court as soon as possible, so that Jokic can have a trustworthy teammate on the court!