In the NBA's small-ball era, the fifth center, who was regarded as the core of each team's founding team, once became a blue-collar player on the court, but this also had a lot to do with the fact that the league did not have a strong interior line at that time, and with the strong rise of Jokic and Embiid, the inside players once again stood in the center of the NBA stage!
Jokic, who won the first MVP trophy of his career last season, led the Nuggets to the top eight in the Western Conference standings in the case of a long absence from the core of the team's backcourt Murray, and in the last game with the Pelicans, Jokic exploded in the final quarter and overtime, and finally cut a large triple-double of 46 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, leading the team to a wave of two consecutive wins, and in this back-to-back game, the Nuggets ushered in the warriors, who were second in the West. In this campaign, the Warriors' backcourt core Splash Brothers are all rotated, coupled with the absence of the inner core dream Green due to injury, so that they can only discharge a set of role players to fight against strong enemies, but it has to be said that the performance of the Warriors in this battle is still remarkable, but in terms of star dominance, the Nuggets are dominant, and finally rely on Jokic's back-to-back personal performance, the Nuggets gave the latter a five-game losing streak to the Warriors at 131-124!
The little devil has become the theme of this game for the Warriors, replacing the splash brothers Curry and Klay Thompson to play double gun Poole and Moody, did not live up to the expectations of the team's head coach, before Clay's recovery, has proved his Poole, this game has become the leader and core of the team on the court, in the 33.6 minutes of its appearance, 18 shots hit 10 goals, including 8 of 12 three-pointers, contributing 30 points and 7 assists.
Under The Passing Organization of Poole, the Warriors also played a very smooth overall offense, the team has a total of 5 players scored double digits, of which Moody, who was selected by the team with the 14th pick in the first round before the start of the season, felt hot at three points, one hit 5 three-pointers and cut a tie for the team's highest 30 points, while Cummingga, who was selected by the Warriors in the seventh round of the first round, came on the bench to shoot 6 of 9, and also contributed 16 points and 4 rebounds, and the excellent performance of young players made the Warriors who suffered defeats. Seeing hope for the future.
Jokic, who fought for 43 minutes in the last game, faced the Warriors who were not strong in the inner line, and used their super personal performance to explain what is inexplicable, although the Warriors have tried everything to limit Jokic's play, but the personal ability of the fully capable Teacher About, can use a variety of ways to help the team, one-on-one singles His grasp is very high, and once faced with multiple people, he can also pass the ball to teammates with better positions at the first time. Jokic played 34.4 minutes, hit 12 goals in 17 shots, contributed 32 points, 15 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 block, leading the team to continue the winning streak!
After losing this game, the Warriors were also overtaken by the Grizzlies in the Western Conference standings and fell to the third place position in the West, which is why fans are eager to hope that the team's core inner line chaser Green can return to the game as soon as possible, and look forward to the Warriors being able to get out of the trough in time!