NBA regular season, the Warriors away challenge nuggets, the two teams are completely opposite, the Warriors suffered four consecutive defeats after the last loss to the Lakers, the team ranking continued to decline, in order to avoid injuries again, against the Nuggets, Kerr chose to directly take a break in the team's three cores, Curry, Thompson, Wiggins, it is clear that the Warriors have given up this game in advance, and the Nuggets defeated the Pelicans in overtime last game, won consecutive wins, Jokic became the brightest star on the field, after four quarters of competition, the Warriors who lacked young generals finally lost to the Nuggets by 7 points After five consecutive defeats, the Nuggets won three consecutive games, and Jokic won a triple-double in back-to-back games, which is an important contributor to the Nuggets' victory.
From the perspective of the whole game, Jokic started so strongly, continuously assisted teammates to score, and soon opened the point difference, but rookie Moody's three consecutive three-pointers the Warriors stabilized the situation, Curry, Thompson, although not there, he wanted to show their three-point ability for the Warriors, Jokic inside the line, plus Little Rivers outside the line also in, the Nuggets once again rebounded the score, Moody's hand did not decrease, he scored 4 points in a row, but Jokic assisted, let Reid hit 2 consecutive three-pointers, Cousins inside the line is also strong, The Nuggets maintained a nine-point lead in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the youngster Cuminga continuous interior strong burst to help the Warriors narrow the point gap, the Nuggets gave up defense, began to show the Warriors confrontation, Poole, Cuminga, Moody, these three players in this quarter shot 5 three-pointers, to help the Warriors to take the lead, Jokic inside the strong play, the point difference narrowed to 2 points, to the third quarter Moody's hand did not decrease, Poole three points again, the Warriors once widened the point difference to more than 10 points, Jokic hit consecutive shots for the Nuggets to stabilize the situation, Morris and Rivers Jr. hit three points, The Nuggets once again overtook the score difference, and in the last three minutes, the Nuggets suddenly suffered a scoring drought, and the Warriors seized the opportunity to close the point gap. In the first three quarters, both teams scored all over 100, and the fourth quarter was still a confrontation, but Jokic was too stable, even if these young players of the Warriors tried their best, they still could not shake the Nuggets, and finally could only accept the loss.
The warriors scored in double figures in the whole game, Poole and Moody, the two youngsters, really surprised him, Moody played 37 minutes, 10 of 23 shots, 5 three-pointers and 6 free throws, strong scored 30 points, as a young player in 2002, Moody's rookie last year, he was selected by the Warriors in the first round of 2021, but he did not get much playing time before, all the data in this game is a career high, and Poole is also a young player, he played 34 minutes, 11 of 19 shots, no Curry, Without Thompson, he is the core of the team, the outside hit 8 three-pointers, 32 points and 7 assists, 8 three-pointers is a new career high for Poole, as the first round of 28 rookies in 19 years, Poole has shown his talent in the Warriors, slowly growing into an indispensable member of the team, such a performance makes the Warriors sad, after all, how to renew Pooler has become the Warriors' biggest difficulty.
In addition, the young players Cumminga, Anderson, Lee, Witherspoon, these four players also have excellent performance, the lack of 4 cores can fight with the Nuggets to the last moment, the Warriors are indeed surprised, if the Thunder is the best team in the NBA draft, then looking at the performance of these young players in this game, the Warriors' draft vision is not worse than the Thunder.
Nuggets 7 people scored in double figures, saw the Warriors lack of major generals, the Nuggets were completely undefended, and the Warriors launched a confrontation, although it was a back-to-back game, but they still maintained physical strength, defeated the opponent, Jokic played again for 35 minutes, 17 shots 12 times, got 14 free throws, got 32 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists, two consecutive games to get triple-double data, if Jokic won the MVP last season to make fans question, then this season Jokic is fully qualified to win the MVP.