On March 8, Beijing time, in an NBA power dialogue that ended earlier today, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Golden State Warriors 131-124 at home.
In this game, Nuggets core center Nikola Jokic played an extremely wonderful individual performance. He played 34 minutes, shooting 12-of-17 and scoring 32 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists.
In today's game, Jokic's interior defense against the Warriors is simply unstoppable. He can also connect teams while attacking himself, which is what makes him even more terrifying, and opponents have to defend not only his singles but also his passes.
He got everyone on the team involved on the offensive end, and under his leadership the Nuggets had a total of six players scoring in double figures today. They are Jokic 32 points, Morris 18 points, Green 18 points, Reid 17 points, Rivers 15 points and Cousins 13 points.
The match was also Jokic's 75th career triple-double, and he has continued to perform well this season, playing an MVP-like performance in the face of serious injury problems with the team. He averaged 33.2 minutes per game and had 25.9 points, 13.8 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 1.4 steals. He shot 57.3 percent from the field and shot 36.3 percent from three-point range.
His outstanding performance was also praised by Warriors coach Kerr, who said: "Jokic played too well today, he played very easily, he can help his teammates get better, he makes the opponent feel very headache.
It has to be said that Jokic did play a phenomenal level performance. He's helped the Nuggets achieve a 9-1 record in their last 10 games, and the team's current record has come to 39-26, sixth in the West.
And their opponents, the Golden State Warriors, have a number of main players missing the game today, including Curry, Thompson, Wiggins, Payton II and other players, and the burden of the team falls on Jordan Poole and Moses Moody.
Poole, the team's top scorer today, played 34 minutes, shooting 11-of-19, including 8-of-12 from three-point range, and 32 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists.
Moody played 36 minutes, shooting 10-of-23 and 5-of-12 from three-point range, with 30 points and three rebounds. Moody is a rookie for 2021 and is only 19 years old this year. He was able to play such a performance, which is already very good for the team and the fans.
However, the Warriors not only lost this game, but worse, they have performed very badly in recent times. The team has recently suffered a wave of five consecutive defeats, and the ranking has also slipped all the way to the third position in the West. And the gap between them and the Jazz, Lone Rangers, and Nuggets behind them is getting smaller and smaller, and the team will not stop the decline of the loss, and the ranking may fall down.
The performances of the team's main players Wiggins and Thompson were crucial, and the two played average in recent games. Wiggins hasn't scored more than 20 points in a single game since entering February, which is not normal for an All-Star-level forward. Thompson, on the other hand, returned from a major injury and did not recover very well. He was a little anxious to prove himself, relying too much on individual singles with the ball, and instead discarding the no-ball attack that he was best at.