Denver Nuggets in Jokic grew into the regular season's most valuable player, has become a western conference, a team that can not be ignored, the new season despite the backcourt core Murray for a long time to hang the free card, but the Nuggets are still under the leadership of Mr. Yo, long-term ranks in the top eight in the West, but in the final stage of the regular season, the Nuggets as a whole did not perform well, so that the seventh-place Timberwolves saw the hope of overtaking, if the Nuggets continue to sluggish performance, it is likely to fall to the seventh position in the West at the last moment , thus having to go through the playoffs to storm a playoff spot, which is obviously the end they don't want to see!
In the last strong conversation with Western Conference leader Suns, the Nuggets lost by 10 points. This also narrowed their win gap with the Timberwolves to only 0.5 games, so trying to win this game against the Thunder became their primary goal, because the new king of The Russian City, Alexander, hung up the exemption card, the Nuggets established a 16-point lead under the leadership of Jokic after the opening, but the Thunder's bench suddenly played in the last quarter, once surpassed the score, saw the hope of reversing the victory, but under the leadership of Jokic, the Nuggets regained their ground, and finally defeated the Thunder 113-107, avoiding two consecutive losses, and further consolidating their sixth position in the West!
The Nuggets, who are now recognized as the strongest center in the West, Jokic, have their biggest advantage on the inside, and the Thunder, who are in the rebuilding period, have no interior line that can compete with Jokic in a one-on-one situation, so the only way to create a miracle is to play an advantage on the outside, and they have also implemented this policy.
In the case of the team's core Alexander hanging high free card, the Thunder team relied on excellent sharing of the ball, created a very large number of empty three-point opportunities, the whole game they have a total of 6 players to score double digits, including three-pointers 8 players have three-pointers into the account, the whole team has a total of 36 outside shots hit 14 goals, this alone is 18 points more than the Nuggets, which is why they can keep the suspense of the game until the end.
As the representative of the NBA's all-time second-round show counterattack, Jokic has become the league's most unsolvable center, he can help the team in any way on the court, this campaign against the Thunder, About teacher offensive end is the existence of no solution, played 34.6 minutes, 15 shots hit 13 goals, with great efficiency bombed 35 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks of ultra-comprehensive personal data, but the performance of teammates did not meet expectations, Only uncrowned dunk kings Aaron Gordon and Barton scored double-digit individually, which is why the Nuggets won so hard.
In today's Western Conference, many teams have very strong combat effectiveness, and the team's internal and external lineups are also very balanced, which means that if the Nuggets only jokic, it will be difficult to break through from the Western Conference to the Finals stage, so whether Murray can stage the return of the king in the playoffs, to a large extent, determines the prospects of the Nuggets!