Now, the NBA regular season has come to the end stage, and the top ten in the Eastern Conference are already ironclad, and the final suspense is the final ranking of each team, which is temporarily ranked 6th in the West, if it does not play well in the last few regular season games, it may even fall into the playoffs, but this will certainly not be the situation that Teacher Yu wants to see.
However, just today, the Nuggets once again encountered the biggest dark horse in the West this season, the Memphis Grizzlies, the biggest dark horse in the West, and the Grizzlies who lost to the Jazz in the last game have stopped the pace of winning streaks, and the Grizzlies, who are the second in the Western Conference, do not seem to be fully committed in this game. The Nuggets, led by Jokic, showed a very fluid offense in this game, and finally won the Grizzlies easily 122-109, giving the Grizzlies two consecutive losses while the Nuggets also locked in their top 6 in the West, officially saying goodbye to the playoffs.
The Grizzlies' performance this season can be said to have shocked the entire NBA league, especially the high-hanging free card of the star Morant, still soaring, but also to many fans to see the huge potential and strong competitiveness of the Grizzlies this team, but after the jazz ended the winning streak, the Grizzlies players also laid down their baggage, but also played health basketball in this game.
You know, before the playoffs, the league's teams are most worried about the problem of injury, is already locked in the second place in the West, of course, the Grizzlies will play very carefully in this game, more on the field is the use of projection to attack, this is also the Grizzlies only got 19 free throw opportunities in this game, and did not show the super offensive strength of the past, even the highest score Bain only scored 14 points, the Grizzlies strategically abandoned the game is early into a big score behind.
Compared to the Nuggets, who are very much in need of this game to win to stubbornly stick to their top six in the West, in the case that Murray has not yet returned, whether Mr. Jokic can play an efficient offense directly depends on the prospects of the Nuggets, but Jokic did not disappoint the fans in the end, shooting 16 goals 24 times in his 35.2 minutes, contributing a comprehensive personal excellent data of 35 +16+6+5+1, and under jokic's leadership, the Nuggets had a total of 5 players in this game with double-digit scores.
The biggest beneficiary of the Nuggets locking in the top six in the West is the Clippers, after all, if the Nuggets once they fall to 7th place, then the Clippers are not too sure to beat their opponents in a playoff that is set to win, but after the Nuggets bid farewell to the playoffs, the Los Angeles Clippers will fight the Timberwolves in the first game of the playoffs, and the probability of defeating the Timberwolves in the first game to advance to the playoffs with the seventh place in the West will also become very large.