On April 19, Beijing time, the second game of the NBA playoff Warriors' home game against the Nuggets began. Stephen Curry continued to play off the bench, and in the end, the Warriors beat the Nuggets 126-106 and led the series by 2-0. On the Warriors side, Curry had 34 points and 4 assists on 12-of-17 shooting, Poole had 29 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists on 10-of-16 shooting, and Klay had 21 points; on the Nuggets, Jokic had 26 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks.
The Nuggets started the game with Jokic unable to stop helping the Nuggets lead to double digits, but Poole and Wiggins relied on three points to help the Warriors stop the bleeding, and in the last 3 minutes the Nuggets fell into a scoring drought and were played by the Warriors to play a 10-0 small climax to catch up with the score. At the end of the second quarter, the Warriors seized the opportunity to climax, and the three brothers teamed up to help the Warriors surpass 6 points. Easy to fight again, the Warriors will pull the point difference to double digits, the "Splash Tea" combination under the outside line to rain three points, the Warriors a single quarter burst 44 points to open up to more than 20 points difference. The Warriors were always able to respond to the Nuggets' point-chasing balls in the final quarter, and Jokic was expelled from the referee's roar, and the point difference was firmly maintained at around 20 points.
Looking at the whole game, whether it is the unstoppable of the Warriors' "death five small" or the struggle between Jokic's offensive and defensive ends, it is almost the same as the trend of the previous game. Curry, Poole, and Thompson's offensive firepower is too fierce, the Nuggets simply can't defend the Warriors' outside line, and the three brothers jointly scored 84 points and shot a total of 13 three-pointers. And Curry, Poole, Thompson, Wiggins, Green five people plus minus combined to reach +96!
Jokic is hard to support. The Nuggets, who lack a point guard, can only rely on Jokic alone. Teammates don't have baskets, and the defense is pierced. Jokic, who had an explosive mentality, eventually vented his anger on the referee. In the fourth saving, Keic forced Green to miss the basket, and Jokic, who thought there was a foul, roared at the referee, so he was expelled from the game with a technical foul. In the two games combined, Jokic's plus-minus was -45, the worst for the team.
The Nuggets even experienced internal discord. In the third quarter, the Nuggets were shot by Curry in the transition, and then head coach Mike Malone asked for a timeout. It was at this time that infighting broke out inside the Nuggets. Barton, unhappy with his team-mates' defense, was mentally unbalanced during the timeout. It just so happened that Barton and Cousins had a verbal altercation, followed by fierce rhetoric and spewing garbage at each other. Fortunately, the teammates rushed forward to dissuade them, which avoided the conflict between the two. The next game the Nuggets will return home to meet the Warriors' challenge, they not only have to consider how to limit the Warriors' offense, but also have to deal with the relationship within the team.