On April 19, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Warriors played at home to meet the Nuggets. In the last game, the Warriors beat the Nuggets by 16 points, And Poole became the brightest star in that game, and Curry's bench appearance also brought a lot of space to the five small lineups, which is obviously the strongest hole card in the Warriors' decider lineup. On the other hand, on the Side of the Nuggets, Jokic is difficult to support alone, although he is very strong, but there are too few helpers around him, the outside shooting is unstable, and a series of problems plague the Nuggets.
In this game, Kerr continued to let Curry serve as a substitute, the first quarter of the game came up, the Nuggets countered the main guest, played a good start, and then with the help of Poole and Wiggins, the Warriors stopped the loss in time, and in the last moments of the first quarter, the Nuggets fell into a scoring drought, and the Warriors seized the opportunity to play a wave of 10-0 and successfully caught up with the score. In the second quarter, the Nuggets continued to exert their strength, and the Nuggets used the play of the bench to extend the lead to 10 points again, but the Warriors quickly responded, and after a wave of 14-0, they quickly reversed the score.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Warriors took the lead in entering the state, the point difference was instantly expanded to double digits, the two sides opened a tug-of-war, and finally the Warriors scored 44 points in a single quarter of the game with the fiery feel of the main players outside, successfully pulling the point difference to more than 20 points. In the final quarter, Hyland scored consecutive points to help the Nuggets narrow the point gap, but the Warriors could always give a counterattack at key moments, and after Jokic was expelled, the Nuggets completely lost the opportunity to chase points, and finally the game ended, and the Warriors successfully won the G2 game 126-106.
For the whole game, Xiao Feng next talked about his views.
Let's talk about Jokic first, to be honest, Jokic played well today, but it must be admitted that Jokic played ten twists, ostensibly Looney is the team's starting center, but everyone knows that the people who really limit Jokic are Green and Belitsa, in fact, the Warriors' way of playing is very clear, that is, to limit Jokic's passing route, and then let Green constantly interfere with Jokic's emotions, and finally he was deceived, only 4 assists in the whole game, and incidentally 3 mistakes and 5 fouls, The mentality-shattered Jokic was sent off the pitch by the referee in the final quarter. Throughout the game, we saw Barton's helplessness, nuggets infighting and Jokic's anger, and in the end it was still a sentence, that is, their own strength was insufficient, completely limited by the Warriors, and their self-confidence had been completely destroyed.
Speaking of the Nuggets, let's talk about the Warriors, Curry is a well-deserved hero, playing 23 minutes in the whole game, getting a game-high 34 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, with a plus-minus of +32. Although Curry is still a substitute, he presents a state that does not look like an injured player at all, and perhaps for Kerr, for opponents like the Nuggets, they do not need to let Curry go all out, one to protect the health of the main players, and the other to continue to train their new lineup. The Warriors' real power was when Kerr came up with five small lineups, and after a wave of 14-0, the Warriors did not give the Nuggets a chance to turn over, and a wave of streams directly took away the victory of the game.
Of course, the Warriors want to go further, can not simply count on Curry alone, through these two games, the Warriors have completely found their own rhythm, the Big Three plus Poole at the same time in the 10 minutes of time, the net victory over the Nuggets by 28 points, and most importantly, there is a Wiggins who did not break out and a curry who played as a substitute. One day Curry will return to the starting lineup, and how Kerr arranges Pooler's positioning is also a happy annoyance, after all, Poole has played really well in these two games.
For the Nuggets, if Murray still can't return, maybe basically say goodbye to the playoffs, Jokic alone is difficult to support, it is difficult to limit the Warriors' offense, the opponent's outside firepower is fierce, and he can only look forward to it, this feeling is very helpless, in fact, so far, Xiao Feng even has a little sympathy for Jokic, not that he does not work hard, but really can't play.
Today's topic is here, the above views are only Xiao Feng's personal views, please forgive me for the deficiencies.