The NBA playoffs continued, and today the second game of the Warriors' series with the Nuggets was played at the Warriors' home court, and finally the Warriors once again easily defeated the Nuggets to take a 2-0 lead in the series. Curry continued to play off the bench in this game, scoring 34 points and hitting 5 three-pointers, while Jordan Pooler continued to perform well, contributing 29 points and hitting 5 three-pointers today. Thompson scored 21 points. Now we can call these three warriors the Big Three, and all three of them have scored 84 points together. This kind of offensive firepower is probably difficult for any team in the league to overcome.
Although the Nuggets today showed a very strong fighting posture to try to win back a city at home for the Warriors, they also played their own aggressiveness in the first quarter of the game. But the Nuggets were completely unable to limit the Warriors' outside line on the defensive end, and as the game progressed, the rhythm was slowly mastered by the Warriors. The Warriors often pulled the score apart quickly in the middle of the game with a wave of small climaxes, and the Nuggets had no way to fight back because their outside line could not match the Warriors' offensive firepower. And Jokic also played very badly under Green's restrictions. So naturally the score of the two teams was further widened.
This kind of game is difficult to mentally not have problems. Today, the Nuggets' mentality has completely collapsed, whether from the player level or from the coach level, from their expressions we can clearly feel their sense of despair. Jokic has had two technical offenses directly sent off by the coach today, and even the Nuggets have infighting in the team today, and Barton and Cousins have erupted in a fierce verbal conflict off the court. Today's Nuggets not only play very chaotically on the court, but their atmosphere off the court has also been affected. It is true that in the face of such a huge point difference, it is difficult for players to stabilize their mentality.
So does the Nuggets have room to adjust? At present, there is none. The most amazing thing about the Warriors in this series is that Jordan Poole continued his outstanding performance in the regular season. He took the Warriors' playoffs to another level.
The Nuggets expected Curry and Thompson to be absolute offensive players in the playoffs, but they definitely didn't expect Jordan Poole to perform so well. So the Offensive Firepower of the Warriors' Big Three makes the Nuggets overwhelmed, and they are not a team that is good at outside defense, so this series is destined to be without suspense. The only thing the Nuggets can do next is to play their own style on the court as much as possible and save some dignity.