Beijing time on April 22 news, the third game of the first round of the playoffs, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Denver Nuggets 118-113, the series score came to 3-0, they are only one step away from advancing to the Western Conference semifinals.
In this campaign, the Warriors' "Death Five" Steven Curry, Klay Thompson, Jordan Poole, Drummond Green, Wiggins five-man group continued to maintain a stable output. Especially at the end of the game, the Warriors trailed 109-111, and it was the five of them that threw out a wave of 8-0 small climaxes that helped the team set the victory in one fell swoop.
In three games, the Warriors' fast lineup scored 77 points on 16-of-24 shooting (66.7 percent) from two-point range and 11 of 18 from three-point range (61.1 percent from three-point range) in a total of 30 minutes of playing time! The efficiency is breathtaking.
The Warriors' new version of the Tsunami Brothers (Curry, Town, Poole) has also performed amazingly in the past three playoff games, scoring 65 points in the first game, 84 points in the second game, and 79 points in the third game, a total of 228 points, which translates to 62% of the Warriors' scores so far in the playoffs. And during this period, they also maintained extremely high efficiency, shooting 57% from a three-man combination and a 49% shooting percentage from three-point range.
There's also an interesting statistic about the three of them, the player who averages the most three-pointers per game in the NBA history today is Poole, 4.3 times per game; Curry is in second place, 4.2 times per game; and Klay is seventh, 3.1 times per game.