The NBA playoffs first round of contention continued, and the Warriors continued to challenge the Nuggets away from home with a huge advantage of 3-0 in the first three games of the series.
In the end, the two teams fought for 4 quarters, the Warriors were inferior at the beginning, most of the time behind the double digits, tenaciously dragged the game into a key moment, helpless to make mistakes at the critical moment, and finally lost to the Nuggets 121-126.
The series score was rewritten to 3-1, and the Nuggets continued to retain a glimmer of hope of a comeback, with the next game the two teams heading to the Warriors' home game for the G5.
Throughout the game, the Nuggets, who fought back on the water, handed over a remarkable performance, and the five members of the team scored in double figures.
Among them, Jokic showed absolute dominance, shooting 14 of 21, bombing 37 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, although there were 7 mistakes, but Jokic's stable play is still the foundation and key for the Nuggets to win this game.
In addition, Morris 24 points and 5 assists, Gordon 21 points, 6 boards, 4 assists and 2 caps, Hyland 15 points, 4 boards and 7 assists, Cousins 10 points, 4 boards and 2 assists, the Nuggets finally hit the outside three-point shot, shooting 15-of-31 from the field.
On the other hand, in the Warriors, although the referee's blowing penalty is inevitably conducive to 0-3 behind, and it is the Nuggets who fight at home, the reason why the Warriors really lose is that they have exposed 3 major problems.
The first thing that bore the brunt was the problem of mistakes, the whole team made 15 mistakes in the whole game, and the fatal mistake of the sideline ball at the key moment directly led to the team's hopeless reversal and lost the game.
The second is the foul problem, the Warriors had 27 fouls in the whole game, 6 fouls for the dream, and 5 fouls for Klay, which seriously affected the coherence of the team's offense.
Curry also spoke about this after the game, arguing that the team had a large number of stupid defensive fouls that killed the momentum of the team's counterattack.
Dream chasing and Cole also talked about fouls, and dream chasing directly exploded foul language, indicating that the whole team's defense in this game is garbage.
Especially people staring at people defending, this is their own problem, can not be fouled when defending, they will do better.
Cole commented on Clay's 5 fouls, saying clay had performed great, but he was whistled early for a second foul, which forced him to take an early break.
Even so, in the first half of the back of the four fouls, Clay still played a good performance in the second half, the whole game, Klay 20 shots 12, including 7 of 11 three-pointers, cut 32 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, he and Curry teamed up to bomb 65 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists.
Kerr pointed out that this is not the first time Clay has resolved the problem of fouls, and more than once during the past Finals, Clay has been able to remain calm in the face of a large number of fouls.
Kerr also talked about the team's last problem, that is, the distribution and handling of the ball, and admitted that the whole team dribbled too much and did not hand the ball to the next player in time.
The key to this problem is that The Wonders Poole faced the Nuggets' targeted defense and began to expose the gap between himself and Curry, and the game was magically no longer magical, shooting 3 of 10 in the whole game, with 11 points, 2 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals.
In fact, for the Warriors, such a situation is not necessarily a bad thing, the team can borrow a donkey, in the G5 to take Curry back to the starter, if he has been winning, Kerr is difficult to break the original chemical reaction, forced Curry back to the starting.
Therefore, for the Warriors, this loss is not a good thing, giving the team the opportunity to borrow the donkey, but also let the players who have been going well suffered certain setbacks, and can better adjust the performance.
It is worth mentioning that this defeat is also the only time in Curry and Clay's careers so far that both of them have scored 30+ points, but lost the game (including during the regular season), and the two of them jointly scored 65 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists in this game.
However, the Warriors ushered in the first game of the series loss, and the pressure on the Nets surged, because as the Nuggets won, the Nets became the only team with a 0-win in the first round, and naturally became the only hope of sweeping.