On April 28, Beijing time, the Golden State Warriors faced the Denver Nuggets at home. Before this game, the Nuggets have been 1-3 behind the Warriors, more importantly, the game's Jokic performed extremely well, both ends of the attack and defense have played MVP level performance, but, in the face of the Warriors with multiple superstars, it is still difficult to drive the team alone, and finally the Warriors defeated the Nuggets and entered the second round of the playoffs.
Jokic experienced a leg strain during the game, but he returned to the court after a short recovery off the court and fought the Warriors until the last minute. Throughout the game, Jokic played 32 minutes, shooting 12-of-18 and scoring 30 points, 19 rebounds and 8 assists.
In the game, Jokic sent a total of 8 assists, in the face of the opponent's close defense, Jokic can have an excellent passing vision like a defender, after finding teammates, Gordon took Jokic's pass and hit the ball directly into the basket, and successfully played 2+1.
In addition, as long as in this game, Jokic with the ball to break through to the inside line will be bound to be guarded by more than two players, after attracting the bag defense, Jokic will pass the ball to the outside teammates, although the first three-point shot is missed, but Jokic can still grab the frontcourt rebound, the ball is outside the three-point line, the Nuggets player three points again.
Of course, in the game we can also see the wonderful blocking and dismantling cooperation between Jokic and his teammates, and finally Jokic sent an assist again, and his teammates hit again.
In the final moments of the final quarter, Jokic continued to use his body to break through to the inside score, scoring 6 consecutive points to help the Nuggets survive, however, due to the impact of leg strains, it can be clearly seen that Jokic's footsteps were slow, and the Warriors relied on Payton's desperate three-pointer to stabilize the win, and finally defeated the Nuggets, and the big score was 4-1 to win the Nuggets to enter the second round of the playoffs.