On May 11, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Timberwolves sat at home to meet the challenge of the Nuggets, in the previous two home games of the Nuggets, the Timberwolves defeated their opponents, if they can continue to win this game, then the promotion can be said to be a certainty, but the Nuggets obviously will not give up, they have made good adjustments in this campaign, and then let's talk about the game process first, and then talk about the players' play.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Pope and Murray combined to score 4 points to help the Nuggets take the lead, Edwards and Towns hit three points in response, Gordon and Porter combined to score 5 points, Conley and Towns combined to score 4 points in response, Porter scored 3 points on four free throws, Conley and Reed combined to score 4 points in response, and then the game entered the Nuggets time, Murray and Jokic combined to score 8 points, Holiday Jr. hit a three-point shot, and at the end of the quarter, Jokic scored an inside kill, and the Nuggets led by 8 points to end the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Holiday Jr. and Murray hit three points to help the team expand the lead, Towns stopped the bleeding with three points, Porter and Pope combined to respond with 4 points, Edwards broke through the kill, Murray and Braun scored in a row, the Nuggets directly extended the lead to 20 points, Edwards and Conley combined to cut 5 points in response, and then the two sides fell into a stalemate, although the Timberwolves fought back, but the Nuggets gave them a good response, and the Timberwolves trailed by 15 points at halftime.
Yibian fought again Jaden broke through the kill to help the Timberwolves narrow the difference, Pope and Murray combined to cut 4 points in response, Edwards and Conley combined to cut 5 points, Aaron Gordon and Porter hit three three-pointers in a row to help the Nuggets extend the lead to more than 20 points again, Edwards hit a mid-range shot, Jokic scored 4 points in a row, although Huazi did not want to give up, but the opponent blossomed more and more to make the score bigger and bigger, and the Timberwolves were already behind by 27 points at the end of the third quarter.
Although the final quarter of the final battle was very different, the Timberwolves did not give up, but the team did not play a decent counterattack, the difference has been about 20 points, so the Timberwolves can only choose Mingjin to withdraw, and finally they lost to the Nuggets 90-117, and the big score between the two sides is now to the Nuggets 1-2 Timberwolves.
Gobert was beaten into an ATM
The main reason why the Timberwolves lost in this game was that the three towers failed to limit Jokic, and they were able to win the Timberwolves in the past few games by relying on the depth of the interior, but in this game, the three towers were blown up by Jokic, and Gobert fell into foul trouble early, Gobert shot 3 of 5 in the game, got 6 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, and Reed was also magically absent, and got 7 points and 1 rebound on 2 of 7 shots.
Downs is the best offensive play among the three, but many times the offensive selection is not reasonable enough, but also highlights the lack of ball quotient, this game he shot 4 of 7 in the game, 4 of 5 three-pointers got 15 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, he deserves to be the best interior in the active shooting ability, and the three points of various top shots in the face of the opponent's defense are still very accurate. In addition to the three towers, Conley had 10 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists.
Edwards tried his best, because the opponent began to choose to pinch Huazi in this game, so he was also better able to find a vacant teammate, but they did not seize the opportunity, Edwards shot 8 of 15 in the game, 3 of 8 three-pointers got 19 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 block, he tried his best, but his teammates were too weak, and the advantage of the team's lineup thickness was not shown, and the four key rotations on the bench only scored 16 points in total.
Murray Porter is on fire
The reason why the Nuggets were able to win this game was because Jokic changed his strategy, and Jokic always found his teammates first and asked them to open it first, but this game entered the offensive mode from the first quarter, and he turned on the offensive mode to make the opponent's defense very tired, which led to their interior line falling into foul trouble early, so the opponent did not dare to save Murray and Porter Jr. after blocking and changing the defense, and the two also seized the opportunity to play a good performance.
In this game, Murray shot 11 of 21 from the field, 2 of 5 from three-point range and got 24 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, Porter Jr. shot 6 of 10 from the field, 4 of 5 from three-point range and got 21 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, and Jokic got 24 points, 14 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks from 10 of 18 shots.
Through this game, Jokic found a way to win, which is to use his personal firepower to open the situation and cause damage, so as to disrupt the opponent's defensive deployment. Gordon and Pope also played well in this game, Gordon scored 13 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists, Pope got 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, through this game, there is still suspense in this series, although the Timberwolves have a good lineup, but the Nuggets have the first person in the league, and it is really hard to say who will die in the series.
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