I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
In the just-concluded NBA Western Conference semifinals G5, the Nuggets defeated the Timberwolves 112-97 at home and won the key battle of Tianwang Mountain, Jokic went down to earth and scored 40 points, and the defending champion played from 0-2 to 3-2, which is indeed some strength, and the young Timberwolves paid the tuition and are currently passive.
The Timberwolves pay tuition
In the first round of the West, the young Timberwolves eliminated the Durant-led Suns 4-0, which has been eye-catching, especially the team's double champion Towns and Edwards, who won two consecutive wins in the series and once led the Nuggets 2-0. Looking back at the G3 game, the Timberwolves Edwards and Towns played averagely, the team's defense and offense were not strong, and the Timberwolves fell into passivity.
In the next G4 game, Timberwolves Edwards scored 44 points, and the Nuggets' Jokic and Gordon played too strongly, like a divine help, and the Timberwolves were tied 2-2. In today's G5 game, Towns and Gobert played very well, with 41 points and 17 rebounds combined, but Jokic's performance was too stable, and he got 40+7+13 super data. It's not so much that Jokic is too tough, but that the Timberwolves are too young and a little underdog to take a 2-0 win.
The second-round pick Jokic was too invincible
In other teams, in the situation of falling behind 0-2, there are still some more rare. But on the Nuggets team, it is indeed too strong. Jokic, the core of the team, scored another 40 points today, averaging 26.4 points, 12.4 rebounds and 9 assists per game in the regular season, and 28.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game in the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that Jokic was only the No. 2 pick that year, and now he can achieve such a result, which is really amazing, and he was elected as the MVP of the regular season this season, and now he has won the championship, I have to say that the Nuggets have a high vision. As a fan, the Nuggets' soaring progress is inseparable from the efforts of the whole team, and more is Jokic's supernatural play, today he is invincible on the offensive end, and the opposite Gobert can't defend at all.
If the Timberwolves lose one more game, the Nuggets can be said to let 2 chase 3, and then chase 4 to win the series directly, such Nuggets are really terrible, too invincible!
What are your new thoughts on this?