The Great Crash! The defending champions trailed by 19 points at halftime and were hit 27-2 with Jokic struggling to prop up

Sports Xiao Liu

2024-05-17 09:50Published in Jiangsu

On May 17, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Timberwolves returned to their home court against the Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals. In this game, the Timberwolves can only continue the series by winning, and their momentum is also very hot, blasting a wave of 27-2 super offensive in the first quarter, taking the initiative on the court, and then maintaining the lead, and the Timberwolves lead the Nuggets 59-40 at halftime.

In this game, the Timberwolves' Conley returned from injury, but the Timberwolves fell into passivity at the beginning, and the Nuggets took a 9-2 lead. But after the Timberwolves adjusted, they quickly entered the state, and scored points on consecutive counterattacks, the Nuggets began to fall into passivity, and they were never able to continue to score points, and the point difference was constantly widened, Edwards blossomed inside and outside during this time, scoring 14 points in a single quarter, while the Nuggets team only scored 14 points in total, and fell behind by as many as 17 points after the first quarter of the game.

In the second quarter, the Nuggets launched a counterattack under the leadership of Jokic, once narrowing the gap to 11 points, but then the Timberwolves scored consecutive points, and Edwards singled out three points to soar, directly stretching the difference to more than 20 points. The Nuggets' offense fell into passivity again, Murray missed consecutive shots, Porter Jr. stopped the bleeding 2+1, but Conley immediately replied, Jokic scored 2+1 under the basket, causing Towns to foul 3 times. The Timberwolves were a little impatient during this time, and McDaniels scored a late whistle rebound, and the Nuggets trailed 40-59 at halftime.

The Timberwolves were still strong in the first half, showing their must-win mentality, especially Edwards, who regained the momentum of the first two games of the series, scoring 19 points on 5-of-9 shooting. McDaniels next to him also had 13 points, and Conley, who came back, contributed seven.

The defending champion Nuggets relied on Jokic to get 16 points and 5 rebounds in the first half, which was really hard to support. Murray was completely lost, scoring just two points on 1-of-10 shooting, and if he couldn't find his touch in the second half, the game would probably go into garbage time early.

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