On May 17, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Nuggets and Timberwolves ushered in the sixth game of the series, before this game the Nuggets led the Timberwolves with a big score of 3-2. Next, let's talk about the game process first, and then talk about the players' performance.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Gobert scored the first place for the Timberwolves, Jokic teamed up with Porter Jr. to respond with a wave of 9-0 climax, McDaniels and Edwards combined for 7 points to help the team tie the score, and then the game entered the rhythm of the Timberwolves, Towns and Gobert killed one after another, and the team once established a 17-point lead, and then the Nuggets also failed to play a decent counterattack, and they fell behind by 17 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Lee Kyle hit two free throws to help the Timberwolves extend their lead, Murray and Jokic combined to score 5 points in response, Lee Kyle continued to shoot free throws, Gordon hit a three-point shot to help the Nuggets chase down to 11 points, seeing that the Nuggets were about to get up, Edwards and Reed combined to cut 4 points to stop the bleeding, Reed and Towns scored again and again The Timberwolves once extended their lead to more than 20 points, and they trailed their opponents by 19 points at halftime.
Easy side rematch McDaniels and Gordon sent each other inside kills, Edwards broke through the kill to make it 2+1, Pope and Murray hit three points one after another, McDaniels responded with three points, Gordon and Edwards sent each other inside kills, Murray hit three more points, Reed and Alexander Walker combined to cut 5 points in response, although the Nuggets' offense picked up in this quarter, but the Timberwolves' firepower was stronger, and they had a lead of 25 points at the end of the third quarter.
In the face of the Timberwolves' strong defense, the Nuggets also failed to play a decent counterattack, and finally they lost to the Timberwolves 75-115.
Jokic Murray was targeted
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the player's play, Murray was targeted by the opponent in this game, especially on the defensive end, because the Timberwolves have always been the main twin towers, they always have a height advantage against the opponent's small one, this game Murray often faces Towns or Reed after changing defenses, and as a result, these two punished Murray with a good individual performance, and at the same time, Murray was also very uncomfortable on the offensive end, and he got 10 points, 1 rebound and 5 assists on 4-of-18 shooting.
The Timberwolves also found a way to limit Jokic, the Timberwolves pinched Jokic after he got the ball, I can put your outside three-pointers, but I won't let Jokic play alone, as a result, Jokic was restricted, and their pitchers also failed to punish the Timberwolves' defense, Jokic shot 9 of 19 in this game, 0 of 4 three-pointers got 22 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, and the rebounds are difficult to grab, and now the opponent is the twin towers and he grabs.
In this game, Gordon got 12 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists on 4-of-7 shooting, Pope got 9 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists on 2-of-6 shooting, Porter Jr. got 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, and the team's bench three-person rotation did not score a point before garbage time.
Conley and Huazi are too critical
Another major reason why the Timberwolves won this game is that they advocate confrontation, and the scale of blowing penalties in the past few games is too tight, which is a great loss for a team like the Timberwolves with strong defensive aggression, but this game returned to the scale of blowing penalties in the first two games of the series, and the physical talent and height advantage of the Timberwolves were shown, and the Nuggets were also very tired, and Gobert was not as bad as the previous two games, scoring 8 points and 13 rebounds in the whole game.
Edwards fell to his waist in the third quarter, and it didn't look like much of a problem, but his stable play on the offensive end was the key to the team's victory, and he was on fire in the first quarter to help the team establish a lead, and he was able to stand up when the opponent played an offensive climax, and he had 27 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals on 8-of-17 shooting and 4-of-9 three-pointers, which was very good. Towns had 10 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, and his excellent rebounding helped the team.
Conley's return is also the key, his ability to control the court is too important, because his control of the court allowed the Timberwolves to play not messy when they were ahead, Conley scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists in this game, in addition to McDaniels also punished the opponent for emptying his three points, he shot 8 of 10 in this game, 3 of 5 three-pointers got 21 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, he has been very inefficient in the playoffs so far, but don't forget that people are top 3D, you can't expect to miss every game.
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