SGA defends 60 wins the team s final glory & Jokic is isolated and helpless

112 to 105, the Thunder won the home court and won the Tianwang Mountain.

On the same day, the 64-win Cavaliers were swept out by the Pacers Gentleman;

The day before, the 61-win Celtics were behind 1-3 and the Otter Rabbit was seriously injured;

In this way, the 68-win Thunder became the last hope to defend the glory of the 60-win team.

Perhaps it was because of the pressure, or perhaps it was because the Nuggets were too tenacious. The Thunder, who returned to home to play against Tianwang Mountain, did not show any advantage. They lost points in each quarter of the first three quarters, and they still lag behind 81-90 in the middle of the fourth quarter. At that time, the Thunder seemed to be following the footsteps of Kai, and their core Alexander seemed very hesitant and had no new MVP style. In the first three quarters, although SGA scored 21 points, its efficiency was not high. He also made 5 assists and made 5 mistakes, which of course is related to the Nuggets' targeted defense.

As we all know, SGA is used to launching in the middle lane, and the offensive area is mainly at mid-to-mid distance. The Nuggets, who are tall and powerful and tacit, seem to have set up a pocket for Alexander, and they can't feel comfortable if they plunge in.

For example, the picture below is Gordon's defense on the front, Braun stands at the top of the paint area, and Jokic is the next step. In addition, Porter, who was recovered from the online line and Murray on the left, SGA has almost no room for movement, so it has to pass the ball to Jewish who was greatly empty.

Similarly, as soon as Alexander walked to the edge of the paint area, he was in front of him an iron fence of at least three people.

If you want to break through from 45 degrees to the bottom corner, the Nuggets will also recycle and block the entire line. When SGA takes action, the four Nuggets will almost stand in a row along the bottom line, as if they are offside, and they will not regard Dolter who is online as a human being at all.

Of course, the Thunder did not make it easier for the teacher to have a chance. As long as the teacher gets the ball at a low post, Harteng will be responsible for the top, and one person will be responsible for the clipping at the bottom line. At the same time, he cooperates with the online recycling and forces Jokic to pass the ball. Similarly, Murray is almost the same treatment as Yali. The ball below takes away almost all Murray's breakthrough space and pass options, and can only take a step back and make a strong shot.

So even if Murray can occasionally hit such a fairy ball with Dort, it is not the norm after all.

Fortunately, in the last 5 minutes, SGA woke up as if he was in a dream and finally became determined. First, he used the Nuggets to block his online line and found that the bottom line was missed, and took over.

The next goal, the Nuggets did not dare to put pressure on the line, and Yali beat Murray to 2+1.

Nuggets thought that it was not right, and they still had to oppress SGA, so Yali attracted double teams, transferred Dort, and then found Jie Wei who was completely empty on the weak side, and made a three-pointer in the big open space.

Immediately afterwards, SGA took the ball with the help of Harten's pick-and-roll. I wonder if the teacher was deliberately fighting with Yali with three points, or if he was exhausted and unable to move forward in time to delay the obstacle, Yali decisively scored a three-pointer, almost killing the game.

Conversely, even if you ask the teacher, you can still score such a fairy ball.

But when he passed the ball against a double team, he responded to him only one ironshot and one three-way match. In the last quarter, in the Thunder, in addition to the awakened SGA, Dort made three three-pointers that stabilized the team's mind. Jewish, Harten, Chett and even Jerin also made their own contributions; on the Nuggets, except for Jokic's 4 of 6 shots, the rest of the team made 13 points, and compared with the two, they were really isolated and helpless.

Of course, this group of series is performing a duel of thickness and intensity from beginning to end. Daignot rotates 10 players in each game. Except for G3 in overtime, SGA plays for more than 40 minutes in a game. The Nuggets seem to rotate 8 players, but in fact they rotate 6 players. In addition to G2 who was beaten, Jokic and Murray go up 40 minutes in each game, which may be an important reason for the Nuggets' power outage in the final quarter.

It is said that Thibodeau is the farmer, but the number one iron donkey Bridges (40.8 minutes) is not as long as Murray (41.8 minutes), and Brunson (40.1 minutes) is not as much as Jokic (40.4 minutes). If there are five donkeys there, then what is Jokic? Tatum, 27, who averaged 40.3 minutes per game, averaged 40.3 minutes next door, just got tired and broke his Achilles tendon. Brothers should be more at ease, after all, it's only the semi-finals.