On January 2, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Nuggets postponed the game after the resumption of the game to challenge the Rockets. In this battle, the two teams triggered the health and safety agreement to miss, the two sides also clenched the score in the first quarter, and the Nuggets won 23 points in the second quarter to completely end the suspense of the game, the Nuggets once stretched the point difference to 31 points, and finally they killed the Rockets 124-111, winning 3 consecutive wins while giving the opponent 7 consecutive losses.
Statistics
Nuggets: Jokic 24 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists, Campazo 22 points, 4 rebounds, 12 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks, Aaron Gordon 16 points and 7 rebounds, Green 11 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, Patton 12 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, Cankar 11 points, Pol 11 points;
Rockets: Green 29 points, Tate 8 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 6 fouls, Martin Jr. 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Porter Jr. 8 points and 3 assists, Wood scored 0-of-4 without a single point.
The Star of the Field
Campazzo scored 22 points, 4 rebounds, 12 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks, scoring a season high, and helped the team win the Rockets with a comprehensive game.
Game tidbits
Kankar was injured and returned to the dressing room
Race highlights
Green tackles the basket
Tate tackles from the basket
Campazzo played rocket defense to deliver a clever pass
Little Rivers snapped
Jokic helped Campazzo hit a three-pointer
Game review
In the first quarter, Green and Barton scored three points, followed by Nuwaba's three-pointer, the Nuggets free throw rose consecutively, and Porter and Green led the team to 9-0, and the Rockets began with a 15-4 lead. Gordon finished with a layup, Jokic hooked a shot, and Tate and Porter Jr. scored seven straight points to stabilize the situation, and the Rockets still led by 10 points. Chanchar dunked, Jokic sent a throw, and then Chanchar scored 2+1, and the Nuggets forced the score to 23-26. Christopher scored a layup, Brooks sent a three-pointer, Ball hooked a shot, Campazzo scored 2+1, and the Nuggets trailed 30-31 into the second quarter.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the game suddenly changed, the Nuggets began to take four consecutive points to reverse the score, Brooks hit a three-pointer, and the Rockets trailed 34-35. Then they made a strong kill, Tate scored consecutive points to stop the bleeding, and the Rockets were still one point behind. The Nuggets suddenly unleashed a wave of 14-0 to instantly open up the 15-point gap. Green's two free throws stopped the bleeding, the Nuggets scored seven more points in a row, and Barton hit the Nuggets to take a 62-42 lead. Green hit another three-pointer on a free throw, and the individual scored seven points in a row to close the point difference to 17 points. But Gordon scored six straight points to widen the gap of more than 20 points again, Green hit both free throws, campazo returned two free throws and sent three points, and the Nuggets led 77-53. Martin took off to make up for the dunk, and the Rockets trailed 55-77 into the second half.
Jokic hit a mid-range shot, Tate hit a shot, Campazzo hit another three-pointer, and the Nuggets stretched the gap to 27 points. Green's three-pointer stopped bleeding, Gordon took a three-pointer in a row, Green's three-pointer returned, and Rivers Jr. made a layup to give the Nuggets an 89-65 lead. The Knicks came on to break through the change of hands to layup, then hit another three-pointer, Cankar switched offensive tackles to the basket and was injured by the Rockets' two-man face-to-face attack, campazo countered with a change of direction and turned around and two points. At the end of the third quarter, the Rockets 74-99 Nuggets.
The Rockets made a mistake in the final quarter, Campazo scored a dragon, Jokic crushed the basket 2+1, and Tate took his sixth foul and left the game. The Rockets made another mistake, Jokic dribbled behind the steal, fed the pie ball and slammed the basket, and Green scored the 29th point on a three-pointer. Christopher also had three points, Campazzo broke the ball to teach Christopher a dragon to score, and Green's long pass Toth was about to dunk. The Nuggets played a wonderful team together, continuously passing the ball to help Jokic eat pie under the basket to score easily. The Nuggets have led by nearly 30 points, the two teams have successively replaced the main force, Rivers Jr. dribbled in the last moment and poked his finger on the ground, and finally the Rockets suffered a seven-game losing streak at home.
Both sides started
Rockets: Green, Potter, Tate, Nwaba, Theis;
Nuggets: Campazzo, Rivers, Barton, Gordon, Jokic