Avoiding a losing streak, the Rockets showed their three-point team nature; the Warriors were leaderless, the Timberwolves clocked out of work in two waves; the bench lineup was bad, and Jokic scored 25 points.
Round Face and other key moments to save the team, leading the team to beat the King
Just two days after their last encounter, the Houston Rockets flew to Sacramento to challenge the Kings. Daron Fox, who had previously played well, did not continue his excellent offensive form in this game, shooting 6-of-12 and only 14 points.
Two days ago, the Rockets struggled very the three-point line, shooting a total of 43 three-point shots and only hitting 13, shooting just over 30%. By this time, the 10-man Rockets shot 40 percent from three-point range, and Wood, Gordon, Potter, and Matthews all shot very well.
Eric Gordon jr. Kevin Porter are two extremes, with Round Face Scoring scoring 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting in this game, while the latter scoring nearly eight points more than Round Face Deng, who also has seven assists. However, from the overall content of the game, the contributions of the two players to the team are very different. In the 32 minutes that Gordon played, the visiting team was able to beat the opponent by 26 points, and in the 36 minutes of Porter Jr., the Rockets lost almost one point to the opponent, and he himself was the only player in the Rockets' starting lineup with a plus-minus value.
The feeling in Potter's body is very similar to the current Rockets feeling. Dealing with the ball is frizzy, often power outages, do not know how a good team should play, there are no small problems in offensive choices, the state is also a game without a game, and the defensive end is often leaky. After leaving the game halfway through the game against the Nuggets, the Rockets said on the books that they would not give up on him, but there were many rumors with reporters that the Rockets management might choose to trade him.
118-112, with a maximum 16-point lead, Roundface Deng helped the Rockets kill the opponent with a layup. In the current Rockets team, Round Face Deng may be one of the few players who can act as a "team fig leaf".
Wiggins dud! Towns dominates the forbidden zone
As is customary, every time he hits the Minnesota Timberwolves, Andrew Wiggins will be very powerful. In the last home game against his old club, Wiggins only lost 5 shots in 19 shots, scoring 35 points, and the scene of the partition Downs is still talked about by Golden State children.
This time on the road to the Timberwolves, Wiggins played "unsatisfactory", scoring only 12 points on 4-of-11 shooting, seven points lower than substitute Cuminga. The latter has been given more offensive opportunities than ever before due to the absence of Green and Curry, and he has also used his athletic superiority to the extreme, playing at a very high level.
Anthony Downs was the brightest star in the showdown, and his talent was better than all the players in the game. The Warriors had no one to stop his personal singles, he shot 16 times in the paint and only lost 4, showing a very strong dominance in the box, the fly in the ointment was his outside three-pointer, 6 shots in the whole game, only 1 shot.
Without Curry and Green, the Timberwolves would be the more explosive side of the offense. In the first 32 minutes of the game, the two sides were in a kind of glue between you and me, and by the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves' offensive kettle suddenly turned on, and two waves of offensive waves directly destroyed the Warriors, and finally won the Warriors 119-99.
The Jazz beat the Nuggets three times in a row, and a wave of flow broke the opponent in the final quarter
Counting today's 125-102 win over the Denver Nuggets, the Utah Jazz have completed a three-game streak against the Nuggets this season. The first game of 2022 was particularly commendable, when the Jazz didn't have Gobert and relied on Bojan's frantic 36 points to win.
This time, Gobert is back, and the Jazz are back to the game mode they are most familiar with. In fact, in the first and third quarters of the two teams are present, the two teams can still play you back and forth. The time when the point difference is pulled apart often occurs in the first half of the second and fourth quarters, that is, the time when the Nuggets' bench is on the floor, and the wave of attack in the fourth quarter directly lays the Nuggets down.
The Nuggets rely more on running to play the ball, with nearly six more assists than their opponents. But the Jazz's singles ability is even better, Mitchell played 35 minutes and 31 points, while the Jazz also showed very good aggression, in the number of free throws they led the opponent nearly 20, in a post-game interview with reporters, Jokic he spit bitter water, saying that he did not dare to complain about the penalty during the game, because he once complained to the referee and then was expelled.