Before the first round of the playoffs, the Nuggets and Warriors were in this group, and the outside world generally sang the former.
Because from all angles of analysis, the Nuggets are not dominant, although the regular season played four times, the Nuggets 3 wins and 1 loss, but that Warriors is not a complete Warrior, Thompson has been absent for a long time; this time in the face of healthy, well-organized Warriors, it is more fierce.
Sure enough, in the first short game, the Nuggets lost to the Warriors by 16 points. This is a dangerous omen.
Why did the Nuggets lose? From the content of the game, there are mainly two reasons: First, the defense is bad, and last year's playoffs are even worse. Second, the cliché that has plagued the Nuggets throughout the season: Jokic lacks quality assists.
For the Nuggets' cards and playing style, the Warriors strategy is simple, playing snakes to play seven inches, catching the thief first, strangling Jokic to death, of course, Jokic is not paper paste, but his flesh and blood will be tired, then as much as possible to consume his physical strength and energy, so that he has no time to balance between scoring and passing,
As it turned out, the Warriors did it, chasing Green on the inside and making Jokic extremely uncomfortable, even so, Jokic still cut 25 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, but the teammates really did not give.
The Nuggets played the Blazers and the Suns last season, and the problems exposed are still unresolved.
The Blazers, who played half a pound in defense in the first round, still entangled in 6 games, and the second round of the Sun, the defensive intensity came up, and the Nuggets directly disarmed in four games. This season's weakness still exists, which has a great impact on the record, although it has entered the playoffs, but it is also the back-end force, stumbling to catch the last train, and their defensive efficiency is in the middle and lower reaches of all teams.
The biggest problem with their defense is the lack of continuity and aggression.
In the first quarter of the game, Thompson repeatedly made long-range shots, and Barton was directly or indirectly responsible for Thompson's successful no-ball running position at least three times: either he lost his mind and lost people; or hesitating about the unclear defensive position.
In another round, Thompson, who had just returned from injury and was considered to have reduced athletic ability and not good dribbling skills, was able to break through the blue score above the penalty area with just one three threats, while Jeff Green near the free throw line had no awareness of assisting or making up for the position in advance, maybe he was really old.
This goal is almost a microcosm of the Nuggets' useless defense in this game, so the Warriors' Pu'er was able to show his might in his debut and score 30 points.
Finally, there is a Daven Reed who can defend, and because of the limitations of two-way contracts, he can't play the playoffs. This is a failure for management decisions.
The Nuggets are also difficult to say in terms of offense, no stickiness, scattered and disorderly, not compact, east a hammer and a stick, a lot of them are a hammer deal.
In terms of range, who can compare to the Warriors, they dare to let go of the whip, do you Nuggets dare? You don't dare, you honestly play the position, people have dream Green arc top cards, no ball running position running position, incision of the inner cut. You nugget the perimeter and there are no three points, and the Warriors can still be assured to boldly defend the joint defense.
And the Warriors bully the Nuggets front no one and small size, 208 cm Bjlitsa single eat 193 cm of little Rivers, can be from the flank like a tank all the way in; 193 cm Pu'er can back hit the 188 cm Morris, easy jump shot. The range and containment of the Splash Brothers make the Nuggets fear the rat...
Talking too much is tears, and the Nuggets can't play this one. From the end of the second quarter, when the Nuggets led by 6 points, to the Warriors playing a wave of 18-4 to gradually open the score, the Nuggets were accountable.
And it's a very emotional team, as evidenced by Cousins' dismissal for speaking ill of the referee. From Jokic to Cousins, when playing against the wind, it's easy to hurt the team because of emotional loss of control.
Some players will be eager to succeed in shooting choices, do not have enough patience to conduct the ball and organize tactics, and will shoot and shoot and cannot shoot, and there will be no rebounds, and so on, which is equivalent to digging their own graves.
That's why we're so eager to see Murray back, without him, because he has a strong autonomous offensive ability that other teammates don't have.
Murray is already sitting on the sidelines, but whether he can play is still unknown, and even if he returns, the Nuggets' problem can be solved once and for all? Not necessarily, but at least Jokic doesn't have to be that tired. The problem of the team's defensive background has always existed, and it is not optimistic to face a team like the Warriors. Not to mention that Murray has been out of the battle for a long time, and there are still some skills that are not yet known, and it also needs time to find the feeling of the game.
In fact, this vaguely exposes a problem, the lack of words on the pitch that can really stabilize the morale of the army and the commander who revitalizes the whole team. A strong soldier will be strong and a nest will be strong. Nuggets defenders piled up, but they didn't have a good guard.
For example, Barton and Hyland each had a chance to feed the ball to the inside Jokic, once Jokic was not in a good position, Barton passed the ball in, Jokic was not easy to pick up; once Hyland was hanging at a bad angle, and was directly snatched by the opponent.
It shows that the Nuggets need the kind of people who can first pass a comfortable ball to Jokic, and second can connect the whole team and create offensive opportunities, referring to Zhao Jiwei's performance in the playoffs of Liaoning.
How the opportunity comes out, is produced by a large number of transfers and tearing defenses between the electric flint, that is, the fleeting opportunity between the electric flint, the defender with good vision and good consciousness can grasp it, watch the six ways and listen to the eight directions, immediately transfer the ball to the teammate who has the best scoring opportunity, absolutely will not miss the fighter, which absolutely requires talent, experience, patience and absolute mastery of passing skills.
Hyland and Barton clearly had offensive attributes that outweighed the organization, with Patton scoring 24 points and Hyland 10 points. But the Nuggets' overall offense was cut- and cut.
Malone has almost no spare time to do too much in the lineup, giving a plate of green vegetables and radishes is absolutely not possible to make a braised meat, and it is difficult for a woman to cook without rice.
Technical and tactical level, slightly inferior, but the spiritual level, can not back down, beat a bicycle to become a motorcycle, after all, this NBA is still a place of miracles, in case there are variables, even if you die, you have to stand and die, isn't it? The next thing the Nuggets have to do is to boost morale and play with spirits.
Morale is a very mysterious thing, and it can really make people increase their strength out of thin air. Don't lose your fighting spirit because of the first defeat, and break the jar and break it, because the mourners will lose. With one's own strengths and the weaknesses of attacking the other, the way to win is to win, but what is the "shortness" of the warriors?
That would require the Nuggets to wait patiently and wait for the Warriors to "accidentally" make a mistake.