The Warriors, 102-98 Nuggets, narrowly won by four points to advance to the second round of the playoffs, and also became the first team in the West to advance to the second round of the playoffs. Of course, the game does not have to say, although the Warriors have been promoted, but the process of the game is quite tortuous, the two sides are once caught in a tug-of-war, and finally the Warriors rely on a slight advantage to stabilize a little bit and slowly win the game. In fact, as soon as the game began, the two teams played inseparablely, Aaron Gordon made a foul in the first quarter of the game, which was fouled by Green, fouled by Wiggins, fouled Thompson, and the Warriors' interior line played in the individual single quarter was helpless, and at one point it was going to be broken, but it was good that Rooney changed this situation after he came on the court.
And the Warriors' words this side of the offense is always not much to play, some stagnation, the Nuggets have been stalemate with the Warriors, the Warriors at most led the Nuggets by 7 points, but today's Nuggets are almost full of power, the Warriors can no longer form a crushing trend, and finally the two sides are drawn at halftime. When it came to the second half, I thought it would be the Warriors' crazy moment in the third quarter, but I didn't expect to play better than the Nuggets, continuous basket cut points, continuous outside projection, and the point difference was once widened to about 10 points. At the critical moment, Green and Zui brother made consecutive fouls to kill Jokic's four fouls, curry hit another three-pointer, and the two sides once again froze.
Wait until the end of the third quarter Cousins debuted almost like a god, the basket like a big monster to eat and drink, fortunately, the Warriors can and the Nuggets stalemate, the score gap is always not too big, and although the Nuggets rely on the 8-point lead into the final quarter, but always can not open the point difference, with the Warriors side of the goal, the two sides of the point difference was erased. Jokic came on at the crucial moment, and then was fouled by Curry, and Jokic, who had committed 5 fouls, had to rest again. At the critical moment, the two sides began to fight for their lives, and jokic bounced without false hair, and the ball ran down to the basket without losing a single ball.
On the Warriors' side, Curry hit consecutive breakthrough layups, Payton Jr. hit a forty-five-degree three-pointer, and the Warriors led by five points. Then Jokic killed the basket again, turned around and Curry played two Morris and Aaron Gordon, easily picked the basket to hit, the Warriors once again led the point difference to 5 points, this time the time is less than 24 seconds left, the Nuggets have no timeout, can only fight for three points. With Jokic's three-pointer at the top of the arc and the Warriors getting the rebound, the game has essentially lost suspense, and then Curry easily closed the game in 4 free throws and 3 of the game, and the Nuggets regretted being out.
Jokic was Crazy on 12-of-18 shooting with 30 points, 19 rebounds and eight assists, Gordon had 15 points and nine rebounds, and Cousins had 19 points and 4 rebounds on 8-of-12 shooting in the 15 minutes, making him the Nuggets' most efficient player in the first three quarters. The Warriors here Curry shot 10-of-22, 5-of-11 three-pointers for 30 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Thompson scored 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting, Green had 11 points, 6 assists and 3 blocks, and Payton Jr. scored 15 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists. The key mouth mushroom was discarded in time, only playing 23 minutes, 4 of 9 with 12 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists.