The NBA regular season continues, and the game between the Nuggets and the Suns officially begins. After the game started, the Nuggets played very efficiently on the offensive end, and they were also able to limit the Suns' offense very well on the defensive end. After the first quarter, the Nuggets led by 11 points. Entering the second quarter, the Suns slowly adapted to the rhythm on the court and started a point-chasing offensive. After three quarters, the Suns were still 2 points behind. Although the Suns once caught up with the score in the final quarter, the Nuggets withstood the pressure and defeated the Suns 119-111 in the decisive stage.
Objectively speaking, the two teams played very excitingly in this game, and both teams also showed their own technical characteristics. After the whole game, the data handed over by the two teams was also very close. In terms of rebounds: The Nuggets grabbed 31 rebounds and the Suns grabbed 43 rebounds. In terms of assists: the Nuggets sent out 38 assists and the Suns sent out 22 assists. In terms of shooting percentage: the Nuggets shot 57% from the field and 38% from the three-point range. The Suns shot 48% from the field and 36% from three-point range.
After reading the data, let’s talk about the players’ performance. In this article, we put aside the outcome of the game and can only focus on the performance of Nurkic and Durant. For these two players, it can be described by the sentence "50+12! Nurkic showed his worth, Durant performed a miracle, and Jokic finally met his opponent."
Let’s talk about Durant first. Durant played 35 minutes in this game and made 8 of 25 shots, including 1 of 3 three-pointers and 13 of 13 free throws. He scored 30 points, 4 rebounds, 11 assists, and 2 blocks. Durant was very tired due to Booker's absence in this game, and he suffered a lot of defensive pressure on the defensive end. To put it bluntly, the Nuggets' defensive strategy in this game revolves around Durant. As long as Durant gets the ball, the Nuggets will double-team and force Durant to pass the ball. Even faced with this defensive strategy, Durant still scored 30 points. From scoring alone, we can feel how strong Durant's scoring ability is.
It is worth mentioning that Durant created another NBA miracle in this game. His career total points surpassed Moses Malone (27,409 points) and rose to tenth in history. Currently, he is only behind James. Judging from Durant's scoring efficiency and average points per game, Durant's career score is expected to exceed 300 million points next season.
After talking about Durant, let’s talk about Nurkic. Nurkic played 32 minutes in this game and made 13 of 22 shots, including 2 of 6 three-pointers and 3 of 5 free throws. He scored 31 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 assists. Objectively speaking, this game is Nurkic's best game since joining the Suns. This kind of performance is also what Nurkic fans are looking forward to. Fans who have watched the game will know that Nurkic played a very important role in catching up with the score. At this stage, Nurkic is just beating Jokic in isolation, using offense to consume Jokic's physical strength, or being tough on Jokic. As a result, we can see that Jokic really can't guard Nurkic. Of course, Nurkic can't guard Jokic either. However, what I want to say is that Jokic did not perform well in this game due to lack of physical strength. To borrow a saying from a fan, "Jokic was bullied in this game. It's not easy."
said one thousand, said ten thousand. The Suns played really well in this game without Booker and Bell. Especially Nurkic showed us his value and showed us that Jokic still has opponents in the NBA. So for the Suns team, it is still very worth looking forward to. The Big Four combination of Nurkic + Bill + Durant + Booker is definitely capable of hitting the championship, and the probability is very high.
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