On January 2, Beijing time, the 2022-23 NBA regular season continued, with the Denver Nuggets playing the Boston Celtics at home. After the entire game, the Nuggets defeated the Green Army 123-111 and won the ultimate battle between East and West.
For the Nuggets, Jokic played to perfection: he hit 10 of 13 shooting, had 30 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, posting his ninth triple-double this season and 85th of his career. Also, Teacher Yue didn’t make a single mistake in the audience.
Since the best team in the West has changed, in a new trip to the West, the Celtics once again met the main battle in the Eastern and Western divisions.
But compared to their last game against the list-topping Suns, this time against the Nuggets, the Celtics are hard to tell easily.
In the first quarter, the Celtics and the Nuggets were still able to achieve a stalemate at the scene, but on the offensive side, the team failed to achieve both goals. Tatum’s state was very bad, and the team’s offense could rely on only on Jaylen Brown’s only struggling line.
Conversely, for the Nuggets, under Jokic’s connection, the distribution of offensive points is very reasonable: Michael Porter, Bruce Brown and Aaron Gordon alternate to score.
And this contrast in the health of the offensive end was gradually reflected in the scoring as time progressed. two digits.
Since last season, the Celtics have been one of the most balanced offensive and defensive teams in the entire league. It seems difficult to find real fault with the current formation configuration of the Green Army.
Last season, the Celtics beat all four teams from the East and finally made it to the Finals stage, relying on this very strong balance between offense and defense. But in this game against the Nuggets and against the teacher, the Green Army’s flaws were rarely exposed and to some extent magnified.
Since the first quarter, the Celtics have taken a variety of methods, using different personnel to limit Jokic, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s using backcourt players to defend against big players or using inside players to make tough appointments with the teachers, the effect is uncounted is good.
Teacher Yue can easily send exquisite lobs from high positions to help his teammates score, but for his tactic of slowly distributing cards in the upper arc, the Green Army defenders are full of strength, but are like punches of cotton. t find the application point.
On the bench, the Celtics have one of the best rim guards in the league, Robert Williams. Ma Lowe has excellent fitness and outstanding cruising ability, but in the close fight with Jokic, he was completely subdued by the opponent’s Tai Chi.
In the starting lineup, Horford’s experience is excellent, but once it was his turn to defend the master, the opponent quickly changed his style of play and entered the offensive education mode.
In the backcourt, Smart, the best defender, wanted to use a dirty trap to force Master Yue to make mistakes when retreating, but of course, he also underestimated Master Yue’s golf intelligence, and underestimated Master Yue’s ability to suddenly stop . Smart rolled to the ground in vain, but he could only see Teacher Yue easily put the ball into the basket, and the referee didn’t respond to his fall.
It’s also because there’s still no way to break through Jokic’s defense, and the Green Army has remained passive on the scene. Although, after Tatum suffered a downturn in the first quarter, his state of the game has since recovered. However, Tatum’s jump shots and his missed free throws always have a sense of helplessness.
And a battle that was originally expected from the outside world when the sparks collided with the earth was also consumed by the teacher’s Tai Chi, and the suspense was lost. Helpless defeat…
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