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Nuggets deliver in the fourth quarter and forms game 7 with Thunder in Oklahoma City

Nuggets deliver in the fourth quarter and forms game 7 with Thunder in Oklahoma City

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Denver – The Denver Nuggets did not go down at home.

After the losses against Oklahoma City collapsed the late game in a row, the Nuggets closed on Thursday evening for a 119-107 game 6 against thunder. The victory connects the semi-finals of the Western Conference 3: 3 and sends the series back to Oklahoma City to win a game 7 with a berth in the Western Conference final at the game.

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The nuggets forgas and worn out by a deep and relentless Thunder squad and lost the games 4 and 5 after at least eight points had run in the fourth quarter of each game. They entered the fourth quarter of the game on Thursday with a 90-82 advantage.

This time they recorded the victory because Denver did not have to lean on Nikola Jokić almost strictly on the track. Julian Strawther caused a big outbreak from the bank, and the Nuggets had a balanced effort from their starting unit, including a strong game by Jamal Murray, which was questionable with an unknown illness in the hour before Tippoff.

Murray sets the tone while playing sick

Murray scored Denvers gate with a four-point game after being fouled on a 3 pointer, and ended the first quarter with 11 points, although the concerns would not be a factor for the nuggets.

“I saw the first six minutes as if it is real, can he do it?” Nuggets coach David Adelman said after the game. … “This is Jamal Murray. It's almost as if it is worse, the better it will be. What a stubborn man.”

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Murray cooled down and made only one of five shots in the second quarter. But he resumed things in the third quarter when the Nuggets installed a 32-21 run to take control of the game.

Murray ended with 25 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists as the second scorer from Denver. And he never had doubts that he would play.

“I woke up with it,” said Murray. “Go to the clinic, was tested for a few different things, was negative. I'm happy about it. But I always wanted to play in my head.”

This time no collapse of the fourth quarter

Nugget coach David Adelman played with a flat bench and supported the entire fourth quarter of the defeat of 112-105 on Tuesday, since the three-time MVP was the only reliable criminal source of Denver. That was not the case on Thursday evening.

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Jokić spent the first 4:07 of the fourth quarter on the bench when Adelman played on the fact that his supporting line -up would ward off Oklahoma City. This supporting line -up provided. When Jokić returned to the game, Denver had expanded his lead to 97-86.

The reward was a resting Jokić for the game run of the game, and the thunder never challenged Denvers leadership. A amount of ballarena that was previously taken after Denver in game 4 in game 4 71-63.

“The last game somehow kicked me to have not taken out one of them,” said Adelman about Jokić and Murray for the entire fourth quarter of game 5. “

“The nice thing was that I had four timeouts again. I know that the last game didn't work. This enables you to control your substitutions. These boys kept water to start this quarter.”

Strawther offers bank support urgently needed

One of the boys who kept water was the little used reserve Julian Strawther, who performed in 7.3 minutes per game in seven of the previous 12 playoff games on Thursday.

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Strawther was the star of the third quarter rally, which made it possible for the Nuggets to take control of the game, which was bound to 78-78 with 3:58 in the quarter. The Nuggets excluded the quarter with a 12: 4 run by eight points from Strawther, whose 3-pointer was the first of the Nuggets with 1:37 in the quarter.

He met another with 36.1 seconds to expand Denvers to 88-80.

Strawther's offensive outbursts and defense efforts brought Adelman's trust to keep it in the game in the fourth quarter when the Nuggets thwarted any hope of a Thunder rally.

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Strawther rewarded Adelman's trust with another big 3 on the track while playing high -ranking minutes.

“This is the moment you dream of when you were a little child,” said Strawther. “Come into play when all the boys believe in you and find yourself in your places and are simply able to have an impact on the game.”

When the game was finished, Strawther had scored 15 points when he shot 4 out of 8 from the field, including a 3-von 4 effort from a long distance. It was the climb of the bank that this Nugget team desperately searched for in this series.

“Julian will receive recognition to achieve 15 points,” said Adelman. “I thought he also kept water defensively. It was a big deal.

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“You want to keep an offensive player outside. But you have to be able to cope with your own at the other end, and he did it. We didn't have to change dramatically defensively because he sat down, moved his feet and guarded.”

Support for Nikola Jokić

While Strawther led the banking unit, four different Nuggets starters achieved in double figures. Jokić led with 29 points, 14 rebounds, eight templates, two steals and a block, while 9 out of 14 shot off the field. But it wasn't all about him.

Christian Braun added 23 points, 11 rebounds and five templates. Michael Porter Jr., who achieved a 1-von 7-3 point effort in game 5, scored much more efficient points on nine shots, while he scored 2 out of 5 attempts from loafing.

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After the players, who were not called Jokić, sat down to an urgently balanced effort in the fourth quarter of the collapse of Game 5 by Denver 1 of 15 from the field. Jokić spoke about his teammates after the game.

“He was incredible,” said Jokić about Strawther. “He had big points, big moments involved. … it was a great game for him.

“I think CB played really well. Jamal played really well. Our defense was really good, I think. I think we won the game.”

The nuggets won the game of long -distance routes and on the boards. They shot 12 of 32 (37.5%) of 3 compared to 11-of-40 effort (27.5%). And they secured a 52-40 rebound advantage, including an 11-7 advance on the offensive glass.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Oklahoma City with 32 points and six templates. Chet Holmgren (19 points, 11 rebounds) and Lugentz there (10 points) were the only other Thunder starter in double -digit figures. The all-star striker Jalen Williams fought out of the field with six points, seven rebounds and 10 assists in a 3-from 16 shooting evening.

Concern for Aaron Gordon

Aaron Gordon was the only Nuggets starter who did not reach double numbers in five points. And he seemed to fulfill a thigh injury in the last minutes of the game. He clung his left armpit after hunting a loose ball in the last 2 minutes of the game and left the game with 1:10.

After the game, Adelman said that he did not know Gordon's injury status. Gordon said in the Nugget's changing room that he feels “okay”.

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“I feel okay. We'll see,” said Gordon about his status. “I will now start the recovery process and make sure that I prepare for game 7. Not quite sure what happened.”

Denvers game 7 Experience Edge

The series is now moving to Oklahoma City on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. when the Nuggets play 7 for a third series in a row. In the second round last season, they lost in game 7 against Minnesota Timberwolves and defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of these playoffs.

In fact, the game 7 will be the seventh for the nuggets, since Murray and Jokić have teamed up in Denver and return to the 2018-19 playoffs. But it will mark the first time that you played one on the street. You won four of your previous 6 games 7.

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The last time the thunder in a game 7 in the first round of the Playoffs 2019-20 in Gilgeous-Alexander was the first season with the team. The thunder lost this series to the Houston Rockets in the NBA bubble.

The winner of the game on Sunday will compete in the Western Conference final against the Timberwolves that will start on Tuesday.

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