Harden, Kawhi carry coarse -grained clips past nuggets to force game 7

Inglewood, California James Harden recovered on Tuesday from a quiet night in game 5 and scored 28 points with 10 out of 20 shootings.

Norman Powell had its most effective game in the series with 24 points for the Clipperers, who recovered from successive losses with an impressive effort at Intuit Dome. La took control in the second half, while he played a persistent defense on Nikola Jokic, which scored 20 of his 25 points in the first half.

Game 7 is on Saturday in Denver.

The Clippers did it on Thursday by getting hard early and ensuring that he had changed space with an important line -up at half -time. Clipper's coach Tyronn Lue inserted Nicolas Batum to start the second half in favor of the defended Kris Dunn, who had become liability on the offensive when Denver concludes from him and often sent his defender to lightning hard when he caught the ball. Batum is a more dangerous offensive player and he is versatile enough to stay with Denver Guard Jamal Murray, who broke the clipper for 43 points in game 5, but had only 21 in game 6.

Harden played 46 minutes on Thursday, a severe workload, but the clipper were faced with the removal, and hardness is so important for their success.

The victory on Thursday was the first excretion game that Harden won in the first round against the Oklahoma City Thunder since game 7 in the first round.

The victory also came after Lue called all of his players in the evening before game 6 to make sure he heard positivity and belief in the voices of his players. He didn't want to take anything for granted after the Clippers had put down the route on Tuesday and said that he had “taken many temperatures” to ensure that they were mentally ready to fight for their life in the playoffs.

“I had a lot of calls,” said Lue. “Many calls. Only talk to the boys, to be positive. Make sure you have understood that we have not played our best [in Game 5] And our attention to detail was not good. “

The Clippers team, which stormed into the playoffs with eight victories in a row, and 18 in 21 views by Lue in game 6.

LA led at 15 with less than six minutes before playing, but Denver made an 11: 2 run to cut the clipper's lead to 107-101 before Powell buried a 3 pointer with 1:47 on the left.

Powell's clutch bucket was the only field gate of the Clipperers in the last 5:57, but they kept with the defense. Russell Westbrook put a layup under pressure and had another layup blocked in successive possessions in the last few minutes, and Ivica Zubac blocked a Layup attempt by Jokic with 24 seconds ahead.

In this report, information from the Associated Press was used.