The purely divided God of War Murray revived, and the passionate Westbrook disrupted the situation. These three problems made the Clippers suffer from the headache

The Nuggets relied on pure points, Murray's 43 points and Westbrook's comeback from the fire, and scored 21 points. When Jokic only scored a triple-double in economics, he captured the Tianwang Mountain, forcing the Clippers to a desperate situation of either winning or going home. Although the sudden explosion of these two people is very tricky.

However, judging from the trend of the past 5 games, Murray and Westbrook's outbreak is suspected of eating dumplings. Murray still has more average output of about 20 points, while the young master plays passionately, and his defensive role is greater than offense. The career three-point shooting percentage is 30.5%, and Tianwangshan’s 50% three-point shooting percentage is definitely a low-probability event. In fact, the Clippers still have three more problems than the outbreaks of Murray and Westbrook.

Who will play against Aaron Gordon

If Aaron Gordon was just a wingman to meet his teacher, then he would really become Lu Bu in this round of series. Average of 18.2 points per game is 3.5 points more than the regular season, but don't underestimate the growth of 3.5 points. Among the four major starters, Jokic's average score is 4.2 points lower than the regular season, and Murray threw out the G5's rampage. Previously, 20 points per game in four games were 1.4 points less than the regular season. Porter Jr. averaged 7 points less! Aaron Gordon is the well-deserved Nuggets thigh.

Gordon's rampage was expected because the Clippers failed to match Gordon's player in the fourth position. Jones is too thin and Leonard has heavy offensive tasks. Zubac wants to solve the main contradiction against Jokic. The Clippers can only let Powell defend Gordon at home, and then let Leonard relay defense after Gordon squeezes into the basket, but this effect is not good.

Life and Death Battle Coach Lu must give an answer to the problem, send Ben Simmons to play Gordon, set up the double towers to deal with the Nuggets with a big battle, and withdrawing Powell will increase the offensive burden of the Gemini (Leonard + Harden), but can curb Gordon's misaligned offense to a certain extent. In short, if Gordon's counterpoint problem does not have the optimal solution, it will always bother the Clippers.

How to activate Harden

This round of the series, Deng Ge continued to open high and ended low, and scored 32 points in the first game and only scored 20 points in one of the four games. We said above that if the Clippers want to limit Gordon, they must withdraw an attack point, and the key to whether this strategy can be achieved lies in Harden.

Harden must attack and share part of the output of Kazi Ge. He must learn from Curry. Even if the feel is not good, he must continue to shoot under pressure, because only by taking more moves can he get the feel back. If Brother Deng fails to play, he will lose confidence and then become invisible. When G6 returns to home, he must take more moves and show enough aggressiveness at the beginning.

The Nuggets lack heavy guard restrictions on Harden, and neither Murray nor Braun physically matches Harden. So in the later games, Harden can change his playing style and use his body to push the opponent more. The key to playing tough is not to always want to commit fouls. However, Brother Deng is used to breaking through and creating fouls, so whether he can change it is also a question.

How to recover suffocation defense and spirit

First, he was dunked by Gordon, and then he was knocked out by Murray's 43 points. Behind the Clippers' two consecutive defeats, they lost their advantages and spirit. Compared to the Nuggets and Clippers who can play suffocate defense, Dunn, Jones, Leonard, Batum and even Simmons are all ruthless people who can defend from one to five. If we only talk about the defensive resources on the front line, only the Thunder, Celtics and Cavaliers are stronger than the Clippers in the entire league. In theory, his defense is stronger.

But the Clippers played loosely, lost two rebounds to the Nuggets, and made a 10-9 turnover. Compared with the previous games, the focus is much less aggressive. Guidance Lu of G6 must reactivate the spirit of his disciples. Only by retrieving the suffocating defense can the Nuggets be suppressed, especially Murray must be suppressed. But there is not much time left for Lu.