Il negative moment of the Denver Nuggets it is not finished yet. After the streak of four losses in a row ended in Detroit, the team with the best record in the Eastern Conference back to lose on the court of the New York Knickswhich they find Jalen Brunson at the best time. It is precisely the playmaker – out in five of the last six games due to injury – who takes the reins of the game at the beginning and at the end of the match, scoring 13 of his final 24 points in the first half of the game and guiding his team in the final point to point. To give him a hand there are the 21 points from a solid RJ Barrett and 20 from a Julius Randle imprecise (6/15 shooting), in addition to Josh Hart’s 13 points from the bench and Immanuel Quickley’s 10. The Knicks shoot poorly from long range (9/32 team, 28%), but they hold one of the best offenses in the league to just 19 points in the final quarteralso recovering 13 lengths behind.
Jokic two assists from triple double, good Murray
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Coach Michael Malone must shake his to start the second quarter after a few disastrous defensive transitions and the Nuggets respond with a high-level central part of the game, but as soon as Nikola Jokic goes to sit down for his last rest between the third and fourth quarters, the guests waste all the advantage and New York takes the necessary momentum to bring home the game. The are useless 25 points by a very good Jamal Murray and the triple double almost by Jokic with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assistson an evening in which four other players among the guests closed in double figures (Gordon 14, Green 12, Brown and Porter Jr. 11).
