The Nuggets dragged the Thunder into a mud puddle, and Alexander was lost in Denver

If this is the first NBA game you've watched, you've been told before the game that it's a matchup between MVP No. 1 and MVP No. 2. At least after reading the first four verses, you will send out a soul torture: These are the two strongest people in this alliance?

After a crushing defeat like the last one, the Nuggets also understood that playing with a team like the Thunder, matching the strength of the opponent is the most important thing. If the opponent can grab it, you have to be able to pounce on it. How the opponent limits Jokic, you have to give Alexander the same treatment.

So today, from the first round of the opening game, the Nuggets put on a joint defense to limit Alexander's breakthrough. Others can make three-pointers, but Alexander definitely can't get a gap to break through.

At the same time, Jokic is also playing very hard under the encirclement of the Thunder. He opened the game with 1-of-6 and then quickly picked up two fouls. In the first two games of the semifinals, Jokic had a total of 11 fouls, and was sent off in the third quarter of the second game, and the foul problem has been serious.

Both teams today have a sense of sacrificing their bosses and then using the opposition's defensive gaps to let the others play. So in the first quarter, Chet was full of presence on the offensive end, and Porter finally found his long-lost touch on the Nuggets' side, scoring 13 points on the first 5 shots.

Today, in the second and early fourth quarters, when Jokic was off the court, the Nuggets won points. Wei Shao had one steal in each of these two stages, in fact, Wei Shao should have 3 steals this time, and one of them was counted as the opponent's out of bounds. So far in the playoffs, Wei Shao has almost no special crotch pulling games, and today he once again withstood the Nuggets' connecting sections, which is impressive.

Alexander had five points in the half, shooting 2-of-8 from the field. However, Jokic seemed to be the one who played worse, shooting 2-of-9 from the field and committing five turnovers in the half. He got caught up in a vicious circle of fighting with the referees, and many of the mistakes were due to the referees not blowing the whistle, and in the second half, Jokic began to fight with himself.

In the third quarter, Alexander and Jokic both began to strengthen their individual offense, Alexander scored 10 points in a single quarter, Jokic scored 6 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a single quarter. However, Jokic made 0-of-3 three-pointers in the quarter.

In the final quarter, when Alexander hit a three-pointer, Jokic immediately came over to want to return one, the three points were still short, and the fourth Saving Kic's three-point shot was again 3 of 0, and the three-point score of this ball was 0 of 10, second only to the 11 of 0 before Huazi played the Lakers.

The more he can't shoot, the more Jokic has to shoot. Normally, Jokic would find his groove in the final moments to shoot threes, but he really didn't have that form today. In the final kill round, Jokic still wanted to shoot a three-pointer, and missed again, but it was counted as a long two points.

In regular time, Jokic was 6-of-23 from the field, 0-of-10 from three-point range, and shot 26.1% from the field, which was definitely the worst playoff game of his career. But the Nuggets and Thunder still played in overtime because Jokic's teammates were strong enough in this game.

Murray and Jalen battled out in the final quarter, with the magical Aaron Gordon hitting another three-pointer to tie the score. Coupled with Alexander's 1-of-8 shooting in the fourth quarter, he scored a three-pointer and the game came to overtime.

At this point, the Nuggets' strategy in this game was completely successful, even if Jokic was in extremely poor shape, but they also dragged the Thunder into a quagmire. The Nuggets won't allow the Thunder to play the same easy-hearted basketball game as the second game, they just want to drag the Thunder into a mud puddle, bite and roll on the ground, and no one wants to stand clean until the end.

Playing the last five minutes, or even into overtime, is the moment when the playoff experience is deciding, similar to the first game. In overtime, Jokic hit a strong inside shot, and this ball was a great three-pointer from Porter Jr., Murray scored a transition offense, and the Nuggets went on a 7-0 run to win the third game.

In the playoffs, there are only a few people that the Nuggets can use; When it comes to critical moments, the Nuggets can play fewer people, but these are the few people who killed the Clippers all the way, completed the reversal in the first game, and then dragged the Thunder to death again today.

Murray had 27 points, Gordon 22, Porter Jr. 21 and Jokic 20. When Jokic became the lowest-scoring man in the Nuggets four-man group, it showed that the other three were playing well enough. Today is indeed the day to save Private Jokic.

Alexander also lost himself in the Denver Plateau, and the second leader Jalen Williams' 32 points today is a new high in his playoff career, largely because Alexander was unable to break through the Nuggets' defense, and the ball came to Jalen.

The referee's loose penalty scale made Jokic and Alexander very uncomfortable, and in the end, we also saw clearly who was the one who relied more on the penalty scale. In the last quarter, 1 of 8, most of the shots were extremely difficult retreat shots, and the freehand breakthrough was gone.

In overtime, Alexander played 5 minutes, and all statistics, including the number of shots, were 0, and completely disappeared from the court. The Thunder's group of young people completely lost their backbone in overtime, allowing the Nuggets to tear themselves apart on the court step by step.

It's fair to say that Alexander hasn't been as miserable as he was today for a whole season. Perhaps it was the second game that was too easy to win, and the Thunder temporarily forgot that the Nuggets are such a tough and tenacious team.

At the end of the match, Alexander had a weird smile as he walked out, which made me look forward to their bounce back in Game 4. With both sides on the cards, Alexander needs to do more to prove that he is more worthy of the MVP.