Until one of the two falls

It is likely that this tie had no more destiny than this: the seventh game, the face or cross. An whole or nothing between two teams that are perfectly able to be that, or all or nothingy with those who never know at what time they will be. Between dazzling appearances and invisibility sections, Nuggets and Clippers will solve everything, tomorrow, in Denver. In the Rocky, With 3-3 and after 111-105 that leaves everything pending of the last basketball drink. When someone will have to win, Yes or yes. In addition, a tremendous tie that will send to a team, exhausted and without almost rest, to the cubil of those thunder of the 68 victories that a millennium does, or so it seems, that they eliminated the Grizzlies and sat down to wait rival on their throne of the regular season. But that will be another story, the shell of the second round. Before, you have to solve the seventh of The only series that goes to the limit waiting for what happens today, in the baybetween Warriors y Rockets.

This tie seemed, before starting, an extremely matched matter, almost impossible prediction. And it is exactly like that. Inertia have changed so many times that it is impossible to anticipate what will happen tomorrow. Nuggets play at home, at the height of the Mile High And they have Nikola Jokic. He Joker. But Last year they lost an advantage of 3-2 with the seventh at home against the Wolves. And they are irregular enough to No one knows anything. Jokic is in his less dominant version (the most that can be achieved against him) thanks to a defense led by Ivica Zubac, The closest thing to an answer against one that can be put in front of the Serbian. Jamal Murray can be unstoppable or incapable, Michael Porter Jr can put seven triples or one, Russell Westbrook’s balance can fall towards the positive or burst in a storm of small (and not so small) catastrophes. ¿Who knows?

But in front are the clippers: Norm Powell may seem like a lethal or secondary scorer that shrinks in the heat of the playoffs. Kris Dunn can be differential in defense or bench meat due to his attack problems. Nico Batum may seem the player who almost retired after the Paris games or a gold complement, Kawhi Leonard can shake or retract and JAmes Harden is as able to control everything that happens on the track as to ask for the day off. ¿Who the hell knows what can happen tomorrow in Denver?

This tie seemed in the hands of the clippers to 2-1, closed with beating in Los Angeles. But the nuggets left the gravethey won the fourth game with a tremendous scare after an incomplete exercise of domination (Aaron Gordon’s mate match) and the fifth style, a touch of seasoned champion (2023 is not so far, is.no?). But In the sixth everything turned back because in this tie anyone advances: the two teams walk in circles Until someone step forward. Or until the seventh bell rings. What happens first, by imposition or elimination. There is no choice: someone will win tomorrow. One will remain in depression, before a complicated summer, and another will have to think about the Alfa predator that will roar, rested, in OKC. But first, whatever it is, you have to arrive.

After a first part that did not solve anything (58-57), The clippers removed the hammer in the third quarter. Your best versionthe one that did not appear for the previous game. James Harden (28 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists) shook (imperial in the second quarter) the lega and the symptoms of aging, Kawhi Leonard (27+10+5) again being robotic in good sense, Norm Powell filled with points the few empty spaces left by both stars and, Surely the key factor, between Ivica Zubac and Nico Batum sealed a Nikola Jokic that had reached the break in 20+5+4 and ended with 25+7+8.

Five points, two rebounds and a 2/9 in shots in the second parta production with which nuggets cannot advance; not without a version super of Murray (21+8+8, very little beyond the first quarter). David Adelman knows that Corponone Zubac is a mountain on the Jokic path, and complained. Surely thinking about the seventh game: “Jokic has many faults. I don’t know how he could launch only two shots with the amount of contacts that have been, it is crazy. As soon as they put little defenders against him, they let them do whatever they want”The psychological battle also enters boiling: time ends and for one of the two the sun will not come out on Sunday.

The zafarrancho clipper It came to A +15 in the Ecuador of the last quarter. But there was no visiting surrender: The nuggets tightened their teeth (107-101 with almost three minutes to play) and were about to give a golden opportunity, a key towards the semifinal. But Russell Westbrook, who had also sent to Limbo just one of those mates incomplete so yours, did not connect a tray that seemed a piece of cake And then Powell (the only basket at stake in his team, exhausted, in the last six minutes) put a triple from the left side: 110-101, from -4 to +9. Sealing ticket for the seventh game. There is nothing further.

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