Los Angeles Clippers They forced Thursday the Seventh and definitive game of your series before the Denver Nuggets When imposing 111-105 In the sixth and balance the tie 3-3.
Nuggets y Clippers They will play that seventh game Saturday night at Denver For a place in the West semifinalswhere the dreadors have been waiting for them for days Oklahoma City Thunder.
Today, in Inglewood (Los Angeles), James Harden resumed the leadership of the clippers con 28 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds. It was a titanic collective effort, in which Kawhi Leonard contributed 27 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. Norman Powell scored 24 points.
The French Nicolas Batum erected as a hero by putting a key cap to Russell Westbrook To frustrate the Nuggets comeback attempt in the final stretch of the duel.
Westbrookcapable of the best and the worst, an inexplicable basket had failed in the inner attack.
Nikola Jokic finished with 25 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds For nuggets, Jamal Murray with 21 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Aaron Gordon contributed 19 points and 5 rebounds, while Westbrook signed a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, in addition to 6 assists.
The clippers equal a series that began losing 1-0 In Denver, they built with two victories and saw how they almost escaped their hands with the last two losses. This is being The most intense series of the first round of ‘playoff’.
Harden shines again
He intuited Dome He lived on Thursday the most important game of his brief existence. The newest and most spectacular pavilion of the Leagueopened at the beginning of the season, hosted the sixth game between Clippers and Nuggets, which arrived 3-2 for Denver. The two teams were monitored closely in the first half, with Differences that never reached the ten points.
James Hardenwhich had flourished in the last two games of the series, both lost by the clippers, with 15 and 11 points respectively, today He assumed the leadership of the team again and at the break he already added 21.
The clippers went to changing rooms 59-58, a tiny advantage obtained after a Palmeo del Bosnio Ivica Zubac almost over the horn to a triple failed precisely by Harden.
The second half was another story. The Nuggets strategy to protect their area with intensity, intelligence and rhythm control collapsed, and The clippers took advantage of it to open a 15 -point hole in the third quarter, which closed 90-79.
The advantage in the last quarter stretched to 15at which time a Nuggets Arreónwhich could have cut to 4 the difference at 2:13 If Westbrook had not inexplicably failed a tray with 107-101 On the scoreboard.
In the following attack, still with hope of tracing, Westbrook ran into Nicolas Batumwhich put A plug with Victoria airs For clippers. The Intuit Dome was talismán on his big night.
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