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Is OKC Thunder’s playoff inexperience nugget’s upper hand?

Most of the numbers tell you that the nuggets pursue your series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Point differential prefers the thunder after three games by 32. In the regulation alone, the nuggets lost 41. You have signed 52 sales for 29 from Oklahoma City. They were exceeded 156-114 in color and 67-36 in fast breaks. After the average of 31 in the regular season, they were recorded on 20.3 assists per competition.

You only made another 3-point in game 4 on Sunday. You only tried three more foul shots.

In their 113-104 victory in game 3 on Friday they were 85 fields of goal attempts for OKCS 104.

So that you can lead the 2-1 series despite all of this, there must be a reasonable explanation. The aspiring conventional wisdom was that Denvers continuity and playoff scars Trump cards are when a game hangs in balance in contrast to Oklahoma City.

“I was excited to play Denver because I knew that they would get us out size,” said Thunder Guard Alex Caruso on Saturday. “It is not disrespect for Memphis, but we would win this series, especially if so (morant), only at the talent level. But Denver is an intelligent team, an experienced team. I know that this is the challenge that will be urgent to be great. And I think we see that.

The nuggets caught their first two victories in this series as they did against the Clipper’s deeds, strangely: an overflow thriller and a game-winning bucket by Aaron Gordon.

Four of their six playoff victories were decided either in OT or in the last three seconds of the regulation. You have played 28 minutes as the “coupling time” second most in this post behind New York with 29.4 net rating. So far, the thunder has a minus 28.3 network in 16 minutes of clutch.

Nugget’s interim coach David Adelman agreed that the situation of the situation was important in Playoff games, but he hesitated when he was asked about the back -the idea that inexperience is weakened by a team like Oklahoma City in moments that play 1 and game 3.

“We were once young and handled it pretty well,” said Adelman. “And they do that. That’s why they won so many games. The reason why they didn’t play many close games is that they have completely blown off the doors all season. If I train a team, I would rather do it than to play 55 four-point games.

“So yes, experience helps, but the frightening part is, the more experience you get in these games, the better you will be with you – just like us with Nikola (Jokic) and Jamal (Murray) ago. … You can fall back on experience. Unfortunately you get experience.”

The thunder broke an NBA record for point differential while driving to 68 victories. As a result, it only played 66 “coupling” tin minutes, the fewest in one season of a team in this century. In the meantime, Denver took the 17.0 coupling net assessment in the second season in a row on the Western Conference and in a healthier sample of 146 minutes.

After game 3, the Nuggets are 7-1 in overtime games this year.

Jokic, Murray, Gordon, Michael Porter Jr. and Christian Braun are responsible for games or starting shots in the last 10 seconds of a game.

To a certain extent there is a congenital quality that exceeds experience or the absence of it, as Adelman sees it. He refers to 2019 when Jokic and Murray San Antonio dropped in seven games in their first joint playoff series.

(Tagstotranslate) Aaron Gordon

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