naaapseattle Chapter 625 The real home of the devil
Chapter 625 The real home of the devil
Chapter 625 The real home of the devil
If the Nuggets can keep Jokic, Murray and Grant at the same time, the Nuggets will retain the foundation for the championship.
Then, the Nuggets can use the remaining salary space to use a mini-middle class contract to sign a strong blue-collar insider to help Jokic relieve the pressure.
Even if the Nuggets are more expensive and pay a little luxury tax, they can fully afford it. An All-Star insider will become "F4" with Jokic, Grant, and Murray, creating the most luxurious championship lineup in the league.
At that time, even the Clippers and Lakers will lose their lineup to the Nuggets.
It is entirely possible for the Nuggets to win the championship within a year.
These two years are really the best chance for the Nuggets to win the championship.
Taking a step back, even if the Nuggets fail to strengthen this year, they will still have a chance next year.
In the next offseason, the contracts of Harris and Button will also expire.
At that time, the Nuggets only need to clear out the contracts of these two uneconomical players, and they can immediately free up about 3500 salary space.
This salary space is completely enough to catch a James-level big fish in the free market, and make up F4 with Jokic, Murray, and Grant.
In general, according to the opportunities of the Nuggets in the past two years, even if they fail to win the championship this year, they will be invincible in the league next year!
Nuggets fans predict that in the past two years, the Nuggets must win a championship.
Otherwise, the Nuggets are bound to embark on the old road after the 2009 Western Conference Finals. The core of the team is disappointed with the management, and the Denver fans are disappointed with the players.
These two seasons can be said to be the last chance for the Denver Nuggets to hit the championship in the past ten years.
A small city like Denver needs at least another ten years of recuperation before it has a chance to turn around.
The Nuggets' starting lineup against the Lakers in this game is: Murray + Gary Harris in the backcourt, Grant + Porter Jr. in the frontcourt, and Jokic in the center.
Among them, the Nuggets' rotation lineup also sits a series of experienced veterans such as Button, Monta Morris, and Campazzo.
Campazzo is the defender of the Argentine national team. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Campazzo also caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese team.
The Nuggets introduced the Argentine titan to the team this year.
It can be seen that this year, the Nuggets are focusing on the championship trophy.
On the day of the match, both sides arranged closed training sessions.
The Nuggets season-to-date record is 6 wins and 0 losses.
Because of the schedule, the number of games played by the Nuggets is one less than that of the Lakers who are ahead of the game schedule.
This game is very important to the Nuggets. If the Nuggets win the Lakers, the Nuggets will be at the same level as the Clippers and Bucks and remain unbeaten.
The game between the Lakers and the Nuggets is definitely a strong matchup.
It is also worth mentioning that in the regular season last season, in the game between the Nuggets and the Lakers, Jokic and Ge Feng missed the game due to some injuries.
In other words, after Jokic and Ge Feng played against each other in the Olympics, it has been a full year that they have not met on the court.
During the Olympics, because the Serbian coach would not use Jokic, Jokic's lethality had not been reflected, and Serbia was hastily defeated by the Chinese team.
Jokic has been brooding about this moment.
Jokic has been looking forward to the next chance to face Ge Feng head-on.
Especially now, the Lakers look really like ESPN predicted, full of championship looks, and the Nuggets are also fighting with their backs, and they are bound to win the championship trophy.
The battle between the Lakers and the Nuggets can be called sparks hitting the earth.
Before the game, the expressions of the athletes on both sides looked very serious.
"Come on, brothers! We will definitely win this game! This is our home field, no one can win at our home field!"
Jokic kept encouraging his teammates as he warmed up.
Anyone can see that Jokic really wants to win.
Murray nodded, but the serious expression on his face remained unchanged.
Nuggets VS Lakers, no matter who it is a huge test.
At this time, in another field, Ge Feng's face turned slightly pale.
"Are you all right, Ge Feng?"
Kobe shook the well-prepared oxygen bottle, and casually threw a bottle to Ge Feng.
"Thank you, I don't need it. Wear it later when you need it."
Ge Feng took the oxygen bottle and casually placed it on the stool next to him.
The home court of the Nuggets is the well-known devil's home court in the world.
Denver's Pepsi Center is more than 1600 meters above sea level, located on the Colorado Plateau, on the edge of the Los Angeles Mountains, and is the NBA's highest arena.
When a normal person reaches the plateau, not to mention playing basketball, he even needs an oxygen cylinder to breathe.
The limit plateau value that the human body can accept is 3000 meters.
Although the altitude of Pepsi Center is 1600 meters, it is far from the limit of the plateau effect.
But at an altitude of 3000 meters, normal people will experience fainting and even sudden death at altitude.
1600 meters, for athletes who are not used to life on the plateau, it is really hard to run.
It is this kind of environment that is a big challenge to the physical strength of some teams that like to play fast break.
The Nuggets were the only underdog to win the 73-win Warriors and Spurs in the same season.
From this we can see how terrifying the devil's home court in the Pepsi Center is.
In the 2009 Western Conference finals, the Lakers fought the Nuggets with breathing bottles for 6 games.
According to Kobe's recollection, if the Lakers were really dragged into the tiebreaker by the Nuggets at that time, the Nuggets might be the champion of that year.
After G6, the entire Lakers team was exhausted physically, and they didn't recover after a long break.
This is why Kobe will prepare sufficient oxygen cylinders in advance when he comes to the Nuggets' home court.
"Remember what I said, the best defense against the Nuggets is defense.
Defense!Do a good job of detail defense!
The Nuggets are not a team with too many tactical systems. This is a point we can take advantage of, and defense is our best weapon. "
At the end of the warm-up, Corbett deliberately left the players and explained the importance of defense.
This is what Kobe would say before every game.
His goal is very clear, which is to deeply implant the concept of defense into the minds of every Lakers player, and make this Lakers the best defensive team in the league.
After the opening ceremony, the starters of both sides played one after another.
The Lakers are still the starting five.
The eyes of the Nuggets generals were blazing.
As a small city team, even though the Nuggets stand at the same height as the Lakers and Clippers, the eyes of fans all over the world will still only be on the Los Angeles Brothers team, which makes the Nuggets players extremely jealous.
(End of this chapter)