All hope was lost for the Denver Nuggets as they were tied, but then Aaron Gordon passed the ball to Nikola Jokic with 3.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter against the Golden State Warriors and the Serb trailed to seal the deal for his team. Sealed. by 18 points in the final quarter.
Nikola Jokic took three dribbles down the right side of the court and then drilled a 39-foot 3-pointer over the head of Warriors center Kevin Looney.
From the perspective of the Nuggets bench, it looked like a done deal.
As soon as he let go of his hand, all the coaches in the back were saying, ‘It’s online. It’s going in,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said.
“I don’t know if it was something in my intuition or what, but I knew we weren’t going to go into OT. I knew Joker was going to hit that shot,” forward Peyton Watson said.
Nikola Jokic’s shot bounces.
And he did, Nikola Jokic’s shot bounced off the glass and went in, sealing the Nuggets’ 130-127 win over the Warriors. Even Jock knew this going in.
That was the last option with that play,” Joke said. “I just took a shot. I think those are the easiest shots to take. You have no other option. So actually, when I realized it, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to bank it.’ You could see the flight of the ball, and I just knew I was going to bank it.”
It was the clinching shot on a 25-4 Nuggets run over the game’s final 6:45, which included a 13-0 run.
The thing with Nikola, I like the fact that he gets to his spot, he gets set, and he just hits his shot,” Gordon said. “He doesn’t let the defense change at all. When he shoots his shot, there’s always a chance he can make it.”
Jokic completed with 34 factors on 13-of-15 capturing, 10 assists, and nine rebounds. Gordon added 30 points on eleven-of-17 taking pictures, and guard Jamal Murray had 25 factors on eight-of-sixteen shooting.
