The Nuggets Thunder tied the seventh game! Westbrook returns to Russia to fight his old master, and may decide the final victory!

The Denver Nuggets, who are recognized as the strongest center in the NBA as active, faced strong opponents in succession after the start of the playoffs this season. When facing the Los Angeles Clippers led by Harden and Leonard in the first round, many fans believed that Harden's super small-scale play ability could help Ka-shing revenge the Nuggets, but with Jokic's brave performance, the Nuggets fought hard for seven games and laughed to the end, and advanced to the Western Conference semi-finals with their heads held high.

In the second round, facing the Thunder who played the best record in the Western Conference, the Nuggets are still not optimistic. However, after the first six games, the tenacious Nuggets defended their home court in the sixth game, and tied the big score again, and will play a tie-in with two consecutive rounds of tie-ups. Jokic and Murray are still the Nuggets' biggest killer moves, but whether Westbrook, who returned to the old place to face the old master, can perform well in the familiar field, will also have a very big impact on the final victory. After experiencing the first six games of fierce battles, the Thunder and the Nuggets have no secrets at all, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The Nuggets have richer experience in the playoffs and tiebreak battles. After all, they are the only team in the NBA history that has twice performed a 1-3 shocking reversal in one season. The Thunder's advantage lies in their home game and the stronger combat effectiveness of the bench lineup.

The biggest difference between the playoffs and the regular season is that the two sides are very targeted. Therefore, in a tiebreak final game with a certain victory or defeat, both sides will seize the opponent's life gate and chase and fight hard. Judging from the Thunder's arrangement in the first six games, they will definitely speed up at home and consume the Nuggets' starting five tigers to the maximum extent, and then let the bench bandits such as Wiggins, Caruso, Wallace and Jellingway build an advantage as much as possible in the confrontation with the Nuggets' second lineup.

For the Nuggets, if they want to have a greater probability of advancing away, they need to seize the score, drag the game into the decisive moment of the fourth quarter, and give full play to the big heart attributes of Jokic and Murray. Judging from the current Nuggets lineup, only Westbrook can accomplish this task.

In the six games that have ended, Westbrook is all substitutes, scoring 18 points, 19 points, 8 points, 6 points, 4 points and 8 points respectively. Except for Strauser's explosion in the sixth game, he scored 15 points, in the previous five games, regardless of whether Westbrook performed well or not, he was the player with the most points on the Nuggets' bench lineup.

And after the sixth game, Porter Jr. made it clear in an interview that he had only been able to appear before the game, and he planned to continue to use painkiller injections before the tiebreak final. In addition, Aaron Gordon, who saved the team in many dangers this season, suffered an injury in his left leg at the last moment of the sixth game, made the starting five tigers that the Nuggets relied most, and their combat effectiveness declined to a certain extent.

Under such circumstances, if the Nuggets want to hold on to the score away, the bench players must stand up and take on greater responsibilities. Looking at the first six games of this round of the Western Conference semi-finals, the Nuggets substitute players can only put all their hopes on Westbrook.

For the Nuggets, the good news is that Westbrook's performance in the first two home games in the series, and the bad news is that the battle of Tianwang Mountain feels cold. Westbrook, who returned to his old place in the tiebreak, can help the new boss defeat the old boss and continue to move steadily towards the championship dream, let's wait and see.