The worst gusts of the NBA right now it belongs to the Detroit Pistons with nine consecutive losses. Then they arrive San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers with six. The Los Angeles team is now fourth from bottom in the West and it has behind it the three teams that have been clearly weaker in its conference at the beginning of the season (Spurs, Blazers and Grizzlies). In that group we have to start putting these Clippersthat since they made the transfer of James Harden They don’t know what it’s like to win a game. Six defeats, five with him on the court. Today was very painful, because the disappointments began to accumulate, but also because the perfect day had set to see the sun rise. win in Denver It usually costs due to the altitude of the city. Do it now, facing the champion and best team in the League, it’s almost impossible. And they had it in hand, but they fell short (111-108).

Halfway through the fourth quarter a basket Kawhi Leonard I put them 92-99 up. It was this team’s time to vindicate itself. A point of support, especially moral, on which to begin to grow. But risk your recovery heads or tails with the Nuggets It is not the best option. Some Nuggets without Jamal Murraywho will be out for a few weeks, but with the omnipresent Nikola Jokic, the best player on the planet without any discussion. The Serbian finished with 32 points, 16 rebounds and 9 assists. Your assistance to Aaron Gordon seemed to seal the match (109-104 at 50 seconds), but two missed free throws from Reggie Jackson (the substitute for Murray) and two correct ones Kawhi left the score in difference of three. And on the next play the forward stole the ball, which ended up in the hands of Paul Georgewho put the Clippers to one with 15 seconds left.

Jokic He went to the personnel line with the obligation not to fail. She did not do it. The last attack of the Clippers ended with the ball trapped between the rim and the backboard after an attempted three-pointer george and the subsequent jump ball was left to the locals to ensure a victory that leaves them undefeated in the In-Season Tournament (2-0). And also with the best record in the League alone (9-2).

The Clippers they saw the best game Harden Since he wears his jersey: 21 points and 4 assists with fairly decent percentages. Yes, it may not be a spectacular stat line. But at least it wasn’t an embarrassing performance, as has happened on previous nights. He even had some very good minutes at the end of the third quarter, in which he put the teams in serious trouble. Nuggets. But for now this level of The beard It also does not help his new team to win. A team that still does not know very well what it is playing, what task each of its members has to do. An accumulation of stars, many of them more for name than for performance, that does not hit the mark. And the games pass, six now, now the Clippers the train of the first places in the world escapes them West with the feeling that everything could fall apart if one of those brilliant names in their locker room gets out of hand.

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