In the second half of Jamal Murray, the game scored 24 of the highest 43 points, and the host Denver Nuggets pushed Los Angeles Clippers to the elimination threshold with 131-115 win in the 5th game of the Western Conference quarter-final series on Tuesday night.
Denver won the last two matches to get ahead 3-2 in the first round match. The game is in Los Angeles on 6 Thursday night.
Murray scored 11 points in a quarter of the third quarter and added 13 more in the fourth place, and the last one increased the Nuggets to 20 with 2:13.
Nikola Jokic’s 13 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds-Series for Nuggets never watched. In the fourth quarter, they took 22 leaders for the second flat game, but unlike Saturday, they did not give all the leadership.
Clippers remained 4:01, used a 17-4 run to enter 116-107, but Aaron Gordon hit a layout, Murray a transition foul and then made a free throw after a falling jumpert, and Gordon emptied 3-Pointer to seal him.
Rusell Westbrook, who kidnapped the game with a feet injury, received 21 points from the Denver counter. Gordon received 23 points, Michael Porter Jr. 14 points and Christian Braun’s 11 points and 12 rebounds.
Nuggets hit 3 points from December to 33 (51.5 percent).
Los Angeles’s James Harden received 11 points in 9 shots, but Kawhi Leonard’s 20 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds and Ivica Zubac added 27 points.
Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 18 points, Kris Dunn 15 and Norman Powell Clippers 12.
Porter opened the fourth quarter with 3 markers and three-point games, emptied one of Murray Deep, and feeds Westbrook to make 110-88 before Los Angeles closed within nine.
Murray and Porter hit 3 points to break a 10-2 run at the beginning of the third quarter, and Nuggets took ahead 84-67 in the middle of the period.
Clippers won seven points in 43 seconds to get into 88-80, but Braun’s 3-workman was 99-83 fourth.
Denver won 101-99 in Los Angeles on Sunday, when Gordon sank on the ice.
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