In the fourth game of the Western finals in 2020, yokiki fell into foul trouble and the playing time was cut to pieces. When Jamal Murray entered the kill model, LeBlanc James took over the defense against him and successfully defended him continuously. The Lakers won the match point in a thrilling way.

Three years later, when the two sides met again in the Western finals, the more mature jokki had already understood to control emotions and fouls, while the 38-year-old James had been hard to hold Murray. At the critical moment of the fourth quarter, Murray made a strong shot in James’s life twice, and also hit the hero ball in the defense of Anthony Davis.

During that time, the Nuggets repeatedly broke down the block between yokki and Murray, and cooperated with the hand in hand. Yokki’s response and cover, Murray’s decisive shot formed a set of combined punches, the fist fell like raindrops to the two hardest points of the Lakers defense line.

Yorkich scored 23 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists. Murray scored 23 points in the last single section in the case of the first three slams, contributing 37 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. The Nuggets dual-core suppressed the Zhan Mei combination again, helping Nuggets get a 2-0 lead.

When we discuss “super combination”, we seldom mention the Nuggets dual core. Murray has never been an All-Star. The honor book is almost blank. He suffered a serious knee injury in 2021. However, Murray and jokiki are both playoff players. In the playoffs in 2019, 2020 and 2023, both of them played together three times in the playoffs and each of them achieved a significant increase.

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In May, 2022, a group of Nuggets went to Serbia to celebrate jokiki’s winning the regular season MVP. They sang and danced until late at night. Yorkic’s phone rang. It was Murray.

“He is just happy for me. I am very grateful that he can call to congratulate me.” Jokki said.

This plain story, like plain boiled water, is a reflection of the relationship between jokiki and Murray. The private relationship between the two is not close. Different growth backgrounds and different personalities make them unable to be brothers and brothers outside the stadium, it can only be regarded as a casual acquaintance.

Murray, who worships Bruce Lee, received rigorous training under his father’s training since childhood, and practiced fengshui ball as usual in the ice and snow. Jokedge, who always sees Coke as life, is a bit “idle style”. Push-ups can’t do a few, and the tablet support can only last for 20 seconds. Whether living in Denver or off-season, the two have different circles, and there are not many off-site intersections.

Mike Malone thought it didn’t matter. No one stipulated that great combinations must be good brothers outside the stadium. “Off-site, they are two different children. I don’t know if they go out to eat ice cream together every night, but they certainly respect each other.”

When they stand on the court, wonderful chemical reactions appear. They don’t even need to look at each other to know the position of each other. Yokiqi can protect the chance of counterattack for a long time, which is suitable for Murray’s ball-free property. Murray can hold the ball to block and remove it, which is also suitable for yokedge’s ball-free property and helps yokedge share the pressure.

“Their chemical reaction and linkage on the court are incredible,” Malone said. He thought it had something to do with the concept of team building of the Nuggets. Murray and yokki joined the Nuggets through draft picks, it is the players trained by the Nuggets themselves. “They have a strong ability to read the game. This is something you can’t teach. This is built over time.”

In 2020, during the process of Nuggets entering the Western finals, Murray and jokich played 174 hand-handed hands together, with an average of 8.1 games. At that time, this data set the highest record in 10 years, they sent 255 assists to each other, with the largest number of alliances. This season, Murray sent 152 assists to Yoki and Yoki sent 107 assists to Murray.

Reggie Jackson, who once played against the Nuggets, now plays a backup guard at the Nuggets, sighed with emotion: “It’s not real to see them playing. They seem to have telepathy, you don’t need to talk to know what the other person is thinking.”

As for each other’s relationship, jokiki said like this: “We are like a couple on the court. We are close. After all, we have experienced everything together.” Murray used the word “selfless” when describing the secret of their tacit cooperation.

In the 2020 playoffs, Murray was popular in the park. He, who averaged 18.5 points in the regular season, raised the average score in the playoffs to 26.5 points, especially in the first round, he scored 50 points in 2 matches and 42 points in 1 match. The second round of Clippers robbed seven, Murray scored 40 points.

“Murray absolutely has the ability to form a combination of punches with jokiki,” Malone is full of confidence.

“My next goal is to enter the All-Star. I feel that I already have this ability.” Murray was also confident after finishing the 2020 playoffs.

However, on April 13, 2021, Murray suffered a serious injury from the tear of the anterior crossed ligament of the left knee in the first world war with the Warriors and was not reimbursed for the playoffs. Murray didn’t play in the 2021-22 season. In the playoffs of those two years, yokki fought alone.

“I miss Murray too much in the playoffs in the past two years. Years of cooperation have made us grow a lot together. We are used to playing together. It is different without Murray at the end of the game, this makes the game more difficult.” Yokki said frankly. In 2021, Nuggets stopped the second round. In 2022, the Nuggets were out in the first round.

This season, yokiki finally hopes to return to Murray, who is full of blood. During the regular season, Murray’s data, efficiency and stability all declined. People doubted whether he could return to the past level after suffering from knee injury. But in the playoffs, Murray restarted the campus mode.

In the eyes of Murray himself and Michael-PROTONIC and jokiki, Murray is even stronger than the park. In the first game of the Western semi-final, Murray scored 34 points and 9 assists against the sun. After the game, jokiki sighed: “He is the best player in the Nuggets. We are following him now.”

From 2020 to 2023, Murray’s ball-holding attack and no-ball attack efficiency were improved, especially his block-breaking attack, which scored 1.17 points per round in the playoffs this year. So far in the playoffs, Murray has averaged 27.2 points and 6.2 assists, with a field goal percentage of 47.1 percent and a three-point hit rate of 40.8 percent. Facing the Lakers who were the first to defend in the playoffs, Murray scored 30 + points in both games.

In the past three years, it was not only Murray that evolved, but also jokiki became the two MVP, and there was no dead angle in the attack half-time range. Facing Davis, who had the strongest defensive power in the playoffs, and the changing defensive counterpositions and strategies of the Lakers, jokedge played three double matches in two consecutive games.

In this era of traffic, standing in front of the Lakers of “King of traffic”, Nuggets are more like villains, although they rank first in the West. As Malone and Murray frequently complained, no matter how the Nuggets performed, the Lakers are the most discussed team. The boss of the Nuggets also knew that to win respect, there was only one way to win the championship. After defending the two home courts, the Nuggets will fly to Los Angeles to welcome the Lakers.

“We know that everyone is questioning us. We are obviously the first in the West, but we are discussing whether we can maintain our previous performance in the playoffs.” Murray said.

“When we win the championship, this feeling of being questioned will only make us feel sweeter.”

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