{"id":115575,"date":"2026-04-26T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-have-night-to-forget-in-game-3-blowout-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:18:36","slug":"nikola-jokic-nuggets-have-night-to-forget-in-game-3-blowout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-have-night-to-forget-in-game-3-blowout-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic, Nuggets have night to forget in Game 3 blowout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; In what was statistically the worst shooting night of his playoff career, <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> missed 19 of his 26 shots in Thursday night&#8217;s Game 3 as the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, whom he led to an historic offensive season, failed to reach 100 points for the first time since January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen him shoot what he shot today,&#8221; guard <a data-player-guid=\"153b92a9-8489-74e3-c524-6527eb991e84\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3936299\/jamal-murray\">Jamal Murray<\/a> said. &#8220;That&#8217;s an outlier type of game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It resulted in the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> running away with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401869398\/nuggets-timberwolves\">113-96 win<\/a>, putting the Nuggets into a 2-1 series deficit as pressure mounts on Jokic to solve <a data-player-guid=\"78795dbf-3e02-934e-f796-d6a71375c9f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032976\/rudy-gobert\">Rudy Gobert<\/a> and the Minnesota defense before Denver&#8217;s season expires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re big, tall, long,&#8221; Jokic said. &#8220;They&#8217;re really good defensive players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Nuggets had control of this series through five quarters. They won Game 1 and sprinted to a 19-point first-half lead in Game 2. But the Timberwolves responded with an 11-0 second-quarter run after Jokic hit the bench Monday and have completely flipped momentum since.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic had a chance to close out Game 2, but the Nuggets were outscored by 10 points in the final seven minutes and Jokic missed six of his seven shots, leading to a Timberwolves escape. In total, Jokic went 1-of-8 against Gobert in Game 2, and that ineffectiveness followed him to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic and the Nuggets went 3-of-21 shooting in an 11-point first quarter, their lowest-scoring quarter of the season. Minnesota built a near immediate double-digit cushion, upped its lead to 27 points and never let it slip below 10 in the final three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you open the game like that, the easy ones don&#8217;t go,&#8221; Jokic said. &#8220;Really good defensive [first] quarter by them, really bad offensive quarter by us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets finished the regular season with an NBA-best 121.2 offensive rating, the second highest in league history. They failed to score 100 points in only two of 82 games, and Jokic was sidelined in both of them.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0424%2Fr1648394_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0424%2Fr1648394_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0424%2Fr1648394_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0424%2Fr1648394_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Nikola Jokic scored 27 points but shot just 7-of-26 from the field, marking the first time in his career that he attempted at least 26 shots in a game and made only seven or fewer of them.\u00a0<cite>AP Photo\/Abbie Parr<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This was the first time in Jokic&#8217;s career that he attempted at least 26 shots in a game and made seven or fewer of them. He also had four turnovers and three assists, the first time all season he had more turnovers than assists in a game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had a tough night,&#8221; Nuggets coach David Adelman said. &#8220;It happens to players. This guy&#8217;s played a million playoff games. There&#8217;s nights that are poor. He&#8217;ll bounce back. Everyone needs a day to understand we didn&#8217;t play well offensively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jokic is 5-of-24 on 3s in this series, and his offensive co-star didn&#8217;t provide much reprieve. Murray made only five of his 17 shots Thursday and missed all five of his 3s. He is 16-of-42 in the two Nuggets losses.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath, Adelman and Murray pointed to the team&#8217;s weak screen setting as a factor in this abnormally bad offensive night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think to get [the role players] going, they have to screen better,&#8221; Adelman said. &#8220;If you can free up your best players, that&#8217;s going to bring rotations. That&#8217;s going to bring a low man. That leads to ball movement 3s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gobert was Jokic&#8217;s primary defender for a majority of the night with Minnesota coach Chris Finch mirroring their minutes. Jokic went 7-of-21 against Gobert and is now a combined 8-of-29 against him in the two Nuggets losses.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic played a career-low 65 games this season, missing a chunk of time because of a hyperextended knee while also battling a wrist issue. After the game, he was asked how he felt physically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feeling good,&#8221; Jokic said. &#8220;Feeling good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the Nuggets have other injury troubles. They have been without fourth-year wing <a data-player-guid=\"657d52d7-47ba-335d-b936-531e62eced90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4576087\/peyton-watson\">Peyton Watson<\/a> since April 1 because of a hamstring strain and ruled out starting wing <a data-player-guid=\"d6c22a9f-fbe3-1566-e175-c86137d057a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064290\/aaron-gordon\">Aaron Gordon<\/a> two hours before tipoff because of a calf issue.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic said he knew &#8220;two days ago&#8221; that Gordon wouldn&#8217;t be able to play in Game 3, but the Nuggets initially listed Gordon as probable and Adelman said they installed two separate game plans Thursday because they didn&#8217;t know if Gordon would or wouldn&#8217;t get the green light.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is trending in a positive direction. He had court workouts after Thursday morning&#8217;s shootaround and pregame. Watson and Gordon will get treatment Friday before the team determines their status for a pivotal Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think out of fairness to the team we do want to know who is going to play that next game,&#8221; Adelman said. &#8220;It just helps you because guys know the expectation of what&#8217;s going to be that night, as opposed to today when we were scrambling a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48578341\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-night-forget-game-3-blowout-loss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; In what was statistically the worst shooting night of his playoff career, Nikola Jokic missed 19 of his 26 shots in Thursday night&#8217;s Game 3 as the Denver Nuggets, whom he led to an historic offensive season, failed to reach 100 points for the first time since January. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen him shoot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow2JLhCw:productID":"","_gspb_post_css":"","maa_idioma":"","maa_pais":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12190,7410,4016,4288,7902,4626,4287,4252],"class_list":["post-115575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubirata","tag-blowout","tag-forget","tag-game","tag-jokic","tag-loss","tag-night","tag-nikola","tag-nuggets"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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