After playing in one month, the Pelicans' record was much better than expected, which made the management and fans very excited.

But besides that, there is another good news.

Jokic has successfully reduced his weight from 133 kilograms last month to 120 kilograms!

He has reached the team's minimum weight requirement!

Originally, the team thought this process would take three to four months, but Jokic tried his best to prove that one month of weight loss is enough!

Although most of the fat lost is fat, only Jokic himself knows how much sweat and effort he has put in after this.

Although his weight loss plan will continue, because for him, about 113 kg is the most suitable weight.

But now, he has become significantly more flexible on the court, especially on the defensive end, and his body can keep up with his brain's ideas, and is no longer so easy to pass.

After playing against the Spurs, in order to protect Jokic, the Pelicans did not arrange Jokic to play again, and Evans replaced his previous rotation position.

This made Jokic hold it in for a long time. In the training game, he tried hard and even gained the upper hand in the match against Whiteside for a while.

His talent is really extraordinary.

Williams was also satisfied to see this and put him on the next activation list for the Nuggets.

When Jokic heard the news, a fierce look flashed in his eyes. It was like a beast trapped in a cage. It felt like he finally came out!

On the last day of November, the Pelicans flew to Denver, where they will play against the Nuggets.

Denver is the league's famous plateau home court, with an average altitude of 1,655 meters, the highest in the league.

Living in such a place may not feel particularly big.

But if you exercise vigorously on this, you won’t be able to lose your energy and sweat so much.

With this location, the Nuggets ranks first in the league in almost every season, which is also the origin of the "Devil's Home Stadium".

Take the Nuggets' most brilliant 2012-2013 seasons, as for example, they achieved the best record of 57 wins and 25 losses in team history.

Their away record is 19 wins and 22 losses, but their home record is 38 wins and 3 losses!

The difference is incredible, but the statistics are not fake.

No matter what time the team is in, it is not easy to get a victory from here.

Especially now in winter, altitude sickness will be more obvious.

The Pelicans will have a tough battle.

And they definitely want to win this game.

Not only is the Warriors chasing behind them, but also because they lost all the two away games they played here last season, they need to justify themselves.

After arriving in Denver, Williams arranged for adaptive training.

From the training, we can see that the team members' physical energy consumption is far greater than before.

The Nuggets' players spend most of their time in Denver and are physically used to it, but for visiting teams like the Pelicans, that's what they need to overcome.

"Damn Denver, I hate it here!"

After the training, Whiteside couldn't help but curse.

The teammates all laughed, their words were rough and not rough. Whiteside shouted out their hearts.

Tang Tian also smiled at this time, which is a reflection of the Pelicans team atmosphere.

After the training, the team members got on the bus one after another to prepare to return to the hotel.

Tang Tian found out that Jokic had not gotten in the car at this time. After asking Borrego, he realized that the guy stayed in the training hall and practiced more.

It seems that Jokic hasn't played for half a month, so he is really a bit suffocated.

The next night, and the first day of December, the Pelicans and Nuggets game started at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

The attendance rate of fans on the scene was around 70%.

Although the Nuggets are the home court of the Devil, after leaving Anthony in the past two years, the attendance rate of the stadium has dropped sharply, usually only about 50%.

The 20% more tonight is also related to the opponent's Pelicans.

Although many fans think that the Pelicans' record of No. 1 in the Western Conference cannot be stable for too long, the Pelicans are now the real league number one.

Many fans will buy it if they play such a strong team at home.

After the opening ceremony, the starting lineups of both sides were released one after another.

The Pelicans still have a regular lineup, with Holiday and Tang Tian on the outside, Ariza and Davis on the front line, and Whiteside on the center.

On the Nuggets, Ty Lawson and Avraro from the outside, Wilson Chandler and "Orc" Faried on the front, and center Mozgov.

George Carl brought the Nuggets to the peak of team history in the 2012-2013 seasons, but after Iguodala left the team, Carl also resigned immediately.

His replacement was Phil Jackson's former assistant coach Brian Shaw.

Shaw continued Carl's tactics, and the Nuggets are still the team basketball that focuses on offense.

The team's highest average score per game is Avraro, but he is only 14.3 points per game.

In addition to him, Lawson averaged 13.9 points per game, Chandler averaged 13.2 points per game, Faried averaged 12 points per game, and Gallinari on the bench averaged 11 points per game.

Such scoring allocation seems to be very average, but because the team's core is not established, the record is poor.

But even so, their home winning rate this season is far better than away wins. They are determined to compete for the playoffs and will do their best at every home game.

As soon as the game started, Faried jumped to defeat Davis, winning the Nuggets the chance to take the lead in offense.

Lawson made a sudden assist from Chandler to hit a three-pointer as soon as he came up.

The Nuggets are very adaptable to playing at home and have strong self-confidence.

Tang Tian's confrontational layup after the breakthrough also scored 2 points for the Pelicans.

The Nuggets are in a hot state at the beginning, the Pelicans are stronger, and the two teams play equally at the beginning.

The turning point of the game came from the 7 minutes of the first quarter, when the Pelicans players felt obvious problems.

The source of this problem is altitude sickness. They feel that the basketball in their hands is obviously a little heavier than usual.

Under the NBA level confrontation, there is a lot of things, and their offensive efficiency has dropped significantly.

Williams knew what was happening, and his approach was to go into rotation early.

At this time, the advantage of the Nuggets being the whole nation began to show.

Garlinari, Nurkic, Randy Foye and others who came from the bench were obviously playing against the Pelicans.

After the first quarter, the Nuggets led the Pelicans by a double-digit advantage 32-22 with their performance in the second half.

The occurrence of something must be caused by many factors. This season made Tang Tian deeply feel why the Nuggets achieved the best team record in the 2012-2013 seasons that could not achieve even the Anthony era.

It’s really up to this plateau home court, and everyone is a soldier. If you kill your main force, you will be killed with substitutes.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Williams replaced Jokic.

Veterans like Evans reacted more to the plateau, and they were panting after a few minutes of high-intensity confrontation.

When Jokic heard Williams call him, he just stood up calmly.
Chapter completed!