Nikola Jokic and Key Nuggets Players to Watch vs. the Jazz - April 9

Minnesota's defensive effort in Game 2 was a transformative sight. In what appeared to be an effort to become one with their team name, they swarmed, smashed, hounded, snarled, took, and destroyed for 24 straight minutes to start the game. Not an inch of the court was safe.

Nuggets vs. Jazz: Players to Watch

Nuggets Key Players

Nikola Jokic's numbers on the season are 26.5 points, 12.4 boards and 9.0 assists per game, shooting 57.9% from the floor and 34.2% from downtown, with an average of 1.0 made treys.

Porter averages 16.7 points, 7.1 boards and 1.5 assists.

Jamal Murray is averaging 20.8 points, 6.7 assists and 4.1 rebounds.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope averages 10.2 points, 2.4 boards and 2.4 assists, shooting 45.6% from the floor and 41.4% from beyond the arc, with 1.7 made treys per contest.

Reggie Jackson's numbers on the season are 10.1 points, 1.9 boards and 3.8 assists per game, shooting 43.5% from the field and 36.8% from beyond the arc, with an average of 1.3 made treys.

Jazz Key Players

Collin Sexton averages 18.7 points for the Jazz, plus 2.6 rebounds and 4.9 assists.

The Jazz are getting 12.8 points, 2.8 boards and 4.5 assists per game from George.

Per game, Talen Horton-Tucker provides the Jazz 9.7 points, 2.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists, plus 0.9 steals and 0.3 blocks.

Taylor Hendricks averages 7.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.7 assists. He is sinking 44.2% of his shots from the floor and 37.2% from beyond the arc, with 1.3 triples per game.

The Jazz get 3.9 points per game from Omer Yurtseven, plus 3.7 rebounds and 0.5 assists.

Nuggets vs. Jazz Stat Insights

Denver Key Stats

The Nuggets' +392 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 5.0 points per game) is a result of scoring 114.7 points per game (14th in the NBA) while giving up 109.7 per outing (sixth in the league).

Denver averages 44.5 rebounds per game (seventh in the league) while conceding 42.3 per contest to its opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 2.2 boards per game.

The Nuggets make 11.6 three-pointers per game (25th in the league) at a 37.4% rate (ninth-best in the NBA), compared to the 11.2 their opponents make while shooting 35.5% from deep.

Denver's 115.4 points per 100 possessions on offense rank eighth in the NBA, and the 110.6 points it allows per 100 possessions rank eighth in the league.

Utah Key Stats

The Jazz have a -382 scoring differential, falling short by 4.9 points per game. They're putting up 115.9 points per game, 12th in the league, and are allowing 120.8 per outing to rank 29th in the NBA.

Utah is third in the NBA at 45.4 rebounds per game. That's 3.1 more than the 42.3 its opponents average.

The Jazz make 13.0 three-pointers per game (13th in the league), 1.8 fewer than their opponents.

Utah ranks 18th in the NBA with 112.1 points scored per 100 possessions, and 30th defensively with 117.7 points conceded per 100 possessions.

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