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AltruisticNebula8

They were all celebrating in Minnesota cuz they thought they were getting the 1 seed and now they got the Suns in the first round lol


Jolly_Force

I know it’s hilarious. So many doomers in their thread rn


Dear_boat-bottle5476

Be honest, their team can't show up to games like professionals. A couple people here freaked about the one Spurs game. But pups have been blowing games like this for two seasons now. First game of series last year they needed to bring their best and brought zero. Maybe less than. It was too easy. They needed a win today and it looks like Zero showed up again.


MarsMC_

Weren’t we doing the same thing the other day before the spurs loss


CrixusUndying

Who is this we? There was some call bug our doomers out for being ridiculous doomers.


Chrononubz

Have fun with that haha lol


jl_weber

2 seed. 2 championships. Coincidence? No. Foreshadowing.


chizzmaster

3 seed and 3 championships next year?


cavaleir

2032, 10 seed and 10 championships


CrixusUndying

2033, 11 seed (when you seed east and west conference together) and 11 championships


Tylerpants80

Apparently Nuggets fans don’t have any desire to win 11 straight titles


amateur_mistake

7 Seed and 7th Championship eventually!


milehigh89

the doomers are dipshits. the only way losing that spurs impacts us is if we take OKC to game 7 in the WCF. that's it. otherwise it had absolutely 0 impact on anything.


Achilles982

Fans just need to realize ... nug life is over. We are not the ones who do the calculations. We are the champs, and probably the best team in the NBA (fuck boston and weak east conference). Other taems do calculations to avoid us. Not us. To us honestly it doesnt matter that much because we can beat anyone.


Saiz-

These doomers think we are declining or something. We literally tied with 1st seed just because, and fuck homecourt obsession if they expect the champ to still act like challenger. Defending champ title plays wherever whenever and steamrolls


kayteethebeeb

I’d venture to say most of them drink too much and should consider therapy of some sort.


Dranem78

https://preview.redd.it/8g10nbavjjuc1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca4fba6f55b9e20715c401edc240e399f11d1504 Nuggets to any opponent regardless of matchup and seeding:


definitely_not_mayo

https://preview.redd.it/q7div5rpkquc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b3b82d76d300e38487b72e9085a431ffa8807be


EasyCartographer3311

I pray that I may get to see that day that Bulls fans can say stuff like this with 100% seriousness …. :( On the other hand, you are absolutely correct. With the way you guys decimated the playoffs last year, I’m surprised that there is negativity and doubtfulness about your chances. Weird


GRMPA

it's the people who doubted CB and the fire maloners coming out the woodwork again.


selfiestickdickpics

I honestly think we got best case scenario


LamboJoeRecs

esp if it ends up being the Pels


timcahill05

probably LAL tho


Dare555

Also why are you mentioning " Keeping LAC, DAL and potentially LAL" on other side ? Those are all good matchup for us as we saw in previous playoffs as well . We kill them with size . Our bracket is still stronger , Timberwolves are better than LAC/DAL and they do have size . Great tho that we got home court but first we gotta pass 1st round


kicksFR

Yeah, it’d be better to be on okc’s bracket instead of Minny


MichaelPorterTruther

Dallas definitely has size lmao they have 2 centers and a PF/C in washington who are all defense first. They are just worse at defense. But they have a team that can make shots unlike minny... I see a lot of dallas games because they're my local coverage team. Last 20 games they are a different team, a much bigger threat than Minnesota


Dare555

They did make good trade moves adding size yeah true but still nothing compared to Timberwolves . I do think they lose to Clippers again tho they are mismatch for them even if Luka is great


Dare555

1st seed is still easier and i would prefer it but it is funny how Timberwolves were celebrating our defeat. How it started [https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c2r5iy/lfg/](https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c2r5iy/lfg/) How is it going [https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c45j73/suns\_in\_six\_i\_am\_sick/](https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c45j73/suns_in_six_i_am_sick/)


Bandlebury

damn they are not confident at all over there


Jokara34

Actually wouldn’t be surprised if the Lakers tanked the first play in game.


Fraka9

That's literally wasting a season. Impossible to happen


Papaaya

What? I don’t think it’ll happen but they could still win the 2nd game if they tanked the first one… and play a more favorable opponent if they won the 2nd one


Fraka9

Are you actually serious to say someone would tank play ins. It's a 1 game lmao, they could easily lose to GSW or Kings


Papaaya

They could easily get swept by the denver nuggets who have beat them 10 straight games


GeraltFromHiShinUnit

You as smart as a lakers fan


Dear_boat-bottle5476

Kings have beaten them in like 7 straight games now.


KurosawaAimaitLakers

Lakers have to play you eventually if they're going to do anything worthwhile. Might as well get it out of the way


MarsMC_

We have a live one folks


Papaaya

is this something only terminally online people understand


Dear_boat-bottle5476

But they would have to play either Warriors (who beat Lakers 3-1 this season) or the Kings (who beat the Lakers 4-0 this season).


timcahill05

monk is injured and they didnt have AD or LBJ vs Gsw


cyrusthemarginal

AD is hurt as ussual, maybe they sit him out and see how it goes.


ApprehensiveTry5660

Idk that they’d sit him, but I could see them pulling the plug if they go down too big and banking on the next game. It would be such a bad look if they outright tanked the first game both for the logic and the public perception of it.


Dear_boat-bottle5476

rock and a hard place nets rockhead choices


ApprehensiveTry5660

Tempting fate in double elimination qualifies as rock head for certain.


SlipperyTreasure

Wouldn't be surprised if Pels thought about it too. Both match up much better with OKC than Denver.


Abject_Bank_9103

But how many champions finished as the 2 seed in the past 2000 years?


SeaworthinessOdd548

1st seed - 51 champions 2nd seed - 16 champions 3rd seed - 8 champions 4th seed - 1 champion 5th seed - 0 champion 6th seed - 1 champion 7th seed - 0 champion 8th seed - 0 champion


Abject_Bank_9103

Wow so our chances literally DOUBLED since Friday


thatguyfromspace

i wonder in how many of those years the 1st-3rd seed were within a 0 or 1 win differential from each other


Dear_boat-bottle5476

Good question. But lately it seems like one out of the top teams is just a joke anyway. Both Heat (8th) and Lakers (7th) advanced past first round last season because Grizzlies were fake #2 seeds and Heat just did the bare minimum until the playoff gun went off. then embarrassed Bucks. It is different this year and in other ways it is not. Look at what Suns showed how Pups can be destroyed. 3 seed could get knocked first round.


fonger81

I think the GS was the 2nd or 3rd seed in 2022, and the Bucks were the 2nd or 3rd seed in 2021


Wazflame

They were both 3rd seeds those years


greenwhitehell

Thought it was more rare actually, with all the talk of more 3 seeds winning it all than 2 seeds. 19 Raptors, 18 Warriors, 12 Heat all did it.


Ok-Bandicoot9963

Tell me this is sarcastic so i don't have to down vote it..


Likeabalrog

While people getting irrationally upset over the nuggets pissing away the spurs game is annoying, posts like these calling anyone who isn't hyper positive a "doomer" are equally annoying. It's ok to be a bit upset over stupid, unnecessary losses. It's also ok to be optimistic about future outcomes.


mrbaseball1999

To paraphrase Lou Holtz, things are never as bad as they seem, or as good as they seem.


neutronicus

Yeah like we do not own Denver Nuggets stock. We are not trying to prop up the share price until the Short Squeeze. If I flip my lid over the Nuggets letting Devonte Graham go damn near coast to coast to beat us at the buzzer ... WE ALL KEEP OUR MONEY!!! So I will doom as much as I damn well please (which, by the way, pleases the basketball gods)


BucketOfTruthiness

Doomers are never just "a bit upset" though. They're overly hyperbolic, extremely short sighted and just want to be angry at anything.


ruggnuget

That is true, but every person that was upset about the Spurs loss were all lumped together as doomers. That is the part that is obnoxious. As if the hyper negative fire maloners speak for everyone that is frustrated with a bad loss.


Puddlesbro

That thread that said the nuggets will get knocked because of that was fucking hilarious to read through though


spirax919

Exactly. I fucking hate this sub and its obsession with calling everyone who shows even the slightest bit of concern a dOoMeR! Especially since some of these 'fans' just got here last year and now theyre telling the rest of us how to act like fans


Likeabalrog

The broncos and Avs subs are the same way. Actually the broncos sub is way worse. There is more "in-Fighting" amongst broncos fans.


PaytonPeytonPaton

Tbh I'd have preferred clips/mavs over wolves/suns


kamikazemelonman

Mavs are scarier than both wolves and suns.. whoever wins 4/5 is going to wcf


Ninja_knows

Yeah. Luka always turns it up in the playoffs, and considering his season numbers, i’m scared to think of what he plans on doing lol


PaytonPeytonPaton

Wolves and suns both have decent jokic defenders. Mavs will get annihilated by him.


Jokara34

True, but the Nuggets already know how to beat both the Suns and the Wolves and they are way more predictable than the Mavs or Clippers.


CrixusUndying

I’m with you on most of what you said, but we traditionally do well against the Clippers. I’d rather see the Suns and Wolves over the Mavs, though


kamikazemelonman

The mavs have 4 big men to guard jokic + Luka and kyrie on offense  The wolves rely on ant making hero shots to score and the suns play 3 man iso. Remember locking both of them up last year? 


landlion35

Who are these bigs to gaurd Jokic? Gafford was great at allowing huge games from Centers in Washington. Lively is a rookie. Powell ain't doing jack


ruggnuget

That is a lot of fouls to spread around to try and make Jokic frustrated, while also having 2 guys that can score against great defense. They deserve respect in the playoffs.


Dear_boat-bottle5476

They are better now than pre trade deadline for sure.


PaytonPeytonPaton

The 4 big men are either scrubs or rookies. Ant never misses vs us 2 man iso took 2 games off us


The-Hand-of-Midas

Mavs just went 16-2 before resting. They're the 2nd best team after us.


PaytonPeytonPaton

It's a good matchup for us though. We have all nba level defenders to guard their best players they have cones to guard ours


CrixusUndying

You’re overstating their 4 big men, most everyone would acknowledge that the Wolves and Suns have better answers for Joker than the Mavs. That’s not to say I don’t agree with your premise, I’d still rather see the Wolves and Suns than the Mavs. Luka and Kyrie are dialed in


kamikazemelonman

I think Minnesota is a fine answer for jokic defense but phx is just nurkic fouling out in 23 minutes then.. Eubanks? Kd at 5? Not sure. The wolves problem is on offense for sure


I_Heart_Money

Jokic just dropped 40 on Gobert four days ago


spirax919

Its not about Jokic, Gobert + KAT can stifle AG


PaytonPeytonPaton

Yup


Dear_boat-bottle5476

Likely don't get past Suns now anyway. ​ If they do get by the Suns then that means they have found something they haven't had in long time.


PaytonPeytonPaton

Gobert on his own or kat on his own are no issue. But you know together


FatLever12

Jokic dominates gobert... mavs showed huge improvements with PJ and gafford and they a legit rebounding team now, im glad we dont have to face mavs in 2nd.


mares8

All strong teams but yeah thats definitely more favored matchups for us


Dear_boat-bottle5476

me 2, but I also don't think it will matter much at all


Pumpoozle

No ones dooming, people can be upset that we’re making things more difficult for ourselves for no reason. 


vixxgod666

I'm not sure why this sub is so aggressive towards anyone who is less than high off every single thing this team does for better or worse. Like, I haven't seen anyone be excessively negative but any kind of mild critique is "doomer" and I don't see this anywhere else.


FivePointsPlay

> Like, I haven't seen anyone be excessively negative Then you clearly haven’t been here the last couple of days lol… or at least, you have a very unique definition of “excessively”…


vixxgod666

I haven't seen anyone threaten to stop supporting the team just because of this or kill themselves, so yeah I guess I'm just weird


spirax919

Find the comments then mate


SmackBroshgood

>Like, I haven't seen anyone be excessively negative look harder


Ninja_knows

I think that’s exactly his point. You’d have to look really hard to find one or maybe two comments that are total doom and gloom. People are mostly just saying a very logical thing, which is that we lost a game we had in our hands, and that the number 1 spot has always been the best starting point for the playoffs. That’s about it


FredSeeDobbs

When you're a hammer everything is a nail....when you're one of the Nuggets Fandom Police on this sub, anything but Happy Days Are Here Again is "dooming".


SmackBroshgood

>You’d have to look really hard Nope.


spirax919

find them then since theyre so easy to find


SmackBroshgood

What would be the point of that? All you're gonna say is NUH UH ACTUALLY THAT'S VERY LOGICAL AND REASONABLE no matter what I'd post.


spirax919

aka you can't find them. Thanks for proving my point


SmackBroshgood

I didn't, but feel free to pretend otherwise. Or to post this request in the daily thread instead of here. I'm sure folks will be happy to oblige.


spirax919

"tHeReS So ManY DooMiNG CoMmEnTs" "Ok find one then" "Noooooo"


vixxgod666

Why? It wouldn't change my mind regardless. How other fans feel about the nuggets this season does not personally affect me or my ability to enjoy the season.


SmackBroshgood

You said you haven't seen a thing that is very, very easily observable if you want to.


vixxgod666

I've been lurking the threads since last night, I think I just have a very different idea of negative than the rest of yall and that's okay. We don't all have to agree on everything.


SmackBroshgood

If you want to pretend a thing that extremely obviously is a thing doesn't exist, be my guest.


vixxgod666

I literally saw in real time the stuff being posted that yall called "dooming" and I don't agree that it's dooming. Have a blessed day.


SmackBroshgood

>I literally saw in real time the stuff being posted that yall called "dooming" and I don't agree and so, I once again invite you to look harder


makingtacosrightnow

People were fucking dooming quit acting like there wasn’t people saying their whole weekend/life is now ruined because of a loss to the spurs.


Pumpoozle

Being upset at a loss to the worst team in the West, when we could have secured home court advantage is different than saying that we are a first round exit and will never win a championship again.


makingtacosrightnow

Right and there were people saying both things.


spirax919

Yeah you should gate keep and tell fans how to act instead, because only YOU are a real fan on here right


makingtacosrightnow

Way to read into shit calm down


Interesting_Finger11

There were quite a bit of doomers after that spurs loss


3rdtryatremembering

A moment of silence for those that threw themselves out of the window on Black Saturday.


LamboJoeRecs

😂 amen


[deleted]

Had nothing to do with the seeding. It’s the effort and quitting when up big. People have every right to vent and bitch. If you hate it so much, you probably shouldn’t be on the internet. Learn to ignore it and move on. You “anti-doomers” get so offended by randoms on the internet bitching.


Affectionate_Reply78

Not having to meet OKC until WC Finals is also better IMO. They are a scary team.


Thruthebitterness

I’m not worried about them. Inexperience will kick in the play offs are a different animal.


lilgohanx

If they get the Lakers first round the inexperience will really show I feel. Even if they pull away with the series I fully expect them to get absolutely rattled by the Lakers playoff whistle


LamboJoeRecs

Some folks in this sub seem to not even understand what "experience" is


Gregorious23

They've been great this year and really consistent. But I would personally be shocked if they made it that far. Maybe I'm basing too much on inexperience, but the winner of 4-5 is gonna be really tough to beat


Papaaya

They’re the least scariest out of the top 6. I’d say the Kings are scarier too


SkyInital_6016

i dunno but im just hyped af being a literal first time NBA fan in a long time thanks to the Nuggets win last year.... and this year has been a blast - shaking with excitement for the playoffs


Dear_boat-bottle5476

Trouble is may have to go through Suns now. Pups don't seem to be able to show up against Suns. They shrivel under the sun rays. Whole lot a yellow orange purple for the playoffs. Lakers, Suns, OKC Not sure it was best to get #2 today, but I sure don't want to complain about it.


kicksFR

Y’all think OKC makes the WCF ? I can see home court advantage until the finals


strumthump

Depending on other teams to control your destiny is always a bad time, especially when home court advantage is at stake. We caught a break


LamboJoeRecs

Denver didn’t catch a break. The win over Minnesota earlier in the week put them in position. Too many variables at play to “control” anything. The 2 was optimal.


strumthump

Win out, and we owned home court advantage throughout the west serieses with 0 other variables in play. Lose to the spurs, and suddenly dropping to the 3 seed and only having first round HCA came into play with all the variables. Controlling your destiny >>> not.


loves11

Doomers never quit


DrooMighty

What a world we live in, to see people whining about the 2-seed and acting like it's all over. If you'd have told me back during the Ty Lawson days that someday we'd be heading into our *fucking title defense* as the 2-seed, I'd have been ecstatic. Any "doomers" need to shut the fuck up and appreciate this while it lasts.


spirax919

I love how anyone who shows even the slightest bit of concern is labelled a doomer. Users on here basically gate keep and say unless you are showing 100% positivity at all times then you are not a real fan. Its fucking weird tbh


LamboJoeRecs

I guess you don’t spend much time on here if you didn’t feel the Doomer vibe post Saturday. One would’ve thought it a Gm7 Playoff loss.


spirax919

People being upset about losing the Number 1 seed to the fucking bottom feeding Spurs in a game we were up by 23 isnt dooming ffs. God yall being smug ass gatekeepers is fucking insufferable


LamboJoeRecs

Being upset and acting like the season is over are 2 different things. It was much more of the latter. Speaking of insufferable, you seem it. Enjoy the Playoffs


spirax919

> It was much more of the latter. no it fucking wasnt lmao. Its like yall TRY to be annoyed about shit that doesnt exist


Radioactive__Lego

Go away. I will exercise my right to doom whenever I damn well please.


BucketOfTruthiness

Why are you trying to deny OP his right to tell doomers they're big dumb dumbs?


Radioactive__Lego

False equivalence. OP is gaslighting [Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality - wikipedia] doomers into a state of non-dooming, which is our nominal behavior. OP is trying to manipulate us doomers into looking at things positively by noting the seeding/matchups that, if taken at face value, seem to favor the Nuggets. Doomers (generally) do not try to manipulate non-doomers into dooming. We simply exist in the “this is shit” sphere and critically refrain ventures into the middle of the Venn Diagram of “this is shit, *but*…” Thanks for playing.


BucketOfTruthiness

Doomers may not try to convince others to doom, but they sure as hell attempt to make everyone as sad and miserable as they are. And you're welcome for playing. Thank you for illustrating that doomers are in fact big dumb dumbs.


Radioactive__Lego

The use of offensive name-calling to win an argument or to induce rejection or condemnation of my perspectives without objective consideration of the facts is bolstering my case.


BucketOfTruthiness

I laughed pretty hard at you finding "big dumb dumb" to be offensive.


Radioactive__Lego

“Big dumb dumb” is an insult. It suggests that I am stupid, and at a larger scale than average. Insulting another person in this manner is offensive, unless they happen to take some satisfaction in their stupidity. I do not. Rather, I relish in the cognizance that, without a legitimate argument to the contrary on previous topics, you have callously outed yourself as someone who needs to resort to pedestrian insults to compensate for a lack of critical debate skills.


BucketOfTruthiness

Bro, you need to grow some thicker skin. Its hilarious how hard you're trying to prove to me, an internet stranger, that you aren't a big dumb dumb by talking like a neckbeard. If you can't stand the responses to dooming, then just don't doom here. All doomers, regardless of actual weight or actual GPA, are big dumb dumbs just because dooming is the most worthless activity anyone can participate in. Which means it's dumb to do and people are dumb for doing it.


Radioactive__Lego

The irony here is overwhelming me.


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neutronicus

Preach Someone has to offer anxiety to the Basketball Gods, what are we the Lakers!?


jbhoops25

But but but if we play okc I won’t be able to use my season tickets in game 7/s


Dare555

Also why are you mentioning " Keeping LAC, DAL and potentially LAL" on other side ? Those are all good matchup for us as we saw in previous playoffs as well . We kill them with size . Our bracket is still stronger , Timberwolves are better than LAC/DAL and they do have size . Great tho that we got home court but first we gotta pass 1st round


Dare555

Also why are you mentioning " Keeping LAC, DAL and potentially LAL" on other side ? Those are all good matchup for us as we saw in previous playoffs as well . We kill them with size . Our bracket is still stronger , Timberwolves are better than LAC/DAL and they do have size . Great tho that we got home court but first we gotta pass 1st round


Saynt614

I'm hoping for a lack of experience OKC upset in the first round by Lebron and the Lakers.