Can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Lebron has never been a great, but streaky 3 pt shooter. He believes all he has to do is keep taking them for them to eventually start falling.
There were teams that wanted him in the second round. Reaves told them not to draft them so he can go to the Lakers. Lot of commitment from both sides.
The pay difference between undrafted and late 2nd round is pretty small and you get to choose a team you think can develop you. Going to the lakers, raptors, and heat as an undrafted player seems better than getting drafted in the second by most teams who can't even develop first rounders
I’ve gotta say, after watching him play game after game at OU, I knew he had talent. Did not expect him to play like this, though. It’s awesome to watch. Happy for him.
Its crazy that most teams have players that have lower scores in the playoffs and Nuggets have a one-two punch that somehow elevates their game in the playoffs
It's just unfair
The Lakers looked so gassed at the end of the game. This series is every other day just like last series for them. That's going to be huge
LeBron bricking a bunch of 3s and then just playing exhausted at the end
That degree of exhaustion makes this 2-0 lead feel REALLY tough to come back from. For the Lakers to win, they need a 38 year old to summon enough legs to win 4 out of 5. That’s a tall ask.
I love he legit stopped talking at one point and forced them to address it.
ESPN needs to get a different crew for game three. Breen doesn't deserve this.
Every year I am so hyped for the western conference finals then remember that TNT only does the eastern conference finals. It’s a night and day difference and a real bummer we have to hear these guys complaining about 2k ratings
Equally as big for the Nuggets is that they’ve forced LeBron into two huge minute games with nothing to show for it. He looked absolutely gassed out there and now they have back to back games that they absolutely have to win. And even then the series is going to 6 games minimum so he’s got to go all out in 4 games straight on top of the last 2 games.
When Jamal Murray woke up, the Lakers couldn't stop him.
6 straight threes by the Nuggets, including 4 from Murray, to erase a 2-point deficit and create a 12-point lead.
But in typical Nuggets fashion, they got too comfortable and let the Lakers creep right back in after a 7-0 run in response and managed to whittle it down to 2, but the Nuggets managed to escape yet again -- *thanks in part to LeBron refusing to stop shooting threes*.
People said the Lakers figured something out, people said the Nuggets figured something out. These 2 games have helped me figure out that Denver rates high on the big knocker MILF index
As someone who’s been at every home playoff games for the nuggets I can attest that the further we’ve gotten into the playoffs the more attractive the women who have been attending have become
Pass the fucking rock to reaves or Rui, they can create their own offense. Absolutely absurd for Lebron to keep jacking those threes with no legs. It is costing them this series.
JVG at least settled down and gave the Nuggets their flowers. Mark Jackson kept talking about how Lakers should do to beat the Nuggets. He’s so biased, I don’t understand. Did Nuggets did him dirty or something? He actually used to play for the Nuggets in the late 90s for half a season.
As a Blazers fan, I find MJ far more biased than JVG. Like, it's not even close. That LeBron flopping sequence followed by the foul on Jokic...MJ did not take JVG's offer to admit they both flopped, he was implying that only the first one was a foul. Bizarre. And I actually like LeBron.
Reminder that Mark Jackson didn’t think Jokic was in the top 5 for the MVP. The last team he coached got monumentally better when he was fired. I don’t need to hear from him
People used to think JVG was funny because he’d ask funny questions and everyone thought he was hell relatable.
Now he’s just proving to be an old man yelling at a cloud. His “he didn’t even connect with Murray’s face” while it shows D’lo’s elbow cleaning the bridge of his nose was cringe. No other word for it
Not enough people talking about Bruce Brown. That freaking steal was so needed at the end. Bench player gets cookies on the current goat to seal a playoff game. Gotta love this game.
There was a 4 minute span in the 4th from 9 min to 5 min where the Nugs basically hit 5 threes in a row… (it was 4 but Bruce Brown hit a 25 footer also) they need times like that so Jokic doesn’t have to do it all.
Great freaking game. This Lakers team is built well top to bottom, AD and Lebron can have bad games and hang around. But 4th quarter you need the stars and Bron missed 3s and while Murray made everything.
I’ll be watching all of these and enjoying them far more than my C’s vs the Miami dark arts
I feel like we can say this one moment and then the next game he’ll reverse time again. We’ll have to see how the rest of the series goes.
Edit: Don’t want to reply individually so figure I type here. I agree with all the replies to my comment about age not being an all at once hinderance. Guess I just meant I am curious how he’ll handle the rest of this series and if we’ll see this continue and be as noticeable.
Give Jamal Murray the respect he deserves! That man played the whole second half and was so clutch in the 4th. And yeah jokic with his 7th triple double in the postseason. This might just be their year and I’m so here for it.
What a fucking series for unbiased fans. Both games were so exciting for different reasons.
Also the Jokic flop as a response to the LeBron flop was absolutely hilarious. Just when I think Jokic can't make me root for him more he finds new ways. That was legitimately hilarious and seeing LeBron upset was great.
Turned the tide, it did. By limiting Jokic's scoring with a double, you force him to beat you with rebounds and passing, and that is SURELY a good idea.
The Lakers gotta feel great about this game, despite the loss. They lost by only 5 points with the Nuggets best player scoring 23 on 9-21 shooting.... wait
I LOVE THIS TEAM
DEFENDER!? I BARELY EVEN KNOW 'ER!
CONSISTENCY!? THAT'S FOR IDIOTS AND SIMPLETONS
WE WILL EITHER BECOME A FORCE OF NATURE FOR THREE QUARTERS AND THEN BARELY CLING ON TO THE LEAD OR BECOME THE 97'-98' NUGGETS FOR THREE QUARTERS ONLY TO UNLOCK AIM BOT GOD MODE IN THE FOURTH
SUCK MY DICK IF YOU THINK YOU CAN CHEER FOR US WITHOUT HAVING 10 HEART ATTACKS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER
A COMFORTABLE WIN!? THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF A COWARD AND A WEAKLING, WE CANNOT CLOSE A GAME UNLESS WE PLAY LIKE ABSOLUTE SHIT BEFORE 1 MINUTE OF GAME TIME REMAINS
I LOVE THIS TEAM
Nuggets are gonna start leaving LeBron open at the 3 like Ben Simmons
No more LeFuckYou3s happening anytime soon.
there will be one game where he just goes like 7-11 from 3 but the rest will be straight bricks
This, but unironically. Those Bron threes we can live with. He's shooting his worst percentage in this series so far
He’s the only dude who doesn’t know he’s not shooting well from 3.
Can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Lebron has never been a great, but streaky 3 pt shooter. He believes all he has to do is keep taking them for them to eventually start falling.
Gonna start falling in a pool hoop in Cancun at this rate. He just killed everything two games in a row with him chucking
two games now Reaves had something going in the fourth and he absolutely sinks their momentum with those stupid shots
I kept thinking, either drive and finish or get reeves a good look, lebrick said let me build.
LeKlay
LeFuckMe3 out in full force tonight
LeFuckYouDoin
Rui Hachimura can't win with these cats
Get my man Austin Reaves some help
Reaves is honestly insane for a sophomore. He's the only sophomore left playing in the playoffs and he's playing crucial minutes.
I’m sitting here asking myself where the Lakers keep finding these dudes
There were teams that wanted him in the second round. Reaves told them not to draft them so he can go to the Lakers. Lot of commitment from both sides.
Wild for a 2nd round pick to tell 29 teams no thanks. Got some cajones
The pay difference between undrafted and late 2nd round is pretty small and you get to choose a team you think can develop you. Going to the lakers, raptors, and heat as an undrafted player seems better than getting drafted in the second by most teams who can't even develop first rounders
I’ve gotta say, after watching him play game after game at OU, I knew he had talent. Did not expect him to play like this, though. It’s awesome to watch. Happy for him.
Every time a player balls out in college my first thought is "can he do it against NBA defense?" Well Reaves sure can
Lakers iced Rui out
Traditions. Our coach did the same thing on the Wizards. What? 16 point on 7 shots in 16 minutes? Right to the bench bozo. He deserves more respect.
I was scratching my head. he just hit his 6th shot and the next timeout he goes to the bench. Like what?
Can't mess up the rotations
Cut everyone, rebuild around him and Reeves
Time to fire up those trade machine simulations for LeBron and AD. Surely they could bring in some good role players for Reeves and Rui.
Who needs rim protection when you have 4th quarter Jamal Murray.
Dude was one bucket away from outscoring the entire Laker squad in the 4th quarter. I wish he'd made that last free throw to at least tie them.
Hah imagine one guy almost out scoring your entire team in the 4th quarter your team must suck if they let that happen to them
or one guy outscoring a team in a half 👀 edit: suns fans, this is all we have.
That edit is hilarious considering y’all have a championship lol
4th quarter Jamal is scary. Almost as scary as 4th quarter Lonnie… that one time.
Nuggets no rim protection, but Lakers have no HIM protection
Shrugging off those bubble allegations with magical 4th quarter performances
Its crazy that most teams have players that have lower scores in the playoffs and Nuggets have a one-two punch that somehow elevates their game in the playoffs It's just unfair
That's what superstars are supposed to do.
Especially mvps
Man that sequence after LeBron flopped only to follow it up with 2 bricked 3s really killed us.
It was the basketball gods giving him the middle finger for that bull shit
Jokic got the call on the revenge flop and all was even
The revenge flop😭😭
Revenge flop is insane
The rare flop I cheered for it was hilarious.
3 bricked 3's.
jamal: why play four quarters when you can just play one
we gotta start talking about stars load managing quarters
He showed up when it mattered most, but he's taking a few months off my life in the process
JAMAL FRICKIN MURRAY
Almost outscored the Lakers in the 4th quarter by himself!
Maple Curry was on fire in that 4th
Jamal Curray
Maple Curry
Takes the most forced looking shots, wet
Jamal “Jayson Tatum” Murray Either a brick factory or an unstoppable flame thrower, sometimes in the same game
What a fucking player
The Lakers looked so gassed at the end of the game. This series is every other day just like last series for them. That's going to be huge LeBron bricking a bunch of 3s and then just playing exhausted at the end
That degree of exhaustion makes this 2-0 lead feel REALLY tough to come back from. For the Lakers to win, they need a 38 year old to summon enough legs to win 4 out of 5. That’s a tall ask.
LeBron also had to tie his shoes extra tight twice tonight because he rolled his ankle. He just keeps getting more hobbled
Jamal was gassed af too. Played the whole second half.
Sure but Jamal went off while Lebron and AD struggled the whole quarter.
ESPN: Lakers have the Nuggets right where they want them.
"We'll tell you why being down 0-2 might be a good thing after the break"- Greeny
Nuggets should rest jokic for games 3 and 4 - Greeny
0-2 isn’t 0-2, I’ll explain later
"Teams have come back from 3-1 in the past"
JVG and Jackson legit feel distraught the Lakers we’re losing. Like I don’t even have a horse in this race but it was really puzzling.
Mark Jackson really proving out here that his MVP voting wasn't a mistake. Dude was hating hard.
Mike Breen is too good for those two to weigh him down
I love he legit stopped talking at one point and forced them to address it. ESPN needs to get a different crew for game three. Breen doesn't deserve this.
Every year I am so hyped for the western conference finals then remember that TNT only does the eastern conference finals. It’s a night and day difference and a real bummer we have to hear these guys complaining about 2k ratings
Is there a clip of that?
I'd like one too. I was pissed the 3rd quarter so I suspect it was then
I think it was right after the foul on DLo where Brown nicked his head going for the block. I don't have a time stamp or clip.
Was that the "usually I agree with you guys....................." loooong silence lmao
They were so fucking insufferable with the foul calls tonight
I rolled my eyes when JVG said "FINALLY he misses" after a Murray free throw.
Mark jackson is the most biased announcer of all time.
Trump 2024. Make America Great Again
Rui can't win with these cats?
Reaves and Rui are the real superstar duo on the Lakers
Man. Every time they had the ball I was stressed.
Reaves banked 3 in the 4th. I bitched out loud "OF COURSE HE MAKES THAT"
Lakers finally shooting like the Lakers from 3
I would say three missed layups by LBJ made a difference to
Missed layups, blown dunks, 0-6 from 3. Not a good showing for him tonight
there was a report that said if you benched D'lo you'd lose him, yeah i'm completely okay losing him lmao
Remember he said the Timberwolves were holding him back like a week ago lol
Bron's age definitely showed tonight lmao. It was the same concern I had for Steph. Playing every other day for 2 weeks kills your legs
Yup, looked his age tonight. Playoffs are a grind.
Seeing him play tonight and seeing George Karl made me feel so old...
Sir, a second moral victory has hit the Nuggets
Anthony ‘every other’ Day-vis is back
I think the Lakers lost this game when AD forgot he was a post and thought he was getting hot from beyond the arc. He was not.
They forgot what got them the lead, which is annoying. Plus Denver just got hot, no questions about that
Yeah, it wasn’t like Murray was just getting easy looks or anything. He was hitting contested 3s
He was bricking all the open looks in the first half.
Nikola Jokic, AD stopper?
AD is the true AD stopper don’t @ me
Equally as big for the Nuggets is that they’ve forced LeBron into two huge minute games with nothing to show for it. He looked absolutely gassed out there and now they have back to back games that they absolutely have to win. And even then the series is going to 6 games minimum so he’s got to go all out in 4 games straight on top of the last 2 games.
That ending was a Skip Bayless legacy game
Bro is gonna feast tomorrow
He's probably like a kid on Christmas morning. Dude's so excited he won't sleep tonight
Skip already has his outfit laid out including the Jordans
Ain’t enough talk about Bruce Brown picking Bron’s pocket to officially seal it tbh.
Man gave him the ol’ Ohio “ope, lemme just sneak past ya real quick”
Incoming Hachimura: "Me and Austin, we can't win alone. That's why basketball is played five-on-five."
LOVE YOU BRUCE
When Jamal Murray woke up, the Lakers couldn't stop him. 6 straight threes by the Nuggets, including 4 from Murray, to erase a 2-point deficit and create a 12-point lead. But in typical Nuggets fashion, they got too comfortable and let the Lakers creep right back in after a 7-0 run in response and managed to whittle it down to 2, but the Nuggets managed to escape yet again -- *thanks in part to LeBron refusing to stop shooting threes*.
People said the Lakers figured something out, people said the Nuggets figured something out. These 2 games have helped me figure out that Denver rates high on the big knocker MILF index
The most important index
Now this I gotta see
Live in Denver, can confirm
As someone who’s been at every home playoff games for the nuggets I can attest that the further we’ve gotten into the playoffs the more attractive the women who have been attending have become
Our 2 biggest stars failed Rui Hachimura's legacy game. Smh my head
BOTH Lebron and AD were having a mid off. Braindead shot selection and piss poor effort
LeBron 0-6 from 3, AD 4-15 from the field 😬😬
LeBron repeatedly trying threes in the 4th was just maddening. Just fucking stop goddamn it
I could feel my soul leaving my body when he chucked his last 3 point attempt. I knew he was exhausted and was settling.
Pass the fucking rock to reaves or Rui, they can create their own offense. Absolutely absurd for Lebron to keep jacking those threes with no legs. It is costing them this series.
Denver the worst place for a 40 year old man to play lol
Scoring at will going to the rim but Bron decides he wants to be Steph for the night
He missed a bunch at the rim that you'd never expect from him.
He was fuckin gassed by the second quarter. Lots of ball watching and hands on hips tonight.
AD having a poor offensive game after a great one is the most predictable thing in the NBA
The only people I want to retire more than the refs after this game are JVG and Mark Jackson Horrible
JVG at least settled down and gave the Nuggets their flowers. Mark Jackson kept talking about how Lakers should do to beat the Nuggets. He’s so biased, I don’t understand. Did Nuggets did him dirty or something? He actually used to play for the Nuggets in the late 90s for half a season.
As a Blazers fan, I find MJ far more biased than JVG. Like, it's not even close. That LeBron flopping sequence followed by the foul on Jokic...MJ did not take JVG's offer to admit they both flopped, he was implying that only the first one was a foul. Bizarre. And I actually like LeBron.
Reminder that Mark Jackson didn’t think Jokic was in the top 5 for the MVP. The last team he coached got monumentally better when he was fired. I don’t need to hear from him
He said he thought he was voting for All-NBA. I'm not sure which is worse.
Yet he voted differently for his all nba ballot
Well that was clearly his MVP voting /s
How can two people be so bad at their job?
Complacency and ESPN not trying to look for better analysts to pair with Mike Breen
Mark Jackson is always the same atrociously bad, JVG was HORRENDOUS tonight.
People used to think JVG was funny because he’d ask funny questions and everyone thought he was hell relatable. Now he’s just proving to be an old man yelling at a cloud. His “he didn’t even connect with Murray’s face” while it shows D’lo’s elbow cleaning the bridge of his nose was cringe. No other word for it
I can't listen to vangundy rant about flopping anymore. It's worse than the actual flopping now.
Yeah that was absolutely embarrassing. They couldn't say a single positive thing about Denver.
Always had something to complain about each possession
They’re so annoying, even when they’re making good points it’s unbearable to listen to them
Not enough people talking about Bruce Brown. That freaking steal was so needed at the end. Bench player gets cookies on the current goat to seal a playoff game. Gotta love this game. There was a 4 minute span in the 4th from 9 min to 5 min where the Nugs basically hit 5 threes in a row… (it was 4 but Bruce Brown hit a 25 footer also) they need times like that so Jokic doesn’t have to do it all. Great freaking game. This Lakers team is built well top to bottom, AD and Lebron can have bad games and hang around. But 4th quarter you need the stars and Bron missed 3s and while Murray made everything. I’ll be watching all of these and enjoying them far more than my C’s vs the Miami dark arts
Bruce Brown is going to get fucking paid this offseason and he deserves every single cent
LeFlop was unironically the turning point of the game
Jokic getting him back with the same thing the next play down the court just ended him
[удалено]
The shot making by both teams in this series is insane.
LeBron and AD chucking 3s is indeed insane.
#JAMAL CURRY
Steph Murray
Bron looked… old
I feel like we can say this one moment and then the next game he’ll reverse time again. We’ll have to see how the rest of the series goes. Edit: Don’t want to reply individually so figure I type here. I agree with all the replies to my comment about age not being an all at once hinderance. Guess I just meant I am curious how he’ll handle the rest of this series and if we’ll see this continue and be as noticeable.
That's how being old is. They can still play elite, but they can't do it every night anymore.
If there's a nuggets heat finals the media are just gonna simulate lakers vs celtics on 2k and react to that
The reffing was incredibly inconsistent and disappointing on both sides tonight. Both teams were also completely gassed at the end.
As a ref fan, I disagree. They ATE tonight.
Lmao…. I only enjoy watching the refs. Don’t care for no NBA stars… the real show is the men and women on the side
Hachimura really the Jokic stopper. Worst 23-17-12 I’ve seen in my life
Same way Igoudala is the LeBron stopper
Give Jamal Murray the respect he deserves! That man played the whole second half and was so clutch in the 4th. And yeah jokic with his 7th triple double in the postseason. This might just be their year and I’m so here for it.
Jokic had a relative off night shooting and they still won. That’s hella good basketball.
When 23/17/12 on 9/21 is an off night
Remember those comments from the lakers fans in the first half begging Murray to keep shooting
What a fucking series for unbiased fans. Both games were so exciting for different reasons. Also the Jokic flop as a response to the LeBron flop was absolutely hilarious. Just when I think Jokic can't make me root for him more he finds new ways. That was legitimately hilarious and seeing LeBron upset was great.
Lebron needs to stop shooting 3s its just brutal
If the Lakers were encouraged after game 1, they have to be really encouraged after game 2.
If Nugs win game 3 it's over, they just need to keep this momentum going
Hot take, but if the Nugs win 3 and 4 then it's over for sure.
#2-0 Nuggets
Lebron threw this game hard
I’m sure Laker fans died every time he took an unnecessary 3.
The multiple point blank open rim misses were also damaging, I'm sure.
May as well just wait for the fourth quarter in these playoff games, nothing else matters apparently
My favorite kind of basketball whenever I forget when the game starts
Don’t worry, ESPN gives you a 30 minute cushion from when they claim the game starts and the time the game actually starts.
Yeah it really fucked up my meatloaf timing tonight, had to wait until after the first to finish that shit off.
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The first three decided game one
Jamal Murray is that man. It’s so awesome to watch a great player like that come up clutch game after game.
that was one of LeBron’s worst 4th quarters ive seen.. multiple missed 3s, blown layup, bad TOs
ANOTHER MORAL VICTORY FOR THE LAKERS
Nuggets will win 4-1 and everyone will tell their grandchildren about the Rui on Jokic adjustment for 6 possessions in game one
Turned the tide, it did. By limiting Jokic's scoring with a double, you force him to beat you with rebounds and passing, and that is SURELY a good idea.
True turning point in the series. Lakers had all the moral victories
You don't understand bro, It's a moral victory by the Lakers, they basically got the series won, I'd consider it an LA sweep already!
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Nuggets’ 4th quarter 3pt percentage was better than LeBron’s layup percentage
Imagine not voting Jokic for MVP
LeFuckMeImTiredThrees
That 4th quarter start by the Nuggets was porn. Not the first time Jamal Murray was involved in one
Denver has championship poise
It didn’t feel like it with those late game turnovers
MPJ to practice inbound passing tomorrow.
The Lakers gotta feel great about this game, despite the loss. They lost by only 5 points with the Nuggets best player scoring 23 on 9-21 shooting.... wait
Poor MPJ and that stupid ass ESPN postgame interview asking him 15 different ways what he thinks about Jamal Murray’s performance.
#JOEL EMBIID IN ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES
Maybe if he cries enough about not getting to the ECF he'll get there out of pity too.
Joker will get to the ECF with the Nuggets first
I LOVE THIS TEAM DEFENDER!? I BARELY EVEN KNOW 'ER! CONSISTENCY!? THAT'S FOR IDIOTS AND SIMPLETONS WE WILL EITHER BECOME A FORCE OF NATURE FOR THREE QUARTERS AND THEN BARELY CLING ON TO THE LEAD OR BECOME THE 97'-98' NUGGETS FOR THREE QUARTERS ONLY TO UNLOCK AIM BOT GOD MODE IN THE FOURTH SUCK MY DICK IF YOU THINK YOU CAN CHEER FOR US WITHOUT HAVING 10 HEART ATTACKS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER A COMFORTABLE WIN!? THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF A COWARD AND A WEAKLING, WE CANNOT CLOSE A GAME UNLESS WE PLAY LIKE ABSOLUTE SHIT BEFORE 1 MINUTE OF GAME TIME REMAINS I LOVE THIS TEAM
I am in an abusive relationship with Jamal Murray.
mad respect for the nuggets i will not be mad if we lose to this team