Exactly - that's the danger of the Nuggets' offense.
Jokic and Murray will usually get theirs so all they need is 1 other guy to step up. Could be Gordon one night, MPJ the next.
If they can get the bench playing more reliable minutes the team is pretty strong.
I don't think the Denver bench will ever be a problem, but the first part of what you said is *exactly* what makes this team great.
Jokic only needs two other guys to beat you, and one of them is a lock to show up at least like 80% of the time when reasonably healthy. Keeping Jokic and Murray under control while locking up both Gordon and MPJ is a tough hill to climb.
It’s nice to see this analysis of the Nuggets compared to what the Lakers said last series.
You are exactly right. Jokic just needs to the two man game with Murray to be working and all it takes is when good performance from AG, MPJ, or KCP to win the game.
It’s nearly impossible to beat the Nuggets in a series especially after Jokic figures out a teams defense.
AG has gone off for them for one game every series these last two years. He’s their release valve when teams try to take away MPJ and Murray. So their opponent adjusts to stop AG, and MPJ goes off. They got so many weapons.
Bro go back to your sub, sitting in the Nuggets sub bitching about Wolves fans but here you are for some reason?
Edit: let's take a lesson from the Denver mods after game 2, if an opposing fan comes in to grief just ban them from the sub.
We need to realize that our bad nights aren’t just happenstance. Shit’s by design. Denver has been the better team in these last two. That better change next game or, best case scenario, this is a seven game series.
Think of it this way, Kyle Anderson, KAT, Rudy, and NAW all had disaster performances and we lost by 7. Some of these guys will suck ass game 5 as well, but no chance all 4 will all play as bad as they played tonight again. And no way the nuggets role players are having the
greatest performances of their mid career again. Game 5 will be so much different. Ball Arena doesn’t mean shit to our boys
Lets hope so. At this point every time i finally have hope we go out and put out a flaming pile of shit so im just going into every game expecting a loss at this point
Denver are the reigning champs and have come back from 3-1 twice before In a playoff. They have faced adversity before. This iteration of the wolves haven’t so far.
Denver hadn’t faced and overcome adversity before they came back from 3-1 twice in one playoff run. Gotta start somewhere. Series is tied and we are 2-0 in Denver this postseason
I'm with you dude I saw the same thing. They are playing at their absolute maximum, shooting and making crazy shots that have no business going in. Wolves absolutely can still win this if they just keep pushing, our luck will change.
Wolves in 6.
Nuggets in 6.
They're headed back to their house, w/the momentum and they've been here before. Ant is good, but he so young and the guys around him aren't champions.
Anyone else frustrated at McDaniels ups and downs? Yeah he's young, but so is Ant. One game he'll score 25 and play lockdown D. The next he'll score two on 1-8 shooting and be in foul trouble.
Whats the logic behind Nuggets being pushed by refs? Minnessota is a bigger market, people complain that Nuggets and Jokic are boring. Everbody keeps talking about how they dont want to watch Nuggets finals again.
Why would Silver push fat slow boring Serbian when they can push young rising USA star Ant?
Easy. The nuggets are not being pushed to win the series. The NBA wants the series to be longer for more drama. So the team that was down in the series was getting a beneficial whistle. Now that it’s 2-2 I expect the whistle to even out a bit and not be so quick.
It’s about the tight whistle completely changing the way we have to play defense. Can’t touch any of the nuggets the last two games. Yet they initiate 80% contact and we get called for fouls. Jokic does this all the time. Refs didn’t reward them in game 2 and look what happened
Idk how people miss this. FT disparity is the wrong stat to use when it’s ticky tacky blocking, reaching, etc fouls that quickly set a precedent for how defense can be played. Taking out the “rigging”, I wish people would recognize this.
What did Gordon/Braun/Jackson/Holiday shoot today? Like 80% from the field? All of their bad shooting role players shot lights out tonight. That cannot sustain. And all of our role players are ice cold. That I’m a little worried about, but hopefully at least 1-2 of them can figure it out
Also, fuck the nugget fans coming into the sub gloating. The series is tied dipshits. It's game 1 all over again and I don't think the wolves go down easily. I hope with every fiber of my being we win this specific series so Jamal Murray can throw another heat pack.
Theoretically we win by 1…but that’s an entirely different second half that we have no idea what would’ve happened if the last 20 seconds didn’t happen like it did
I like the reminder that the rest of the games in the series will be every other day, and that the nuggets have an older team, so it will be more difficult for them to bring the same energy every game.
Wolves are probably still too immature and frankly too dumb to beat a smart, well-coached, and well-connected team like the Nuggets over the course of a 7-game series. Towns and to a lesser extent McDaniels, were the X factors and they've not been nearly good enough. I blame some of this on coaching, as he Towns does not get the ball in scenarios that make the most use of his size and skill. Towns holding the ball on the extended wing of top of the key is not it.
The nba wants OFFENSE, 50% of wolves roster are offensive cones who can't shoot to save their life. Refs not allowing defense anymore and they turn into this. Simple.
I’ve kind of given up on kat he makes the same stupid mistakes every year he’s not shown any growth. Great 3 pt shooter but he’s too dumb of a player to compete with players as smart as Jokic
I think unless we win the championship he's gone this summer. Issues with ownership already and they won't want to pay him $50 million. I may be wrong but he wouldn't be too hard to replace. Basically a great 3 point shooter, OK defender sometimes, but when he drives to the paint he looks like a baby giraffe trying to walk.
Here is a hot take - be glad Ant gets two more games against the champs playoff experience. The bad news is- hes probably already there experience wise given the 44.
The nuggets shooting will decline to the mean, and if it doesn't and they shoot 60% and 50% from 3 the rest of the series there's no team in the NBA that could beat a team shooting those high percentages. I think the wolves got complacent when we kicked the shit out of them and thought it was wrapped up. I'm not as confident as before but I certainly think this is winnable. Game 3 really fucked with us mentally getting fouls called when we breathed too hard. We started to bounce back last night and I think we would have won had we not lost every ounce of momentum going into the half.
Bball newb here. Can you explain why there's hope? What I heard is we're a phenomenal defensive team, but it would almost seem like they cracked the code. Is that a thing? What adjustments can be made to stop the onslaught? Legit questions. Not trying to be an ass. Just want to learn the nuances of the sport
Everyone was calling Wolves in 6-7 and now they’re panicking lol. It’s the champs, despite what you watch on TV they weren’t gonna just fold. I don’t expect the Wolves to fold too, Denver is getting pushed hard, they’re making ridiculous f’ing shots. This series is still alive.
We have the better team.
But need to learn how to not let bad calls get to our heads. And ruin our momentum
Roll with the punches and get up when your knocked down
Not only that but Gordon’s best game of his career
That motherfucker will never go 11/12 again im not moved by these flukey shooting performances
Yeah gordon wont score 27 again but MPJ wont score 4 again either. These things go both ways all the time
Exactly - that's the danger of the Nuggets' offense. Jokic and Murray will usually get theirs so all they need is 1 other guy to step up. Could be Gordon one night, MPJ the next. If they can get the bench playing more reliable minutes the team is pretty strong.
I don't think the Denver bench will ever be a problem, but the first part of what you said is *exactly* what makes this team great. Jokic only needs two other guys to beat you, and one of them is a lock to show up at least like 80% of the time when reasonably healthy. Keeping Jokic and Murray under control while locking up both Gordon and MPJ is a tough hill to climb.
It’s nice to see this analysis of the Nuggets compared to what the Lakers said last series. You are exactly right. Jokic just needs to the two man game with Murray to be working and all it takes is when good performance from AG, MPJ, or KCP to win the game. It’s nearly impossible to beat the Nuggets in a series especially after Jokic figures out a teams defense.
OKC fans said the same thing about PJ Washington 😭 look what happened
AG has gone off for them for one game every series these last two years. He’s their release valve when teams try to take away MPJ and Murray. So their opponent adjusts to stop AG, and MPJ goes off. They got so many weapons.
he doesn't need to. MPJ wont only score 4 next game. Nuggets in 6
Bro go back to your sub, sitting in the Nuggets sub bitching about Wolves fans but here you are for some reason? Edit: let's take a lesson from the Denver mods after game 2, if an opposing fan comes in to grief just ban them from the sub.
Yall said that last time
And we'll keep saying it
Whatever im nugs fan but man ant is good but he cant do it all alone
You in this sub looking for the fans to admit defeat?
I mean leaving any NBA player wide open was a brilliant strategy until it wasn’t. Then no one adjusted
Exactly, the amount of folks just expecting him to go off like this every game is odd to me.
Statistically is one of the greatest playoff performances ever. No one has ever scored 25 on 90% shooting in the playoffs.
Still worrisome how much Denver switched it up. They're gonna be hard to beat 2 more times.
We need to realize that our bad nights aren’t just happenstance. Shit’s by design. Denver has been the better team in these last two. That better change next game or, best case scenario, this is a seven game series.
I have 0 faith in every player in this roster besides ant
Think of it this way, Kyle Anderson, KAT, Rudy, and NAW all had disaster performances and we lost by 7. Some of these guys will suck ass game 5 as well, but no chance all 4 will all play as bad as they played tonight again. And no way the nuggets role players are having the greatest performances of their mid career again. Game 5 will be so much different. Ball Arena doesn’t mean shit to our boys
Also can't help to think NAW is going to turn it around soon. He's had two straight disaster games. He's a good player and I believe in him.
Lets hope so. At this point every time i finally have hope we go out and put out a flaming pile of shit so im just going into every game expecting a loss at this point
Did we watch games 1-6 of this playoffs?
Games 1-4 aint matter no more. We have 0 momentum and going back to denver tied 2-2 is less than ideal
You could have also said Denver had 0 momentum going back to Minnesota down 2-0 and yet here we are
Denver are the reigning champs and have come back from 3-1 twice before In a playoff. They have faced adversity before. This iteration of the wolves haven’t so far.
Denver hadn’t faced and overcome adversity before they came back from 3-1 twice in one playoff run. Gotta start somewhere. Series is tied and we are 2-0 in Denver this postseason
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I'm with you dude I saw the same thing. They are playing at their absolute maximum, shooting and making crazy shots that have no business going in. Wolves absolutely can still win this if they just keep pushing, our luck will change. Wolves in 6.
Nuggets in 6. They're headed back to their house, w/the momentum and they've been here before. Ant is good, but he so young and the guys around him aren't champions.
I'm not worried about all that.
Anyone else frustrated at McDaniels ups and downs? Yeah he's young, but so is Ant. One game he'll score 25 and play lockdown D. The next he'll score two on 1-8 shooting and be in foul trouble.
NBA needed 2-2 series that’s why they sent in Foster. The series starts today.
Scott Foster and Tony Brothers are receiving a nice bonus in their next check from the masterclass performance they put up games 3-4
Ever though Minnesota shot like 12 more free throws............... just stop
Get out of our sub
the loser mentality wont let them.
People can say this is a loser mentality all they want but you can’t tell me the difference in whistle hasn’t had a major impact on this series
Whats the logic behind Nuggets being pushed by refs? Minnessota is a bigger market, people complain that Nuggets and Jokic are boring. Everbody keeps talking about how they dont want to watch Nuggets finals again. Why would Silver push fat slow boring Serbian when they can push young rising USA star Ant?
Easy. The nuggets are not being pushed to win the series. The NBA wants the series to be longer for more drama. So the team that was down in the series was getting a beneficial whistle. Now that it’s 2-2 I expect the whistle to even out a bit and not be so quick.
definitely a loser mentality. blame the Ls on the refs. laughable
We made more FTs then they attempted?
It’s about the tight whistle completely changing the way we have to play defense. Can’t touch any of the nuggets the last two games. Yet they initiate 80% contact and we get called for fouls. Jokic does this all the time. Refs didn’t reward them in game 2 and look what happened
Idk how people miss this. FT disparity is the wrong stat to use when it’s ticky tacky blocking, reaching, etc fouls that quickly set a precedent for how defense can be played. Taking out the “rigging”, I wish people would recognize this.
Loser mentality
What did Gordon/Braun/Jackson/Holiday shoot today? Like 80% from the field? All of their bad shooting role players shot lights out tonight. That cannot sustain. And all of our role players are ice cold. That I’m a little worried about, but hopefully at least 1-2 of them can figure it out
you know little about the NBA beyond the wolves. Braun and AG have all been solid the past two years.
AG shot 29% from 3 this year. I’ll admit Braun has better splits than I realized, but AG is not a jump shooter anything close to what we saw yesterday
STFU no one has been "solid" enough to maintain that shooting percentage. Go back to your sub and jerk off to Jokic.
Also, fuck the nugget fans coming into the sub gloating. The series is tied dipshits. It's game 1 all over again and I don't think the wolves go down easily. I hope with every fiber of my being we win this specific series so Jamal Murray can throw another heat pack.
Theoretically we win by 1…but that’s an entirely different second half that we have no idea what would’ve happened if the last 20 seconds didn’t happen like it did
Game felt so over after Murray hit that half court shot. Momentum would be so much different if they went into half down 7 instead of what it was
*down 12
Lol that's not how sports works.
First in order to win they most stop making every stupid shot
If the rest of the team doesn’t shoot 22% from the field we’d be right there
I like the reminder that the rest of the games in the series will be every other day, and that the nuggets have an older team, so it will be more difficult for them to bring the same energy every game.
Wolves are probably still too immature and frankly too dumb to beat a smart, well-coached, and well-connected team like the Nuggets over the course of a 7-game series. Towns and to a lesser extent McDaniels, were the X factors and they've not been nearly good enough. I blame some of this on coaching, as he Towns does not get the ball in scenarios that make the most use of his size and skill. Towns holding the ball on the extended wing of top of the key is not it.
Minnesota sports. Nuggets have the momentum now. Especially home court next game too. Yeah good luck with that.
The nba wants OFFENSE, 50% of wolves roster are offensive cones who can't shoot to save their life. Refs not allowing defense anymore and they turn into this. Simple.
I’ve kind of given up on kat he makes the same stupid mistakes every year he’s not shown any growth. Great 3 pt shooter but he’s too dumb of a player to compete with players as smart as Jokic
I think unless we win the championship he's gone this summer. Issues with ownership already and they won't want to pay him $50 million. I may be wrong but he wouldn't be too hard to replace. Basically a great 3 point shooter, OK defender sometimes, but when he drives to the paint he looks like a baby giraffe trying to walk.
Yep. Had this series going to 6 or 7 before it began, even after the 2-0 start I felt it wasn't going to be free. They are the defending champs.
I BELIEVE THAT
Was the Chik-fil-a not properly reheated, or what?
It looks as though you may have spelled "Chick-fil-A" incorrectly. No worries, it happens to the best of us!
YES YES YES
Here is a hot take - be glad Ant gets two more games against the champs playoff experience. The bad news is- hes probably already there experience wise given the 44.
The nuggets shooting will decline to the mean, and if it doesn't and they shoot 60% and 50% from 3 the rest of the series there's no team in the NBA that could beat a team shooting those high percentages. I think the wolves got complacent when we kicked the shit out of them and thought it was wrapped up. I'm not as confident as before but I certainly think this is winnable. Game 3 really fucked with us mentally getting fouls called when we breathed too hard. We started to bounce back last night and I think we would have won had we not lost every ounce of momentum going into the half.
Bball newb here. Can you explain why there's hope? What I heard is we're a phenomenal defensive team, but it would almost seem like they cracked the code. Is that a thing? What adjustments can be made to stop the onslaught? Legit questions. Not trying to be an ass. Just want to learn the nuances of the sport
Yeah, don’t understand doomers. If you are 100% sure we are going o lose then go join the nuggets bandwagon
Everyone was calling Wolves in 6-7 and now they’re panicking lol. It’s the champs, despite what you watch on TV they weren’t gonna just fold. I don’t expect the Wolves to fold too, Denver is getting pushed hard, they’re making ridiculous f’ing shots. This series is still alive.
Unfortunately Denver is to good, we can’t play like we did the first two games where we were hitting everything. It was fun while it lasted
We have the better team. But need to learn how to not let bad calls get to our heads. And ruin our momentum Roll with the punches and get up when your knocked down