NBA Playoffs 2023 Discussion

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  1. KareemtheGreat33

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    Don’t get swept
     
  2. ZenMaster

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    LOL... crybaby. That's fine, Mike. They gonna fire your a** in a season, don't worry.
     
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    still think he's celebrating early. maybe one of their guys turns an ankle as we wrap up a win in la. i think we actually outschemed them, too, so of all people, he should be quiet. unless his plan is for his guys to hit contested step back 30 footers all in a row every game.
     
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    Playing Reggie Jackson for his 5th playoff game this post-season was desperation.

    I don't think he's done anything special coaching these two games.
     
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    he knows the nuggets aren't losing this series
     
  6. abeer3

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    i really liked the shots they were getting, for the most part. and ours were pretty decent, too. with the exception of starting small in game 1 (yikes), ham and his staff have gotten the better of the xs and os, imo. denver's guys are making shots. for us, only reaves has shown up for both games on offense.
     
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    He’s absolutely celebrating early. I don’t think we win the series, but it’s not impossible, they’re 6 deep, something happens to one of those 6 and they’re in deep trouble. They’re just better in their starting group than we are, we aren’t getting anything out of DLo and Vando really.
     
  8. abeer3

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    yeah, they were often playing a short rotation even in the regular season, and they've gotten by with it. good for them. maybe it's their year to have good injury luck and get a ring. i just don't think it's wise to crow when you just (barely) held serve for two games at home.
     
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    I still think we win the series. Nuggets are very good, that's why they're here. But I'm not impressed with anything they've done yet. They held court. They hit everything in Game 1 and we nearly came back on them. Game two required Murray to go supersonic in the 4th and for our best two players to be really bad offensively (wasn't the Nuggets D) and even then, they only squeak out a 5 point game. If they do this to us again Saturday, I'll eat crow. Until then, I still think we're better.
     
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    Seriously wtf is this? They barely beat the Lakers in two games and I haven't seen the Lakers disrespect the Nuggets at all.
     
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    you get to talk s*** when you win. malone's team is up 2-0 in the series

    hopefully they can use this as bulletin board material and make this a series again
     
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    I think this Denver team is better and they just want it more. Our team doesn’t even try to get back on defense in transition. We might win one game. Joker has dominated AD this time around.
     
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    For f*** sake, the whole team needs daddy's approval or a hug


    There's not any oxygen left in the room to talk about you guys when you all are done with your sob story


    Nuggets whenever a camera or mic is nearby
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    I don't know I think they took Joker pretty much out of the game for the last 5 quarters.

    Murray got scorching hot and it wasn't like he was wide open off of Jokic screens. All his 3s came a foot behing the line with a man in his face. Hats off to him. I thought MPJ and Gordon played smart games and I'm definitely impressed with Denver as a team: they rotate the ball and play good unselfish basketball

    That being said the Lakers really should be up two games. Ham cost them game 1 and Lebron/AD no showing on offense this game
     
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    its the nuggets lol. no one outside denver gives two s***s about them
     
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    He’s not wrong though, nobody gives a f*** about Denver, a lot of the time I forget they even are a franchise. The ratings are going to be abysmal if it’s a Boston-Denver Finals. Nobody cares, sorry. It’s not exciting to watch a whiny Canadian and their star is a 6-10 guy who can’t jump over a glass of juice and looks like he chain smokes between quarters, he plays like the local flabby guy at the gym. Aarron Gordon also hasn’t been interesting in years, every time I see someone mention Porter I’m like “they signed Otto Porter? When?”, and I couldn’t identify Bruce Brown if you showed me his photo mixed in with other random no name NBA role players if my life depended on it.
     
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    I can't believe my ears LeBron just said Dennis took a shot when we were up by 5 that he thinks he should have held the ball

    Guess what he just said I missed a 3, just brushed it off like it was nothing. You missed 6 of them.

    19 straight missed 3s in the 4th quarter just this playoffs. Terrible

    Oh and AD said he will continue taking them 3s

    Sigh
     
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    music to jokic ears
     
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    We will see. It’s up to us to shut him up.
     
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    23, 17 n 12...not really n murry 3s were normal distance all our players keep going under on jokic screen, why can we put jokic/murry in that sort of situation?
     

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