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Key Matchup:

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Series:


Game 3: Saturday April 26th
108-84 Lakers victory
Anthony & Iverson combined to shoot 10/38 (.263) from the field
Lakers ran away with the game (again) in the 3rd quarter.

Game 2: Wednesday April 23rd
122-107 Lakers victory
Kobe poured in 49 points on just 27 shots, along with 12 assists.
Luke Walton scored a career playoff high 18 points
Nene made a return but recorded just 2 points and 1 rebound in 7 minutes against DJ Mbenga
Jr Smith scored 20 off the bench, but there were just 6 other bench points combined.
Kleiza made his first playoff start and chipped in 10/8

Game 1: Sunday April 20th
128-114 Lakers victory
Iverson & Anthony combined to shoot 44% from the field and go 15/23 from the free throw line.
Jr Smith & Kleiza poured in 38 off the bench
Camby pulled down just 7 rebounds and was 2/9 from the field with 4 turnovers.
Gasol was 2 assists away from a triple double and scored a career playoff high 36 points.
Kobe was held to 9/26 from the field, but got to the line 14 times.

Denver : 50-32 : Trail series 0-3
Rank 11th in offense and 9th in defense
Iverson continues to play through a fracture in his right ring finger.

Keys to winning:
Sitting Anthony Carter on the bench (permanently)
Being more physical on the inside, deflecting passes, making better interior rotations, forcing passes back outside.
Getting continued bench production out of Smith/Kleiza
Playing consistently well in all 4 quarters
Don't give up! Play with passion!!

LA Lakers: 57-25 : Lead series 3-0
Rank 3rd in offense and 6th in defense.
Bynum's out while recovering from a knee injury.
Ariza is out and recovering from a broken foot.
Kobe Bryant is playing with a torn ligament in his pinky finger.
Derek Fisher is playing with a partially torn tendon in his foot but hasn't seemed affected.

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Game Chat:
http://nuggets.proboards1.com/index.cgi?action=chat
please no trolling.

Game Notes:
http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/notes.pdf
http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/notes.pdf

Series Schedule:
Game 4: @ Denver - Monday April 28th, 8:30pm mountain - TNT
Game 5: @ Lakers* - Wednesday April 30th - tbd
Game 6: @ Denver* - Friday May 2nd - tbd
Game 7: @ Lakers* - Sunday May 4th - tbd[/quote]

I am going to with the Nuggets here for this one.

feel free to edit the post and add the missing stuff corona i just felt it's time to create the thread

btw who knows... maybe a miricle happens... go nuggets for 4 in a row!

Don_eMOCION#31 wrote:feel free to edit the post and add the missing stuff corona i just felt it's time to create the thread

btw who knows... maybe a miricle happens... go nuggets for 4 in a row!

I believe they can, but obviously not playing like they have.

Something has to really click inside.

I gave up on them after game 3....stayed to final minute and no change. I believe in them, but they have to do something different to get me interested again. I'm just guessing, but I think it is this way with many fans. I mean, we'll stay fans, but we need something to get interested in again.

GL to both teams.

Just in case if we win will you guys cheer for the Lakers to go all the way?

Tommy Trojan wrote:GL to both teams.

Just in case if we win will you guys cheer for the Lakers to go all the way?

personally i hate kobe too much to cheer for you guys go all the way. i don't even want him to become this years MVP.

i don't hate the lakers. very good team. good coach. great players. i loved pau gasol in memphis and game 1 of the series showed why... it's just kobe. i don't want him to win anything. sorry. i wanna see the hornets win it all. or maybe the suns but not the lakers as long as kobe remains on the team

Tommy Trojan wrote:GL to both teams.

Just in case if we win will you guys cheer for the Lakers to go all the way?

Only if you're going against the Spurs, and then vs. East ......LeBron.....or Garnett......vs. Kobe.....hmmmmmmmmmm. We'll have to see.

I'm going to the game, I think they will take this one. GO NUGGETS!

Hopefully they come out fired up or with some sort of energy this time. I don't think they want to get sent packing on their home floor.

Even if we win this game, we won't win 2 games on the road.

Shady08 wrote:I'm going to the game, I think they will take this one. GO NUGGET!

Gonna give it one more shot this year?

el loco wrote:Even if we win this game, we won't win 2 games on the road.

Well, if this is anything like previous years they will settle for 2 wins period. That is one more win than previous years.

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Gonna give it one more shot this year?

Hell yeah! If I did't think they had a chance I would sell my tickets and not even care. I have always stood by the team through thick and thin. GO NUGGETS!

I really think Melo should start out on Kobe. In the end of the game, he did a good job of denying the ball and foced kobe into some bad shots. Plus this could only help melo long term and maybe make him into a better defender

elimination game...time to pull out all the stops.

Shady08 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Hell yeah! If I did't think they had a chance I would sell my tickets and not even care. I have always stood by the team through thick and thin. GO NUGGETS!

Wish they still had more of the cheap tickets and I'd probably give it one more run too. I will be yelling at my tv and

I like the heart reference.

Also lets see if Pepsi Center can side with us tomorrow...

I want Melo and AI to both play 48 minutes no matter what, i dont want anyone to think anyone quit.

The only thing they quit was following up sub-par efforts. They had plenty of sub-par efforts strung together to consistute not giving up.....but And1 basketball and the local YMCA can do that too. These guys get paid millions to make a good pass, make a good shot, and follow it up with a good rebound and hopefully one more good shot.

The Nuggets in game 3 stood around the perimeter whether it was Melo in the post or Martin at the corner of the key, ate up the clock, and if they did pass did not end up passing to anyone with any chance of making the kind of shot that particular player was good at i.e. Martin a dunk, Melo a drive, JR a 3 (dime from someone else), or AI with a little room near the basket - it always ended up Martin set shot from HORSE, Melo iso here's my butt for 20 seconds turn and fade, AI dive into the paint and cough up the ball, Camby oh there you are, JR y'all are hopeless here's fantasy land.

Yeah, I hope it is different Monday night.

Karl: Carl will get more minutes

= look. I have my plane tickets reserved on Tuesday. So just go with it...

Attaboy corona, at least you're not quitting on us.