2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West First Round: #4 Denver Nuggets vs #5 LA Clippers (Series tied 1-1)

[bisme37]

Game 2: Monday April 21, 10pm ET on TNT




(ignore these times unless you live in Indonesia haha. Just thought it was a cool pic.)

Thread continued from here: https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2453017

[scrabbarista]

Ahhhh, thank you, Rob Mahoney: "...if you're gonna play [Pickett], you do not play him with Westbrook " Smart guy!

[scrabbarista]

Cool pic, indeed. Interesting to have big Harden and little Leonard, of course.

Kawhi = kawaii = cute = little Kawhi?

Makes sense to me!

[Wigginstime]

Keys for Each Team

Denver
1. Avoid giving up early leads. This was a major problem in last years playoffs.
2. MPJ - Your turn to light it up. LAC gambled and left westbrook wide open after MPJ got benched which resulted in 5-17 shooting. Denver needs MPJ lights out shooting.
3. Denver's Bench - We need something more. Can't play Jokic and Murray 40+ minutes every game

LAC
1. Turnovers - Play smart controlled basketball
2. PNR - Harden and Zubac had a great 2 man game going. They need to stick with this
3. Kawhi got his with 22/6; however, it didn't feel impactful. Kawhi needs to be more aggressive in all aspects of the game.

[PeteyPablo]

Clippers lost by 2 points in overtime on the road. They gave this game away to the Nuggets. Nuggets played hard and over came a 15 point lead but the Clippers made too many mistakes. Credit to Denver's hustle and defense.

Bogdanovich who has played big Olympic games looked out of character. Norman Powell had a bad game. Kawhi Leonard had a so so game. Clippers bench scored 13 points. They will need to play better tonight.

Westbrook in my view won the game for the Nuggets. His hustle was unmatched by the Clippers.

[Mrakar]

I've read on twitter that Mark Davis is crew chief tonight. Not good for the Nuggets.

[JXL]

Clippers had Game 1 and the fact they lost by 2 in OT, I should feel good. Results wise it was bad, but it shows how they can win if they are better effectively in the little things.

[Wolfgang630]

A new topic already lol

[PeteyPablo]

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[BelgradeNugget]

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Yes I think they should have called 3rd offensive foul on Jokic right there. I mean only 2 offensive fouls and one tehc. He acted like he was hit in the face by DDJ, when he was hit in the face by DDJ and recived T rightfully so. And how he acted bloosy nose when he finished game with tampons in his nose. Embrrassing.

[BigGargamel]

Clippers had Game 1 and the fact they lost by 2 in OT, I should feel good. Results wise it was bad, but it shows how they can win if they are better effectively in the little things.

I swear, the Nuggets have never actually "won" a playoff game according to this forum. Whether it's the Lakers series or this one, every time Denver wins they really should have lost and the other team should feel good. The disrespect never ends.

[Wolfgang630]

Gotta win tonight and steal one in LA.

[Kobe187]

This series is going to be incredible, game 1 was so entertaining, 2 great evenly matched heavyweights going toe to toe

[Wolfgang630]

Denver has these first quarters where they fall behind sooooo many times. It would be nice if they had a good lead for once.

[CodeBreaker]

Will they wait for the Knicks game to end before this game starts?

[KL2]

The game is starting on nbatv right now.

[Optms]

Zubac already looking like Kareem against Joker smh

[CodeBreaker]

Gordon bullying Kawhi, wow

[PeteyPablo]

Ivica “ sky hook” Zubac

Kawhi playing fukc you basketball

[jehosafats]

I love this series