2023 West Semifinals | (1) Denver Nuggets VS (4) Phoenix Suns (DEN WINS 4-2)

Wolfgang630 · Post #61 » by **Wolfgang630** » Tue May 9, 2023 4:40 pm

Please no more Jeff Green. His time has passed him. I get it he’s a veteran. That doesn’t mean he needs to be playing.

MPJ NEEDS to step up and the bench needs to step up. MPJ gets paid max money. Max money. You need to do more. Joker is not going to have 53 points again. He’ll be closer to low 30’s. The other guys have to step up.

ChampionRed · Post #62 » by **ChampionRed** » Tue May 9, 2023 5:36 pm

I'm so excited for this game tonight. Planning on taking a nice afternoon nap so I can stay up for the whole thing. These 10pm EST start times are brutal - especially when you have kids :-P

Wallace_Wallace · Post #63 » by **Wallace_Wallace** » Tue May 9, 2023 6:13 pm

spanishninja wrote:
Castle Black wrote:Suns v Lakers will be a fun Conference Finals. PHX has no depth though and CP3 is geriatric. Lakers in 6.

it's funny that people are still saying the Suns have no depth.

Not gonna lie, it would be nice to see Devin Booker hitting the salsa dance at Staples instead of Jae Crowder.

darmani · Post #64 » by **darmani** » Tue May 9, 2023 6:18 pm

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Inspektor1312 · Post #65 » by **Inspektor1312** » Tue May 9, 2023 7:43 pm

ChampionRed wrote:I'm so excited for this game tonight. Planning on taking a nice afternoon nap so I can stay up for the whole thing. These 10pm EST start times are brutal - especially when you have kids

Tell me about it, the game is starting at 4am in Serbia

Thank God that I work from home

scrabbarista · Post #66 » by **scrabbarista** » Tue May 9, 2023 7:45 pm

Please, please, please no Reggie Jackson.

And if you won't answer that plea, then at least don't play him with Jokic. As bad as he was in the regular season, his ability to blend with Jokic was much worse.

spanishninja · Post #67 » by **spanishninja** » Tue May 9, 2023 7:46 pm

Inspektor1312 wrote:
ChampionRed wrote:I'm so excited for this game tonight. Planning on taking a nice afternoon nap so I can stay up for the whole thing. These 10pm EST start times are brutal - especially when you have kids

Tell me about it, the game is starting at 4am in Serbia
Thank God that I work from home

are you the guy on the Playoff Mode commercial? (timestamp 1:54 below)

Watch on YouTube

Inspektor1312 · Post #68 » by **Inspektor1312** » Tue May 9, 2023 7:55 pm

spanishninja wrote:
Inspektor1312 wrote:
ChampionRed wrote:I'm so excited for this game tonight. Planning on taking a nice afternoon nap so I can stay up for the whole thing. These 10pm EST start times are brutal - especially when you have kids

Tell me about it, the game is starting at 4am in Serbia
Thank God that I work from home

are you the guy on the Playoff Mode commercial? (timestamp 1:54 below)

Watch on YouTube

Lol no but the funny thing is that they shot this commercial on my block

spanishninja · Post #69 » by **spanishninja** » Tue May 9, 2023 8:01 pm

Inspektor1312 wrote:
spanishninja wrote:
Inspektor1312 wrote:Tell me about it, the game is starting at 4am in Serbia
Thank God that I work from home

are you the guy on the Playoff Mode commercial? (timestamp 1:54 below)

Watch on YouTube

Lol no but the funny thing is that they shot this commercial on my block

oh wow, small country

Post #70 » by **og15** » Tue May 9, 2023 9:19 pm

Jadoogar wrote:
Mickey8 wrote:
Jadoogar wrote:
Which bench guys is he not playing? Someone suggested Peyton Watson. No coach in their right mind is going to throw out a rookie who averaged 3 ppg into the second round of the playoffs against Kevin Durant and Booker.

Malone can try to make some adjustments on defensive schemes but there isn't anyone on the bench that's going to come in and save them. You think Deandre Jordan is the answer?

He can't now in crucial game 5. But he could have tried in games that were played in Phoenix. He should have played Nnaji,Jackson and event Payton. You have to try with the new players when your regulars are not producing. KCP,Green and Brown were horrible.

No coach tries new players in the playoffs. You have to roll with who got you there. KCP and Brown were great in denver, i would rather take a chance on those guys returning to form than throwing out random unproven players.

Coaches try "new" guys or even remove guys out of the rotation in the playoffs, just depends on the coach and how much trust they have in the players down the bench. Luke Kennard in 2021 for example.

Post #71 » by **infinite11285** » Tue May 9, 2023 9:36 pm

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lonea · Post #72 » by **lonea** » Tue May 9, 2023 9:36 pm

nugs lost all the momentum they had coming into the playoffs.

all the nugs fans thought it'll be a sweep or a 5 game series for nugs

this is coming down to if KD will brick city again, otherwise it'll be suns in 6

spanishninja · Post #73 » by **spanishninja** » Tue May 9, 2023 9:49 pm

lonea wrote:nugs lost all the momentum they had coming into the playoffs.

all the nugs fans thought it'll be a sweep or a 5 game series for nugs

this is coming down to if KD will brick city again, otherwise it'll be suns in 6

the main goal for us tonight is to keep Aaron Gordon from having impact at either end. he's been a bit too comfortable so far, even in our wins.

cjx · Post #74 » by **cjx** » Tue May 9, 2023 9:59 pm

Nuggets win game 5 by 13 pts, fam! Nuggets Country, Let's Ride!!

RRFB · Post #75 » by **RRFB** » Tue May 9, 2023 11:53 pm

The difference in games 3 and 4 was Phoenix getting better production from their supporting cast (particularly 3 point shooting). You typically can expect that from the home team. Denver has to find a way to get more out of Aaron Gordon, KCP, and Bruce Brown (like we saw in games 1 and 2) or the Suns will take this game and likely the series.

Denver’s advantage in this series is that they’re the more complete team. Murray can’t keep turning this into a 2 vs 2 battle between he and Jokic vs Booker and Durant. Phoenix will win that shootout more often than not.

I think whoever wins tonight wins the series

Sedale Threatt · Post #76 » by **Sedale Threatt** » Wed May 10, 2023 12:50 am

At least they can laugh about it

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sick_irony · Post #77 » by **sick_irony** » Wed May 10, 2023 12:53 am

Sedale Threatt wrote:At least they can laugh about it

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Just saw it on TNT, man Joker has got some great sense of humour :lol:

Wargreymon · Post #78 » by **Wargreymon** » Wed May 10, 2023 12:59 am

Jokic low key hilarious for that :lol:

jokeboy86 · Post #79 » by **jokeboy86** » Wed May 10, 2023 1:04 am

Sedale Threatt wrote:At least they can laugh about it

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Joker makes life boring for modern sports media. Now they have no legs with this story anymore. He may not even get booed in gm6 cause of this

Wolfgang630 · Post #80 » by **Wolfgang630** » Wed May 10, 2023 1:26 am

I’m done watching that joke Boston game. Hopefully Denver can be 1000x better then Boston

Who wins?