2023 Western Conference Finals | (1) Denver Nuggets VS (7) Los Angeles Lakers (DEN leads 3-0)

[Lost Angel]

as a Lakers fan, I am happy with the way this team turned things around after the deadline. Great effort.

and big time congrats to Denver, I know it’s not officially over, but it’s seemingly their time

[puny]

We might get a #1 vs #8 in the NBA Finals, never thought we'd ever see that....lol.

Party like it's 1999.

[CM17]

Some Lakers fans:

[SlovenianDragon]

Some Lakers fans:

As a suns fan it was truly an honor to be dismembered by King Jokic.

Depending on how things go Suns might be the only team to take 2 games off em do to legendary performances by booker...

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Lakers, Celtics, and to a lesser extent heat ^

[Sharkboy242]

MVP Jokic 4-14

14 4th quarter points.

Keep clowning tho, I thoroughly enjoy watching you be so wrong about Jokic all the time

[NotAKnicksFan]

Good to see loser lakers not able to do that vain injection celebration

[Sgt Major]

MVP Jokic 4-14

Hi there

[Sgt Major]

Rui and AD got Jokic in hell. This yall best player in the league ???

Yeah

[Ryoga Hibiki]

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found it, it's from February.
I haven't seen Tristan on TV recently, where is he?

[nomansland]

I think we ran the same play maybe like two or three times, you ended up fouling out and I was like, ‘Run that [expletive] again! He can’t play in this game!’ I just remember you walked to the bench and how you felt and I’m watching the playoffs this year and how they keep bringing Michael Porter Jr. into the ball screens. I just feel bad for him! I’m like, ‘Whatever I gotta do to not be this guy!’

https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/2020/09/04/dangelo-russell-michael-porter-jr-defense-nba-playoffs/

[DreamTeam09]

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Rui and AD got Jokic in hell. This yall best player in the league ???

Ohh so not only are your Raptor takes bad, your overall basketball takes are horrible. Duly noted now lol, it's just trolling

[FluLikeSymptoms]

Man it seems like it’s Denver’s year. Their home games were tougher than this and they scraped through both, LA had to use all their bullets and still couldn’t get there. I don’t see what else they can do, there’s a 100% chance Denver will shoot themselves to a win in the next 3 and they may not even need that, Joker may just bounce back next game with some 30/30/15. Both these teams are much better than they were in the bubble.

[EmpireFalls]

Denver has made a ridiculous 46 3s at a 41% clip

Don’t downplay that.

[Mickey8]

Man it seems like it’s Denver’s year. Their home games were tougher than this and they scraped through both, LA had to use all their bullets and still couldn’t get there. I don’t see what else they can do, there’s a 100% chance Denver will shoot themselves to a win in the next 3 and they may not even need that, Joker may just bounce back next game with some 30/30/15. Both these teams are much better than they were in the bubble.

Games like game 2 of this series is the character builder. Media was singing how Lakers should be feel great in this serveries because Denver played poorly in two games they have won , they gave Denver zero chance in LA, but many of us could see that Denver would come strong in the game 3 after the scrappy hard fought win in the previous game. That was the best chance for Denver to steal the game on the road, the Lakers were demoralized after game 2 in Denver, It was so obvious to me that Denver was going to win game 3 easily.

[Fadeaway_Jumper]

0% chance we get swept. We just need to win this next game and build momentum off that

Jamal Murray circus shots are a dangerous way to live

Still 0% ?

Odds went up to 20% now

[Exp0sed]

Denver has made a ridiculous 46 3s at a 41% clip

Don’t downplay that.

the vast majority of their shots have been open and the contested ones are taken by their best shooters, from their best spots. during the rs (and they weren't trying their hardest all season long) they had about 12 3's a game at a 38% clip

last two games the Lakers have been loading up on Jokic, rewatch the game he was crowded by two and sometimes even 3 or 4 Lakers circling around him - that means shooters are open and Jokic is gonna find them

it's pick your poison with these Nuggets unless you have someone who can (somewhat) contain Jokic one on one, which the Lakers don't

so maybe if they're not guarding him with 3 players, Nuggets have a few less threes and shoot a lil worse % but Jokic scores more inside and with higher efficiency

you're trying to act\imply as if the Nuggets are dismantling the Lakers because of some hot streaky shooting - that hasn't been the case at all, you must have watched a different series if that's what u were seeing

[kuclas]

Other thread was locked. Without Murray, Jokic doesn’t get exposed in playoffs. It’s that he needs wings and guards to advance in the playoffs.

Slovenian asked me what Denver would do vs Boston or Miami since they don’t have elite center offensive players.

The hypothetical answer it won’t matter if Jokic Averages 40/15/10 in finals if he doesn’t have good guard or wing play from Murray. If Murray doesn’t go off for 37 (30 in first half). Denver doesn’t win game 3. Denver doesn’t win game 2 either without Murray going off in the 4th quarter.

[G35]

The worst part of this run is that we're going to see people change the narrative about Jokic. Like...he played JUST as well in the playoffs last year. He might have had a better season last year. But suddenly because he has NBA players starting with him and not G league allstars, people are going to think he's done something different.

He's a MUCH better passer this year and he's played better defense too. Sure the teammates make up most of the difference, but he's still significantly better this season.

His regular season and playoff production is exactly the same as last year.

- Warriors won 53 games last year and 44 games this year; SRS = 5.52 last year, SRS this year = 1.66

- Phoenix won 64 games last year and 45 games this year; SRS = 6.94 last year, SRS this year = 2.08

- Memphis won 56 games last years and 51 games this year; SRS = 5.37 last year, SRS this year = 3.60

- Dallas won 52 games last year and 38 games this year; SRS = 3.12 last year, SRS this year = -0.14

- Denver won 48 games last year and 53 games this year; SRS = 2.16 last year, SRS this year = 3.04

- Lakers won 33 games last year and 43 games this year; SRS = -3.08 last year, SRS this year = 0.43


I know this is hard for you to understand but the Nuggets improved slightly and the rest of the West got worse and the Lakers shouldn't have even made the playoffs.....

[nikster]

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Rui and AD got Jokic in hell. This yall best player in the league ???

Ohh so not only are your Raptor takes bad, your overall basketball takes are horrible. Duly noted now lol, it's just trolling

Haha my thoughts as well

[superunknown]

I am so happy for the Nuggets being up 0:3 against the Los Angeles Freethrowers.

But I won't crap all over their fans, because I experienced them as pretty classy since the Series began.

That being said ... I wonder, if Nick Wrong kept his word ... (Minute 16:00) ...

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