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

GreenBloodedC · Post #1081 » by **GreenBloodedC** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

Healthy Kawhi is just different

ejftw · Post #1082 » by **ejftw** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

Even with Kawhi's amazing performance, still giving the game ball to Dunn for his defense

Vae Victus · Post #1083 » by **Vae Victus** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

LAvision wrote:Joker must be desperate, that’s some shameless ****

He's out of gas. Either they get the call and Clips have no replay challenge left, or Clips take advantage and score. No clue why Lue called timeout instead of attacking with 5v4 advantage.

Also Kawhi shoulda fouled Joker before letting his getting to the 3pt line with time ticking out. Just lucky Joker had literally no legs and unable to get a decent off.

Honestly i was just waiting for the Nuggs to tie it up with a miracle and then smoke the Clips in OT. This was a surprising finish tbh.

uncleduck13 · Post #1084 » by **uncleduck13** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

Jokic is the best player in the world but for a series Kawhi can definitely outperform him

Mamba81p · Post #1085 » by **Mamba81p** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

IMO Kawhi is the best player in the league when healthy, and this has been the case since 2019. I might be the only one to think that, but I would not take anyone else in the playoffs

Patches Perry · Post #1086 » by **Patches Perry** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:37 am

This series has potential to be one of the all time greats.

Denver made so many unforced errors at the end. That Gordon missed dunk among the most embarrassing.

Revived · Post #1087 » by **Revived** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

Jokic having to play so many mins is definitely impacting him. He played 43 mins tonight. That’s kind of insane for a guy his size. After having played like 50 mins two days ago.

uberhikari · Post #1088 » by **uberhikari** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

Kawhi in the playoffs from 2017-2023: 30-9-5 on 51/39/89 shooting splits for 64% TS.

Kawhi is one of the best playoff performers of all time. His knee will never be right but he's still only 33.

mademan · Post #1089 » by **mademan** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

jokeboy86 wrote:
azcatz11 wrote:You have to wonder if healthy Kawhi is the best player in the world

When healthy he always was. Guy's closest to Kobe and Jordan by a long shot.

Jordan, sure. Healthy Kawhi has always been better than Kobe. His efficiency on his midrange game is absolutely ridiculous

GuyverX · Post #1090 » by **GuyverX** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

I have to say if Powell wasn't struggling so damn much, this would be 2-0 going back to Inglewood.

sp6r=underrated · Post #1091 » by **sp6r=underrated** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

azcatz11 wrote:
sp6r=underrated wrote:My favorite thing about realgm is how every player/team has haters that only posted in their game threads after a loss.

Who is hating on who?

I'm not gonna name the posters but there are people who showed up at the end of this game who only show up after a Denver loss/bad Jokic game.

And to be clear the same phenomenon exists for Lebron ,Durant, Steph and all the other all time greats.

Lakers In 5 · Post #1092 » by **Lakers In 5** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

Twizlers wrote:Jokic had a bad game for his standards, Kawhi went into god mode, and Nuggets just get killed with turnovers. Despite that they lost by 1 possession .. you will take that all day as a Nuggets fan.

This is what a lot of Laker fans said every time we lost to Denver, and it never made sense. Moral victories don’t exist.

ball_takes23 · Post #1093 » by **ball_takes23** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

HotRocks34 wrote:No doubt in my mind now that Denver is the better team but it's almost impossible to win games with the kind of mental mistakes they're making tonight.

LAC is clearly the better team. they have the 2nd, 3rd and 4th best players on the court and the deeper bench. tonight was much more of a must-win game for Denver than it was for LAC. Clips most likely in 6 now, but Clips in 5 wouldnt shock me either.

Mrakar · Post #1094 » by **Mrakar** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

Missing dunks, layups and free throws will get you here. Not to mention Nuggets are not allowed to rest their main guys a single minute in 2nd half bcs they had clueless GM...

Great game Kawhi, superhuman.

canada_dry · Post #1095 » by **canada_dry** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:38 am

Wolfgang630 wrote:Now Denver will go steal a game in La. No worries

They probably will. How else is this gonna go 7?

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SpurNani · Post #1096 » by **SpurNani** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:39 am

The Jokic fans said it ws impossible for Kawhi to outperform Jokic tho

Prince187 · Post #1097 » by **Prince187** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:39 am

Jokic needs to be more selfish. He should have taken that 3 before the turnover

Mr.Raptorsingh · Post #1098 » by **Mr.Raptorsingh** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:39 am

DEN gonna regret losing this game if they end up losing the series

ForeverTFC · Post #1099 » by **ForeverTFC** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:39 am

Reeko wrote:OKC vs LAC WCF? Would be a full circle moment for sure.

Hadn’t even crossed my mind. Would be very cool.

California Gold · Post #1100 » by **California Gold** » Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:39 am

Twizlers wrote:Jokic had a bad game for his standards, Kawhi went into god mode, and Nuggets just get killed with turnovers. Despite that they lost by 1 possession .. you will take that all day as a Nuggets fan.

Won't be that close in LA. Clippers will win a little more comfortably if both teams play similar to how they did in games 1 and 2.

Who wins?