Game 82: Minnesota Timberwolves (36-45) @ Denver Nuggets (53-28) - 10:30 PM ET

ducler · Post #1 » by **ducler** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:21 pm

Post #2 » by **NuggetsWY** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:48 pm

A game we need to win - history of this year's matchups. We've beaten them all 3 games this year.

Game 1
Denver only won one quarter
Towns dominated Jokic in scoring
Jokic had a triple-double
Game 2
Towns dominated Jokic in scoring
Jokic had a triple-double
Beasley had 22 points (no Harris)
Lyles had 19 off the bench
Nuggets starters had 0 blocks - bench had 7
Game 3 - Denver 26 point win.
Towns dominated Jokic
Towns had a double-double
Denver had 40 assists on 51 FGM
Denver shot 60% FGs
Denver shot 60% from 3

U hova · Post #3 » by **U hova** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:02 pm

heard that the entire wolves roster is getting benched except wiggins.

skywalker33 · Post #4 » by **skywalker33** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:33 pm

U hova wrote:heard that the entire wolves roster is getting benched except wiggins.

Wow, 5 on 1 should be an easy win game. :lol:

Post #5 » by **THE J0KER** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:52 pm

Easy win even before the game is started, what a difference compared to the previous season when we played last game vs Wolves too. But unfortunately, Portland betrayed us today with resting Lillard and McCollum in last game, so all our efforts to escape Houston in the playoff will not work, and also no surprise if instead of Spurs, our 1st round opponents will be Oklahoma (they need to lose to Bucks for that).

Post #6 » by **THE J0KER** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:49 am

OK, Oklahoma won, so if we win tonight our 1st round opponent is San Antonio.

BTW Jokic needs tonight 25 points to score to finish the season with 20+ PPG... so I guess Malone will sit him down once he scores 24 :lol:

skywalker33 · Post #7 » by **skywalker33** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:32 am

We're looking like a team from the past two seasons, letting a depleted Tpups team keep pace with our "playoff" team AT HOME no less.....only watching the scoreboard but seems less than impressive to me.

Post #8 » by **Domejandro** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:20 am

Stop screwing around, Minnesota cannot afford to win this game.

Manolito · Post #9 » by **Manolito** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:47 am

Incredible 15-0 run in Last 3 minutes. Thanks Wolves for tanking.

Congrats to everyone, we have our dreamed Play Off bracket.

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Post #10 » by **THE J0KER** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:13 am

Is this is for real?

RRFB · Post #11 » by **RRFB** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:34 am

I don't know wtf that was but somehow everything worked out. Pretty embarrassing effort considering what was on the line. I expect them to bring more energy in the playoffs, but if they play like that, their postseason won't last very long.

Post #12 » by **NuggetsWY** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:53 am

skywalker33 wrote:We're looking like a team from the past two seasons, letting a depleted Tpups team keep pace with our "playoff" team AT HOME no less.....only watching the scoreboard but seems less than impressive to me.

RRFB wrote:I don't know wtf that was but somehow everything worked out. Pretty embarrassing effort considering what was on the line. I expect them to bring more energy in the playoffs, but if they play like that, their postseason won't last very long.

We certainly didn't earn that win - what a pathetic finish to the season: 5-5 in our last 10 games. If you'll notice, every other playoff team in the west finished 6-4 or better. Four of them finished 8-2. If we were playing to prepare for the playoffs, I am officially concerned!!!

Post #13 » by **The Rebel** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:24 pm

Glad Barton finally woke up and started playing those last few minutes, amazing how good this team is when everybody is working hard and together. Jokic, Harris, and Murray seemed to be the only ones keeping us in it until the end.

I personally think that the front office and coaching staff making such a big deal out of winning the division and home court leading into the Trailblazers game, then giving away the game sent the wrong message and almost derailed our season. I think last night the starters realized that they still had to play basketball and finally played hard again.

Overall I am fine with the last couple of weeks, Harris seems to finally be getting on track and Jokic had his minutes limited while Murray seems to be healthy, hopefully it will pay off in the playoffs.

manchambo · Post #14 » by **manchambo** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:42 pm

NuggetsWY wrote:
skywalker33 wrote:We're looking like a team from the past two seasons, letting a depleted Tpups team keep pace with our "playoff" team AT HOME no less.....only watching the scoreboard but seems less than impressive to me.

RRFB wrote:I don't know wtf that was but somehow everything worked out. Pretty embarrassing effort considering what was on the line. I expect them to bring more energy in the playoffs, but if they play like that, their postseason won't last very long.

We certainly didn't earn that win - what a pathetic finish to the season: 5-5 in our last 10 games. If you'll notice, every other playoff team in the west finished 6-4 or better. Four of them finished 8-2. If we were playing to prepare for the playoffs, I am officially concerned!!!

It's a little less concerning when you consider that Denver tried (very hard actually) to lose to Portland, and was more or less indifferent to winning in Utah and played four starter 20 mins or less.

And I have my own qualms about not trying to win those games, but you have to admit it worked out exactly as they wanted it to.