2024 NBA Playoffs: West Semifinals: #2 Denver Nuggets vs #3 Minnesota Timberwolves (MIN WINS 4-3)

[Raps in 4]

haha... Joker sounds like he is so done with this year's playoff... time for his horses

He needs to pull a LeBron and GTFO of there.

[KGDirkTD_Fan]

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How is no one laughing at Melo's 6.3% from the floor?

This post season has some stinkers that's for sure. Murray, Dlo, Wagner have been some solid bricklayers.

[Wolfgang630]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

[MrGoat]

The 2011 Lakers used to be the only defending champions to have ever gone down 0-2 in a series at home, congratulations to them for finally not being alone with that dubious distinction (those Lakers got swept by the way)

[Statlanta]

Got to imagine that Minny has become the title favorite all the sudden. They are better than anyone in the west and Boston is very vulnerable. You get into them physically and Boston will fall apart.

I felt bad for Murray. Imagine "no left hand" Jaylen Brown having to dribble against this defense. He might never play shooting guard again.

[TwolvesFanRome]

We put on a defensive clinic: I've been following basketball (Nba and Europe) since I was little (I'm 35) and I can't remember a defensive game like that from memory. Asphyxiating and suffocating throughout the game. Literally fantastic.

It's only Game 2...

[SweaterBae]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

If he doesn't care, why would he care about where he doesn't care?

[ArksNetsSince99]

It's over. Congrats to the TWolves. They were the better team all season, and have proved it again in this series. They are far superior in basically every category. There's not one thing I can look at and say the Nuggets have an advantage in.

Honestly, I do not care if the Nuggets get swept. My hope would be that a sweep results in a deep introspective look into the roster and coaching.

There's a structural deficiency here. It showed itself in the regular season, and became more apparent during the playoffs. I think as Nuggets we ignored the signs and pretended this team would get it together, it never did.

There is no visible hunger to repeat , I look at this year Minnesota team and I see last year Denver

I don't think hunger is the problem. If they weren't hungry, they would've lost to the Lakers, and they probably should've lost to the Lakers.

This is structural problem and it raises uncomfortable questions that I don't think the front office was prepared to answer this early. Such as, can this team as currently constructed defeat a fully healthy TWolves team? If not, then what? For me, running it back and hoping the TWolves suffer an injury to a starter isn't exactly what I would call a winning strategy.

You lost Bruce Brown and uncle Jeff and meantime keep a decoy on the bench in DAJordan , to me it looks a little arrogance from the Nuggets front office , I know that they didn’t had many offseason options but they did absolutely nothing , Braun isn’t Brown replacement like most predicted

IDK to me it looks like they didn’t care as much as they did last season , just an opinion , not a fact

[Wolfgang630]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

If he doesn't care, why would he care about where he doesn't care?

I was joking

[GSP]

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How is no one laughing at Melo's 6.3% from the floor?

That is nuts but he was a 19yo rookie going up against peak Kg and a great Wolves team. No one even thought Denver was making the playoffs and Melo actually had to carry a team which Murray never has

[LaLover11]

haha... Joker sounds like he is so done with this year's playoff... time for his horses

He needs to pull a LeBron and GTFO of there.

Nah Jokic should pull a Micheal Jordan and Quit during his Prime to go compete in Horse Racing for two seasons

[AleksandarN]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

He has unfortunately

[ChipotleWest]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

He's already Dirk for the Nuggets, not going anywhere he'll be there his whole career. Doesn't have to win another playoff series (Dirk never did after the championship, Jokic won one just now against the Lakers)

[Bobbymcgee]

Is it me, or does Deandre Jordan look like the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz?

[sfernald]

Objects in mirror are closer than they appe...

... And Nuggets have been passed.

And have run out of gas.

And are stuck on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere with no cell service to call for help.

And now it's past midnight and all they hear are wolves howling in the dark.

Car battery died and they can't roll up their windows

Better hope Jokic is driving. He's more likely to have one of those older cars with hand crank windows.

VW bus lol

I don’t think he drives a car. Goes by horse and carriage apparently based on the commercials. So he can just sacrifice those to the wolves.

[ChipotleWest]

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How is no one laughing at Melo's 6.3% from the floor?

That is nuts but he was a 19yo rookie going up against peak Kg and a great Wolves team. No one even thought Denver was making the playoffs and Melo actually had to carry a team which Murray never has

Fair point but then he did 18% in his prime, but Murray just had lower 16%.

[ArksNetsSince99]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Joker doesn’t care in game 3 and Denver gets blown out setting up the sweep.

He should start looking to go elsewhere. The Knicks would be a great team for him.

He has unfortunately

Imagine Jokic doing Jordan one year break , going into horse racing and winning all there too

[Patches Perry]

The great thing about a playoff series is that you don't have to get it all back at once. When I think about whether Denver can win 4 out of 5, it seems daunting, but luckily they just need to win 1 game 4 times. It's cliche but if they win game 3, things get interesting. Let us not forget 2021 Mavericks/Clippers where the road team won the first 6 games of the series.

Perhaps I'm just being optimistic hoping for a long series.

[lambchop]

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How is no one laughing at Melo's 6.3% from the floor?

He was a rookie.

[Wolfgang630]

Even if Denver wins game 3 this series is over. Minnesota is perfectly built to counter them.