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He was really generous in the 4th quarter trying to set his teammates up as heroes. Passing up all those wide open threes is truly the mark of a selfless player.
Brutal end to a season that was unexpected. Denver is high octane and when Jokic started making shot-clock violation beating shots, I knew the gig was up. Don't understand why they didn't continue to run AD some plays to at least try and get Jokic his 5th foul. That's on Ham. LeBron mustered up the best effort of the season, but the series was lost in Game 1&2. Props to Jokic. Kroenke is likely getting his 3rd major le in 3 years when the Nugs complete their dominant run. Watching Jokic play is insane. The West might be Denver's for a few years because of him. The lasting hope is Jimmy Buckets eliminates the C's and we're both stuck at 17 for at least another year.
Nuggets look like a team that could go on a run for the rest of a decade and win a few les if they remain healthy. Jokic is in his prime and will be good for several more years. Murray is now entering his prime and Porter is about to enter his in a few years.
This looks to be the possibility. Health is a factor though, you're right. Murray already has one knee injury and Jokic is a big man, so that'll be the interesting thing to watch. Not to mention MP Jr.'s back concerns. Have to give credit to the others like Bruce Brown, KCP and Aaron Gordon. If Denver becomes a FA destination and the owner is willing to spend in accordance to the new CBA, they'll be a hard out linked with the Ball Arena HCA.
ing cheers to that!What an awesome week, Spurs get Wemby and the Lakers get absolutely ing skunked
I have some concerns about their offensive consistency outside of Jokic. Even Murray is really streaky, that kind of play generally costs you in playoffs.
This season it seems to be more than enough as there are no superteams and the expected contenders are injured and/or old. Definitely a changing of the guard season in the NBA. But I'm not completely sold on a Nuggets Dynasty yet as they struggle to score for stretches and also have some defensive holes that need serious examination in this off-season.
It'll be really interesting to see how the Heat deal with Jokic. Will Bam be enough to slow him down? Might be just enough to make it a long, tough series. In any case Miami is playing a full echelon above any team they've faced so far.
I think Sacramento has a good chance of challenging next year. They're already a really solid team and have 25-30 mil in cap space this free-agency period to sign another big name to help them.
Murray vs Jimmy should be fun
Can't wait for Jokic vs Wemby next season. :popcorn
I think anytime any new team wins a le or gets very close and the star player/s are still in their 20s, people assume and start saying that they should be great for a decade. Idk. I think this Denver team has a 4-5 year window tops, probably closer to 3 realistically. I expect Joker to be great well into his mid 30s since his game should age well. But roster turnover is so high in the league now. And when secondary players play for championship teams, they start looking for big money and it’s hard to keep a core together. They’ll have to pay Joker and Murray, but then can they afford to keep Porter and Gordon when they’re up? Will they draft well enough and make smaller moves to continue to have the right secondary pieces? Will they continue to be relatively healthy year after year thru the playoffs? Murray and Porter already have shown injury issues. Nuggets better capitalize this year because you never know.
Even the Warriors run didn’t last as long as some might think. 2015 through 2022 is a pretty good stretch run, 8 seasons. But that 2022 le feels luckier than somewhat disparate from the other three. And Klay had to miss two seasons, Steph basically an entire season himself, they had to become a lottery team and a borderline playoff team in that same stretch. So it wasn’t Spurs run, year in and year out for however many seasons. They were more like a 5 year run, 2015-19. And then they all got healthy for one last try and the chips fell their way.
Pierce / KG Celtics really only had a 3 year run. Heatles 4 year stretch. In an era of superteams and free flowing player movement, the championship window isn’t automatically wide open for every contender. And the unprecedented Tim Duncan championship window is probably something we won’t ever see in the NBA again.
Seriously doubt the Nuggets are going to throw a bag at Porter at this point. Dude has been super uneven. Solid player but I think other teams are going to overpay him and the Nuggets won't match. I could be wrong.
I think you were a better version in 2020 and lost to a weaker opponent than this Nuggets team
Caleb Martin is a stud. God this Heat team is loaded with weapons.
Nah this years team is way better. Butler is in God mode, Caleb Martin is an elite 6th man, Bam is a rising star, Lowry/Love bring championship experience, and everyone else plays their role perfectly. Denver is going to have major problems with Miami.
The Celtics make offense look so complicated.
They lack a real playmaker with good handles. Everytime Tatum, Brown or Smart try to put the ball on the floor it is an adventure.
Miami making another comeback. Boston is imploding. Their resiliency is something Denver won’t be able to handle.
That butt will be tight on that must win game 6 in 4 days, tbh.
White hot... white not
Head coach George Hill of the Boston Celtics
Butler is exponentially ineffective when he can’t foul bait or feast on mismatch like prime Harden
Heat about to blow a 3-0 lead now that Tatum’s balls have dropped
I do foresee a Game 6 but Celtics lost the series noshowing in Game 3
Up 61-52 and about to blow the game open, Miami simply quit playing. They’ll be fine but they has Boston dead in the water and just checked out.
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