MVP Finalists Face-to-Face for this West Semifinals Showcase! | Official Nuggets (#4) vs. OKC (#1) Series Thread!

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Uncomfortable conversation after this game

 

[Guess Who]

Richard Jefferson is a fukking moron

it's not that DEN has 16 FTs taken so they cant complain. it's that DEN should be taking WAY more. Jokic is getting mauled. but the dumbass commentators Doris and RJ have completely bought into the narrative that Caruso is "locking him up"

TBH I don’t see a lot of fouls that aren’t being called. I see a Denver team who only has three playable guys and one of them has a bad hamstring. The OKC run started with offensive boards and then they created a bunch of turnovers because they can ignore corner shooters and play up on entry passes or swarm Jokic.

 

[AVXL]

This fakkit Jamal Murray turns into Michael Jordan every time he plays the Lakers but looks like a middling all star versus everyone else. Infuriating.

You disrespecting All Stars, which Murray has and will never be. He’s been mid outside of their title run

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It'll only be a matter of time before that OKC avalanche hits. The run will be inevitable. You can already see the looks they're getting will eventually fall.

"It's a Thunder avalanche here to end the 2nd."

Even Mike Breen biting my lines.

 

[kdslittlebro]

JWill ain’t fooling me Presti need to stay tapped in to that Giannis call next wk. That Harden gene clicks in with adversity, not this

 

[Deafheaven]

DO YOU THINK
CARUSO SO CALLED "HACKING" SHAQ
WOULD STOP SHAQ FROM
MURDERING HIM EVERY POSSESSION

JOKER BETTER MAN UP


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Shaq and Jokic are on completely different spectrums as far as playstyle breh what are you tryna say here

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Yes two things can be true

OKC has phenomenal defense

But they are fouling a ton

Exactly they have done great defenders but they’re like Thanos if they’re allowed to foul

 

[DoubleJ13]

You telling me you didn’t see them spend most of the 1Q shooting 3s and missing

Yeah. But it's a 40-20 Thunder advantage on points in the paint, Nuggets are 4-19 from 3 & Thunder are 5-20, & the FT advantage for the Nuggets is 16-5. Denver is getting calls despite everyone crying.

 

[Illin Degenerate]

the turnovers and letting okc get all the way to the rim is killing denver. that and their offense has just been god awful since they built that 11pt lead. murray, porter, and the bench 4-18 from the field. okc on 2pt shots, 21-34. denver better figure something out real quick or this is going to get real ugly.

 

[Unbothered]

The Thunder gonna blow this open in the 3rd.

Momentum switched, and Nugget fans are making excuses the truth is that y'all been extremely lucky throughout the postseason and honestly should've been home since the first round if not for those lucky moments against the Clippers, and now all that luck is coming to an end.

 

[CHICAGO]

IMAGINE TRYING TO GUARD
SHAQ WITH CARUSO
AND COMPLAINING ABOUT
BEING "MAULED"



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[Jplaya2023]

6'3 alex caruso is gusrding jokic and jokic doesnt have 40 points?

 

[DoubleJ13]

Also it's nice of JDub to show up after that last game

 

[CHICAGO]

Shaq and Jokic are on completely different spectrums as far as playstyle breh what are you tryna say here

BREAUGH JOKIC DOES
MOST OF HIS WORK BY
SIMPLY BULLYING SMALLER PLAYERS



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[Po pimp]

"Top 5 center all time" locked up by a guard

It’s not so much that he’s getting locked up by Caruso. OKC is bringing help whenever Jokic makes a move and the help is coming from a 7fter who’s gonna disrupt a shot, or another guard who’s quick to the ball. If a guard is on him, he CAN’T settle for a jumper so it forces him to go to the hole where they’ll bring the help (which is what they want).

Also, it won’t surprise me if in this half, they put Gordon in some pick and rolls to test that leg. They were probably waiting for the 2nd half to do it.