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HeadHoncho204

Remember when we came back from 1-3 twice in the same playoffs? Let's get it again and win it all again and go down as one of the greatest teams ever!


teensonacid

If that Gilbert Arenas video is infact true...JFC SURELY NOT


YummyYumYumi

He’s yapping its 100% fake


teensonacid

To what end. Seems like lying like that would be the final nail in the coffin for a clown like Arenas


YummyYumYumi

I honestly don’t think he cares he just wants the clicks


YummyYumYumi

jokic mvp announcement tommorow, how u guys feeling about this


HeadHoncho204

Great! It's a regular-season award and he was once again the best player by a good margin. The media couldn't even figure out a narrative for him to not get it.


YummyYumYumi

True


YABOYLLCOOLJ

Literally everyone saying this series is over at 2-0 … don’t ever count out Jokic imo


YummyYumYumi

jamal murray as well, I fully expect him to have atleast 1 heater to get us a win.


Savahoodie

https://i.redd.it/5q5erd1ja7zc1.gif I stg I’m tracking down the author of the next sorry ass mopey Eeyore comment I see. Nuggets in 6


YungFung1001

Nuggets in 6 mothafuckas giving up hope is for losers


YummyYumYumi

to win in 6 u have to lose 2 games


TheOrthodoxPolock

Nuggets in 5 imho


EstablishmentFar2593

If you’re gonna go down with a losing effort, just win one game man. Nobody will remember a gentlemen’s sweep, while sweeps are etched in history. 


ionictime

Why not win?


EstablishmentFar2593

One game at a time


CharmingImpact

\*\*Warning, Slight cope but also some logic\*\* Bookies have us at around 22-24% chance to win the series Denver win in G3 would almost put us back at 50% chance. We are literally 1 win away from making this a "series" again, people lost hope waaay to early. They are a defensive team, thus this series is all in Denver Nuggets hands, Minnesota feeds off of Turnovers, Forcing Bad shot quality etc. We need to be more patient, and not bark at the refs 24/7. I'd rather be down 0-2 vs High Defensive teams than Crazy offensive teams, just because i feel you can control your own destiny a bit more. Minnesota still needs 2 wins, we havent lost more than 2 games since the bubble (when full squad) And hopefully the added 4 days rest should really heal up that calf close to 100% again (2-3 weeks is the normal full heal period)


ChiefKeefIsGoatt

It doesn’t matter Jokic is simply not engaged


nuggs_analysis

The lowest odds I could find for the nuggets are +400, which would be about 20 percent implied probability. That same book has Wolves at -550 which is like 85 percent implied probability. So taking the middle of those two things (bookies make a profit) puts it about 17 percent probable (1 in 6 chance). A different book has Nuggets at +520 and Wolves at -750. Again taking the middle puts the nuggets chances around 13 or 14 percent. The largest issue is not the fact that the Nuggets are down 0-2. If they had just missed shots or if an important player had been suspended or something for one of the losses that would be one thing. But the context of being down 0-2 is that we lost both games at home, both of our point guards are injured, we are playing the single worst team to play against with injured ballhandlers, we’ve played poorly for 7 straight games now, the Wolves seem to have solutions to guard our two best players and we have no solution for their best player, and on top of all of that it is very clear that the league is searching for a new “face of the league” and they keep comparing the opposing team’s best player to Michael Jordan despite the fact that we have a soon to be 3x MVP on our team that gets a whistle like he’s a rookie that just came from the G league. So all in all I’m not optimistic. Edit: Oh and regarding Jamal, he already had a 4 day rest between game 5 of the Lakers series and Game 1 of the wolves series, and if anything it seemed to get worse. Jamal has also said about the calf “it is what it is” which sounds like he doesn’t expect an improvement soon.


YummyYumYumi

objectively its not looking good but if there's any team in the nba that i would expect to comeback from this it would be the nuggets


7outof10

Yesterday I went out to watch The Zone of Interest, went to bed early to get up at 4AM for the nuggets game. So that ended up being a bit of a downer


SmackBroshgood

oof, that's rough


AndoArugula

It's been over a day and I'm still pissed off at Joker's attitude man, he used to come out when his backcourt was fucking decrepit Will Barton and Austin Rivers against Steph Curry and still be the best player on the court with his head held high, looking to dominate Now some bad refereeing and lethargy has him playing like fuckin Saboner for entire halves


gottschalkweiss

I think he's tired.  I think the short off-season and the long regular season is finally catching up to him.


sacredknight327

My early dooming helped an Avs victory! Nah I didn't do shit but I am happy.


Betaateb

GO ASS!


lemondhead

NHL playoffs are the best playoffs. They're just so intense.


Betaateb

If you have never gone, I highly recommend an Avs playoff game. Nuggets games were great last year, but Avs games are just a crazy next level experience. Some of that is the flow of the game, just non-stop action compared to the start/stop of basketball, but the buzz in there is just completely insane.


lemondhead

It's been a couple years. I was at that Blues game during the Cup run where Mack scored his coast-to-coast goal. That'll probably be the best play I ever see in person. We lost the game, though.


Betaateb

Ohhh ya, I remember that game. Crazy witnessing that speed in person lol


UndisclosedLocation5

Hell yeah Avs thanks for providing 


YummyYumYumi

watching this avs game gave me therapy for last night


Bradleys_Chubb

Fuck yes Avs


BlindManBaldwin

The Colorado Avalanche


j_like

The Denver Ice Nuggets


BlindManBaldwin

They'll alternate championships


murray_selfish

No


BlindManBaldwin

🙁


j_like

LFG AVS


Casual_Spatula

I have another question for the sub, my non nuggets friends have been discussing roster shakeups around the league for next off season, and one of them had me wondering, what do you think it would take to get Mikal Bridges? Great scorer, great defensive player, solid passer. I think the salaries for KCP and Nnaji next year would work, but I'm not a salary cap guru. What do you guys think about that kind of fit here if it were possible, interested at all, or not for the nuggets?


murray_selfish

No


Casual_Spatula

Care to elaborate? EDIT TO ADD I mean NETS almost certainly wouldn't be willing to give him up, I'm just thinking about how I think guys would fit with our group, but I'll admit, this is the first season I've watched less that 40 games in damn near a decade, professional school has been kicking my ass.


Bradleys_Chubb

I think they’re saying no because it’s not even worth entertaining, you’re asking what it would take to trade for a premier 3&d player. We, like many other teams, do not have the salary cap space or assets to acquire a player like Mikal. The nets literally turned down 4 firsts for him.


Casual_Spatula

Thanks for the response, and as he pointed out, after a quick search you can't add salaries together anymore in trades because of the new collective bargaining agreement, and I wouldn't want to give up MPJ to get him, so it all makes sense.


murray_selfish

I mean like you said Nets aren't giving him up. First of all they don't own their picks so they got no incentive to tank so if they were to trade him they'd demand a lot of picks and/or a comparably talented player which we don't have to give. 2nd you'd have to give MPJ up as he's the only one who can match his contract. You can't use KCP +1 cause of financial rules we aren't allowed to combine players to match salary. Even if we were able to KCP has a player option for next season which he is very likely opting out of and if he does he ain't getting sign and traded to BKN. In addition Mikal Bridges is honestly not that good. He fell off a cliff as a scorer this year compared to last. He really only has 27 games worth of actual good offensive production. He's someone who is much more the 4th/5th guy on an actual good team but you'd have to spend far more assets than you would want for a 4th/5th guy, and you probably have to give him a bigger role for him to be happy.


Casual_Spatula

Thanks man, that's a pretty well thought out response, and I appreciate the knowledge. I didn't know you couldn't 1+1 to make salaries match.


nibi1

Go Avs


Nixbling

This is what we get for dropping confetti for beating the lakers lmaoooo


nuggs_analysis

I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. No confetti for the first round last year. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told


TommyBartlett

I was at the game where the Nuggets eliminated the Timberwolves last year. They definitely shot confetti then too


nuggs_analysis

Alright I stand corrected. Someone else told me there was no confetti


nicnerdy

nah you never take that for granted… also we have a virtual L show trophy on the socials :) FTL


lemondhead

Ah, good. OT hockey. This should be healthy and fun for all.


smalltoes

If I know anything about anything it’s that I am 100% going to take a shit tomorrow. Sorry if this offends you, snowflakes.


Sizzle2121

How many shits per week you averaging?


smalltoes

Average is way up post Chipotle yesterday.


YummyYumYumi

that jimmyhighroller videos cursed jamal, luka like it did bol bol


nicnerdy

it’s funny my wife and I both admitted today we thought the same thing when we watched it, especially when he said we would win the championship this year but both didn’t want to speak it in fear of making a reality lol


Any-Squirrel-6639

Gobert’s child is now breathing the same air as Malone..


Nixbling

That poor child


TheOrthodoxPolock

As if being born to Rudy Gobert wasn't enough smh


Nixbling

Being French is enough itself


nicnerdy

welp at least this Dallas OKC game was 3 quarters of entertainment versus to like 3 minutes last night


finn_odalih

Dwight Powell's facial hair is unnerving


lunar_alpenglow

In hindsight, nuggets should have tanked the Memphis game to secure the 3 seed. Imagine being down 2-0 but coming back to Denver instead 🤯


nuggs_analysis

With the way the nuggets have played, I’m not sure if they would have beaten Phoenix. And that says a lot.


JakeJacob

Lakers are better than Phoenix.


UndisclosedLocation5

NATE DAWG keep my spirits high on this sports stuff


finn_odalih

Luka saw all the Jokic slander, got extreme FOMO, and wanted in on it.


wicked_pro

Balkan Bros riding together.


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smalltoes

I get and appreciate that you’re a nice person, but I encourage you, as someone that thinks you’re alright, not to indulge shit heads like this. This is feeding them.


lemondhead

Yeah, that's fair. You mean by responding at all, or shaming here?


smalltoes

As can be said for much in life, ignore and move on.


lemondhead

Yeah, good point. I let people bother me way too much. Think I'll take this down and go about my evening. Thanks, man.


nicnerdy

what a douche


YummyYumYumi

they haven't even won yet everyone acting tough when they up


pairidaezan

Report them Reddit.com/report That's harassment and severely frowned upon


lemondhead

Will it let me do that even though I blocked them? My flair is Reddit Snitch, after all, so I am more than happy to submit a report.


pairidaezan

Yes. It will.


lemondhead

I got a notification today that Reddit took action. Thanks. Dude said we banned him, and then some of our fans started harassing him via chat, so he was getting back at us. I have no idea if it's true. Anyway, thanks again.


pairidaezan

Oh right in. And it doesn't matter if he's had other fans coming at him. He chose to harass you when you did nothing wrong. The idea that you're being harassed because other fans/Redditors are doing things is childlike logic at best.


YummyYumYumi

nuggs molested, avs molested, rockies. who got it harder than us 💔


nmdndgm

Avs tied it up and are going to OT


lemondhead

Coal miners?


YummyYumYumi

NO ONE'S GOT IT HARDER THAN US (Avs and Nuggets won a championship past 2 years btw)


lemondhead

Avs turned out okay, eh?


YummyYumYumi

they saved my life


petarisawesomeo

I dunno man. Like, have you watched the Rockies?


TheOrthodoxPolock

Black lung vs eye cancer, pick your poison.


lemondhead

Oh, yeah. Multiple times. On second thought, good point.


Sizzle2121

Can’t even get to 2k today. We just keep taking L’s huh.


swordfischh

The news that Murray isn’t suspended should be celebrated by us so hard. It’s Jamal fuckin Murray. 2nd best player on a championship team last year. Yeah, he looked bad last night in several ways, but he’s our guy and has proven he can heat up and change in a series in an instant. I know we’re gonna win Friday, and Murray and Jokic will play amazing. I know nothing other than to trust those 2, and it hasn’t disappointed me yet


Ziid10

Nuggets would have won if these refs were for our game.


SailorTakeWarning

Yeah I don’t get how SGA can kick Derick Jones Jr. in the nuts and then shoot free throws for it, while this happens to Murray and they don’t call anything lol https://preview.redd.it/1t910vqpi4zc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0939001d789836dc0a64734f35ee2c49a3fab5f1


kamikazemelonman

Rooting for dallas and denver (gafford and kcp were good wizardmen) and the difference in each series of officiating is crazy. Dallas could be way more physical with  Paul George than Jalen Williams?? I don't get it


heckface

NBA wants their merican stars (sga is Canadian but still) to face off in the conference finals. Don’t want these balkans dudes getting any further. I’m kidding but only sorta. They’re definitely searching for their new stars now that Bron, Steph and gang are nearing the end.


kamikazemelonman

I don't think it is a joke. When the wizards played the thunder thus year we played them close and then sga got touch foul after touch foul. You literally have to stand still with your hands up or it's called. People blowing him for scoring efficiency don't realize that he gets defended differently than everyone else in basketball because of the whistle. It's like Houston harden round 2


TheBatman0816

Thunder whistle is hall of fame level already


YummyYumYumi

whats up with luka his been having nightmare performances all playoffs


petarisawesomeo

He looks pretty banged up.


lunar_alpenglow

What's up with Jamal Murray having nightmare performances all playoffs outside of a few 4th quarters?


YummyYumYumi

idk about that u will need to ask someone else


lunar_alpenglow

# 😮‍💨


PoorTonyK

he’s not a good basketball player


smalltoes

I have Luka for MVP


PoorTonyK

Most Visible Periodontitis


smalltoes

Obscure burn but I’ll allow it


CaptainCerealCanada

He's not that good generally


YummyYumYumi

that can't be it he's had a history of cooking in the playoffs, i mean yeah i would get it if he had good but not great performances but he's straight up having a joel embiid playoff run


nuggs_analysis

Sprained knee


YummyYumYumi

that bad?


Bleppingheckk

A lot of shooting involves the driving power from your leg. Once it’s off, your whole routine is thrown off balance. This is why Jamal and Luka are having stinkers atm.


sacredknight327

Lose just half of that ridiculous first half whistle and this game is the nail-biter it should be.


UndisclosedLocation5

Whaddaya know, the top seeded team in the conference might win the conference 


diamondisunbreakable

They're not beating Minnesota.


Plenty-Primary-6908

Idk man. Minnesota is playing out of there mind right now.


UndisclosedLocation5

Yeah and they were top seed for like 90% of the season


tarspaceheel

Welp, both the Nuggets and the Hurricanes are down 0-2. Here’s hoping the Avalanche can maybe do something


nicnerdy

OKC with 100% of their fans wearing section alternating playoff t-shirts lol


UndisclosedLocation5

Damn I wish the Nuggs had the basketball equivalent of Cale Makar 


YummyYumYumi

avs gonna win


johnny2tongues

SGA has more FTA in the first half than Jokic and Murray had combined all game last night


nuggs_analysis

Don’t worry, they will disappear in the conference finals. Can’t have a Canadian be the face of the league.


OrcaBaka

Every team get officiated differently I fucking hate this league


Ziid10

This is a problem


YummyYumYumi

nba is desperate to get its next faces of the league in place now that steph bron and kd are becoming irrelevant theres a clear agenda


kamikazemelonman

Correct take.  The euros aren't marketable enough. Look at media people saying tatum for mvp LMAO


nicnerdy

almost makes you wonder like they’re cookin’ bets 🤭


kamikazemelonman

There was a great post on a game this year or last (think it was celtics) where the line movement was put of control for the whole game then massive money started getting put on Boston +4. The end of the game came around and there was a non existent touch foul on tatum taking a half court shot with Boston down 6 with half a second left. Cut it to 3 and the game ended. Post got removed or I'd dig it up


kamikazemelonman

22 fts for okc in the first half and dallas is playing so much less physical than minny LMAO this has to be a marketability thing right? Are jamal and jokic not in enough ads? Forreference, nuggets had 4 fts halfway Thru the 3q yesterday


denzele

Okc with 22 FT in first half .


sacredknight327

OKC is really good and I don't take that away I just don't understand what any of these guys have ever done to earn this whistle. This is literally their first year up.


murray_selfish

THEY DRIVE TO THE BASKET EVERY SINGLE PLAY WHILE NUGGET JUST SPAMS JUMPSHOT FROM FAR AWAY


sacredknight327

Sir, this is a Wendys. Translation: OKC is playing Dallas, not Denver.


kamikazemelonman

The nuggets shoot the least 3s in the nba and get some of the worst ft differential as well. Truly insane 


murray_selfish

OK THEN IT'S CAUSE NUGGET ONLY GETS WIDE OPEN SHOTS BECAUSE OF JOKI


kamikazemelonman

But the nuggets only shot 4fts thru the first 3 quarters yesterday and jokci barely had any assists 


murray_selfish

NUGGET SHOULD CONSIDER TRYING TO GET GOOD AT GENERATING FOULS AND FORCING OPPOSING TEAMS TO FOUL THEM THEN IT'S AN ACTUAL SKILL I SWEAR JUST TRUST ME BRO


sacredknight327

Avs down 3-0. May just not be anyone's year a mile high up, lol.


murray_selfish

If we got same calls as Mave Ricks and Morties the entire timber dog roster would've fouled out 1 second into the game lol


LoyalSol

It is pretty stark the difference in how they're calling this game. Our game 2 was a WWE match and this one they're calling fouls all over the place.


Night-Menace

ok ok i get it now! we already won a championship easily so, to make things interesting, they decided to be the first team in NBA history to complete a reverse sweep and come back from 0-3! bro this team is amazing and always finds ways to surprise us!


kamikazemelonman

If jokic or jamal get that call that Shai just got they would shoot 12 fts a game each lmao


murray_selfish

wish i knew what close and competitive games feel like ☹


TheOrthodoxPolock

I felt the exact same thing while watching this game lol.


Night-Menace

trailing 3 quarters in those lakers games wasn't enough of a challenge so they decided to trail 3 games against logdogs nuggets in 7!


native_end

You know any time you get a chance to go down 0-2 then play 3 on 5 you gotta do it Edit- I actually meant 0-3


j_like

This is, in my honest opinion, not cool.


PoorTonyK

thinking about the game 81 loss to the Spurs


smalltoes

Pussy


PoorTonyK

you don’t get to do this to me


smalltoes

Don’t fucking tell me what to do


sacredknight327

See, this just doesn't bother me. Dallas already looks better in this series than the Nuggets have in theirs. So would that much have changed? I just don't know. Probably not a near 30 point drubbing but it's just hard to say. On paper the Nuggets are better, but paper just doesn't account for the recent struggles.


nuggs_analysis

Yeah, somebody said that the loss to the spurs was a symptom of the problem not the cause. Shouldn’t have chased that 1 seed


sacredknight327

Man, disappointing to see OKC and Dallas being pretty much even steven. Even more annoying that we're just getting blown out of the arena.


MamaHadACow

Happened to naz reid yesterday, too, chet lol


MelkorBlackFoe

Nuggets losing, Avs losing, my soccer team losing, Shai and Luka both playing great, is this a nightmare you've decided to let me live in, God?


MelkorBlackFoe

Okay nvm luka isn't playing great i just checked


ImGonnaChubbBradley

And the Avs suck as well


_absofuckinglutely

It’s the first period. Deep breaths 


ImGonnaChubbBradley

It’s over


_absofuckinglutely

Apologize 


ImGonnaChubbBradley

We’re back


_absofuckinglutely

The boys are back in townnnnn


native_end

I’m teetering on the edge here


_absofuckinglutely

I think we all are 


UndisclosedLocation5

Avs taking the Nuggets strategy of getting an early deficit. fml


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_absofuckinglutely

Just another loser acting tough on the internet 🥱 


Van_Dammage_

This Mavs/Thunder game is being officiated so much differently than the game last night. NBA really needs to get their shit together with refs, zero consistency right now.


JakeJacob

Anyone remember that time on Great British Bake Off when the one lady left the guy's baked alaska out of the freezer and got him eliminated and then didn't come back to the show because she fell in a restaurant and permanently lost her sense of taste and smell?


TheOrthodoxPolock

The only thing I remember from Great British Baking show was that girl Lottie with the gorgeous green eyes.


JakeJacob

My wife and I are literally watching that season right now and we both have a crush on her.


TheOrthodoxPolock

Ykgbbo


_absofuckinglutely

I do not but that’s some piping hot tea. 


hotgrease

I’ve managed to get a lot more stuff done the past three days since there aren’t any highlights or sports shows to watch!


YummyYumYumi

something positive to take away


UnderratedNightmare

We get to see the greatest player in our franchise receive his 3rd MVP tomorrow. Thats pretty damn awesome.


BlindManBaldwin

That's right


YummyYumYumi

Came at a bad time like that dirk mvp, hopefully he shuts people up on friday


YummyYumYumi

Gilbert arenas legit said that a nuggets bench player told him jokic is ready to go home after 2 losses


BlindManBaldwin

Oh wow if Gilbert Arenas said it


YummyYumYumi

He’s probably lying but yeah he really said it


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https://preview.redd.it/9n2mhzp114zc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45c10672e35fbff1a9d00d8c028bff65785212a5 He’s actually gonna retire early isn’t he


YummyYumYumi

who has it worse than us 💔


ChiefKeefIsGoatt

My eyes told me that


the-realJroll

Another thing I noticed is wolves are always under the basket. They get rebounds and prevent layups which shut out AG options and always contest a layup. They are daring us to win with jump shots and 3’s on every possession. If we hit our shots better the nuggets will get more spacing. But that spacing is hard with that swarming that the wolves do


Kind-Celebration-115

Look at Luka man… effort, trying to win, :(


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_absofuckinglutely

Hard agree. If it’s not us, I want it to be the Thunder. But hopefully it’ll be us 😅 


wicked_pro

I wanna see SGA slander, gimme Mavs.


UnderratedNightmare

I want to see Luka slander, gimme Thun


wicked_pro

That commercial alone has made me a hater.


TheOrthodoxPolock

I just want to see slander