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Post by wizardofcozz on May 4, 2024 20:36:55 GMT -5
I've consistently felt they're a better team overall with Naz on floor because they know who they are. They use Maz as a floor spacer but he can also post up or get to rim. Imagine what we'd be like offensively if AG shot the 3 like Naz.
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Post by Ring on May 4, 2024 20:37:31 GMT -5
Pretty much as expected, tough game till the end but was hoping we win. It’s OK, Minnesota draws the first blood, but we will bounce back. Some things need to be tightened and next one goes our way. As someone said, N Reid won that game for them with those 3 possessions when game was breaking. Need Murray have better starts of the game, ‘0’ (or even 5) at half is not gonna workin this series. The game was lost in the 2nd half. Nuggets were up 4 at half with Murray being scoreless and Jokic shooting poorly. They played no defense in the 2H.
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Post by GBG on May 4, 2024 20:38:41 GMT -5
Barkley just said Jokic expends too much energy against two 7-footers, then says, “I don’t know this, uh, Zeke Nnaji..”. I laughed pretty hard.
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Post by passtheballquick on May 4, 2024 20:39:28 GMT -5
We both made more 3s and shot a higher % and lost. Wolves also had more turnovers too. We're cooked. They shot 70% in the 2nd half with circus shots and flukey bank shots. That won't happen again. Yes this is an insanely tough series. But let's not act like it's over. But we won't see Jaden with 0 points on 0 for 7 shooting. Last time he had 26 points on like 80% fg against us
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Post by jimijam28 on May 4, 2024 20:39:41 GMT -5
blow it up- its over
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Post by GBG on May 4, 2024 20:41:55 GMT -5
We need a real 6th man next season, and a real backup C. Two different players needed, IMO. Can we get both with Zeke, a combination of young players and draft capital when we are already in 2nd apron on July 1st? Seems a tall task, to say the least!
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Post by aussie on May 4, 2024 20:42:37 GMT -5
Bench not the reason we lost this. They gave us ok minutes.
Nikola can be far better and as others have said, Jamal is not going to have another 0 point half.
Win game 2 and we good
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Post by GBG on May 4, 2024 20:45:15 GMT -5
Bench not the reason we lost this. They gave us ok minutes. Nikola can be far better and as others have said, Jamal is not going to have another 0 point half. Win game 2 and we good Only way we win this series is in 7th game. I see us winning Monday, losing first game in Minny, winning second, then trading home wins in games 5 and 6. Game 7 will be here, and I hope it turns out better than it did in 2019 against Portland.
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Post by inyourmind on May 4, 2024 20:46:21 GMT -5
Jokic was awful defensively, wasn't great on the glass, turned the ball over like crazy, and missed hittable shots. Murray actively hurt the team in the 1st half. We spotted Minny a 10 point lead.
Yet we still had a chance to win the game. That's really the only positives you can take away. You could make the argument that our bench minutes/3 point shooting will likely regress tho.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2024 20:47:09 GMT -5
Malone should have played DeAndre/Zeke at backup center
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2024 20:47:42 GMT -5
I would like to see Watson get some minutes on Anthony Edwards for game 2
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Post by aussie on May 4, 2024 20:49:04 GMT -5
Bench not the reason we lost this. They gave us ok minutes. Nikola can be far better and as others have said, Jamal is not going to have another 0 point half. Win game 2 and we good Only way we win this series is in 7th game. I see us winning Monday, losing first game in Minny, winning second, then trading home wins in games 5 and 6. Game 7 will be here, and I hope it turns out better than it did in 2019 against Portland. It was always going 6 or 7 IMO so the path you’ve predicted seems most logical now after a game 1 loss. Adjustments will be made, win game 2 and go from there
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Post by Ring on May 4, 2024 20:50:23 GMT -5
Jokic was awful defensively, wasn't great on the glass, turned the ball over like crazy, and missed hittable shots. Murray actively hurt the team in the 1st half. We spotted Minny a 10 point lead. Yet we still had a chance to win the game. That's really the only positives you can take away. You could make the argument that our bench minutes/3 point shooting will likely regress tho. Very disappointing 2nd half from Jokic tbh. Rudy got him many times but again...he's the DPOY like every year. We're spoiled by Jokic but Rudy is good enough to make him work really hard. The defense isn't going to be fixed though. Jokic is going to use so much energy on that end.
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Post by Ring on May 4, 2024 20:50:40 GMT -5
Only way we win this series is in 7th game. I see us winning Monday, losing first game in Minny, winning second, then trading home wins in games 5 and 6. Game 7 will be here, and I hope it turns out better than it did in 2019 against Portland. It was always going 6 or 7 IMO so the path you’ve predicted seems most logical now after a game 1 loss. Adjustments will be made, win game 2 and go from there Feels like Minny in 4 after that game.
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Post by Camby's Left Nut on May 4, 2024 20:50:41 GMT -5
We need a real 6th man next season, and a real backup C. Two different players needed, IMO. Can we get both with Zeke, a combination of young players and draft capital when we are already in 2nd apron on July 1st? Seems a tall task, to say the least! Probably not, since I don't think you can aggregate salaries together anymore. It's so hard to build a perennial title team now with these new rules, unless you get really lucky with late draft picks and vet minimum signings.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2024 20:51:09 GMT -5
My prediction is wrong again ...this is going 6 or 7 games
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2024 20:52:12 GMT -5
Rooting for the wolves because a lot of guys here don’t deserve to be happy At least this German guy is happy
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Post by BBBbbb on May 4, 2024 20:54:07 GMT -5
Hopefully Jokic adjusts, he's shown the ability to do so as the series progress and I hope that will be the case in this series.
Murray worries me more. If he cannot move on defense we're fucked. Calf is bothering him, and one thing with those injuries is that it affects your defensive reaction more than offense, which was quite visible. Regardless of the injury, he needs to control his game more, can't keep digging us into a hole on offense as well, which he did for a big chunk of the game. Chances of getting this Reggie next game are close to 0.
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Post by rock on May 4, 2024 20:55:39 GMT -5
My prediction is wrong again ...this is going 6 or 7 games If we are lucky Game 2 is going to be a blowout
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Post by passtheballquick on May 4, 2024 21:08:06 GMT -5
Jokic was awful defensively, wasn't great on the glass, turned the ball over like crazy, and missed hittable shots. Murray actively hurt the team in the 1st half. We spotted Minny a 10 point lead. Yet we still had a chance to win the game. That's really the only positives you can take away. You could make the argument that our bench minutes/3 point shooting will likely regress tho. How was Jokic bad defensively lol. He guarded Gobert all the time. This was max you'd get from Jokic defensively when he needs to take the scoring load like tonight.
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