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Jamal Murray had an over my dead body 4th quarter. That's exactly what it's going to take.

Now they can go to L.A and play loose. Steal a game even. Hell Game 3. Why not? No room for complacency

donlittle25:
Just saw George Karl. Hope he is healthy

The man don old sha. Make we just dey pray

This Austin Reaves no dey gree. Lol nuisance

Why is AD spamming 3 there. All they needed was a 2. The Nuggets are a superb rebounding team if you miss it's unlikely you get the ball again

Austin Reaves. Mein Gottt

AD is having a shocker

A40:
It's Joever

Maybe I spoke too soon. Nuggets absolutely cannot lose this lead. This is series on the line right here. If they win I can't see LA recover from two energy sapping Ls but if they lose it could end in 6 or worse

Khanben:
Dame explained this perfectly in his podcast with JJ Reddick. The fact is if guys like Mark Price, Stockton, Nash played now they would have taken 22 shots. Nash has said it repeatedly that if he had to do it all over again he would have shot more. The threshold for efficiency when shooting the 3 ball is just too low. If you are taking 2s at 55% as a team, just shooting 35% from 3 covers that.
Yesterday's game showed it, the Heat just outscored the Celtics basically because their 3 bal was falling

Well that would be because the bigs are not as good and we are in a guard dominant league today. That's why I tell people there's nothing players do today that guys in the past couldn't. It's just that their roles were more defined.

What do you think a Larry Bird taking 8 3s a game would look like today?

Well the Warriors series also showed that the 3 ball is a hit and miss. The Heat this postseason have been shooting at an unbelievable clip besides the Knicks series where somehow the Knicks found a way to shoot even worse than the Heat did.

We've also seen were the 3 ball can spectacularly fail you so balancing both at just the right mix is always the best way to go cos on a cold shooting night you will simply have no shot

It's Joever

Murray getting the memo finally. The shots are falling

Shey Roland sees why I get on AD. Too inconsistent

The upside to the Nuggets early foul trouble is that now guys like MAGA Mike and KCP would be fresh for the run in.

Let's see how this ends

Khanben:
Nash and CP3 can shoot. We should not forget that Kidd could not shoot for most of his career. The older Kidd would fit now perfectly, but the young Kidd would be played out of the rotation because he could not shoot. Lonzo's stint in LA apart from the injury issues was bad because of his inability to shoot, he played point as well as any one and done player could have played it, but as soon as the other team starts sagging and forcing him to take the shot, his own game crashes.

Kidd was so excellent at everything else that he didn't have to be able to be a great shooter. His efficiency was off the charts running the offense that's why he dragged ragtag Nets teams to the Finals twice in the 00s with zero all stars.

Lonzo is nothing like Jason Kidd not even close

Khanben:
Exactly, in today's NBA a floor general is only valuable if you can shoot. The fact is simple, a player with the ability to shoot and do some playmaking fits today more than a true floor general who cannot shoot remember Lonzo in LA

But even the past floor generals could shoot. They just took 12 shots instead of 22. Mark Price, John Stockton, Nash, CP3,

All these guys could shoot. And were not turnover machines

Lack of skilled and dominant bigs obviously make it acute for your floor general to be able to shoot and when you look at the supposed floor generals today. You see that their bigs are usually lemmings and can't get their own buckets. Look at the Cavs, Hawks, Warriors, Memphis the list is endless

donlittle25:
Someone has to yell at murray to be a point guard. It has to come from the best player on the team

That Bubble Murray talk has clearly gotten to his head, he thinks he's Kobe now

These guys don't have any feel for the game. So on a bad shooting night they don't think ok let me use my skills to feed other guys so they get going and I can take over late.

The game is still within reach but he needs to play better and give his team a chance

Murray wth man

donlittle25:
Point guard wey him shot no fit go in and he no fit control the floor. Ah, Basketball don change. Just imagine Jason Kidd or Nash. These kids dey tire me everyday.

There's no real point guards or floor generals today just combo guards who just happened to be listed as PG.

donlittle25:
If Jokic starts scoring rather than passing, I think it opens up the game and puts lakers in foul trouble

He's trying his best. I think foul trouble disrupted their rhythm. KCP and MAGA Mike being in foul trouble early hardly helped.

And Murray all those bad shots he was making in Game 1 he's missing today and even missing the ones he has better looks.

They're lucky to only be down 5 with how badly they've started IMO. Some reserve or role player on the Nuggets is going to have to match Hachimura's numbers. Hachimura is really a problem. They have no answer for him

Jamal is shooting his team out of this game

Damn. If Murray had hit that. He's been missing like crazy today

I think we're looking at a tied series guys

Guys like Hachimura, Reaves is why I curse anyone calling this team underdog. You're being disrespectful to those guys.

This Lakers team can go on those quick 7-0 runs if you slack a minute.

Donkey like Aaron Gordon is not helping matters either

This Hachimura guy mehnn. Pelinka really pulled off a heist for this guy. Don't know what the other GMs were looking at

donlittle25:
Lakers daring christian braun and man’s can’t buy a bucket

Missing some easy shots. Denver have missed a lot of easy shots

Two Nuggets starters and a bench guy already in foul trouble. Hmmm. They will have to trust their reserves today

FirstbornWds:
One Pep agendist gradually folding in..

I'm not sure you defended Pep up to me back in the day. My beef was with him not bringing us the CL with a team I thought was going to win multiple at the time. Strictly business nothing personal

oliverano:
Lol 😂

It took the annihilation of UCL Aura FC for you to admit how crazy this team is Chief.

Their home record was there, their H2H against Madrid was there. We talked about it but no. Aura wins UCL for Madrid.

I'm happy you can now see how crazy they're especially at home in the UCL!

Who do I trust. The tried and tested 14x champion or the City I've seen choke many times before with this same squad

I'm sorry I went with the former and I'm Gucci about that. Congrats to Pep and City. Let's hope they finish the job. THIS TIME

This City team na very crazy team though. How do they do it? Today it's KDB, another day it's Gundogan tomorrow it's Bernardo Silva. The quality of their finishes and their eye for goal is ridiculous.

Anyways the CL is City's to lose now. They have several times in the past lost to sides they had no business losing to so I don't entirely trust them yet. Even that 2021 Final. We were drinking at my granny's funeral and I narrowly avoided betting on City that night cos in my head I didn't think they would come that far just to lose

monerozi5590:
No, na 20 goals we go concede. 4 too small self. . Like Rooney like you.

Be like we even try sef. If not calamity Upamenonsense for defense and Sane wey miss golden chance we might have held our own

So basically just sacked Nagelsmann for nothing

Khanben:
As much as he does in the playoffs, the regular season still counts. If we start making it all about the playoffs, then we should expect players to coast during the regular and just gear up for the playoffs

But it's not that Jimmy coasts. He's still an All NBA candidate. I think he made it this year.

But I'm sorry maybe because regular season basketball and playoff basketball is like Maths vs Further Maths. It's almost like they are playing a different sport.

One or two more postseason runs like this and you're telling me I should accept James Harden is better? Cos of regular season? When he can't perform vs the best of the best

Mere looking at the two rosters Boston has no business not winning in 5 but now we're looking at a potential dogfight

Celtics better be careful. When you face underdogs with no track record of choking your aim should be to crush and annihilate them. At halftime I thought ok this is potential blowout not even 3 minutes into the 3rd quarter tied game. That's when I knew these guys are not serious