@Dustin_S03 @Wizelycook If a player at the level of “Naz” being injured is enough to discredit a championship run, not a single championship counts by your standards in NBA history
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@Wizelycook Nuggets 2023 finals run:
Round 1: No Naz or McDaniels
Round 2: KD+ Booker and friends
Round 3: D’lo starting pg and no one to guard Jamal, 1 foot bron
Finals: injured Jimmy and the 8th seed Heat
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@BeMoreInShape27 @murray_center27 He was really solid in game 2
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@sponsoredbybook @jCal_7 @TheMFBSports @oldnbatweetz Well Denver is 1-1 with AG so clearly he actually contributed to a win, which CP3 did not
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@MPJ_supporter @jCal_7 @TheMFBSports @oldnbatweetz Holy smokes if that’s your logic then AG injury doesn’t affect this wolves series at all since they lost G2 with him too, Ant and Gobert snatching Chokics Chain just like 2023 foh
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This is a real starting lineup that the Nuggets played against in a Game 6 of the WCSF
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@jCal_7 @TheMFBSports @oldnbatweetz Suns were 0-2 when CP3 played and Ayton only missed one game… in which they were blown out by 30 at halftime lmao. He wasn’t changing anything
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@TheMFBSports @oldnbatweetz That was heavily predicted on having a healthy Chris Paul and Ayton
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@spainpnr The Suns and Lakers teams specifically were significantly better after they had traded for KD/traded away Russ. Wolves also missed KAT for a large portion of the regular season. Nobody who’s tried to downplay the 2023 run has applied a shred of context to these stats
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Are we deadass?
This is the average net rating from the last 30 champion’s 4 playoff opponents
The Nuggets are in a universe of their own when it comes to cupcake runs, they basically played 4 .500 quality teams
year 23@johnrivers131
How was that path easy ?
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@DeOneAndShawnly @PranavSriraman Denver won in 5 lmao at max they lose in 6 instead
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@PranavSriraman if Jaden and Naz played in 2023 Jokic would have 1 conference finals appearance to his name
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Nuggets only window to win titles was during one of the worst stretches the league has seen post merger despite having GOAT Jokic?
year 23@johnrivers131
Nuggets window to win titles was 2021-2024 yall knew that and the bucks window to win a titles was 2019-2021. Both franchises did the job
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Nuggets hate watch has been beautiful post 2023 man
GIF
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@SwipaCam @BronGotGame Lol you mad jokic not winning another ring
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@DOC323123 Jokic is having an all-time stinker but the revisionist history today is straight up some of the dumbest I’ve ever seen. People claiming he’s “always been a playoff dropper” when he has
been equal or better in the playoffs every year compared to the regular season up until now
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You yourself literally did not say this in 2023 prior to the playoffs do not get revionist lol
500 🏎@Kameron_Hay
I cannot agree on the Denver front. They have had more than enough around Joker this era. Giannis I would be somewhat inclined to agree but he has a loss to an eight seed as a 1 seed on his resume where he actively ran from the ball in crunch time of the elimination game.
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@omgitsbirdman He’s been a playoff riser in 75% of his playoff runs. Keep your arguments based in reality next time
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@aryh21 Jokic has objectively been a playoff riser compared to his regular season production in 6/8 of his playoff runs. Shai has been a playoff riser in 0 playoff runs
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Remember Shai had to prove himself as some immutable playoff performer because Jokic was so perfect
Jason Timpf@_JasonLT
Shai’s TS% plummeted in the playoffs last year. If he can demonstrate this level of play for 4 rounds, then we can have a conversation. But at the end of the day, the regular season is just that, the regular season. That’s why every year on opening weekend of the playoffs we’re so surprised at how different the game looks.
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@NarayanSomesh @fwfatsean @TheWestbrookEra This is straight revisionist history that’s not based in reality whatsoever. From 2019-24 is playoff stats improved from his regular season. Only last two seasons have they dropped (with 2025 only being a slight drop at best)
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@fwfatsean @TheWestbrookEra With 2 horrific losses in game 7s. He has been a playoff dropper most of his career
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Luka destroyed the same Wolves team that cooked Jokic in ‘24 and it literally got swept under the rug. Jokic PR is unreal he’s not better than Luka either.
ريفز🇸🇴@NotLikeAr
Shai gentlemen swept this wolves team btw, don’t ever put Jokic in that convo again
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@spainpnr Gun to your head name a memorable SGA playoff moment
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Silver gave this guy a play-in-tournament series for the championship meanwhile Embiid got Bells Palsy and knee cartilage erosion
Spain 🇨🇦@spainpnr
Jokic entire 2020’s playoff resume is actually atrocious outside of one year where he got to play 7 and 8 seeds all playoff run
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@imnoosaint @gsaikrishna95 @KBknowsball Suns post-KD trade and Lakers post-Russ trade were well above a 50 win pace that year. Anytime this argument is made 0 context is presented
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@gsaikrishna95 @KBknowsball He played no teams with over 50 wins....
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@no_real_id @TOUGHTlME Was cooking him in the clutch. Also 40-pieced Rudy during their last playoff series vs each other on straight ISO ball
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@TOUGHTlME It’s the same player. He flopped and got Rudy in foul trouble which is why he isn’t present for majority of these highlights.
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@FunkyDiabetic1 Tbh I think it’s more to do with Jokic than anything. He just hasn’t seemed to quite be himself for a while
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@Adam_Mares Idk man it feels like the magic has just ran out. We used to be a team who would always just figure it out and comeback in the 4th, but this whole season it’s been the complete opposite
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This series feels very similar to the 2020 series vs Utah. Only other time Jokic got completely dismantled in a matchup.
Bounced back in game 4 in a loss and was great the rest of the way. But that game 3 was just as bad as tonight’s.
Bobby@BobbyMlRE
last time this happened in a game 3 vs a Gobert team we won the series #notoveryet #youwontbreakmysoul
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@cambury @Reasonable68 @Perrywinkle1267 The lack of depth was the main factor. Our best bench player was by far Justin Holiday of all people which was a terrible sign. Had to overtax a banged up Murray and the rest of the starters to an unsustainable degree
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@Reasonable68 @Perrywinkle1267 Right they were comebacks. LA didn't have the fire power to keep it up. It was the same way the playoffs before Lakers blew a bunch of leads to Nuggets
The thing is the Nuggets just didn't play well that playoffs overall or like themselves.
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Watching some of the 23-24 Wolves/Nuggets series and 2 things are very evident.
1. Jamal Murray was very gimpy.
2. Aaron Gordon was waaaaay healthier.
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@wolvesnotback @D0z_M4n_D4rk Nuggets win 2024 if Murray isn’t playing through multiple injuries
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@D0z_M4n_D4rk wolves hand them a beatdown if jaden and naz both dont have broken wrists
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LOOK HOW WEAK THE NBA WAS IN 2023. 1 SEED WON 53 GAMES. JA THE 2 SEED, SABONIS THE FUCKING 3 SEED. YOU GOT OLD WASHED BRON AND STEPH. JOKIC PLAYED AN 8 SEED IN THE FUCKING FINALS. THOSE DAYS DONE. NOW YOU GOT REAL LEGENDS WITH STACKED TEAMS RUNNING THE LEAGUE. NO MORE FAKE RINGS
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@D0z_M4n_D4rk Funny thing is absolutely nobody was saying that at the time. You all thought Denver were “frauds” than moved the goal posts afterwards
WADE 🧾@Its_Wade
Interesting...
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