2024 NBA Playoffs: West 1st Round: #2 Denver Nuggets vs #7 Los Angeles Lakers (DEN WINS 4-1)

[nbafan38]

Won't if the Lakers comes back and becomes the first ever team to come back and win the series down, 0-3??

Ya never know.

Anyhow, TWolves probably beats the winner of this series in the next round.

I still like Denver to close this out in 5 and beat the twolves but if Murray is not healthy it changes a lot of expectations.

[California Gold]

Nuggets have to close this out in 5. If they don't they are really playing with fire. Yeah they're the defending champs but anyone can get beat if you keep playing with your food.

[Jaqua92]

Won't if the Lakers comes back and becomes the first ever team to come back and win the series down, 0-3??

Ya never know.

Anyhow, TWolves probably beats the winner of this series in the next round.

I still like Denver to close this out in 5 and beat the twolves but if Murray is not healthy it changes a lot of expectations.

Hell no. The Nuggets are done. If Murray is questionable with a calf injury, how is it going to heal if he plays? He either rests the first few games vs the Wolves, and they lose. Or he toughs it out, plays, and plays horribly.

Nuggets season is over. Even him being "questionable" is catastrophic for the season.

[nbafan38]

Won't if the Lakers comes back and becomes the first ever team to come back and win the series down, 0-3??

Ya never know.

Anyhow, TWolves probably beats the winner of this series in the next round.

I still like Denver to close this out in 5 and beat the twolves but if Murray is not healthy it changes a lot of expectations.

Hell no. The Nuggets are done. If Murray is questionable with a calf injury, how is it going to heal if he plays? He either rests the first few games vs the Wolves, and they lose. Or he toughs it out, plays, and plays horribly.

Nuggets season is over. Even him being "questionable" is catastrophic for the season.

Yea they could sit him out tomorrow and game 6 and only bring him back this series if there is a game 7 but I know that's risky.

[Special_Puppy]

Murray questionable with a calf strain. Might get Reggie Jackson playing 35 minutes in a playoff game

Reggie rolled his ankle the other day. He's not playing 35 mins. If Murray is a no-go, they're done.

Justin Holiday starting baby

[Special_Puppy]

Won't if the Lakers comes back and becomes the first ever team to come back and win the series down, 0-3??

Ya never know.

Anyhow, TWolves probably beats the winner of this series in the next round.

I still like Denver to close this out in 5 and beat the twolves but if Murray is not healthy it changes a lot of expectations.

Hell no. The Nuggets are done. If Murray is questionable with a calf injury, how is it going to heal if he plays? He either rests the first few games vs the Wolves, and they lose. Or he toughs it out, plays, and plays horribly.

Nuggets season is over. Even him being "questionable" is catastrophic for the season.

Would be pretty maddening if 3 out of 4 years of Jokic playing like a MVP candidate are completely wasted because Murray can't stay healthy

[Ssj16]

Why are people just writing off Denver against Minnesota? Minnesota looks very strong this year but they haven't been deep in the playoffs with this core and we don't know how they will respond playing against the former champs just based off the Phx series or the regular season.

[AleksandarN]

Not good. He was grabbing his calf last game. I was hoping it was just a cramp. Hoping nothing too serious

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[Jaqua92]

Why are people just writing off Denver against Minnesota? Minnesota looks very strong this year but they haven't been deep in the playoffs with this core and we don't know how they will respond playing against the former champs just based off the Phx series or the regular season.

If Murray is playable, they'll beat Minnesota. But they need Murray

[Wolfgang630]

Why are people just writing off Denver against Minnesota? Minnesota looks very strong this year but they haven't been deep in the playoffs with this core and we don't know how they will respond playing against the former champs just based off the Phx series or the regular season.

They can’t win without their second guy

[Special_Puppy]

Why are people just writing off Denver against Minnesota? Minnesota looks very strong this year but they haven't been deep in the playoffs with this core and we don't know how they will respond playing against the former champs just based off the Phx series or the regular season.

Murray is playing very, very, very poorly so far and might not be 100% in time for game 1 of Minnesota. If Murray is not playing like a top 20 player in the league then Denver is basically completely screwed because the rest of Jokic's supporting cast isn't good enough to compensate for that against a true title contender like Minnesota

[California Gold]

Won't if the Lakers comes back and becomes the first ever team to come back and win the series down, 0-3??

Ya never know.

Anyhow, TWolves probably beats the winner of this series in the next round.

I still like Denver to close this out in 5 and beat the twolves but if Murray is not healthy it changes a lot of expectations.

Hell no. The Nuggets are done. If Murray is questionable with a calf injury, how is it going to heal if he plays? He either rests the first few games vs the Wolves, and they lose. Or he toughs it out, plays, and plays horribly.

Nuggets season is over. Even him being "questionable" is catastrophic for the season.

That's jumping the gun a bit imo.

[darkse1d]

if Murray is out (likely for the series), the lakers are going to force a game 7. The Nuggers also don't have a reliable back up and Reggie is trash.

[Wolfgang630]

I’d rather have broken Murray out there as a decoy

[darkse1d]

I’d rather have broken Murray out there as a decoy

lebron is gonna hunt him down and play him off the court and it also increases the chances of making it worse. We all saw what happened with a Kawhi decoy in game 2/3 vs the mavs and a lillard decoy in overtime of game 3 against the pacers.

[NyKnicks1714]

In just one game, Denver went from Western Conference champions to losing in the 2nd Round. Amazing!

[B-easy]

Murray will probably play. He will just have a reduced role.

[Ssj16]

I won't lie, the responses to why Denver can't beat Minny make sense since they are all based on the pretense that Nuggets need Murray to beat Minnesota.

I'd still would wait to see how the first 2 games go, provided they both made it to the next round because, I give extra credit to a team that's been there before vs the team that hasn't.

Either way, I hope Murray gets healthy as soon as possible and if he doesn't it will be interesting to see if Jokic can go to a next gear, which I believe he has.

[Wolfgang630]

You know what this means?? The mindset I said joker needs to have; now he really needs to have it. To be a dominant scorer from Q1 if Murray can’t do much

[Special_Puppy]

In just one game, Denver went from Western Conference champions to losing in the 2nd Round. Amazing!

I had Denver losing in the second round before the playoffs started tbf (I had them losing to the Sons though)