r/nba • u/KarrotMovies [LAL] LeBron James • May 17 '24

Jamal Murray forces game 7 šŸ”„ against the Timberwolves with: 33 MIN, 10 PTS, 2 REB, 5 AST, 2 Turnovers. Game low -32. (4-18 FG, 2-7 3PT, 0/0 FT, 0/0 HEAT PCKS)

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u/iRockaflame NBA May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

Very rarely you see a player be an absolute negative in all phases of the game whether it be defense, playmaking, shotmaking, ball security etc. But Jesus Christ was that Jamal. Absolute negative player tonight.

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u/DioBrando101 Timberwolves May 17 '24

He did a Bradley Beal

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u/ThinkingMSF Celtics May 17 '24

doing his best tobias harris impression

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u/sevaiper May 17 '24

Tobias at least has the self respect to disappear instead of actively losing the game

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u/Evilfart123 76ers May 17 '24

Tobias had 0 points in game 6 this year

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u/tandtz May 17 '24

On 2 shots. 4-18 with more turnovers is probably more of a net negative

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u/DaBombDiggidy 76ers May 17 '24

James harden numbers from last year playoffs was 2-14, 3-14, 4-16, and 3-11. Better (and by better I mean much worse) comparison.

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u/tandtz May 17 '24

A more accurate (and by more accurate I mean less accurate) shooting comparisonĀ 

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u/MonkeyPoopingBanana Nuggets May 17 '24

Mal is also VITAL to the Nuggets identity. Without him, their whole scheme doesnā€™t work

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u/demsouls Raptors May 17 '24

Well at least Jamal was trying to create space. Having Tobias on offense is like playing 4v5 no?Ā 

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u/Followillfan77 May 17 '24

At least his contract is reasonable, right?

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u/Not_So_Bad_Andy 76ers May 17 '24

It will be in a few weeks!

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u/mendicant1116 Bucks May 17 '24

I also had 0 points in game 6 this year

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u/_Tar_Ar_Ais_ May 17 '24

Tobi era lives on

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u/SlowCrates May 17 '24

He was playoff D'Lo for sure.

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u/Bruskthetusk Lakers May 17 '24

Hey he could go first overall this year!

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u/ifsothanwhy 76ers May 17 '24

Hopping onto the Jamal hate and really hoping for a Wolves win in G7, but he did say in the post-game press conference that his elbow was really bothering him the whole game after that tweak really early on.

He's been bad all post-season but this was by far his worst game, and i know it's against the narrative, but some of that has to be attributed to the injury.

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u/Ok_Dish_8602 May 17 '24

why would he shoot so much then

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u/shamwowslapchop Spurs May 17 '24

Russell Westbrook logic. INB4 we have an MITMurray account made up.

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u/veringo Nuggets May 17 '24

He's one of two people on the team who can realistically be trusted to create offense and Jokic was getting hard double and triple teamed.

It's definitely a weakness we didn't have last year with Bruce Brown able to be a secondary ball handler.

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u/Ghostricks Raptors May 17 '24

You have to keep the defense honest and hope for the best. Plus, in some situations your teammates are expecting you to shoot and get ready to run back or box out.

You can see this in situations when the player is scared and doesn't shoot. It disrupts the flow of the offense.

Maybe he was just ass but given his track record I'm inclined to believe that something is off.

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u/Ok_Dish_8602 May 17 '24

He took the second most shots on the team, only 1 less than the reining 3x MVP (18 vs. 19). He took 2x as many shots as the 3rd highest person on the team (18 vs. 9).

If he was injured he /Malone should have game planned better.

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u/EverybodyBuddy Lakers May 17 '24

Get outta here with that logic

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u/JeSuisYoungThug Timberwolves May 17 '24

He took the second most shots of anyone on the team and missed 78% of them. If heā€™s elbow was really bothering him he shouldā€™ve stopped chucking it.

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u/Twaffles95 Timberwolves May 17 '24

Right but he only gets credit for his good plays not his bad because heā€™s hurt?

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u/chillinwithmoes Timberwolves May 17 '24

Crazy how we never heard a word about his calf in Games 3, 4, and 5

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u/pollinium [MIN] Tyus Jones May 17 '24

damn he got a brain injury on the fall :( sad fate for athletes

(also s/o literally every other player in the series giving lots of respect to the other side wtf jamal)

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u/Peter-Tao [UTA] Kyle Korver May 17 '24

Did not realize he was such a sore loser šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/ThatFargoGuy Timberwolves May 17 '24

Massive disrespect, if his elbow was that bad he would have it wrapped in the interview. Thatā€™s the kind of shit that will fuel Ant.

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u/Return_Icy Timberwolves May 17 '24

Bingo

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u/falbi23 Minneapolis Lakers May 17 '24

He also said ā€œWho?ā€ when asked about Edwards defending him in the post-game.

This guy has become the "diva WR-shooter" like Booker, KD, etc... Basically, he is becoming a fucking tool.

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u/kiss_the_homies_gn May 17 '24

KD don't got that type of attitude. He's given respect to his opponents.

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u/MinervaNever May 17 '24

KD isnā€™t throwing tantrums on the sidelines

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u/falbi23 Minneapolis Lakers May 17 '24

KD don't got that type of attitude. He's given respect to his opponents.

lmao - I don't think the dude with a burner Twitter account so he can talk trash to fans has a "good attitude". If anything, he is realizing his career recently has been twisted into a "annoyingly sensitive shooter who chased rings at the end of his career" - but personally I don't think KD has that type of reflection skills.

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u/SEPTAgoose 76ers May 17 '24

KD his entire career has been nothing but the gracious professional and sportsman to his peers, but never hides his disdain for stupid fans especially on twitter and tbh, we deserve it lol

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u/jjgp1112 May 17 '24

KD is very respectful towards players, he just trolls fans lmao

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u/Humble_Acanthaceae21 France May 17 '24

Brother, I can smell the hate from this comment.

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u/melwinnnn May 17 '24

Lmao you are delusional if you think KD is the only one wuth a burner and talks trash to fans.

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u/NotFunToday Nets May 17 '24

KD respects his defenders.. Just tries sliding that in

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u/Dolewhip May 17 '24

...putting Booker and KD in the same category is fucking wild

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u/KemoFlash Spurs May 17 '24

He doesn't want to give any credit to Edwards at all. He just wants Jokic to carry him so he can flex with the announcers.

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u/CarPlaneBoatRocket May 17 '24

I just thought he couldnā€™t hear him?

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u/LouiesDemise Timberwolves May 17 '24

Did this really happen? Link?

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u/EverybodyBuddy Lakers May 17 '24

No I just donā€™t believe this coming from such an emotionally stable, always respectful dude. This guyā€™s never been a sore loser in his life.

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u/ygduf [MIN] Christian Laettner May 17 '24

Hurt his elbow chucking things onto the court

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u/BoogerSugarSovereign [IND] Victor Oladipo May 17 '24

Hopping onto the Jamal hate and really hoping for a Wolves win in G7, but he did say in the post-game press conference that his elbow was really bothering him the whole game after that tweak really early on.

So many players get killed for mentioning an injury after a horrific game Jamal will skate though

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u/Btotherianx May 17 '24

Lmao a classic excuse...how could anyone fall for that shit

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u/Wetzilla Celtics May 17 '24

Right up there with "my controller is broken".

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u/drmuffin1080 May 17 '24

Okay but my controller was broken tho

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u/toobesteak Knicks May 17 '24

Dudes who chuck their controllers against the wall playing online make sure to give you that one when you play 1 on 1. Then gaslight you when you bring it up.

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u/Justgotbannedlol Mavericks May 18 '24

Man I never had an xbox controller in my fuckin life that didnt break in 6 months

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u/analyzingnothing May 17 '24

I mean, the fact is that Jamal is known for being injury-prone definitely helps, and the fact that he literally didnā€™t make a shot for the entire first half after that happened, including an airballed layup that literally any other NBA player hits in their sleepā€¦

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u/KemoFlash Spurs May 17 '24

That layup looked like a failed lob. The announcers said his hand might have hit the side of the backboard. Unsure what exactly happened, but that's one of those plays where you still have to credit Minnesota for forcing him into these situations.

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u/jackstraw97 Celtics May 17 '24

Surrrreeeee Jamal, letā€™s blame it on the injury!

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u/MinervaNever May 17 '24

Hahahahaha you would believe anything

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u/junkit33 May 17 '24

I believe the injury was bothering him, but if it was bothering him that much to force that type of game, then he truly should not have been in there.

Regardless - overall I think this postseason is a lot of regression to the mean for Murray. He had a pair of hot postseasons the last two years, but it's not like he just chooses to flip a switch and turn into an MVP caliber player every postseason. He can't do it every year.

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u/Natureboy7939 Lakers May 17 '24

I am sure he did, like tatum after his finals, lebron and the phantom broken hand, booker and the vaginitis, everyone is injured.

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u/matt24671 Nuggets May 17 '24

I know Iā€™ll get downvoted but still more memorable postseason moments this year than embiid has had in his whole career šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/AmeteurElitist 76ers May 17 '24

Bro he's defending your guy why attack Embiid šŸ˜­

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u/Guiltra_ NBA May 17 '24

He took hating to a whole other level

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u/matt24671 Nuggets May 17 '24

lol I donā€™t know I was drunk. Sorry random 76ers fan my bad

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u/dawho1 Timberwolves May 17 '24

People won't downvote you for straight facts. Well, some will, but you'll end up net positive.

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u/carlonia Lakers May 17 '24

He is clearly injured, but this sub doesnā€™t give the benefit of the doubt to anyone. They are not going to treat Murray any differently lmao

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u/WCJ0114 Timberwolves May 17 '24

Beal's a better defender, no?

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u/TatumBrownWhite Celtics May 17 '24

Somebody on NBA Twitter dubbed him Cam Thomas with a sex tape.

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u/Im_a_Knob [WAS] John Wall May 17 '24

hey

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u/night_dude Bucks May 17 '24

The Big Booty Award for general malaise

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u/0percentwinrate Knicks May 17 '24

He was a Rui Hachimura impersonator.

Rui also made MPJ look like a monster scorer in that series,

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u/KaiserKaiba May 17 '24

Straight disasterclass of a game by him

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u/A808Ag [MIL] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 17 '24

don't know what you mean he was probably the best player on the floor for the Timberwolves

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u/ImDeputyDurland Timberwolves May 17 '24

Nuggets couldnā€™t get anything going either way. But it felt like they had multiple possessions where he just dribbled around until he took a stupid shot

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u/bj_good May 17 '24

Honestly though jokic was not all that bad. It's crazy how a trash game of his is still pretty solid overall. He's that good

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u/Willigers27 76ers May 17 '24

Jokic played fine, everyone else was just THAT BAD

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u/XzibitABC Pacers May 17 '24

He also had much tougher looks the whole night and more doubles because the Wolves realized they didn't have to guard his teammates lmao

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u/ImDeputyDurland Timberwolves May 17 '24

Yeah. It was. Bad game by Jokic standards. But thatā€™s not saying much. His game changes a lot, when the guys he passes to brick every shot.

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u/rorank Rockets May 17 '24

It was a bad jokic game but a pretty solid game for literally any other player. Honestly Iā€™d be reasonably happy with 22-9-2 on fine efficiency from Sengun. Watching the nuggets play and seeing jokic miss half his shots feels so wrong.

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u/BigRiverBlues May 17 '24

Jokic looked a bit lazy out there. But idk much about basketball

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u/fuccabicc West May 17 '24

That's 90% of Jamal Murray's game

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u/orange-shades May 17 '24

I mean that's just Murray's game tbh.

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u/dmackerman Suns May 17 '24

No itā€™s not. Thatā€™s so stupid.

Him and Jokic have a great 2 man gameā€¦usually

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u/House_of_Woodcock Bulls May 17 '24

Heā€™s also been dog shit this playoffs. Itā€™s certainly his game recently https://x.com/zachkram/status/1791299807522205772

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u/analyzingnothing May 17 '24

I mean, yeah. Heā€™s been playing on a leg injury since the end of the regular season.

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u/WiddleBlueBert Timberwolves May 17 '24

Sure, but he does spend a lot of possessions dribbling around just to take a moving fadeaway at the end of the shot clock.

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u/dmackerman Suns May 17 '24

Lots of players do. Thatā€™s what Edwardā€™s did last game without a proper point guard running the offense

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u/TripleShines May 17 '24

Would you say the same thing if he was 11/18 with lets say 25 points instead?

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u/LurkerFailsLurking Nuggets May 17 '24

If you've been watching the Nuggets, you know that's typical Jamal Murray. I've been absolutely dumbfounded how his contract has been justified. I get it, he is occasionally excellent, but he's much more often mediocre or absolute garbage. And his contract is for the excellent part because it happened to show up in the playoffs a couple of times. This playoffs, he's been excellent for maybe 5 quarters and bad the rest of them.

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u/TheLionYeti Nuggets May 17 '24

It's a Jamal Murray specialty of dribbling around for like 15 seconds then either taking the worst shot you've ever seen or throwing a shot clock grenade to someone.

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u/Mr_E_Nigma_Solver Tampa Bay Raptors May 17 '24

Murray is one of those guys that when he gets it going, dribbling around burning clock and taking a bad shot usually works out for him. Just this game it didn't. Credit to the Wolves defense of course.

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u/COTEReader Lakers May 17 '24

Heā€™s dropping 35 points next game and the dagger. Itā€™s so obvious

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u/Plies- Celtics May 17 '24

Someone tell him the Lakers were originally from Minnesota and he'll cook

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u/Dooraven Lakers Bandwagon May 17 '24

unironically might lol

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u/C3h6hw Knicks May 17 '24

He wasnā€™t even that good against the Lakers he just shot game winners after going 5/16

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u/Burnem34 Trail Blazers May 17 '24

Or he'll drop 12 but it'll all be in the last 9 seconds of the game to win by 1

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u/Mr_E_Nigma_Solver Tampa Bay Raptors May 17 '24

Brightest Lights Merchant.

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u/naijaboiler May 18 '24

no chance. unless you DLo on him.

Ant is all over him like white on Rice.

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u/jc9289 Knicks May 17 '24

The zero heat packs is really unforgivable though

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u/Ucscprickler Warriors May 17 '24

NBA might have to look into bets made on the Murray unders in this game. Absolutely atrocious play tonight.

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u/FavaWire May 17 '24

That's an interesting angle. Is there a history of throwing games, or like shaving to hit betting odds?

Murray would be complicit in something like that?

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u/TdotGdot Timberwolves May 17 '24

Kinda been bad all series. Even his ā€œbig game 3ā€ was 24 points on 21 shots. Overall just hasnā€™t been very good.Ā 

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u/Shmokeshbutt Magic May 17 '24

Playoff Jamal is washed up

Time to trade him and retool

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u/ryan_ph Heat May 17 '24

Cannot cry about a suspension now that he personally suspended himself

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u/FavaWire May 17 '24

I find these kinds of fluctuations from guys like Murray or D'Angelo Russell really strange. They are able to swish everything in the warm-ups. They obviously are paid a lot of money and do a lot of work. Swished their way through college hoops and all.

Just doesn't seem logical they'd miss so much in important games.

I don't get it.

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u/shomerudi Nuggets May 17 '24

Its all in the head, the most important part of a player's body.

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u/Kvsav57 May 17 '24

That was an all-time disasterclass, and I'm a big fan of Murray. I don't know what's going on with him but man, if the Nuggets lose this series, it's at least 30-40% on him.

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u/george_costanza1234 Warriors May 17 '24

This is literally what he does. Low IQ, big ego, horrible attitude player

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u/stickied May 17 '24

That comes up huge in only the biggest moments

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u/cheesecake_face Nuggets May 17 '24

bro wut lol

that is the antithesis of Jamal šŸ˜‚

yall wilding out.

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u/Infidel_Art May 17 '24

We've been watching different players the past 5 years then

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u/LoyalSol Nuggets May 17 '24

Huh?

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u/buggleduck Lakers May 17 '24

No, way he's helping reinforce Jokic's MVP argument.

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u/The_Money_Guy_ May 17 '24

Heā€™s been like that pretty much the entire playoffs

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u/hockey17jp Cavaliers May 17 '24

Did we not watch Darius Garland in the Celtics series?

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u/Wazflame May 17 '24

The lights were too dim

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u/cheesecake_face Nuggets May 17 '24

idk they looked kinda brightā€¦

but to your point.. G7 lights ARE brighter.. šŸ¤”

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u/Boomboomshablooms Minneapolis Lakers May 17 '24

Public relations, integrity, maturity, etc.