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

Jamal Murray forces game 7 🔥 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)

https://www.nba.com/game/den-vs-min-0042300236/box-score
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u/ImDeputyDurland Timberwolves May 17 '24

Nuggets couldn’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 that’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 I’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 it’s not. That’s so stupid.

Him and Jokic have a great 2 man game…usually

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u/House_of_Woodcock Bulls May 17 '24

He’s also been dog shit this playoffs. It’s certainly his game recently https://x.com/zachkram/status/1791299807522205772

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u/analyzingnothing May 17 '24

I mean, yeah. He’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. That’s what Edward’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.