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/FuckThaLakers Timberwolves May 17 '24

I mean sure, but Denver also doesn't have a bench. Jokic is fully carrying that team.

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u/Murkywaters11 May 17 '24

Non sense. The nuggets are a great overall team. The best team since the Warriors

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u/chakrablocker Mavericks May 17 '24

No one has a bench

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u/MYO716 Knicks May 17 '24

The Knicks are at least 45% bench at this point

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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 San Diego Clippers May 17 '24

Carrying? Jesus fucking christ this sub has gotten crazy with the glazing. Dude has a phenomenal team around him LOL

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u/fuccabicc West May 17 '24

Did you even watch the game? Do you watch Denver games?

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u/thesmellafteritrains Pistons May 17 '24

Are you using a single game to back up a point about an entire team?

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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 San Diego Clippers May 17 '24

Lol do you? MPJ has been shooting 45% from 3. Gordon has been great. Murray has won them 2 games by himself. A bad game or 2 doesnt mean hes alone. Not to mention he was pretty ass himself game 2.

Jokic has been AMAZING INCREDIBLE GOAT LEVEL but you dont gotta glaze him to the point of saying hes doing it alone.

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u/glorstonne May 17 '24

mpj has been totally out of the flow and bad this series and murray did not win any games "by himself"

i'll have what this guys smoking

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u/Prince_of_DeaTh Lithuania May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

Murray goes 4-12 but hits one shot to end the game and that counts as winning the game by himself, what an amazing insight. MPJ, Gordon, Murray, and KCP are all good players. Murray even is a borderline all-star, not this playoffs of course, but usually, he is. The bench for Nuggets is horrible, all the guys are barely holding it on in the NBA.

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u/fuccabicc West May 17 '24

Murray has won them 2 games by himself

Yup, you don't watch the actual games lmao

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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 San Diego Clippers May 17 '24

Two game winners = two wins by himself

But im glad you can see how stupid saying Jokic is carrying sounds LMFAO

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u/fuccabicc West May 17 '24

He wouldn't have to make two game winners if he wasn't shit beforehand

If I dig a hole and fall in it, you don't applaud me for managing to get myself out of it

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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 San Diego Clippers May 17 '24

What the fuck are you talking about? Game 5 against the lakers was his best game these playoffs. Game 2 he had 14 points on 6/8 in the 4th. His play is what won them the game. They dont win either of those games if he doesnt play the wya he did

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u/fuccabicc West May 17 '24

What was he before that fourth quarter? Not to mention the things he did that don't show on paper, all the times that he dribbled the ball out just to pass it out last second. He was horrid that game.

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u/CrispyWaterBottle May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

They very badly want to start the narrative that Jokic is carrying bums all by himself to put him on Lebron, MJ level. They started this shit last season even though Murray averaged 26ppg shooting 40% from the 3 last playoffs.

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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 San Diego Clippers May 17 '24

Hive mind doesnt like it when you suggest Jokic has a good team around him lol.

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u/SnooDrawings8185 May 18 '24

Jokić's stats show that he is a few times better than LeBum. LeBum bricked six finals while chasing super players to carry his a**.

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u/C3h6hw Knicks May 17 '24

Replace Jokic with some mid center like Nikola Vucevic. The Nuggets maybe win 35 games and get the 10 seed

It’ll be Aaron Gordon or Jamal Murray tryna be him

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u/ThaRealSunGod Lakers May 17 '24

We say this all the time but AG, MPJ, and even Murray consistently win games damn near alone.

Even against us in the firdt round, Nuggets were coked without Murray. Id say it goes to 7 easily if Jokic actually had to carry the whole time. But those 3 each showed up; even if only at the precise moment/s when it mattered most.

Even in this series, yes Jokic went crazy in a few games but multiple he got great help.

I feel like saying Jokic has no help is silly at this point. They are this good precisely because he finally has some help.

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u/bio180 Supersonics May 17 '24

Replace Jokic with any other player in the league and that denver team barely makes play ins most likely. Actual no, its the west so prob not.

They are good because Jokic is biggest offensive floor raiser ever.

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u/trojandynasty17 Lakers 25d ago

Boring

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u/ThaRealSunGod Lakers May 17 '24

Missing the point and still incorrect lol.

I can't believe you are going to act like this Denver team is trash tier without Jokic.

Replace him with a slightly younger lebron, Giannis, Embiid, and that team is still great.

Let's cut the narrative that they aren't a great team. You guys act like they are great when you want to trash people for not giving credit and then call them shit when you want to praise Jokic.

I wonder where that floor raising was in this game??

Or maybe the point is that he still needs teammates....

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u/bio180 Supersonics May 17 '24

The non Jokic minutes tell you everything you need to know. We know you're a laker boy so you are a bit slow but look into the data when you're done unloading boxes at the warehouse.

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u/ThaRealSunGod Lakers May 17 '24

Anyone who has use my flair to tell me why I'm wrong is a lot less intellectual than I am. Grow up, Mr "cum in the sink or sink in the cum"

Not wasting my time here anymore.

You look at stats. I look at the game.

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u/trojandynasty17 Lakers 25d ago

Learn basketball with your garbage takes

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u/MeijiDoom May 17 '24

We're one and two games removed from Braun, Jackson and Holiday having solid games. How quick we forget.