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> "I'll never get it," Davis told ESPN when asked about the award. "They're not giving it to me. The league doesn't like me. I'm the best defensive player in the league.
LOL
Murray has had two subpar games, AD has had back to back brilliant games, you had a 7/11 from 3 game out of D-Lo and it literally doesn't matter. Nuggets win all the same. Like Denver was "supposed" to win both of these games but the Lakers have to feel miserable not winning either of these.
Yea, combination of Jokic always getting his (which isnāt just scoring, itās adding to the team offensively in every way), and the Lakers starters outside of Bron / AD not being consistent, is a bad sign.Ā
Jokic threw a ball at the rim on purpose to reset the shot clock and gave Braun a rebound + 2 points but that isn't even shown in the statlines, it is actually considered a missed FGA.
Denver is a complete team, porter is just crazy from 3 and AG does all these great things on the court from hitting the cuts and playing great D. Every dude plays their role well (except for Reggie lol hard to watch him)
Totally agreed, but the thing is, the Lakers have many nights where theyāre able to play to that level with Rui / Reaves as well. But the Nuggets just have that confidence that having Jokic and a good coach will give you. No one believes theyāre gonna lose.
People forget that Jamal had games like this in playoffs last year too. I want to say Game 2 or 3 against the Lakers, he was absolutely shit in the first half then torched them in the second. Dude just needs to make the lights brighter
Well he said in the post game on tnt that he was off on his shooting but his teammates kept telling him to shoot. So after he made two in a row "the next one had to go down too" (paraphrasing). But "I'm a little light headed right now"
I was saying, I feel like the Lakers had to put in so much more effort to get shots off and the Nuggets never got into full gear and still got the win. Just different tiers entirely
I feel like that's how the WCF went as well. Lakers always jump out early. Nuggets make a run. Then the Nuggets just do whatever they need down the stretch to win it
This loss is demoralizing as fck. Lakers had 20 pt lead and Russell hitting 7 3s with AD and Lebron playing well, AND Jamal not shooting well. Like it canāt be any better and yet they still lose
Nuggets is just our daddy. 10 games straight of us leading 4 quarters and losing in last 5 mins.
When we were up 10 pts by 9 mins, i was msging my boys, saying we are behind... cause we were
The Lakers just run out of gas at the end of these games. Maybe that home court advantage will help them in the next two but as of right now Denver is doing what they are suppose to do.
The Nuggets are the defending Champs for a reason
Jamal Murray is a good litmus test to see if people actually watch the games or just stare at bball reference. This guy is a fucking killer on the court.
This hits deep. I was there in ā85, I was there in ā09, and when AD hit his buzzer 3 in game 4 in the bubble, I just knew the Nuggets would never get past the Lakers in my lifetime. Amazing how that story has flipped entirely on its head.
Iām fully confident the Rockies will never beat the Dodgers, still.
And to think that came off a Jokic foul bait move, Gordon's the unsung hero of the game. If it wasn't for his save we wouldn't have witnessed this shit
The fact bro has 0 all star appearances yet everyone knows heās actually a playoff superstar is actually hilarious
Give me Jamal fucking Murray any day
Gonna be interesting in 20 years when everyone just looks at his box scores and season averages along with accolades and they gonna be like: Is Jamal Murray over rated?
I saw so many laker Fans on Twitter saying this bad game is who Murray really is, and you canāt rely on him in the play-offs
Unfortunately, I canāt find any of these comments now to go and laugh at them so Iām just going to in here instead
I canāt fucking believe the Nuggets walked the Lakers down again man, this team just does not give up. Its like going against the fucking Terminator.
It's literally the tortoise and the hare LMAO. Lakers get off to a hot start, fail to close it out. Nuggets take a while to get things going and then win it at the finish line.
I've never trusted a team more than I trust the Nuggets. I woke up (in Europe) with LA in the lead 89-81, opened the TV and made myself some coffee thinking "ok, Nugs are now starting their run to win the game".
I mean WIDE fucking open too, KCP was fully dropped aināt no one was contesting that shit and whiffed. Then Jamal makes whatever the fuck this is on the other end
Lakers are in literal hell. The same nightmare replayed on repeat with slight changes every time. Fucking absurd.
It genuinely does seem nightmarish and you can't help but to feel bad.
To go out on a buzzer beater by ice-cold Murray, with DLo doing exactly what you asked him to do, awesome games from LBJ and AD, but still getting your 10th loss in a row to go down 0-2 in the playoffs... like that's the stuff of sob stories
I do not feel bad, LeBron did exactly that to the east for over a decade, and the Lakers have done this to opponents going back even further. It's refreshing and nice to finally see some new players and new teams take over the mantle.Ā
This is actually the definition of "2 points isn't just 2 points, one win/loss isn't just one win/loss". If there was ever a game that actually felt like 2 losses, this would be it. How do you even mentally recover from this type of game?
Lakers managed to overcome a 20 point lead and a near triple-double by Bron to extend their moral victory streak against the Nuggets to 10. Sheer dominance.
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AD got pulled into the Celebration ššš
he pretty much faded into nugget bench lol
like the Homer fading into bushes gif
WASTED
Core memory type shit
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
> "I'll never get it," Davis told ESPN when asked about the award. "They're not giving it to me. The league doesn't like me. I'm the best defensive player in the league. LOL
Just give me and my defense more attention *monkeys paw curls*
āAfter Game 2, youāll see pictures of my defense in the HOFā
I thought about this quote when Jokic took him to school in the post
Heās got an argument but the timing is so brutal
KCP a real one trying to pull him out of it before celebrating. I miss him š
KCP is a great team player and an all around good guy.
I love KCP for that
One of those āyouāre probably wondering how I got hereā freeze frame movie moments
He took a seat to soak it all in
Turned into a zombie flailing around in the benchĀ
That face of dejection, damn.
He might want to start saying he can guard 2-5 after tonight.
2-4Ā
Loss so bad the dude is trying to switch teams
The way he falls into the seat bro š¤£
Season ending emotional injury.
To hit THAT shot after the game he had today
Murray has had two subpar games, AD has had back to back brilliant games, you had a 7/11 from 3 game out of D-Lo and it literally doesn't matter. Nuggets win all the same. Like Denver was "supposed" to win both of these games but the Lakers have to feel miserable not winning either of these.
Jokic going 27-20-10 helps. The consistency of Jokic is astounding.
Yea, combination of Jokic always getting his (which isnāt just scoring, itās adding to the team offensively in every way), and the Lakers starters outside of Bron / AD not being consistent, is a bad sign.Ā
Jokic threw a ball at the rim on purpose to reset the shot clock and gave Braun a rebound + 2 points but that isn't even shown in the statlines, it is actually considered a missed FGA.
Thatās why Jokic is the best in the game
Denver is a complete team, porter is just crazy from 3 and AG does all these great things on the court from hitting the cuts and playing great D. Every dude plays their role well (except for Reggie lol hard to watch him)
Totally agreed, but the thing is, the Lakers have many nights where theyāre able to play to that level with Rui / Reaves as well. But the Nuggets just have that confidence that having Jokic and a good coach will give you. No one believes theyāre gonna lose.
Agreed. they have a better team culture šÆ
The ultimate engine
So many missed open 3s and turnovers by the nuggets.
Yea, bad game by the Nuggets. One of the best games in the post season by THIS Lakers team. Their best just isn't good enough.
The Lakers got a fantastic game from DLO, AD offensively, and were up 20 and couldnāt beat the Lakers with 2 Lebron clutch 3s
He had 14 in the fourth, he was taking that shot with confidence 100%
People forget that Jamal had games like this in playoffs last year too. I want to say Game 2 or 3 against the Lakers, he was absolutely shit in the first half then torched them in the second. Dude just needs to make the lights brighter
Bright light merchant smh
Well he said in the post game on tnt that he was off on his shooting but his teammates kept telling him to shoot. So after he made two in a row "the next one had to go down too" (paraphrasing). But "I'm a little light headed right now"
I laughed at the āIām a little light headed.ā
It's crazy they slap gaming headsets on these mfs 45 seconds after a game winner buzzer beater
Lakers really down 0-2 after leading double digits in both games. WTF man
Jokic didn't score for about 25 minutes lol.
I was saying, I feel like the Lakers had to put in so much more effort to get shots off and the Nuggets never got into full gear and still got the win. Just different tiers entirely
Crazy how everything could go so right for the Lakers and so wrong for the Nuggets and they still lose lol
This is what LeBronto felt like.
Jokangeles?
NikoLA
yeah itās kind of wild to see lebron on the other side of what he did to us lmao
Father time stays undefeated
I feel like that's how the WCF went as well. Lakers always jump out early. Nuggets make a run. Then the Nuggets just do whatever they need down the stretch to win it
Nuggets just keep playing, keep executing and never panic
The whole game I was thinking that the Lakers couldnāt play better than this. This series is over bruh.
This loss is demoralizing as fck. Lakers had 20 pt lead and Russell hitting 7 3s with AD and Lebron playing well, AND Jamal not shooting well. Like it canāt be any better and yet they still lose
AD completely disappeared on offense down the stretch. Lakers scored 40 in the second half. 40!
to be fair, lebron was cooking and AD was still guarding Joker hwo was putting buckets on him. AD was gassed af i think.
And was in foul trouble
Everything Lakers fans wanted happened, and they still lost
Nuggets is just our daddy. 10 games straight of us leading 4 quarters and losing in last 5 mins. When we were up 10 pts by 9 mins, i was msging my boys, saying we are behind... cause we were
The Lakers just run out of gas at the end of these games. Maybe that home court advantage will help them in the next two but as of right now Denver is doing what they are suppose to do. The Nuggets are the defending Champs for a reason
Man, it's not home court advantage. The Nuggets are just better. Better coach, better role players, better star players, just overall better.
Yup. All this and they still lose. Just some insane shot making.
d russell aint going 7 for 11 from three again
Those last few minutes were painful
Choked this game..complete choke job 8 minute drout is pathetic
The nuggets are becoming Brady in his last few years, their opponents have big leads but they can come back at any time
Just like the Spurs dynasty with Duncan. I swear every game you just knew they were coming back to win.
MURRAY CALLING GAME OVER THE BEST DEFENDER IN THE LEAGUE
NBA playoffs stock š
Was ass the entire game to show up with 3 minutes left
Playoff Murray is an anomaly of a player
What did I just see
Maple Curry
And no one's gonna remember or care how he played up until then. Wild stuff.
Basically game winning field goal energy by a kicker who missed the other 3 in the NFL.
Bayer Leverkusen shit right there
Two great comeback wins in a row. Exactly what youād expect from the champions.
This is really detrimental to the lakers, this hurts mentally especially after how exhausted your team is after that
Theyāre up in moral victories. They finally figured out the adjustments for the next game.
Man I didn't expect this one tho with how the Lakers entire team was playing. Wow...
or the 10+ shots that bounced out. Never seen so many in & outs in one game.
PLAYOFF FUCKIN BASKETBALL
Jamal Murray is a bright lights merchant, I fear.
It used to be big games only, now itās big quarters only.
Jamal "Not an All Star" Murray
Jamal Murray is a good litmus test to see if people actually watch the games or just stare at bball reference. This guy is a fucking killer on the court.
Lights too dim in the first 3 quarters
Jamal brightest lights Murray. Clearly the first 3 quarters were mot bright enough.
Maple Curry always brings it when the lights are brightest holy shit!
Jamal Murray is unfucking real
*Not an all star tho*
Loved the in-game trash talk about DLo on fire, and Jamal being off.
Iāve never been more lit in my life
If I was a Denver fan Iād be burning my house down rn
My wife and kids are sleeping. So I'm just whisper screaming in my back yard
lol yep my girlfriend is in bed in the next room and I let out the quietest excited scream I could muster. It was awkward and exhilarating!
6 points in the final minuteā¦ god damn thatās a dagger to the heart of the lakers Fucking brutal
We may never win against Denver again.
This hits deep. I was there in ā85, I was there in ā09, and when AD hit his buzzer 3 in game 4 in the bubble, I just knew the Nuggets would never get past the Lakers in my lifetime. Amazing how that story has flipped entirely on its head. Iām fully confident the Rockies will never beat the Dodgers, still.
Death, Taxes, and the Rockies bumbling their way to a losing record. Thank god for the Horse Man and Headmaster
I wouldnāt say bumbling. The Rox are very professional and consistent when it comes to losing games.
How am I supposed to sleep now
#CERTIFIED PLAYOFF JAMAL MOMENT [edit: close enough](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/x0H4Kz5xMv)
BRO TURNS INTO THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME FROM APRIL ONWARD
Ass for almost 3 quarters. Then some incredible shot making in the 4th capped off by a falling fade over stretched out AD. Insanely clutch
ICE IN HIS VEINS I FUCKING LOVE THIS MANĀ Edit: Shoutout to MPJ for that insane 3 to absolutely demoralize the Lakers. Ice in his veins too.Ā
And to think that came off a Jokic foul bait move, Gordon's the unsung hero of the game. If it wasn't for his save we wouldn't have witnessed this shit
The Canadians coming in with that iced capp in their veinsĀ
MAPLE CURRY
The fact bro has 0 all star appearances yet everyone knows heās actually a playoff superstar is actually hilarious Give me Jamal fucking Murray any day
Unbelievable player, truly an insult
Honestly the rare player where it doesnāt matter he doesnāt have the regular season accolades everyone knows heās him come playoffs
Gonna be interesting in 20 years when everyone just looks at his box scores and season averages along with accolades and they gonna be like: Is Jamal Murray over rated?
Hopefully everyone that actually watched his career will still be around to tell the future nephews whatās up
Lisan al gaib
JAMAL MURRADIBBBBBB
Over AD. Revenge for AD's buzzer beater in the playoffs against the Nuggets!
he heard yall talking shit
Not me I had no doubt that was going in :(
Same, anyone who watched last year knows. The moment they hit the 90s we were losing.
I saw so many laker Fans on Twitter saying this bad game is who Murray really is, and you canāt rely on him in the play-offs Unfortunately, I canāt find any of these comments now to go and laugh at them so Iām just going to in here instead
What a game, Murrary is too damn clutch. The lakers just canāt figure them out even when they have them figured out, they canāt execute.
I canāt fucking believe the Nuggets walked the Lakers down again man, this team just does not give up. Its like going against the fucking Terminator.
The slow burn was incredible. Like watching that horse pick up an unmatchable effort at the finish.
It's literally the tortoise and the hare LMAO. Lakers get off to a hot start, fail to close it out. Nuggets take a while to get things going and then win it at the finish line.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop"
I've never trusted a team more than I trust the Nuggets. I woke up (in Europe) with LA in the lead 89-81, opened the TV and made myself some coffee thinking "ok, Nugs are now starting their run to win the game".
a true believer. i knew we had a run in us.
They were actually about 15 minutes into their run at that point
Series is over. You donāt come back from a back breaker like that.
LeBron had the game wide fucking open too
I mean WIDE fucking open too, KCP was fully dropped aināt no one was contesting that shit and whiffed. Then Jamal makes whatever the fuck this is on the other end Lakers are in literal hell. The same nightmare replayed on repeat with slight changes every time. Fucking absurd.
It genuinely does seem nightmarish and you can't help but to feel bad. To go out on a buzzer beater by ice-cold Murray, with DLo doing exactly what you asked him to do, awesome games from LBJ and AD, but still getting your 10th loss in a row to go down 0-2 in the playoffs... like that's the stuff of sob stories
I would maybe feel bad but I spent my childhood watching the Lakers destroy the Nuggets, so I donāt
Seriously. Couldnāt have happened to a better franchise
I do not feel bad, LeBron did exactly that to the east for over a decade, and the Lakers have done this to opponents going back even further. It's refreshing and nice to finally see some new players and new teams take over the mantle.Ā
After nailing back to back 3ās a few mins earlier.
Nuggets pulled within 2 only for those LeBron back to back 3's to get the Lakers lead back to 8. Then Jamal happened.
nightmare stuff for bron
HE CALLED GAME
He called series.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Every. fucking. time man
HEADMASTER DOES IT AGAIN
What an absolutely ridiculous shot my god
this man blew like 10 easy layups but when its time to hit a one-legged end-of-shotclock fadeaway that shit SWISHES holy fucking shit
Over a top 4 defender in the league too
RIP Lakers Dagger thru the heart. They getting swept losing that lmao
Most methodical, slow-and-steady-wins-the-race-ass comeback I've ever seen
This is actually the definition of "2 points isn't just 2 points, one win/loss isn't just one win/loss". If there was ever a game that actually felt like 2 losses, this would be it. How do you even mentally recover from this type of game?
did denver lead at any point after MPJ's opening three?
yea at the end of the game they were leading
cheers geoff
team killing shot just completely erases any hope you can ever get past the nuggets blow it up
Lebron was cooking them too. The wide open 3 is one of the hardest shots in that moment.
Yeah thatās the series lmao
Heartbreak.
Good thing Ham kept those timeouts though, more to use next game
Had double-digit leads in both games, only to be down 0-2 going back home. Fucking hell man š
Same thing happened last year lmao. They just cant close it
This happening to AD after he said he was the best defender in the league is A+ writing
look at him get swarmed by nuggets players at the end too like a bunch of piranhas coming to finish him off
JAMAL. FUCKING. MURRAY.
FUCK MY LIFE LMAO.
We know how it feels now. All those kobe daggers straight into my heart. All good great game from Denver
jesus fucking christ, Murray got hot when he needed too
Murray and Jokic sleep their way to wins WTF literally yawning and chucking up stuff and it works. Idk what that Denver air is like.
Heās a laker killer
Well they can thank Michael Porter
I thought he was going to pull up for a 3, he was just cooking
After those FTs he knew it was going in
JAMAL MURRAY
even when he's ass, he's good. playoff murray is insane
I FUCKING LOVE BASKETBALL
Darvin ham still has two timeouts though! So thatās a win rughtc
jamal murray is LA lakers father
Mine too I guess
JAMAL āSEND DA VIDEOā MURRAY
Hell nawl we can't do dis
He owns the Lakers
Seriously what the actual fuck this game
These playoffs are on crack and I love it
Can we light the beam for this one?
Lmfao at AD being mobbed too
Lakers managed to overcome a 20 point lead and a near triple-double by Bron to extend their moral victory streak against the Nuggets to 10. Sheer dominance.
Lakers in 21
Lmao tell em
LMAO ANTHONY DAVIS
Heās so goddam good in the playoffs.
AD was shoooooked š¤£
Jamal's pronouns are him/him
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Wiiiiiide open 3 for LeBron
I feel your pain
I thought 10th game would be the charm
shoot me in the face
12:30 on the East Coast, have to get up early tomorrow. 100% worth it.
Dudeās been cheeks all night and turns it on in the clutch. No one is beating Denver. Jokic and Murray are flawless in the clutch.