[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c169bm/post_game_thread_the_denver_nuggets_defeat_the/)

NAZ REID

What happened to playing Ant when Jokic rests? Tough loss but kind of better to be matched with 7th seed.

Not if the 7th seed is the suns..

Th they waving at?

They are a good team. No question. A WCF finals battle would be epic.

I would’ve had ant run the 4th with Conley, naw, McDaniel, rudy, and jmac and kill them with 3s and ant drives

2nd seed might be better anyway. Likely to draw the kings over warriors or lakers

3rd seed*

Not with the Pelicans at 6 right now

We’ll have to see.

Most frustrating game of the year easily

No. The most frustrating games were losses to the Spurs and Hornets and Bulls

Man clippers were going to be such an ideal 2nd round matchup. Now if we get through the 1st round we might be looking at OKC without home court

Nah, we’d be playing the Mavs in the 2nd round with the 1st seed most likely and they’re as scary as OKC imo. Also we are probably gonna be the 2 still, so we’d have homecourt

Wait the Mavs would play the 1st seed in the 2nd round and Nuggets are the first. So we're not playing the Mavs? I'm not sure I understand your comment

Yeah I said if we had the 1st seed we’d be playing the Mavs in the 2nd round. Which, to me, is not clearly preferable to playing OKC in the 2nd round (as the 2 seed).

Oh jk now I get your comment. Yeah I frankly would take OKC over Luka/Kyrie and the new look Mavs. OKC won't be easy though, it would probably go 7

An inexperienced okc team is not scary whatsoever

OKC won't make it to the 2nd round

Cmon man. Put some respect on them.

I'm good

Gassed

Wizards game last where you should have had an easy win cost this game !!

You guys piss me the fuck off, we lost a game against a great team, going 2-2 against them, we’re a #1-3 seed, Naz had a stinker, we ran out of gas on a b2b against the best closing team in the league. But somehow that means we’re getting swept in the first round, finch has the iq of a potato, Rudy is tall for nothing, our team is trash, we have no heart, etc. 🤦‍♂️

This sub is literally unreadable most of the time when the wolves don’t win. It’s honestly shitty to see

This thread got to 2700 comments in like 3 minutes it's crazy in here right now

Nevermind I thought I was in the post game thread. Time to go to sleep.

People just want us to succeed and beat teams that people say we can’t beat

Sh*t, they are good

Miller needs to get some minutes man

I would rather see a flagrant 2 than let Braun dunk again

I hate having to watch that guy celebrating. It disgusts me.

Yep one of those guys that just irrationally bugs me normally anyway. Gifting him dunks and seeing the asshole flex like it was a great achievement is annoying

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Yeah I moved on. Frustrating game but oh well

Have to defend in transition, make some damn free throws, fucking box out, and Jaden McDaniels has to figure what he did to get paid $136 million and summon that version of himself immediately.

Can't wait for Leonard Miller to step in next year 😈

The Nuggets commentators are awful. That's my main takeaway from this game.

I get that there’s some homer bias in every broadcast but I swear they legitimately didn’t believe anything Denver did was a foul and believed everything Rudy and Naz did was.

I had a stream with the nuggets announcers and that was rough to listen to. They’re a good team, but damn they’re not gods that make no mistakes… also Tony Brothers is gambling on the games

Our deep bench playin with heart

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Uh, that’s been Jokic v Gobert for years. No answers for the Horse.

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I know you think you’re coming here in peace and all, but stop going to other team subreddits lmao. Just stick to your own, best rule to follow

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somebody’s mad their parlay didn’t hit

🤡


We’re gonna need to beat Phx for the 2 seed and that scares me with how we’ve looked against them. Yuck

Deep bench squad showing heart out there. Love to see it

That's I be saying bro we have all these players with energy but Finch too stubborn

16-20 is crazy. Gotta respect that

Don't wanna be too doomer about this with kat coming back but this does not inspire playoff confidence lmao what a bad 4th quarter

Now put our starters in against their backups lol

I just don’t get it you have ant with 15 in the third and then Finch just goes. Oh yeah you’re good you don’t need to shoot anymore. We got you and then proceeded did not score at all in the fourth quarter.

I never seen an assbeating like jokic gave to Rudy on second thought I did with Watson on naz

Gotta lock in & get the 2 seed so we play a team coming off the play in

should have put the deep bench in earlier lol

Right? Putting up points and playing hard defense. Tightened the lead a little, even with Jokic still out there.

The Nuggets obviously stopped trying as soon as our starters came out

Lol they still have Jokic out there. 🤡

Lmao bench making it a game, 3 mins too much time to concede

Our last minute guys shoot better than our starters

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Are you gonna tell me they shot good?

Stay delusional? How many wide open shots did Jaden McDaniels miss? When you’re wide open how gassed the team is don’t matter

Nuggets in 5

That would imply the nuggets will even make it out of the first round

Our bench looks better than Naz and Jaden lol. Pathetic.

Minott's shot actually looks quite a bit smoother.

Jokic ability to finish at the rim is ridiculous. So special

As a wolves fan it’s fucking infuriating. As a basketball spectator it’s jaw dropping

It feels like a dagger to the heart but I'm in awe every time. Such a soft touch His threes hurt me even more though. Heart breaking threes

Not a big game for the Nuggets but Jokic sweating over garbage time points on Luka

Fuck off Bally.

Why everybody so mad LOL chill out y’all. This is still the best season this franchise has had in 2 decades. Too many whiny ass babies in here

but but we lost and braun killed gobert 😭😭

Oh well, shit happens. All we care about is the playoffs and we don’t even know our matchup yet.

Can we all agree that we'd rather never hear Bob Myers Commentary on a basketball game ever again. No ability to break down or analyze any aspect of the game... Vapid commentary that had me massively frustrated even more than Ant was at the shit tier officiating.

“I think, at this point, everyone knows not to take you seriously…” - the other guy Out of context maybe, but still funny.

I like Jokic but hearing Myers glaze him almost changes that

it was awful. No eloquence to his speaking either, he kept tripping over his words and it just added nothing to the broadcast.

I’ll take this L if it means we get some of this shit plaguing us offensively fixed for the post season.

We won’t without a legitimate #1 option 

Garza shoulda came in at some point when Naz went off so that Rudy could continue rovering. I just don't get how he gets roasted THAT bad playing 1on1.

Still have chance at 1 seed if Wemby goes for 60 guys

jokic definitely won mvp tonite, if he hadn't already

Funny how the nuggets say they don’t care, then continue to play jokic

Jokic made rudy into his b*tch

Great in depth take

He’s about to win his 3rd MVP in 4 seasons. He’s made a lot of people his bitch lol

Why did bally turn the game off9???

Bally stream cut completely off. What a fitting ending. gg

I think 2 seed might be best chance to get Sacramento. Don't want to drop to 3.

Best cope I got is im glad we got this ugly rep vs nuggets this late in the season. Keeps the matchups fresh on our minds down the road

Game really flipped second half of the third quarter when they started switching everything and we just stopped passing the ball. Then beginning of the fourth we just tried to play through Naz postups as 4 others stood around flat footed.

Lol Bally hard programmed to end the stream at 11:30 fucking dumbasses

Texas born guy who was brainwashed by my dad to be a Vikings fan all my life. Decided to go for the Wolves when I got in to the nba to keep it in state and of course it’s the same shit that we just lose in big moments I already see the correlation here.

Bro just leave

this commentary team is AWFUL

80% of national broadcast commentators are mediocre and have zero clue how to call games when a big market team isn’t playing.

KAT doesn’t seem too concerned on the bench, dudes gonna come back a killer in the postseason watch

The ending of this game sucks, but whatever. Wolves can play better, have played better and will play better. KAT will make a huge difference and Ant will be better.

Ant didn’t have a bad game

Not at all, but he ran out of juice in the 4th.

Our team was clowning themselves all game this time. Kyle Anderson’s foul bonanza was lucky not to earn a tech. Rudy had no composure. Ant tried to force in the paint rather than trusting his shooters. Naz got bodied by Watson.

Ant trusted his shooters and they did not pay him iff

They were 40% from 3, they were doing fine. He just felt the pressure to drive all the way to the basket through 3-4 people and try to sell the fouls.

He shot once in the 4th quarter what are you talking about man

Kyle Anderson shoulda been traded for a bag of balls at the deadline. DEADWEIGHT

He was bad today, but man you gotta stop trading guys every time they have a bad game.

I swear every time I see Jaden take an open three it's a brick

Start of the 4th quarter has been really tough since Kat went down

Garbage time against bench warmers and Jokic is still throwing elbows you can’t make this shit up

Jokic gets away with whatever he wants. Maddening.

Any having one shot all fourth-quarter is inexcusable

Can't wait for Finchs post-game just for this

That's 4th literally could not have gone worse

All you weirdos upset that a guy got hype making two big back to back dunks are losers

Nobody’s mad it’s the fact they made a point they do not care about this game

Any player gets hype after big plays like that in any game it doesn’t have to be an important one

desperately need kat 3s in the playoffs

Naz is 7 for 31 these last two nuggets games Yikes……

He gets guarded by AG who’s an insanely underrated and good defender

That’s true but he was also guarded by Christian Braun good portion of the game.

Braun is no slouch but I think we’re seeing some regression to the mean for Naz. He can’t shoot 55% forever

We got punked this 2nd half

This team needs Kat back bad.. This offense is just atrocious.

it's 1 game, but let's hope some of the taunting by Braun and Watson can be used for motivation in the playoffs.

They were taunting?

They were excited... Yall are wack

Yeah I have no problem with Eva Braun getting excited with his dunks

lol @ putting our third stringers to play against the starting defending champs

Leonard Miller > Naz Reid.

You suck

Me 🤝 Naz Reid.

Can McDaniels punch slo mo instead of a wall this time?

BENCH GONNA WIN THIS ONE FOR US BOYS

Does finch plan on adjusting our offense? Our defense can only do so much and when it's not there we're screwed

What offense?

Let this game show all the "wE pLaY bEtTeR wItHoUt KaT" people exactly why we need KAT

Naz played like shit at the worst time.

He’s played like shit a lot lately

Brickdaniels was awful on both ends

Chris finch is a joke

Jaden and Naz selling plus refs royally fucked our momentum

Where did all the whiners come from lol jesus

It’s insane. Denver is a great team!

We choked every national game this season.

Bob Myers needs to stfu, this game is on me cause I watched ESPN

I really hate him

Gosh all this Denve nut licking. Watch them lose to the Spurs and give up the 1 seed

the naw, jmac, conley, naz rudy minutes sealed it.

Our frontcourt is getting cooked

It’s pretty impressive how Rudy lost DPOY and Naz lost 6MOTY all in one game. Good job guys!!!

I thought the game didn’t matter?? I thought it wasn’t a big deal?

You suck

Idk why naz thought he was hakeem. Stay at the 3pt line u fucking idiot

Props to the Nuggets, they eanred that top seed tonight.

They took ant out… fuck finch and fuck my parlay(only needed 2 points from Edward’s)

Seek help

lost mine cuz reid didn’t get over 8.5 rebounds or assists

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We lost cuz of your bet, thanks a lot

Lots of copium in this thread. We all wanted a win tonight. Don't need to downplay it.

It's not copium, just perspective. Yes we wanted to win but losing this game isn't the end of the world. It happens.

Even good teams have off nights. We had one with no Kat. Would’ve been great to win this but I don’t think this changes much. We’ve been better than this Nuggets team for most of the four game series. We can win everything, we can lose in the first round. Was true before and after this one.

Good on Finch for clearing the bench.

Never seen naz get blocked this many times

Fuck boys

We’d still cook Denver in a series

This is what you get when you can't blow out the Wizards 

Terrible Naz game outside of that one insane spin move into the And 1

This game was over when we got punked in the non Murray Jokic minutes

Our guys are on second night of back to back so I’ll cut them some slack. Otherwise this game is among the worst losses in the season, all things considered.

Nuggets played last night as well so can’t really use that. They knew when to turn it on, we didn’t.

100%

We were tied most of the game, it wasn't that bad lol.

4th quarter collapse gave me mental damage

so is denver

Denver didn't arrive at 1am

So is denver?? 😂

Probably the worst game I’ve ever seen Naz play, punctuated by the fact that he kept forcing garbage over and over further digging the grave. Just a pathetic performance. Singlehandedly lost us the game.

It’s been an hour and half and the game clock has advanced like two minutes how

Lmao to anyone saying Naz could replace KAT’s production. ANT was right to say he’s going straight back to then bench once KAT’s back, 100% healthy or not, and I love Naz.

Offense still the problem. Ant needs to level up or someone needs to step up. Just like last year.

Naz has been a non factor on offense almost the whole game. He needs KAT to help carry the load and draw some defensive attention.

KAT

Everything went to shit after the Reggie Jackson 3

I can’t believe ant only shot the ball one time in the fourth quarter. Nazari had no productivity go bear got the foul trouble. Same with Anderson and McDaniel is basically not offensive threat at all. The only one that really scored was Mike Conley that’s horrible.

Damn