09-14-2020, 05:01 PM
(09-14-2020, 10:20 AM)MrGoat Wrote:(09-13-2020, 09:06 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote:(09-13-2020, 02:15 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: Mavs exposed the Clippers and the Nuggets have the talent and depth to make them pay. If we were able to constantly come back from big Clippers leads with Luka + all the bit players, the Nuggets are able to do it easily too. Clippers are in big trouble!
Not really. If they play with intensity and grit for more than a half, they'll beat Denver. They don't have a answer for Joker though. Lately, they get leads and give them up too easily. They had a 3-1 lead over Houston a few years back, and blew that series. Maybe they've stopped listening to Doc. He has to figure in this somehow.
Denver is doing a much better job of slowing the Clippers down defensively though. The Clippers blew our doors off and we had a historically bad defensive performance in that series, and even with that we still managed to steal a couple with great offense and a lack of killer instinct by the Clippers. A lack of killer instinct I suspect will catch up to them either in game 7 or against the Lakers if they win game 7 and prevent the Nuggets from becoming the first team to come back from 3-1 twice in a row
Correct. On a side note, Doc could become the 1st coach ever to lose 3 3-1 leads in NBA history. He lost a 3-1 lead and the series vs Detroit in 03, when he coached Orlando, and T-Mac famously said the series was over. Then again in 2015, when Houston came back and beat the Clippers, and now if the Nuggets can pull it off tomorrow. Not a record to be proud of.