The different nuggets, speaking of fifth rounds, they're about to play their fifth game. Soon we have the nuggets escaping, on Saturday with the literal buzzer beating, beater winning game 401 to 99 to tie the series with the Clippers at 2-2. Does this win give you more confidence in the nuggets to win the series? And are the Clippers giving these games away with their late game phone?
This gives, as far as giving me confidence on them to win the series, it kind of does, and all the reason it does because they've been here before, and they've done it before. These are the most evenly matched teams that we're going to get in period. I think they ended the season both at 1532, and this series has been neck and neck. Now, I will say the Clippers are playing just a hair better regardless, even though the series is tied.
But I still just got faith down the stretch that the different nuggets are going to put it together and pull this thing out. They have the more talent, overall, I'll say, in my opinion, because you don't think so people? Not the nuggets just hit a big three. Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But they have more talent overall than I think that's going to end the shooting is there. So I think that's going to prevail in the end. I think that that'll give them the edge, but you got MVP.
So that's the size you got to link to. But once again, this is the most 50-50 series of all. Everything else has not even if it's been 60-40 and somebody else, this one is 50-50 straight down the middle. So but I do think my opinion, Denver, is going to pull the series out.
People don't say nothing else about the game. You'll be fascinated by it. They have to go. I'm talking about these, the real starters.
Okay. Is this going? Does this give me more credence to the Denver Nuggets pulling it out? Look, I think this series in particular has been everything that I said, and it was going to be like, I thought it was going to be close.
Kawai is balling a little bit better than I thought he would. Like he's definitely going to that MVP, you know, finals MVP level that we've seen, man. He's talked about not playing with pain right now. And they do feel like they are clicking on more cylinders right now than the Denver Nuggets, but Denver has that championship moxie throughout.
And I do agree that the Clippers are fumbling in the back. But again, when you have James Harden, when you have some of these guys that's on that roster, to be expected, it's to be expected, man. James Harden is one of the greatest choke artists, you know what I'm saying? NBA history.
And NBA history, you know what I'm saying? So to me, no, I'm not surprised that they're fumbling in the back of the end of these games. And I still got Denver. I think Denver is lucky.
The Clippers definitely gave them two wins. But I'm seeing Joker play great, and then I'm seeing Joker choke in a situation. He had a hell of a shot, but he missed a free throw. He missed another.
So, but right now he's damn near unstoppable. And that damn shot he hit to give them the lead was crazy with all those spam moves. And it's just fascinating watching him play and watching and Kawhi. Kawhi, seeing these guys battle back and forth, bro, like they're going at it.
The issue, as Shaq says, Shelton talks about around this time are the others. And Christian Brown stepped up, Brown stepped up, Gordon stepped up, MPJ stepped up, and they managed to build enough of a cushion to some of my win that game. But a 30 to nine run is insane. Never should have happened, but it nevertheless, it did.
And just even in game four, Kawhi missed the three that could have put him up. Hard in, missed the shot that could have gained the lead and zubak hit the tip in. And it was a really good, riveting game. But what I'm seeing is I'm seeing playoff hard in.
I'm going to come around. Ever since game one, bro, slowly but surely he's rounding into playoff form that we know. Now, you had a pretty decent and pretty good fourth quarter, but yeah, man, he's been disappearing. And Aaron Gordon is giving them, well, in the first half, he was giving them problems in the post, posting up Kawhi, who's the other guy?
He was posting up, they got in foul trouble. So he would give him fits. So they have a matchup that they could take advantage of there. But I think this is going to come down to coaching.
And so far, the rookie is holding on tight. But what I will say is Shelton, I'm going to say this Shelton, Joker is over these niggas, bro. He is over this. He is so frustrated with this game.
This is the most visibly frustrated I've ever seen him play. He is just so fucking annoyed. Have you seen that he's actually the one that's doing on coaching in the subs? Are you seeing him seven in the end, not playing?
Yeah, I saw the one that you guys put in the chat and I saw it in the game. But bro, that was great. It was one defensive rotation that was missed. And it was something else.
He just like this. He just shaking his head. He is over it bro. He won a title with you.
He's just over it bro. How do we might be over his skis? Yeah, I put this in the chat. I think the Clippers should have won in the suite.
They have fumbled these last days. The game won FIFA. They have that in the bag. They fumbled the game.
This last game, like how do you even, I think I'm looking at this. Right. I'm sorry. You couldn't even get it out.
I didn't even look at this. It's the big thing. We all the nicks just took. You're all right.
So I'm going to say like to me, like the Clippers are the better team. If you look at all these games, you can easily see like the Clippers are the better team. It's just that who would have thought that one box out could would be the difference maker in game four and also in game one when they had the lead that had everything in the bag. It just gave it all.
It's like the other two games they won handily. You know what I'm saying? They were clearly the better team. It's and now we're going back to Denver, I believe, for game five.
And this is the series. Most of the series I won in game five when it comes to like, but they're both even by that point. So I just think that the Clippers have to have to get this win. They have to get this win.
Yeah. I think when you when you give away losses like that, because you just never really know what these next game what each game is going to be. Right. Because each one is his own identity.
So trust me, I know the next is game one away. That's what happens, man. It's just like, yeah, you have to win when you can. And we're about to talk about another.
Don't. Don't. I can't. I know.
I know. Yeah. But yeah, but I will say that Joker is playing his numbers are saying he's playing in Hall of Fame worthy. I'm not disagreeing with that.
But the late game situations, him missing free throws and him not, you know what I'm saying, just not really being as clutch as I'm used to seeing him. That is surprising me because that means that he has to rely on his teammates more now. Aaron Gordon obviously, in the last game. But if you look at these late games, he's missing.
Look, I'm going to get the next. You know what I'm saying? They fucked up at the free throw line too, especially with Brunson early in this game. So it's like those those points always come back.
It's not about relying on your teammates because you always got to rely on your teammates. But the best players turn it up in the clutch because they don't have to drag them through the first three. Has he hasn't been doing it yet. But he's been dragging them early in the game.
He's been dragging them early in the game. So when it comes late in the game, he don't got the same type of Jews. Free, but it's free. I'm not trying to make excuses back because we didn't make excuses for LeBron.
No, no, no, no. Free throws. Like, he's not having to do the night tonight. Aaron Gordon, wait, it just started.
But Aaron Gordon got seven. Jamal Murray got seven. And he's the only one I think I'm going to have. So we seen him be up by 30 something.
Well, you know what I'm saying? I was going to say, but that should help. What you just said though, the fact that he should have a lot more energy at the end of the night to do what he needed to do. That's all I was saying.
The others are stepping up. Yeah, tonight, but Jamal Murray has been absent ever since the injury. And I called it out in the Olympics. You got bench for RJ Barry on your Canadian team, bro.
Like, like, there has Jamal Murray has been on a steady beeline ever since his last injury. And all I'm saying is, is that for this Denver team to be a title contender, they need the others. They got their main guy. We know Joker is otherworldly, but God, like I always say the second best player on the championship level team got to show up minimum of five games in the seven game series.
Because we know that the main guy's going to show up six or seven games. Joker's going to show up six or seven games. Jamal got to be here four to five games. He hasn't yet.
We haven't had that Jamal Murray game. Hopefully this is that game. But we need a Jamal Murray game. Yeah, we haven't.
We'll go to. We need to talk next. But what I will say is that I think the Clippers may start having a Christian problem too. Because they just leave it.
They'll leave it. They'll live it. They'll live it. Wow.
Overgrowth. Yeah. He's been missing. He hit like one shot last game.
Yeah. That's Chris. That's Chris. The Dunaman.
You know, he got to the night. He got to the night. He's going to touch the night. I got a question for you.
How much of this is on Tauloo? They're losing these games down the stretch. There is responsibility for Tauloo. There is responsibility for Tauloo.
I'm not going to lie about that. But Game Five is going to show me how he bounced back from that game. Because Game Four was the ugly loss. That is that I don't know how much that's on Tauloo.
But to me, the way you graded coaches after a bad loss, what do they do next game? Yeah, I don't think Game Four was on him. I mean, they were down 20 and came all the way back to Ty. That was the only one.
But down 20 and I mean, it's kind of like, I can't give you credit for coming back when you're back. You don't say it's like all the through that. That's what I'm saying. It's got to go.
It's got to go. But I feel you.