The Nuggets Never beating a 50+ win team in the Jokic Era, doesn’t get talked about enough, LeBron has beat 18, Curry is 15-4, Giannis 1-5.

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The MVP-Curse is like the Madden Curse.


Yep

Stat is dishonest, cause his 2nd-best run was in 2020 when they only played 72 games. Denver beat the Jazz and Clippers that year, who would have had 50 wins and 56 wins if you pro-rate their record to an 82-game schedule.

It's still not a great look because they haven't beaten any great teams. But if Denver had taken out Memphis and Cleveland last year instead of the Lakers and Miami, would y'all respect them any more? The 50-win cutoff is completely arbitrary, the better question is whether Denver has beaten any serious title-quality teams. And I'd say the Clippers win in 2020 was impressive because that was a rare healthy Clippers team, but besides that their record is pretty weak.
Yep

The Jokic haters, the Lakers fans and the folks who dislike foreign players are out in full force tonight. It is a dishonest take.

Joker will beat a 50-win team in the playoffs next year.
 

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Stat is dishonest, cause his 2nd-best run was in 2020 when they only played 72 games. Denver beat the Jazz and Clippers that year, who would have had 50 wins and 56 wins if you pro-rate their record to an 82-game schedule.

It's still not a great look because they haven't beaten any great teams. But if Denver had taken out Memphis and Cleveland last year instead of the Lakers and Miami, would y'all respect them any more? The 50-win cutoff is completely arbitrary, the better question is whether Denver has beaten any serious title-quality teams. And I'd say the Clippers win in 2020 was impressive because that was a rare healthy Clippers team, but besides that their record is pretty weak.

Stop juelzing - this is word salad.

Fat Man Scoop just got smashed to bits in 2 closeout games. Got blown out by 45 in one & surrendered 20pts lead in the other.

And he lost game 7 when Ant decided to start rim running cos he knows Fat Man Scoop is allergic to playing defense & rim protection. If he were average defensively, Nuggets would’ve won the game.

He’s not going to play play-in teams he can pad his stats against en route to a ship every year. And Jamal Murray was the best player on the Nuggets the year they came back from 3-1 to beat the Clippers.

Fat Man Scoop better learn how to play defense & rim protect with all the athletic guards on the comeup in the WC - else he won’t make it out of the 1st rd for the rest of his career. Analytics won’t save his fat arse.
 

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If they beat teams that beat 50 win teams, that’s the same damn thing.

It’s 2024. Players sit out, don’t take the regular season serious (even more so with the play in), the league is more even (not least due to the aforementioned points) and then you have randomness.
 

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With last night's loss and Denver's 45-point loss in Game 6, this is one of the worst choke moments by a defending champion led by a 3-time MVP...

Jokic let his team down throughout this entire postseason...I don't wanna hear about his stats or triple-doubles, 40-point games, etc.

For the most part, he played mid but good enough to get his stats and squeeze out wins (especially in the first round) in games that should've really been losses, if not for the Laker's coaching and roster incompetence along with Murray hitting a few game-winners. If not for those errors and luck playing a role Denver would've been sent home in the first round.

I mentioned before in the opening of this series against the T-Wolves that playing against a competent team such as Minnesota, that championship fatigue/hangover would finally catch up to them.

I'm glad they lost especially in a humbling manner...I couldn't stand their smug and arrogant attitude, especially from Mike Malone and the insufferable stans/fanbase. It probably won't happen but, I hope Jokic gets crucified for choking back-to-back games the same we criticize other greats for choking in crucial moments.
 

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If they beat teams that beat 50 win teams, that’s the same damn thing.


It’s 2024. Players sit out, don’t take the regular season serious (even more so with the play in), the league is more even (not least due to the aforementioned points) and then you have randomness.
:dwillhuh: the transitive property dont apply to basketball. This aint DBZ where if goku >frieza, frieza > vegeta then goku > vegeta.

Styles make fights matchups are different teams play other teams a certain
 

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With last night's loss and Denver's 45-point loss in Game 6, this is one of the worst choke moments by a defending champion led by a 3-time MVP...

Jokic let his team down throughout this entire postseason...I don't wanna hear about his stats or triple-doubles, 40-point games, etc.

For the most part, he played mid but good enough to get his stats and squeeze out wins (especially in the first round) in games that should've really been losses, if not for the Laker's coaching and roster incompetence along with Murray hitting a few game-winners. If not for those errors and luck playing a role Denver would've been sent home in the first round.

I mentioned before in the opening of this series against the T-Wolves that playing against a competent team such as Minnesota, that championship fatigue/hangover would finally catch up to them.

I'm glad they lost especially in a humbling manner...I couldn't stand their smug and arrogant attitude, especially from Mike Malone and the insufferable stans/fanbase. It probably won't happen but, I hope Jokic gets crucified for choking back-to-back games the same we criticize other greats for choking in crucial moments.
How do you have championship fatigue only winning 1 title :mjlol:.

Mike Malone at his presser acting like they were the 60s celtics or 90s bulls or some shyt. Like they played deep into June the last 5 years and it finally caught up with them. :dead:
 

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If they beat teams that beat 50 win teams, that’s the same damn thing.

It’s 2024. Players sit out, don’t take the regular season serious (even more so with the play in), the league is more even (not least due to the aforementioned points) and then you have randomness.
No it’s not. Playoff series are small sample sizes so a team that’s mediocre could get hot from three and beat a team that won 50 or more games. Or the team that won 50 or more could hit a cold streak. A player may have an outlier series that pushes their team ahead. But all that doesn’t make them the equivalent of a 50 win team
 

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How do you have championship fatigue only winning 1 title :mjlol:.

Mike Malone at his presser acting like they were the 60s celtics or 90s bulls or some shyt. Like they played deep into June the last 5 years and it finally caught up with them. :dead:


“What happened to the game I love?” That breh said “Championship fatigue” after one chip. Nuggets are the 2011 Dallas Mavericks and that’s completely fine.
 
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