ooph, what's the laker's 4th quarter 3point% for the series?

When the game is on the line you want the ball in Lebron's hands.... if you're the opponent.

With how the illegal screen rule is practically nonexistent now. Denver is just unmatched

jb is a great representation of ny style basketball, hurky jurky, finesse his way to buckets, rather than relying on freak athleticism

Wowww

It's definitely a coaching issue

Great analysis, thank you for your time and effort!

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We really need a video for Kyrie. His performances so far have been incredible (and underrated).

Look at the free throw disparity. The foul called on MPJ vs the mugging of Jokic by AD with no call until the end and then a reversal because of 'minimal contact'... MINIMAL contact when he rides him all the way to the hoop and then while he did get ball with his right hand his left hand has a grip on the jersey. Just pathetic officiating. I give the Nuggets a ton of credit. It isn't easy beating them 5 vs 8 when 3 Laker's 'players' are wearing a whistle.

The way Brunson navigates these screens and with his ability to shoot 3s, pull up in the mid, or slip into the lane for a layup while leveraging all of that with enough playmaking to keep defenders on their toes really reminds me of Chauncey Billups. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fXGGmqKaon5_lY0.htmlsi=TB9ZnmrXZfsTxD3e

why do you say it's the foul at 27:47. but the previous play wasn't at Jokic by the LBJ? This game would be easy for the Nuggets if it wasn't the refs...

didnt realize game 2 wasn’t game 5 till the last minute 😭😭😭

That last play on game 5, TP tells Rui or Dlo to rotate over because he saw the play already too. Sadly whoever he was talking to hesitated and there was no contest, which led to the gamer. Crazy how if they listened to TP it could’ve been a good contest and who knows, they could’ve gone into OT

Goes to show even with all that talent Suns still need a pg running/initiating the offense

This man watched Mind the Game and learned all the lingo 😂😂😂

Bruh Nikola Jokic don't even really like basketball that much but his post moves are WAY better than AD's. What's up with that?

The fact that you have researched his kung fu based training to explain Jamal Murray playstyle is quite cool.

Lakers offense struggled so hard down the stretch it took actual heroics from a 40 year old to keep them in the game, then in the clutch, same issue, and the 40 yr old is actually 40 so he finally misses. Tragic

As good as Lebron is, you can't build a team with him as a 1st option anymore. AD is great, but it feels like he can't cover 1st option role either. So you have 2nd option in AD, the 3rd option in Lebron (he can be 2nd, but with his age - IMO it's better to lessen his load). What the Lakers lack in this image are shooters around their star center and slasher + 1st violin. I have no idea how they can solve this conundrum without blowing up the roster and starting anew to find new cornerstones. Nuggets are well-built and time-proven. For me, it was an inevitable result just like last year. But they tried. Great video, as always!

This is good

Not saying lebron was “bad” he obviously wasn’t. But you can point to 4 or 5 possessions down the stretch on both ends where he hurt the lakers. He was also the reason they were in it, but he wasn’t a massive positive in this game. I think he is finally reverting to human form at 39.

I wonder if Booker now regrets yelling at a teammate during practice for guarding him too hard 🤔

21:51 look at how Jokic faked the hell out of Reaves, looked at MPJ to get him to commit and then passing to Murray once the lane was open

15:35 reliving the pain 💔

Look at the first 4 shot selections by Lakers, they weren’t taking shots like that in the first half, that’s really it

Minnesota put so much work in front office wise to have a good team Kat almost ruined them but they deserve something after 20 years of pain

Jamaal Murray reminds me of Rip Hamilton

I enjoy the NBA so much more after watching your videos

When you see that Lakers had the lead for most of the game time and still got gentleman sweeped is unbelievable. But this video explains it. Nothing came easy for them in this series. Some of these points are just Lebron winging it. I hope the Nuggets repeat.

incidental contact lol

Anthony Davis the most overrated max player in the league

That beautiful jab step at 2:50 is traveling. I don't know what happened to the NBA but it seems to me that players are traveling non stop and referees don't give a damn anymore.

KCP just fell down? No! Lebron shoud have been called for offensive charge because of pushing.

“I like letting them play” If the they would have let the lakers play it would’ve been a 15 point win for the nuggets let’s be real

Wolves connected on defense like the Miami heat.

That overturned call was terrible.

if jamals lower right leg makes it all the way through the playoffs then the chip is denvers.

This is supposed to be a stats channel. But no mention is made of the free throw disparity stat from game 5. Jokic had 0 FT attempts and he was getting hacked all night.

Thinking Basketball - why don't you provide an advice on how the Suns or any other team should play against this defense? You just marvel at Wolves. But when you talk about Denver, there is always some advice, like "Lakers should've adjust this or that..." Why is league against Denver?!

29:44 the synchronized running of Murray and Gordon. In sync even when not looking at one another... wow.

Jokic had (by his standards) a very terrible game but luckily others stepped up

This also reminds me of the 2010-11 Bulls, coached by Thibs, heavily reliant on Derrick Rose for offense, but great on defense.

"great iq for a podcaster!" earned you the like alone man that was hilarious

@12:03 Denver takes Lakers down to 3 seconds left on the shot clock with Lakers having failed their offensive schemes, Reaves gets himself space from Murray for the three, misses. LeBron is at the logo, AD and Rui are on the far side blocked off by Jokic and Gordon. This possession is as bad as it gets.

Part1 of: BEN TAYLOR DOESNT KNOW BASKETBALL or is very biased LeBronstan. Ben has brought up CHI 1994 team winning 55 games to discredit Jordan but ignores approx 70% of the minutes played were players not on 93 team. It had a lot of players added to the roster. He also ignores that 95CHI had a 43 win pace in the ~65g before Jordan arrived and in 1996 CHI would win 72, improvement of 29 wins. That’s also adding Rodman but another way to compare is 96 team is basically adding Jordan and just switching Grant for Rodman. So Jordan made a 55w team (that played more like 50w) with 3 net rating in to an all time great team of 72 wins and 13 net rating For comparison, LeBron and Bosh went to a 47 win team and only improved MIA by 5.7 net rating and 11 wins or to 58w and no title Also for comparison, Bron and 26pts 12reb Love went to a 33 win -3.5 net rating Kyrie CLE team and improved by 20 wins 8.3 net rating It’s easier to improve a team in wins or NRtg the lower it is before arriving and yet Jordan in teams with higher wins and net ratings joins them and improves them MORE than LeBron.

15:06 He didn't "fell down". He got pushed by LeBron. It was a clear offensive foul.

Who’s the weirdo wearing PINK shoes?! Symptomatic of the weakness of the league right now.

The refs tried so hard to hand LA the victory, but the Lakers just couldn't hack it.

"great iq for a podcaster" has me rollin lmfao