[Goodwill] “In time, we’ll look at this Nuggets postseason as one of the greatest runs in history. It’s hard to see the Bucks faring much better, let alone the maddening Celtics — so putting the focus on the Heat as some lucky 8th seed sent to slaughter is misguided.”
In time, we’ll look at this Nuggets postseason as one of the greatest runs in history. It’s hard to see the Bucks faring much better, let alone the maddening Celtics — so putting the focus on the Heat as some lucky 8th seed sent to slaughter is misguided https://t.co/MrHOwRKJ6g
— Vincent Goodwill (@VinceGoodwill) June 11, 2023
by BigButter7
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healthy bulls beat the nuggets in 5 imo
The sixers would’ve given them the most trouble. Honestly sixers would’ve beaten the heat in 5 or 6 in the ecf.
I think the worst thing about upsets in the NBA playoffs is that the team eventually starts looking like what the team actually is, and in this case it very much looks like a 1 seed beating down on an 8 seed. But Miami didn’t look like an 8 seed until about 4.5 games into the ECF
If they lock this up Monday, it’ll be a hell of an achievement.
First Nuggets’ Title.
16-4 record.
Finished winning 10 of their last 11 games.
Went 5-3 on the road (4-0 in WCF/Finals).
Eliminated, in succession, Anthony Edwards/Goebert/KAT, Booker/Durant/CP3/Ayton, LeBron/AD, and Jimmy Buckets/Bam.
A ridiculous postseason team Offensive Rating of 119.
And Jokic averaging something around 30-13-10 and Jamal averaging around a 27-5-7.
EDIT:
I know years from now, people will be like “Yeah, but they beat two 8th seeds and a 7th seed”, but I’ll always remember the 2023 Nuggets’ title run (assuming they lock it up in 44 hours).
Lol common…
It’s a good run and the Nuggets are a great team but it’s nowhere near one of the best runs ever. They’re the number one seed that took care of business. Plus, the Heat CLEARLY played above their weight in other series this has been shown multiple times by things such as their beyond absurd shooting from deep especially contested threes. They shot almost 50% against the Bucks on HEAVILY contested 3s for example.
Again, the Nuggets are great and deserve all the credit but statements like this are annoying. You’re comparing this against all other runs and whether it’s pure dominance like the 01 Lakers, the Warriors, or some of the Bulls teams just to name a few or if it’s by beating the odds (which Nuggets for sure haven’t done) like the Cavs or Mavs this playoff run just doesn’t compare.
It’s more similar to like the Bucks title which is really only known for Giannis being insanely dominant at this point and not the entire teams run. They’re just average finals runs.
The Bucks would have I think. The Bucks were the best team in the East, just had the misfortune of Giannis getting injured + Bud’s brother passing + Jimmy going nuclear on them.
I still think the Nuggets are the better team, but the Bucks at least make up for the size deficiency that the Nuggets have given team fits with and have enough scoring to keep up to some extent.
The Nuggets would’ve rolled the Celtics imo and any other team in the East pretty decisively.
Assuming they close it out wouldn’t this be the championship team that went the longest before seriously being considered as a potential championship team. So much of the last 15 years was dominated by Lebron and the warriors but even outside of them, when giannis won it wasn’t particularly surprising because he had been hyped up as the best for numerous years already. The Raptors seem like a close second, but from what I remember at the latest they were being taken seriously after the second round.
I don’t think the nuggets were taken seriously until like going up 3-0 in the WCF
I think based off the point differential it’s hard to argue even if on paper it doesn’t seem like they’re a juggernaut
No way in hell they’re “one of the greatest runs in history” when they only swept one round of the playoffs LOL
This whole postseason has been series of “well surely this team has figured out how to stop Jokic”. There’s no match for him defensively. He made Gobert and AD play “free safety” because they couldn’t take him on directly and Giannis isn’t really that great against him usually. It was a long time ago but Jokic had that first half triple double against the Bucks. I don’t think it mattered who won the East
I dunno, it is good but what challenge of a team did they take down? Miami winning would be one of the greatest runs ever. Denver winning is doing what was expected of the 1st seed with a path that only had one real obstacle in Phoenix.
Timberwolves – young and less talented
Suns – Old and injured
Lakers – Old and less talented
Miami – One of the weakest teams we have seen in the finals in a long time and speaks to the weakness of the East without Milwaukee.
It is, it’s the best post season run in Nuggets history
The Heat are here because they earned it. There was nothing easy or undeserved about them getting here, either.
Neither the Bucks or the Celtic are any pushover teams, and Miami still won over them both, without home court in both series.
The Heat proved they were the best in the East. Denver proved they were best in the West. Now they fight it out. As it should be.
Not sure about one of the best runs but definitely no one was going to beat them.
3 of the 4 teams they played were a 7th seed or lower. They got the job done unlike other high seeds, but it’s not some special run
Why the fuck aren’t we talking about the 2022 moral championship victors the Los Angeles lakers??
Bucks should do better, they matched up talent wise if everyone is healthy.
The take from this is that there isn’t a Nuggets dynasty in the making. This is just a one-off championship. Like 2011 Mavs.
Misguided is talking about alternate universes. Yeah they could beat the Bucks and so on. They coulda lost to the lakers too. Different variables can change even the smallest things but it doesn’t matter because everything else is a fantasy. This is the match up, it is what it is stop talking about different realities its not that deep
one of the easiest path to a championship in the history of the NBA, this is not debatable: 8-4-7-8. Come on!
Its especially misguided cause they were 1st seed last season barely lost in 7 in ECF to Celtics,they went to finals in 2020 too. Its not some underdog team , people are still treating them like Wizards or Hornets lol..
They still need to win one more game, and until that happens these takes just seem lazy
Didn’t the Warriors go 16-1?
I’d argue that the Nuggets aren’t even having the greatest run this playoffs. Sure they’re winning but they are a 1 seed who is pretty much taking care of business. People just didn’t respect them due to narratives. Anyone looking back in the future seeing a healthy 1 seed dominate probably won’t even blink. They are playing very well. The Heat though are doing things that honestly nobody really expected. Everyone was thinking tough first round and out in the second at best but here they are in the finals with random role players suddenly taking off at various points in the playoffs and beating super talented teams that they honestly had no business beating after almost failing to get through the play ins and playing like absolute trash during the regular season
If no one expected Denver to win it this year then we were watching the wrong sport.
I’ll have what he’s smoking. They beat a crappy Twolves team, a suns team depleted of talent without a starting PG(CP) shitty lakers team, extremely lucky Heat team(pending). I mean congrats they made it there but it was a cake walk.
Good (likely) championship run. Not everything has to be great in the history of organized competition.
This might be one of the Easiest runs tbh
“One of the greatest runs in postseason history”
8 seed, 4 seed, 7 seed, 8 seed
I love the amount of cope
Looks like the Heat crashed the 1 seed’s party and drank all their champagne!
Nah.