The Inside Guys React to Jokić’s INSANE 39 Foot Game-Winner & State of the Warriors 👀 | NBA on TNT

The Inside Guys React to Jokić’s INSANE 39 Foot Game-Winner & State of the Warriors 👀 | NBA on TNT

[Applause] yic has it clock ticks got to put one up yic for the wiim it’s yit got it off in time and the Nuggets win it are you kidding me are you kidding an incredible comeback win by the Denver Nuggets as we welcome you to Inside the NBA presented by KIA Ernie

Johnson with Charles and Kenny and Shaq this this game was with 651 to play an 18-point Golden State lead uh a team that’s been uh struggling you got the Draymond Green situation you got a team meeting after a loss to Dallas you got to talk about agendas and

That kind of thing we’ll talk about what it means for Denver but for Golden State man this well Ernie they’re they’re they don’t have the answers in anymore they don’t have the answers to the test and you saw their flaw unless Steph Curry bails them out you go back

And look at all the games they won the last month Steph Curry went crazy and tonight you get a nuggets credit I think they made a conscious effort like Steph is not going to beat us but that was a choke job choke that was a choke I don’t

Like saying choke but that was a choke job you can’t blow no that was a choke job that you know they flat out just blew that game give Denver credit for making that last shot but between turnovers and you got a 18-point lead with six you said six minutes ago yeah

Under seven minutes you cannot lose a game you’re up 18 with six minutes to go because a te when you blow that big of a lead the team does play well but you had to do a lot to help them so that was just a choke job tonight 25-4 run to end

The game and Denver wins it 130 to 127 in case you’re just tuning in uh here’s what you missed and this was something something to see last two champions of the NBA Denver and Golden State and early on Steph catch and shoot and they’ve got the early nine-point

Lead man Joker just doing work inside just too big man he just great that’s to the word we need to that he just great this kid is playing really well for them oh good both s and him yeah he going to come back Chuck Who coming back clay this guy right here

Sh play had 24 on the night and was feeling it from Deep you know what you know what it is I think um Chuck when you say you know oh cooked I think that I just is my opinion I just think that that right now this is

A great pass but I think right now Ernie like there are guys who are move down in a pecking order they aren’t cooked but they might not be the first option anymore they might be the best second option you have or the best third option

Now still have to be the best first op I’m just saying they’re not contenders anymore 70- 63 was your halftime score in favor of Denver but Golden State came up with its highest scoring quarter of the Season 44 in the third yeah where’s Kevin dur kaminga he’s not walking

Through that door yeah but that that would put them right back I’m still not going to count him out yeah and then it’s Steph floating over [Applause] joic and then step back and he makes it look St cuz I I still think they can win four

Or five games in a row how about the spark that branded pin pin been really great he has been great so they’re up 10792 at that point SAR has been great as as well good pass right there those guys aren’t difference makers everybody got those guys The Game come down to

Stars and here comes that Curry not a star anymore Here Comes the Denver oh he’s a star he’s a superstar lots of he played well UCLA grb well not grb but UCLA what a pass this is all part of that 25 off to end the game Joker again I’d rather you

Shoot it I’d rather you shoot it and we miss going to overtime Steph but instead with 3.6 seconds to go yeah this happens only the good or lucky Ernie as the clock goes to zeros the bank is opening Serbia it’s 130 to 127 the Nuggets go to 25 and 11 they’ve

Won eight of their last nine Golden State now 16 and 18 losing four of their last five and again they squander that 18-point lead with under seven minutes to go here is Michael Malone great players make great plays and uh you know ni Cola catching the ball there and then making something

Happen behind that is just uh just incredible that’s our sixth Road win in a row and when you get down to this team it’s very easy to drop your head in this building with that crowd and uh that’s probably the thing I I was most pleased with tonight is that everybody coaches

Players we just stayed the course even after that uh third quarter which they dominated um but we closed that game I think it’s a 25 to four run to close and uh you don’t see that happen to that team in this building very often so very

Proud of our group for staying with it I thought uh Aaron Gordon was great being back in the bay 30 and N Nicole joic uh another sore triple double and I thought Jamal Murray’s you know a lot of times you’ll see like Jamal’s energy he will he Wills

Us to a win sometimes and I thought his energy got into the foul trouble but uh I thought he was terrific throughout especially in that fourth quarter and the last guy I got to mention is Payton Watson you know look at a young kid like Payton who’s basically a rookie this

Year closing out a game on the road and making some really big plays on his way to 19 points and five rebounds you just Joker is from another Planet says our buddy Jamal Crawford I love Jamal he a good there go my boy nick uh Ric Flair

W even know his name I know is That’s My Boy Rick play Shout out to Wendy too his beautiful wife Michael Malone always gives you good uh it’s like you don’t even need the box score when you hear Michael Malone talking about the game afterwards but you say how’d it go yeah

But I tell you but um of all those guys too Aaron Gordon uh had a huge game had had 30 coming back from the uh whole the stitches after the dog bite and all that and so Joker hit the shot but he certainly was not the only the only

Everybody chipped in I thought that if you go back and look Aaron Garden probably was the biggest difference in the game you know his he had a couple dunks some knce passes from Joker he got a couple offensive rebounds to me he was the difference in the game and obviously

When you Bank a shot in like that it’s a lot of luck involved but you know coach Van gandi said it best him and ba their defense was fabulous in the last five or six minutes it wasn’t great the first three and a half quarters but when you

Outscore somebody 25 to four well let me rephrase that when you outscore the Warriors 25 to four you’re playing really good defense yeah you give up 44 in the third quarter then you give up 20 in the fourth quarter ER when you’re trying to be a champion you learn not to

Panic when you become a champion you know not to panic there some Denver Denver Nuggets Champions Mike said they had a lot of Po they didn’t get down their and they just played the course and they was able to win the game so I’m never never worryed about them I like

The progress that they’re doing right now uh you want to have some type of homecourt Advantage when when when this thing starts uh in in April May right now they’re sitting at number three Joker’s playing well Denver Nuggets are in great shape right now cooked or not cooked

Whatever the state of the Golden State Warriors in your mind well obviously they’re missing pieces I I would I would just say when when Charles when we refer to being cooked I mean like there’s no chance I think the chances are still available meaning this I think Draymond

Green has to come back uh he has to be a well rounded citizen of basketball for them so he can play consecutive games secondly they’re missing a piece now that piece could be a great piece or it could be a subtle piece to put people in their right position I think sometimes

Even if you have a scorer if they added another scorer to this lineup then Klay Thompson becomes a third option scoring wise and will Wiggins be that he hasn’t really been the scoring part he’s been a decent Defender at times but his scoring has been inconsistent this year will

They make the playing game they need no they need another scorer will they make the playing game if they don’t get another scorer they will not if they get another scorer sky is the limit so they won’t make the playoffs that’s what you’re saying well no not not not as

Construed Ernie it’s it’s getting late early it’s starting to us for like who in the West can beat the Nuggets it’s really we’re in early January the trade deadline is coming up you have to say to yourself I thought coming into the season the Lakers have been a huge disint

Appointment my sons have been a huge disappointment you know I don’t believe in Minnesota I’m sitting here the Clippers you don’t believe in Minnesota I do not the Clippers to me and I was tell you said if they kept it Up by Chris but you might believe in them uh but I don’t

They’ve lost two in a row I don’t believe in them okay but I will tell you this the scariest team in the west is the Los Angeles Clippers I got to say this about I got to say this about yeah bro you said this the last seven

Years in a row if Kawai got hurt remember they were going to beat the sons Ka got hurt different it’s a different it’s not let me just say and I was telling kenned in the back kawhai Leonard is amazing like if he’s healthy he’s one of the five best basketball

Players in the world like going back to last year when they beat the sun they were going to beat the Suns if he didn’t get hurt they would have beat the sons if you go back and look he’s playing as well as anybody in basketball right now

If you actually like I watched the Clippers played three times in the last week Ka Leonard is playing as good a basketball as anybody in the NBA and I’m a CP A B they’ve won 13 of their last 15 I’m a clip a bad wagon the Harden thing ised his

Role was the last seven years I’m not giv but I’m I’m saying but I but last seven years Kawhi Leonard has won an NBA championship but I I’m saying in this regard everyone talk when they first started I kept saying you got I don’t know remember I give them time when they

First when that trade first happen one James Harden comes in out of shape of course because he hadn’t played any preseason games no whatever James Harden will round back he still not James Harden yet but the one thing that I I believe honestly in any of is Tyrone Lou

I think he has always proven that he’s overachieved when he has less talent and when he’s had the talent he’s actually made them play to their position sha maybe maybe their position is Western Conference Final but they’re not going to go less than that with Tyrone Lou

That’s what I’ve noticed what he’s done with his teams his teams never play less than what they’re supposed to be they don’t always overachieve they don’t always do but they never play leer but if you look at that team I’m telling y’all man that man kawh Leonard I I like

Every time you think like man those injuries got to take their toe he can’t cuz as you get older you don’t recover as much but every single time he’s healthy he is spectacular heard it all before back to back to the game he just saw a gut punch of a loss for Golden

State blowing that 18-point lead late here is Steve Kerr yeah I mean I just give them credit they they um they really tightened up defensively uh and then um you know their guys hit some big shots they got to the line um I thought Aaron Gordon was fantastic

Tonight really dominated the second half in the paint and um especially the fourth quarter and then uh you know Watson hits the big three that was probably the shot of the game um and they did a good job getting stops so um I feel for our guys that’s a that’s a

Really tough one I mean um our guys played great and uh you know 35 assists and 10 turnovers and you know we executed most of the game but um just couldn’t couldn’t score and couldn’t get stops in that last five six minutes you’ve said it a couple times this year

That you usually get you know one maybe two of these like gut punch losses it feels like yeah these are piling up a bit I mean is that kind of the internal sense too uh we’ve had we’ve had a few of them this year we um you know it’s um

As part of being in the league you know everybody’s got amazing talent and great coaching and and um you know you just um these games all come down to the wire it feels like for us this year and um we’ve we’ve probably lost four or five that we

Should have won maybe we’ve won one or two that we uh shouldn’t have but um yeah these are these are gut punches for sure and you talk about these clutch Time games these fivepoint games with five minutes to go and golden state is now 13 and 14 and you look at this

Possession Kenny yeah I mean right here I’d rather have Steph cury take a bad shot to make a bad pass because even his bad shots as Joker just but the pass should have been to Chris Paul yeah but I mean should been the chis B but obviously also I’d rather him take the

Shot with 3 seconds to go because here’s a guy joic who will take a tough shot and make a great shot because there’s no fear to let it go you in a in a tie game to me is the easier shot to take because you’re you’re not losing the game you’re

Only going to win it that that’s the only thing you’re going to do so when the game is tied you should have no fear of taking a shot cuz you you’re not losing a game you’re only winning and he won it we give Denver credit on that defensive end though they took they

Make sure Steph was going to pass the ball but Steph made a bad P that ball should have went to the top cuz Chris Paul was wide open but he tried you know like the quarterback don’t go too don’t throw throw the ball back across the

Field plain and simple and that was the mistake Steph made I think he tried to show throw it to a guy that was shooting better better from the three-point line because you know Chris they didn’t needed three it was a tie game yeah but I mean you know he’s wide right there

For the three yeah but so was uh Chris Paul and he was it was an easier pass but this guy’s percentage is better than this guy Chris Paul it was they didn’t need have to worry about percentage it was a tie game listen I understand that

And you saying they don’t need the three but that’s where Chris Paul was standing he at the three so he’s at the three the other guy was way in the other Corner which was a bad pass by stuff but but listen I’m trying to win the game so who

Has the better percentage that’s guy I’m get Chris Paul at the top wide open bro he don’t have a good percentage for the fifth damn time it does not matter it you first of all you don’t even know the percentage of the guy in the corner stop

It way better than Chris Paul it’s not first Paul you want to bet yeah bet I’ll bet you right now you think you think W you think wi is a better shooter than Chris Paul you’re a damn fool if you think I think the stunt by I think the

Stunt by Murray also kind of fooled him a little bit that stunt up yeah but that ball has to go to the top Chris Paul’s a better shooter he made a bad pass he made a turnover but I’m saying he’s trying to better shooter than Chris Paul

Not not In Your Wildest Dream he’s not shooting well from the three this year uh neither is Wiggins but he’s doing better than Chris Paul bet me I don’t even know it I’ll guarantee wi only wi’s only 30% from Deep this year and what is Chris Paul Chris Paul I can actually B

30 I can actually tell you exactly what Chris PA B and 30 Paul from three coming into this game shooting 36% okay say it again loud was Bas in your voice put some Bas in your voice I don’t need base in my voice let’s take a

Break here got much more to come on Inside the NBA you something funny cuz I smack I can’t laugh now I can’t laugh no you can’t I can’t laugh but don’t be trying to be funny I’m just laugh hey hey man hey go back go back to that first

Tweet that was go back to that first tweet you put you said I’m going put something hey sha you got to read this you got to read this sh even the bank’s not open in Serbia him oh okay my bad hey hey get off my Boy Ric Flair now I

Love you Rick they weren’t on Rick they were on you for calling him Nick that’s I’m not laughing no more Shaq my bad you can laugh man I can’t laugh you can laugh I can’t laugh hey hey take your glasses off cuz I don’t want hit no man with glasses

On oh when we come back oh give me that we got this too what’s that jonis and wmy yes that was nice

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