NBA Gametime | Is the Celtics vs. Nuggets matchup tonight an NBA Finals preview? Shaq DEBATE

NBA Gametime | Is the Celtics vs. Nuggets matchup tonight an NBA Finals preview? Shaq DEBATE

35 nuggets winning 10200 and when you look at the odds according to FanDuel for the NBA Finals Celtics nuggets at plus 440 here so a lot of people do believe well Vegas anyways that these two teams are going to see each other when you look at that last

Match up to it was interesting coach because you had porzingis versus Joker and it seemed like KP did a pretty good job at first but they never sent the double what do you think think about that strategy against the joker well a lot of people believe that’s the best

Way to play him because you take away his ability to get assist make everybody better make him a onedimensional player if you play him head up yeah he may get 35 or 40 but this the thing about it if he gets 30 and then he gets 10 11

Assists and he hits you with 12 13 14 rebounds you can’t recover from that so if he gets 30 and only two assists and you make him a one-dimensional player that’s the thought process and then porzingis should with his size and again you’re not just leaving them on the

Island Greg you’re digging you’re dropping you’re trying to keep him off balance but I like that strategy because you got Al Horford you got Pingas they just picked up I can’t remember the young man from uh from Memphis as another big so tman they got enough

Bodies to throw at him and I think that’s what Boston doing they trying to load up on big bodies when they if they have to play The Joker and Joel and be when you look at Denver I mean we’re talking about this off camera is there a

Better one twoo compe in the league than the Joker and Murray especially late game situations yeah they’re right at the top and and they put so much pressure on you because of a how the Joker plays over the course of the game he’s out there playing chess and he’s

Kind of setting up the game he’s devising how you’re going to guard him where the double teams are coming from what your rotations are and he’s such an incredible passer and such a willing passer that it really makes his teammates play with great effort on the offensive end they’re always looking to

Space to four make good Cuts make good decisions because they know their best player is going to do the same and here he shows you the versatility with his ability to knock down that three they can put him all over the floor top of the key left block right block pick and

Roll he’s a terrific screener and he makes the right read he’s going to put the ball in Murray’s hands he’s really enabled Murray to kind of get back to the form we saw in the bubble a few years back prior to the injury but his ability to own his matchup ultimately

Especially in the fourth quarter is what separates him he is so physical and so precise in how he plays you rarely see him turn the basketball over and he’s one of the few guys that no one can get him off his spot and they do a great job

Late game situations of making sure he’s got the ball in his hands to make the right read yeah they’re just so fluid so fun to watch and then when you look at Brown and Tatum and the numbers they put up in that game versus Denver not great shooting nights uh for those

Two no and I think a lot what happens with the Celtics and I was able to watch them last night they get stagnant when it gets tough they the trust seems to leave and I think they’ve got to get over that hump they had seven or eight possession you see the last possession

Here where there was initially a foul call then they got a challenge and were able to reverse that call and Cleveland was able to make that miraculous comeback but one of the issues for this Celtics team is when the game slows down and it gets tough they seem to lose a

Little bit of trust of what allowed them to have success they had a 22-point game going the fourth quarter that in that game and they had eight straight possessions where there was one pass or no pass and they had gotten away from all the stuff they had done well and

Incorporating everybody in their offense and that’s a Bugaboo for this team they they’ve got to figure out a way when it gets tight to still have trust continue to put pressure on the opposing defense and not allow them to just kind of load to the ball and then you look at a guy

Like Jason Tatum we already saw two misses right there in the clutch coach the numbers here in clutch time Jason Tatum at 32.5% that that is down from his previous years is there something that sticks out to you man what are we looking for have we seen their record

Man you can find stats to disprove anybody can’t play I can go find stats to show you Michael Jordan at one point maybe in the second quarter was worst play in the league look at their record they got the best record in the league the whole year they’ve been hammering

People all year by 10 20 30 they beat the Golden State Warriors the other night by 50 and so we’re going to nitpick every it’s 82 games people everybody gonna have bad quarters bad stretches heck they might even have a stretch before the playoffs where they

Lose three in a row they lost two games at home back to back they’re the best team and at the end of the day who going to beat them four times out of seven I’m waiting for that team who going to beat beat him four out of seven times by the

Way I didn’t make the graphic just you keep looking at me like I made the graphic I didn’t make the graphic all right all right so Sacramento taking care of business 130 120 again these teams meet on Wednesday an important win for the Kings who are ahead of the

Lakers in the playin standings dearen Fox tying his career high with 44 points and then there’s the bigger question and we’re trying to get the video for you here LeBron James walking off a few minutes ago was grimacing uh in pain so Darin ham hopefully has an update on

That uh 31 points for Lebron 13 assists but again coach for the Sacramento Kings this is an impressive victory yeah I mean we know Sacramento can score and if they can just get timely defense timely stops they don’t have to be a top 10 top

15 defense but they just got to be able to get Timeless stops they can score with anyone I don’t know if they’re big enough G in that Western Conference to make some serious noise but I tell you what if you don’t put them to sleep they

Going to put put you to sleep cuz they will run you out of the building on their floor or your floor and Lakers in trouble man because they got to go to Sacramento they need to make up some ground because it’s going to be hard J

To come out there playing to go as far and as deep as they would like to go because LeBron only got so many so many miles left in the tank this year and if you going to use them in the play in all right so this is Lebron leaving

The game kind of grimacing a little bit so with 356 to go that was it for LeBron J 23 years on your body baby that’s it yeah that’s a lot of years we said a lot of mileage right lot he was 10 to 16 in this game again 13 assists five rebounds

31 points you got cross your fingers if you’re a Lakers faned hopefully you know he he just left cuz maybe the game’s out of handed not feeling the greatest yeah he definitely was grimacing but you know bigger picture to your point the they the Lakers just defensively don’t have

The same spark that they had you go back when they won the championship you go back to what they were able to do the second half of last season throughout the postseason they just don’t have that identity as a group right now and you saw Sacramento just run up and down the

Floor against them getting whatever they wanted in that game so uh it’s going to be a real challenge just how bundled it it is at the bottom of that Western Conference and the Lakers just going the wrong way with a game like tonight G I’m trying to figure out where’s that team

Team that want to play in the defense they played no seven games they were the best defensive team in the league for those seven they look completely different yes and I I don’t understand this the same team same Personnel how can you not get back to that how can you

Not find your way back to that home because that’s the one that you need to be at their defense in those seven games were unbelievable they won that in season tournament going away daring ham if I was Darin I will put those seven games on table could you could you can

You just turn it on as a team like that when come I don’t know if you can turn it on but you got to remind I would say so because they’ve done it so it’s not like you’re turning on or asking them to do something they haven’t done they’ve

Done this they did it seven games won the End season tournament so they’re capable they just got to go find themselves all right so the Lakers now speee oh not getting y an ally has been defeated be burned by my magic deated an enemy has been defeated double

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NBA Gametime | Is the Celtics vs. Nuggets matchup tonight an NBA Finals preview? Shaq DEBATE