Nuggets vs. Timberwolves: Potential Playoff Preview ⁉️ | The Hoop Collective

Nuggets vs. Timberwolves: Potential Playoff Preview ⁉️ | The Hoop Collective

This game that you were at tonight McMahon uh two you know big games you’ve now been at for the Nuggets over the last few days this game was a bummer because um first off it’s a second night of a backtack for the Wolves so tough situation for them uh obviously

Tremendous uh finish to the game in Utah um on Monday night with ant um with that incredible dunk and overcoming a dislocated finger but uh no Nas Reed he was out no Rudy goar due to the rib injury obviously no uh Carl towns um they were playing Luke Garza I think

Luke Garza got like 25 minutes he’s a two-way guy he got 25 luk Garza Luca Garza sorry who is 610 235 chiseled and looks tiny when he stands next to Joker yeah um that guy is definitely ripped but he’s their fourth string Center essentially yes and he’s playing against

Joic so Anderson started at the five I mean and look this was there were all the makings for this to be a blowout win for the Nuggets right the nuggets are coming off of a a game that they were rather perturbed to lose in Dallas not

Just because Kyrie hit one of the most amazing amazing buzzer beaters in NBA history but they got absolutely hammered on the glass they had to listen to Michael Malone since then just scream at him about hey since the All-Star break you guys are ranked 30th in defensive

Rebound rate and trust me you know Michael Malone when he’s got a point to make they’re also 12 and two but go ahead right right but that that was their one flaw and now they’re facing this wolves team that as as you laid out you know they’ve got all these bigs

Except for they were all in Street Clos um so and then not only is it a back to back it’s the first game home from a two- week road trip how many times do you see a team first game home after a long road trip it’s kind of let down so

And they were up on them big for a while and then man and Edwards I’m not breaking any news here that dude is awesome absolutely awesome and just took over the third quarter and it’s a combination of athleticism skill and Charisma and he’s got I mean he’s you know waving the

Crowd getting everybody hyped the building’s going absolutely Ely crazy they’ve got the the timber will storm back and take a lead and uh you know then the the Nuggets do what you expect and that’s just kind of March it down Joker comes in about I think he checked

In seven minutes left yeah it was six minutes in change and uh as soon as joic and Michael Porter Jr came in they wenton on a 10 run and that was pretty much it that started with I wouldn’t I wouldn’t quite say it was pretty much it

I mean we had never they never was never it was never tied again hold on though it did but no it was the ball was in the air at the buzzer with a Chance of sending an over time yeah it was a clean a very good from I have to cop to

Something I turned I turned the game off 30 seconds left so I to that what you missed yeah lay lay out the final 30 seconds big man I I’m you’re I’m totally in the dark so I apologize great so good job glad glad that uh well I just

Figured that nothing ever goes wrong for the nuggets in the last 10 seconds I mean what what could possibly go wrong except for when I’m in the building apparently um so you know long story short mpj hits a hits a free throw puts the uh nuggets up four with 20 seconds

Left misses the second okay uh Joker grabs a rebound he gets foul he splits a couple so they’re up five okay when yic got that rebound is when I turned it off okay so they’re at five with 17 seconds left ant by the way didn’t score in the

Fourth quarter he was he was he was gassed I in my view well he was under he was under siege because they were basically like you are not just going to continue dominate this game we are going to force you to give up the ball and he

Did and he actually did a good job uh passing the ball had three or four assists for threes including this one to to Mike Conley so 12 seconds left it is a two-point game mpj gets fouled hits both of them uh Jade McDaniels knocks

Down a three by the way M he had a very good night he he had a really good night he knocks down a three with four seconds left another foul um Jamal Murray makes both it is a three-point game with four seconds left they get the ball to Ant

And he’s storm up court and kcp you know the nuggets are a smart team Michael M’s a great coach they’re a veteran team you’re up three what are you g to do you’re going to take a foul you’re going to make him go hit two free throws and

And have to pull out a miracle well ant had the most impressive truck stick seen in Minnesota sports since Adrien Peterson left the Vikings I’m telling you I’m listen I don’t want to talk too bad about these referees I saw them in the uh in the coner Lounge today there

Was one sub sixf footer on the on the crew but I think he can bench press about 450 so ain’t talking any kind of smack but how the hell kcp is trying to take a foul he makes contact and sticks his shoulder into kyp’s chest I’m

Talking kcp is like heels up in the air backing ass on the floor ant steps into a wide openen three kcp has to like roll over look behind him to to see this thing and it’s slow motion and remember the all this spont the nuggets are fresh

Off of losing great job on a on just a wild 21 foot hook shot not even wild a rather smooth 21 foot left-handed hook shot by Kyrie so he’s he releases his thing I’m like this thing’s going in overtime he missed it it actually wasn’t

That close but it it went down to it was online but it was short yeah yeah it was a wild it was a wild sequence that Jade McDaniels threw is a big time shot too it was contested the Mike Conley through was contested I mean they were they were

Crazy shots and yeah you know it was it was a heck of an effort from the wolves and and obviously look big win for the Nuggets they pull back into a tie for first uh with OKC Thunder half the tiebreaker but still um I was really impressed with the Wolves because this

Had like nobody would have would have blinked or said a word easy roll over game yeah no would have said a word dude ants competitiveness is pretty damn impressive and then for him to be so like I said they just kept throwing extra bodies at him in the fourth

Quarter he didn’t try to force anything he kept making the right play kept making the right play um I thought it was an awfully impressive performance by him and you know you have like kcp postgame basically says this guy is a top five player in the league he’s an absolute

Bull and again when you talk about the best players in the league he might be the best offender of the elite tier yeah I mean he’s he’s a heck of a he’s a heck of a player and like we T I mean look you know there was

All the combination of smack talk and potentially real talk about how that Minnesota series was the toughest series that Denver had last year and as of now that is at least a potential second round matchup where in theory if they can get there Carl towns would in theory

Have some time to get himself feeling pretty good by the time that series would come around I will also say perap right the other part of the other side of that if it is Minnesota Sacramento in the first round which is it what it lines up to be right now that is a

Dangerous matchup for Minnesota because Sacramento has really played well against them this year and especially if towns they not playing or banged up in that series they’ve had trouble keeping up with Sacramento this year at just something to monitor if we get to that point because I that that could look

Pretty good for the Kings if they can manage to say in front of Dallas right now they’re tied eight back of uh eight back Oklahoma City in the west I got a little secret for you the Mavs would be a tough matchup too because the Mavs are

They are playing Prett damn well and they’ve got two dudes who can take over a playoff but people are but people are gonna if people are thinking about Luca like if you see the Mavs there you’re going to automatically be thinking about Luka that way I just I don’t think

People have studied the Kings wolves match up that closely that’s well the funny thing is kind of what we’re saying is man if you’re Minnesota you better hope you match up with KD and Booker in the first round think about that well well so one

Thing I noticed in this game um they had Jaden McDaniels defend uh jic some and obviously there’s a huge pound difference there but Jaden had some success and maybe some is a relative term he had some success in making joic in denying the ball to joic um in the in

The middle because he’s got such long arms and he’s pretty agile and there were times where jic had to come off his spot to go get the ball or they just gave it up and uh you’re and also they used as you mentioned Kyle Anderson on

Him and I wonder what Garza yeah and Garza and I think I think one thing that Chris Finch might take away from this game is that they did have some success keeping the Y the yic uh Hub machine turned down a little bit um he had the

Fewest assists of any game he’s had this year he he had been three he only had two he didn’t have an assist until he came into the game in the fourth quarter with six plus minutes left it was when he had his first assist in the game yeah

He had a dribble handoff to mpj who who hadit a a I mean it’s a nice play by Joker but mpj hit a tough three off that and then the next possession uh Porter had a nice back cut Joker hit him on the layup those were

His only two assists of the game yeah now Jamal Murray had 11 assists it wasn’t like they shut him down but well and that’s the thing they were sending a lot of uh a lot of help at Joker but the fact he only had two assists tells you

Like they were executing their defensive schemes off the well but I never I wasn’t watching aside the third quarter the nuggets just stunk it up all around but the other three quarters I wasn’t watching it and saying man the ball’s not moving like I still thought the

Ball’s moving he was still making the right reads and he was had 35 points on 14 and 22 shoot he also just dropped in a couple of just dagger threes and that fourth yeah the moon balls you know the moon balls yes um but I I do think there

Was some stuff from Minnesota Tak away from this game unfortunately for the Wolves they’ve got to play them two more times um um and you know that this is just one of the things that made the town’s injury just so killer is he’s so valuable in this matchup um they did win

The first time against them way back I think it was in November this is the first time they’ve played in like three quarters of the season and so one of the things you you were looking forward to is was these three matchups um it’s a little bit unfortunate for the wolves

That they used the Target Center for both the men’s and women’s big 10 tournaments I think it was cool that they that they had them there and they obviously got to have Caitlyn Clark in uh two weeks ago and that they they had I think went overtime and the Big 10

Final was awesome then the Big 10 tournament last week but like I question kicking your your NBA team out of your arena for two weeks in March well that’s that’s two we road trip and listen the the Wolves can use all the uh all the

Money they can get you know any any way they can raise some funds right now they’re all for it yeah which there is some news on the Wolves ownership front which I know is kind of dry but um Glen Taylor’s been literally trying to sell the Wolves for like 12 years um

And the you know Mark Lori it said Mark Lori and Alex Rodriguez but Alex Rodriguez is a is a you know supporting partner it’s Mark Lor’s group um they were supposed to finish the the deal at the end of December Lori got more time to the end of March Glen

Taylor gave an interview at the beginning of March where he said Oh I thought they were supposed to buy me out by the beginning of March and then Lori like put out a statement no it was the end of March and I think I said on the

Pot I was like do you know when you’re $ 1.5 billion deal is closing because you know I would pay attention to that yeah and so Glen Taylor gave an interview another interview um on uh on Tuesday and he was like yeah they had a uh an

Investment firm that was going to give him 300 million to close this deal and uh it fell apart and so now they’re looking to get 300 more million hey last time a rod needed a few hundred million the Texas Ranger signed him maybe he can pull that off again what was that deal

Was that a $250 million deal I remember2 if I remember correctly yeah I believe you’re right 250 you know baseball football like we’re going to hit we’re going to hit them all tonight yeah so so it you know they I guess they have until the end of March unless they get another

Extension but they lost $300 million that they thought they were going to get and again this is according to the guy who selling the team well not sources said anytime you have a team that’s emerging as a contender is going to have a massive luxury Bill a luxury tax bill

Next season if they keep it together what you really want is owners who can’t afford to buy the team exactly right exactly right so anyways they’ve got enjoy this playoff run let’s just say enjoy this [Applause] [Applause] playoff

Nuggets vs. Timberwolves: Potential Playoff Preview ⁉️ | The Hoop Collective

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to talk about the ending to the Denver Nuggets’ win against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

0:00 Nuggets-Wolves reaction
4:50 Ending to the game
9:14 Defending Nikola Jokic

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