The Inside guys react to Celtics-Nuggets thriller + Anthony Edwards Q4 takeover 🍿 | NBA on TNT

The Inside guys react to Celtics-Nuggets thriller + Anthony Edwards Q4 takeover 🍿 | NBA on TNT

Man some good stuff around the league tonight seven games as we head down the stretch about 20 games to go in the NBA season and you saw the uh reigning Champions the Denver Nuggets knock off the Boston Celtics 115 109 welcome to Inside the NBA it’s presented by KIA

Ernie Johnson with sha with Kenny with Cletus and let’s jump right to the highlights of this one it’s going to sck from Denver it has a good ring to it still got the cbus yeah oh there’s the brothers what a game y’all this was this was this was

Good chucker a playoff game tonight yeah there was some intensity on both sides we get ready to go yeah I think the one thing one thing we didn’t see was a huge grain from Jason Tatum I would love to see a game like this well you can’t call

Yourself the best player in the league if they don’t show up oh well you can have a night off well he didn’t have you can that off night but you if you going to say you’re going to be the you say I’m the best player in the world you got

To prove it saw Jamal connect and then Jaylen Brown had himself a night season High 42 oh give me that that’s a good thing every about playing on the team that’s socalled one two punch one doesn’t play well Jaylen Brown stepped up what do you call this Kenny spine Tingler spine Tingler it’s

Called a rim check Ernie well you guys both have uh Nam your own terms this is not anything but a I don’t know what this boy was doing what’s the name what he doing oh tingling tumbling jumbling stumbling whatever you call it he was oh my goodness Joker over porzingis to beat

The half time buzzer tell you what porzingis competed tonight man I loved his game 6254 nuggets at the half porzingis had 24 and 12 yeah he balled out tonight n for 23 is not balling Tatum 14 on five of 13 Joker another triple double for the Joker tonight cavius Caldwell Pope out

Of the corner for three and a 10-point lead now it’s 9485 and look at Jamal Murray 19 and8 on the night Jaylen Brown Celtics not going away eight-point game and then well thaton Watson that was a really good dunk right there oh my goodness give me

That Murr PES Watson with the block and then Aaron Gordon that was pretty good Ernie from Murray went off the but it gets better y’all yes it does get off me little man Jaylen Brown again now five-point game Joker oh look at that follow by Gordon oh that was

Impressive oh that’s a dumb contest win oh there’s another guy who knows how to do that step back through oh Hol hit a couple of clutch shots down the stretch to keep Aus in it they were down two this is the play right here guys this is this is

Ridiculous and you you heard him tell Chris haes after the game I do that all the time I just throw it up even when I don’t see him and Aaron Gordon was there with a finish 115 to 109 nuggets now 7- one since the allstar break the Celtics

Have lost consecutive gameson Brown for the first time yeah first time since November 6th and 8th when they lost at Minnesota and at Philadelphia Celtics have lost a couple in a row 115 to 109 is your final meantime the Minnesota Timberwolves on top of the West this was

A game here too Hy yeah without Carl Anthony towns against Tyrese halberton and the Pacers this could be the NBA final in three years yeah I tell you well tell you what they might not have a call out top but they got that grown ass man right there you see Edwards roll the

Ankle early he would leave and then he would uh he would return to the Game Boy would he that’s underst as he comes back yeah feeling okay out to a 20 to8 lead on the road and now Edwards again he going to need he going to need some going

Airb and again he leaves the floor but he would return about them Bulldogs Ernie y can’t keep them down can you cannot keep them Bulldogs down 60 to 49 Timberwolves at the it was tied at 83 after three tyres halberton I don’t understand I didn’t understand what Indiana was oh come on

Come on I did not understand what Indiana was doing in this game you got to take the ball out of Anthony’s hand you got to do something you got to make somebody you can’t let this guy scored I mean this is ridiculous come on man get

The ball out of his hand man the house on fire get the women and kids out 446 and three his third 40-point game of the season but it’s not over Miles Turner for three and then Edwards misses a free throw two-point games but watch this I

Missed a free throw but I don’t get I still get back on defense Aaron neith who was rejected by Edwards and look how high he got that’s crazy look at thought he almost killed himself right there he would have leave the floor but only because the game was over and Minnesota

Wins it on the road at Indiana one3 to 111 big Minnesota yeah just that was we had some good games tonight but I was disappointed in the paac you got to take the ball out that boy’s hands I he’s I mean come on you can’t let a one man do

That to you you got to take it out of his hands a lot of tight games this year for the Pacers four and three now and games decided to buy two points or less as Minnesota gets them again without Carl Anthony towns and you heard uh the

Report from uh Chris Haynes yeah to be re-evaluated in a month we’ll have surgery on the on the meniscus so it’s going to be interesting because that man can’t play like that every night uh like he was amazing and you know those little those little injuries

He’s got you know if he go out there and have to play 45 minutes a night somebody else going to have to step up but man uh Indiana got to take the ball his hand you cannot let one man just dominate you like that can we look at the Western

Conference standings that just check out the landscape here as every one of these nights you you know things change people move up people move down Minnesota wins tonight to stay number one in the west uh the nuggets with their win over the Celtics are right there a game behind

Suns were winners we’re going to show you those highlights in a bit Sacramento had their hands full tonight but one I think it’s fair to say uh Ken sha those top four teams because the Pelicans are four games behind in the Lost column would is would I be safe

To say one of those top four teams going to be those are not going to change they might change orders I I would agree I would say the top 10 are the same and the top four are the same so the top 10 teams in the west are going to be the

Top 10 teams top four of the top four we just don’t know what order and your best and your best team in the western conference is the team we just saw with the best big man in the league Denver Joker nothing talk about yeah you ask a

Question I give I give quick definitive answers the best team sometimes you do that that is true The Joker quiers do you concur the best team man West is the de nuggets yeah I I actually agree with that I I agree with the I’m gonna be short definitive yeah sweet nuggets

Nuggets let me see the West one more time because because if if things do stay this way I want to look at the bottom have um so in your playin scenario right now Mavericks would go to Sacramento Lakers would go to Golden State that’s a hell of a play in tour I

Would take I would take the Mavs over the king the king the kings can’t stop a running no they are the one of the worst defensive teams in the league and you got Kyrie and Luca so you’d have the Kings losing at home to the Dallas mat

They can’t stop anybody Ernie go the Kings we at what would seven play 10 no it’s seven and eight because the winner of that gets the number seven spot eight plays eight would play the uh winner of nine what what’s going to be interesting is the Minnesota situation

Can they hold on without bigat like I don’t know if they can stay number one without him because I don’t know if they have enough offense I mean Anthony obviously is amazing spectacular but I don’t see I mean he had to get 4 to4 against the Pacers team I just don’t see

I don’t know if they can stay in the I mean they’ll stay in the top four I truly believe that but I think that’s going to be tough for for at least a month without without I think they’re going to lose tomorrow night at Cleveland um Denver

Wins over Boston by the way 115 109 let’s hear from the Celtics head coach Joe moula did you think of uh the way you guys are able to fight back there down the stretch and get back in the game after things look like they’re starting to go sideways early four yeah I mean

It’s especially against a team like that to be able to uh battle back and make plays uh uh you know I think it’s important and uh team showed a bit of resilience and uh you know I think when you play against another great team uh those 10 to 12 possessions are super

Super critical and uh I thought Denver did a great job of taking advantage of those uh better than we did tonight y just able to get in De to the post over and over again you guys have to decide where and how to send help how difficult

Is that decision espe Gordon is able to get everything he wants yeah I mean it’s a difficult decision only because of all the other stuff Stu and so when you’re making that decision that you look at uh you look at the turnovers you look last time we played them we only had two

Turnovers we had 12 tonight you look at the points off turnovers you look at the Miss free throws uh you look at you know that that right there so uh it becomes difficult because you put pressure on some of the other things and then when you’re in that critical moment you just

Have to make the best decision possible so um but that’s that’s the lesson tonight is uh you know just those those things uh taking care of the basketball our offensive execution which leads to their transition defense and and uh you know got to the freee throw line just didn’t make

Them Celtics still 7 and a half up on Milwaukee in the in the Eastern confence you know what’s interesting about watching the Celtic team play this was actually I I was curious when they make threes they’re unbeatable this is going to be their tail in the playoffs execution turnovers

Shot selection when they get in close game cuz when they make threes they just blow everybody out they’re like hit or Miss but they’ve got to find a way to win these games when they don’t shoot a good three-point percentage and they have not done that 11 11 for 38 tonight

Only reason I disagree because there’s no one like Denver in the Eastern Conference there’s no and I’m not talking about joic I’m talking about Aaron Gordon and Porter 610 playing the wings so when you try to play small they’re actually more athletic than your Smalls and so there more athletic that

Faster they’re more athletic they block shots rebound and can shoot the three there’s no other team in the NBA that has guys who are 6′ 10 that could do that that played a three and a four so yeah I understand that point I’m not even talking about that I’m talking

About I’m talking about getting out the East who who else can do that what they’re doing well yeah but they I’m talking about Styles where they are hit a Miss on the threes if you see when they make threes they’re unbeatable but there shot selection turnovers and execution are a

Weakness they win games by a lot of talent and three-point shooting if you if you’re having a bad night shooting threes that’s when they they’ll still get out the East yeah y uh 115 109 your final score would anybody else think that there was not enough headro on the

Uh on the Joe Missoula press conference what’s wrong with that no I just thought he he just like a small chair enough head room I thought he was a small guy I didn’t realize is that the way they were doing [Laughter] it sh a been n small since he was a baby

No he been since he played against those guys in high school yeah we’ll get we’ll get into that a bit later here in the show as a matter of effect more highlights on the way here on inside Y’all

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