[NBA] West Playoffs, Round One

How many first round upsets?

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SacTownKid

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
I think that aside from a two minute stretch, when Aaron Gordon picked up four quick fouls in a game, and JaMychal Green was unavailable, Cousins has only played for the Nuggets when Jokic was on the bench, and vice versa.
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Malone is in a tough spot. Now he doesn't even have the talent to rely on with Murray and MPJ. He's going to have to get gimmicky if Kerr keeps stomping him like this and they keep knocking down shots as the series goes on.
 
kb02

kb02

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Warriors really played well tonight. Especially their second unit with Poole, Looney, the G-League finds, and the old vets. Poole has taken a big step. First two units did so well, they were able to give their recent draft picks a run in garbage time—those draft picks obviously made a huge impact as well.
 
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serbiangoat

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Aaron Gordon is another Harrison Barnes type a absolute nothing player who looks the part and puts up decent stats. I cannot believe they went into this season with him again.
 
pdxKingsFan

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I'm actually kinda rooting for NOP but if they get blown out of the series it's gonna raise the salt level here in the PNW to some tasty levels.
 
Tetsujin

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pdxKingsFan said:
I'm actually kinda rooting for NOP but if they get blown out of the series it's gonna raise the salt level here in the PNW to some tasty levels.
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Meanwhile Hornet fans are going to be exceptionally happy about the surprise first round pick they didn’t think they were getting this year.
 
SacTownKid

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Telemachus said:
If I was looking for a HC job, I would avoid the Lakers at all costs. Any success you have will be attributed to Lebron & AD, and any failure will all fall on you.
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And if the Jazz let him go, Vivek better start getting the Godfather deal ready. I would think LeBron wouldn't want Snyder to be honest. He kind of runs his system and Bron wants to Bron. Snyders system fits the Fox and Ox perfectly.
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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Nuggets fans turning on Mike Malone again like they expected to be going anywhere with this roster of one MVP candidate, a hot-or-cold Aaron Gordon, and a bunch of role players who would all be bench pieces were it not for Jamal Murray and MPJ both missing the entire season with injuries.
 
SacTownKid

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Tetsujin said:
Nuggets fans turning on Mike Malone again like they expected to be going anywhere with this roster of one MVP candidate, a hot-or-cold Aaron Gordon, and a bunch of role players who would all be bench pieces were it not for Jamal Murray and MPJ both missing the entire season with injuries.
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True, but he's not exactly doing anything about this either. At some point you have to ditch your plan and run the other way. They don't have the patience to slow it down enough because Jokic isn't Shaq, he's like Dirk in Shaqs body haha.
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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SacTownKid said:
True, but he's not exactly doing anything about this either. At some point you have to ditch your plan and run the other way. They don't have the patience to slow it down enough because Jokic isn't Shaq, he's like Dirk in Shaqs body haha.
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If anything, him being Dirk in Shaq's body gives Malone more of an excuse to try him and Boogie together right now. Boogie is still a bruiser. Run some high-low Princeton sets against these small GSW lineups. It's not like the Nuggets have been particularly great on defense anyways.
 
SacTownKid

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Tetsujin said:
If anything, him being Dirk in Shaq's body gives Malone more of an excuse to try him and Boogie together right now. Boogie is still a bruiser. Run some high-low Princeton sets against these small GSW lineups. It's not like the Nuggets have been particularly great on defense anyways.
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And both can actually hit 3's. The defense is probably no worse to be honest. Instead of 48 minutes of literally the worst pnr defense maybe it's cut to 40? haha.
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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I don't know if this was ever an option for them but the Nuggets would have been better served trading for Harrison Barnes instead of Aaron Gordon. Barnes might not be quite as versatile a perimeter defender as Gordon reportedly is at this point in their careers but he's a deadly catch and shoot scorer who can generate his own offense and would probably fare better in some of these coverages Malone has the Nuggets playing on the perimeter.
 
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