Series Thread: 1st Round: 3) Denver Nuggets vs 6) Minnesota Timberwolves

[bksballer89]

Nuggets enter this series as the hottest team in basketball while the wolves are just trying to get healthy

Nuggets in 6

 

[logic]

Nuggets in 5.
They are hot and I think still hold a grudge.

 

[trojanfan12]

Nugs in 5.

 

[PnkPanther]

Wolves in 4

 

[thunderc]

Current series odds

Nuggets -350
Twolves +275

Seek help if you have a gambling problem.

 

[Hotel Security]

>Seek help if you have a gambling problem.

You forgot to put a long list of phone numbers for each state that no one will write down.

 

[DJ "I'm blessed" Fieri]

Nuggets in 5.

 

[msgkings322]

Yeah Nuggets in 5

 

[ducky]

Wolves:

 

[ducky]

The Wolves all year havent been able to get all their guys to play their best or close to it at the same time.

I dont expect them to figure it out in time to save the season.

But I might actually put a little money on the Wolves on the prediction markets knowing I will cash out after game 3 or 4 or so as the Wolves are too big of a dog. We should win at least two games.

 

[VikingFan2k2]

Nuggets in 5.
They are hot and I think still hold a grudge.

Wolves in 6.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Denver in 6

 

[Mebert]

All the athletic younger players Wolves will need to compete got 0 minutes in the season except the final 3 games. Gobert continues to show he is not playoff viable and Berrnger is not prepared.

Nuggets in 5

 

[dtgold88]

Denver in 5

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

Nuggets in 5. The simple fact that finch refuses to put a pg into the starting line up, then has both our pgs playing at the same time off the bench just goes to show how ******* stupid he is.

Nuggets in 5.
They are hot and I think still hold a grudge.

 

[ducky]

All the athletic younger players Wolves will need to compete got 0 minutes in the season except the final 3 games. Gobert continues to show he is not playoff viable and Berrnger is not prepared.

Nuggets in 5

That is still ridiculous to say.

Our defense absolutely sucks without Gobert out there. He is one of the main reasons we have went to the WCF in back to back years. Zero chance we get that far without him.

Yes he certainly has his faults. But without him anchoring the defense and scaring people from driving to the paint, our defense completely falls apart.

 

[Mebert]

That is still ridiculous to say.

Our defense absolutely sucks without Gobert out there. He is one of the main reasons we have went to the WCF in back to back years. Zero chance we get that far without him.

Yes he certainly has his faults. But without him anchoring the defense and scaring people from driving to the paint, our defense completely falls apart.

Gobert over his career is 10.3 worse in defense rating for on/off splits in regular season vs playoffs.

His weaknesses are very really amd easy to exploit, and teams do when it gets to the playoffs. Any team that can play 5 shooters pull gim out kf thw paint and he becomes an ok defender with continued stone hands on offense.

I will admit last year for the first time in his career thw offense improved with him on the floor in the playoffs.

His playoff short comings may be overstated, but they are very real.

 

[Mebert]

Nuggets in 5. The simple fact that finch refuses to put a pg into the starting line up, then has both our pgs playing at the same time off the bench just goes to show how ******* stupid he is.

Everyone knows Wolves offense will be slow and plodding, they count on it. Dosunmu and TSJ both push like crazy and add an element the no team expects. Changes everything. The one game the Wolves rocked the Thunder in last year was TSJ putting up 15 points in 13 minutes.

Adding the element constantly would be countered, but bringing it in occasionally to make the defense adapt is critical. Finch never does it.

 

[Hambombs]

Nuggets in 6

 

[thunderc]

Because of Ants injury I’m going Nuggets in 5