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Murray coming off from his ACL in the left knee was already too hot for the Lakers to handle plus there is Jokic the "Mr. Triple-Double" in this season who has been giving the Lakers a headache as well because of capability inside the paint while also giving the Nuggets a wall of defense if the opposing team attempts to penetrate through them. The Lakers getting swept is already around the corner and me being their fan, I honestly think that this is their end. They have a good run but all these things are now coming to an end.

The Lakers are not performing well. And I absolutely agree that it is definitely over right now for the Lakers. I definitely expected better results from the Lakers to be honest. This has been a disappointing previous couple of matches from the Lakers.

Now it is going to be interesting to see if Miami Heat will be able to go to the finals. The way they are playing right now I don't think they will have any problems. But the Miami Heat will still have to make sure that by winning the next match. They are already leading the Celtics by 2-0. Should not be a very hard task for them to qualify for the finals in my opinion.

Denver Nuggets is now almost on their first NBA Finals experience. Will be one of the historic events in the former Pepsi Center, Ball Arena.

Against all odds, it was difficult to imagine that Denver Nuggets will lose 4 times in a row while on the other hand, obviously, the Lakers expecting to win 4 times in a row. I hope at least the Lakers can at least give the Nuggets a tough loss before reaching the NBA Finals.

Well done Lakers in advance. Only a few even expect them to reach the Semis, not even the playoffs or the play-in.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers will meet in the Finals rematch as that would be something new because these teams ended up in 8th and 7th position in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference respectively. But this is Denver Nuggets time.

After always falling short of reaching the NBA Finals for 5 consecutive seasons, it's now within reach for the Denver Nuggets.

It is definitely over, there is absolutely nothing that could go right for Lakers anymore. I do not believe that they could win even a single game, it just feels like its totally gone. The only thing that I wonder now is how the Celtics Heat will go, because Heat won 2 on the road and you do not see that often, could they win 2 in a row at home as well and make it a sweep too? I mean its not really that much of shocker if they managed to win on the road, it would be not that much of a big chance if they were not really considering that beforehand but I guess it is going to be possible if they fight hard for it. A Nuggets vs Heat finals, I never would have seen that coming at the start of the year, something I definitely did not expected.

Wemby to Spurs as well, that's another surprise, did not expected that to happen, assumed Pistons would got it, after the worse season ever, they ended up with 5, so that seems a bit bad. Wemby wouldn't be that much of a big impact on his first season plus Spurs have nearly no one else, so its going to take a few seasons until Wemby gets better and Spurs build around him.

I confess... I am also surprised, the Lakers reached the WCF.
Although LeBron James and AD are excellent players, I imagine, it is almost impossible for them to reverse these games and beat the Nuggets.

The young Celtics players (Tatum, Smart and Brown) are not able to stop the Heat.
Butler is leading the team and I don't doubt the Heat will beat the Celtics 4-0.

I'm curious to see how the Heat will perform playing at the Kaseya Center/FTX Arena.

It’s not about how they can’t defend Jokic and Murray but it’s about how they can’t answer to Murray and Jokic aggression during 2nd half of the game. They always choke and most of their field goal attempt failed whoever shoot which makes them unable to answer on Nuggets. It’s normal that a player can find a way to score since there’s a screen and double team which makes the other one open. Nuggets is doing double team too on Davis and leave one Lakers player open like DLo 2 failed attempt to shoot an open shot.

Simply Nuggets is just so good on clutch games compared to Lakers. Lakers have a lot of players that can shutdown Jokic and Murray. I think they are just lacking some compassion since they didn’t expect that Nuggets is this strong compared to Grizzlies and Warriors which many people expects the greatest threat for them.

Yeah, they should start accepting that.
 
As I said before, I will only accept that the game is far from over when the Lakers win Game 3. They did not and I was right.
Statistically, it can be seen after game 2, that's why I still took the bet for the Denver Nuggets money line. Turnovers are a big factor and today the Nuggets only made 5 (should be 4 because of the last possession) against 12 of the Lakers.
I just trust their process and actually, the Lakers should've won today because Jokic was not the same guy in Games 1 and 2. He looks tired, sick, or not in condition and he was in foul trouble and benched for almost the whole 3rd quarter. A big opportunity for the Lakers to gain the lead.
But, because of the wide options of offensive and defensive players that Coach Malone has, and Bruce Brown acting with high confidence it gave them a chance to win one more game even in the Lakers home.

In Game 4, they are only giving +3.5 for the Nuggets. It looks like the ESPN guys will start bringing a broom into their studio.

Too much for the Lakers to handle that's the reality especially when they don't have the right men to defend both Jokic and Murray this time. Honestly, it's really great for them to reach this far despite their struggles in the regular season because of Westbrook. it's just too much for them to reach their final goal in the NBA final this year because obviously, they will fail to do so because of how the performance of the Denver Nuggets every game of this round.

That is the best thing they can do, extend that series of them on at least 5 games. They know that it's hard to get back from a 3-0 deficit and win the series.


The formula that they used against the Warriors are not working because of Jokic. As far as Murray goes, he is unstoppable, not even the defense of Vando can hold him. Unlike Vando getting Steph a hard time, not this time, Murray is bigger and stronger than Steph.

And so it seems that the Lakers have done everything in this series, changes their personnel, but still Jokic and Murray unstoppable specially in the final quarter.

Miami is also trying to duplicate the feat of Nuggets and wanted to get a 3-0 lead next game in their homecourt.

Though the edge is really on Nuggets side but there's still game left and who knows, maybe Lakers will push and try to extend the games.

But if you'll going to assess the way both LeBron and Davis are playing, seems that they are really
having a hard time matching against Murray and Jokic.

Plus those role players who really playing well on both sides, help defense and additional offense for the Nuggets
is really hurting the Lakers.

That's the reality and everyone has just to accept it whether they're die hard fans of Lakers or not. Mathematically and statistically, the chance is just a chance but the probability will say that it's improbable.

And if the Heat will win tomorrow, then this statement is also suitable for the Celtics. While the situation of Heat is gonna be better tomorrow because they're about to play on their home court.

While the reality is gonna be like this. Joker and Jordan's son(Butler) will have to face each other on the finals.

unfortunately even though the math still holds some hope for the lakers, on paper it is obvious that the lakers have no chance of reversing the current scenario, it is impossible to imagine the lakers winning 4 games in a row, so the maximum that the lakers can do at this point and try to win at least 1 or 2 games to preserve lakers honor, that's all. in terms of performance, the nuggets are much better than the lakers, I have no doubts about that, just see that in the 3 games in which the nuggtes won, they at least won with at least a difference of 5 points and in the game today was worse, there were 11 points of difference

when the game started in the first period the lakers lost by 12 points of difference, it was already an announcement that a big black cloud would be over the lakers, but fortunately in the second period the lakers managed to win by a difference of 9 points and it was a good indicator that they could win the game, and in the third period the lakers managed to win by a difference of only 1 point, but unfortunately in the fourth period the dark cloud returned to the lakers who lost by a difference of 9 points making them lose all games, clearly that everything is already lost. but at least the lakers need to work hard to win at least 1 game

Yeah, basically it's over and I think there will be a big overhaul again on the Lakers side, as far as I know, Reaves and Rui Hachimura will be free restricted agent and with the way they played in this playoff specially Reaves, it will be Caruso story all over again. Other teams will offer him big money that's for sure. And most likely it will be just Lebron and AD who will remain in the team. It might be a swept for the Denver Nuggets. For the East, Celtics will have to win at least a game in the road, but going to be very difficult as well.

Both teams, Nuggets and Heat have no loss, maybe this is already the future sight that we're seeing on who's going to face each other in the finals.

I also don't think that they'll be able to beat the Nuggets with a straight 4 games. That's highly unlikely and let's just say that it is impossible, if there's a team that has done that, I can't forget if there's a team that managed to sweep their opponent like that in a conference finals match.

It may be hard to accept for LBJ and Lakers fans but that's the reality and that is Nuggets are just the stronger team these days. And they might even get this season's ring.

They'll be the first to win coming from a 0-3 deficit if they do indeed win, and they'll make history. I agree, the series is already over; the Lakers did everything they had, but the Nuggets had every answer to the adjustments made by the Lakers. LeBron has already shown his age in this series and cannot dominate anymore.

No one from the Lakers roster can stop Murray; he might have a bad start, but he'll continue to do his thing. As we can see, despite sometimes having poor shooting, it does not change his confidence.

I think everyone is starting to accept that the Lakers are over in this series now. It's a miracle the Lakers made it to the finals after losing 3 games, I don't think they can do that.
Again, Murray played very well and had a huge impact on the win. We can say that the first team in the final was the Denver Nuggets.
I think we're going to watch a finale between Jokic and Butler

3-0 for Denver and the series is over! Lakers fan should be happy because 2 month ago they were out of the playoffs and reaching conference finals is a big achievement for them and I would say they saved the season.

Nuggets...they look unstoppable right now and Nuggets vs Heat should be the best final we could get. Also , what is happening with Jamal in this period of year ? he is a beast in that court.

Boston vs Miami series is not done yet since Boston could bounce back after their two defeats with Miami but its so hard for them to do this knowing that Miami gain so much confidence for getting that big wins against this supposed to be title contender team. If Miami continue to dominate Celtics tomorrows match up then maybe we can see Miami vs Denver in finals. This would be a great match up knowing that they have championship drought for long years especially with Denver which didn't win a championship yet and maybe this will be their first championship this year.

Really looking like it’s going to be the Nuggets and Heat in the Finals. I’m happy for the Nuggets. They’re packed with young talent and I’ve been saying for years now they were the next team up. I wanted to see LeBron add to his legacy but it appears it won’t be happening this year without some history making run now to win 4 straight and advance.

It's too early to say about getting their first title.


Yeah, it was Carmelo Anthony's time during the Nuggets, prime Anthony and Kenyon Martin and Billups vs Kobe and Paul Gasol. I guess Nuggets or Jokic has learn a lot from that series against the Lakers in the bubble. It's now a prime Jokic and Jamal Murray. Lakers and Lebron and Davis looks very tired at this point and now down 3-0 and might be a sweep or at least Lakers can still win 1 game and make it 4-1.