Nuggets far superior team than Blazers

[mikeya2k]

Blazers coming off great series against overrated Thunder. Yes Lillard is a beast but I think public will be all over them, and Nuggets far more superior.

Blazers will miss Nurkic who played with Jokic, etc. Millsap is a great compliment to Jokic.

Jokic + Millsap + Plumlee > Kanter +Collins + Aminu

Yes Lillard > Murray... but I think murray broke the mold in that 1st round series against a 5 time championship coach on a team with 2 all star veterans.

They will get good production from Beasley, Barton , Morris , Harris etc. Very deep and potent team.

Oh yeah. Nuggets don’t have Westbrick.

[IBetYou]

Murray is not special but anything is better than Westbrick

Nuggets are good defensively. They will probably put Craig on Lillard and Harris on McCollum. Jokic will have his perimeter defense tested by the Blazers guards but on the offensive end he should have an easy time with Kanter being too slow and Aminu too small.

[sosawestbrook]

Think Nugs grab game 1 tonight. They just played on Saturday but they’ll be ready here. Gotta protect home court. They know that now.

Can’t see them shooting the ball nearly as poorly as the previous game & with Portland getting all this time off I’d be damn surprised if their shooting isn’t at least somewhat cooled off.

Nurkic vs Jokic would've been a great story for this series. Played together for a lil while. Nugs had to trade one away & boy did they make the right choice. Don’t remember the decision being easy either, they were both around the same level then. Now both guys pivotal pieces of their team’s success this year & reviving(or maybe evolving) the center position. Mf’ing 7 foot, 300 pound playmaking Bosnians taking over the league

[Git Lo]

Nuggets will easily win this series, they have way more and better quality depth

[mikeya2k]

Murray is not special but anything is better than Westbrick

Nuggets are good defensively. They will probably put Craig on Lillard and Harris on McCollum. Jokic will have his perimeter defense tested by the Blazers guards but on the offensive end he should have an easy time with Kanter being too slow and Aminu too small.

Id say firstly Murray is a fairly special player.
22 years old averaging over 20 a game in the playoffs.....pretty rare, best guard on a 2 seed.....in everyones coveted west...

Also, yeah , go nuggets

[IBetYou]

Id say firstly Murray is a fairly special player.
22 years old averaging over 20 a game in the playoffs.....pretty rare, best guard on a 2 seed.....in everyones coveted west...

Also, yeah , go nuggets

People are obsessed with rankings.. You know what the difference between #2 seed & 4th seed is? 1 game.

He's not a pg, not a reliable scorer, shaky defensively. He's lucky he has the most skilled centre of this era on his team to make things easy for him. He also gets a lot of support from Harris. Like you say he's young, so maybe one day...

[mikeya2k]

People are obsessed with rankings.. You know what the difference between #2 seed & 4th seed is? 1 game.

He's not a pg, not a reliable scorer, shaky defensively. He's lucky he has the most skilled centre of this era on his team to make things easy for him. He also gets a lot of support from Harris. Like you say he's young, so maybe one day...

trust me i'm not obsessed with rankings, but he's their 2nd best player........there a good team. I'd say he scores, shoots good %s.....at 22 I'm a fan of his game a lot. He is lucky to play with Jokic anyone would be.

Without Murray they don't get past Spurs

[IBetYou]

Prior series it was a battle between he & DeRozan of who could be least clutch. DeRozan won

He's the classic down hill scoring guard -great when he's on a scoring roll but nothing like Lillard otherwise. I'd like to see how he would fare if he didn't have Jokic to work with, like say on team Canada this summer...

[IBetYou]

They will be in the group of death with Lithuania & the Boomers.

[mikeya2k]

Oh yeah he's no lillard that guy needs to get out of portland