Lakers Upset Nuggets: What Needs to Happen 

refs showed up for lakers but jokic and murray came to the game

@@koretv1581 Nah refs for nuggets. we all can see it. no calls at all b.s!!!

It's what it is man. Clips will always get unecessary hate as long as the Lakers have the no.1 fanbase. It sucks, but it is what it is

Bro who cares they didn’t let’s talk about the series now

How tf u kno dat?😂 yall be saying anything to get dem weak az points across

Yeah it’s zack kyle and Linda. Hypocrites

Neither team is winning the chip and what does that even mean

Everybody knows the refs got a bunch of money set for the post season

The free throw shooting disparity is crazy

Drawing fouls is a huge skill. Oh but let’s just disregard that and blame the refs!

@@Travixty sure. it’s such a huge skill but somehow the lakers are the only ones to have figured it out. Look at the chart of free throws taken. If lebron and AD were the Steph and Klay of drawing fouls, they would still have only like half of the disparity in attempts vs opponents.

Lakers 27th in drives to the cup and first in free throws. Skill you say?

Nah, I'd recommend someone on the Lakers to go tell Jokic that his horses are hungry or sth. Joker would retire and fly to Europe immediately.

As a Denver resident, this made me laugh. Our traffic may not compare to LA’s but it’s actually most congested around our downtown and Ball Arena.

Then mortgage ur last penny on Denver wager. But u won’t 😅

I’d rather Murray not be there lol

@@DrRhilTVexactly what I said

Just saw a wild jokic centaur tee on etsy lololol

@@jrich5682 That Tee is tough ngl

can i use your same logic?! what if A.D. hits 3's its gonna night night

Anyone who think Lakers should be favorited in this series yall dont know Denver at all

@@hakonson Denver 2023-2024 payroll is $200,000,000. ya'll better beat the Lakers 🤣🤣

Facts

Need 20 and 7 per game

At least 20 per game

I think kcp is gonna have something to say about that haha

You should not watch this series if you think the Lakers will win! Save yourself the disappointment!!!

beautifuly said sherlock

Totally unnecessary for a reference anyone above 6yo would know, but OK.

​@@therocklaujust like your comment 😂😂😂

😂😂😂​@@chrisnovak4

Thank you, Jayson Tatum!

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Turn lebron into a 30 year old and keep jokic the same lakers would win it. That's all they would need is a young lebron.

@@sportstalkonly1442shi give us a 32 -33 2018 bron

@@Kelyn999 oh they'd easily win this series lol

2018 bron is overkill. It wouldn't be fair to pair 2018 bron with AD. It sounds almost illegal

Nuggets want the games to be close... it's energy conservation 🙂

THANK YOU for saying this. People acting like the Nuggets win by 50 each time they play against the Lakers. I hate how most sports "experts" just extrapolate based on the outcome of individual games when making predictions instead of actually trying to analyze what happens during the games. It could easily have been 2-2 or 3-1 Lakers after 4 games last year if Nuggets didn't get a few high variances outcomes to swing in their favor.

@@HishamMahmudinOCur tweaking. No team wants a playoff game to be close within 1 possession that’s idiotic just like u

Yep. These people are stupid, lakers playoff roster is better this year and the nuggets playoff roster is worse than last year. how in the world is this going to be a sweep. Use your brains people. Im coming back to this comment after lakers win this series lmao

@@racerking5901losing by a couple points in a close game instead of it being a blowout is even worse. all it means is the lakers played their very best every single game yet couldn’t beat them a single time. it’s not like they had an off night where they got blown out, no they tried their hardest yet couldn’t win anything nuggets are better in every aspect

Hadn't thought of that😂😂

No too much respect, all games were very close. Give him benefit of a doubt.

Y’all don’t just watch the game 🤷🏾‍♂️

@@Jay-zx4bm Jokic is from my country, but friend this is sports. Nothing is certain, thats why we love underdogs and I root for Denver and stay late at night/not to say 5 in the morning and go to work.

@@Jay-zx4bmlol YOU don’t watch the games😂 Lebron went 0-13 from 3 in the 4th quarters of the nuggets sweep. HE shot them out of every game 😂😂

AD was 32/14/5/4.

What?

Lol

Hopefully

Lol

oh man this was good

Denver can't lose. Jokic is the goat. They could beat the 2017 warriors

​@AnonymousUser-ss2qr that's a ludicrous take but I like it, I still don't think they are that good, that warriors team was deeper and had multiple mvp level guys

That’s one factor but can certain guys be good enough defensively (DLO) so they can be an option offensively as well as keeping Davis near the rim

That depends on the refs

and that is hard since Lakers get all the help they

Bruh I’m glad you see it

Because it’s more money if they do.

Lakers are one of the best ball franchises ever bro

was literally thinking the same thing all of the talk is about how the lakers can win and not how much better the nuggets are lol

Thats how sports work bro stop crying. People still talk more about Chelsea and Man United even though Aston Villa and Newcastles been playing better. Leagues always spotlight historically successful and big market teams.

you don’t know basketball

i disagree. obviously LA is the villain of NBA but they have two 10x superstars and a 1x all star on their team. LeHelp also has the officials on his side and probably is taking PEDs

@@vulcanraven9701 He had all that last year and still got swept by the Nuggets.

@@vulcanraven9701but nuggets have the MVP (probably) on their team

@@cryptidian3530the games were closer than you think. And the lakers only played 20 something games together after the Westbrook trade, playing much better together now. Murray had a Kobe type playoffs last year. Completely different year

What does it matter if he can get 5 fouls in the 3rd and stay in the game for another 10 mins with Bron attacking him downhill ĺol

Yes I agree. Well Alvin we’ll see if your prediction you made some time ago will come true

but the referees will stop them with free throws for the Lakers Lakers free throw and referee friends, then you can win Denver!! You can only win with free throws, which the referees always give you. Please look at the statistics for the 2023 playoffs against Grizzlies against Warriors against Nuggets!!! The Lakers got an average of 12 more free throws than their opponents

@@micatrsic8762 In game 1 this year Lakers won free throws 19-6.

@@penkima4923 🤮

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AD I got swept by Denver again, AD I got swept.

I can't wait for those rdc videos 😂

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I'll come back here to see if youre right Sarcastic Nostradamus

this team will lose in the 2024 nba playoffs again...i'ma go with the fakers for 800 alex

This self Proclaimed “Goat” has been swept in the Playoffs, how many times?

@@AMC12345you’ll be wrong just like last year

@@siner2442 MJ? also, istg when it comes to lebron ppl act like teammates dont exist. BBal aint 1v5 its 5v5

They'll still beat them if you gave them 3 fouls right now

10 fouls now

Joker and Murray always show up for big games for reason the Lakers r like a play area for them two

Every game last series was close. It all went down to Dlo and the Lakers pieces not doing their end of the Bargain while denver’s pieces were clicking. If Dlo, Rui and Reeves or even Gabe do their thing i can definitely see a better matchup compared to last season

@@cia1784 Gabe was a no show in the finals last year. Dlo a no.show last year vs the nuggets the one guy I looked is Spencer denweddi who hasn't yet

The Lakers have 8 guys on the floor. 5 in gold and purple, and 3 in grey,.

Will Denver have a chance if Bron & AD perform like they did in 2020 ??

Denver plays really well when the media gasses up opponents. Keep it going JJ!

downplayin? the video title says "lakers upset nuggets". I dont hate on the lakers like everyone else but no one is downplaying them, we all know LA is fked hahaha

Yes, because lining out ideas on how to upset (notice the word upset?) the Nuggets, who everyone in the world views as favourites, is downplaying them. Calling the Lakers underdogs and Nuggets favourites sure is an insult, eh.

@@Banned4Life It is because nobody talks about what it would mean for Denver to repeat, which should be narrative as they are the defending champs and 2nd seed

I mean the Lakers are technically a top team if they finish top 4, just not better than the champions lmao

What? No one gassed up the Lakers last year, it was a surprise they made the conference finals. That's why they're being hyped this year.

I think even 1 game is too generous. It hasn't happened for 2 years. Why should it happen now? LeBron is older. Joker is better. The chances for Lakers is getting lower every day.

See how haters try to rewrite history. No one hyped up the Lakers. They were projected to lose to Memphis and the Warriors then when they won….Lakers took advantage of Memphis's injury and Warriors weren’t that good…if Lakers beat Nuggets it will be scripted or fouls were called in favor for Lakers.

I wont say the Lakers will win, but it will be competitive. Everybody looks at last years sweep as though they were blowouts. 3/4 games were close games decided by a couple possessions. If DLO averaged more than 6 points the Lakers definitely stood a chance

That's nonsense. Last year Jokic averaged about 7 FTs a game against the Lakers. During the rest of the playoffs? Guess what? He averaged about 7 FTs a game.

@@nickhexum01 Not you thinking this says something lmao Dude gets no calls, doesn't matter who it's against. Lakers just get all the calls. FTAs were like 107-81 that series in favor of the Lakers

Bron gets punched and gets 0 calls. Cry !

@@papadiom9260 least delusional Lakers fan

you are literally a fortune teller

Truth

How knowledgeable you are 😂

Cope. Lakers score almost all of their points in the paint. There's a reason why they get fouled a lot. Rarely do jumpshots get fouled. Other teams like to shoot more

​@@gotworc it means they don't foul but they are driving to the paint 88% of the time

​@gotworc they are last in drives do your research. They have 3 foul merchants on the team and the refs reward them.

Nicest way to say you have no idea how the game is played and don’t know the stats for both teams.

You don’t know basketball 🏀

Lakers in 5

I got Lakers winning in 6

@@kevinjones4724tard

@@tiktokexposed898tard

You guys need to take all your money and bet that. Let's see how that works out for you.

gotta love it💪🏼

Oh. They will. And ESPN will talk about their incredible SKILL to avoid fouls all day... oh. Wait. They don't talk about it... at all.

Game 1 free throws: Away team Lakers - 19 Home team Nuggets - 6.

what a couple of 2 high energy beasts. One is threat on the counter and both offense and defense, the other takes so much pride in playing defense that he is jumping over Joker to block shots.

@@AVAXIIWatson gonna help Denver repeat such a beast

@@gbone1812 I hope so. I'm not really a Denver fan. Did not watch NBA (more than 10 games a season, all playoffs) for about 15 years. Started watching again cause of Joker, so I support Denver too. And watching Lakers lose and their fans having tantrums is awesome.

The Lakers' best bench are the referees

“It’s a complete crap”

Lakers are good at drawing fouls and disciplined at not committing them. Good skillset to have

Yeah right, like the Raptors weren't committing dumb fouls. They had no big man and was just sending AD and anybody who got into the restricted area to the line lol. Yall be so quick to cosign BS just because it's LA. Last year Bron was driving all game vs Denver and BARELY got calls. At one point Jokic got his 5th foul in the game and didn't even come out lol. Dude played the rest of the game with 5th fouls while 1v1 with Bron attacking him. Impossible not to foul Bron or give up 2 points every time off the pick and roll.

Playoffs lakers nuggets FT 2023 FT game 1 26:22 for lakers FT game 2 26:18 for lakers FT game 3 29:19 for lakers FT game 4 26:22 for lakers Play In Pelicans Lakers FT 2024 29 :15 for Lakers playoffs Lakers Grizzlies FT 2023 FT game 1 16:16 FT game 2 21:21 FT game 3 27:20 for lakers FT game 4 31:21 for Lakers FT game 5 20:17 for Lakers FT game 6 15:20 for Grizzlies playoffs Lakers Warriors 2023 FT FT game 1 29:6 for Lakers FT game 2 17:16 for Lakers FT game 3 37:17 for Lakers FT game 4 20:12 for Lakers FT game 5 15:15 FT game 6 42:14 for Lakers referees will make it so that the Lakers advance and Denver should sue the NBA for something like that!!

​@@tiktokexposed898 Brain dead tiktok bum.

He can't afford too. 😂

Yeah lebrons the GOAT

@@tiktokexposed898 why?

​​@@tiktokexposed898LeBron? Nah. That's LeGone. 😂 Bro could be my grandpa. 😂

The best shot at a draft kings sponsored video for that would be Pablo Torre Finds Out. Otherwise it'll be 60 Minutes or Oprah or someone else outside of sports.

very high... Rajaković: THIS IS COMPLETE CRAP!

It's really not a possibility

@@tiktokexposed898It is still more likely than the Lakers winning the series at all

The Lakers' best bench are the referees

Double negative be like

Lakers free throw and referee friends, then you can win Denver!! You can only win with free throws, which the referees always give you. Please look at the statistics for the 2023 playoffs against Grizzlies against Warriors against Nuggets!!! The Lakers got an average of 12 more free throws than their opponents

No Denver stills has to perform.. The Lakers aren't that bad as you making em

@@BroCoolFire AD went 32/14/5/4 blocks in game 1. Lakers won free throws 19-6. And the Nuggets still won.

Hey Putin!

cry some more

Well now even bringing those guys back wouldn't do anything. Dwight and McGee are both washed. Caruso's really good but he's injured right now and Chicago isn't about to let him go.

@@JohnnyYeet123-sr8xk Lakers could've been back2back champs and Denver might have been changed drastically thru trades like every underachieving teams does

Don't forget KCP. Trading him away to get Russ made him available for the Nuggets, and dude is a key piece to the Nuggets being as good as they are. Picks up best or second best player on the other team (depending on who matches up better with the best player between him and AG), shoots 3s well, and doesn't complain if he doesn't get his turn on offense while continuing to play elite defense.

Lol They toyed with Denver the very next year !

@@papadiom9260 Toyed? What planet you're living on rn?

Maybe because people need content and like to talk about basketball? Why doesn't the NBA just skip everything and just host Celtics vs Nuggets already?

Because they are all Lebron nut swingers. It's veiled favoritism.

@@bilindabutcher8913 Its not even that. It's the fact that the Nuggets are heavily favored in this series, yet every talking head is going on and on about how the Lakers can win this, or look how close they came for the last 8 losses.

@@i2ambler2002 Because the top seeds are boring teams. That’s the hard truth. They have no personalities or narratives, so why would the media talk about them much? This is the reality of Earth. Lakers are more polarising.

@@i2ambler2002 again, because people like talking basketball? People like to brainstorm how a heavy UNDERDOG like the Lakers could possibly take down the Nuggets. Everyone knows the Nuggets are favorites dude stop being so negative. Enjoy basketball or stop watching until the nuggets get to the finals

Bron did that before nothing new

@@Viewingviewer310 years ago 😂

The Lakers should've ducked.

Probably everyone is looking at ways the lakers can win as it's highly unlikely and it's easy to just say "Denver is going to win" and move on

@@aarondekker1834not as highly unlikely as y’all think

@@GIANTNATION barring extreme injuries... it's definitely "highly unlikely" ... i would certainly take a $25 bet and put $50 of my own for Denver winning this series lol

@@H41030v3rki110ny0u lol okay I’ll come back to this comment we’ll see.

@@GIANTNATIONit is highly unlikely. Only way Lakers win this series is at the free throw line

nice take strongly agree 100%

Right, Braun and Watson are coming into their own and Denvers bench is much better defensively than last year. Sure they miss Brown but can certainly get that production replaced by a number of players

bench is used way less in postseason, the bench isnt nearly as important in playoffs as people tthink its important in the regular season to be able to maintain wins and keep a healthy starting plus 6th and 7th to max out in the postseason

@@Eastunder nah, 2 developing young guys ain’t gonna cut it. They could prove me wrong but we’ll see what kind of production they bring. Post season ain’t the regular season.

@@TheFamousMockingbird the bench is typically shortened in the post season and you rely on those select guys to keep the team afloat with starters out. I don’t see the Nuggets bench being able to do that versus the best competition, but we will see.

Did it say that in the title caption??

Isn't it normal? LeBron's CV gives him extra foul calls. It's how NBA works. Get some legend guy in your team, you'll get foul calls.

Clown take Peter

​@@berryesseen Idk if I buy into this narrative although I could be convinced. It could very well be true but I've never seen anyone use data to support it over a long period of time (it's normally a game or series). I think it could also be a chicken and egg situation. Instead of refs giving stars calls, I can easily imagine teams game planning for stars and not letting them get momentum and that leads to more fouls. Dunno either way but would love to see someone do the work for the major stars over their careers vs the avg or whatever.

it’s literally complications of lakers getting fouled all season and not getting calls

@@arenegadeboss Los Angeles Lakers' free throw differential this season, which is by far the largest in the NBA. LeBron and company have taken 1,983 free throws this season, which is 507 more than their opponent. No other team has a free throw differential above +250. And of course, the story was much the same in the play and win over the New Orleans Pelicans. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and the Lakers typically get outrebounded, outshot from downtown, and have more turnovers than their opposition. But as long as the Lakers continue to get more whistles than their opponent, they'll be in good shape, as we can see from that league-leading +507.

They're just very disciplined and run scheme that limits the fouls they commit. Good skillset to have

@@tiktokexposed898 exactly! The Greatest Free Throw Discrepancy Team of all Times!! They're soooo good. 1100 more free throws than their opponents, over the last two seasons, while the 2nd best team doesn't even have 400! Nobody can do what the Greatest Free Throw Discrepancy Team of all Times can do. Why doesn't ESPN talk about that? They so should.

These Warriors fans are so funny. Give it up ! Curry is trash !

​@@tiktokexposed898The Lakers' best bench are the referees

Lakers give up a lot of mids and paint points because of the scheme and makeup of the defense. So they really don't have a lot of opportunities to foul because guys are getting beat and sending them to the most discipline rim protector in the league. Not to mention they are more than comfortable letting teams take 3s off the dribble or your worst shooters jack up 3s. A lot of fouls teams commit on the Lakers are DUMB fouls that put them in the bonus with 5-6 mins left. That's at minimum 10 FTs

Yeah i am thinking about unsubscribing.

Yeah I was like huh… interesting

Lakers are hacks

I watched a couple of their recent games and honestly, there just wasn't that many fouls committed by them. It wasn't that the refs didn't call them it was just plain and simple not fouling their opponents. As per why they get so many of them, there also wasn't a huge disparity of what was called for them and what against them. Like 2 or 3 fouls per game where i was "hmm other team probably wouldn't get those" but those situations were still kinda fouls...idk honestly

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He has to say that because of the ridiculous ft disparity they have. That’s the only narrative that could possibly explain it. But even then it doesn’t make sense. Because not only do they not get fouls called against them. LeLakers also get the friendly whistle.

Child like comment

@@MikeyBee- LOL its FACTS

Another Warriors fans. Stephanie has gone fishing already 😂😂😂

Another hater 😆🤣

Corn ball

How are they deeper if Denver bench averages more point and has better defense….? I swear yall just make up talking points 😂

Only writing on the wall is how smooth brain this comment was 😂

Care to back that up? Whose defense is higher rated? Whose defense is better in the clutch? I’ll give you a clue, it ain’t the Lakers. What a joke…

This is the STUPIDEST comment I've ever seen. 😂😂

@@watchmesquatch The only people that are more “defensive” are the Lakers fans 😂😂

They've been Lakers best player all season. Can't wait to see how they step up in the playoffs.

​@@justinland1208😂😂😂😂

It's like North Korean media talking about the Dear Leader.

They statistically are ranked in the top 3 for teams that foul least in the league. These are facts vs your opinions. Stats don’t lie…

@@AlanRobo stats lie all the time, usually by omission.

​@@AlanRoboI believe OP means the lakers get special treatment with refs unfairly not calling fouls on them even when they deserve it.

If you're following the lakers or a lakers fan who watch their every game, they are a team that plays honest defense. It means, defending without fouling consists of contesting vertically and always doing hands up 😅

Memory is subjective 😂

There is no such thing as a close sweep. Better teams always find a way to win because they are that much better lol.

All 4 games were toss ups​@@leroyrodgers6089

Always blame the refs!! Smh

Niggas always say the refs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really good point, should be an exciting series

Nuggets watched Lakers Pelicans play-in as a team 😤

They studied all summer and proceeded to lose 4 more games to them 😂

Ugh, you do know it works both ways right? Nuggets have being studying the Lebron/AD led Lakers ever since the 2020 playoffs when they lost in WCF. Nuggets players watched the Lakers vs Pelicans play-in game at Jokic's house a few days ago. And the coaching staff also watched that game as well. I'm sure they've been watching Lakers films this week too. And of course, vice versa. You don't get to be champ by not preparing for your matchup.

By this logic the Pistons have been watching all the 29 teams !!!! 😂

Jokic just picked up his first foul on LeBron today.

Here you go planting the excuses already

@@sheltondmello8031 Here you go assuming I'm making an excuse when you can just look at the numbers.

​@@jmK-xj5fuIf only you watch games instead of looking at numbers without any context

@@jmK-xj5fu I watched a couple of their recent games and honestly, there just wasn't that many fouls committed by them. It wasn't that the refs didn't call them it was just plain and simple not fouling their opponents. As per why they get so many of them, there also wasn't a huge disparity of what was called for them and what against them. Like 2 or 3 fouls per game where i was "hmm other team probably wouldn't get those" but those situations were still kinda fouls...idk honestly

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Bingo!

But they played 4 games since then,and lost all 4 of them 😂

Everything went Nuggets way because they were clearly a better rounded team. Lakers have a better chance this time for sure, but are they good enough to actually beat them?

Brother Jamal averaged that the whole playoffs

Lakers don't have Dennis or vando to guard murray anymore. Cam reddish would be their best bet and idk if he's even playing. Reaves and Russell are going to get eaten up on the jokic and murray pick and rolls.

His take in this video was trash.

He couldn’t guard him last year

Yeah as if Murray wasn’t averaging over 30 pts on 40/50/90 efg 😂