Nuggets vs. Timberwolves Game 6 LIVE NBA Playoffs Reaction with Bill Simmons and Rob Mahoney 

Wolves 2 All-stars, 6th man of the year, defensive player of the year and best defense in the NBA! Ant is carrying no one. They're just that good of a team! Denver on the other hand, murray and MPJ have been abysmal throughout this series so I don't even know how they made it a 7 game series in the first place. Gordon and jokic are the only 2 guys who are playing at their level offensively in Denver starting 5.

They always hate on the small market teams. I’m a Minnesotan trust me.

That's always been true. It's just more true for this series.

I think it proves that the NBA is capable of pushing series the way they want depending on how it's officiated. One team is always going to benefit more from it being more or less physical.

Feels like moreso it's just that 3s have perverted the game. Bill stopped hockey because of the randomness, and that just seems like it's affecting basketball more and more.

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I mean… I had Nuggets in seven prior to game one…

Yeah, no team has held OKC to such a low scoring number in the playoffs OR regular season, the whole year, and all of a sudden Mavs won because OKC missed 3s? One of the biggest differences is that SGA can't playmake and create open looks the same way Luka does. Individually SGA has been awesome but Luka elevates the team's floor. Why is that role players have career year with Luka? DFA, Bullock and Dinwiddie were key for the Mavs WCF run and since the trades nobody talk about them. Why is it that DJJ, PJ, Gafford and Lively are making such an impact? Would they play the same with SGA? Would Chet, JDub and others play better if they play with Luka? There is a reason Mavs' role players are playing better than OKC's and having a bigger impact.

That’s how’s American pundits describe success by white European stars: Gobert played D, OKC missed shots etc

Thanks

Until this series. They're about to lose 4 in a row.

​@@Weebeiyou commented this after the game, they can't lose 4 in a row this series

@@dec3322 give him a break, he had a rough day

Also, Denver front office will look very bad not improving the roster last summer. They thought it was enough to just bring back the starters.

You’re cooked pal

Cavs in 9

Not on my worst day, pal

Same..

Is this sarcasm? Celtics have the easiest path to the title.

True. That’s why (unfortunately) the reffing is a huge factor

No, he can't...Jokic knows that Gobert is helping thats why he is less efficient vs Towns...if it's straight up 1 on1 Jokic cooks everybody.

@@realone296 Jokic does cook everybody, however, he cooks Gobert better, faster, stronger because Rudy doesn't have the leg strength to contest his post moves. KAT has a stronger lower body base and offers some resistance which makes Joker earn it or holds strong enough for Minny to double. Gobert is too tall and gangly to play Joker in the post. I'll contend that Denver's primary offensive scheme will attempt to get KAT in foul trouble this weekend.

He doesn't cook kat thanks to Gobert..if it's 1vs1 without gobert in the back he'll shred him

@@elmehdinafia1237That’s not the point

Anderson has great defense ...

I couldn’t believe it! The whole staff have been great too

He took the risk starting Jokic in the 2nd too, it worked in the short term but then ant came in rested when joker checked off and toasted the nuggets. That was the game right there.

@Finn-eu3fs exactly. Malone failed in the game last night JOKER has bailed the team and the coach out many times. Based on everything we've seen, Minnesota is clearly the better team, but JOKER is 1 of 1 in the history of the Game.

He would have had a call from Silver after Game 5. Too much money involved.

Difference is that the refs who referred in game 2 are the same guys in game 6 😂

Couldn't want it more for a series. This feels like the finals for me

Correction: Naz Reid.

Correction: Orange Slices

Allowed to play football*

Allowed to play football*

@@elmehdinafia1237you lost by almost 50. You can’t possibly be blaming the refs for that lol.

What you are essentially saying is that how game 7 is officiated will determine who wins

Finally a non biased nuggets fan. Appreciate you telling it like it is unlike these guys who wouldn’t dare say anything bad about a team they declared champion before the season even started.

Honestly dude this is got to be one of the worst championship contending teams I've seen. Other than yogic that team is not even a play in team. That bench shot 4 for 27.

You seemed level headed until the end. The 60 point diff. Hope it is a good game.

​@@kyliedadifythe "fan" in fanatic kicked in at the end there.

Coaching adjustments

let's be real, no all star lvl player wouldn't get suspended for that in the playoffs. Only Draymond but I don't even count him

Bro can’t hit a three to save his life. Disrespectful to Donte lol

He’s so cringe

He's a better defender tho

They’re white basketball players they’re basically the same right?

At home. They have never won a game seven on the road.

@@nocturne311 They've played one game 7 in team history.

Painful to watch Bill talk about the Mavs. It feels personal at this point

Dallas really bringing the playoff defense. I've been impressed as a wolves fan

Typical Bill Simmons bullshit

What KD has done outside of GSW? Exactly

@@elmehdinafia1237what has bron done without a superteam? Yet he’s in the goat convo…if it’s fair to declare bron the goat, it’s fair to have KD in a top 10. For the record, I don’t agree with either

@@clee8019 that's my point! Jokic accomplishments so far have way more weight than KD's..3mvps to 1..if you go analytics wise Jokic shreds KD too!

​@@clee8019Bron dragged two awful teams to the finals by himself in 2007 and 2018. Or did your forget?

@@youngzeus87 in a weak east. Look at his career in context. When he’s in the west with another all nba player, he’s barely making the playoffs. He dominated a weak east for a decade and even then came up short. In 08, the Cavs won 66 games and was ranked in the top 5 for both offense and defense. And then the Cavs are heavy favorites and he loses to a magic team with 1 all star (and no top 75 player). Jameer Nelson (the other all star) missed the entire series. Look at Tatum right now. Should Tatum be considered a goat too?

At this point he sounds just like a pathetic hater. No team this season has held OKC to such low scoring numbers and they lost not because of Mavs' defense, but just because OKC missed 3s? And that's a good sign for OKC to turn around the series? Not to mention Bill lost all credit when he panicked and declared the Wolves VS Nuggets series over. I mean, he didn't have any good take this whole playoffs.

@@theSUBVERSIVEalso the stats say that OKC are making more wide open threes than Dallas so this narrative isn’t even supported by stats

Not to mention Luka having one of his worst playoff shooting series ever

Ya Dallas has been playing championship type defense for a good bit of the playoffs so far.

Fully agree. Yet guys at the ringer, specifically Kevin Oconnor say the nuggets will sweep the celtics lol. All the ringer does is glaze the nuggets

No one will be watching if it’s Denver and Dallas.

@@Skyfall22A ton of people will be watching Luka vs. Jokic. Lol. People have been wanting that matchup for years.

Too much power in the hands of the refs and too much money involved in the games. Hard to take it seriously.

Nobody gives a fuck about the Celtics 😂

@@nailfelagund7508They will when Boston wins the title this year.

They have no frontcourt depth

For Minnesota? Yes…

I didn’t know until he said it again

Too*

Well Minnesota just showed us that their game is fast, probably faster than OKC

He killed them

No he did not. Curry has always cooked that fat man. Just sucks we don't have enough offense that makes it easier for the Nuggets to effectively double Curry + Dray does a solid job guarding Jokic unlike the baguette man​@nicholaschristodoulou3821

You mean one of the co-host? Don't leave us hanging...

I would pay to watch Tobias Poole and Kuzma fumble their way to 12 wins

@@razkable Maybe they could sign Gordon Hayward at about 80 to 100 million for 4 years too. He seems like a Wizards kind of guy.

I have never heard anyone at the ringer say a bad word about Jokic or the Nuggets lol

They are the reason the backlash for jokic will be vicious.its crazy how every topic comes back to jokic

It’s so annoying how much they slurp Jokic. It really makes you wonder why he’s immune to criticism

Sometimes the talk around Jokic and Luka got me feeling like Gilbert was right

I couldn’t believe a 45 point blowout in a close out playoff game turned in to a Jokic BJ. They are so invested in this dude being remembered as being better than Kareem, Kobe or Timmy it’s disgusting. He’ll be an all time great for sure but there’s levels to this. I’m super disappointed in Bill as an NBA historian.

They scored 70 point’s tonight……

One team played defense and the other team watched James harden games all week