Dan Patrick: Nuggets Depth Exposed In Game 7 Loss To Timberwolves | 5/20/24
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Dan Patrick recaps the Minnesota Timberwolves eliminating the Denver Nuggets from the NBA playoffs after winning game 7 of their Western Conference Semifinals matchup
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DEFENSE IS SEXY, Dan.
People remember 85 Bears, 00 Ravens, Legion of Boom... and the 24 Timberwolves.
Only if they win championships...
@@kobe2curry4rose1 they'll be remembered more if they win the ring. But people remember the '04 Pistons for defense and they never won a ring.
It wasnt the suffocating defense, it was the lack of depth according to Dan.
@@lightbeforethetunnelThey sure as hell did.
@@Vic-Vega My bad you're correct.
What an amazing collapse. They had no bench and no killer instinct in the second half. Murray being careless with the ball late is hilarious. Jokic did all he could. Naz Kat and McDaniels were amazing down the stretch. Killer Mike is so clutch for the Wolves. Can’t wait for game one at Target Center.
Mike Conley finally being a difference maker when it counts...wasn't a difference maker in Utah and always underperforms for his talent level....he is one of the most underrated point guards ever...one of the last remaining true points guards in the league.
Love your show!! In the day and age of all this new media, quality endures and your show has it!! Always great and interesting takes!
3rd highest scorer on the Nuggets had 7 points, that's not going to win many games.
It's MN's defense. They have 8 players in the top 40 for defensive win shares. 5 in the top 20. That's an all-time defense, the likes of which we haven't seen since the '04 Pistons
@@lightbeforethetunnel open shot just can't make it .... OPEN SHOT
@@pkz2025when you get guarded well, the open ones are harder to hit.
@pkz2025 Uh huh... says the person who clearly doesn't pay attention to the defense being played. Way too many fans just focus on offense completely and don't notice what teams are doing on defense.
You could pick and choose an open shot here and there, sure. But there are far less open shots than the Nuggets normally get.
That's why the Wolves have the best ranked defense of any team, by far. Yet casuals who only pay attention to offense probably just think their team is having a bad shooting night every time they play MN. Lol
Michael Malone clearly can’t take what he spent the year dishing out.
Tough loss for Jovic who played his ass off.
The coach for the Nuggets was really cocky and arrogant when he was winning. Now he's kind of a sore loser, calling out the journalist for asking a simple, legitimate question?
It was a dumb question. Essentially: "how does it feel to lose when you were winning?"
I know you have to ask a certain # of questions, but come on.
@@Vic-Vega The journalists are paid to ask questions like that and the players / coaches are paid a lot to answer them. The questions are for the fans, who are the reason why the league has the money to pay the coaches / players so much.
It's not a dumb question at all when you understand why it's being asked. Plus, the mindset of coaches / players at that level ought to be tested like that. There's an insane level of competition for those roles. Fans and the organization itself want to know his mindset and how he will react...
So there's more going on here than just a simple literal question. Everyone knows it won't feel good but that's not the point.
@@Vic-VegaIt wasn't dumb. He was just in his feelings. Can't have all that bravado when winning but can't face defeat with humility. Look at game 2 and his and Murray outbursts. They showed their true colors and you cosigning it just sounds like you're in your feelings too. Grow up. Do better
@@youngzeus87Lol, you're just a Denver hater. They probably beat your trash-@$$ team last round or last year.
YOU do better.
I didn't think it was possible, but Porter Jr's siblings had a better day than him.
I'm sad the Nuggets lost and exposed their lack of depth (Bruce Brown would have been great!), but I'm rooting for T-Wolves to get their first franchise chip! They got solid core and defense wins championships.
Why wasn’t Jokic taken out game for rest when they were up 20 pts? he only rested 1 min. Complete coaching failure
Bro...................
Do you think the lead would’ve held better WITHOUT Joker in the game? Lmao come on. L take.
@@TheGreatestJediOfAllTimeNo. It's a good point. Joker was gassed in the 4th quarter. He couldn't make a shot for quite a while. A couple of minutes of rest probably would have helped him down the stretch. It definitely couldn't have hurt.
Jokic needs to tell his coach, Jamal Murray, and CB to be humble. They would have won had they not opened their mouth and said dynasty and they should have won.
Wrong...dont work that way.
Wolves defense in 2nd half was the difference...not what he/she/them "said".
Games are decided on the court, field, ice...not by words
Jamal still being a baby and throwing things on the court.😅
Mike ran Joker to the ground you can see he was exhausted
Exactly. Thank you Mike
Malone claims stupid questions from reporters ... well he had stupid answers 😆
When the Nuggets win all their bravado and ego went into their heads. When they're losing it shows their true colours instead of being humbled by it. Losing is hard, but don't take it on anyone. Jokic did not make excuses and he was a class act to accept the loss.
Could not imagine Dan turning off the TV of a meaningless regular season NFL game if one team was up by 21 points at halftime. But he does so in a game 7 of the NBA playoffs?
There is a reason Murray was exposed as such a punk in this series. When you have the coach act and talk that way, your player will be the same. Jokic is too classy to ever be like that.
Your blind, I've seen the joker be disrespectful to other players including a teams owner, don't get me started on that b.s
You can’t call joker the best player in the world and then say it’s not his fault Denver blew a 20pt lead at home!!!
4 pts is home court advantage in hoops (-3 in football, -130 in baseball, -130 in hockey)
Joker is not going to be singled out. He played well and did what he could, as did Murray. Porter, Gordon, the bench, AND MALONE are the ones that played poorly or made poor decisions.
We can just ignore how Joker is a defensive liability.
Want to be the best you gotta be able to accept being singled out, it comes with the territory!
@@Ineedrentmoney here we go again ... didn't notice twolves hunting murray all game
@@pkz2025 bro don't deflect. Is Murray not the best of defenders sure. BUT that does not negate the fact that Joker is a defensive liability. You need athletism and speed to play defense, and Joker had none of those attributes. Anthony Edwards had a horrendous shooting night But second half he put Murray in cuffs because he has the speed and athletism that allows him to play both sides. If Joker is cold offensively then he is literally a dud in that game. These are facts not feelings.
Yup, in the Lakers series their bench barely contributed.
I was proud of Towns playing defense against the Joker. He played his best game ever…when it counted most! He stood tall and strong in the post against a great great center in Jokic. My father used to talk about Russel like that…he’d give his team whatever they needed to win. He was fabulous! A little bit of everything…and strong. Nice job.
yup still scored alot though ... btw towns was only good when murray was guarding him lmao
I guess they thought they were better without Bruce Brown. He wanted the same money as Air Gordon at $23 million a year, but said hell no.
The Nuggets lost because they have no bench. They played 7 players. Having 4 solid guys throughout the entire regular season is paramount. Playing less than half your entire roster is moronic.
This was very d wade circa 2005 like dan...you nailed it
06
@@jaysoncarter3171no
Its not MPJ or Gordon, its all Murray and hes ridiculous carelessness with the ball
"I had Jamal in handcuffs" -Anthony Edwards after his big Game 7
3 of mpj’s brothers are in trouble
I was gonna say......
It was those fucking 3s they kept shooting. In the 3 games Denver won, they shot no more than 30 while the 4 they lost had them shooting their most 3s.
Nuggets also got a lot of those paint points in wins out of transition. Wolves only 7 turnovers last night, only 1 between Ant/Conley/Naz/McDaniels/Anderson/NAW
They should had stayed in what was working the paint, if they stick to it, they should have won
Free throws were Wolves 30 - Nuggets 16. If it would've been 30-26 for the Wolves, the Nuggets would've won.
Thank you for saying that. I couldn’t believe how they just kept chucking up threes in that 3rd quarter. It was one brick after another but they just kept chucking them up. Yes, I know the paint was clogged up but Gordon, Joker, and KCP had to force the point . And they didn’t do that obviously.
@@penkima4923 Pointing at the free throw differential is misleading without context. Denver was intentionally fouling toward the end to force free throws to try to come back.
Wow. Talk about a lack of respect for the Wolves. Dan’s take is that Denver lost it. No, Dan. Minnesota TOOK it. Did you see Jaden McDaniels’ D all game long? He stuck to the Nuggets like white on rice. Did you see Ant shut down Jamal Murray in the second half? Did you see Naz Reid and KAT and Rudy make life a living hell for Joker? The Wolves are LEGIT. Pay attention…or don’t talk basketball during the show. You’re embarrassing yourself.
nah stop it stop just stop ... so why is twolves not able to shut down jokic and murray in the first half???? this is not a video game where you can turn off fatigue ... best defense lmao
Mike Malone is unhinged.
@@user-rs2jv1pe7t nah not good enough .... he got jokic to constantly save his job
DESIRE trumps Ego. Ego is VOLUME, not substance.
The sense of volume & ego in the NBA today is deflating the TRUE product. As an old-school Celitics fan, these Wolves will SAVE the NBA from itself & Lebronish "entitlement". Go Wolves. Bird & Jordan would approve! GREAT TEAM WIN! Can people begin to appreciate Edwards' PASSING? And Gobert is a STUD. TEAM win.
Dan Patrick is DEAD on about Malone's weak comments. Fans want THIS! DESIRE & EFFORT, NOT EGO & "NARRATIVE"...😮
Denver needs to stop jacking up 3s. I hate how all these teams want to copy the 2017 GSW.
Agreed ruined the game. Miss late 90’s early 2000’s nba
They was to cocky all year it was disgusting glad they lost
Anyone looking for Bruce Brown?
uncle drew will be elevating vertical @ kat & rudy gobert! LOL
As a longtime MN fan, i want to give respect to Jokic (1 of my fav players). He deserved the MVP this year. But MN is the best team in the NBA, hands down. Ive been telling people this all year and got laughed at for it.
hmmmm but what if twolves lost ..... just sayin ....
@@pkz2025 Then I would have been proven wrong. But they won. At least so far.
I think Denver nuggets partied to hard the night before cause they probably thought that they had this one in the bag. In the end they didn't, they lost and have no one to blame but themselves.
Losing by 40 something in game six and blowing a 20 point lead in game seven is absolutely brutal. MJ would never….:
The Nuggets forfeited game 6 on purpose.
I did think that was weird. A team giving up in a playoff game…that early. That’s not healthy from an ego standpoint.
We all knew the nuggets lost some of the depth they had last year.
Monday morning analysis… different narrative if Nuggets win
Joker is definitely the MVP for his team. He's an amazing baller! Naz Reid is better than Aaron Gordon.
It took 7 games to get your depth exposed?...im not saying it didn't but if it took that long to get exposed and you were able to go that long without depth, then how important is depth really? I've always thought depth was overrated come playoff time...if anyone got away with no depth it was NY.
Well…having Naz Coming off the bench and then making all those plays. Naz Lightning Reed! He was moving really fast…everyone else was a big step behind.
Wait how are Pacers boring? Iso ball is boring, what the Pacers are doing breaking assists records and with TJM off the bench and all the dunks are the most beautiful basketball in the nba, you can’t be watching.
Kevin Love needs to come help Jokic
Kevin Love is NOT the answer for the Nuggets, fool! Kevin Love is 35-damn-years-old ffs!
@@estimatedeyes Hell, if he could play 10-12 quality minutes a game he'd help them out.....they have DeAndre Jordan and Zeke Nnaji over there on the bench being cheerleaders basically. And they need another ball handler off the bench other than the ghost of Reggie Jackson.
OG 'sota fan here... Mass media get F'd. Its our time SKOL
Micheal porter jrs family is falling apart so I don’t blame him for not being focused on basketball
wow what entitlement
Denver coach is annoying. The Timberwolves took that game.
I agree Malone came off like a douche-nozzle in the press conference. However, the whole thing about clipping videos of analysts.....Dan is doing the same thing Barkley did when talking about that. He wasn't calling any of the analysts out....he was using it as motivation for his team. He literally said if he were an analyst and watched those first 2 games he would have said the same things himself. How is that "calling out" people?
Getting really sick of Mike Malone.
Ant didn't have it in the first half. True. And, what did was, he didn't panic (flopping in his first game 7 and letting his team down). He got it together like a real man. An fing strong real man. And he got it going. On defense, taking the double teams and distributing, and making key points in tremendously important moments. Truth.
reminds me of Kobe vs Celtics game 7… Kobe still played D, rebounded, passed… Will say though, i don’t remember MJ having a bad scoring game…
but I thought he was MJ scoring 40 pts per game
@@pkz2025 oh so you listen to the hype. That’s cool
No way joker is top 20
Not a fan of Malone. He is reaponsibke to loose 3 games at home. Management and coaching has been a problem this year
When they win it’s all Joker, when they lose it’s murray / AG/ MPJ / KC / reggie/ Braun / Jordan / coach Malone fault
It reminds me of how lebron used to get treated, smh. They're the only two players I see get this coddling. Teams tailor made for them but they don’t have “enough help “ .
The better team won . It was a 7 game series it could’ve gone either way . Some teams just matchup better than others.
But what else do you want from the Joker in the last game, he didn’t have more assists because, the team let him down, brother play great basketball, and no you can compare LBJ with Joker , Jokers doesn’t go out to recruit and demands trades or other things
@@jonathanardila6550How about passing the damn ball instead of bricking three after three after three? 😂
@Vic-Vega someone has to be open to pass it to. The Wolves took away the passing lanes and dared him to shoot 3s.
@@Vic-Vega if jokic pass will the others shoot?? they just give it back to jokic dumbAF
jokic is consistent with his production that is why its the others fault DUH
Of all the coaches in the NBA, this guys has to be the grumpiest angry jerk type of guy. He whines like LeBron, and sets a horrible example for players he coaches and it’s obvious!!! No wonder Murray threw stuff onto the court like an immature undisciplined child!!! Malone, Jokic, Luka and LeBozo are the top cry babies of the NBA!!!! Imagine if the whining energy got converted into focus and effort 🤷♂️
Jokic?
There we go another LeBron hater...
More Durant than Jokic, certainly.
This was Ant-Man's first game 7, and he melted down and pooped his pants. He played good defense in the second half, but also let the opposing guard in Murray score game-high 35 points overall in the game.
Dude, no. You don't get it. Sorry. Let me explain: Ant didn't have it in the first half. True. And, what did was, he didn't panic (flopping in his first game 7 and letting his team down). He got it together like a real man. An fing strong real man. And he got it going. On defense, taking the double teams and distributing, and making key points in tremendously important moments. Truth.
What? He had some huge 3’s and helped the team. He locked down Murray in the second half. A lil hyperbolic don’t you think 😂
This dude likes first half players. I tend to like second half players
It sounds like you just looked at the box score
but he did shut down Jamal when they were both tired in the 2nd H… Ant Man comparison should be what this other NBA player said… He’s D Wade with an outside shot…
Michael jordan is Michael jordan. Kobe is kobe. Ant is ant and LeBron sucks. End of story
He is not mj nad he's not even close
He's going to win more rings than MJ. Even though Ant doesn't deserve a ring in many years. He's just lucky to have the team to start winning earlier than most other legends.
@@penkima4923 Ant will not win 7 rings.
@@penkima4923 have you heard of salary cap??? no way his teammates will take pay cuts just to help MJ win rings