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2023 NBA Playoffs Discussion Thread

seattlejazzfan said:
not just about age with lebron. his foot is clearly still bothering him - he was supposed to have season ending surgery on it and chose not to. besides being an old man, he's definitely not 100% - you can see he's getting hardly any explosion and is a different player than he was prior to the injury.
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Very good Pt.
 
Lakers are going to be a problem for the Nuggets. They are going to get Jokic in as many pick and rolls and switches as they can. If anyone has a shot at slowing down Jokic it’s AD. Who is Denver going to put on LeBron and AD?
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Ehh, I like the Lakers players more than I like the Nuggets players.
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The Nuggets are slow. I think it’ll be an entertaining matchup but I don’t feel the Nuggets have played a real playoff team yet. Their series with Phoenix should’ve been a sweep, or maybe 5 games tops as they were playing a team that had four real NBA rotation players at most but had only three for most of the series. The Suns are also a slow team.

I don’t know who the Lakers use to defend Jokic as his strength advantage is probably greater than Davis’s athletic advantage and that will probably be what determines the series. But Denver isn’t walking away with this one.
 
NUMBERICA said:
The Nuggets are slow. I think it’ll be an entertaining matchup but I don’t feel the Nuggets have played a real playoff team yet. Their series with Phoenix should’ve been a sweep, or maybe 5 games tops as they were playing a team that had four real NBA rotation players at most but had only three for most of the series. The Suns are also a slow team.

I don’t know who the Lakers use to defend Jokic as his strength advantage is probably greater than Davis’s athletic advantage and that will probably be what determines the series. But Denver isn’t walking away with this one.
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I think Nuggs win. Will be an interesting series. When they met in the bubble Dwight Howard go into Jokic with his bufoonery and it worked well. I think Lebron has slowed down a bit since then (mostly due to the foot injury) so he doesn't go hard every game like game 7. As much as they will pick on Jokic in pick and roll I am sure Russell will get targeted as well. I think GS was also just small and Denver is not.
 
Nuggets giving the Lakers an absolute *** kicking in the first half...love to see it.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Best Offense in the playoffs vs best Defense in the playoffs..

This game is a thesis in Offense vs Defense..
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The thing is though the Lakers got no big man depth for Jokic. Best D in the league but the Nuggets aren't a good matchup.
 
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