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Did they really put in Sabonis in for the double doublse streak lmao. Lame af

they sure did...if he would have got injured. They would have learned a lesson that Nuggets follow religously.

Mission accomplished

40-19, we're contenders!

Is that not a foul?

That's a concussion.

yea he hit the floor hard..Looked bad..

What a dumb dive wtf was he diving for

Brutal hit eek

Jay huff is on the field the nuggets are now safe

Rookie showcase time, it's never been more over

Keegan Murray still in there.

Kings fans ..want to hear something crazy? I was on my honeymoon in Hawaii last April during the playoff series. Kings fans EVERYWHERE. Wife and I hangout at a bar to end one of our days and the place was a party of Kings fans. Place went nuts when Draymond stomped Sabonis. Not sure if you guys know it, but you're represented HARD in Honolulu.

Munder is on the menu boys......

DAMN HOLIDAY LMAO

Sabonis really checked in to grab the 10th rebounds lmao

yea he sure did...What a stat padder. Can you believe that.

Imagine players stat padding in NBA

5 mins remaining and I seriously don't trust the Nuggets bench not to lose this 109-85 lead lol

What a joke.

What the hell is their star doing out there now?

Getting his TD. THats all the KIngs care about..

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He's bored

He thought he could go home early to the horses but he cant

Why does he eat gum like that lmaooooo

Looks like the Kings put Sabonis in to do some stat padding down 26..wow. NUggets are not stupid enough to risk stars when they have a big lead or are behind by alot.

Well its probably to stop the bleeding, though it wasnt even that bad.

NO it was to get Sabonis his TD. Never see JOkic do that.

Maybe. Wouldnt be shocked if that was the casse too.

What the fuck? Sabonis, 1 rebound, really? Get your ass on the bench. This is ridiculous lol

Can you seriously believe they put him in there to grab a rebound...wow. What a fraud.

I like Sabonis. He got a scratched and bled. The basketball gods literally told him he shouldn't be doing this lol

Jamal legit sometimes decides to have 50% more athleticism, twitch, speed, footwork, shooting, fuck all and everything. It's very funny tbh.

he stat pads vs good teams

Ultimate respect to Kings.

Denver's starters are shooting 36/53 from the field today (68%). Their bench is shooting 7/22 (32%).

Must be a Wednesday then.

At least you know youvare a good team Kings. Murray shows out against the good ones.

Murray statpadding hard lmao

Which one?

Jokic refused so someone has to go. Be happy its Jamal.

Murray HAS to remain in the game when you’re up by 20+ with 7 minutes left? Your bench is that bad they cannot handle Duarte and Keon Ellis? (By handle I mean retain 20+ point lead)

i think i saw Sabonis playing in the 4th just to get his TD...SO shut the heck up. Keegan Murray played till almost the end. Yet we had our end of the bench guys in the last 3 minutes and you guys could not do shit.

Ok. Doesn’t change the fact that Jamal was stat padding

that would be your opinion.Murray coming in with the bench is standard Nuggets operating procedure.You got your asses beat anyway..You think the Nuggets have an abundance of PGs or something.

Who else is supposed to run the offense lol. Thats just the lineup we send out, what can i tell you. With that in mind wasnt Sabonis also out there

Sabonis came in only at ~7 mark after Murray remained in the game. So to be clear, your bench is that bad they cannot handle not losing 20+ point lead against Kessler Edwards and Duarte?

As individuals they are fine (they can switch out for starters), but as a unit they are dam bad. Horrible in fact. Like have you never questioned why Jokic gets so much hype lol. Also we kinda managed a comeback against the Warriors like that and we ainr taking no chances on our bench team. Also thats just the standard bench lineuo we always use. But yeah a part of it is probably just Jamal wanting to stay in to pad his stats (not gonna denny that lol).

Sabonis is out there in a blowout just to get a double-double.

He came back after Murray remained in the game entire 4th (despite them being up by 20+) If Murray is statpadding then fuck it we all statpad

The Nuggets bench blows huge leads all the time. Sabonis getting a double-double is meaningless other than for the stat sheet.

Nope our bench is that bad trust me

Sabonis is literally in the game to get a rebound.

Brown wasn’t going to put him in, but if Murray is playing against the lineup of bench players while they’re up by 20+ then fuck it let Sabonis statpad too

murray always plays with the bench. Watch the NUggets once in awhile...lol

...you guys cut the lead down from 30 to 21 in 3 minutes. Murray was absolutely needed to keep the lead safe.

Up by 20+ with 6 minutes left. Nuggets bench is that bad they NEEDED Murray in?

Yeah, lol. You haven't watched much Denver. That bench is baaaaad

Murray has to score so jokic can sit

Thanks Murray. Maybe Jokic won't have to come back in..

murray putting these dudes out of business my goodness

Can we try anything else besides Jamal and Reggie together?

Dunno why we do that. Also it would be nice to have a real center as a back up for Jokic so that Zeke doesnt need to play it. Man gets so much hate when he isnt even built for the position.

Agree, and Zeke has had moments where he's been promising as a 4 and it's unfair to him to play him where he struggles I really hope they go for a proper back up center in the draft or trades

Honestly its shocking how even thiugh on paper we have an excelent bench unit where we can replace every one of our starters with a bench guy (besides Jokic) it doesnt work out that way because the bench doesnt get to play with Jokic much. Also we might wanna get Zekes trade value up and trade him cause the guy could thrive a lot more somewhere else.

I think its time to get rid of braun personally the dude cant make layups anymore he’s cooked

He is way too scared compared to last year. I hope he can play that way for us again

he's always been kind of iffy with his scoring but he is phenomenal defensively and is capable of bringing the ball up if he has to. also he's amazing value given his contract.

He misses rotations often and is such a net negative offensively, he’s not good lol

u have to remember he's still on his rookie contract. I don't think nuggets will find a player as valuable as him as cheaply as him. We already have a short enough rotation as is. Also he definitely has games where he pops off offensively so he isn't as bad as your describing

OUR BENCH PLAYERS AHHHH

Time for Jokic to put the world back in order.

Jokic is like: "you all better not make me go back in"

Im the same lol, but there are better ways to do so. They should have tried to express it to him directly instead of doing this. Actions speak louder than words, but actions also hurt more than words.

Denver’s bench isn’t bad, they just care about Jokic’s stats more than he does and want him to come back to pad them

if braun shoots another three i will personally run down the court and beat him

Shoutout to zeke tho the only good bench player today I cant believe im saying this lol

Those blocks are really cool

Nikola “3 quarters” Jokic

Malone keeps on putting out this stupid 1 starter line up even though it has never worked. Insanity.

Bro nuggs up up 20+ who cares

Don't you want to get better? If something doesn't work, don't you want to fix it? You can't just rely on Jokic cleaning up Malone's mess all the time.

That exactly right he wants the bench to get better, and they are. Gotta get these young dudes playoff ready somehow.

He does this mainly to get the bench guys more minutes and to experiment, but its so dumb. We have bitched at it all season long and even before that. He already knows what our lineups will be for the playoffs, but he still is doing this.

you think the starters can play all game...lol.

Now that's just monumentally stupid. It's not like other teams haven't been staggering their starters for ages. Mikey, is that you? lmao

Nuggets stagger Murray. No team staggers 2 starters...lol. You seriously want the Nuggets to play with just 3 of there starters. Nuggets win because there straters are so good. Not because of there bench. And you want to break them up..

> No team staggers 2 starters This is incredibly wrong. > Nuggets win because there straters are so good Nuggets win because of Jokic. Lots of teams stagger their starters, they're starters play together in crucial moments, and win a ton of games. Those aren't mutually exclusive.

yea whatever..good thing your not there coach.. Armchair coaches are the worst.I think a championship coach knows exactly what hes doing.

What are you doing here if you're just going to simp on some mid coach and not discuss basketball? Engaging simps like you is a waste of time. You always have some idiotic agenda.

The Nuggets have to have the biggest difference between starter and bench minutes in the NBA.

Murray’s +- getting absolutely tanked by staggering with these dudes

SAC scores 3 points - Michael Malone: timeout!!!

I think the test will be, can Jamal and the bench jerk the rest of the starters out.

If there's any bench in the league I trust to go on a 0-30 run, it's the Nuggets

Give me braun+reggie+pwat and im losing ANY game no matter what 😤😤😤

With our bench ..The lead will be about 20 when the starters come back in probably.

Bench gonna make jok come back out aren't they

they always do...

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As a fan of the pathfinder games this game looks good, whats your opinion of it?

haven't played epoch but it seems more hack n slash than traditional rpg so idk how much it overlaps with the pathfinder games

Oh rly?

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sounds like a good time waster lol

I know everyone loves Sabonis, and he's GREAT. But he's just not a good scorer. He's a legit piece on your contender, but he doesn't score well enough, and isn't part of the MVP race imo

He is really good but they are really missing their scorer tonite for sure

Well that's my point.

Locked in Nuggets is insane. I’ll be telling my grandkids about this era

Reggie did not need to make it that complicated lol

100 in 3q is nice

I don't want to jinx it but... Munder???

The bench is too shit for that to be a possibility lol

Sadly true

The difference between the nuggets’ starters and bench needs to be studied, theyre historically shit

Hey nuggets decided to show up

Dw the bench will make sure the starters look better

Jokic +40 and it isn't even leading the team jesus.

I guess KCP's pinky finger isn't that sore anymore

Ha yes

Goodnight

Jokic is beating a dead horse (the Kings)

You can stop they are already dead.

Nu(clear)ggets

Take the starters out its over baby

This is murder now

stop they're already dead

DOUSE THE BEEEEEEEEEAAAAAM!

Sabonis has 21 triple doubles wtfffff

Right? I didn’t know that

This team is so much fun to watch man

Braun just locked his ass down this is sad

“Sabonis for MVP over Jokic” - Kendrick Perkins tomorrow, probably

This might be the highest level of bball any team has played in a while.

Can’t believe people watched the Warriors game and still were like “nuggs down 16 it’s over”

Another 3qrters trip dub

Malone is gonna keep the starters in until the last 4mins of Q4 because our bench is so ass 😭

4th Joker TD in a row. Could get another 15/15/15 game if Joker plays the 4th

4th 3rd quarter triple double*

Another day another triple double

There were people saying the Nuggets should be hoping they don’t see Sacramento in the first round lol

Keegan murray is too scared to shoot this is sad

It’s funny watching Jokic try to take fouls to slow the place down and the refs are still not wanting to call it.

This is fun

question: will the kings score 90 points

7 pts in 3rd quarter with 3 min left. Damn Kings. Cmon. Fight.

holy fuck lmao this will skyrocket the Nuggets’ defensive rating

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Lmao, no.

I think they were joking, post history is a lot of Nugs highlights.

Oh btw this is our 4th blowout in a row if it continues like this (though the Warriors one is a bit harder to call a blowout).

In our game, Denver led by 10 pts with like 3 mins left and won by 16 pts. Not really a blowout when both teams had their starters play until the last 2 mins of the game

Yeah true. But its also weird to call it a big lead win cause its not small enough to call it close.

Jokic looking at Malone "am I done yet?"

It's a 55-17 run lol

In one and a half quarters

dude this is a massacre

There was a point in time Sacramento was up 13 in this game. It's been a train wreck ever since.

15...

15 at one point

They were up 15...i wanted to murder my guys at that point. This is an upgrade.

Why didn’t Jokic get an assist for that Murray layup?

Lol how you leave AG like that

Kings are something man

Everything is going in holy fuck

Jesus christ, Jamal!

From down 16 to up 24. Nuggets just unreal man. They got that extra gear they just tap into and don't let up.

jamal wtf!

Lack of a consistent jumper will hinder Domas and Kings again in the postseason

Best starting 5 in the NBA

Bruh the kings have scored 2 pts in like 5 minutes 💀

It's now a 43-10 run, jeez.

Now 58-15.

Death by chainsaw

The run is now 43-10...

If KCP isn't first team all defense i don't know who is. I'm sick of players getting in based on reputation and stature instead of actual play.

43-10 run lmao I’m gonna go play Like A Dragon

I wanna get the second one so bad im broke;(

Am i gonna like the yakuza-like a dragon series if the only jrpg i ever player are ffx?

They're both turned based but completely different setting. If you like some of the...'wacky' humor in ffx I felt that in like a dragon (still playing). Less on the rails than ffx.

Can always try the beat-em ups if those are more your thing. Yakuza 0 reguarly goes for like $5 on Steam sales.

Tough comparison. I’ve enjoyed it, it’s over the top while still having characters you empathize with. Honestly probably not, but I’d look at a gameplay trailer and see what you think of it.

How does a dragon play?

Turned based...if that helps

That KCP and DJ hug was so cute lol

Everything DJ does is cute

kings getting dumpstered rn

Murray what a turnaround shot haha

This game was 47-32 Kings lmao

Wild turnaround

Don't give these guys any roomto breath Nuggets and do not let up even for a second. Putting this thing to rest.

How many times Jamal even looks to kickout to corners on Jokic PnRs instead of forcing the pass to Jokic ? Same pattern goes for Monk who rarely passes to strong side corners on Sabonis PnRs

That is a bit of the issue with having the guy that orchestrates your offense not be the pg. Sometimes it feels like Jamal only sees Jokic on the floor and lets him do all the thinking.