Once again the Lakers believed in it, for a long time. This time they even led by 15 points at halftime, this time we even started on a classic from LeBron James. But as in the first three games, the steamroller started and nothing and no one could stop it. The Nuggets are in the NBA Finals!
56 seasons since the creation of the franchise and after four failures in the Conference Finals (three times against the Lakers), the Denver Nuggets are finally there.
Best team in the West during the regular season, the Nuggets are therefore in the NBA Finals, what could be more logical after all. The scenario of this match? Neither more nor less than the majority of games in this series against the Lakers, namely a team that believes in it, and the other that “knows”.
That night LeBron James started by sending a message, a royal message. 31 points in the first half, he had never done so well in the Playoffs, and therefore a 73-58 in favor of the Lakers when he joined the locker room. Darvin Ham had decided to do without Jarred Vanderbilt and D’Angelo Russell (he has to talk about it, right?) for this important match, Rui Hachimura and Dennis Schroder had to hachimurer and schroder in their place, but so it was LeBron and no one else who took charge, despite a huge start from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on the Colorado side.
Never had LeBron scored so much in one half of a Playoffs match.
And he played a few ???? https://t.co/kLlNGsDkvs
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) May 23, 2023
But at fifteen at halftime, how to say, we did not really feel the panic in the eyes of the Nuggets.
And for good reason, very quickly the men of Mike Malone put their basketball flat, Aaron Gordon stuffed LeBron literally and figuratively and released one of his most beautiful scores at the best of times. 22 points for AG and a damned defense, while for the genius guarantee the duo Jamal Murray – Nikola Jokic sets off and will not stop. The gap is shrinking, LBJ takes ten minutes to find the circle and Dennis Schroder or Austin Reaves do what they can because Anthony Davis is having a very bad evening. Race results? 36-16 in the third quarter, it’s more the Nuggets it’s the Denver Warriors.
The last quarter? It will only be confirmation of what we already knew, namely that the Nuggets are a much better team than the Lakers in May 2023. Nikola Jokic comes close to corrections by taking two offensive fouls but being offered by the refs the right to stay on the field for the end of the match, the Lakers cling in vain but then we already know the end, it is in any case the predominant feeling at that time. The Joker slams a 3-pointer from space on the head of an AD that he has grappled for four games, and on the last possession of the match Jamal Murray then Aaron Gordon finish the job in defense on LeBron James.
Go ahead it’s good there too ???????? https://t.co/HzAT2Cr7Gj
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) May 23, 2023
Final score 113-111, the mass is said as Edith de Metz would say, and this valve is as unprecedented as the presence of the Nuggets in the NBA Finals. LeBron James is on vacation, Nikola Jokic on a mission, and the Nuggets have a good week off before Game 1 of the Finals next Thursday, most likely against Miami. Which season.
2023-05-23 10:35:51
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