(1) denver nuggets (8) miami heat 2023 nba finals ft the joker and mommy butler

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nuggz in 5

Clay, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link

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ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link

if you have to get in a street fight with a team of destiny riding a wave of good vibes it's best to have a 2-time MVP on your side playing at or near his peak. should be interesting for at least the first three games.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link

i think the team thats won their last 6 games are the ones that are riding a wave

ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link

you have to favor the nuggets based on seeding, the regular season and their playoffs performance, but the heat have spat on the odds three times running, so there's that to consider.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:22 (one year ago) link

all i can think is home court, thanks for that

Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link

one fun wrinkle here is Tyler Herro will be back and honestly given how they've played without him idk if that's necessarily a good thing for Miami

frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:48 (one year ago) link

lol I had this tab open and thought "wait a minute how do I have one new message on ilxor.com"

frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link

oh haha didn't realize that well now i have hacked ilx send me to jail

Clay, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link

Mommy Butler will headline next year's Sick New World

Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 04:27 (one year ago) link

hahaha this tab thing is not OK

symsymsym, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 04:28 (one year ago) link

this feels like it should be nuggets in 5, but the heat have feasted on favorites all season

k3vin k., Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link

thought about it overnight and decided that nuggets will win the nba playoffs

ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link

there's a number of specific things about this match up that really concern me

the heat having 1 big man in particular... as good as i think bam is, being the only guy on your team above 6' 7" who can go up against jokic in a playoff series is a lot to ask of anyone. also unless they change how they play defense, they're gonna force denver's role players to make threes to beat them and i do think it will put pressure on gordon and bruce brown. but the bargain gets a lot tougher when it comes to MPJ and KCP. also they were happy letting second stars like middleton & jaylen brown shoot threes to their heart's content & i'm not sure that's possible w/ murray. the heat are going to be banking on guys who typically shoot well from three to not shoot well from three

murray in particular feels like the key to me -- jokic is gonna do his thing but i think murray is the one where, if this series goes sideways for denver it will be because murray has some bad shooting games & it starts to seep into the rest of his play and he second guesses himself, won't pull the trigger, starts gumming up the offense in crunch time etc. to be clear i don't *expect* this to happen but if we're sitting here and it's somehow 3-2 miami it wouldn't surprise me if murray's play was the big culprit

ultimately there's really nothing on paper that would make you think this series will be particularly competitive, even head to head the heat have had huge issues w/ denver in the regular season recently. but the heat have thrived the entire playoffs on being the underdogs, that they're in yet another series where everyone is laughing off their chances like "yeah the other team in 5 gimme a break" has me feeling good. when they got up 3-0 on boston and everyone had to admit that it looked like they were gonna win the series they completely lost their mojo. having to go win it in boston as the underdogs was actually a far more comfortable position, weirdly, and i think it showed in how they played. i think they'll be ready to attack the series and put some pressure on denver in a way they haven't felt yet in the playoffs. will that be enough? probably not but sometimes we think we know where the finals is headed and it veers completely off course and flies off the side of a mountain. go heat.

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link

It's no wonder why the Nuggets own an all-time home winning percentage of .652. Away from Denver, the Nuggets are a paltry .350 all time. That .302 difference between home and road win percentage is the largest for any active franchise in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37762170/nba-finals-2023-how-denver-altitude-gives-nuggets-edge

symsymsym, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link

thats even wider than i expected

ciderpress, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link

it's notorious that visiting teams to the mile-high city can't adjust quickly to the altitude, but that's a huge difference.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link

Jokic, however, believes the Nuggets' play should get more credit for their home-court advantage.

"Maybe, maybe not," Jokic says of whether the elevation impacts the opposing team.

"We think it's us."

fair point

frogbs, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link

the denver nuggets will win the nba playoffs in five

lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link

On paper, it looks like the Nuggets in a walk but the Heat seems to be able to defy expectations. I can't see Miami winning but I would not be surprised if they win 2 or 3.

earlnash, Thursday, 1 June 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link

It's no wonder why the Nuggets own an all-time home winning percentage of .652. Away from Denver, the Nuggets are a paltry .350 all time. That .302 difference between home and road win percentage is the largest for any active franchise in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

I was honestly shocked to learn, though, that over the WHOLE NBA, home teams win 60% of the time. That's a huge advantage! And makes the Nuggets stat not so startling. 65-35 instead of 60-40.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 June 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link

iirc home court advantage has decreased a lot recently

lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link

didn't Charles Barkley used to talk about how teams would party all night in visiting cities and play a lot of NBA games hung over

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link

also 65-35 I think is a pretty dramatic split for the not-exactly-historically-great Nugs

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link

nugs are historically fine? they have an all time winning pct slightly over .500, they were only really bad in the 90s

ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link

iirc home court advantage has decreased a lot recently

Sure, but the that might be true for the Nuggets HCA too.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 June 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link

yeah they've been decent for a while but I still think that home court split is pretty significant

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link

imo kinda hard to judge the degree to which denver has a special home court advantage nowadays vs the degree to which they have the 2 time MVP who never misses games on their team

J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 June 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link

it makes sense that altitude especially if you’re just flying in and out would have some effect. but there’s a pretty big fly in the ointment here

J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 June 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link

speaking as someone who has spent some time in colorado when you come into 5k ft denver from sea level you dont really notice the altitude, until you try to do some exercise and then you definitely notice it, and theres also an advantage for denver going the other way in that if you train at altitude you have more endurance at sea level

lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link

isn't that like a Dragonball Z plotline or something

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link

training/living at high elevation then competing at sea level is why kenya produces so many of the top long distance runners in the world

J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link

amongst other reasons, its a pretty fascinating situation, if you find running interesting lol

lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link

AFTER THE NUGGETS finished 23-18 at home during the 2021-22 season with Murray out with a knee injury, general manager Calvin Booth had a staff member research what the competitive advantage is from playing at elevation and how the Nuggets can exploit it both physically and mentally.

Understanding that exercising at elevation can lead to symptoms of nausea, fatigue and cognitive impairment for those not acclimated, the Nuggets wanted to see when they could strategically push the pace and identify lineups that can play faster to maximize potentially the most influential home-court factor in the league.

"All the teams I've been on, essentially you're definitely going to feel it in the first couple minutes," Booth, who played 10 seasons in the NBA, told ESPN. "Typically, you get your second wind pretty quickly and you stop thinking about it. But now in a high-intensity environment like the playoffs, maybe late in the game it starts to affect you a little bit more."

Booth also wanted to examine how other pro and college teams that play at altitude try to get into the heads of opponents.

By halfway through this season, the Nuggets had devoted the majority of their allotted 30 seconds designated for introducing the opponent's starting lineup to their altitude warning. (It has forced Speller to go through the opponents' starting five as if he is competing in a speed reading contest.)

Speller will also slip an ominous-sounding "5,280 feet" during breaks in the game like he did during one coaching challenge in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the conference finals.

"He just drops that in kind of subliminally when you can tell a guy is getting a little tired [or] made a bad pass," Craig Dzaman, Nuggets senior director of game presentation, told ESPN.

Don't know if this really makes a difference but it's pretty funny

symsymsym, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link

a good chunk of elite american endurance athletes live in boulder, when i lived there itd be funny to be out running trails and have these guys absolutely shredding past you

lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link

yeah ive spent some time at my uncles place in CO which is at like 7200 ft and you dont really notice it until you try to do any exercise at which point it's immediate. ive never been there longer than 2 weeks though so i dunno how long it takes to go away completely but 2 weeks wasnt quite enough for me

ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link

i am obviously not an athlete though. if i was then i'd be in the nba instead of posting about it

ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link

for me once you go that high its noticeable without the exercise, not uncommon for people to get altitude sickness at 7k ft and have to be taken down to lower altitude, i lived at a little higher than that for a while dont really remember how long it took to adjust maybe at least a few weeks, but you never fully adjust because theres just not that much air up there

lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link

friends -- I am in sweden, and my cable logins aren't working. what's the best way to stream the game in high quality? I had no idea VPNs cost money...I'll do it, but is there another way??

k3vin k., Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link

I use this sometimes: https://reddit.rnbastreams.com/

it's annoying and you gotta click through some ads to watch (I think the trick is don't close the pop-ups until AFTER the stream starts), but hey, it works. sometimes.

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link

ya that would be a last resort, but I’d ideally like a realiable high quality stream

k3vin k., Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link

ESPN+? Does that have the same issue as your cable logins?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link

i think abc.com might be showing it without having to connect a cable account?

Spottie, Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link

there are definitely some high quality streams on there, you just gotta make sure to full screen it and never ever ever look at the chat box. idk maybe for the finals they'll be a bit more unreliable because so many more people will be on. for random Bucks games they were fine. similarly you can search Twitter for streams, you can usually find something if you're in a bind. I know Twitter clamped down on that for a while but I am guessing that shit is running rampant on Elon Twitter

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link

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stream dot nbabite dot com

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make sure you have all of the adblockers and preferably a pihole running as well

micah, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link

the bootleg streams were noticably more unreliable/overloaded for the warriors/lakers series lol

ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link

yes. there are still plenty of good streams available though. there must be an enormous number of people pirating.

micah, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link

I had to use one for that one game that was on NBA TV or whatever and it took a few tries but eventually you find a good one

frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link

ESPN giving Tim Legler air time now because they realized he was the only one watching the Nuggets all this time and could talk about them competently lol

— Voja (@VojaMedic) June 1, 2023

Spottie, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link

the 2023 nuggets will win the nba playoffs

― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, June 22, 2020 10:52 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link

8 different nba champs in the last 11 years, wild

slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:30 (one year ago) link

Congrats to the Denver @Nuggets and the remarkable finals MVP Nikola Jokić for bringing home the franchise’s first NBA Championship!

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 13, 2023

nuggets have officially jumped the shark

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link

shoutout to the nuggets management in its various iterations, gordon and kcp and bruce brown were inspired acquisitions and the absolute right types of guys to put around jokic and their plan worked to perfection


they had the best offseason in the league and it was obvious even at the time. they grabbed two guys every contender should’ve been scrapping for

their various playoff rotations before this season prominently included guys like will barton, monte morris, austin rivers, campazzo, bones hyland, gary harris, jamychal green, paul millsap, boogie cousins etc

obv they needed murray back but they leveled up their playoff core in a real way & were a 16 game steamroller bcuz of it

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:34 (one year ago) link

magic runnin obama's twitter

Clay, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link

what if magic's twitter is obama's burner and he just posted from the wrong account

slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link

Bart Harley Jokic https://t.co/qjSzNBs1zW

— fraser ramon (@SteveMerkle9) June 13, 2023

slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link

The Nuggz deserved this one, especially Jokic & Murray. Enjoy it to the hilt, nuggz fans! Fate is fickle and you never know how long the next one might take. Jimmy Buckets finally ran out of rabbits to pull out of his, um, let's say his hat.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link

pic.twitter.com/i5JldbKdxK

— richard (@richard_normal) June 13, 2023

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link

surprised LeBron's never done this

Nikola Jokic has become the first NBA player ever to lead the playoffs in total points, total rebounds, and total assists. Simply incredible.

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) June 13, 2023

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:08 (one year ago) link

Cmon man lmaooooooo pic.twitter.com/Myebr2PFw3

— Eddie Gonzalez (@bansky) June 13, 2023

xp he came close one year but kevin love outrebounded him by a few

ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:30 (one year ago) link

It turns out the nuggets really were close to contending in the bubble

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link

matt!

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:38 (one year ago) link

I’m so drunk

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:47 (one year ago) link

we did it!

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:49 (one year ago) link

congrats buds

Clay, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link

I'd have to look back at some of Shaq's titles but that really felt like the best a center's ever played in the playoffs


Hakeem title runs gotta be up there

Spottie, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link

Congrats nuggets crew!

Really enjoyable team. No floppers, no foul baiters. Dudes just hooping playing a fun brand of ball. Love when great players who are fun to watch get it done and show out.

Spottie, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 06:09 (one year ago) link

yeah real easy team to root for. also I like the way their roster is constructed, they made a lot of smart moves and picked up a bunch of cool players. obviously Jokic evolving into one of the greatest centers of all-time was pretty lucky but hey, you gotta get lucky somewhere. the Nuggets were barely challenged and I don't see why they couldn't just run it back next year.

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link

I don’t know what to do now

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link

yeah they rolled only bit of luck in there is they never faced a top offensive team so their regular season middling defense held up, they did get pretty torched by the suns two leet players, a team with two great offensive players and also other good players couldve given them trouble, but it did not happen so who cares, maybe next year

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link

the thing about the nuggets defense is their main lineups were actually very good at defense all year, they just did play the deandre jordans thomas bryants bones hylands in the playoffs

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link

they played good defense def but i think a really good offensive team wouldve been able to do some stuff, and then wed have a shootout on our hands

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link

Suns needing a historically great performance from Booker to win definitely a point in favor of the Nugs though

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link

but why was he able to have a historically good performance

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link

he shot 80% from the field in consecutive games sometimes u gotta just tip your cap

k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link

i mean hes playing against the other team (nuggets)

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link

obvs he was liquid metal hot but some of thats gotta be on the defense, particularly considering that the suns 3-12 players were giving them basically zero

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link

yeah nuggets defense is exploitable they had the fortune of going up against a very weak offense in the finals tho

ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link

think they'll be favorites in the west again next year but a better team is surely gonna come out of the east

ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link

don't think Miami would've seriously challenged them either way but Denver were pretty lucky the ECF wasn't a sweep, Butler having to play 7 games really did seem to wear him out. and when Butler's struggling this team can barely get to 90.

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link

miamis shooting came back to earth, their opponents shooting did stay on earth tho

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link

one interesting if maybe not meaningful thing about this year is that out of the nba big man mvp triumvirate the more robotic and predictable embiid and giannis were out in the early rounds while the free wheeling improvisor jokic took home the ring

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link

Kind of soothing to me somehow that I don't think the Bucks would have won these finals

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link

yeah didnt seem like they really had it, overall the nugs were the only team that really had the vibe this year

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link

this bit is so good, we are all the joker now

Nikola Jokic finding out when the parade will be, and saying he wants to go home 😂 pic.twitter.com/8umJGSiu8m

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) June 13, 2023

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link

nobody likes their job, maybe they do, theyre lying

lmao

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link

uncle champ

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FygHga-WYAA9pje?format=png&name=large

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link

shout out ciderpress jimbeaux and matt armstrong

Back atcha. What a ride.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link

congrats nuggz and fans!

ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link

injury karma shined down on the nuggs in a real way

Congrats to Dan Shimensky, Steve Short, Jason Miller, Felipe Eichenberger, & the rest of the Denver medical team. The Nuggets did not lose a single man game to injury or illness during their entire playoff run!They also finished the regular season with the 6th fewest games lost.

— Jeff Stotts (@InStreetClothes) June 13, 2023



also relevant

I stayed relatively quiet this NBA postseason as the big bad injury bug stayed away from the final few rounds. Overall the numbers of games lost to injury or illness per the number of playoff games played (2.62) was the lowest it’s been since the 2018-19 season.

— Jeff Stotts (@InStreetClothes) June 13, 2023

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link

Reporter: ...and are looking forward to the parade?

Jokic: When is parade? When is parade?

Off camera voice: Thursday.

Jokic: (holds his head in both hands, then wipes hands down across his face) No. No. I need to go home.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link

Is.. Denver home for him or somewhere else?

Nhex, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link

serbia

ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link

relative to other nba cities there are probably a lot of horses in the immediate vicinity of denver but its just not the same

https://phantom-marca.unidadeditorial.es/861dc1aa08726c9cf563601407cbfa96/resize/660/f/webp/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2023/06/13/16866429447472.jpg

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link

Blucifer!

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link

huh because i didn't consume any news today except some trump bullshit, i missed that denver celebrated in lodo by having a failed drug deal with suspected fentanyl, multiple handguns, 20 shots fired, and nine people injured. so fucked up.

rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21 (one year ago) link

I don’t know what to do now

well in 20 minutes or so you can see the stanley cup awarded

it will be ridiculous if the vegas fans boo gary bettman but i hope they do it anyway

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link

xps ok, realizing that his whole "yay. we won. time to go home" attitude is hilarious

Nhex, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 03:53 (one year ago) link


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