Wolves vs Nuggets 5/12/24 7PM Wolves lead 2-1

[Nick K]

The team (and coaches) let Ant down tonight.

Absolutely yes!!!

[winforlose]

I am so ******** depressed right now.

I really thought wed play better. So disappointing to do this at home.

At least we can say Ant was spectacular. Nobody else was.

Great stats in a loss are just that, great stats in a loss. Karl and NAW were awful. Kyle was trash, Rudy was sooo bad. Just ********* cursed.

[_AIJ_]

First team to win 4. Series is not over. This absurd shooting 100% is not going to continue

[life_saver]

How the heck was SloMo -18 in 6 minutes ??? NAW was -20 in 24 mins and Kyle -18 in 6 mins..The bench minutes probably cost the game today alongside KAT, Gobert having underwhelming performance

[m2002brian]

Those first half quarter ends looks pretty glaring right about now.

[BlacJacMac]

We crushed them on the boards, had almost twice as many FTs and less turnovers.

But our defense was absolutely awful.

[Calinks]

I don't like that we have started doubling Jokic a lot more. He always kills teams when they double.

[Nick K]

I am so ******** depressed right now.

I really thought wed play better. So disappointing to do this at home.

At least we can say Ant was spectacular. Nobody else was.

Great stats in a loss are just that, great stats in a loss. Karl and NAW were awful. Kyle was trash, Rudy was sooo bad. Just ********* cursed.

Denver bench 27 points. MN bench 13 points and we lose by 8.

[Note30]

You guys bought into the media hype/money marketing machine too much if you're surprised haha. ANT is a star but in a small market. Best outcome for the NBA for him to put up big numbers but for us to not advance.

Since when is Denver a big market.

[jpatrick]

We need to figure out a way to slow down the Murray/Jokic two man game. They are getting EASY shots every time. Awful. It was only slowed in the first games because Murray was injured.

Literally everyone today was awful except for Ant. Conley/Naz didn’t make an impact were not hurting the team. Everyone else was actively hurting us when they were on the court.

[Note30]

Can't we believe we blew most of our trade assets on this **** center. Clint Capela would have been better tonight. Isiah Hartenstein would have been better. Embarrassing.

[Johnny Firpo]

I don't believe in momentum that much, this can still go either way. Likely the best series out of the semis, I feel the Mavs-OKC games were lower quality games so far.

[guest81]

Alright best of 3 let's go

[karch34]

Towns, Conley, NAW, and Kyle were awful. Rudy was meh and stupid fouls.

[m2002brian]

I don't like that we have started doubling Jokic a lot more. He always kills teams when they double.

Never ever ever double a guy who would rather pass than score. Keep the rest of the team out of rhythm and make Jokic score every time.

It’s how you beat Chris Paul back in the day, it how you beat Luka. These guys live to pass first.

[life_saver]

Unless we have any new injuries, SloMo shouldn't get another minute in this series...these SloMo minutes have been dumpster fire

[Note30]

Towns, Conley, NAW, and Kyle were awful. Rudy was meh and stupid fouls.

Rudy can't rotate. At all.

[nzd07]

You guys bought into the media hype/money marketing machine too much if you're surprised haha. ANT is a star but in a small market. Best outcome for the NBA for him to put up big numbers but for us to not advance.

Since when is Denver a big market.

Denver is the better team, and has the 3x MVP. We only won the first 2 because they weren't calling as many fouls. We aren't the Lakers, I figured it was fool's gold.

[TimberKat]

I actually more worry about our offense. There has to be better execution and not just Ant. Maybe run some plays for Towns. DEN is going to score around 110. We have to score more points besides play good D to keep them on check
DEN is way too good on offense.

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Tonight the best team wins. We can’t put this one on the refs ( 27 FT for us, 15 FT for Denver…). We were not good in defense at allow way too much open 3.

Our bench was totally dominated by Denver bench which is really a disappointment.
If we look at our players :

- ANT was MVP level, he did all he could to keep the team alive but it was not enough. Another impressive performance from 22 years guys.
- Mike was quite good ( 15 pts,9 Assists, 0 TO) is what you can expected.
- Rudy came alive on second half but his defense was not really good and his weakness on the perimeter were obvious tonight.
- Jaden is so inconsistent on offense. And when his defense is not at his best, he become a really average player. But he is young and will learn from this series.
- KAT : One more time, a real disappointment at PO. Miss too many shoot and did not impact the game in any way. For a self proclaimed best 7’’ 3 points shooter in the world, it was not enough. Considering our much money he make, we should consider a trade for him as I doubt he improve more at his career stage.
- Naz was okay, not at this best but at least he hit some shoot.
- NAW is still very inconsistent ( cf comment on Jaden)
- SLomo : Probably the last 2 games he will play with the Wolves, he is a nice guy but is so down this year.
Overall, we see tonight what is missing to become a real contender. Denver will win the series and probably the title. Being able to dominated us with Porter, KCP as non factor, Murray just average show how strong they are and how experiences and having good bench players matters in PO.