The NBA playoffs are nearer than you might assume, with the primary video games going down on April fifteenth. There’ll doubtless be many surprises within the days main as much as the postseason, because the standings lastly shake out.
Nevertheless, the highest seeds within the East and West have already been set in stone, leaving them to observe how issues play out in hopes of avoiding these nightmare matchups.
NBA Playoffs: Denver Nuggets: Golden State Warriors
Denver nonetheless has nightmares about their first-round matchup with the Warriors final season. Whereas Nikola Jokic’s co-stars, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., have been each out for the collection, neither may’ve stopped the absurd scoring runs Golden State went on repeatedly all through the 5 video games it took for the Nuggets to be eradicated.
Over the course of the collection, Golden State averaged 118 factors per sport, seven greater than the variety of factors they averaged within the common season. Their scoring outbreak was as a result of frequency at which Steve Kerr ran the Warriors’ small ball lineup, made up of Steph Curry, Jordan Poole, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, and Draymond Inexperienced.
Whereas Wiggins will probably be returning to the court docket after a two-month absence, these three guards being on the court docket collectively is greater than sufficient capturing and playmaking to take advantage of Denver’s defensive weaknesses.
Fortunately, with Porter Jr. and Murray again, the Nuggets may have an opportunity of merely outscoring Golden State, but when that’s what they’re relying on, they higher knock their pictures down proper out of the gate.
