Lakers vs Nuggets predictions

[kobeunderbite]

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[Bush4Ever.]

Nuggets in 6

[thedangerouskitchen]

If LeFraud refrains from dominating the ball (allowing his teammates to excel) and focuses more on Defense and Facilitating then the Lakers win in 6... of course we all know that's not going to happen, sooooooooooo:

Nuggets in 5.

[kobeunderbite]

Lakers in 7

MVP D'Angelo Russell

[PhutureDynasty]

Nuggets sweep just to be different

[elartman1973]

Pain

[AlaskaHawks]

Lakers made a mistake not tanking for OKC.

Nugs in 5, 6 at most.

[Robceltsfan]

Lakers made a mistake not tanking for OKC.

Nugs in 5, 6 at most.

I agree with this.

[LeBronMonsterDunk]

They should have tanked the first play in game to get OKC instead, but they would likely have to play Denver anyway at some point. Better to face them at their potentially healthiest rather than deep into the post season.

[Titan18]

Nuggets in 6. The 30 FTA advantage lakers will get per game should net them 2 wins.

[Havlicekstealsit]

AD will get injured.

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

A wild card is Murray. Jokic can't do everything himself. If Murray plays reasonably well, Denver almost surely wins. Lakers role players would have to play well above their norms for an entire series for a different result.

[Da Stars.]

I dont give a shit. Lakers in 5. Did I just type that. LOL?

[kobeunderbite]

Since February 1,

Nuggets 24-10
Lakers 23-10

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

Since February 1,

Nuggets 24-10
Lakers 23-10

Murray missed 9 games, and they were 5-4 in those. And the wins were mostly against really bad teams.

[kobeunderbite]

Since February 1,

Nuggets 24-10
Lakers 23-10

Murray missed 9 games, and they were 5-4 in those. And the wins were mostly against really bad teams.

That's fair but the Lakers, if I recall correctly, dropped a few LeBron-less contests as well. All in all I would say it's a positive that the records over the last few months are reasonably close even when accounting for the absences of key players. With that being said, the Nuggets have beaten the Lakers in 46 consecutive games, so it's hard to imagine the Lakers winning this series. But if Russell can have a strong series shooting the ball as opposed to the abomination of a series that he had last season, and Jokic isn't able to connect on every one of his late game hail mary threes, the Lakers should have a punchers chance.

[elartman1973]

Nuggets won.
Period

[_Vcsgrizzfan_]

Since February 1,

Nuggets 24-10
Lakers 23-10

Murray missed 9 games, and they were 5-4 in those. And the wins were mostly against really bad teams.

That's fair but the Lakers, if I recall correctly, dropped a few LeBron-less contests as well. All in all I would say it's a positive that the records over the last few months are reasonably close even when accounting for the absences of key players. With that being said, the Nuggets have beaten the Lakers in 46 consecutive games, so it's hard to imagine the Lakers winning this series. But if Russell can have a strong series shooting the ball as opposed to the abomination of a series that he had last season, and Jokic isn't able to connect on every one of his late game hail mary threes, the Lakers should have a punchers chance.

All true. They really do need Russell to hit a bunch of 3s and for Reeves to be above norm. If that happens, who knows? If Murray goes cold for the Nugs, same thing.

[kobeunderbite]

Murray missed 9 games, and they were 5-4 in those. And the wins were mostly against really bad teams.

That's fair but the Lakers, if I recall correctly, dropped a few LeBron-less contests as well. All in all I would say it's a positive that the records over the last few months are reasonably close even when accounting for the absences of key players. With that being said, the Nuggets have beaten the Lakers in 46 consecutive games, so it's hard to imagine the Lakers winning this series. But if Russell can have a strong series shooting the ball as opposed to the abomination of a series that he had last season, and Jokic isn't able to connect on every one of his late game hail mary threes, the Lakers should have a punchers chance.

All true. They really do need Russell to hit a bunch of 3s and for Reeves to be above norm. If that happens, who knows? If Murray goes cold for the Nugs, same thing.

Watching Nadal look all too pedestrian on clay right now. Sad to see. He showed some flashes of his old self early, enough for me to maintain hope given that he deserves time to shake the rust off, but it's never easy to watch the greats get old.

[Da Stars.]

Murray missed 9 games, and they were 5-4 in those. And the wins were mostly against really bad teams.

That's fair but the Lakers, if I recall correctly, dropped a few LeBron-less contests as well. All in all I would say it's a positive that the records over the last few months are reasonably close even when accounting for the absences of key players. With that being said, the Nuggets have beaten the Lakers in 46 consecutive games, so it's hard to imagine the Lakers winning this series. But if Russell can have a strong series shooting the ball as opposed to the abomination of a series that he had last season, and Jokic isn't able to connect on every one of his late game hail mary threes, the Lakers should have a punchers chance.

All true. They really do need Russell to hit a bunch of 3s and for Reeves to be above norm. If that happens, who knows? If Murray goes cold for the Nugs, same thing.

Imagine this, two members of Angergeneral have a having an NBA chat without insults.