Jason Timpf reacts to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets’ 118-102 win over Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and the Phoenix Suns in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals. Jason breaks down Jokic’s triple-double performance and whether the Suns have enough to win the series even with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker performing at a high level.
Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Nuggets blow out Suns
08:41 – Will Phoenix force game 7?
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44 Comments
Lakers sixers finals🤒
Nuggets were on fire tonight 🔥🏀
Did draymond not upload??
Suns fan and game 6 gonna be tough but Bruce brown not scoring 25 points in phoenix. But game 7 idk 😁 beating the nuggets in Denver gonna be tough but hope the game 7 pressure in there building get to them.
One regular game from Booker and they are blown out, they have no decent defense or bench
Lakers vs nuggets
Lakers in 6
Man.. Ayton has to be frustrating for suns fans. Remember when dude got drafted #1 overall and thought he was gonna be up there with embiid and Jokic. Dude is getting worked out there.
Go Nuggs
Top heavy doesn't work in this era…..except on 2k
Why no more live streams? Last year you guys had the format on point. This year more inconsistent but why?
Jason it’s playoffs need you grinding bro
Said it before the series started and I’ll say it again HAVE TWO BUCKEY GETTERS won’t win you play off series !!!!! Get some damn depth and maybe you’ll have a chance Denver in 6 lakers in 5 I called it a month ago (not the lakers in 5, I really called lakers in 6) lol
Jokic looked good on hedges and the backside rotations caused a few turnovers on entry passes
Awful defensively? No
NIKOLA JOKIC WAS THE FIRST CENTER EVER TO AVERAGE A TRIPLE DOUBLE FOR A SEASON (an all-time great achievement that was strangely NOT talked about during MVP discussions this year. Have a think about that…)
Whoever wins between the Nuggets and Lakers is going to win the whole thing.
I feel like the nuggets and sixers are on a collision course for the finals. They feel like two sides of the same coin. It'd make an awesome finals
Yes, Jokic gets easy shots, but hes also shooting 47% From 3
Kd just another good player without steph
I think what’s different about this playoffs for jokic is the assists. He always eats in the playoffs but his passing goes way down. He’s kept up the scoring and passing during this run tho
Jason has REALLY missed on the Jokic commentary this season. If I had to guess, it’s due to the poor influence of midwits like Colin Cowterd.
Bill Simmons CALLED it a couple days ago – Jokic is clearly the best player in the NBA, bar none, no qualifiers.
Notice the complete SILENCE from Jason after that 53 point explosion??? Cause Joker proved Tiny Timpf WRONG.
Not really true. KD had 1 awful game shooting at home and 1 good shooting game at home. What saved them is KD shot 30 free throws in the 2 home games. He’s not getting nearly that many on the road in Denver. In 3 games in Denver he’s shot 15 FT’s combined.
book radically regressing with 28 makes me smile. suns in 7. book going for 50.
I'm a casual basketball fan. And I love hearing about the game but I don't think I'm retaining things.
I'm just hoping for another suns meltdown on a last game for the series. 😅
if lakers and Nuggets go through I really wonder how the altitude will affect lebron at this stage
💯 it is obvious at thiss point that Jokić is best player in NBA 💯
KD has actually declined. No one will admit it though
Jason Jason… I'm so happy for u won't admit Jokić is best player in NBA 😂😂😂 make me sooo happy 😁😁😁
I find the defense comment strange. Out of 16 teams in the playoffs the Nuggets rank 7. They held the Phoenix starters to under 100 points in 3 games (Pheonix broke 100 points in garbage time in 2 of those 3 and didn't even break 90 in the other). They are doing better defensively than Boston and the 76ers.
Do you believe the altitude has anything to do with their performances in Denver?
I just don’t see how my lakers could beat the nuggets. That home court, and how the hell does ad guard joker ever play, plus help out the rest of our guys on defense, then still score the other end as well. I think it’s over for us once we finish golden state
Kevin Durant is absolutely not a “good to great defender”. He’s not as bad as you think and has gotten better over time, buts decent to go nowhere near GREAT defender.
Joker is a wizard and one of the GOAT players I’ve ever seen in 40 years of watching basketball (35 years live center court row 9-13 seats 40-60 times a years) and the amount of ppl who don’t get his greatness is staggering to me! I get he’s not in insane flashy athlete but neither was Larry Bird Tim Duncan Steph Curry Jerry West Dirk and they’re also 5 of the illest ever too!
The issue for the winner of the series will be defense moving forward. Gordon and Porter have to step up more, especially on the road.
Im sure you said at start of series suns would win fairly easy
Hopefully nuggets and lakers conference final im excited to see the joker vs ad matchup
Can we talk about the flipping in the NBA? If my son flopped like Jolkic today and Harden and all the Lakers I would beat his ass. I remember when players had heart and pride. Up 15 and you making yourself look weak as hell. I’m done with these players and refs. Bring on the NFL
Can we appreciate that in a series with Durant and Booker, Jokic is easily the best player on the court. This after a year of everyone with a platform doing everything they can to drag his name in the mud to push an agenda for someone else for mvp. Man is just going out there and dominating. Leads the 2nd round in points, rebounds and assists right now.
I knew in the first qtr when i was watching this game and the suns kept letting okogie shoot that it wasn't going to go well. I went to sleep. I would've brought Warren into the starting lineup to take some pressure off of book and kd early
He doesn't like Jokic. It's stronger. He tries to be kind of objective, but.. Just can't hide 😅
Joker is also hitting close to 50% from 3 in the playoffs. Jokic is every bit as efficient from everywhere on the floor as KD. He’s HIM. Make no mistake about it.
Nerd
Timpf is 'slow' to elevate Jokic to among the greatest players in the league. That's laughable and flies in the face of all evidence except for, uh, Tmpf's personal and team biases. Hello, Jason. You're watching one of the greatest regular season performers and an even greater playoff performer. Jokic is already one of the greatest playoff performers in league history. I'm sure you understand that which makes these unbelievable takes seem like complete bias or cynicism. As for both teams playing 'terrible' defense, well, the Nuggets have held what you and everyone described as an offensive juggernaut to 107, 87 and 102 in games in Denver. Does that sound like a terrible defense to you? Increasingly you seem like just another annoying media clown.
Again, ignoring the Joker and throwing objectivity out the window.
Lakers vs Philly finals
Saying Denver is a terrible defensive team is just not correct. If it wasn't for unsustainable jump shooting this would have been over 2 games ago. They have played great defence.