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[Music] thank you all for sticking around for uh Inside the NBA by KIA Shaquille O’Neal what you say The Jet Smith no we’re not supposed to work on Mother’s Day shuckster dude we work on MLK day you know damn well we go to work on day we work we work all the time man what a grueling job we have we have to watch basketball and then give you the highlights let’s take a look at the Denver Nuggets and the minv we got work today playing game four Joker and the Nuggets lost the first two in their place cat and the Timberwolves they lose game three in their place they getting a lot of trophies yeah they are michley and Rudy joining Nas Reed who got his the other night Anthony Edwards going to work this got need a trophy what trophy would you give him oo just a bad man trophy the Batman award goes to shout out to Harry Douglas that’s a bad man good start from Minnesota and then a 14 to2 run by the that’s a real bad man right there just oh just look at taking his time knocks it down beats the horn this guy he is on he’s turning it on right now and that was after he was smothered by Jaden McDaniels on that uh on that seene don’t come don’t come over here no don’t come why yall leaving the basket wide open dummies watch this dunk yes that’s a Tom 41 look like DeAndre Jordan on that hey that hey like Michael come on man come on somebody give this man some help they cut it down but that was that was to seven point then that made it nine Ernie well kcp hit a three rather and then this by Jamal Murray how many they lose by Ernie 12 and then it made it 15 no how many they lose by uh they lost by eight 115 107 eight straight points there late in the first half those eight points will turn out to be huge yeah what’s bigger than huge uh Grand Canyon Kevin H got his jersey retired yeah you know he was their first play bypl yes he was the big ticket Kevin is amazing Murray saw there and then oh and it’s a 90 to 75 game that is sweet you got to slow that I got to see that in slow mo Joker hey put a hand up what hand you going put a hand when you know nobody close to put a hand up I guess they didn’t get the paper and say he was the MVP oh my go bear with the dunk there they’re trying to stay close 10-point game man that Flo he hit that he did that like two times in a row off go bear yep that’s a foul that’s he did that money thing a come on man what are you doing bro and that was a easy look at why you keep doubling from the basket dummy I’m going do that money thing that’s why do that money thing again Edwards Minnesota trying desperately to hang on they got it down to seven and then there’s Joker again and the Denver Nuggets after uh those two games at home uh losing both of them and then they come back to Minnesota and do a Champions do they win them both 115 107 that’s your final score uh here’s Chris Finch after the game Chris they had a lot of success offensively getting what they wanted what’s kind of missing right now with the defensive execution yeah I mean um just being able to kind of impact the ball you know it’s coming over these screens lot in of Separation um you know guys are they’re in a comfortable Rhythm so we got to change a few things up and and try to you know um kind of stop them from uh getting their engine revving so high right now so seemed like the end of the second quarter that bur there was a back breaker what did you see what kind of happened to yeah I just you know this this is a great team they’re not going to beat themselves um we talked about that at the beginning of the series we we you know we can’t have a we it’s inexcusable to have a you know segment like that where they have like eight points in seven seconds or something like that whatever it was um to close the quarter when we had done a good job of kind of chipping back into the game um and then you know we also have fell asleep on the long pass to braa you know these are these are inexcusable plays that you can’t make right now and um I thought in general um you know offensively particular uh we lost our composure a little bit um just kind of rushing things up there chasing the ball and our spacing and our structure collapsed as a result so Chris when the starters are out there they they’re sagging a lot off J they’re not really paying much attention to Rudy on the role do you is the solution there to trust those guys is it to do different things with them to make them pay I guess for all the slack defensively yeah I think uh well we always trust our guys so we got to keep making the right play that’s in front of us um and then those guys got to keep making the right play when it’s made to them um but uh you know we’ve had uh a lot of success with that you know I didn’t think those types of things bothered us as much as just you know when we actually had the ball was what we you know what we did um you know we weren’t able to kind of move the ball cleanly through our hands cuz uh you know everyone was trying to kind of do something with it and um we got to get back to passing it and moving it again what do you think was the biggest thing that contributed to Carl a lot to uh to unpack on that on that game um and you didn’t see any of those plays in the highlights but Reggie Jackson Christian Brown Justin holiday combining for 27 points off the bench for the dendam Nuggets they win the bench 2713 points off turnovers 20-13 uh just part of the reason that Denver beats Minnesota and ties the series at two yeah they’re just they’re just back in tune back in sync you know led by The Joker and led by Jamal Murray you know Champions you have to really put them away you know at home uh bad game one got embarrassed in game two and it kind of woke him up you know Reggie said it was probably the best thing to happen to him because now they’re awake and you know they’re playing like they’re awake and they’re playing good everybody’s playing good and Minnesota just has to try to get back to that same defensive intensity for 48 minutes like they did in game two but now Denver is aw they know what’s at stake and they know what they have to do so uh Minnesota wants to you know stay this here they’re definitely going to have to win this next game which is going to be tough because the Champs are back and it’s hard to beat the champs yeah I think uh you know basketball is so simple uh The Joker Murray and Gordon they didn’t play game well in game ones and two uh and now they’re in full balloom and the guys from Minnesota aren’t playing well you know Carl towns did not play well again Nas Reed is not playing played great again you know you talk about strategy and all this other stuff that’s always well and good but at some point it’s so simp you just have to play well Jamal Aaron and the Joker have played fantastic the last couple games that’s the difference in the game uh Minnesota you you saw that game tonight other than a think nobody played well and uh you can talk about Champions hard and all that other stuff no they this team they beat the Champs twice because they played well they played well in M excuse me in Denver but they didn’t play well the last two games I don’t know if they’re young inexperienced but the Nuggets went in there and they they just executed yeah if you’re Minnesota there’s one thing you have to believe that you’re still close like you can’t think that you’re it that you’re not close to winning these games meaning for me I always thought the start and end of quarters are the most important parts of the game um I’ve always been taught and learned the last two minutes of every quarter is the the momentum Builders and the first two minutes are the momentum starters so execution is where the inexperience shows up um knowing like you know what this is The Possession where I I I might not throw a pass that is as a 5050 ball I’m G to make sure it gets there you know what I’m going to make sure you know what I’m GNA make sure Ant-Man touches the ball in the middle of the court maybe not at the Baseline so you just those kind of things that are things that Propel you and that’s what Denver has not only played well but that’s what they do now at the end of quarter Joker is going to touch the ball at the correct time or we’re going to get it to Aaron Gordon at the right everyone’s touching it at the right times to me and to me it’s just that’s experience down the stretch but this to me this game was lost right before the half cuz they had played all for the first half but they had got it down to 10 seven seven oh yeah yeah but they but it still went up to 10 yeah then uh they got it down to seven he did he hit this shot but now you say to yourself if we just get the last shot this is execution if you just get the last shot we’re going to be down to 10 and a half time and see you shouldn’t even make the move before seven you’re not even making the move think Ito early it’s bad as they played the coach would be saying we only down 10 okay now you’re down if you make a bucket you’re down eight but in you give up a dunk and then this Happ I said man it’s a big difference when you’re playing and look look how the dev nuggets are acting yeah look how that that they’re like uhoh they cuz they know what that meant and you know what we were talking those moments are so rare just just the moment right there that Jamal Murray would hit a bucket three feet away from Kevin Harland who is calling it right there and Murray’s watching him call it I mean it was and then they’re just face to face yeah but it like what a moment to me first it was it was just great but you know you the coaches got to said an Anthony’s got the ball with 15 seconds too guys we played awful but we were only down 10 and five seven seconds later you’re down 15 and the nuggets are going crazy and that was the game and and we’re saying at halftime man those eight points right there over those last 20 seconds that could be a really really big well they won by eight 115 to 107 and the series is tied at two games a piece Chuck watchs Arbor and Flag Day Off consider it done you’re off on Arbor Day okay shout out to the great uh what’s that what it say is that Bobby fle wow Bobby hey I love it Bobby F beob he better I could beat I could beat Bobby fle and cook off by the way when is Arbor Day Underdog do you you have a date for Arbor first of all what is Arbor Day it’s like uh you’re celebrating trees and stuff like that that ain’t no damn thing oh unless you Snoop Dog 26 let your Snoop Dog we don’t Cate love you Snoop 26 sorry chucker we missed it next