Inside the NBA REACTS to Nuggets vs Clippers GAME 6 Highlights

Inside the NBA REACTS to Nuggets vs Clippers GAME 6 Highlights

>> 1244 ON THE EAST COAST AS WE WELCOME YOU INSIDE STUDIO J WHERE WE NEVER CLOSE JAYLEN INSIDE THE NBA PRESENTED BY KIA. ERNIE JOHNSON, SHAQUILLE O’NEAL, KENNY THE JET SMITH AND JALEN ROSE WHO’S SITTING IN FOR CHARLES BARKLEY TONIGHT. >> KNOW WHAT TIME WE LEAVE. >> IT’S 1244. >> JALEN YOU AND I ARE OUT OF HERE AT 105. >> THERE’S NOT A CHANCE THAT’S. >> HAPPENED 105. >> BY THE WAY. THERE’S JUST NOT A CHANCE. >> WE’RE WALKING OUT OF HERE. >> WE WON’T EVEN BE DONE TALKING ABOUT THIS CLIPPER GAME BY THEN. >> LISTEN CHUCK AND I, WE WOULD WALK OUT. >> SO HERE IT IS, CHUCK. HERE IT IS. SATURDAY. WE HIT THE AIR AT 7:00, AND THEN WE’VE GOT A GAME SEVEN FOR YOU TWO. BEST WORDS IN SPORTS AS THEY SAY. CLIPPERS AND THE NUGGETS. AND THEY’LL BE TIPPING THAT THING A LITTLE AFTER 730. DAVID ADELMAN AND THE NUGGETS GOING HOME FOR GAME SEVEN. >> AGAIN THEY PICKED UP FULL. THEY CHANGED THE GAME. I ALSO THOUGHT THE THIRD QUARTER WE PLAYED GOOD DEFENSE. WE NEVER EVER CAME UP WITH A 5050 BALL. AND THAT’S JUST SUCH A BACKBREAKING FEELING. WHEN YOU DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AND DON’T COME UP WITH THE BALL. SO WE GAVE THEM A LOT OF EXTRA POSSESSIONS. YOU KNOW, THAT QUARTER ABSOLUTELY KILLED US. THE REST OF THE GAME WAS VERY EVEN. WE PLAYED A REALLY, REALLY GOOD FOURTH QUARTER WITH A LOT OF EFFORT. BUT WE GOT TO BE BETTER THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME. >> DAVID. >> WHAT IS. >> THE MINDSET NOW? I MEAN, I GOT TO IMAGINE THIS IS WHY YOU. >> FIGHT. >> SO HARD FOR HOME COURT ADVANTAGE IN THE FIRST ROUND. >> YEAH, WE TALKED ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW AFTER THE GAME YOU WIN THOSE LAST THREE GAMES NOT JUST TO STAY OUT OF THE PLAY-IN, BUT TO GET THE HOME COURT IN GAME SEVEN. BOTTOM LINE. AND WE EARNED IT. AND THAT’S WHY I TOLD THEM IN THERE, YOU’VE EARNED THIS OPPORTUNITY. YOU EARNED THE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT TO TRY TO CLOSE IT OUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY YOU PLAYED IN THE SERIES TO GET TO THREE TWO, BUT NOW YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO HOME IN FRONT OF YOUR HOME FANS AND ADVANCE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU PLAY ALL YEAR FOR THAT. WE GOT THAT OPPORTUNITY AND WE’RE VERY, VERY EXCITED TO GO BACK OUT THERE AND PLAY AGAIN. >> AND WE WILL BE EXCITED TO BRING IT TO YOU ON SATURDAY. MEANTIME, HERE’S THE WAY THIS ONE PLAYED OUT AT INTUIT DOME IN LOS ANGELES. JOKER AND THE NUGGETS TRYING TO PUT THIS THING AWAY. AND THEY STARTED OUT WELL. JOKER FOR THREE. AND THEN AARON GORDON. >> YEAH THIS. >> DIDN’T THAT. >> THAT EXPERIMENT DIDN’T WORK PUTTING CHRIS DUNN ON HIM. NO HE TOO LITTLE MOUSE IN THE HOUSE. YEAH. HE’S MORE SUITED TO GUARD THE PERIMETER. >> JAMAL MURRAY COMING OFF THAT 43 POINT GAME FIVE CASHES IN FROM DEEP. >> YOU KNOW WHEN HE WAS AGGRESSIVE AND PLAYED WELL DENVER IS A TOUGH TEAM TO BEAT. >> KAWHI TURNAROUND J. >> NOT SO LOST. START OF THE MID RANGE. >> AND JAMES HARDEN HAD A 21 POINT FIRST HALF. >> YOU PLAYING LIKE THAT. CAN’T GET DOUBLE TEAM. >> KAWHI AND THEN HARDEN. >> OH ISO. >> STEP IT BACK FOR THREE. >> DOUBLE TOO LATE. >> UP BY SEVEN. AND HERE COMES DENVER. AND HERE COMES RUSSELL WESTBROOK FROM THE WING MAKING IT A THREE POINT GAME. THE ANSWER FROM THE BEARD. AND AT THE HALF 5857. CLIPPERS THIRD QUARTER FEATURES A 12 NOTHING CLIPPER RUN NORMAN POWELL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THAT. >> OH I KNOW HE HAD ALL THAT. >> OH YEAH HE DOES. >> TO THE BASKET. >> I DIDN’T KNOW HE HAD THAT. >> HE’S GOT THAT AND HE’S GOT THIS. AGAIN A 12 NOTHING RUN. AND HE’S GOT THIS TWO. 8571. HERE YOU GO WITH YOUR MID RANGE JAYLEN. >> ABSOLUTELY KAWHI LEONARD HE IT LOOKS LIKE HE’S SHOOTING A LINE DRIVE. BUT IT’S MONEY EVERY TIME. >> BASICALLY IT WAS AN 11 POINT CLIPPER LEAD GOING TO THE FOURTH QUARTER. HERE’S AN 11 TO 2 DENVER RUN. AND THEY’RE RIGHT BACK IN IT. BUT POWELL. FOR THREE. >> GREAT BALL MOVEMENT BY NICOLAS BATUM NOT ALLOWING THE BALL TO STICK TO GET IT TO POWER. >> NINE POINT GAME ABOUT A BUCK AND A HALF TO PLAY. AND ZUBAC WITH THE D ON THE JOKER. AND HOW ABOUT NIC BATUM. >> YEAH RUSS. >> MISSED THE EASY LAYUP EARLIER. >> THEN GETS. >> THIS ONE BLOCKED. AND THAT WAS. >> HE WAS. >> GOING TO MISS THAT ONE TOO. HE WAS GOING TO HIT THE RIM. FIRST I HAD TO RIM FIRST. >> COME ON. >> RUSS DUNK THOSE. >> THEN 110 105. JOKER THOUGHT HE GOT FOULED BY ZUBAC. NO CALL 111 105 IS YOUR FINAL SCORE. THE CLIPPERS GET 2710 AND FIVE OUT OF KAWHI 28 AND EIGHT OUT OF JAMES HARDEN. AND 24 ON A NORM POWELL. AND THEY’VE TIED THE SERIES UP AT THREE GAMES APIECE HEADING TO GAME SEVEN ON SATURDAY. THIS WAS TY LUE IN THE LOCKER ROOM. >> STEAM ALL RIGHT. >> JUST TRYING TO GET THROUGH IT. >> I APPRECIATE IT. >> YOU KNOW. >> WHAT I’M SAYING. OFF THE BENCH. CHEERING WE HAD GOOD CONVERSATION. THAT’S WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. >> WHATEVER IT TAKES TO. >> WIN GAME SEVEN. >> COMING UP. GET YOUR REST. LET’S GO FOR IT. >> ALL RIGHT. >> COME ON MAN. >> 7-2 ON 3123. >> IF THERE WAS A SERIES YOU THOUGHT MIGHT GO SEVEN IN THE FIRST ROUND. JAYLEN. THIS IS THE ONE. >> ABSOLUTELY. AND JOKER WAS A THREE TIME MVP AND A CHAMPION. YOU CAN’T STOP HIM. YOU ONLY CAN HOPE TO CONTAIN HIM. AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS STATS TONIGHT, THEY’RE ALL BELOW HIS SEASON AVERAGES IN POINTS REBOUNDS AND ASSISTS. AND I WANT TO GIVE ZUBAC A LOT OF CREDIT FOR DEFENDING HIM. >> YES INDEED. AND YOU HEARD FROM TY LUE IN THE LOCKER ROOM. LET’S HEAR HIM AT THE PODIUM. >> YOUR DECISION MAKING. >> AS FAR AS NICO. WAS CONCERNED TODAY. AND HOW YOU THINK HE RESPONDED TO WHAT WAS ASKED OF HIM? >> I THOUGHT. >> HE RESPONDED. >> WELL, YOU KNOW. >> I THOUGHT. >> LIKE I SAID. >> KATIE DEFENSIVELY TO START AND. >> THEN. >> TRY TO GET TO THAT SMALL LINEUP WITH ALL SHOOTING ON THE FLOOR, WHICH HELPED US GET THE LEAD. GABE, JAMES AND KAWHI MORE SPACING AND I WAS ABLE TO ATTACK WHEN WE WENT SMALL. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I TOLD THE GUYS AFTER THE GAME, YOU KNOW KATIE AND YOU KNOW BEING STILL UP CHEERING YOU KNOW I TALKED TO THOSE GUYS. AND IT’S ABOUT BEING A TEAM AND WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. AND THOSE GUYS TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD IT EVEN THOUGH THEY’VE BEEN GREAT FOR US ALL YEAR LONG. YOU KNOW. AND SO JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO THEM. BUT YOU KNOW OUR GUYS CAME OUT AND PLAYED PLAYED WELL TONIGHT I THOUGHT TO START THE GAME ATTENTION TO DETAIL WAS REALLY GOOD. AND THEN WHEN WE WENT SMALL WITH THAT SHOOTING LINEUP, I THOUGHT WE WAS ABLE TO BREAK THE GAME OPEN A LITTLE BIT. >> YEAH. >> BACKS AGAINST THE WALL OBVIOUSLY, BUT WHEN. >> YOU LOOK. >> AT THE PERFORMANCES YOU GOT FROM YOUR TOP SCORERS. >> AT. >> LEAST TRADITIONALLY, WHAT DID. >> YOU MAKE OF JAMES, KAWHI. >> AND NORM? >> YEAH, I THOUGHT JAMES DID A GREAT JOB SETTING THE TONE EARLY, SCORING THE BASKETBALL, GETTING DOWNHILL, MAKING THE RIGHT PLAY. NORM MADE SOME BIG SHOTS AT THE END AND KAWHI WAS JUST KIND OF STEADY THROUGHOUT THE GAME. BUT I THOUGHT THOSE THREE GUYS REALLY STEPPED UP, CAME TO PLAY. I THOUGHT ZU WAS A MONSTER ON THE DEFENSIVE END TONIGHT. GETTING CLOSER TO JOKER, NOT GIVING AS MUCH SPACE AND JOKER JUST IT’S JUST HARD. YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF YOU DOUBLE TEAM HIM, HE’S GOING TO PICK YOU APART WITH HIS PASSING. IF YOU STAY AT HOME HE’S GOING TO SCORE. YOU KNOW. AND SO I GIVE OUR GUYS CREDIT JUST STAYING WITH IT. YOU KNOW DON’T GET DEFLATED. AND YOU KNOW WE DID A GOOD JOB JUST JUST KEEPING OUR HEAD WHEN. >> YOU TALKED. >> HECK OF A GAME. BOTH TEAMS SHOOT OVER 50%. NICE THIRD QUARTER RUN BY THE CLIPPERS DENVER RESPONDS BUT THEY JUST COULD NOT COULD NOT REEL THEM IN. AND IT WAS ALMOST LIKE AND YOU HEARD STAN VAN GUNDY SAY IT TIME AND AGAIN. HE HATED THE WAY THE CLIPPERS WERE CLOSING THE GAME BY RUNNING THE SHOT CLOCK. IT WAS LIKE THAT PREVENT OFFENSE. >> YOU KNOW THEY MISSED A LOT OF CHIPPIES. THEY DEFINITELY HAD OPPORTUNITIES TO WIN THE GAME. BUT JOKER HAS TO SEND A MESSAGE IN GAME SEVEN TO IVICA ZUBAC OKAY YOU HAVE FOUR BLOCKS THIS GAME, BUT YOU CAN’T STOP ME. YOU KNOW A LOT OF TIMES THEY PLAY HIM SINGLE COVERAGE. YOU KNOW YOU WANT HIM TO DOMINATE. YOU WANT HIM DOUBLE. SO THE OTHERS FOR DENVER CAN GET OPEN. SO THEY’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BE PUMPED UP. THEY’RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT. BUT JOKER HAS TO PUNISH HIS YOUNG MAN. YES HE’S A FINE DEFENDER. BUT IF YOU’RE THE BEST BIG MAN IN THE LEAGUE, YOU HAVE TO SHOW ALL OTHER BIG MEN. I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU DO. SINGLE COVER, DOUBLE COVERAGE, TRIPLE COVERAGE. THIS GAME SEVEN. YOU’RE NOT STOPPING ME. >> A COUPLE OF NOTES ON GAME SEVEN’S POINTED OUT. THIS IS GOING TO BE NUMBER 152 IN NBA HISTORY. IF YOU TAKE THE BUBBLE OUT, THERE WERE FOUR IN THE BUBBLE, BUT NOBODY REALLY HAD HOME COURT. SO HOME TEAMS ARE 110 AND 37. BUT THE ROAD TEAM HAS WON EIGHT OF THE LAST 12 INCLUDED IN THAT. DENVER LOSING AT HOME TO MINNESOTA LAST YEAR IN THE WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CLIPPERS AND THE NUGGETS PLAYING IN DENVER IN A GAME SEVEN, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING. >> YOU KNOW TOSS UP IS THE RIGHT WORD. FLIP A COIN IS THE RIGHT WORD BECAUSE OF A LOT OF FACTORS YOU KNOW BEING AT HOME. BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAVE A COACH WHO’S ONLY WHO’S. >> COACH LESS. >> THAN TEN GAMES. AND NOW HE’S. >> IN A GAME SEVEN. >> WITH YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME. YOU TALK ABOUT KAWHI LEONARD BEING ABLE TO MAKE BIG SHOTS. WE’VE SEEN HIM WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH BIG SHOTS WITH TORONTO. JAMES HARDEN IS PLAYING HIS BEST BASKETBALL. SO THIS IS REALLY. A TOSS UP IN THAT REGARD. >> THE ONLY THE ONLY THING THAT. >> I WOULD. >> SAY THAT. >> IF JAMES HARDEN. IS A PLAYMAKER. >> OR A PLAY. >> SCORER. >> THE CLIPPERS HAVE THE BIG ADVANTAGE. >> BUT IF. >> THEY’RE ABLE TO SHUT. >> HIM DOWN AT SOME POINT AND MAKE IT MUCH. >> MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM AND. >> KEEP HIM MONITORABLE MEANING 18 POINTS, EIGHT. >> ASSISTS. >> THEN THAT IS A RECIPE FOR A NUGGET WIN. I’LL TAKE THE CLIPPERS ON THE ROAD. I UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M GOING TO GET FROM KAWHI AND JAMES HARDEN, BUT THEY FOUND A WAY TO FINALLY GET NORMAN POWELL INVOLVED. WHEN THEY FIRST BROUGHT KAWHI LEONARD BACK. IT WAS A LOT OF ISO AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF KAWHI WAS GOING TO BE THE GUY THAT WE’VE SEEN IN THE PAST. AND JAMES HARDEN FINALLY GOT HIMSELF UNLOCKED. BUT TO SEE NORMAN POWELL PLAY WITH THE KIND OF CONFIDENCE IN THE PLAYOFFS THAT HE DID IN THE REGULAR SEASON WITH KAWHI ON THE FLOOR TO ME GIVES HIM THAT THIRD GUY THAT CAN MESS AROUND AND GET YOU 30 IN A GAME. BUT ALSO ZUBAC. HE’S GOING TO BE EFFICIENT. HE’S GOING TO BE A DOUBLE DOUBLE. AND LIKE SHAQ MENTIONED, HE DID HAVE FOUR BLOCKS TODAY. AND HE KEPT JOKER ALL UNDER ALL OF HIS SEASON AVERAGES. >> YOU’VE ALL BEEN IN GAME SEVENS. WHAT’S IT LIKE? HOW DIFFERENT IS IT THAN ANY OTHER GAME IN A PLAYOFF SERIES? >> WELL, ONE, YOU HAVE TO IMPOSE YOUR WILL AND IT STARTS TONIGHT. SO FIRST THING I’M DOING IS WITH ALL PLAYERS DO I’M LOOKING AT THE STAT SHEET. NORMAN POWELL IS NOT GETTING 24 ERNIE YOU’RE GUARDING HIM. HE BETTER NOT GET 24 OR HE’LL GET MORE THAN 24. I’M NOT GETTING 24. KAWHI. HE’S KAWHI JAMES OR JAMES. HEY 28′ I NEED JAMES TO GET 15. I’M GOING AT THE JOKER. I MEAN I’M GOING AT ZUBAC. FOLLOW ME. SO YOU KNOW IT’S A REAL INTENSE GAME. BUT YOU HAVE TO BECAUSE YOU KNOW MY FAVORITE TWO COACHES PHIL AND PAT. GAME SEVEN IT AIN’T YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT GAME NOTES. YOU SAY, OKAY, WE KNOW WHAT WE GOT TO DO. WE KNOW THIS TEAM. THEY KNOW US. WHO WANTS IT MORE. >> SO YOU’VE BEEN IN ONE OF THEM ONE GAME SEVEN AND IT STANDS OUT DOESN’T IT? >> THE LAST DANCE IT WAS AGAINST MICHAEL JORDAN AND SCOTTIE PIPPEN AND DENNIS RODMAN AND YOUR COACH, PHIL JACKSON. AND THE ONE THING I’LL SAY ABOUT A GAME SEVEN IS IN PARTICULAR FOR A ROLE PLAYER, YOU GOT TO STAY IN YOUR LANE. SHAQ JUST SAID IT. YOUR BEST PLAYER HAS TO COME OUT AND SET THE TONE, AND THEN EVERYBODY ELSE GETS A CHANCE TO FOLLOW. BUT IF HE DON’T SET THE TONE, THEN WE’RE NOT GOING TO WIN. SO IT’S VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS CASE FOR THE JOKER, ESPECIALLY PLAYING AT HOME. AND HE SHOWS AND JAMAL THAT HE CAN BE DOMINANT. AND ALSO MICHAEL PORTER JR. HE WAS -24 IN THIS GAME. HE HAS SINGLE DIGITS IN POINTS. HE WON A CHAMPIONSHIP A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WITH THEM. HE’S GOT TO PLAY A LOT BETTER. >> AND THAT SHOULDER HAS BEEN BOTHERING HIM TOO. OKAY. YOU GOT TO PUT A PERIOD ON THIS ONE. THAT’S AN INTERESTING. >> SCHOOL OF THOUGHT. >> LIKE BECAUSE. WE PLAYED IN THE ROCKETS. >> WE PLAYED A LOT OF GAME SEVENS MAN, BECAUSE WE WERE. >> ALWAYS UNDER. WE PLAYED A LOT OF GAME FIVES OR GAME SEVENS WHEN THEY ONLY DID FIVE IN GAME SEVENS. >> AND THE INTERESTING. >> THING, OUR GUYS WHO OTHER THAN AKEEM WOULD GO. >> LET’S MAKE. >> AKEEM’S NIGHT EASIER. COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT SHOOTING, COME OUT LIKE SUPER AGGRESSIVE. SO THEN HE KNOWS HE’S GOT HELP TONIGHT AND LIKE. >> HE THEN. >> HE COULD DO WHAT HE DOES. BUT WE ALWAYS THOUGHT IF WE PLAYED LIKE HE WAS. >> GOING. >> TO GET 35. >> AND 1015 REBOUNDS. >> BUT IF WE CAME OUT AND GOT SOMEBODY GOT 2025, SO WE’D BE LIKE, VERNON, IT’S GOING TO BE. >> YOU TONIGHT. >> WE’LL GET TO 20, SAM. IT’S GOING TO BE YOU, KENNY. MARIO. SO WE HAD A. DIFFERENT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT. MAYBE WE JUST WERE DELUSIONAL. >> BUT WE HAD A DIFFERENT. >> SCHOOL OF THOUGHT. >> I’M LOOKING. >> AT. >> THE I’M LOOKING AT THAT TOO, FROM BACK IN 94 AND 95. IN 94 YOU BEAT PHOENIX IN SEVEN. YOU WON THE FINALS IN SEVEN OVER THE KNICKS. THE YEAR AFTER YOU WON OVER PHOENIX IN THE CONFERENCE SEMIS IN SEVEN. THAT’S A. >> LOT. >> OF GAMES, A LOT OF GAME SEVEN. >> A LOT OF GAME. >> SEVENS AND BACK TO BACK CHAMPION. >> CHAMPION. YEAH YEAH YEAH. EXACTLY RIGHT. A LOT OF THEM. >> CAN’T WAIT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. THAT’S GOING TO BE SOMETHING AS THEY PLAY. >> THERE WAS 1

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