Jamal Murray's Critical Shot Advances Nuggets in NBA Playoffs

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00:00 Just about four seconds left. Jamal Murray delivers the dagger

00:03 to the Lakers season and this series 108-106 the victory for Denver. The title defense rolls on

00:11 into the second round. The Lakers do cover however DRS as a six-point underdog and as we'll discuss

00:18 in just a moment in all five games in this set the Lakers had the lead at the break to only lose

00:25 four of five by the time we got to the end of 48 minutes. Adjustments were made at the breaks,

00:30 adjustments were made in the second, you know, Coach Malone had that team on point but also

00:34 let's remind ourselves we're not surprised by the Denver Nuggets anymore. This is what they do.

00:39 This is why we love this basketball team and say yeah they're probably on a collision course to

00:43 face the Boston Celtics in the NBA finals even though how deep and how talented the Western

00:47 Conference actually is and you just look at the steady performers like is there ever a night though

00:52 Ben to be honest like I know LeBron James steps up and he did last night it just wasn't enough.

00:56 Anthony Davis was okay but you take a look at Nikoli Jokic every time you're like oh this is

01:01 a big game does he ever come up small like does Jokic ever finish with 9.7 rebounds three assists

01:06 and foul out no like in a closed out situation 12 of 21 from the floor 41 minutes played 25 points

01:12 20 rebounds and nine assists to go along with this plus seven every time you need him to step

01:17 up and he does and if you're taking a look at some of those pantheon players or performances

01:21 we're getting that from Jamal Murray on a night-to-night basis now in the biggest moments

01:25 he single-handedly felt like he pulled away the Los Angeles Lakers where if he doesn't make those

01:29 shots who knows where this series is and maybe the Lakers even lead this series at this point

01:34 so the focus there on one of the best one two punches we've seen over the past couple years

01:38 now you can include it's not just hey Nikoli Jokic the MVP is the only player on that basketball

01:42 team Murray steps up routinely and also talking about it entering into this game calf injuries

01:47 scare everybody see Yanis he's not around here Porzingis the Boston Celtics scared that he might

01:51 miss extended periods of time so anytime you say Jamal Murray's going to come to the arena we have

01:55 a decided lead here hey kids hit this one out let's not injure it no I'll play and it wasn't

02:00 like Ben I'll give you 21 minutes tonight because that's all I can do he played 31 minutes last

02:04 night and shot 28 times on a bum calf there and hit the game winner once again the Denver Nuggets

02:10 man they just know how to win.