Denver Nuggets at Portland Trail Blazers
Team Totals: Nuggets 111.3, Blazers 116.3
Injury Report: Will Barton (O, hamstring)
Nuggets projected starters: Monte Morris, Austin Rivers, Michael Porter Jr., Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic (Note: Might still be Facu, but Monte’s too good)
Blazers projected starters: Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum, Norman Powell, Robert Covington, Jusuf Nurkic
Nuggets series rotation notes: Monte Morris played final 28 (!), Facu got booted for Monte, non-Facu starters locked down the minutes.
Blazers series rotation notes: Nurkic fouling out was super costly (more below), so much Melo in the second half and OT.
Stotts Quotes: Said the bad start was costly but liked how they played after that, said Dame’s game was the best playoff performance he’s ever seen.
Malone Quotes: Said he liked how they responded to the big Blazers runs, said Monte Morris was aggressive and liked how he was getting downhill, said Monte was way too passive earlier in the series and he was going east-west, said he didn’t foul Dame late (up three) because he was concerned about Dame four-point plays, said he was really happy with how his team played overall, said MPJ “answered the bell” after his bad game, said he wants more fans in the arena going forward, said he wasn’t surprised at all that MPJ bounced back and said he was trying to get him more shots.
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