Clippers need settings against nuggets if you want to avoid removal

Denver-Die La Clippers were blown out on Tuesday in game 5 of their first round against the Denver Nuggets.

The All-Star-Point Guard James Harden, whose field attempts have reduced every game, was held to 11 points at 3-von 9 shootout and had more sales (four) than baskets. He missed three free throws.

And he then missed the defeat of 131-115, as he did at home after game 4, when he last tried to jump after a Nikola Jokić air ball that landed in the hands of Aaron Gordon.

Harden will surely have an answer and will be responsible on Thursday in game 6 on Thursday at Intuit Dome on both the square and after the game. Either the clipper will win and hard will want to discuss how they came back. Or the Clipper season will be over and you will meet your players with the media for the last time.

Harden was great for the Clipperers in many ways. But if he is the leader of this team now, it doesn’t show. And since he does not speak now, we have to be satisfied with three things: his game, which is talking about what he said before and those who can speak in his name.

Harden spoke after the defeat of the Clipperers games. What made it easier was that it was the only game in this series in which harden scored more than 20 points. He only had two of Las 20 sales. He was a ray of hope on one day, on which the clipper bubbles a 15-point lead. After this loss said a little hard as he and the clipper see the nuggets.

“It is nothing you did,” said Harden about Denver and forced 20 sales in game 1. “We are all.”

That seems to be the attitude that the clipper had in this series. They recognize how Groß Jokić is and they consider the nuggets to be a good team that was lived well, even though David Adelman was taken over less than a month ago for Michael Malone. The clipper are allegedly The feeling of being the better team.

But now, 3-2, the clipper are exposed to the removal, and it is due to some of the nuggets that they and what they do not do for themselves.

When Denver won game 4 on Saturday, it did what Road teams do: the nuggets came home as soon as possible. They were back in Denver on Saturday evening and rested on Sunday. They practiced in their home height on Monday. The result on Tuesday evening was their game with the highest number of points since April Fool’s joke, which was the defeat for the Minnesota Timberwolves in two hours, which was missing from Russell Westbrook with a layup and the foul by Nickeil Alexander Walker at the shootout.

The Clippers looked like a team that had to adjust to the height on Tuesday. They would always have a disadvantage in Los Angeles until they had practiced on Monday morning.

Tyronn Lue remains in the same starting line -up, so that it is expected to be part of the solution for slow starts, in contrast to something he believes that he has to be changed.

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– Law Murray 💭🚫 (@lawmurraythenu) April 30, 2025

Overall, the Clippers achieved well; 115 points would have been sufficient to beat the Nuggets in the first four games in the series. But that brings us back.

He looked like he didn’t have his legs. He missed his two 3 Series, the first time that Harden had not made 3 in a game since February 4, during the night when the Clipper returned home from a road trip with four games, and that Los Angeles Lakers was embarrassing on national television. Take a look at how brief this ideal opportunity for Catch-and-Shoot facility was in the third quarter:

And hard was not the only one who might have been gassed a little. Kawhi Leonard missed 4 of 7 free throws. Nicolas Batum did not score a goal. Ben Simmons missed a hook in the color bad and was not used after the first quarter.

On the other hand, Jamal Murray pulled the clipper for 43 points. At some point a “Murray Flurry” was due, and after the Nuggets in game 4 survived a series-low 13-point exhibition from Murray, he sank the clipper by making 17 out of 26 shots on Tuesday, 11 of which came from outside and eight came from outside the arch.

Is Murray the feeling that the Clippers respected his team?

“I don’t know – I mean, maybe?” Murray said after his best game without a bubble of his post-season career. “I’m not talking to you. … It’s just another challenge, do you know? I respect everyone over there and it was only fun to go against each other.”

Asked Jamal Murray if he felt that the Clippers respected his team in this series

“I don’t know. I mean, maybe? I’m not talking to you. We are only out there and two great teams who are fighting … I respect everyone over there.” pic.twitter.com/9jczbzki1x

– Law Murray 💭🚫 (@lawmurraythenu) April 30, 2025

A player who should definitely have been rested and may not have felt respected is Westbrook. It seems that the Clippers Westbrook encourage, shoot or make mistakes, either because of Unideal Shot Selection or bad ball handling decisions.

After Westbrook missed the last six quarters of the series due to a foot output, he illuminated the clipper for 21 points from the bank at 8-von-15 shootings. He got several and 1 through Bogdan Bogdanović, felt comfortable in the middle tone and made 3 out of 6 out of 3 from Westbrooks 3s over the break, where Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue made a point to mention that Westbrook is not as strong as in the corners.

Sometimes you are only beaten. The nuggets made 25 of 47 attempts (53.2 percent) outside of color, which would have been a respectable efficiency brand within the color. The NBA average for recordings outside the color in the regular season was 17.1 and a percentage of 37.1 percent. Murray and Westbrook made as many 3s (11 out of 20) as the entire Clipper team (11 out of 29).

Lue pointed out that the Clipperers blown the nuggets in game 3 because the clippers shot the 3 in this game (18 out of 39, 46.2 percent). In game 5 it was in order to shoot great and possibly outliers. This was all in one night in which Jokić scored only 13 points at 4-of-13 shootout.

Lue also pointed out how the Nuggets remove hardness from the series. If this is the case, Lue has to do something about it.

“I think they (das) decided from the series after the first two or three games,” said Lue about Harden’s reduced effectiveness and volume, in which he scored only 26 points in the last 10 quarters. “And they do a good job. I have a better job just to find ways to open it, to create space and probably more ISOS just because they flash so much and try to put it in his places.”

Ask Kawhi Leonard and Ivica Zubac about the preparation of Clipper for game 5

Kawhi returned to the starts that were not good enough and needed heroic comeback

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– Law Murray 💭🚫 (@lawmurraythenu) April 30, 2025

In any case, the clipper in a playoff series have their third embarrassing embarrassing game 5 performance in a row.

Two years ago, the Phoenix Suns ended the clipper in the first round because the clipper allowed 50 points in the third quarter. A year ago, Clipper’s game 5 lost 30 points against the Dallas Mavericks at home. And on Tuesday, the Clippers allowed most of their points since he gave up 134 points in Oklahoma City in November.

What happens to Dunn could be the next procedure for the Clippers and Lue in this series. As great as it is, the Clippers were exceeded with 15 points on the floor, the only clipper that has a negative plus minus through five games.

Murray’s detonation of all clipper keeps Dunn invalid on the ground just because the defense works. Dunn helped hard the whole season by being another ball handler who relieves him, but this luxurious feature does not help the clipper to start games because the nuggets dunn aggressively defend:

The clipper are up to their last chance. You need hard to get better. You need Leonard to get better. You need Norman Powell to get better. You need lue to get better. They are good enough to reciprocate, but they have to act like this. Maybe it is what the clipper need.

“I mean, we had to answer,” said Lue after game 5. “We blown them out in game 3 and they came back and answered in game 4. So we had to do the same. I mean, I don’t know what changes they can make.

“We did 18 3s and blown them out. The 3-point line will be the most important. We have to make sure that we take care of what we did not do well tonight.

(Topoto by James Harden: Matthew Stockman / Getty Images)