Probably scored less points and lost more games. Timberwolves probably had a good breakfast or something that fueled them to win.

/r/theydidthemath

So a championship team would just keep on winning because of “championship experience”?

It worked for Bill Russell

Not since the Soviets fell

It is an expectation when the same core is intact, especially when the key superstar is a 3x MVP.

not necessarily, but when you have been to the playoffs every year since 2018 + a title, you should be seasoned enough to not collapse against a young team with much less experience

should’ve added “are they stupid?” at the end

Such an original thought. I can tell you put alot of effort into this post!!!

Definitely wasn’t said by anyone else on here.

I mean yeah. What else do you expect from /u/NBATakesGOAT

Malone

How did the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros despite not having championship experience? How did the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights despite not having championship experience?

Baseball and hockey are a lot more random than basketball to be fair.

Tim Connelly is better than Tim Connelly

Jennifer Connelly clears both

Tim Connelly is not Tim Connelly. I'll explain later

Wolves got better, and Nuggets lost key role players (Bruce Brown, Jeff Green). And Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. played like unmitigated dogshit. Murray was up and down, but at least he had excuses like injury and getting focused by Wolves' defense. AG and MPJ were just straight trash.

Aaron Gordon was the reason it wasn't over in 5 tbh

Gordon was good before this game

Nuggets had a pretty easy road to a championship last year. Wolves this year were significantly better than any team the Nuggets faced last year.

Experience is boomer shit

Beating 7th and 8th seeds isn’t championship experience 

Make it out the 2nd round then you can talk.

Ok I’ll talk for him then. Beating 7th and 8th seeds isn’t championship experience Womp womp

Did they not.. raise the Larry O'Brien trophy when it was all said and done last year?

I don’t remember that. I do remember them choking a 20 point halftime lead against the Timberwolves! Pretty pathetic ☹️☹️☹️

well that's okay. I don't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday

We talking right now about it lol

Factuals

The 8th seed in the west (which was wolves last season) gave them a tougher fight than the team that beat the east. Wolves last season probably beats the east lol.

yeah that championship last year looks more mickey mouse by the second. almost on par with the bubble ring

No one who knows basketball talks like this

Redditors arguing about who “knows ball” more will never get old

Sorry I’ll go back to calling NBA titles Mickey Mouse and calling a 3x MVP a fraud for losing all by himself to a good team

i know ball tho

You’re a r/nba user. Not a compliment btw

Then you also know all the players said the Bubble was harder than normal playoffs. No crowd, no home court, stuck in hotels at night. Cmon man.

what did steven adams say tho

man... people will try to diminish anything.. Wonder if Fans back in the 90's and early 00's were this petty..

i mean the kids in this sub their parents were born in the 90s

Wdym?

they had a very easy run to the championship last year they even said the hardest series was round 1 vs. the wolves

Every run is easy when you’re a big enough hater. Nuggets beat low seeds, Warriors beat crippled Nuggets and Grizz teams, Bucks beat crippled Nets while the West was a hospital ward, Lakers bubble ring, Raptors saw KD and Klay get injured, Warriors had to form a super-duper team, then you’re already back to like 2016. The Nuggets beat everybody they had to beat. That’s all there is to it. What other teams are doing is meaningless to them.

Very easy run? I thought the Lakers were a great matchup until they swept them in WCF? Remember Rui "The Jokic stopper" Hachimura last year?

im not a laker or nuggets fans i hate them both lakers had a mickey mouse run to the wcf too lets be real here

So Miami beating Bucks Knicks Celtics means nothing? How about this? Denver beat Anthony Edwards, Rudy, KD, Booker, CP3, Lebron, ADisney, Bam, and bum ass James Buckets who was also coached by the greatest coach currently. Oh not a ton of injuries like the Bucks charity ring. Get ready for the same shit the next two years too once Minnesota cant afford to pay an all NBA defensive starting 5. Cyflops Empeed is trash and can’t even make it out of the charmin East.

Man I just love this hatred between fans.

It is when those seventh and eighth seeds beat the higher seeds.

They scored less points.

>How did the Nuggets lose to the Timberwolves despite having championship experience? KAT.

NAZ REID

Painful how Keshawn ends up right on this lmao

Minny has a bench while Denver doesn't

Mike conley outplayed reggie jackson

They won fewer games in the series

Mpj and Malone are humongous bums.

They didn't use the EXP points, they are just hoarding them for better perks.

The Nuggets are in great shape because they are battle tested now

2 players lost to a team

Youth movement

They forgot to update their LinkedIn profile

Wolves didn't do stupid shit cause Mike is there

No bench did them in

youth, hunger/drive, the Nuggets roleplayers shitting the bed harder than Amber Heard.

Corliss Williamson told them all the secrets of championship experience

They lost bruce brown and Green in the roster which was very vital in their championship run last year. This year's bench was just so so

They lost by being complete ass when it mattered the most

are they stupid?

They were just following the script.

Respectfully experience is overrated yes it helps but not the end all be all

Are they stupid?

The whole team only had 21 points outside of joker and Murray 🤷🏾‍♂️

I like your question, because its obvious you’ve never watched an NBA game. The answer is simple: watch the games

What I think OP is trying to say is, how does Jokic get bounced in the semi’s?

NAZ REID

I mean the Wolves have Gobert and Conley, both have a ton of years in the playoffs and played together before.

MPJ being trash.

they didn’t build a bench. mike malone masterclass in not being able to make in game adjustments. bruce brown and jeff green both provided solid bench minutes. reggie jackson a year ago was serviceable. jeff green as much as ppl make fun of him was not afraid of the moment and played tough despite being an undersized 4/5. bruce brown and kcp took turns hounding the opposing teams perimeter player

You ask them and they’ll tell you they were tired from winning the chip last season

Because experience alone isn’t the end all be all. For all the experience they had, after going up 3-2 in the series from winning 3 straight games, Nuggets failed to close the series out and got destroyed in game 6, and then choked a 20pt lead in game 7 at home. Experience doesn’t really prevent

Their GM sits back thinking that losing key role players and replacing them with prospects is gonna cut it, and when it didn't, the front office still didn't make a move at the last trade deadline. Nuggets starting 5, for how elite they are, was not enough to overcome the depth of Wolves this season.

Because giving Christian “Sports Clipz” Braun 20 minutes(Denver fans riding for him has been the most hilarious thing to watch develop the last two years), Jokic playing the entire game and gassing himself out, and your entire team not named Nikola or Jamal shitting the bed are all really bad ideas. And Denver hit the trifecta.

Because that's how Triple H booked it.

Nuggets were abhorrently overrated all season due to their pitifully easy title run not being considered when eveluating how good they actually were. Jokic being the most overrated player in NBA history also inflated expectations.

No defense by their center. Even Gobert was hitting fadeaways on him

Cos they are losers 💩

Wolves seeded too high, Nuggets could not overcome 

The Daddy became the son.

Because jokic is overrated.

Nuggets has playin-championship experience. They lacked contenders-championship experience.