LA Clippers Dominate Nuggets 117-83 in Decisive Win

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00:00Now the Los Angeles Clippers looking to take control of this series

00:03with a 117-83 victory over the Denver Nuggets.

00:07This was a game I penciled in.

00:09Thought the Clippers would win, but I got to be honest, Joe.

00:11I was a little leery laying that 5.5-6 by the time we got the game time

00:15of saying, you know what?

00:16Maybe the Nuggets can keep it close exactly like they did in Denver.

00:20They weren't close last night.

00:2135-28 first quarter victory for the Clippers.

00:2430-19 second quarter victory.

00:26And as a matter of fact, they won every single quarter last night.

00:31Clearly, the better basketball club.

00:33The Clippers sending a message to Denver?

00:37Well, you're right, Donnie.

00:38It was funny.

00:38We talked about it last night on Game Time Decisions where, you know,

00:42you don't think there's a lot separating these two.

00:45This was a 50-50 series before it started, right?

00:49It was a coin flip.

00:51And you're going, wait a minute.

00:52Why is this thing?

00:53We already had an overtime game.

00:55Like, how is this thing five and a half?

00:58So the market was kind of telling you, yeah, the problem here is the Clippers

01:03had the best offense over their last 20 regular season games.

01:08They went 17-3 down the stretch.

01:10And you know what the Nuggets had during that?

01:13They had the worst defense heading into the postseason.

01:17And that is what's – that's what we saw last night.

01:20We saw a very efficient and a very good L.A. Clipper offense taking advantage of the worst

01:27defense heading into the postseason.

01:30And that is what Kawhi and Harden and company did last night.

01:33They took – this is not a good Denver defense, period.

01:36It's been the problem for them all year.

01:38It got Malone fired.

01:40And it's not going to get any better against Kawhi Leonard and James Harden and company.

01:44So to me, you're starting to see that there's – although on paper it doesn't seem there's

01:49a lot separating these two teams, Donnie, there's a lot separating these two teams.