Nuggets Clinch Huge Game One Victory Against Thunder

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00:00And we'll start with the Nuggets because, of course, you're going to have Jason on in a few minutes.

00:04So I figured before you talk to Jason, you got to hear the final call that he did last night.

00:10Nuggets beat the Thunder 121-119.

00:14They take a 1-0 series lead on OKC.

00:17Of course, Holmgren missing the free throws at one end.

00:22And then Aaron Gordon, the winner for the Nuggets, Nuggets Radio, Altitude Sports, Jason Kosmitsky, here for you.

00:30This will be a huge miss.

00:31Second free throw, Holmgren.

00:33Missed it again.

00:35Rebound down to Christian Brown.

00:36You got to hurry.

00:37Eight, seven seconds.

00:38Front court over to Westbrook.

00:39Left side, Gordon for the win.

00:41Yeah!

00:432.8 seconds left coming back the other way.

00:46Williams from half court.

00:48Baked it no good at the horn.

00:49And the Denver Nuggets shock the Oklahoma City Thunder in game number one.

00:57Yeah, it was a great ending.

00:59Both nights, or games last night, were great endings.

01:03You had the, you know, Knicks steal that game.

01:07And then you had the same thing in game two.

01:10Both games were incredible.

01:12It was the best night of the NBA playoffs.

01:14I mean, bar none.

01:15Yeah, it is.

01:18Having both games be good and down to the wire has been a, it's been a rare thing for us with

01:25the NBA side of things.

01:27So getting both of them and both huge upsets, tremendous stuff.

01:31Here is, of course, Nuggets interim head coach David Adelman on the Nuggets rallying second

01:36half, getting the job done on the road.

01:38So important.

01:39And that's what I was talking about, the mentality.

01:40You know, it would have been really easy for me to come up here and say, we just played

01:44Saturday in a game seven.

01:46And we have all the excuses in the world.

01:48And we're so tired.

01:49And no, it's the playoffs.

01:51You only get a certain amount of chances out here.

01:53And you're right.

01:55Every time they got up, I never sensed, well, you know, we can play in two days.

02:00We can still even this thing up 1-1.

02:02No, this is our opportunity tonight.

02:04Live in the present in these moments.

02:06Now, these games are, they're so hard to win.

02:09And when you put yourself in a situation like this, like we did, don't waste your energy.

02:14You know, stay focused on what you're trying to accomplish.

02:17And you're right.

02:17Because we did that, we never let go of the rope because it felt like a few times it was

02:21close.

02:22Like they were about to blow this thing out in their building, which they do a lot.

02:25I mean, this is an amazing team that we're competing against with a great head coach,

02:29great players in depth.

02:31There's no doubt.

02:33And they got it done.

02:34I mean, what else is there to say?

02:36I mean, are we going to have champagne and some cake?

02:39Like it was a great game and a great ending and they didn't blow it.

02:44They got it done.

02:45They stole it.

02:47And I think they really sucker punched the thunder right in the Adam's apple.

02:52I mean, honestly, like that team won 68 games.

02:56Their executive is the, you know, just won the executive of the year, Presti.

03:01Everybody's getting accolades.

03:02You know, the MVP, Shea Gilgis is going to get it.

03:06Listen, I don't deny what he did this year was incredible.

03:10I don't deny.

03:13I guess I prefer that he gets it.

03:16I'm not going to deny that.

03:18I think he's had that kind of a season, but he's not better than this other guy.

03:23He's not better than Joker.

03:25Nobody is.

03:26Nobody is better than that guy.

03:30I mean, it's, in my opinion, it's not even close.

03:34Literally, that guy is the most dominating basketball player in the world, bar none.

03:42Now, and remember, I think he does it the easy way.

03:44Like he doesn't look like he's trying that hard.

03:47He just is in total control of his game.

03:51The other guy, I got to admit, and I love his game.

03:55I'm a big Shea Gilgis fan.

03:57But I think that he, he's kind of a ball hog.

04:02He just constantly shoots.

04:04I mean, he just constantly goes for it.

04:07And I don't have a problem with that.

04:09But the other guy doesn't even look like he tries.

04:12And he puts up these ungodly numbers.

04:15And he's just, he gets everyone involved.

04:18And he makes everyone eat and get better as a player.

04:24I mean, he makes everybody look like spectacular, doesn't he?

04:28The other guy, in my view, he just puts on a show.

04:32It's all about him.

04:34And I don't deny the rest of them are good.

04:36And I think Caruso, white boy Rick, my boy Hardenstein, J Will, they're all really good.

04:45But he's the featured attraction.

04:47I mean, he's the show off.

04:49He's a showboat.

04:50And he's a ball hog.

04:52He's got the ball in his hands the whole game.

04:54And the other guy, it's like you don't even notice that he's going 42-22.

04:58You don't even notice it.

04:59When is the last time you saw the guy miss a shot?

05:02I guess that air ball that Gordon dunks, first time I've seen him miss a shot.

05:06Because he doesn't miss anything inside.

05:09He has the softest touch of any big I've ever seen in my life, where the ball hits the rim, rolls around the rim, hits a glass.

05:15And where does it go?

05:16It always goes down.

05:1942-22 boards, six dimes, two blocks for the Joker last night.

05:24But afterwards, he was very proud of Aaron Gordon.

05:28Never likes talking about himself.

05:29He talks about others.

05:30Here's Joker.

05:31Yes, I mean, he had big free throws before that, so he made both of them.

05:37He had a big box out on Caruso, I think.

05:40Was it Caruso?

05:41And he made a really big shot for us, you know, and he deserves it.

05:50He's, like I said, he's the soul of this team.

05:53He's a blue guy.

05:54He probably doesn't give the much respect that he deserves.

05:57But I think he doesn't need, like, attention.

06:00So he knows what he's doing.

06:01So I'm happy for him.

06:02He's a badass, Gordon.

06:06He's a monster.

06:07He's a great player.

06:09And we talked about it on this show.

06:11His threes and his field goal percentages, everything, free throws, everything went up.

06:18And I'm not talking about up, like, five points.

06:20I'm talking 15, 20% up in everything on the season from last year.

06:27The guy worked on his game.

06:28He took his game to a whole other level this year from outside, from mid-range, and from the line.

06:35He was better across the board.

06:37He's become a real problem.

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