You're listening to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, your daily podcast on the Denver Nuggets.

Now, here is your host from Denverstiff.com, Adam Mottis.

What is up, everybody?

Welcome to the Locked on Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockton NBA Network.

I'm your host, Adam Modis from Denver Stiffs.com, the largest Denver Nuggets blog and community on the web.

Check us out, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Today's episode of the show, I am joined by Mike

Richmond, the host of the Locked-on Blazers podcast, who is here to share his perspective

on this Blazers Nuggets series that gets started on Monday night. Game 1, we're right back in

action. I feel like I haven't even caught my breath from game seven, and here we are right back in action.

I think this Blazers Nugget series is going to be a fascinating one.

I think there's some good signs for Denver, but I got Mike Richmond in here so he can give the Portland perspective about who he thinks will be the X factor for each team, how he thinks Damien Lillard and Ennis Cantor, C.J. McCollum will fare, and a whole lot

of other notes. So you can follow him and listen to Locked-on Blazers throughout the series. If you

want to get that perspective of it, he does a great job with that show. And without further ado,

let's get right into the interview. All right, now we welcome in Mike Richmond, the host of the Locked-on Blazers podcast. Mike, how you doing? I'm doing great, man. I'm excited for round two.

I'm excited as well. And, you know, going into the Portland OKC series, I felt pretty confident that Portland was going to stomp in their series.

Did you kind of feel the exact same way that they, the OKC was just going to get pounded?

No, listen, that was not my, not at all what I guessed.

I thought, I thought the loss of NERC and just playing, having to play Cantor and Myers-Lennards so much at that spot. I thought the Thunder were just

going to pick and roll them to death, and it was going to be a long series. But after the Blazers

one game won, a game that they played terribly in, I started to feel like, well, you know,

if you steal a game, even if you steal it at home, I started to get my sort of, my belief kind of was

backed up a little bit after that first game. And then by the end of the series, they were just

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