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Today's episode of the show is going to be on a game two loss to the Portland Trailblazers.

A blown opportunity for the Denver Nuggets to really take control of this series and to set their odds of winning and advancing to the Western Conference finals.

You know, let that opportunity slip through their fingertips. And you got to tip your hat to Portland. They made some

interesting adjustments, which we're going to talk about in the show. And, you know, they put

themselves into position to win despite a not very good game from Damien Lillard. If you would

have told me coming in that

Lillard would play the way that he did tonight, go five of 17 from the field, just 14 points and

four assists. I would say, oh, Denver probably wins by 15, 20 points. So the fact that they lost,

and not just lost, but much like in game one, this was a seven point loss, but it felt like a lot more. And there was only a few moments in this game where I thought Denver really had a chance.

Down the stretch, Denver kind of rallied, but for the most part, this was a pretty lopsided game.

So today's episode of the show, I'm going to go through all of the notes.

If you're new to the show, the way I like to go through games, I don't like to just kind of recap what happened. Instead, I take notes on interesting things on first watch and on rewatch. I always give every game

two looks over. On second watch, you always get a lot more. You kind of get a real feel for what

kind of things a team is trying to do with their different coverages, their different offensive

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