Jamal Murray makes him cry.

Bruce Brown makes him how the Nuggets take game one.

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I'm going to sit down tonight and go over like all sorts of stuff for game one that you're only able to get on the the everydayers club. I'll probably do an episode tomorrow in conjunction with that bonus episode. Plus you get everyday episodes. You get ad free episodes as well if you are. As my wife said, very weary of hearing the same talking points over and over again. You can join that at lock on Nuggets.com. My name is Matt Morbin, cover the Nuggets as a credential reporter for 14 seasons, and it's been a pleasure for each and every single one of them. So many great playoff games that I have been to in that building, and today was another one joined by Ryan Blackburn and Mile High Sports. You can catch his pickax and roll podcast reaction from after the game.

He was down at Mile High Sports's live event.

You can go catch that and see what he had to say after the game on today's show.

We will talk about the Nuggets win in game one over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

And that is what we're discussing because that is the dues of the day. Let's start, Ryan. I think we, I want to start with Jamal. I think that's where I want to start in this one because I was talking to a, to Ramona Shelburne, who's got a story up about Jamal. I have Nuggets fans maybe familiar with Ramona after last year, but she's got a really great piece up about Jamal. And she's actually spent a lot of time with Jamal through the years, so she knows him pretty well. And I was telling her, I was like, he's just been like a, he's been such a revelation this year in terms of his leadership and what he's brought to the table. and I was very confident that he was going to be able to have success in the series.

And what's odd is on a day where he couldn't hit water from three-point range

if he fell out of a boat, he still found a way to really impact the game,

getting the line for 16 free throws.

He did note after the game.

Several of those were on texts and loose ball fouls, and there was the flagrant where he for 16 free throws. He did note after the game. Several of those were on

texts and loose ball fouls and there was the flagrant where he got three free throws, but he still

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