Big episode here, a couple of game sixes to discuss and since neither of them ended up that close by the end,

I think we'd like to focus our discussion a little bit on what if anything came out of these games that the road team is going to be able to lean on in a game seven that might change the way the series has gone for those two teams on the road.

Let's start with the just completed game here, Denver and Portland. Portland 119, Denver 108, another crazy offensive game.

Portland finishing with a 131 offensive rating. The nuggets had a 117 offensive rating that would have led the NBA and yet they lost by 11 points.

Very slow pace game, which is for part of this series has obscured just how offensive of a series it has been.

And Portland certainly had the offensive fireworks, Dave Millard got the three ball going. It had 17 points and nine minutes and the third and that staked Portland to their lead.

So I don't want to understate that, especially since he was really cutting it out. He looked exhausted through most of the game and Ronnie Hood was really good,

but I actually thought the biggest reason for optimism in game seven for Portland was the play as that column.

Yeah, it was and Collins was one of the big differences between the first quarter when Denver did really get going.

They had an offensive rating. We're doing it for the NBA cast over 140 for most of that first quarter.

They were getting some offensive rebounds. They were getting looks and I mean it was also some of that disastrous Portland strategy really in the game where they were.

They had a medium on Yoke and they were bringing the double from the near side and so Murray and Gary Harris were stroking three.

But then after that, it was really we started to see some of the blueprint. Now you can't see all the blueprint when Yoke is in on the floor,

but the beginning of that second quarter, I thought that Collins played well, C.J. McCullum played well and Rodney Hood played well.

And then what was intriguing was some of the successes they had did carry over into those other minutes.

I thought they did a better job contesting shots all around the floor and also they were helped by Jamal Murray settling way too much.

He got hot early, but sort of paralleling Clay Thompson. The shots he got hot on were not the same as the shots that he attempted later on in the game.

Yeah, he also got to the foul line. It got tripped a couple of times as he was getting into those flores and he was able to attack.

The strategy I thought just made no sense at all. It completely failed in game five. I don't know why they went back to it where you've got a

Mino and Harclist in there, but you're not switching the pick and roll of Murray and Yoke.

And trying to play conventional pick and roll defense with the Mino, I guess to get back to Yoke, but then Yoke just went into the post and they're doubling one pass away as you

talked about it and giving up wide open threes or Murray was able to attack the closeouts and get to the basket.

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