Who's the BEST Matchup for the Nuggets in the Playoffs? | Offset
DNVR Denver Nuggets Podcast
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so I think we're either going to play the Rockets, the Lakers, or the Timberwolves in the first round. |
| 0:19.7 | Who would we most like to play? What's the best match for the Nuguggets D-Line? I mean, it's the Rockets. The Rockets. The Nuggets would destroy the Rockets. They're like, so before the, I mean, the Rockets had a plan of who they were going to be before the season started. It went immediately off the tracks before the season even began. And they didn't do anything to try and fix that or mitigate it. |
| 0:39.6 | They really are just counting on Kevin Durant carrying their offense. |
| 0:43.3 | They've got a couple guys that you can look to, but you can't count on their office. |
| 0:48.3 | They've lost Stephen Adams. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | They started off as a team that was going to rely on, I imagine some kind of two-man game between Fred Van Bleep and Kevin Durant. Like they were thinking that could work together. And then they evolved into when Fred got his tour his ACL before the season started, then they're like, I guess we're a double big team. And they were like the rebounding kings. And like now they're not that. I don't even know what they are. Here's the thing about the Rockets, man. And I thought this after the Nuggets blew them out in that game a couple weeks ago. If they went down to zero in the series or something, they would fold so so quickly i feel like oh yeah i mean |
| 1:28.0 | Kevin durant as your alpha on that team a bunch of other kind of young guys |
| 1:33.9 | shangoon there's no leadership on that team i just feel like they get down in a series and |
| 1:40.2 | fold so quickly yeah they're not even you're they don't have a point guard they don't have a leader, man. Not having a point guard does something. Yeah. Not having a leader. Kevin Durant is your best player and the guy that they have to build the offense around. Like, it would have been incredible 10 years ago. But right now that just, that's tough. And you talk about the aspect of being down two games. they're just going to they're going to get swept if they go down two games like that's tough. And you talk about the aspect of being down two games. They're just going to, |
| 2:01.9 | they're going to get swept if they go down two games. Like that's just, I just don't see it. So they would have to just try to get out to a very quick hot start. I don't see it happening. Of course, the answer is the Rockets out of those choices. It's easily the Rockets. I mean, here's the thing about all three of the teams, the Lakers, wolves, and Rockets is none of them are high volume three-point shooting teams. And so I think you're kind of in every game against them, which is not necessarily the case for San Antonio, Oklahoma City, some of these other teams, especially in the Eastern Conference, the Rock, they're just not going to pull away from you. I don't think you're going to be down 20 to eat any of those teams at any point. So, and it's one saving grace for all three of them. But it's definitely Houston. Are you kidding? Well, especially if you think about the game turning into a half-court affair in the playoffs. And they don't have a goddamn point card. What are you do? Yeah, but they do have the, they have the most, most athleticism out of those other teams. So like that, that has to be something that the Nuggets would have to counterpoint. That also seems to be the Keeleys, you know, for the Nugget squad is like, how do they stop a team with athleticism? Yeah. But they don't have a great offense though. Houston does not have a good offense. They don't have the shooting. And I mean, if you think about the Nuggets, their defenses sucked all year, but I think they'd honestly be okay in a series against Houston. And on the other side, Rock rockets have a decent defense but like they're not |
| 3:24.9 | stopping the nuggets you know what not stopping yokech what about between minnesota and l.a |
| 3:30.3 | do you have to go the road here it's five seed or six seed minnesota l a the options oof that ever |
| 3:36.1 | i mean i would take the lakers i think that, I think there's a psychological edge that still exists. |
| 3:41.7 | Maybe not for Luka Dantzich, but I also don't, I just know that what it looks like |
| 3:47.9 | when you really start to attack Luka Dantzich in the playoffs. |
| 3:51.0 | Like, I know what that looks like. |
| 3:52.6 | And they could, I know, like, he's been scoring a lot and that he when he was scoring a lot previously with |
| 4:00.4 | the Mavericks that's when he carried them to the finals or the yeah the finals the finals and uh |
| 4:05.5 | it was that season when he scored like 70 and he started to like really pick up in this time of |
| 4:09.0 | you what he's doing right now but I think I I just felt like watching Final's matchup it was like this guy |
| 4:16.4 | This is so fundamentally flawed |
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