Inside the NBA REACTS to Nuggets vs Clippers GAME 6 Highlights
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[{'start': '9.442', 'end': '13.245', 'text': ">> 1244 ON THE EAST COAST AS  WE WELCOME YOU INSIDE STUDIO  J WHERE WE NEVER CLOSE  JAYLEN INSIDE THE NBA  PRESENTED BY KIA. ERNIE  JOHNSON, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL,  KENNY THE JET SMITH AND  JALEN ROSE WHO'S SITTING IN  FOR CHARLES BARKLEY TONIGHT.  >> KNOW WHAT TIME WE LEAVE.  >> IT'S 1244.  >> JALEN YOU AND I ARE OUT  OF HERE AT 105.  >> THERE'S NOT A CHANCE  THAT'S.  >> HAPPENED 105.  >> BY THE WAY. THERE'S JUST  NOT A CHANCE.  >> WE'RE WALKING OUT OF  HERE.  >> WE WON'T EVEN BE DONE  TALKING ABOUT THIS CLIPPER  GAME BY THEN.  >> LISTEN CHUCK AND I, WE  WOULD WALK OUT.  >> SO HERE IT IS, CHUCK.  HERE IT IS. SATURDAY. WE HIT  THE AIR AT 7:00, AND THEN  WE'VE GOT A GAME SEVEN FOR  YOU TWO. BEST WORDS IN  SPORTS AS THEY SAY. CLIPPERS  AND THE NUGGETS. AND THEY'LL  BE TIPPING THAT THING A  LITTLE AFTER 730. DAVID  ADELMAN AND THE NUGGETS  GOING HOME FOR GAME SEVEN.  >> AGAIN THEY PICKED UP  FULL. THEY CHANGED THE GAME.  I ALSO THOUGHT THE THIRD  QUARTER WE PLAYED GOOD  DEFENSE. WE NEVER EVER CAME  UP WITH A 5050 BALL. AND  THAT'S JUST SUCH A  BACKBREAKING FEELING. WHEN  YOU DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AND  DON'T COME UP WITH THE BALL.  SO WE GAVE THEM A LOT OF  EXTRA POSSESSIONS. YOU KNOW,  THAT QUARTER ABSOLUTELY  KILLED US. THE REST OF THE  GAME WAS VERY EVEN. WE  PLAYED A REALLY, REALLY GOOD  FOURTH QUARTER WITH A LOT OF  EFFORT. BUT WE GOT TO BE  BETTER THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE  GAME.  >> DAVID.  >> WHAT IS.  >> THE MINDSET NOW? I MEAN,  I GOT TO IMAGINE THIS IS WHY  YOU.  >> FIGHT.  >> SO HARD FOR HOME COURT  ADVANTAGE IN THE FIRST  ROUND.  >> YEAH, WE TALKED ABOUT IT.  YOU KNOW AFTER THE GAME YOU  WIN THOSE LAST THREE GAMES  NOT JUST TO STAY OUT OF THE  PLAY-IN, BUT TO GET THE HOME  COURT IN GAME SEVEN. BOTTOM  LINE. AND WE EARNED IT. AND  THAT'S WHY I TOLD THEM IN  THERE, YOU'VE EARNED THIS  OPPORTUNITY. YOU EARNED THE  OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT TO TRY  TO CLOSE IT OUT BECAUSE OF  THE WAY YOU PLAYED IN THE  SERIES TO GET TO THREE TWO,  BUT NOW YOU HAVE THE  OPPORTUNITY TO GO HOME IN  FRONT OF YOUR HOME FANS AND  ADVANCE. AND SO, YOU KNOW,  YOU PLAY ALL YEAR FOR THAT.  WE GOT THAT OPPORTUNITY AND  WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED TO  GO BACK OUT THERE AND PLAY  AGAIN.  >> AND WE WILL BE EXCITED TO  BRING IT TO YOU ON SATURDAY.  MEANTIME, HERE'S THE WAY  THIS ONE PLAYED OUT AT  INTUIT DOME IN LOS ANGELES.  JOKER AND THE NUGGETS TRYING  TO PUT THIS THING AWAY. AND  THEY STARTED OUT WELL. JOKER  FOR THREE. AND THEN AARON  GORDON.  >> YEAH THIS.  >> DIDN'T THAT.  >> THAT EXPERIMENT DIDN'T  WORK PUTTING CHRIS DUNN ON  HIM. NO HE TOO LITTLE MOUSE  IN THE HOUSE. YEAH. HE'S  MORE SUITED TO GUARD THE  PERIMETER.  >> JAMAL MURRAY COMING OFF  THAT 43 POINT GAME FIVE  CASHES IN FROM DEEP.  >> YOU KNOW WHEN HE WAS  AGGRESSIVE AND PLAYED WELL  DENVER IS A TOUGH TEAM TO  BEAT.  >> KAWHI TURNAROUND J.  >> NOT SO LOST. START OF THE  MID RANGE.  >> AND JAMES HARDEN HAD A 21  POINT FIRST HALF.  >> YOU PLAYING LIKE THAT.  CAN'T GET DOUBLE TEAM.  >> KAWHI AND THEN HARDEN.  >> OH ISO.  >> STEP IT BACK FOR THREE.  >> DOUBLE TOO LATE.  >> UP BY SEVEN. AND HERE  COMES DENVER. AND HERE COMES  RUSSELL WESTBROOK FROM THE  WING MAKING IT A THREE POINT  GAME. THE ANSWER FROM THE  BEARD. AND AT THE HALF 5857.  CLIPPERS THIRD QUARTER  FEATURES A 12 NOTHING  CLIPPER RUN NORMAN POWELL  RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL  THAT.  >> OH I KNOW HE HAD ALL  THAT.  >> OH YEAH HE DOES.  >> TO THE BASKET.  >> I DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD  THAT.  >> HE'S GOT THAT AND HE'S  GOT THIS. AGAIN A 12 NOTHING  RUN. AND HE'S GOT THIS TWO.  8571. HERE YOU GO WITH YOUR  MID RANGE JAYLEN.  >> ABSOLUTELY KAWHI LEONARD  HE IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S  SHOOTING A LINE DRIVE. BUT  IT'S MONEY EVERY TIME.  >> BASICALLY IT WAS AN 11  POINT CLIPPER LEAD GOING TO  THE FOURTH QUARTER. HERE'S  AN 11 TO 2 DENVER RUN. AND  THEY'RE RIGHT BACK IN IT.  BUT POWELL. FOR THREE.  >> GREAT BALL MOVEMENT BY  NICOLAS BATUM NOT ALLOWING  THE BALL TO STICK TO GET IT  TO POWER.  >> NINE POINT GAME ABOUT A  BUCK AND A HALF TO PLAY. AND  ZUBAC WITH THE D ON THE  JOKER. AND HOW ABOUT NIC  BATUM.  >> YEAH RUSS.  >> MISSED THE EASY LAYUP  EARLIER.  >> THEN GETS.  >> THIS ONE BLOCKED. AND  THAT WAS.  >> HE WAS.  >> GOING TO MISS THAT ONE  TOO. HE WAS GOING TO HIT THE  RIM. FIRST I HAD TO RIM  FIRST.  >> COME ON.  >> RUSS DUNK THOSE.  >> THEN 110 105. JOKER  THOUGHT HE GOT FOULED BY  ZUBAC. NO CALL 111 105 IS  YOUR FINAL SCORE. THE  CLIPPERS GET 2710 AND FIVE  OUT OF KAWHI 28 AND EIGHT  OUT OF JAMES HARDEN. AND 24  ON A NORM POWELL. AND  THEY'VE TIED THE SERIES UP  AT THREE GAMES APIECE  HEADING TO GAME SEVEN ON  SATURDAY. THIS WAS TY LUE IN  THE LOCKER ROOM.  >> STEAM ALL RIGHT.  >> JUST TRYING TO GET  THROUGH IT.  >> I APPRECIATE IT.  >> YOU KNOW.  >> WHAT I'M SAYING. OFF THE  BENCH. CHEERING WE HAD GOOD  CONVERSATION. THAT'S WHAT  IT'S ALL ABOUT.  >> WHATEVER IT TAKES TO.  >> WIN GAME SEVEN.  >> COMING UP. GET YOUR REST.  LET'S GO FOR IT.  >> ALL RIGHT.  >> COME ON MAN.  >> 7-2 ON 3123.  >> IF THERE WAS A SERIES YOU  THOUGHT MIGHT GO SEVEN IN  THE FIRST ROUND. JAYLEN.  THIS IS THE ONE.  >> ABSOLUTELY. AND JOKER WAS  A THREE TIME MVP AND A  CHAMPION. YOU CAN'T STOP  HIM. YOU ONLY CAN HOPE TO  CONTAIN HIM. AND SO WHEN YOU  LOOK AT HIS STATS TONIGHT,  THEY'RE ALL BELOW HIS SEASON  AVERAGES IN POINTS REBOUNDS  AND ASSISTS. AND I WANT TO  GIVE ZUBAC A LOT OF CREDIT  FOR DEFENDING HIM.  >> YES INDEED. AND YOU HEARD  FROM TY LUE IN THE LOCKER  ROOM. LET'S HEAR HIM AT THE  PODIUM.  >> YOUR DECISION MAKING.  >> AS FAR AS NICO. WAS  CONCERNED TODAY. AND HOW YOU  THINK HE RESPONDED TO WHAT  WAS ASKED OF HIM?  >> I THOUGHT.  >> HE RESPONDED.  >> WELL, YOU KNOW.  >> I THOUGHT.  >> LIKE I SAID.  >> KATIE DEFENSIVELY TO  START AND.  >> THEN.  >> TRY TO GET TO THAT SMALL  LINEUP WITH ALL SHOOTING ON  THE FLOOR, WHICH HELPED US  GET THE LEAD. GABE, JAMES  AND KAWHI MORE SPACING AND I  WAS ABLE TO ATTACK WHEN WE  WENT SMALL. AND SO, YOU  KNOW, I TOLD THE GUYS AFTER  THE GAME, YOU KNOW KATIE AND  YOU KNOW BEING STILL UP  CHEERING YOU KNOW I TALKED  TO THOSE GUYS. AND IT'S  ABOUT BEING A TEAM AND  WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN.  AND THOSE GUYS TOTALLY  UNDERSTOOD IT EVEN THOUGH  THEY'VE BEEN GREAT FOR US  ALL YEAR LONG. YOU KNOW. AND  SO JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK  YOU TO THEM. BUT YOU KNOW  OUR GUYS CAME OUT AND PLAYED  PLAYED WELL TONIGHT I  THOUGHT TO START THE GAME  ATTENTION TO DETAIL WAS  REALLY GOOD. AND THEN WHEN  WE WENT SMALL WITH THAT  SHOOTING LINEUP, I THOUGHT  WE WAS ABLE TO BREAK THE  GAME OPEN A LITTLE BIT.  >> YEAH.  >> BACKS AGAINST THE WALL  OBVIOUSLY, BUT WHEN.  >> YOU LOOK.  >> AT THE PERFORMANCES YOU  GOT FROM YOUR TOP SCORERS.  >> AT.  >> LEAST TRADITIONALLY, WHAT  DID.  >> YOU MAKE OF JAMES, KAWHI.  >> AND NORM?  >> YEAH, I THOUGHT JAMES DID  A GREAT JOB SETTING THE TONE  EARLY, SCORING THE  BASKETBALL, GETTING  DOWNHILL, MAKING THE RIGHT  PLAY. NORM MADE SOME BIG  SHOTS AT THE END AND KAWHI  WAS JUST KIND OF STEADY  THROUGHOUT THE GAME. BUT I  THOUGHT THOSE THREE GUYS  REALLY STEPPED UP, CAME TO  PLAY. I THOUGHT ZU WAS A  MONSTER ON THE DEFENSIVE END  TONIGHT. GETTING CLOSER TO  JOKER, NOT GIVING AS MUCH  SPACE AND JOKER JUST IT'S  JUST HARD. YOU KNOW, IF YOU  IF YOU DOUBLE TEAM HIM, HE'S  GOING TO PICK YOU APART WITH  HIS PASSING. IF YOU STAY AT  HOME HE'S GOING TO SCORE.  YOU KNOW. AND SO I GIVE OUR  GUYS CREDIT JUST STAYING  WITH IT. YOU KNOW DON'T GET  DEFLATED. AND YOU KNOW WE  DID A GOOD JOB JUST JUST  KEEPING OUR HEAD WHEN.  >> YOU TALKED.  >> HECK OF A GAME. BOTH  TEAMS SHOOT OVER 50%. NICE  THIRD QUARTER RUN BY THE  CLIPPERS DENVER RESPONDS BUT  THEY JUST COULD NOT COULD  NOT REEL THEM IN. AND IT WAS  ALMOST LIKE AND YOU HEARD  STAN VAN GUNDY SAY IT TIME  AND AGAIN. HE HATED THE WAY  THE CLIPPERS WERE CLOSING  THE GAME BY RUNNING THE SHOT  CLOCK. IT WAS LIKE THAT  PREVENT OFFENSE.  >> YOU KNOW THEY MISSED A  LOT OF CHIPPIES. THEY  DEFINITELY HAD OPPORTUNITIES  TO WIN THE GAME. BUT JOKER  HAS TO SEND A MESSAGE IN  GAME SEVEN TO IVICA ZUBAC  OKAY YOU HAVE FOUR BLOCKS  THIS GAME, BUT YOU CAN'T  STOP ME. YOU KNOW A LOT OF  TIMES THEY PLAY HIM SINGLE  COVERAGE. YOU KNOW YOU WANT  HIM TO DOMINATE. YOU WANT  HIM DOUBLE. SO THE OTHERS  FOR DENVER CAN GET OPEN. SO  THEY'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO  BE PUMPED UP. THEY'RE GOING  TO BE LOOKING AT THAT. BUT  JOKER HAS TO PUNISH HIS  YOUNG MAN. YES HE'S A FINE  DEFENDER. BUT IF YOU'RE THE  BEST BIG MAN IN THE LEAGUE,  YOU HAVE TO SHOW ALL OTHER  BIG MEN. I DON'T CARE WHAT  YOU DO. SINGLE COVER, DOUBLE  COVERAGE, TRIPLE COVERAGE.  THIS GAME SEVEN. YOU'RE NOT  STOPPING ME.  >> A COUPLE OF NOTES ON GAME  SEVEN'S POINTED OUT. THIS IS  GOING TO BE NUMBER 152 IN  NBA HISTORY. IF YOU TAKE THE  BUBBLE OUT, THERE WERE FOUR  IN THE BUBBLE, BUT NOBODY  REALLY HAD HOME COURT. SO  HOME TEAMS ARE 110 AND 37.  BUT THE ROAD TEAM HAS WON  EIGHT OF THE LAST 12  INCLUDED IN THAT. DENVER  LOSING AT HOME TO MINNESOTA  LAST YEAR IN THE WESTERN  CONFERENCE SEMIS. SO WHEN  YOU LOOK AT THE CLIPPERS AND  THE NUGGETS PLAYING IN  DENVER IN A GAME SEVEN, WHAT  ARE YOU THINKING.  >> YOU KNOW TOSS UP IS THE  RIGHT WORD. FLIP A COIN IS  THE RIGHT WORD BECAUSE OF A  LOT OF FACTORS YOU KNOW  BEING AT HOME. BUT THEN ALL  OF A SUDDEN YOU HAVE A COACH  WHO'S ONLY WHO'S.  >> COACH LESS.  >> THAN TEN GAMES. AND NOW  HE'S.  >> IN A GAME SEVEN.  >> WITH YOU FOR THE FIRST  TIME. YOU TALK ABOUT KAWHI  LEONARD BEING ABLE TO MAKE  BIG SHOTS. WE'VE SEEN HIM  WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH BIG  SHOTS WITH TORONTO. JAMES  HARDEN IS PLAYING HIS BEST  BASKETBALL. SO THIS IS  REALLY. A TOSS UP IN THAT  REGARD.  >> THE ONLY THE ONLY THING  THAT.  >> I WOULD.  >> SAY THAT.  >> IF JAMES HARDEN. IS A  PLAYMAKER.  >> OR A PLAY.  >> SCORER.  >> THE CLIPPERS HAVE THE BIG  ADVANTAGE.  >> BUT IF.  >> THEY'RE ABLE TO SHUT.  >> HIM DOWN AT SOME POINT  AND MAKE IT MUCH.  >> MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM  AND.  >> KEEP HIM MONITORABLE  MEANING 18 POINTS, EIGHT.  >> ASSISTS.  >> THEN THAT IS A RECIPE FOR  A NUGGET WIN. I'LL TAKE THE  CLIPPERS ON THE ROAD. I  UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GOING TO  GET FROM KAWHI AND JAMES  HARDEN, BUT THEY FOUND A WAY  TO FINALLY GET NORMAN POWELL  INVOLVED. WHEN THEY FIRST  BROUGHT KAWHI LEONARD BACK.  IT WAS A LOT OF ISO AND THEY  WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF  KAWHI WAS GOING TO BE THE  GUY THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE  PAST. AND JAMES HARDEN  FINALLY GOT HIMSELF  UNLOCKED. BUT TO SEE NORMAN  POWELL PLAY WITH THE KIND OF  CONFIDENCE IN THE PLAYOFFS  THAT HE DID IN THE REGULAR  SEASON WITH KAWHI ON THE  FLOOR TO ME GIVES HIM THAT  THIRD GUY THAT CAN MESS  AROUND AND GET YOU 30 IN A  GAME. BUT ALSO ZUBAC. HE'S  GOING TO BE EFFICIENT. HE'S  GOING TO BE A DOUBLE DOUBLE.  AND LIKE SHAQ MENTIONED, HE  DID HAVE FOUR BLOCKS TODAY.  AND HE KEPT JOKER ALL UNDER  ALL OF HIS SEASON AVERAGES.  >> YOU'VE ALL BEEN IN GAME  SEVENS. WHAT'S IT LIKE? HOW  DIFFERENT IS IT THAN ANY  OTHER GAME IN A PLAYOFF  SERIES?  >> WELL, ONE, YOU HAVE TO  IMPOSE YOUR WILL AND IT  STARTS TONIGHT. SO FIRST  THING I'M DOING IS WITH ALL  PLAYERS DO I'M LOOKING AT  THE STAT SHEET. NORMAN  POWELL IS NOT GETTING 24  ERNIE YOU'RE GUARDING HIM.  HE BETTER NOT GET 24 OR  HE'LL GET MORE THAN 24. I'M  NOT GETTING 24. KAWHI. HE'S  KAWHI JAMES OR JAMES. HEY  28' I NEED JAMES TO GET 15.  I'M GOING AT THE JOKER. I  MEAN I'M GOING AT ZUBAC.  FOLLOW ME. SO YOU KNOW IT'S  A REAL INTENSE GAME. BUT YOU  HAVE TO BECAUSE YOU KNOW MY  FAVORITE TWO COACHES PHIL  AND PAT. GAME SEVEN IT AIN'T  YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT GAME  NOTES. YOU SAY, OKAY, WE  KNOW WHAT WE GOT TO DO. WE  KNOW THIS TEAM. THEY KNOW  US. WHO WANTS IT MORE.  >> SO YOU'VE BEEN IN ONE OF  THEM ONE GAME SEVEN AND IT  STANDS OUT DOESN'T IT?  >> THE LAST DANCE IT WAS  AGAINST MICHAEL JORDAN AND  SCOTTIE PIPPEN AND DENNIS  RODMAN AND YOUR COACH, PHIL  JACKSON. AND THE ONE THING  I'LL SAY ABOUT A GAME SEVEN  IS IN PARTICULAR FOR A ROLE  PLAYER, YOU GOT TO STAY IN  YOUR LANE. SHAQ JUST SAID  IT. YOUR BEST PLAYER HAS TO  COME OUT AND SET THE TONE,  AND THEN EVERYBODY ELSE GETS  A CHANCE TO FOLLOW. BUT IF  HE DON'T SET THE TONE, THEN  WE'RE NOT GOING TO WIN. SO  IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS  CASE FOR THE JOKER,  ESPECIALLY PLAYING AT HOME.  AND HE SHOWS AND JAMAL THAT  HE CAN BE DOMINANT. AND ALSO  MICHAEL PORTER JR. HE WAS  -24 IN THIS GAME. HE HAS  SINGLE DIGITS IN POINTS. HE  WON A CHAMPIONSHIP A COUPLE  OF YEARS AGO WITH THEM. HE'S  GOT TO PLAY A LOT BETTER.  >> AND THAT SHOULDER HAS  BEEN BOTHERING HIM TOO.  OKAY. YOU GOT TO PUT A  PERIOD ON THIS ONE. THAT'S  AN INTERESTING.  >> SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.  >> LIKE BECAUSE. WE PLAYED  IN THE ROCKETS.  >> WE PLAYED A LOT OF GAME  SEVENS MAN, BECAUSE WE WERE.  >> ALWAYS UNDER. WE PLAYED A  LOT OF GAME FIVES OR GAME  SEVENS WHEN THEY ONLY DID  FIVE IN GAME SEVENS.  >> AND THE INTERESTING.  >> THING, OUR GUYS WHO OTHER  THAN AKEEM WOULD GO.  >> LET'S MAKE.  >> AKEEM'S NIGHT EASIER.  COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT  SHOOTING, COME OUT LIKE  SUPER AGGRESSIVE. SO THEN HE  KNOWS HE'S GOT HELP TONIGHT  AND LIKE.  >> HE THEN.  >> HE COULD DO WHAT HE DOES.  BUT WE ALWAYS THOUGHT IF WE  PLAYED LIKE HE WAS.  >> GOING.  >> TO GET 35.  >> AND 1015 REBOUNDS.  >> BUT IF WE CAME OUT AND  GOT SOMEBODY GOT 2025, SO  WE'D BE LIKE, VERNON, IT'S  GOING TO BE.  >> YOU TONIGHT.  >> WE'LL GET TO 20, SAM.  IT'S GOING TO BE YOU, KENNY.  MARIO. SO WE HAD A.  DIFFERENT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.  MAYBE WE JUST WERE  DELUSIONAL.  >> BUT WE HAD A DIFFERENT.  >> SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.  >> I'M LOOKING.  >> AT.  >> THE I'M LOOKING AT THAT  TOO, FROM BACK IN 94 AND 95.  IN 94 YOU BEAT PHOENIX IN  SEVEN. YOU WON THE FINALS IN  SEVEN OVER THE KNICKS. THE  YEAR AFTER YOU WON OVER  PHOENIX IN THE CONFERENCE  SEMIS IN SEVEN. THAT'S A.  >> LOT.  >> OF GAMES, A LOT OF GAME  SEVEN.  >> A LOT OF GAME.  >> SEVENS AND BACK TO BACK  CHAMPION.  >> CHAMPION. YEAH YEAH YEAH.  EXACTLY RIGHT. A LOT OF  THEM.  >> CAN'T WAIT FOR SATURDAY  NIGHT. THAT'S GOING TO BE  SOMETHING AS THEY PLAY.  >> THERE WAS 110"}]