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I mean I agree that they just have clutch players. To me it's really an intangible. Bi just isn't clutch. Even Caldwell pope is clutch. Trey Murphy has a chance to be clutch. At least he isn't scared to take the last shot. Cj isn't either

Exactly they developed into this team. They went through years of playing together and playoff success/failure. People just completely ignore that. Jamal Murray was not this type of player his 2nd or 3rd year in the league nor was Jokic. Yet people see the Nuggets now and act like oh they just were always amazing and Jamal was always great. Its just silly how people forget that the nuggets had injury issues, playoff wins/losses and just years of developing as a team.

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Posted by TeddyPadillac

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Posted on 4/23/24 at 12:01 pm to Pels_Yaz

They won 46 games his 2nd year, and they didn't make the playoffs. That's Jokic year 3.
They won 55 games and lost game 7 in the second round in year 3, where he average 21ppg in the playoffs.
Year 4 they won 46 games in a shortened season and lost in the conference finals where he averaged 27ppg.
Then he was hurt for 2 years while they were swept one year and gentleman swept the other before coming back last year and winning the title.

Yeah, he has been that good for while. Guys that are clutch are born that way. And i love the fact that Trey isnt' afraid of the moment, but he's just not the creator that Murray, or BI is. It is very clear to see that Trey wants the ball in big moments. That's something in a player that's always there, it isn't developed.
Here we are 5 years into BI and Zion and we've done nothing, which is why one of them has to go, and it should be BI. Zion isn't at Jokic's level, and BI isn't at Murray's level, hence why we've accomplished nothing.

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