[Cactus Jack]

Jamal Murray scored 30 in the first half and Jocic scored 15 in the fourth quarter to lead Denver to a 119-108 road win over the Lakers. I will be surprised if the Nuggets don't complete the sweep tomorrow night. Jocic was in foul trouble last night and sat out most of the third quarter and the Lakers could not take advantage because of how well Denver's bench played. The two best players in the series so far have been Murray and Jocic. Labron James and Anthony Davis have played pretty well but not nearly well enough to believe that they have any chance of bouncing back from a three-game deficit to win the series.

LeBron got off early in Game 4 and will get some hate regardless of what he does and Davis had some good games and huge defensive moments throughout, but this one was all Nuggets.

Had just posted about Murray in another thread before I'd read this one. Definitely getting love but I still see him as very underrated-- wouldn't necessarily want him surrounded with four replacement level players in Portland or New Orleans if I'm trying to go to the playoffs, but he might be the perfect pairing with Jokic.

Watching this series made me realize how many offensive fouls Jokic seems to get away with at times-- there aren't many players who get to dip their shoulder and displace a post defender over and over like he's able to.

Will be an interesting series with Miami-- won't even entertain Boston being in the discussion for a few days after the way they looked in Game 3 and expect that series to wrap up in no less than 5. Will be interesting to see if Miami puts Adebayo on Jokic (whether straight up or on switches... as I anticipate that they'll do a lot of each in spurts) and whether he's able to bull him around.