The #7 seed San Antonio Spurs will meet the #2 Denver Nuggets in the first-round of the NBA playoffs. Spurs begin a best of seven game series against the Denver Nuggets with the first game being held at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. This according to most NBA experts is supposed to be a tough challenge for the Denver Nuggets due to the fact that the Nuggets have no experience in the playoffs and the Spurs have made it every year for the past twenty years.
The Spurs main advantage in this series is that they have playoff experience while the Nuggets do not have a single player with playoff experience. The Denver Nuggets had the third best record in all of the NBA and the second best in the western conference but teven with the high seed the Spurs were the team they wanted to avoid in the first round.
Both teams are very similar both teams are lead by excellent head coaches that have a defense first mentality and that like ball movement. They key players for the Spurs will be power forward Lamarcus Aldridge and shooting guard Demar Derozan because everything the Spurs due revolves around then and because the Spurs relay on them to make big shots in games and to break opposing team runs. Derozan is the most athletic player on the Spurs and will definitely give the Nuggets problems because they have no one who can match up with him.
The Nuggets are coming in completely inexperienced only one player on there team has playoff experience. Everything around the Nuggets revolves around Center Nikola Jokic. Like he has to touch the ball in order for them to score and leads there team in every statistical category. They have one X factor, that is point guard Jamal Murray who will make baskets thing will give you a heart attack so Spurs point guards Derrick White and Patty Mills will have their hands full with Murray. The Nuggets are the youngest team in the playoffs this season so I would expect some early mistakes in game one but be fine soon after.
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