The Denver Nuggets hit the road to Minnesota as they look to open up this second round playoff series here on Sunday night with a massive momentum boosting victory. Denver picked up a close and competitive victory in game number five at home with a great performance down the stretch from their key players in the final game of their series against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Now they will look to replicate that performance here in the opening game of this series as well. However, it’ll be interesting to see how they perform after a very long layoff having last played on Monday night. This will be a massive series for them if they want to defend their NBA title this season as they are facing off with the top team in the conference for at least the next four games.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota Timberwolves will look to keep their strong start to the postseason alive by remaining undefeated in the playoffs both at home, and overall. They did away with the Phoenix Suns in the opening round rather quickly by winning four consecutive games in the series to complete the sweep. However, the same can be said for Minnesota as it’ll be interesting to see how they perform after six days since their final game of the first round, and sometimes a long layoff can actually negatively impact a team more than positively impact them.
Nikola Jokić, and Michael Porter Junior will be the main factors for Denver in this game while Anthony Edwards and Karl Anthony Towns will be the key players for Minnesota. This should be yet another close and competitive matchup like we’ve throughout the majority of the games in the first round this postseason. As two of the top teams in the Western Conference and arguably the two title favorites in the conference will face off here on Saturday night in game one of their second round playoff series.
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History Between These Two Teams At this point in the season, every team in the league should be familiar with each other after playing throughout the regular season and having plenty of tape on each other as well. Denver and Minnesota are two teams that are very familiar with each other as they met multiple times throughout the season. On top of that, these superstars are constantly compared and analyzed against each other throughout the year as well.
The Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves met four times throughout the regular season and it was about as even as you could get. Both teams picked up a pair of victories in the series with both teams grabbing a victory on their home and both teams grabbing a victory on the road. For the most part, it was some pretty competitive and high scoring games throughout each and every meeting between the two teams this season and that is something you will be likely to see throughout this postseason series as well.
To surely nobody surprises, all four times these two teams met they had the same leading scorers, as Nikola Jokić would lead the way for the Denver Nuggets and Anthony Edwards would lead the way for the Minnesota Timberwolves. There is something you can expect to see throughout this postseason series as well, as Jokic and Edwards are the clear favorites to be the main factors for success throughout this series.
Today’s Predictions I am expecting another close and competitive matchup between the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves here on Saturday night in Minnesota. With both of these teams having 5+ day layoffs after their previous series, they should both be equally rusty and rested up for the opening game of this series on Saturday night. Which means you will likely see some very similar performances out on the court throughout the early stages of this game, but by the time they settle in you can expect a solid back-and-forth performance from both teams.
Despite the fact that this is the postseason, I don’t look for home court advantage to play a major role throughout this game or this series as both teams are very capable of winning away from home. This will likely be one of the best series of this year’s NBA postseason as both of these teams are more than worthy of going through the Western Conference finals and keeping their hopes of winning an NBA championship alive. This is a game that will likely go down to the wire and it will be one in the final two minutes of the contest or potentially overtime.
Tips For Betting The over/under on total points is currently set at 207.5 and that number has been surpassed by Minnesota and Denver in three of their four meetings in the regular season. Denver comes into this game averaging around 108 points per game this season and Minnesota comes into this game averaging around 118 points per game this season. which means you should certainly expect another high scoring contest between these two teams here on Saturday night in the opening game of their second round postseason series.
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