Welcome to Locked on Nuggets,

for your final 2019-20 Denver Nuggets in-season episode of Locked On Nuggets.

That was a lot of energy for a funeral.

Yeah, I'm trying to bring it.

I'm trying to bring it today.

In a rare role reversal, your Eeyore of the day is me, your host Matt Moore.

You find me on Twitter at HB Basketball.

Find the show at Locked On Nuggets.

And the pleasant, more reasonable

rabbits is Adam Marez from D&R. This world's finest recap of Game 5 of the Western Conference

Finals, a Lakers victory that sends the Lakers into the Western Conference Finals. Finally, after

10 long years, the Lakers are back in the western conference finals today we'll talk

about game five and what went on we'll talk about what the future of this team looks like and the

important decisions right off the bat as a table setter for your offseason discussions which there

will be many and we'll talk a little bit about what this team meant to Denver Nuggets fans and to those

of us watching it from a media perspective. Adam, let's start here. What was your big takeaway

from Game 5 as far as the basketball goes? As far as the basketball goes, well, number one,

you know, we've complained twice in this series, game four and game two,

game one about foul trouble and then specifically foul trouble to Denver's front court,

you know, key players, including Yokic.

This was a game that the Nuggets had to have and Yokic picked up what I thought were some silly fouls

that you point to and you go,

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