“I want to say something good about him, but he’s over there,” Millsap quipped. Told that he’d been scurried away to another interview, Millsap obliged. “Joker’s not your typical young guy,” Millsap said. “If you asked me what age he is, I’d think he’s 30. But then when you have a conversation with him and you watch him with his video games …” Millsap trailed off. “He knows what this moment is about.”
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Position: F-C
Born: 02/10/85
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:244 lbs. / 111.1 kg.
Salary: $29,230,769
Born: 02/10/85
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:244 lbs. / 111.1 kg.
Salary: $29,230,769
Harrison Wind: Jamal Murray on Paul Millsap last night to @3DTV: “He’s the MVP of our team right now. What he does on and off the court, what he says, how much he talks, how he holds himself in the game it’s contagious. We need that from him in the playoffs and tonight was just another example”
Denver rode a remarkable fourth-quarter resurrection from the third-year guard Jamal Murray to rally to a 114-105 victory over the Spurs that did far more than even this Western Conference first-round series at one game apiece. “Definitely saved the season,” Paul Millsap, Denver’s veteran forward, said in a quiet moment at his locker. “To go down, 0-2, against the San Antonio Spurs, going into their place, it’s a massacre waiting to happen.”
The Nuggets have only three players (Millsap, Barton and Mason Plumlee) who appeared in a playoff game before Game 1 of this series, and they acknowledge it’s an obstacle, especially against a team that can carry out a game plan like the Spurs. “Yes, playoff basketball is everything everybody says it is,” Harris told me Monday, on the eve of Game 2.
Harrison Wind: Paul Millsap on his advice to the Nuggets’ young guys: “Don’t overthink it. At the end of the day you’ve just got to go out there and play basketball. The scout is the scout. Just don’t overthink playing basketball. Don’t second guess yourself. Just get out there and play ball.”
Tom Orsborn: Paul Millsap expects Pop to play “some mind games” with the young Nuggets: “He’s seen it all, done it all. We will hopefully be prepared for it, for whatever they throw at us.”
