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Just play the game as normal."įor a franchise that has been going through a deliberately paced rebuilding process, the next step in that evolution is figuring out how to win crucial late-season games to make the playoffs. "Every game, it's like, 'Oh, the playoffs -if we lose this, we're not going to make the playoffs.'. "The playoff was too much pressure for us," he said, per Pat Graham of the Associated Press (via NBA.com ). Jokic said after the season was over that the Nuggets let the pressure of making the playoffs get to them. Portland held serve on its home floor with a 122-113 victory to take a one-game lead over the Nuggets.Īdding insult to injury from that late-season defeat, after Jusuf Nurkic was traded to the Trail Blazers by Denver in February, he scored a career-high 33 points in the win. Both teams were tied for the final playoff spot with matching 35-38 records. The key game in their regular-season series took place on March 28. One reason the Nuggets finished one game behind the Trail Blazers in the standings last season was because they lost three of their four head-to-head matchups.