J.E. Skeets

Denver is a really, really good team.

We've seen Ant have an awesome round one, an awesome round two, and the conference finals a little more hit or miss.

This is more like a conference finals level matchup with the Nuggets, but like you're saying, the Nuggets are pretty banged up.

All of their most athletic guys, it feels like, are the ones going down with injuries.

That's

certainly a concern against Anthony Edwards specifically.

And I mean, you got to worry about Aaron Gordon.

I think he'll come up definitely in the X factors when we're talking about that.

But yeah, I mean, these are two teams that have played each other a lot.

They play each other pretty well.

It did feel like the Timberwolves had the recipe for beating the Nuggets, but that was back when they had two seven footers.

That's not the case now.

So yeah, it's exciting.

I mean, this is pretty close to a real rivalry.

Yeah, I think.

Let's do X-Factors.

Get us started, TK.

Who are you going with?

I hesitate to call him an X-Factor, but Julius Randolph is the biggest question mark for me in this entire series, and specifically for the Timberwolves.

Just look at the playoffs last year.