Despite winning 46 games last season, not too many analysts or fans expected that the Denver Nuggets would be a top-three team in the Western Conference this season. Yet the Nuggets have a chance to clinch the no. 2 seed in the West with a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. And Nuggets point guard Isaiah Thomas–somewhat of an underdog in his own right–says that Denver is not stopping come playoff time.
Thomas spoke to Marc Spears of The Undefeated about Denver's playoff hopes in a recent piece about extending his basketball playing career:
The Nuggets are a talented team with limited playoff experience outside of Paul Millsap and yourself. Why should we believe in this team?
I believe in us because I’ve been around it every day and I see our talent. I see what we can be. For anybody else, they’re not going to believe it. I’ve been on the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference and they didn’t believe in us for years. I understand that. Nobody’s gonna believe in us.
We have nobody that’s on this team that has a big role, other than Paul Millsap, who’s been in the playoffs and done that. We’re going to be counted out, and hopefully all these guys expect that because then we can shock the world.
Despite a number of injuries and some early internal turmoil, the Golden State Warriors essentially cruised to the top seed in the West, and are the likely favorite to win their third straight NBA championship.
But if Thomas and the Nuggets get their way, the Warriors may not ever get that chance.
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