The Nuggets won the game

And, I predict, will lose the series

If you didn’t see the end of Nuggets-Clippers Game 4, I’m sorry. LUKE HALES/GETTY IMAGES

As a fan, there’s nothing not to love about Aaron Gordon’s buzzer beating dunk of a Nikola Jokić missed 3. A back-and-forth pulse-pounding thrill-ride of a game makes that series, as promised by David Thorpe after Game 2, the one to watch.

It’s tempting, after all that, to see the Nuggets as the favorites in the series.

Then I got an email from TrueHoop reader Dave:

Watching [interim Nuggets coach David] Adelman not give any rest to his starters even while up 20 in the fourth, I had the same feeling you had watching Zach Edey in the national championship game. If the Nuggets had put in their worst five scrubs (or picked five random guys over 6-2 from the stands) for four minutes, it couldn’t have gone worse than it went with their gassed starters. And at least then they cou…