"He won us the game" - Nuggets Sound Off On Christian Braun's Playoff-Career-High Performance! 👀

You in the past have said about Christian Brown, you just call him a winner, he's a winner. When you see him play like he did tonight, what are your thoughts and two, what did you get a chance to say to him after the game? I mean, I told him you won us the game and like you said he's a winner and he won us the game with energy, with just the focus, the mindset, even when he makes a mistake it's an aggressive mistake so you cannot be mad at him, I always say that. So he won us the game and he was really good tonight. Yeah, he knows what to do to stay on the floor. He's solid on defense, shoots the gaps, plays hard, in the right spot he crashes, plays solid defense, so he knows the offense will come when he's doing those things and he's playing with a lot of confidence, we're finding him like he's a five year vet, he's just playing the game the right way. Every game, even if he makes mistakes, he knows how to bounce back and I think that's huge for a rookie, especially in these kind of minutes and he's got a lot more game to come, not just in these finals but for his career, we're excited to see what he can do. Man, it's rare, he's a very rare rookie, other than myself, I wouldn't be able to think of anybody else. This is a rare rookie right here man. From day one he's been on top of it, this is a real winner right here and I say that because he's always in the right spot, he's in the right place at the right time and he's been doing that all year, he's been doing that from day one and nothing changes, he's in the right place at the right time on the biggest stage and now you guys are getting to see it. Vinny Benedetto with the Denver Gazette, Michael you mentioned Christian's confidence, is that something he showed up with on day one or have you seen him grow into himself over the course of the season? No, he showed up with that, I mean that young man, like I said earlier Vinny, when you win three straight high school state championships, when you win a national championship in which he never came out of the game, played all 40 minutes, he's very confident and he should be, I mean like we believed in him, we drafted him and he's everything we hoped for and more but that confidence is something that his mother, his father, his family, I think he's had from a very early age. Christian, Mike said that he felt you were oozing confidence coming into tonight's game, what was it that made him think that and how much did that have to do with you being able to defend tonight, even against Jimmy? Yeah, I mean the guys trust me all year, so when I get in the game I just try to defend and do the little things, obviously make it easier on me and like I said my job's not very hard, I just got to come in, play with energy and they find me in the right spots on offense and the defense just give effort, so those guys have trusted me all year and put me in the right spots and my job's to deliver.