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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|**27**|**31**|**17**|**34**|**109**|[](/DEN)|
**CLE**|**29**|**37**|**26**|**29**|**121**|[](/CLE)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**39-82 (47.6)**|**14-29 (48.3)**|**17-23 (73.9)**|**9**|**33**|**23**|**11**|**7**|**5**|**21**|**109**|
[](/CLE)**CLE**|**45-82 (54.9)**|**11-27 (40.7)**|**20-26 (76.9)**|**11**|**47**|**30**|**13**|**6**|**5**|**18**|**121**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
M. Porter Jr.^^SF|27:24|7-15 (46.7)|5-9 (55.6)|2-2 (100.0)|1|6|0|2|1|0|2|21|-31|
A. Gordon^^PF|31:37|4-11 (36.4)|0-2 (0.0)|3-6 (50.0)|2|4|5|1|1|2|2|11|-18|
N. Jokic^^C|27:49|8-13 (61.5)|0-0 (0.0)|2-5 (40.0)|1|10|7|3|1|1|5|18|-16|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|30:39|2-9 (22.2)|1-5 (20.0)|4-4 (100.0)|2|2|2|1|1|1|1|9|-13|
R. Jackson^^PG|21:01|3-5 (60.0)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|2|2|0|2|7|-28|
J. Pickett|19:03|2-4 (50.0)|2-3 (66.7)|2-2 (100.0)|0|2|3|1|1|0|0|8|+7|
C. Braun|25:17|6-11 (54.5)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|2|0|0|0|0|1|13|+3|
Z. Nnaji|14:17|3-4 (75.0)|1-1 (100.0)|2-2 (100.0)|3|4|1|1|0|0|2|9|+7|
J. Holiday|17:21|2-3 (66.7)|2-3 (66.7)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|1|0|0|0|2|6|+1|
J. Strawther|19:52|2-6 (33.3)|1-3 (33.3)|2-2 (100.0)|0|2|1|0|0|1|4|7|+8|
H. Tyson|2:50|0-1 (0.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|+10|
C. Gillespie|2:50|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|+10|
**Totals**||**39-82 (47.6)**|**14-29 (48.3)**|**17-23 (73.9)**|**9**|**33**|**23**|**11**|**7**|**5**|**21**|**109**||
**DNP:** ***DeAndre Jordan***, ***Braxton Key***, ***Peyton Watson***
**Inactive:** ***Vlatko Cancar***, ***Jay Huff***, ***Jamal Murray***
**[](/CLE)CLE**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
D. Wade^^SF|24:18|2-4 (50.0)|2-4 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|10|2|0|2|0|1|6|+25|
E. Mobley^^PF|31:43|8-11 (72.7)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|3|10|5|2|0|2|3|16|+12|
J. Allen^^C|29:18|6-10 (60.0)|0-0 (0.0)|3-6 (50.0)|2|5|5|2|1|0|3|15|+42|
M. Strus^^SG|31:46|3-7 (42.9)|2-6 (33.3)|3-4 (75.0)|1|6|5|3|0|1|3|11|+14|
D. Garland^^PG|32:54|10-16 (62.5)|2-4 (50.0)|4-5 (80.0)|0|3|6|4|1|1|0|26|+18|
T. Thompson|10:52|2-4 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1-2 (50.0)|1|3|0|0|0|0|2|5|-23|
G. Niang|23:12|4-9 (44.4)|2-3 (66.7)|2-2 (100.0)|0|3|2|1|0|0|1|12|+11|
C. Porter|24:55|7-10 (70.0)|0-0 (0.0)|7-7 (100.0)|2|4|4|1|2|1|3|21|-2|
S. Merrill|23:47|3-10 (30.0)|3-9 (33.3)|0-0 (0.0)|1|2|1|0|0|0|2|9|-15|
E. Bates|4:25|0-1 (0.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|-12|
D. Jones|2:50|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-10|
**Totals**||**45-82 (54.9)**|**11-27 (40.7)**|**20-26 (76.9)**|**11**|**47**|**30**|**13**|**6**|**5**|**18**|**121**||
**DNP:** ***Caris LeVert***
**Inactive:** ***Ty Jerome***, ***Donovan Mitchell***, ***Isaiah Mobley***, ***Isaac Okoro***, ***Ricky Rubio***
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|46|4|18|2|43|13|18|[](/DEN)|
**CLE**|56|19|5|26|47|14|15|[](/CLE)|
**Lead Changes: 5** | **Times Tied: 8** | **Gametime: 2:05** | **Attendance: 19432**
*Officials: Tony Brothers, Brett Nansel, Lauren Holtkamp*
by BigHoneyBot
49 Comments
I bet our defensive rating will tank after this game and deservedly so. The team played no defense tonight for most parts of the game. Maybe Reggie revenge game tomorrow?
Tony Brothers is actual cancer
Primo Jokic slob game thanks for ruining my night fat ass
I thought that went well
Need Murray back ASAP, the bench can only function when he’s holding hands. Oh and fuck Tony Brothers
flush it
Never watching a Tony Fuckers game again it’s just not worth it
I blame these losses solely on the DNVR guys. After our hot start this year, they complained about nuggets winning being boring now.
#TRADE MALONE
Tough from the get go but there’s something about Cavs that always produces ugly games. Reggie was not it today. Onto the next one.
Is Julian strawther a talker bones Hyland? Are we sure he’s good?
Fuck Tony Brothers
Tony Brothers giving us thousands of FTs in garbage time just so it can look like the whistle was fair
https://preview.redd.it/vme67m8kne1c1.jpeg?width=238&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9919523b497ff2dc7e2d096cc38e8139b40b6b50
I swear this team forgot how to shoot 3 pointers these last 3 or 4 games.
I get that the bench offense was going to be rough without Jamal but they aren’t doing their gritty defense anymore, just no positives
Nuggets aren’t good on the road atleast not the regular season. Any team with smaller shifty guards that can penetrate the paint is going to kill us especially if they have lob threats. Without Mitchell, Cavs will go to that style with the ball in Garland hands. We probably should have pulled a Reggie for CB early in the third and tried going to a zone. The game really got out of hand then
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At work. Saw the losss. Anyone give me a brief breakdown??
November can fuck right off
I mean all of our money is tied up with the starters, makes sense that our bench would suck against Cleveland’s bench. We just don’t have the money to pay guys like Craig Porter Jr, Sam Merrill, Tristan Thompson.
Pistons are on a 11 games losing streak, they lost like 45 of the last 50 games so we should win, whats depressing is that we are like 5-6 points favorites đ
I would say Craig Porter going for 21 should tell u that Watson should play tomorrow.
I just spent the entire second half of the game at a Taco Bell waiting on my food. AMA.
I’m mad I was at this game. That Cavs team without Mitchell is bad, but hard to win 5 on 8.
In the last 6 games since Murray got injured, the Nuggets have managed to eek out a 3-3 record, but aside from a monster 2nd half in the first Pelicans game, they have looked pretty underwhelming without Jamal.
However, if ever there was a perfect spot for a âget rightâ game, itâs tomorrow ~~night~~ afternoon. See yâall in <24 hrs
Silver lining is that our youngsters got to play 15+ mins đ Next 6 games : Pistons, Magic, Rockets, Spurs, Clippers, Rockets again, 5 games vs extremely young teams and 1 vs old ass clippers
When Dean Wade hit a no scope 3, I knew it was over
colin gillespie +10. better than pickett confirmed
Sorry yâall I havenât watched the last couple games. Clearly this is on me
36 comments and the game ended 30+ mins ago, thats tanking numbers đ we have been slacking lately
Fake game, itâs November, we move.
Iâm already pissed on this game and now the Vikings are absolutely running down the throat of the Broncos.
I didnât watch this game, what happened??
I canât wait for Murray to come back.
Getting outrebounded 47-33 is disgusting, just gonna say that
Caldwell-Pope is not a starter. Afraid to participate offensively.
Shout out to Tony Brothers for giving the Nuggets a lot of pointless FTs after the game was out of reach (due to his biased FT calls) to make the game look falsely evenly officiated. That legit takes a scummy level of unprofessionalism and resentment toward Jokic
Nuggets are suffering from Rockiesites these last two years bad to mediocre on the road great at home
26/6/7 with 40% for 3 Murray had in the last playoffs. Those are LeBron’s career numbers + much better 3 pts. Denver won a ring with one of the best playoff releases ever by a player from Nikola + Murray with first line HOF playoff numbers. I think that somehow lulled FO and Malone. It will be much more difficult to defend the title.
The league is super stuck. A lot of other teams have “armed themselves” to the teeth. Minnesota is huge with a lot of athleticism and big bodies, Boston is as deep as the Mariana Trench, not to mention how strong Phoenix will be at full strength and a bunch of other strong teams.
Obviously, Malone is looking for some creation at position 1 from a lot of young guards, but maybe even a bigger problem right now is that the FO left Jordan sitting on the bench without even finding someone as useful as a backup center. This year the league is ultra loaded with superteams and supertalent, it’s hard that we will be able to do it again with only 8-9 players playoff rotation for 7 games against Boston and a few other teams.
Half the league has excellent players on the bench who almost always score 10, 15 or even 20 points. Reggie had some good games, but even when Murray returns, i doubt that he wit almost 34 and his isolation style of play will constantly contribute 10+ points, let alone more.
The benches of half the league literally constantly pop up with someone with 15, even 20 points, we don’t have that even close.
Even the Partizan Belgrade club found Kaminski for the Euroleague because this modern basketball requires centers who can hit from a distance and spread the game while FO lulled us with the title totally naively entered the season knowing that Jordan was washed and Cancar was injured.
Relying on some unproven potential from Zeke is very frivolous.
Bringing in Holliday who had a disastrous 36% fg and 28% for 3 as some reinforcement is very lukewarm.
Fortunately, it’s only the beginning of the season and i hope that FO will bring 2 more serious players before the playoffs. Especially a center who knows how to hit and grab some rebounds.
I think that Malone can’t get much more out of this roster without Murray at the moment, but he must at least try a different rotation because this one is obviously not working.
Denver could have found 2 better players than washed Jordan and Holliday, I hope they fix it by the playoffs. Plus Malone, looking for creation, falls into his old problem again, many guards on the floor + Jokic has never been a winning combination for us. Especially since these are young, super inexperienced guards.
If Tony Brothers was sinking in quicksand begging for a rope, I’d cut off a 6 inch peice and toss it at him, cackling.
Really a big part of the depth issue is Cancar being out.
He had outplayed Nnaji last year and would’ve been the guy to try and stabilize the bench. He did do that at times last year
Kings got our back we staying in second place bois
Our developmental coaches have been excellent in many ways, however, they have failed miserably at improving our touch around the rim.
1) Zeke Nnaji just throws fastballs at the backboard and rim when he drives, or is contested.
2) Christian Braun would average 15 per game if he didn’t resort to slinging the ball toward the goal when contested in the paint.
3) Other recent players who have had issues finishing in the paint: Bones Hyland, Bruce Brown, KCP, Will Barton (at the worst times), Mason Plumlee, and others.
Also: With how crafty Murray, Jokic, and Gordon are around the rim… it seems that there would be more skill sharing and mentoring to improve other guys. In my humble opinion, tangible improvement in this area could be a 5-10 point swing per game.
getting pissed off about the Broncos
What a pathetic fucking showing.
Tbh just make the playoffs with all that attention off of you guys and then make a deep playoff run again
As much as Reggie stepped up as of late, I miss Monte and Plumlee. Reggie not setting nobody up. Zeke is a 4, not a 5. We’ve had only 1 competent backup center since he left which is getting ridiculous now
I have watched a lot of diffetent sports. Never seen a single player get disrespected by officials like Jokic. It’s insane.
Man, it would be really cool if the Celtics could lose to the Grizzlies so I don’t feel as bad about the Nuggets losing tonight