FIRST TAKE | “Nikola Jokic is a absolute BEAST on court!” – Stephen A. on Nuggets CRUSH Grizzlies

FIRST TAKE | “Nikola Jokic is a absolute BEAST on court!” – Stephen A. on Nuggets CRUSH Grizzlies

Maybe not the best transition to the old Celtics Nuggets NBA Finals match up but it’s just one game Christian Brown he had to wear that strawther Gonzaga Jersey cuz his Jayhawks got rolled by the zags over the weekend looks like the nuggets are ready to roll the grizzley Y

It’s just insane on the receiving end the boot the soft touch up and in Denver by 15 after one no Jamal Murray no Aaron Gordon for the Champs didn’t matter some great passing nuggets are going to roll they’re going to go up 17 they have a great nucleus and they’re rounding into

A nice young core joic found himself two assist shy of yet another triple double 291 and eight dimes Brown was great 8 for 10 shooting nuggets up 26 they will roll they are 15- two since the allstar break and they are sitting a top the

West the same way they were a year ago with an easy 25o win Memphis Grizzlies they win 128 to 103 for those who need help with math a 25o victory for the Nuggets who are now 3 and0 against the Grizzlies this season welcome to the Nuggets locker room report presented by

Your Front Range Toyota dealers Katie wiie and Bill hanslick H big defensive game from the Denver Nuggets was great to have Nicole yic back seven players in double figures what can you say about this team well you know what I like you said it defensively the Nuggets jumped

On them right off the bat they had three steals in the first minute and 20 seconds and uh Memphis couldn’t get a timeout quick enough they jumped out that lead they never relinquished well Nicole yic was back in action for three quarters tonight that’s all they needed

From the Joker in this one to get the win big performance from him 29 Points 11 rebounds eight assists what did you like most about the way he attacks well I like the end of those things I loveed how he he it was just everywhere all night as usual drawing fouls from three4

Court uh passing scoring but Katie you realize he had three Steals and one floor mop with about 3 minutes to go in the fourth quarter got out there on his own mopping the floor in front of the bench the guy just does it all he does

It all he does it all he’s a full team player Nicole yic tonight 29 points against the Grizzlies earlier this season you see his numbers there he’s been very efficient against a depleted Memphis team clearly hands he’s had an aggressive mindset against yeah I mean well you Joker we’ve seen this before

Out of when he has he got a well I guess he was injured but we’ll call it a rest day you can’t say load manage so I’ll say a rest day no no no he just needed to deal with his low back pain yeah as

We all yeah do low back I have low back too but but when he comes back after missing a game you know gives him a couple he’s fresh Lively and choker was a just beautiful no Jamal Murray no Aaron Gordon tonight for the Denver Nuggets but turns out they didn’t

Necessarily need him because they had players like Christian Brown step up he is our ball future is in your hands player tonight 17 points for CB 8 of 10 from the field hands we talked about him in the pregame show about how he’s kind of coming back into himself how did you

See that again wow again same thing great play you know the one he’s developed the neck in that rebound C for you don’t see that many five is that many but three of them were offensive rebounds where he seems to Dart in and just come up with three or four

Grizzlies around him and he comes up with the ball gives a nugus extra possession and Katie he might start lobbying coach Malone and say you know I’m two and0 as a starter this year two and0 two starts two two wins I’m not sure he’s got much of an

Argument there because he knows his role is coming off the bench and making an impact probably two and0 though that’s pretty good yeah 100% when Christian Brown starts with uh Peyton Watson was another player that had a stellar stat line his first double double in the NBA 10 points 10 rebounds

P was flying all over the play hands how would you describe the way that pton Watson showed up he is super aggressive and blocking shots flying around every including that he had five fouls too but that’s okay he can’t take him home you can’t take him home be aggressive pton

That’s your game he did that tonight he scored he rebounded uh he ran the court well uh good night for PW yeah the three blocks were very impressive as they always are from Payton swatson let’s get to our Fanatics sports book picks the uh our our travel day home yesterday from

Portland was a nightmare and so you know it’s a long day of traveling uh did not have shoot around let the guys try to get some rest but uh that’s the way you want to start off a five-game home stand very businesslike approach very mature approach and uh you know we got

Contributions across the board tonight and uh that was really fun to watch some guys that you know with you know with Jamal and Aaron and Zeke all out some guys got a lot of minutes that they hadn’t gotten in a while and I thought they all you know made the most of those

Minutes so um that team right now Memphis they’re dealing with so many injuries so uh you know we we know who they are what they’re about and you know tonight we caught a break with them having so many guys out but we took advantage of it you know we didn’t mess

Around with the game and I wish that coming out of halftime we were a little bit more um serious with our approach maybe but uh you know we’re able to kind of get back to playing the way we needed to and uh and get a nice win Christian Brown’s

Making the most of every minute right now I assume that that’s what you were hoping for when you gave him the spot start yeah I mean he’s he’s been bag job cuz they got everything you know before I ask y’all a question you know it is interational

Women’s day and I’m not sitting here Molly’s on vacation but since I am sitting in Molly’s chair Rihanna could you come over here please I mean I just wanted to give a little tribute to Molly right here I mean could you just dab with me right there this is what Molly

Does when she when she’s in the chair whatever right there please right there take that’s what I’m saying I had to do that for Molly I had to do that I’m in Molly’s chair are you going to tell people the rules are you going to tell

People the rules of of first not to the ladies not not to the ladies this doesn’t apply to the ladies now Wendy knows as a man you speak when you’re spoken to okay no cussing address me at Stephen A or Mr Stephen A don’t ever ever badmouth the producers that would

Be including me cuz I’m the executive producer and of course no rude reactions okay let’s just get that out of the way thank you R thank you for taking care of me so much cuz every time showing up in the biggest moments now I saw some bright spots for the Celtics I loved

Drew holiday we got a little bit of his 20 uh 2021 Championship form knocking down threes being that clutch player late I like porzingis being able to stre stretch the floor he’s he’s got a help that efficiency a little bit I think he was like N9 for 23 or something from the

Field with 23 points those are good boosts but at the end of the day it’s that guy right there Nicola yic they have the best player on the floor with the Best Supporting Cast that is tailored to his needs I mean watching the game yic can get it from the

Perimeter he’ll get into on ball actions he’ll find someone open and and and then you go to the inside the paint I mean right there he’s back down and just when you feel like okay I’m going to send help he’ll throw a lob as you see there

To Aaron Gord who had 16 really crucial baskets or he’ll just finish you know with the right hand or the left he can’t be stopped on the inside he can’t stop finding his teammates like this is a team that is the best in the NBA the Denver Nuggets even though the Celtics

Are are doing I would say 99% of everything to put themselves in the position to rival them right now it’s the Nuggets Wendy I have no doubt that you probably feel the same way knowing you um who’s the team you give the best chance to beat Denver at this point

Because clearly after beat the best team in the NBA supposedly which is the Boston Celtics sweeping them in this series we’ve got to look at the Denver Nuggets as the favorites who do you see as the biggest threat to them I think it’s definitely Boston I I think at full power Minnesota is

Interesting I don’t think that they have quite enough I would like to see that series with Carl towns healthy I don’t know if we’ll get it um I do think Boston and there’s a couple of reasons one Boston I believe is going to end up having homecourt advantage against

Anybody in the west they’ve got a six-game lead over Denver right now even though Denver has the tie break now I don’t think they’re going to lose that lead so Denver is almost unbeatable at home they did lose at home earlier this week to Phoenix in overtime but they’re

Very hard to beat at home they were Untouchable at home in the playoffs last year other than when Miami got him in the one game in the finals so a series in this in this matchup would start in Boston and on the road Denver is just a little bit less potent

Now they are so they stress you out so much defensively the other thing is joic and this is this is a feather in his MVP case joic called on his team at the All-Star break I think he sent a group-wide text message and my guess is

He’s not that active on the group text on the team but I don’t know for sure but my guess is he’s not that active he sent a group message basically imploring his team let’s get it going and they’ve been almost Untouchable since they came back from the break and I kind of think

That that would start to show up in Road games but I do think that you have a little bit of an edge on them if you can get with a homecourt advantage and Boston would have that Stephen A if this was a seven game series and last night

Was game one I would still like Boston’s chances because I think that there were some matchup things that they found they used Drew holiday as a defender on jokic in the fourth quarter and they had a little bit of success they were able to get some stops they used porzingis they

Brought some double teams they were very effective in limiting the nuggets from three-point range also the Nuggets bench play better than they usually do I feel like this would be a six or seven game series and if you at home court maybe you get them Wendy I can’t believe I

Have to say this to you because I love you de you know that don’t ever take that long again on International women’s day I mean you taking time away from Jan you understand what I’m saying Jan go ahead Wendy went went on about a minute

To too long Wendy let’s real it back go ahead J go ahead look I agree with you that Boston probably has the best homec Court in the NBA based off what we’ve seen this season we’ve seen I mean we we’re coming off of not too long ago I

Know people remember the Cavs and people remember the Nuggets but I know people should remember also the Golden State Warriors yes the Warriors are not the Warriors of three or two even so years ago but still they have a very potent home court which you’re right that could

Be the equalizer but what I will say is this the nuggets have wins twice against Boston OKC they’ve beaten the Clippers and you’re looking at when they show up in those games how do they handle it they’ve handled the Celtics twice now maybe and and I learned this from Becky

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FIRST TAKE | “Nikola Jokic is a absolute BEAST on court!” – Stephen A. on Nuggets CRUSH Grizzlies