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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**HOU**|**24**|**23**|**25**|**28**|**100**|[](/HOU)|
**DEN**|**44**|**30**|**22**|**24**|**120**|[](/DEN)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/HOU)**HOU**|**37-88 (42.0)**|**12-41 (29.3)**|**14-18 (77.8)**|**10**|**39**|**19**|**14**|**5**|**6**|**20**|**100**|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**44-83 (53.0)**|**17-32 (53.1)**|**15-20 (75.0)**|**8**|**42**|**30**|**11**|**6**|**8**|**21**|**120**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
B. Brown^^SF|34:22|6-13 (46.2)|4-7 (57.1)|2-2 (100.0)|0|5|4|1|2|0|3|18|+12|
A. Gordon^^PF|31:15|7-12 (58.3)|2-4 (50.0)|4-7 (57.1)|2|6|2|1|0|1|2|20|+12|
N. Jokic^^C|27:33|7-9 (77.8)|2-3 (66.7)|1-1 (100.0)|1|9|12|4|1|1|5|17|+10|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|24:55|2-7 (28.6)|1-3 (33.3)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|2|1|2|1|1|5|+8|
J. Murray^^PG|30:37|9-15 (60.0)|4-6 (66.7)|4-5 (80.0)|1|4|2|0|0|0|2|26|+8|
V. Cancar|21:14|5-6 (83.3)|3-4 (75.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|5|0|1|0|0|2|13|+18|
I. Smith|22:58|3-10 (30.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|2|7|0|0|2|0|6|+19|
D. Jordan|18:36|3-4 (75.0)|0-0 (0.0)|2-3 (66.7)|2|6|1|2|0|2|3|8|+14|
D. Reed|20:30|2-6 (33.3)|1-4 (25.0)|2-2 (100.0)|0|2|0|0|1|1|3|7|+9|
C. Braun|3:06|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|-3|
Z. Nnaji|3:06|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|-3|
J. White|1:45|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-4|
**Totals**||**44-83 (53.0)**|**17-32 (53.1)**|**15-20 (75.0)**|**8**|**42**|**30**|**11**|**6**|**8**|**21**|**120**||
**DNP:** ***Bones Hyland***
**Inactive:** ***Collin Gillespie***, ***Jeff Green***, ***Michael Porter Jr.***, ***Peyton Watson***
**[](/HOU)HOU**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
E. Gordon^^SF|18:32|1-4 (25.0)|0-3 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|3|0|0|0|2|-11|
J. Smith Jr.^^PF|31:00|5-12 (41.7)|3-6 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|4|3|1|1|1|4|13|-15|
A. Sengun^^C|29:27|8-12 (66.7)|0-2 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|3|11|1|2|0|0|3|18|-4|
J. Green^^SG|34:54|6-16 (37.5)|1-7 (14.3)|3-5 (60.0)|1|3|3|2|0|0|1|16|-16|
K. Porter Jr.^^PG|32:03|8-18 (44.4)|5-7 (71.4)|2-2 (100.0)|2|6|5|3|1|0|5|23|-14|
K. Martin Jr.|18:52|1-3 (33.3)|0-1 (0.0)|1-2 (50.0)|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|3|-16|
U. Garuba|14:47|1-3 (33.3)|0-2 (0.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0|2|1|1|1|2|2|2|-11|
T. Eason|13:59|0-5 (0.0)|0-4 (0.0)|4-4 (100.0)|2|5|2|0|1|1|2|4|-8|
D. Nix|15:57|3-7 (42.9)|1-5 (20.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|3|2|1|0|0|0|7|-6|
B. Fernando|6:46|0-2 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|1|2|0|0|0|2|1|2|-2|
G. Mathews|20:36|2-4 (50.0)|2-4 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|2|6|0|
J. Christopher|3:06|2-2 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|1|1|0|0|4|+3|
**Totals**||**37-88 (42.0)**|**12-41 (29.3)**|**14-18 (77.8)**|**10**|**39**|**19**|**14**|**5**|**6**|**20**|**100**||
**DNP:** ***Boban Marjanovic***
**Inactive:** ***Darius Days***, ***Trevor Hudgins***, ***Jae’Sean Tate***, ***TyTy Washington Jr.***
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**HOU**|46|7|9|0|28|14|12|[](/HOU)|
**DEN**|50|12|26|33|34|12|19|[](/DEN)|
**Lead Changes: 0** | **Times Tied: 0** | **Gametime: 2:03** | **Attendance: 16286**
*Officials: Michael Smith, Kevin Scott, Cheryl Flores*
by BigHoneyBot
33 Comments
A near munder miss and a near tripdubsky miss
3 blowouts in a row is pretty decent, eh?
Not much else you can say about this one, the entire team went off against the rockets. Domination from start to finish.
Jokic felt like he was barely paying attention and still put up a great game lmao. Just typical greatness.
AG doing AG things, dominating the paint and playing good defense.
Murray is getting his legs under him, another great scoring game and he’s driving a LOT more to the rim as of late. It feels inevitable that he’ll eventually have a huge scoring game.
The bench has been great with vlatko/ish, ish provides good pick and roll game, feeding DAJ in the right spots(7 assists to 0 turnovers), makes defensive rotations and plays surprisingly good defense, blocking multiple jump shots already.
If the bench continues to be positive (or even neutral) then the nuggets can win a shit ton of games. Our starters can beat any team in the league, if the bench can maintain/build on leads, it’ll be really helpful.
I always seem to sit next to people who pull stats out their ass to seem cool lol. Some dude kept saying Jokic wears 15 because he was the 15th pick and 14 teams passed on him
Hell yeah, I didn’t want to see a loss!
Murray is back 😎
Jokic’s post-covid triple 0.444% 🤓
Cancar cemented himself in the rotation💪
Ish has to play in the playoff👽
Gordon light LeBron 😮
Brown is amazing💥
Every game without red-faced Malone is great🙃
Munderrrrrr!!! Nooooo 💔
He’ll mess around and get another MVP, won’t he?
Gentleman’s munder, love it
Jamal Murray this November played in 11 of 14 possible games, missing 2 to Covid and 1 to not playing in both games of a B2B. He averaged 30.0 MPG, 20.0 PPG 4.3 RPG and 5.7 AST on .459/.404/.838 splits and a 3.15 AST:TO. He was an average +/- of +6.6 and was a positive in 9 of the 11 games he played in.
That’s way ahead of where I would have expected.
Moment of the game: some dude trying to get the wave going in the crowd and damn near nobody wanting to oblige.
I’ll take the win, but Malone does Jokic dirty by constantly pulling him when he’s 1 rebound or 1 assist away from a triple double. Those actually mean something for Jokic. They help get him MVP and increase his value. Reward your player by letting him get the TD and then bring in the bench.
Someone tell me deandre Jordan’s plus minus
Nikola “Almost a Good Game” Jokic
nuggets taking care of business is very benefitial to my mental health
Jokic has been shooting the three well recently
I wonder if the Covid infection helped him rest his wrist for once
The sunny guys from Phoenix are annoyingly good.
Hot take:
We can win 60+ games this year if the bench keeps up their positive play. All the nuggets need is a bench that can maintain leads and it should be smooth sailing.
Malone is pissed at the second half at the presser lol
It’s time for local news to get with the program and stop leading sports segments with the Broncos. Lead with the Nuggets now.
0 lead changes 🫡
I think the Nuggets won?
Great stuff
Not playing down to the opponent is definitely the better strategy.
Mods forgive me if I’m annoyingly signal boosting the player rating survey but I just wanted to give people a chance to vote who will never scroll back down to the bottom.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfavKw8Y-Xd-eAF4Hs0GRyTQkGL3yIGHJlyQ0RRbnSJj_0LUQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
10-4 month we like and if joker wasn’t protocoled they’re prob going 12-2 if not better
This lakers Portland game has me rooting for both sides to lose
Our starting lineup is so balanced. Jamal is almost back
Spread and the under, lfg!
Great win! Even better than Monday!
Couple of tough road tests coming up!
I’ll be at the Nuggets-Pelicans game in NO! Hope it’s a fun battle.
Is 17-32 from 3 good?
No munder? Fire Malone
I love Jokic’s 3pt shot fake to pass move. It’s like his peripheral vision is 20/20. 6 minutes left in the 2nd quarter assist to Gordon is a good example
Does anyone know where I can find the video of the Jokic speed painting from a couple weeks ago? I heard DNVR talk about it but missed it.