Game 53: Denver Nuggets (23-29) @ New York Knicks (22-32) - 7:30 PM ET

[ducler]

[NuggetsWY]

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[NuggetsWY]

Watching the game tonight, wondering if any former Knicks will get arrested or maybe someone actually attacks Dolan or Jackson instead of letting the Knicks PR generate the attack (or so it seems). Most Knicks fans do not seem happy, but that's been an increasing feeling in New York for many years now. A once proud franchise ...

As for the game, O'Quinn has been playing well at center, but Jokic deserves the nod. Porzingis probably gets the nod at PF and much as I hate to say it, Anthony gets the nod at SF. If Rose is "on", he gets the nod at PG. Of course he runs hot-n-cold, so who knows. Harris takes the nod at SG for sure.

Let's see, that's 2 for the Nuggets & 3 for the Knicks, but somehow the Knicks just seem better at losing than the Nuggets (by far). Their players may seem better, but their team is not. Should be an easy win for the Nuggets IMO.

Score? Uh, yeah, 124-112 LOL but don't trust me, I'm seldom close.

[NuggetsWY]

Absolutely hate Barton playing the point. He is not a point. He is a spot-up shooter that is very good at driving. When he brings the ball up court, he just passes it to someone else, instead of trying to direct traffic or find an open player or wait for a play to develop or whatever. Another player, playing out of position and worse, he's usually playing point when Murray is in there.

No question Murray still has a lot to learn at the point. But what drives me nuts is that Malone threw Mudiay in from day one and now he protects Murray? Doesn't make sense. He still had other options last year, besides Mudiay.

[NuggetsWY]

Murray & Nurkic didn't get enough minutes to really get into the game, although some other players had enough minutes that you could see them giving up on plays because they were too tire
Nelson played fairly well tonight
Arthur was fair, but seemed a little off
Hernangomez hustled and had some good plays
Barton had a decent game - fairly active
Chandler had a decent game also
Harris needs to shoot more!
Jokic - well, I'd say he needs to do more, but what more could he do? LOL

I under-estimated the score; but even that rather high prediction could not begin to touch the poor defense these two teams exhibited.

[McNuggets]

Absolute Monster game Jokic. Denver still does not know how to play defense.

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[The Rebel]

You know watching this game I am reminded how many of these guys actually came from the Melo deal. Directly through the Melo deal Harris and Nurkic came from the 2014 1st round pick we got from the Knicks when they used it to trade back, Murray came from the swap this year, Arthur came from trading Koufos who was part of the Melo deal, and we got the 2 2nds this year from trading the other guy from that deal in Joffrey, and of course Gallo, Chandler, and Faried

Felton was actually traded for the pick that became Jordan Hamilton, Rudy Fernandez, and a 2014 2nd round pick. That pick though actually was Devyn Marble which the Nuggets traded along with Fournier for Afflalo, than of course Afflalo was traded for Barton and a 1st round pick, which became Beasley.

directly or indirectly we got
Murray/
Harris/ Barton/ Beasley
Gallo/ Chandler
arthur
Nurkic

Also one hell of a night from Jokic.

[skywalker33]

Watch on YouTube

This guy is awesome.

We get that a LOT !

[NuggetsWY]

Watch on YouTube

This guy is awesome.

We get that a LOT !

and then once in a while we get an idiot that says, "I've never heard of Jokic" or "He couldn't be any good because only Denver fans like him"

[Chuck Everett]

Jokic worked the Knicks, like he was James Dolan's security team and they were Charles Oakley.