Game 77: Denver Nuggets (51-25) @ Golden State Warriors (52-24) - 10:30 PM ET

ducler · Post #1 » by **ducler** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 7:06 pm

Post #2 » by **NuggetsWY** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 7:32 pm

Nuggets have scored over 100 points only once in the last five games. Millsap scores just over 10-12 points per game. Jokic & Murray are carrying the team because no one else is scoring as much as Millsap. Against the Warriors, that won't work.

Suggestions:
1. Throw the ball to Jokic in the high post and then cut and slash and run the baseline and just flat out move instead of standing around waiting for Jokic to do something spectacular.
2. Throw the ball to Jokic in the low post and then cut and slash and run the baseline and just flat out move instead of standing around waiting for Jokic to do something spectacular.
3. Jokic needs to look to the basket whenever he is open. We need him to score! That will make the passing easier (if everyone moves) because teams are playing him to pass, not shoot.

Has anyone noticed that Morris & Beasley are shooting 3s at 40% on the season and much better than that lately?

SkillzFromThe6 · Post #3 » by **SkillzFromThe6** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 7:51 pm

Just get Gary Harris to stick on Klay and don't get him switched off and it'll be a close game.

Post #4 » by **THE J0KER** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 7:55 pm

If you want to beat Golden State, you need just two things: 1) Warriors to underperform, 2) Your team to overperform

TorontoBaller · Post #5 » by **TorontoBaller** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 10:05 pm

Gstate hasn’t been playing that well recently

You can take this.
Gotta jump on them early and beat them up the whole time

Refs are going to let you play

Post #6 » by **NuggetsWY** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 10:05 pm

SkillzFromThe6 wrote:Just get Gary Harris to stick on Klay and don't get him switched off and it'll be a close game.

Good luck - Malone seems to have them switching on every pick and they are terrible about switching out of bad matchups.

FilNugsFan · Post #7 » by **FilNugsFan** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 1:53 am

It's either we win by the slimmest of margins or we lose via blowout.

manchambo · Post #8 » by **manchambo** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 2:48 am

AWESOME effort so far.

manchambo · Post #9 » by **manchambo** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 2:58 am

Barton has to be smarter than to dribble it down to five seconds and feed the ball to Plumlee.

manchambo · Post #10 » by **manchambo** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 3:05 am

Has anyone else noticed that Barton sucks?

SkillzFromThe6 · Post #11 » by **SkillzFromThe6** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 3:39 am

manchambo wrote:Has anyone else noticed that Barton sucks?

GSW going at him on purpose.

Post #12 » by **THE J0KER** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 3:55 am

This is Malone 4th season, but he is for the first time coach of a playoff team, so he still needs to learn even some basic things. In a game of this importance, you can't play your usual 10+ players rotation, nor making such big mistakes in playing time distribution. What for example out of shape Lyles doing in a game like this? Why Jokic played just 16 minutes in a game like this (first half), less than any Warriors starter? Why, in a game like this, out of all our player only (guess who?) Barton played 18+ minutes in the 1st half?

We are not the same team on the road, and Rockets and Warriors are healthy and highly motivated, so I really don't have big expectations from our late road games in Houston and Oakland. But I'm unhappy to see we lose both games already in the 1st half despite leading after opening 10 minutes.

manchambo · Post #13 » by **manchambo** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 4:10 am

THE J0KER wrote:This is Malone 4th season, but he is for the first time coach of a playoff team, so he still needs to learn even some basic things. In a game of this importance, you can't play your usual 10+ players rotation, nor making such big mistakes in playing time distribution. What for example out of shape Lyles doing in a game like this? Why Jokic played just 16 minutes in a game like this (first half), less than any Warriors starter? Why, in a game like this, out of all our player only (guess who?) Barton played 18+ minutes in the 1st half?

We are not the same team on the road, and Rockets and Warriors are healthy and highly motivated, so I really don't have big expectations from our late road games in Houston and Oakland. But I'm unhappy to see we lose both games already in the 1st half despite leading after opening 10 minutes.

IDK. Everyone sucks tonight. It’s not like Harris and Barton are lighting it up and he’s putting other guys in instead.

manchambo · Post #14 » by **manchambo** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 4:16 am

Can one **** player hit a shot? What’s wrong with Harris?

Manolito · Post #15 » by **Manolito** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 4:31 am

We have a back to back tomorrow in less than 20 hours....please Malone rest the starters

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RRFB · Post #16 » by **RRFB** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 6:28 am

I still think this game says more about the Warriors than the Nuggets, but this team desperately needs to get back to its offensive identity. I can't believe how bad their shot selection and matchup recognition has been at times lately. The good news is that they've always bounced back strong after getting punched in the mouth this season. Hopefully that's the case tomorrow.

Post #17 » by **NuggetsWY** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 11:55 am

Okay, the offense was bad but on defense everything looked disconnected, disjointed, and discombobulated. How many times did we see two Nuggets covering one player with another player rolling to the basket totally open? These were clearly not double teams since it was loose coverage - leaving easy passing options.

We were also totally destroyed on the boards - rebounding is clearly effort & positioning.

Durrant was clearly dominating and it just seems like our best matchup with him would be Craig but we didn't see much of that.

Did you notice Golden State had more turnovers than Denver? Fascinating!
Oh yeah, Denver had more steals too. Very interesting!

It was nice to see Malone empty the bench during what was clearly garbage time.

Morris, Craig, & Vanderbilt seemed to be communicating on defense - sorta weird for the Nuggets IMO.

U hova · Post #18 » by **U hova** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 2:07 pm

Great to see Vanderbilt on court!!!

Powder Blue · Post #19 » by **Powder Blue** » Wed Apr 3, 2019 3:10 pm

THE J0KER wrote:This is Malone 4th season, but he is for the first time coach of a playoff team, so he still needs to learn even some basic things. In a game of this importance, you can't play your usual 10+ players rotation, nor making such big mistakes in playing time distribution. What for example out of shape Lyles doing in a game like this? Why Jokic played just 16 minutes in a game like this (first half), less than any Warriors starter? Why, in a game like this, out of all our player only (guess who?) Barton played 18+ minutes in the 1st half?

We are not the same team on the road, and Rockets and Warriors are healthy and highly motivated, so I really don't have big expectations from our late road games in Houston and Oakland. But I'm unhappy to see we lose both games already in the 1st half despite leading after opening 10 minutes.

I don't think playing the starters more would have mattered, with a B2B I'm fine with the deeper rotation. We had no shot at winning this game, the Warriors bring the heat against us now.

This loss isn't concerning to me but our play overall lately is. Most nights it doesn't seem like we're getting much production for the 2-3 and we're generally a soft team, that won't bode well in 2 weeks.