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Even though it's a road game, this team has to know the importance for their playoff future/ They better play mad and with a vengeance and not look ahead to CLE tomorrow.

skywalker33 wrote:Even though it's a road game, this team has to know the importance for their playoff future/ They better play mad and with a vengeance and not look ahead to CLE tomorrow.

Haven't seen too much "mad" from the Nuggets. Plumlee, maybe - Perhaps Millsap can bring that - Chandler has brought a little bit lately - not too much from anyone else though.

Anyone else notice how often Murray starts out slow ?

Why does it feel like the nuggets haven’t got a call for a month?

Well, Chandler is just in for a paycheck tonight....

Another turnover filled game for the Nuggets, considering the importance, seems they're looking forward to tomorrow night's game

Two games of Millsap back and Jokic is relegated to second class citizen again, Malone is not big fan of Jokic I think.

skywalker33 wrote:Anyone else notice how often Murray starts out slow ?

Millsap factor.

Anyone else feeling a bit of de ju vu ??

Mickey8 wrote:Two games of Millsap back and Jokic is relegated to second class citizen again, Malone is not big fan of Jokic I think.

Man-crush never left, did it ??? Stupid statement, IMO. Jokic having a poor game and it's someone else's fault

Of course is his faul , its not poor game by Jokic, who took only 4 shots in the game, never seen the coaches mishandling their star playes, like Malone is doing second season in the row, I guess old man Millsap is the player that Denver is building its future around. The kid Just averaged triple double in February and Malone decided to have Millsap being new go to guy

Mickey8 wrote:Of course is his faul , its not poor game by Jokic, who took only 4 shots in the game, never seen the coaches mishandling their star playes, like Malone is doing second season in the row, I guess old man Millsap is the player that Denver is building its future around. The kid Just averaged triple double in February and Malone decided to have Millsap being new go to guy

Couldn't be he's playing against one of the best defensive centers in the game today ???

Mickey8 wrote:Of course is his faul , its not poor game by Jokic, who took only 4 shots in the game, never seen the coaches mishandling their star playes, like Malone is doing second season in the row, I guess old man Millsap is the player that Denver is building its future around. The kid Just averaged triple double in February and Malone decided to have Millsap being new go to guy

Alright..... people here need to stop with blaming Jokic’s low shot totals on Malone. Jokic touches the ball every single half court possession. Usually like 4 or 5 times. If he wants to take a bunch of shots he can. That’s not his game.

He dropped 28 on him this season, almost had a triple double, Gasol is horrible this season Jokic never struggles against him , Jokic is not involved on the offense anymore by design, Malone is screwing him again, royally , screw Millsap.

Mickey8 wrote:He dropped 28 on him this season, almost had a triple double, Gasol is horrible this season Jokic never struggles against him , Jokic is not involved on the offense anymore by design, Malone is screwing him again, royally , screw Millsap.

You really have to get over this Jokic-Superman complex, it's ok that he isn't leading the league in scoring (and rebounding AND Assists) he's still playing well and he doesn't have to be THE MAN all the time,

Escaping with a win, bring on the CAV's. One thing I've noticed is on many of our B2B games, the 2nd home team is FULLY rested while we have to travel.....seems unjust.

skywalker33 wrote:

Mickey8 wrote:Two games of Millsap back and Jokic is relegated to second class citizen again, Malone is not big fan of Jokic I think.

Man-crush never left, did it ??? Stupid statement, IMO. Jokic having a poor game and it's someone else's fault

It is not just Jokic. Seems that team chemistry is broken. Chandler and Lyles are back into ghost mode, Murray and Jokic in single digits we have at two very first matches this season, and we have that disappointing 1-3 start when is obvious that something is wrong with a team spirit.

We played today against the only NBA team under .300 right now, and they played without 2nd best 2017-18 player Tyreke Evans. We have +15 in the 4th quarter, the game is over... but suddenly Memphis has 11-0 run vs our 2nd unit!? Two days ago, we wasted +19 late lead vs Clippers by our 2nd unit, but today we are just lucky because the opponent is in tank-mode and doesn't care about the result.

Its clear as the day that Malone is favoring Millsap when he's on the team, which mean boring offense that barely can beat bum teams like the Memphis. It's not coincidence that Murray is struggling the last two games as well .

Mickey8 wrote:Its clear as the day that Malone is favoring Millsap when he's on the team, which mean boring offense that barely can beat bum teams like the Memphis. It's not coincidence that Murray is struggling the last two games as well .

You are in danger to jump into the wrong point of the view. It is not coach job to favoring Curry or Durant, Harden or CP3, Cousins or Davis, Lowry or DeRozan, Towns or Butler, Westbrook or George... etc... etc... Coach job is to create synergy between best players, or at least to make them efficiently useful when they playing together. Some players are not suited each other, especially if they play at the same position, and in Jokic case we see it in past three years only in 3 cases (out of 25+ Nuggets teammates): Nurkic, Plumlee, and Mudiay. In Jokic-Millsap case there no excuses why it does not work so far, because they are almost perfect fits, at least in theory. Millsap and Plumlee are previously well known as big workers and team-players, so there is nothing to blame them because of the incompetent coach so many times used them this season "against" his own team on the wrong way.