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Avoiding the trap game, Lyles scoring well (not efficient as possible though). Hope Jokic gets in to score in double figures, make another triple double for the team and his legacy.

Just throwing this out there:
Congrats to Thomas Welsh in making his first NBA baskets, kids got a nice stroke.

What a pass by Plumlee to Lyles in the 4th. A "Jokic" pass.

Jokic is still reluctant to score but the team dominated in the second half, and Jokic got some rest. A much needed win at home.

TunaFish wrote:What a pass by Plumlee to Lyles in the 4th. A "Jokic" pass.

Jokic is still reluctant to score but the team dominated in the second half, and Jokic got some rest. A much needed win at home.

Should be valuable rest considering we have a B2B traveling to OKC tomorrow

Hope this will be a breakthrough game for Lyles, which is for me the biggest disappointment so far this season compared to expectations. Plumlee has a hot start of the season (per minute) but was little bit cooled lately, nice to see him once again hot, with a probably best game this season. Jokic has another "Rajuan Rondo" type of the game (but I doubt Rondo ever has 10 rebs in 20 minutes), and together with Plumlee and Jokic, Murray also has a notable all-around game tonight. Nice to see Juancho solved his FG% problem tonight. After upset vs Brooklyn, Denver have only two "must win" games (ATL and ORL), and I like to see both were blowout wins.

Millsap and Harris both playing under 25mins, both should be fresh tomorrow along with Jokic.

All of the OKC starters played big mins tonight (31+mins) but they do get to sleep in their own beds tonight.

Perhaps Malone got what his team needed from the bench tonight as far as mins go

Won 3 of 4 quarters (and lost that one by only 1 point).
Defense was not as impressive as the final score might indicate. Orlando just wasn't hitting shots and some of those were open. But there were more good stretches of defense than bad stretches.

Hernangomez gave a good effort on defense but I surely do wish he was taking more shots. He's out there to stretch the offense. (Not that we needed him in this game).
Millsap played the game he was hired for and I enjoyed watching him in this game.
Jokic had a poor shooting night but he had lots of touches, especially in the first quarter and he definitely impacted the game.
Murray had a bery nice all-around game.

Bench had a few rough stretches but a great game, especially Plumlee & Lyles - impressive. Don't underestimate the impact of Beasley's defense.