Game 32: Minnesota Timberwolves (10-21) @ Denver Nuggets (13-18) - 9:00 PM ET

[ducler]

[skywalker33]

ducler, you do a fine job...but Nikola Jokic has been the starter for the past SIX games....get up to speed sir !!

[NuggetsWY]

Looking at matchups - Denver seems to have trouble with Minnesota
Towns is a handful for anyone and maybe more so for Jokic; here's betting Faried plays lots of minutes at center
Chandler's going to have his hands full against Dieng but Dieng is going to have difficulty with Chandler
Watch for Wiggins to have a good night with Gallinari on him - hoping coach plays smallish ball with Barton here
LaVine vs Harris is the best matchup - arguably LaVine is better but Harris is close
Mudiay might match up fairly well against Rubio but when Dunn comes in, I surely hope Murray is playing or at least Nelson

[Powder Blue]

Jokic with a dirty pass to Chandler, he's the best PG on the team


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[skywalker33]

Well, they TRIED to lose another one, nice block and a huge heady play by Harris. Looks like we can sneak into the 8th playoff spot if POR can continue leading SAC

[The Rebel]

Nurkic and Murray come in with the Twolves having a big lead in the 1st quarter, somehow games tied quickly. The 2nd half Nuggets have a big lead, let's throw Faried in at center, lead gets cut down? Who is the problem in this mix?

Also that was one heck of a goal tend by Towns, if a Nuggets player did that tonight he would have been called for over the back and offensive goal tending.

[Chuck Everett]

The obsession with Jameer Nelson late in ball games is going to be the death of many a Nugget fan.

[skywalker33]

The obsession with Jameer Nelson late in ball games is going to be the death of many a Nugget fan.

Have to admit, Mudiay earned the bench in the 4th qtr IMO. Murray would have been a better choice over Jameer though, he earned it

[skywalker33]

Nurkic made the most of his limited minutes, he deserves some more PT !!

[U hova]

yey juka played

[NuggetsWY]

Is Jokic a center? Looks like he's becoming comfortable as a stretch-4 and the way he leads the fast break, he'd make a nice PG. Milwaukee's got the tallest PG in NBA history; maybe we should try Jokic there? Just kidding, and don't think it would work, but then again ... ...

Malone had a weird defensive scheme to start the game with bigs covering littles and littles covering bigs. It didn't make sense. A center chasing a SF has got to be tough and the other matchups were almost as weird. Glad he didn't stay with it all game.

Towns & LaVine were held below their averages. That means our center defense and our SG defense was great.
Dieng & Wiggins were above their averages. That means our forwards' defense wasn't working so well.
Nuggets' starters all scored in double figures - that's sweet. Chandler was the only starter having a rough shooting night.
Gallinari didn't take his usual number of shots and didn't get to the FT line much.
-- I didn't realize that until I looked at the box score.
Mudiay had an OK night but I'm really beginning to believe he's more of a shooting guard than a PG.
Gary Harris might be the highest basketball IQ on the team (like that end of game toss to the back court),
-- but he has competition for that title.
Our shooting pct was great with 3 pt% just OK.
We outrebounded them by just a little but it was impressive because it was a team effort and no one player dominated.
15 turnovers is acceptable but still too high. It was no one player. Just some careless passing, mostly.
Nuggets starters seemed to play them even but the Nuggets bench seemed to be quite a bit better than the Twolves' bench.
Our bench vs: theirs
26 pts --- 8 pts
12 reb --- 10 reb
8 asts --- 5 asts

Shouldn't have been that close. Should have been a runaway, but at least they pulled it out. A somewhat boring game with an exciting ending.

[skywalker33]

yey juka played

And we got to see a bit more of Jurkic !!