Game 48: New York Knicks @ Denver Nuggets 9:00 PM ET

[ducler]

[NuggetsWY]

Knicks have been struggling lately, but their guys hustle. If the Nuggets want to win, they are going to have to match intensity. Jokic, Harris, Murray will probably do fine. It's going to take 50-60 points from the rest of the team. If Barton has another 0-for or close to it, that's going to make it rough. We need Lyles to score and hopefully Chandler too. My question is: who else is going to step up?

Who's going to cover Porzingis? He's a tall outside shooter that plays both center and PF. He's probably too quick for Jokic and Plumlee. That's a big question IMO.

[U hova]

Hope they play Lyles next to Jokic more.

[THE J0KER]

130+ game, flashes from last season type of game. Unlike in many matches from this season where the team played great 3rd quarter but with much of struggle in the rest of the match, they do opposite tonight, with a great 1-2-4 quarter and some struggle in 3rd only... and I like it!

Plumlee is used in the offense like Faried last season so he dunks 5 times after Jokic assists which should be a new formula for his game when he is on the floor with Nikola. Or we just use the fact that Enes Kanter, as usual, is not too much interested to play defense?

My favorite Nuggets stats tonight are our assists, 36 in a game which includes 10 from Jokic with just one turnover, 2nd Murray 5+ game in the row, and Mudiay 6 in just 13 minutes. Other stats category where we really rock tonight is 3pt shooting with 50% (14-28), including 4-6 from Harris and 5-9 from the Bench.

[NuggetsWY]

Several things to complain about but two things that really impressed me in this game.
1) Jokic on Porzingis defensively for much of the night and he did fairly well. He'll never be a defensive stopper, especially because he "roams", trying to help others. But he didn't let Porzingis have it easy.
2) Lyles - great night on offense and defense. Is he trying to become one of our top-3? He's definitely on my no-trade list.