Game 52: Denver Nuggets (34-15) @ Minnesota Timberwolves (23-28) - 8:00 PM ET

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[THE J0KER]

Lifetime chance for coach Malone, which never before coached single playoff game, to reach against all odds the all-star game coaching job!

Also, this should be sweet revenge for last season anti-climax end when we lose that game in overtime in the same Arena.

Murray and Harris are out, but Derrick Rose and Covington too. We should win this game, but we still need to prove that we can play even close that good on the road games like we playing at home in Denver.

[THE J0KER]

Another weak 1st half in 2019, but no need to panic after -3 at halftime. I checked it now, Nuggets are #15 in 2019 with negative -0.2 net rating in 1st halves, but in 2nd halves, Nuggets led the league with +7.4.

We are 6-1 great this season in Division matchups and 7-1 impressive in the 2nd game of b2b games, so let's hope the trend will continue.

[skywalker33]

Beasley continues to impress, his games right now reflects the idea he should have been drafted higher had he not been injured. What a draft that was for us !!

[skywalker33]

While Joker needs to maintain his composure, really poor officiating

[THE J0KER]

T-Puppies have the last attack for a win, but we were lucky. Malone once again played with fire with Jokic minutes, and somehow survives. KAT played 37 and Jokic 29, if we lose it would be stat line to blame for, together with Beasley minutes which dropped for no reason from yesterday 41 to today 28 despite he has once again great shooting night (9-14).

But a win is a win, and this is very special for coach Malone which will coach now TeamLeBron in all-star games. It is just 2nd time in franchise history after Lary Brown achieved that in 1977 as Denver coach. Great honor for sure, it would be painful to miss that because of some dumb loss vs the same team which prevented last season Malone to have playoff debut.

Beasley and Morris are the best just when we need it from them, in two b2b games where we missed both starting guards. In these two games, Beasley and Morris shot together 35-55 (13-25 for 3p). Unreal.

Nice to see 20+ game from Barton. He recovering his trade value very well lately.

[eathb_au]

Thanks to Minnesota for making the last possessions easier by falling asleep on defense and running the last possession through Bayless

[NuggetsWY]

Biggest take away for me came during that 3rd period drought after Jokic's technical. Barton was throwing up wild and terrible shots but when Morris got the ball, he drove into the paint and drew a foul. That was when the team seemed to come out of their drought.