Game 62: New Orleans Pelicans (28-36) @ Denver Nuggets (42-19) - 9:00 PM ET

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[NuggetsWY]

Anthony Davis is averaging around 20 mpg so that leaves Jrue Holiday as their #1 player and Julius Randle as their #2 - at least in my opinion. If we don't win this game, at home, they should be ashamed of themselves. In fact, if they don't win at least three quarters, they should be ashamed.

[THE J0KER]

Good team response after a disappointing Utah game. Two days ago we scored just 37 points in the entire 1st half but tonight 39 already in 1st quarter. The only concern is the fact that Jokic continues with silly fouls after all-star games, but with Anthony Davis not playing at all, Millsap and Plumlee can fix his limited minutes easily. I really hate this Pelicans team with Julius Randle and Stanley Johnson. When played for Lakers last season J.Randle injured badly Millsap, and S.Johnson playing for Pistons injured Gary Harris with dirty play.

[THE J0KER]

Another pathetic 2nd quarter in 2019. Despite 19-8 overall record we are not even TOP20 in 2019 for the 2nd quarters only. Fact that Jokic played just a few seconds in the 2nd quarter is not the excuse to lose it 32-40 considering their best player Davis didn't play. But if Nuggets are constantly so bad in 2nd quarters in 2019, they are NBA #1 team in 2019 when it comes to the 2nd half, so of course, no reasons for panic.

[THE J0KER]

102-111, -9 about 6 minutes left.

[eathb_au]

This team is trash.

[THE J0KER]

This can't be the truth... to lead in Pepsi Center +19 vs tanking team without their by far best player and still lose -7 at the end!?

Jokic has two silly fouls, but also he gets two silly calls too, which is scandalous how officials treat an MVP contender on his home court. But Jokic fouls troubles is not a good excuse for another Malone dumb playing time management for his best player. Only 21 minutes in the game where we so desperately needed him (he finished with 20-9-7 and only 4 fouls). Jokic played only 2 minutes in the 3rd quarter because of 4th foul, but for Plumlee, 4 fouls were not the problem to play the whole 3rd quarter. We have this BS from Malone last season too when he trying to punish Jokic and give to him some lessons in games vs tankers - we lose these games unnecessarily, so the whole team was punished at the end, not just Jokic.

[NuggetsWY]

Let's take a moment to consider all the things the Nuggets did right in this game ...
We took more FTs than New Orleans and we made 87% of those FT2.
Okay, let's give Millsap credit for having a decent game.
Millsap had 20 points & 9 rebounds.

Other than that, the Nuggets did about everything they could do to sabotage their chances of winning.

If Jokic had played 30 minutes, extending his stat line out, he would have had 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists - but once again he committed silly fouls.

Could someone please explain to me why Malone seems to like having his two shortest players on the court at the same time? This is just a wild idea, but maybe that contributes to the poor performance of our bench lately.

[eathb_au]

I'm pretty confident in saying that we are the worst 40 wins before 20 losses team in NBA history.

I don't think any of those teams would drop games like this at home in btb games. Third season in a row where we crash miserably in the second half of the season. This team is awful at learning from losses.

[Sgt Major]

IT has to go, he's destroying the second unit. Bench him, waive him, whatever, just leave him out.

[NuggetsWY]

I'm pretty confident in saying that we are the worst 40 wins before 20 losses team in NBA history.

I don't think any of those teams would drop games like this at home in btb games. Third season in a row where we crash miserably in the second half of the season. This team is awful at learning from losses.

Well, even the mighty Warriors aren't doing that much better than the Nuggets. Let's remember, most of us here are Nuggets fanatics and think our team should win every single game - speaking for myself, I believe that!

[The Rebel]

The way that Jokic gets treated by the Refs is a joke, I wish we still had Corona around to make a video of those foul calls as I swear Jokic did not touch anybody on 2 of them and the other 2 were soft as ****.

Will Barton and Isaiah Thomas both need to be benched, their selfish iso play hero ball complex takes the entire team out of any semblance of an offense and everybody ends up standing around and jacking up bad shots. The loss last night is 100% on those 2.

Anybody else remember a couple of years ago when Barton and a couple of other guys like Chandler were out, and we went on a heck of a run and thought that Malone had turned the corner? Anybody remember how we fell apart when the veterans got back? Maybe Malone still has not learned and is obviously playing favorites and not playing the lineups that won us the games. We up and pulling away until THomas came in last night, and it got worse when Barton was going iso ball after that, those are on the coach, he has to get them to play within the team or bench them, but I do not see him doing either.

[Maf]

Ok, I know this won't be taken well in there. You can't blame refs all the time. Since AS break Nikola has faul troubles almost every game. Just because you made your fist all-star game doesn't mean you can do everything. He really HAS TO understand he is too important for his team to make like two silly and unnecesary fauls per game. What is alarming to me- IT starts showing exactly what I was afraid of. Too much "Me-game." Makes many stupid selfish decisions. He hurts our team with his play.

I won't mention Barton, because he is what he is. He'll give you one great game, two subprars and one terrible. So his averagaces are so-so to nice. But what is saddening- like one month ago we're laughing we are like 15 deep in rotation. Now? Juancho is like 3-18 from three for a month. Beasley returned to the Earth from his incredible form. Craig is nowhere near his form he had this season.

And what is the worst- Garry Harris gives us only doubts if he is really our SG for the future. Same goes for Murray. He can't live by his almost 50 against Celtics forever. I am really more comfortable when Morris is our PG on the court.


Man this is so negative... I am sorry. Before the season we hoped this team can make play offs. Then they played so great we started to have great expectatins, like WCF. This is one the youngest teams in the NBA. I shouldn't be too harsh on them.


GO NUGGETS!

[NuggetsWY]

Let's not forget that for all of our complaints, Denver has the 4th best record in the league and the 2nd best record in the west - even though we are only 3-2 since the All-Star game (even that isn't terrible, unless it continues).

Ok, I know this won't be taken well in there. You can't blame refs all the time. Since AS break Nikola has faul troubles almost every game. Just because you made your fist all-star game doesn't mean you can do everything. He really HAS TO understand he is too important for his team to make like two silly and unnecesary fauls per game.

Jokic has demonstrated a tendency to make silly fouls, especially when he is frustrated with non-calls. In my opinion that is his greatest weakness. Big men in the NBA can not afford to waste fouls. They need to save them for the battles down-low where the boards & blocks & so forth occur.

It is clear that he does not get a lot of calls but that just might be because he exaggerates and gripes so much that the refs don't believe anything he says or does. (Think of the "Little Boy Who Cried Wolf".) Shaq was continually hammered down low and since he was so much larger and stronger than everyone else, the refs seldom gave him a break. Early in his career, it caused him problems. Eventually he learned to just live with it. Hopefully Jokic eventually learns the same thing (although he's been in the league long enough that it would seem he should have learned by now).

What is alarming to me- IT starts showing exactly what I was afraid of. Too much "Me-game." Makes many stupid selfish decisions. He hurts our team with his play.

I won't mention Barton, because he is what he is. He'll give you one great game, two subprars and one terrible. So his averagaces are so-so to nice. But what is saddening- like one month ago we're laughing we are like 15 deep in rotation. Now? Juancho is like 3-18 from three for a month. Beasley returned to the Earth from his incredible form. Craig is nowhere near his form he had this season.

IF the Nuggets are going to play Barton & Thomas, it would seem they should never be on the court with Jokic. The two of them with Plumlee at center and any two outside shooters would seem like our best hope of seeing them being effective.

And what is the worst- Garry Harris gives us only doubts if he is really our SG for the future. Same goes for Murray. He can't live by his almost 50 against Celtics forever. I am really more comfortable when Morris is our PG on the court.

I'll be patient with Harris, hoping his injuries this year have affected him more than we are told and that he will return to form next year.

I'll give Murray one more year also, but he's beginning to remind me of Faried --- great college player with streaks of greatness in the NBA but not a lot of improvement. I hate myself for typing that since he's my favorite Nugget, but ...

Man this is so negative... I am sorry. Before the season we hoped this team can make play offs. Then they played so great we started to have great expectatins, like WCF. This is one the youngest teams in the NBA. I shouldn't be too harsh on them.

GO NUGGETS!

GO Nuggets!

[U hova]

You're only as strong as your weakest link. Were we better when these weak links outright didn't exist?

[NuggetsWY]

You're only as strong as your weakest link. Were we better when these weak links outright didn't exist?

What are our weakest links? Young players that play inconsistently? Young players that demonstrate flashes of brilliance but don't seem to improve? Inconsistent play from game-to-game? Lack of motivation from one half to another half? General motivational issues? Inconsistent defense? Inconsistent offense?

Is it time to bring back the old refrain that we set aside earlier this year? Coaching issues?

[U hova]

You're only as strong as your weakest link. Were we better when these weak links outright didn't exist?

What are our weakest links? Young players that play inconsistently? Young players that demonstrate flashes of brilliance but don't seem to improve? Inconsistent play from game-to-game? Lack of motivation from one half to another half? General motivational issues? Inconsistent defense? Inconsistent offense?

Is it time to bring back the old refrain that we set aside earlier this year? Coaching issues?

barton and thomas

[SkillzFromThe6]

Ok, I know this won't be taken well in there. You can't blame refs all the time. Since AS break Nikola has faul troubles almost every game. Just because you made your fist all-star game doesn't mean you can do everything. He really HAS TO understand he is too important for his team to make like two silly and unnecesary fauls per game. What is alarming to me- IT starts showing exactly what I was afraid of. Too much "Me-game." Makes many stupid selfish decisions. He hurts our team with his play.

I won't mention Barton, because he is what he is. He'll give you one great game, two subprars and one terrible. So his averagaces are so-so to nice. But what is saddening- like one month ago we're laughing we are like 15 deep in rotation. Now? Juancho is like 3-18 from three for a month. Beasley returned to the Earth from his incredible form. Craig is nowhere near his form he had this season.

And what is the worst- Garry Harris gives us only doubts if he is really our SG for the future. Same goes for Murray. He can't live by his almost 50 against Celtics forever. I am really more comfortable when Morris is our PG on the court.


Man this is so negative... I am sorry. Before the season we hoped this team can make play offs. Then they played so great we started to have great expectatins, like WCF. This is one the youngest teams in the NBA. I shouldn't be too harsh on them.


GO NUGGETS!

Will Barton in the starting lineup has killed Malik Beasley's touches.

Torrey Craig barely plays anymore.

I miss Torrey Craig's hustle, man. I don't care about his offense. His hustle on both ends just helped a lot when he was in starting lineup.