Game 57: Denver Nuggets (38-18) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (16-38) - 6:00 PM ET

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[NuggetsWY]

Without Towns, Denver should win - but since we tend to play to the level of our competition ...

I gotta admit, I love seeing Hernangomez & Beasley starting and doing well.

[THE J0KER]

Without KAT we already won this game, but it is very important for Murray to show consistency with playing the entire February on the next level, and for Porter jr to show-up (which depends on his playing time too).

I really wish another big game today to Beasley and Juancho (23-6 and 16-6 since they join Wolves as starters) which will shake-up our lazy FO for some Summer deal like 3 years ago the same kind of the pressure after obviously bad Nurkic deal (Nurk doubles his numbers instantly in Portland), so they at least signed Millsap.

Other players to watch are Harris and Grant.

Minnesota is also an interesting team to watch. After Butler exits, it seams Wolves are done for a long time, but in meantime, they bravely traded all starters except KAT (Wiggins, Covington, Saric, Teague), and against all odds, they maybe will be competent already next season or more likely since 2022! That is why Russell and Culver are interesting to watch today, especially Culver which just a month ago looked like completely wasted #6 pick, but suddenly started to show some promising games lately.

Russell-Beasley-Culver-Juancho-Towns with potentially 2020 TOP5 pick and enough cap space to take even a max player are a very interesting young team next season.

[skywalker33]

Think we'll take care of business, hopefully BOS can take care of LAL today and help this mean something.

[THE J0KER]

Almost 140 points in 1st half in the no-defense game. I will not complain because guys decide to take day-off in the game they will win anyway, but it is really strange to see Paul Millsap at 35 still cares more than most of our young guys.

Think we'll take care of business, hopefully BOS can take care of LAL today and help this mean something.

Without James or Davis's big injury #1 race is already over on the West. Lakers have only 12 losses so far while Nuggets, Clippers, Jazz, and Rockets all have between 18-20, so it is important to not be delusional for what we fighting. We are #2 last season, #2 right now, but we are also just 2 steps away to not even have HCA in PO 1st round if we lose focus at some point in the next 6 weeks.

[THE J0KER]

24-30 (FG% 80%) from our big mans Jokic, Millsap, and Plumlee is very good even for FT% standards.

But I must confess I'm more sad than happy after this routine blowout win. I think it is obvious our chances for (at least) a conference final are worse today than early this month. We lost our best backup player and best 3pt shooter in Beasley, and we (coach Malone actually) doing nothing to develop supertalented Michael Porter jr into a serious contributor already this playoff. If he can't get 10 minutes to play in a home blowout win against the lottery team which playing without both best players, it is clear that for Denver coach vision projected MPJ role this postseason is the meanless question. I'm just curious is Malone superconfident about our chances vs Clippers so we don't need to add anything extra, or he thinks we don't have any chances anyway? I really hate MPJ's today's body language. He collects something like -25 in +/- column in two games after comeback in just about 15 minutes, and when today game was over and everyone goes to celebrate easy homecourt win and salute to Beasley and Juancho, MPJ just stormed into the locker room

[Mickey8]

Why is Dozier riding the bench , he was playing good when everybody was hurt, he should be in the rotation .

[psimanic1]

24-30 (FG% 80%) from our big mans Jokic, Millsap, and Plumlee is very good even for FT% standards.

But I must confess I'm more sad than happy after this routine blowout win. I think it is obvious our chances for (at least) a conference final are worse today than early this month. We lost our best backup player and best 3pt shooter in Beasley, and we (coach Malone actually) doing nothing to develop supertalented Michael Porter jr into a serious contributor already this playoff. If he can't get 10 minutes to play in a home blowout win against the lottery team which playing without both best players, it is clear that for Denver coach vision projected MPJ role this postseason is the meanless question. I'm just curious is Malone superconfident about our chances vs Clippers so we don't need to add anything extra, or he thinks we don't have any chances anyway? I really hate MPJ's today's body language. He collects something like -25 in +/- column in two games after comeback in just about 15 minutes, and when today game was over and everyone goes to celebrate easy homecourt win and salute to Beasley and Juancho, MPJ just stormed into the locker room

MPJ got into foul trouble early and his shoot wasn't going in, so putting him in later in the game cold as he was already wouldn't do much for him. He has to get back into zone he was in before injury, but he has rest of the season to do so. I'm sure Malone will give him more minutes as season goes on, as they said MPJ is not back at 100% after this injury

[NuggetsWY]

I'll admit I was concerned when Minnesota almost closed the gap in the 2nd half. The Nuggets are still playing to the level of their competition and have been burned in a few games.