Adam Mares

I mean, it is certainly, I share that perspective.

I do think that that there's like you trim away some of the margins from this game that won't be relevant going forward.

And you can make that case, but there is another part of this, which is that winning is a skill like shooting, like everything else, being able to just finish, finish the game and Denver couldn't do it again.

And that's kind of been the story, but let's go to a fast breakdown real quick.

Cause there's a lot of notes on this one.

It's kind of a long one.

I apologize in advance.

First note, though, Nuggets started with energy, man.

They came ready for this game.

If you recall the beginning of this, really, there's a lot of things that show you how badly Denver wanted to win this game.

They took it very seriously.

They played very close to a playoff level of intensity and effort.

Uh, case in was 2000, like three minutes.

So that was a storyline early, but the real storyline was that Aaron Gordon had 13 of the first 17 points for Denver.

You've mentioned this was sort of spiritually his first game back since the last one was such a blowout.

He played like it 19 points in the seven minutes to open it, just dominant physically.

There was of course, no chat, no heart and Stein, no J dub.

So he goes inside and just absolutely bully balled them.

It was a shame.

He had to come out as soon as he came out seven Oh thunder run.