Adam Matas

That one has so much noise in it because of how they're approaching the year.

But those were the two teams the league came out and said, well, everybody says it's hard to play those places, so we're going to change things up.

And it's like, hey, man.

there's hard to play in a lot of places like we can we got to start doing this to where we're everybody oh it's not fair la no you know whatever so i do think there's something to this some of it is denver's just dropping some games but you just look at their schedule and you're like they're just never at home consistently they never get these runs at home and there's teams that have had like six game homestands already this year and the guys have mentioned it you know they don't bring it up apropos of nothing like the one they're asked about it they try not to make

And then here's the last one, and I think it's honestly the biggest reason for optimism.

The Nuggets' final month of the season is very easy and very at home.

There's not a lot of road trips after you get to a certain point in the season.

And I think that point, I'll talk about it a little bit later, middle of March, the Ides of March, once you get to March 15th, because they play in LA on the 14th, when you get to the 15th, the Nuggets will have

Four road games and like 10 home games.

Four road games and they're all one-offs.

You go one game to Memphis, then you come back.

That's the makeup game, by the way.

You go one game to Phoenix, you come back.

You go one game to Utah, it's not even really a road game.

That's like a shuttle bus over to Utah.

And then at the very last game of the season, you're at San Antonio.

That's it.

You have four road games, and they're all one-off road games.

Hop on a plane, come back.

I just think that the Nugget schedule has been unbalanced, and the end of it is where, like, Denver has an opportunity to sprint into the finish line.