J.D. Skeets

So it either turns into a turnover, which they had 25 of them last night, or a long miss, which then ignites the Denver fast break.

Denver scored 35 points off of turnovers.

They had 23 points in the fast break.

That's how you get the best games from Cam Johnson, just running down the court.

Nobody's stepping in front of him.

getting easy dunks.

Spencer Jones getting wide open threes as the defense collapses and he just trails into a good look.

That then limits Minnesota's quick attack because they have to take the ball out of the hoop and then they're just back to playing disorganized offense, turning the ball over and getting it ran down the other way.

Denver definitely played with urgency.

They played the hardest they have at least since game one.

They played the fastest they have.

They scored the most easily they had.

And we know that they're not getting the backcourt back for the Timberwolves.

So I think it's at least encouraging for the Nuggets.

You could definitely look at this game and see the way that the Timberwolves played and say they're just packing it in.

They want to take care of business at home for game six.

There was definitely that sort of vibe, I thought, with McDaniels fouling so easily early and kind of like just not having the mindset that he needs to step his game up with two guys going down.

But I do think it was a little bit worrying for the Timberwolves that they looked so bad offensively that it made Denver's scoring pretty easy.

And you could see from the start here, Denver intent on making Jokic get touches and score right away or get involved right away.

And I thought he was just quicker with all his decision-making.