Zach Lowe

They actually have a negative scoring margin in this stretch where they're nine and five, but they're just grinding up.

out possessions and winning close games and just doing it like Pickett.

I think Pickett is super fun to watch.

He's a really creative, physical little score down low.

He had like this, he had this play against Milwaukee where it was a Tim Hardaway Jr.

Jalen Pickett screen and roll.

Like imagine that Jalen Pickett slipped the screen.

rolled into traffic.

Timmy hit him with the pass.

Miles Turner came under the rim to block picket arms up, pick it like just shoulder shoulder into his stomach, moved miles Turner and just laid the ball up as I love this guy's got a little staccato rhythm to his game.

And boy,

one of the wildest nights we've had in the Strother straights where I still hold some real estate was that game in Milwaukee, the Strother straights, we were up till four or five in the morning.

We, we, we all noise ordinances were canceled for the night.

We had a great time, just a fantastic run for the nuggets.

And it should be said, although no one is blameless for the toxicity that enveloped the nuggets last year between Michael Malone and Calvin booth and all the tentacles that had,

You got to go back on Calvin Booth's track record and be like, these guys he took at the end of the first round, they looked like they could all play.

Like a little bit of a redemption factor for him, too.

Hey, Mo, let's take a quick break.

And we're going to talk about another Western Conference team.

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