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Jamal Murray & the Denver Nuggets continue to impress without their MVP | DNVR Nuggets Postgame Live
08 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: How did the Denver Nuggets perform without their MVP Nikola Jokic?
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Chapter 2: What were the standout performances from Jamal Murray and Peyton Watson?
so good nuggets fans colorado serbia and all over the world welcome in As always, and what a fun night as the Denver Nuggets. Without Jokic, once again, deliver an unlikely, thrilling win. And it says in my notes here that it was over the Boston Celtics. Yeah, Peyton Pritchett. They lost. Nuggets win. What an absolute treat.
Chapter 3: What role did Aaron Gordon play in the Nuggets' victory?
I'm your host, Brennan Vogt. We're going to get into a quick recap. We'll do our Redhawk Roofing Big Takeaways.
Chapter 4: How did the Nuggets' three-point shooting impact the game?
We'll talk about all the key players in this game. But first, let me introduce the key players in this postgame show. To my left, it's Eric Wiedem, also known as D-Line Codes. What's up, guys? You may have noticed that was not a new intro. That was our new campaign for DNVR, for All City as a whole. Sports over everything. It is our mantra. It is the way we like to think about the world.
It doesn't mean we're not paying attention to things that are happening, but we like to focus on things that bring us all together. That's what it's all about. We worked for a really long time on it, and we're really proud to be here. put it out there. Steph Snowichi, she's in the chat. She was featured in that spot. Anyway, you'll not see that again.
Chapter 5: How did the bench players contribute to the Nuggets' success?
We have a new countdown that'll start tomorrow, forevermore, but we just wanted to show it. Cool. Awesome. Good work on that, Eric, and a guy who's got his finger on the pulse of what it means to be a Denver sports fan. Right now, it's really fun to be a Denver sports fan. This guy's a fan of Superstar Dev to my right. That hype video and mantra that we're living by now, it got me hyped.
Let's go.
Chapter 6: What were the key moments that defined the game against the Celtics?
It got me ready to go. And it just goes to show what it's all about. Sports over everything. And the Nuggets are in that. Nuggets over everything. Nuggets over the Celtics for sure, guys. What does Adam call this thing, by the way? The fast breakdown? The quick recap? He calls it the show. The brief rundown. Let's get into our... The expedited recap.
Let's get into the fast... I already forgot what Kale said. The fast rundown. Fast breakdown. Nuggets win 114 to 110 over the Boston Celtics. You'll see that three point percentage was pretty high. That is one of the first notes of the game. First note I have is lots of threes, baby. Nuggets actually started five of six from three in this game. Six of their first nine attempts from the floor.
We're from three. Sometimes that's the blueprint when you're looking to upset a team. And we know the Boston Celtics night like to take a lot of threes. So the Nuggets followed suit. Holmes knocked down a couple to start the game. Peyton Watson started three from three for deep bookmark that because that would end up being a persistent note throughout the night.
The Nuggets would shoot seven of 12 from deep in the first quarter, which was huge. But they trailed, actually, because Jalen Brown was a man on fire in the first. He had 15 points in the first quarter. Derek White had 10. And the Celtics shot 7 of 14 from deep. But actually, guys, in this game, the Nuggets would go on to take more threes.
then the Celtics, and they'd stay hot from three for the most part. They'd get hot again at the end of the game. We'll get to that. In the second quarter, the second unit took the lead again. This is a revamped second unit with Aaron Gordon coming off the bench, Tim Hardaway Jr. returning to the bench. Do you have a note every time there's a lead change?
No, that would be 25 notes, but I did have one note on it. Yeah, there were 25 lead changes in this game. Ridiculous. One of them was the bench taking a lead with an 8-0 run. Aaron Gordon, Tim Ardoit Jr. coming off the bench, that second unit more of a weapon in that kind of a rotation. Looked like it tonight. Jalen Pickett came in and played when Murray checked out, and it went quite well.
The Nuggets went on that little 8-0 run. Peyton Watson was the stagger with the second unit during that second quarter. And it was tied at the half, 59-59, I believe, for the second straight game for the Nuggets. Spencer Jones goes down with foot soreness, listed as questionable to return, did not return. So Bruce Brown started for the Nuggets in the second half.
And if you missed the third quarter, you don't have to go back and watch it. So did the Nuggets, really. We all did. The Celtics went on a 10-0 run at one point, maybe a 12-0 run, which included them missing a lot of shots, like a lot of shots. But it didn't matter because I think the Nuggets missed maybe 10 or 11 field goal attempts in a row at one point in the third quarter.
So the nuggets actually, if you're starting seven to 12 from deep, they're in a stretch. Now they go five of 19 in their next 19 attempts. A lot of those misses were in the third quarter. Another keynote here, the rebound battle starts to slip away from them. Kata was a beast. He starts dominating the offensive glass in the third and the fourth quarter.
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Chapter 7: How did the Nuggets manage lead changes throughout the game?
Well, I mean, it's ironic, but it also makes sense. It's kind of why it's happening, right? But I'm sure that most people said, hey, Jokic is not going to be there. It's going to be the Jamal show. It has been the Jamal show, but it's the Jamal that you want to watch. It's the Jamal the point guard show. who also gets everyone else involved. And we've been seeing rises in teammates.
There's Peyton Watson that's able to score a bit more now. You have Tim Hardaway Jr. who's catching it and shooting it. You have the OOP options and Aaron Gordon. Bruce Brown has been exploring his game. And then Zeke Najee, that's been something that has been opened up. But Jamal has led them there. So we're seeing Jamal really just keep pushing. So he looks incredible right now.
Dude, many are asking, is he in the conversation for best passing big men of all time? Jamal Murray? Yeah. Yeah, I think he's in the conversation for best passing big men of all time. But for him to go and he's reached a new career in back-to-back games. It's so impressive. And they're not cheap. He's finding guys. He's making great passes. He has a couple saucy ones behind the back.
But for the most part, they're smart plays. it's a tough thing to do because defenses are right to do it. It is taking Denver starters out of their preferred rhythm, but at the same time, Murray can't fight too hard against that or else he's right. Like you just can't rack up turnovers and miss shots. Like he's got to thread the needle and find times to just, okay. They left Zeke open.
He gets the ball. They left Peyton open. He gets the ball. And to those guys, his credit, you know, just about all of them are contributing. So I think like one of the coolest parts about this last couple of days, like first off, I just like it, the word improbable does not quite cover. Yeah, really. Yeah. Just, we didn't expect any of this yesterday.
I mean, I don't think I told you guys what I put it in the chat, but I, after the last game, I was so hyped up. I literally left here, got a quesarito. And then I watched the last three episodes of the Diddy show. And I did the New York times. I'm not even kidding. Thank you. That's what I did. I was so, I was so in on the Denver nuggets. I'm just saying like the, none of that's a lie by the way.
Um, but like you just don't expect it. And the thing is, is like guys are playing differently than they play when the team is intact. And they're having to figure out what needs to happen. And they are showing enough resilience. And, you know, I guess you have to credit David Adelman for this. He's like really steering them in the right direction.
Like, you know, like it's clear that there's at least some sort of sense of hierarchy and an understanding of who should be doing what, where they should be. Nobody's really trying too hard. Nobody's really pressing. Right. Except for Peyton. But he kind of should be right now. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I say that as a compliment. He needs to be aggressive. No, I'm with you.
And I think Jamal, like, look, it's tough because he also does have to get 18 shots up or it's just too easy for Boston. So it hasn't been perfect, but I've actually really liked his approach. And I think it's shown his growth as a leader and a playmaker. Let's hit our first, what we call it a break. I'm not supposed to call it that. That's what it is. Let's hit our first break.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of this win for the Nuggets moving forward?
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Excuse me, at monarch.com with code DNVR. Kel, did you bring the Murray stats graphic up while we were talking? No, he didn't. He saved it. Let's do it now, if you don't mind. Please. Because there's one more thing that I wanted to point out in this game. I am pretty sure Jamal Murray, and I can confirm, was the leading rebounder for the Denver Nuggets. What? With eight rebounds in this game.
Are you serious? So Murray just completely became Nikola Jokic. He kind of did, yeah. Although if Jokic had 22, 8, and 7, we'd yell at him. We would flame him. But yeah, I mean. We've seen it. Murray can be a good rebounding guard for sure. And I think kind of had to be like the bigs were just so overmatched tonight. So just wanted to shout him out for eight rebounds and 17 assists alone.
Look, it's really impressive. Look at that stat line. I mean, he maybe wanted to be a little bit more efficient, but 22, eight and 17. That truly like if not for Nikola Jokic, we saw this stat line. We would lose our ever loving minds if we were the type of team that had like a normal human on it. I think Jamal had more assists than the whole Boston Celtics tonight. That's just not true.
That is true, Cale. Hold on. Cale, I just assumed that couldn't be possible. We were getting mad at you. It's a real one. Paul Murray had more assists than the Boston Celtics as a team tonight. Everyone tweet that out at the same time. If you're watching this show and you have Twitter, just tweet that out. And pretend you came up with it. Just saw this in the bot score.
You want to know what I find is crazy? You got to put it like that. But This was the perfect pitch for Jamal today because it's a nationally televised game. They are going to be able to see 22.17 assists, eight rebounds. That's what matters. And they beat a team that they were quote-unquote not supposed to beat. The second team in the East that is hot right now, He goes and delivers them a win.
Jamal Starr is in full effect. Everybody's going to vote tonight. Don't the votes go in? The votes today are worth three times the vote. It's until 10 p.m. Go ahead and get your vote in. Make sure you push like on this one first. But Jamal. He really has been playing incredible. I think he deserves it straight up. He truly is.
There was a point in time where there were Jamal haters all throughout this chat. We have not seen them in a very long time. I even went searching for them. They're not there. Here's the thing. I think there were some things Murray wasn't doing for a long time that frustrated people, and they were right to be frustrated. He's doing them now. So call it out. Call it out for what it is. Same thing.
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