Chapter 1: How did the Nuggets' defense help them beat the Celtics?
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Let's begin with the games, and we'll start with the Denver Nuggets. Taking care of business in the second half, beating the Celtics. Jokic, 30 points as the Nuggets won. 103-84 Tass over Boston. So the Celtics were trying to complete that perfect road trip, but come up short in this last one. Maybe that was a part of it, that last game. The altitude of Denver.
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But this was sort of an offensive slog here. It's more of a defensive-minded game. Not a lot of shots being made. Yeah, and that's why it makes you think that the Nuggets can get to the NBA Finals if they can have defensive performances like this, because we know their offense is going to cook when Jokic is right. They're the number one offense in the league.
They just need some of these defensive performances, and I thought their point-of-attack defense was pretty important to get them going. I thought it started in the second quarter when Bruce Brown was going at Peyton Pritchard, and they slowed Peyton Pritchard down, who didn't have a very good game, and it continued in the third quarter. On Jalen Brown, who is Jalen Brown and is that good.
So you've got to throw different bodies at him. Christian Brown started. I think he's a good physical player and will guard guys one-on-one when it comes to postseason, like he did against Anthony Edwards in the past. But then they throw a bigger guy and Spencer Jones at him, a little taller guy, real tall in those andeums. And they were able to slow him down just enough to have a bad night.
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But as you said... Maybe it's the Celtics not having a perfect road trip, just going three and one. That's pretty solid. So maybe they just all were at the end of the road trip and just had a bad night.
So I think it's it's a good thing from the Nuggets side to get this done with Jamal Murray leaving in the second half and not even playing most of the second half because of that illness that he had. But getting it done defensively, they won some ugly games in the 23 finals against the Miami Heat. That's who they are at times. They just kind of slog it out. And they did.
I think they got a bunch of perimeter guys that can help out. What do you think, TK? I thought the Celtics got tooted and booted.
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The altitude was too much for them. This was a one-point game with two minutes left in the third quarter. And then Denver immediately went on a 15-0 run. And that was the game. They got every rebound. Celtics couldn't really generate a good look. And when they were, they were missing layups inside. And then Denver was smart.
They realized Celtics were getting tired, grabbed the board, pushed it the other way every single time. You had Joe Mazzulla calling almost back-to-back timeouts after Spencer Jones was going wild on the break. You had Tim Hardaway finding it. I'm watching Spencer Jones' ankles every time he goes down. If this guy sprains an ankle... I will know. But it was good for Denver.
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They outscored the Celtics by 20 in the last 14 minutes of this game. You mentioned no Jamal Murray out there. In the second half, Boston shot 28% from the field, had eight assists, and only four turnovers in the second half. They looked like they just completely wore out. It's like they were playing at altitude on the second night of a back-to-back. Who would ever take them in a pick-up?
That's right, right. Fatigue did seem to show there for them. They got tired. Even though Jalen Brown came back because he had the game off, really, the night before. He didn't play in that, I guess it was the Phoenix game. So, you know, he didn't have as much excuse, maybe, as some of the other guys. But, yeah, Denver a good team. Like you said, they did it defensively. Jokic struggled, right?
He shot 11 of 28. The three ball was not really falling for him, though he hit a stupid, crazy one, I think. Was that early in the game? Yeah, early in the game. Yeah, right, the start of the game, you're right, where he was just in the corner. They played great defense for like 23.9 seconds, and then he's like, ah, I'll just hit this fading one-footed corner three, bang that home.
But he did help that run that you said there, Trey, at the end of the third quarter, that like 11-0 run that took him into the fourth, and then other guys stepped up. Tim Hardaway Jr. ? He had 14 points. I bring him up because this guy had two dunks in the same game. Very rare. And then he had another one where he attacked, he spun, kissed it off the glass.
You don't see Tim Hardaway driving all that much. A few of them in transition, but that one was special. But nobody wanted to talk to him after the game. You see this clip going around? He went into the press room. They got the table set up and the mic and all the chairs for the media. Tim Hardaway Jr. walks in. There's nobody in the room. or nobody at least wanting to ask him a question.
There was maybe one reporter there. They're like, uh, Lisa, you got any questions? She's like, nah, it just gets up and leaves. Yeah. It was good. Uh, Hardaway outscored the Boston bench. I mean, Boston got a few points at the end when it was garbage time for sure. Valanchunas outscored the Boston bench by himself. This was just, uh, one team was fresher than the other to me.
And the Celtics had a great road trip. Uh, All things considered. But yeah, I mean, to win like this, if you're the Nuggets, you got to be feeling good about it. Not a great game for Vooch Doug out there. No, no. He won for seven, gave up a ton of offensive rebounds. And, you know, Jokic maybe didn't have the greatest shooting night, but he did hit two threes right in Vooch's face.
You know, I think Vooch looks good against bad teams and it's a little different. They were trying to double big lineup, trying to let him guard. Jokic and Keita was kind of like the help guy. And I don't know if that's necessarily something you want to do going forward in the playoffs, but worth it last night to give it a shot. It's just a schedule loss for me for Boston. That's all it was.
Yeah, we were dumb taking Boston. We just got those points. And when we did our pick on the four and a half points, I figured they could lose by four. But also on the other side, the Nuggets always respond to a bad performance. So they lost the game before that on Monday night. We knew that coming in.
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