Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00But the Nuggets, on a four-game slide,
00:03trending in a poor direction entering the postseason.
00:06How would Denver respond in a road game in Sacramento against the Kings?
00:11Pretty well.
00:11The Nuggets win by eight on the road, 124-116.
00:15Denver covers as a four-and-a-half-point road favorite.
00:18DRS, the Nugs, had all five starters score at least 18 points last night,
00:23including a 20-point triple-double out of Nikoli Okic.
00:26Yeah, that's what you like to see, right?
00:28As you're waiting for the playoffs,
00:29you have a new coach in town.
00:30Maybe some of the vibes are a little bit different,
00:32but you also wanted to see how Denver would react,
00:34particularly, Ben, in the first quarter.
00:35And the reaction was positive, 33-25.
00:38At the half, he had a lead.
00:39Third quarter, he extended that lead.
00:40Fourth quarter, he hung around because you already had a double-digit lead,
00:43and he closed it out 124-116.
00:46And also, Luka Doncic, 38 minutes in that game, as you point out.
00:48Only 12 total shot attempts, but you look at the rest of the starting lineup.
00:52This is what you like here from a championship contender.
00:54Gordon, 16 shot attempts.
00:56Porter Jr., 14.
00:57Jokic, 12.
00:58Pickett, 10.
00:59Brown, 12.
01:00So everybody was getting involved here, which was good to see,
01:03except Russell Westbrook went 2-11 off the bench for 17 minutes.
01:07But I liked what I saw last night for the Nuggets.
01:09And you're right.
01:10That bump that you get, the 2-1⁄2, the 3-1⁄2, up to the 4-1⁄2,
01:13the Denver Nuggets were the right play last night,
01:15and they held that lead all the way through.
01:16And some of them are called nothing else.
01:17Well, you're right.
01:18I know.
01:19You're right.
01:19I am.
01:19You're right.