Nuggets in Need (over Atlanta)
Nuggets TOWER over Atlanta who's in tank-mode and Denver needs the Ws. It's as simple as that.
Dedmon, Prince, and Muscala are all probable, but it really doesn't matter. Dedmon would be the best addition back, as he could at least put some pressure on Jokic and Plumlee, but this is still no contest. If Jamal Murray and Jokic play just even a LITTLE bit of defense on Schroder it's game over from the 1st qtr.
What can go wrong?
See 1985 Villanova over Georgetown. Atlanta players would have to all shoot career nights.
We'd bet about 9% of AUM, so a rather gargantuan bet for us.
Enjoy the vote and reward!
Impossible to beat 44% 3 point shooting, when only making 24% yourself. But even worse, Denver shot 60% from the line, missing 8 FTs while Atlanta missed none.
We're not happy w result, but this loss is understandable in a certain respect.
If Nuggets wanted the win, they should have expended more effort on defensive perimeter, but more importantly we've lost confidence in Denver's coach Malone and his personnel mgt. 7 minutes to Faried is just plain nonsense.