PERFECTION: Nuggets doing EXACTLY what’s needed to start Crucial Year
Matt Moore and Ryan Blackburn break down a 10-2 start for the Denver Nuggets to begin the 2025-26 season. They discuss what will be needed without Christian Braun for the next few weeks. Then, they preview the upcoming week and make their predictions.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
3:30 Perfect Start to the Season
7:38 Nuggets’ Dominance in Third Quarter
13:47 Impact of Christian’s Absence
17:13 Players Under Most Pressure
20:21 Julian Strawther’s role
26:15 Upcoming Nuggets Schedule
32:30 Jinx of the Week
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24 Comments
People forget the contribution Julian Strawther had on Game 5 against the OKC VS DEN series from last season's playoffs
Please please please take Matt off! He talks like a bratty teenager from California. Its been a perfect season for hs nuggets fans but listening to Matt is ruining it
25:00 Ryan Blackburn has great jeans 👖👖👖.
68 win pace…
OKC fan here but nuggets on a roll fr looking solid💯
I'll be rooting for strawther. Hope he kills it
I wonder if the Magic would trade Tyus Jones for Nnaji and a filler. Tyus has been awful for them, and so has Jonathan Isaac. They need a backup big and they don’t need Tyus at all. He’s shot 12% from three for them. Kinda works for both sides, money matches, they need a backup big. We need a backup PG in case Jamal takes time off. It’s a one year deal so we aren’t locked in, get outta an extra season of Nnaji money. They would be dumb to do it— but GMs do dumb shit every season
Gotta love a leftist like Blackburn that makes snide comments about capitalism and then doesn’t care about ruining lives via marketing for a gambling company.
Always the right amount of Broncos talk on this podcast
When does Cam return ?
Happy Monday Matt 😂
I see the fasci bots have even come to your comments finally. If only Russia was as great as they claim they might have actual hobbies or enjoy basketball over making it political.
That game didn't make me any more confident in the Broncos, and the Refs really need help if they make so many calls differently depending on the team who is on offense.
Matt… your takes are so interesting
Is there people That DON'T want them to rack up wins early? I'm pretty sure every fan of a team wants them to win ALL their games
Spencer Jones is one of the best things to happen to the Nuggets in a long time. He's on a minimum contract, and we didn't need to draft him or trade for him.
🎉🎉🎉 why you r on my Rima Tv???
Right person..u can ✋ that IDIOT????
🎉🎉🎉 Colorado is ..old Germany.
Why this …… Is talking
🎉🎉🎉also
🎉🎉🎉thank y ../ de anteopo/ u didn't kill him😌
U sit and gossip.. idiote.. Jugoslavia wants to KILL y .
Now y out CCCP….stoko raspala
Watson most pressure. Eds to start finishing. That would help make up Brauns points.
Matt definitely mistaking broncos fans for chiefs fans. Denver has or had a streak of sold out stadiums for 40+ years by far the longest which had so many bad seasons sprinkled in between. No one was a chiefs fan before 2018
Everyone is going off on what OKC is doing but look closely. OKC's 13 wins – Wizards (1-12), Pacers (1-12), Pelicans (2-11), Kings 2x (3-11), Mavs (4-10), Memphis (4-10), Clippers (4-9), Hornets (4-9), GS (9-6), Hawks (9-5), Lakers (10-4), Houston (9-3). 9 of OKC 13 wins have come against teams that have not won more than 4 games. 3 of which have a combined 4 wins.