The Nuggets are NOT Elite | Knicks Crush Denver As Murray Suffers Injury
Denver Nuggets suffer their worst home loss of the Nikola Jokic era as the New York Knicks dominate 142-103. Can the slumping Nuggets recover with Jamal Murray’s latest injury casting doubt on their title hopes?
Matt Moore recaps a crushing defeat, breaking down Jokic’s stat-stuffing night amidst disastrous defense, cold shooting (8-of-40 from three), and major struggles from returning players like Aaron Gordon. With Jamal Murray exiting early due to an ankle injury, questions swirl around Denver’s postseason prospects and mental toughness. The episode tackles match-up problems against elite teams like the Cavaliers and Knicks, evaluates David Adelman’s coaching approach, and compares the Nuggets’ roster depth to championship teams of the past. Nuggets fans, is this season spiraling toward another early playoff exit, or can Denver rally in time for a deep run?
00:00 Sleepover, Nuggets, and Jokic Stats
05:39 Nuggets’ Struggles and Matchups
06:30 “Disappointing Effort at Crucial Time”
09:30 “Poor Effort Against Rival”
14:37 Nuggets’ 2026 Title Outlook
21:40 Nuggets’ Championship Chances Slim
23:59 Adelman’s Coaching Philosophy Explained
25:45 Regular Season Vs. Playoff Mentality
29:50 “Jokic’s Defense: Unrealistic Expectations”
31:59 Uncertain Playoff Hopes
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22 Comments
These 7 point or 10 point duds by Cam Johnson utterly dissapointing
Is there somebody who understand towith Adelman there is no chance to they get even in pjayoff.Adelman is making injuries,play smal against 4 big its sure you will get injured.
The thing is we keep finding scapegoats for why Nuggets are broken. They are broken that's a fact ….and they need to get it together asap. We keep moving the Nadir for the season but Nuggets are tumbling
At least I didn't stay up on the east coast to watch this one. Ouch.
elite player is not enough- coach must be elite.
The match up eas a team that plays defense vs one who plays no defense, doesnt respect the coach, has a terrible trainers
Adelman goes or Jokić will go. Denver chooses
Other than Jokic they were small and looked timid and afraid to commit and just shoot. D was good at first then disappeared. Jamal's coordination was off from the start. When you play like that you always run the risk of getting hurt. Adelman needs to recognize what is going on in front of him. When players are bad, REPLACE THEM.
They need a "voice" , a defense and a training staff.
THJ has fallen off the earth
Nuggets will be champ!! relax..I don't know how, but it will happen!
Jokic ball hogs too much, why would every pass go through him? U r deleting ur teamates how can they generate offense at th 8 mins jokic doesnt play if for 40 mins they just screen cut and pass him the ball.. cam and mpj both were balling in brooklyn and got one dimensional catch and shoot because its either u pass to jokic or he gives u his hockey assist just too dependent on him and it shows.
Trade jokic
2 of the 3 wins against the Wolves were when the Wolves were on the second night of a back to back. Does that mitigate the optimism?
This what you get for hating on my cavs
Upsets mean absolutely nothing seriously because the better team always!!!! Wins a best of 7 series and who wins in an upset OBVIOUSLY!!!' was rhe better team and wouldve beaten Denver as well especially since denver cant beat Spurs then whoever beats them OBVIOUSLY was tough enough absolute would beat denver thats why it diesnt matter who u plsy the better team wins
I’m not sure if there are any indicative takeaways from this game. They couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat, their legs were dead, and the Knicks are really damn good!
The only major concern is Jamal’s health
The Brodie should be there!!!!
Go gators 🐊!!!
It's good to know the head coach has zero responsibility for anything.
How many teams have won multiple titles without a top 3 pick and only 1 all-nba player?
They could win the title if they played in the east 8 years ago but this is the west in the west it's not about hey they can flip the switch they haven't been a dynasty also or have dynasty credentials they aren't the 00s spurs, 00/80s Lakers, Celtics, bulls,or even warriors. The joker and Jamal era has been a disappointment where 1 player remains healthy except for this year while the other has been hurt majority of the time jokers prime year Jamal has been out so that's why so many times this team always goes to well let joker figure it out every dynasty team had a consistent 2nd banana or 2 tier A players
Magic Kareem two tier A players
Bird McHale two tier A players
Jordan and pippen two tier A players
Shaq and Kobe two tier A players
Kobe and gasol 1 a tier player and a very good 2nd banana
Duncan and Parker 1 tier player and very good 2nd banana borderline A tier
Curry Durant two a tier players
Curry Thompson 1 a tier and good 2nd banana
Other problems the nuggets have
• Your star captains need to be vocal to each other positively critique each other so they can work on what's wrong idk I'm not in the locker room but every great team does that Shaq and Kobe was a prime example they got it done even if they bumped heads.
• their coaching staff is terrible bad rotations at this point they should of had a lineup that they can depend on or give joker a alley oop guy to pass at the rim like Gordon or Caldwell pope did how many times have the nuggets thrown a oop after Gordon got injured? all joker passes have been below the rim that teams are catching on to his passing lanes Zeke naji can be that guy again bad rotations on top of that adelman can't draw a simple post play for their bigs? No one can stop joker and big val on the block I understand joker sets the offense but at times they should post that huge body on the block nobody can stop him down low or big val for the matter why is big val catching the ball at the ft line? Again horrid coaching bad rotations etc.
• Their defense is horrible perimeter defense is maybe the worst in the league last time I checked people always blame jokics like it's jokers fault that his perimeter defenders constantly leave him in a island and it always becomes a 2 on 1 and always make jokic look bad on defense and the zone I know that zone that's the PHX 06 mike Antonio horrid zone defense who is Denver's defensive coach?! JARED DUDLEY one of the worst defenders in kobes era the suns had one of the worst defenses of the 00s.
The fact of the matter is this the joker and Murray era is coming to a end they can no longer find ways how to get it done and majority of their players are getting injured, Gordon can he be trusted to be a starter I squirm when he does hard dribbles hoping that hamstring stays locked in and in place where he can go all out. This was the 1st time I saw joker during and after the game visibly frustrated and tired of what's going on year by year by year this man has remained the healthiest nugget and everyone is always injured and he has to always do way to much. His prime years are getting wasted by a organization that doesn't know when it is time to let go and find joker pieces to win rings a proper healthy banana.
THERE IS NO DEFENSE !!!!!