Nuggets Suffer New Worst Loss of the Season | DNVR Nuggets Postgame Live
The Nuggets suffered disaster on the second night of a back to back. The Nuggets fall in Memphis to the tanking Grizzlies. Nikola Jokic and the crew had almost no room for error has they try and solidify seeding down the stretch here. This loss might prove to be season-changing. Is this team who we thought they were? Is there a way to bounce back from here? Adam Mares, Harrison Wind, and Eric Wedum come to you LIVE from the DNVR Bar to break down everything you need to know in this postgame edition of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast!
0:00 – Intro
2:00 – Fast breakdown
4:15 – D-Line’s big takeaway
5:30 – Wind’s big takeaway
7:20 – Adam’s big takeaway
18:20 – Nikola Jokic
22:50 – Cam Johnson
28:00 – Jamal Murray
33:20 – Christian Braun
34:40 – THJ
37:10 – David Adelman
41:10 – What happens from here?
46:00 – The disconnect in expectations
52:00 – Superchats
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The calm before the storm. Next week: Statement week?
Jokić looks like he's going through something.
Schedule loss
If only someone told you this team was cooked the moment they signed David Adelman, and didn't hire a real GM, and kept Jamal Murray, and failed to trade Peyton Watson when his trade value was super high…
Adam is sooooo over with this shite… and he is right! I mean is really frustrating! You need to win for the standings and you lose to a tanking Memphis!!! They have 44 Loses for f…’s sake! I’m done until the PO too!
Malone would not flush this game and make the team watch it. I doubt DA would do that
Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark
I agree with everything said about Jokic. This game is on him and Adelman. They should win this with second unit. They are soft, there is too many nice guys on this roster. Maybe they should hire Kevin Garnett as a assistant coach, just to have to look at his angry face on the sideline for every lack of effort.
My take away
Jok just sucked. Don't complain, refs won't care.
Mal is injured and needs a rest.
Cam played well.
Adelmann needs to hold guys accountable and not overthink his lineups. If someone doesn't play well, bench them. Also no excuses going forward.
Kinda miss 2023 kcp
Should have been tanking. This season’s done anyway.
Are people only now realizing that no one calls Jokic out? This has been a thing for like 5 years lol
Honestly at this point just stay in the 6th seat and see what happens from there
Jokemal
I like Harrison’s takeaway. Can you ask the players if they’re okay with losing?
Sucks to say but Jokic is a fucking horrible leader man. It honestly pisses me off. His lack of aggression against an easy matchup, his frustrations with the refs, all of it just make him look mentally weak as hell
2nd round exit is this team's ceiling unfortunately. I'm sad for Jokić man
Hello play-in my old friend, I've come to talk to you again…it's officially over…
Wemby vs Jokic, Wemby is in his 2nd season, he already changed the culture of the all star game, his team has winning mentality, his team already has 10+ win streak, his team will win over 60 games, he should win his first MVP, they are championship contenders. That's Wemby's 2nd season already 10x better leader than Jokic and in 1-2 years, better player.
Could've signed Chris Paul for discipline and leadership. In 2023, they had Green and Jordan. Right now, they have Jokic who glazes at AE hahahaha
31:06 Loss so bad it made Adam goof an Ad read 😭
Denver wasted Joker's prime, you are a trash organization that doesn't even try to spend more to be competitive. I hope big fella demands a trade.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
AG lost his brother, he's been injured for two seasons straight after putting most hours of work out of anybody, if anybody should look like he wants to quit basketball and crawl into darkness and weep it should be him. Bro still out there and the only one caring, if I was Jokic, Murray or whoever I'd feel like the worse person letting this guy down. Instead these guys don't even care about one of them. Not caring about fans is not even worth mentioning.
It seems they are in the latter stages of an older team. scraping by through the regular season, not really caring what seeding they get, just get to the playoffs all ready. Unfortunately it doesn't get better 9 times out of 10.
it's our fault
can we just skip this years playoffs…we will get demolished and we all know that.
AG has started 67 games the last two seasons. His contract goes from 22 million this year to 33 next year. You can’t pay him that. Hes cooked and needs to be load managed like he’s 38 already. He’s gotta go. Peyton Watson and Zeke Nnaji should’ve been moved years ago and now Peyton is gonna go sign somewhere else and we get nothing in return. It is imperative this team moves AG, Cam, Val and Zeke. That’s 74 million combined right there. You move Jamal in the right deal. He’s not worth 50 million a year and that’s 124 mil you could use on available players who actually benefit Jokic. We need better defense and more consistent scorers. Nothing kills a team like sentimental value
The team is satisfied with loosing, they are satisfied with second round exists, last two season = MIN game 7, at the start of the year they all said they couldn't be bothered to win again, horrible LAK series, going 0-2 against MIN, finally turned it on but it wasn't enough, they tried to do the job other contenders do during the whole season in one week, didn't work out. Last season, well the roster was horrible, but still nobody in the organization did anything, once again they turned it on last week in the regular season, put it all out there, tried to do the job other contenders do in the whole season in 3 week, though series against LAC, that should have been 4-1, saving the energy for OKC, instead 4-3 and once again running out of steam. YOU JUST DON'T WIN LIKE THIS. You have to be your best self and to be your best self you constantly have to work on yourself…DEN is lazy. I have no doubt, they will turn it on PO, they will look like a good team, Jokic will look like the best player, but I have doubts if they laid enough ground work to win 4 rounds. I mean you can't even say you were unlucky with injuries, going 0 to 100 in 60 sec it's a smooth ride, 0 to 100 in 3 sec feels like your eyes will pop out any moment.
I thought it was only up from here after the Lakers game?! 😂😂😂😂
Delusional bunch
Media needs challenge the players and coaches more. Especially after losses like this, softball questions or not pressing on weak excuses contribute to their lack of toughness. There’s this constant up and down with this team this season, where they have these super embarrassing losses, then try to make up for it in the next game.
And then when we win, we barely hold onto a streak (if we even manage to win more than one game in a row at this point of the season), and then blow it to another “lesser” team. I can’t believe I’m saying this but the Lakers are beating us on toughness right now!
We can't even beat a tanking Grizzlies team…….I don't care about this being a B2B or this game without AG, Nuggets should have found a way to win. Very embarrassing loss…..I still don't get why Adelman decides to go with these tiny lineups. Time and time again, it has proved that 3 guard or 4 guard lineup does not work at all ESPECIALLY against athletic teams with size. In a game where you don't have AG, play Zeke Nnaji. It's that simple. In a game where we don't have AG and Watson, Zeke Nnaji is the only forward who has the size and athleticism to keep up with opposing forwards/bigs. He also protect the rim as a weak side shot blocker. Spencer Jones tried today, but he's somehow a -22. How in the world is that possible? Teams are picking the Nuggets apart and killing them with speed AND athleticism. Nuggets have to counter and match that with players with positional size and versatility.
Talent is one thing but if teams have no chemistry no matter which team in any sport that is a group sport if they have no chemistry they won't go far, also the nuggets have 0 support from the nba the awful david stern hates jokic as well so no chemistry and no help from the league yeah nah 1st round to 2nd round exist depending who they face i honestly feel like the lakers can beat the nugget if they face im the 1st round.
I understand people still have “hope”. We have a championship “ceiling”. The fact is that we are a month away from the playoffs and we lost easily to the worst team in the west. There’s no defending that. At this point of the season, contenders are very clear. To me it’s clear we will be a 2nd round possibly 1st round exit again. Blow the team up. No one cares anymore. There’s no passion or drive with this squad. The inconsistency is mind blowing. In my opinion we are perfectly seeded based on our performance. We are the definition of a 5/6 seed. Lose constantly to the best teams and underperform in games that we should be dominating. As much as I love jokic, I will no longer defend him. He doesn’t look like he cares anymore and he’s too in his feelings. Our last actual chance was when we lost in game 7 to Minnesota. Since then we have only gotten older, less interested and more injury prone. Blow it up.