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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**ORL**|**25**|**29**|**34**|**28**|**116**|[](/ORL)|
**DEN**|**31**|**38**|**25**|**25**|**119**|[](/DEN)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/ORL)**ORL**|**41-84 (48.8)**|**7-29 (24.1)**|**27-34 (79.4)**|**10**|**39**|**24**|**13**|**7**|**2**|**17**|**116**|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**48-89 (53.9)**|**13-39 (33.3)**|**10-19 (52.6)**|**12**|**41**|**32**|**15**|**10**|**5**|**22**|**119**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
M. Porter Jr.^^SF|28:00|6-13 (46.2)|4-8 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|2|4|0|1|1|1|3|16|+1|
A. Gordon^^PF|32:24|9-13 (69.2)|2-3 (66.7)|5-11 (45.5)|3|8|5|1|0|0|2|25|+11|
N. Jokic^^C|34:47|8-11 (72.7)|1-4 (25.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|10|14|4|2|1|3|17|+16|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|34:51|5-11 (45.5)|2-7 (28.6)|0-1 (0.0)|1|4|0|1|2|1|1|12|+11|
J. Murray^^PG|38:23|6-17 (35.3)|3-10 (30.0)|3-3 (100.0)|2|4|7|4|0|0|4|18|-9|
B. Brown|24:21|5-9 (55.6)|0-2 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|1|1|2|1|4|2|1|12|+10|
B. Hyland|8:41|2-5 (40.0)|0-3 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|2|3|1|1|0|2|4|+2|
Z. Nnaji|15:36|4-4 (100.0)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|1|0|0|0|2|9|-8|
D. Jordan|13:13|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-2 (0.0)|1|3|0|2|0|0|4|2|-13|
C. Braun|9:43|2-5 (40.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|2|4|0|0|0|0|0|4|-6|
**Totals**||**48-89 (53.9)**|**13-39 (33.3)**|**10-19 (52.6)**|**12**|**41**|**32**|**15**|**10**|**5**|**22**|**119**||
**DNP:** ***Davon Reed***, ***Ish Smith***, ***Jack White***
**Inactive:** ***Vlatko Cancar***, ***Collin Gillespie***, ***Jeff Green***, ***Peyton Watson***
**[](/ORL)ORL**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
F. Wagner^^SF|31:47|7-16 (43.8)|2-7 (28.6)|3-4 (75.0)|0|5|2|2|1|0|1|19|+21|
P. Banchero^^PF|32:53|5-9 (55.6)|2-3 (66.7)|6-6 (100.0)|0|2|4|2|1|1|3|18|-16|
W. Carter Jr.^^C|32:02|3-10 (30.0)|0-3 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|2|6|2|1|0|0|2|8|-14|
G. Harris^^SG|21:28|2-4 (50.0)|1-3 (33.3)|0-0 (0.0)|2|2|1|0|0|0|2|5|-2|
M. Fultz^^PG|27:25|8-10 (80.0)|1-1 (100.0)|3-6 (50.0)|1|7|6|5|2|0|2|20|-8|
J. Suggs|13:17|2-4 (50.0)|0-2 (0.0)|3-4 (75.0)|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|7|-10|
T. Ross|23:14|3-6 (50.0)|1-4 (25.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|1|1|0|0|7|+1|
C. Anthony|23:53|1-7 (14.3)|0-1 (0.0)|5-6 (83.3)|1|5|6|0|0|1|4|7|+3|
M. Wagner|15:07|2-6 (33.3)|0-4 (0.0)|4-5 (80.0)|2|5|1|1|0|0|2|8|+13|
B. Bol|18:03|8-12 (66.7)|0-1 (0.0)|1-1 (100.0)|2|6|1|1|1|0|1|17|-1|
M. Bamba|0:50|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-2|
**Totals**||**41-84 (48.8)**|**7-29 (24.1)**|**27-34 (79.4)**|**10**|**39**|**24**|**13**|**7**|**2**|**17**|**116**||
**DNP:** ***Caleb Houstan***
**Inactive:** ***R.J. Hampton***, ***Kevon Harris***, ***Jonathan Isaac***, ***Chuma Okeke***, ***Admiral Schofield***
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**ORL**|60|14|15|6|46|13|18|[](/ORL)|
**DEN**|56|17|22|15|31|16|19|[](/DEN)|
**Lead Changes: 13** | **Times Tied: 6** | **Gametime: 2:21** | **Attendance: 19641**
*Officials: Brent Barnaky, Josh Tiven, Matt Kallio*
by BigHoneyBot
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I see the doomers have migrated to the rNBA threads for the most part which is nice
Jamal and Bones need to resolve their hero complexes.
Had a 4 leg parlay. AG 14+ (pts/ast), Bruce 11+ (pts/ast), joker over 7.5 ast, and nuggets -2.5. Joker choosing to step back and hit the three with a tie game was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Damn I love this team
Memphis isn’t going away, but Nuggets and Grizzlies are building a little gap on the rest of the West.
Nugglyfe game. Inferior opponent with no reason for it to be close, only to be turned into a nail bitter lol
We’re gonna have a good day
And ain’t nobody gotta cry today
‘Cause ain’t nobody gonna die today
Save that drama for another day
Hey, we’re gonna have a good day
Was on the floor for that game winner fellas. Hit me right in the feels. All Hail Jokic.
Passing of Bird, Vision of Magic, Post Game of McHale, Shooting of Dirk, Defense of Marc Gasol, and Rebounding of Duncan. Nikola Jokic is the best player on the Planet and he is going to average a 25/10/10 Trible double this season
Fuck that was a dope game winner
Nuggets shooting:
* FG%: 53.9%
* FT%: 52.6%
Only 2 teams have 30 wins. FYI
Murray miracle 3
AG hitting both FTs
Murray fouling for whatever reason and Fultz missing
Jokic step back 3 gamewinner
Yeah seriously lucky win
I [thought](https://www.reddit.com/r/denvernuggets/comments/101hbbr/another_month_of_nuggets_ball_on_the_way_what_do/j2noqht/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) we were gonna lose a couple weeks ago. Figured it’d be close.
I know this is not a match-up we see very often, but the more we see it, the more I feel like WCJ is likely the best Jokic defender in the entire league. He has good quickness and strength, he gets into really good positions to prevent Jokic from backing him down, and most importantly, he doesn’t fall for pump fakes and will stay down at all costs leaving Jokic in a constant state of back to the basket.
I would love to see this match-up more to see Jokic figure his way through this match-up, but unfortunately we only get to see it twice a year. The positive of this going forward is almost no other big in the league plays like this, so it’s not really replicatable.
I love our team boys
Bro, why does Grizzlies’ sub PGT have like 40 comments, what the fuck?
only reason it was close is because Vlatko didnt play tn
START THE FUCKING POST GAME SURVEY!!
And SNF is still on and exciting??? What a night
That was a lucky ass game that I’m grateful we won lmao. The murray jokic two man game was so off from both of them like wtf was that but glad we won haha
Nuggets are a machine
Good sign that we won a game where we couldn’t really shoot well from 3 (33% is meh for us) and shot badly from the FT line
Feels like we definitely would’ve lost this game in prior seasons
We really got fucked on the FTs man, 34 for Magic and 19 for us, and we shot terribly again. Jokic had 0 FTs!
This isn’t gonna happen again I feel.
I would love if they started including the entire team on offense more often than not, I get that Murray-Jokic-AG have a good chemistry but there were so many times either KCP, Bruce or MPJ were open and no one even looked in their direction.
Also not good defense by the team in particular Murray tonight but insaaaane last shot by Jokic lol
This gets repeated ad nauseam here, but I really cannot emphasize how lucky we all are to be watching this guy play historic basketball and he’s *on our team*.
B2b games with Jamal 38 ish mins Brown only 24.
I get trying to ramp up JAMAL but that seems too much
It never ceases to amaze me what kind of whistle Embiid gets. I swear to fucking Christ if Jokic had this whistle, he’d average 40.
Maybe after the 3rd MVP tho 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
I know people wont agree but u/weirdredbeard was terrible tonight I get you don’t like commenting but when your sub is struggling you need to step up and demand the upvotes. I know u/ion513 was hogging the thread and refused to stop but on a couple timeouts u/weirdredbeard just sat there and didn’t type. Plus was awful shitposting in PGT.
Check out [Wob’s closeup of KCP](https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1614829775092330496?s=20&t=0gw2xWTXcodUg2I88vjDkQ) at the game winner.
Yeah besides Luca the Mavs are not great they are losing their 2nd game to the Blazers in a row.
Almost forgot:
This one doesn’t count because Magic were missing Chuma Okeke, and Jonathan Isaac, and also these are the types of games we should win in a blowout fashion, so this is essentially a loss.
Gonna watch this 6ers/Lakers game to be a more educated hater.
DID SOMEONE SAY DIRKOLA JOKICTZKI
Tbh. I’m rooting for Lakers. I want Embiid to be even more upset coming off a loss and seeing his dad hit a game winner
This team has GOT to get it’s FT shooting under control. AG especially, he’s been so bad there. I don’t want there to be a Whack-a-Gordon tactic teams can pull on us in the clutch.
Although props to him for making the 2 most important ones at the end.
Edit: it’s supposed to be Hack-a-Gordon but whatevs
https://twitter.com/markjonesespn/status/1614703884827598850?s=46&t=e5c3c5nKyfSBKLxYENutSQ
Mark Jones with another banger against Jokic
But seriously what did jokic do to this man 💀
What a game! I was bones 14+ assists and points from hitting a 14 leg +17000 parlay smh hope he’s alright
Need to be better in the 2nd half. The 2nd unit really depends on Bones a lot it seems. Blazers will be coming off back to back wins vs Mavs looking to steal one
Um MPJ has been called twice for being in the shooter landing spot. Even kcp got one. How the hell did they say Embiid wasn’t in LeBron landing for a flagrant. NBA refs picking and choosing
I’m very glad that Portland and Minny have won 1 or 2 games lately, because they won’t have those frickin’ emergency player meetings before they play against us
Sixers are getting the full brunt of the lakers whistle
But I can’t feel that bad cuz of harden and embiid
Refs sweating out these Harden/Embiid vs Bron/Lakers whistles
That was about as bad a second half as this team has played in ages. Hopefully will serve as a good tune-up for the Blazers
Are the lakers tanking? What was that ending lol
I am convinced that Jokic must’ve followed Mark Jones’ wife on instagram or something, cuz the hating is crazy.
Fuck the Lakers lmao
lmao wtf was that, Russ?
Westbrook did the stupid ass celebration after getting an and1 on a made 3
I’ve said it before, but it deserves repeating. If we make a deep playoff run, I think KCP is going to be our difference maker that gives us the edge in close games. The late 4th quarter 3 that he hit tonight was the only thing that allowed to to pull off the W in the end.
Westbrook lmao
Meanwhile Ham: 112 + 2 timeouts is 114, right? Right?