finishing up this 1560 talking about the West teams that made moves at the trade deadline

I hope everyone had a chance to check us out on

NBA calm doing the live call of Grizzlies and Clippers day

But now it's back to business as normal with the

Denver Nuggets what are their fundamentals please Danny the nuggets are

39 and 18 they are currently

Tentan League in that rating plus 3.6 eighth in offense and 12th in defense and not a surprise that they're going to make the playoffs

There there is a difference in the elo versus raptor projections

But we'll look at the elo ones for now that predict predicts that the nuggets will win 54 games

Which is just above a big batch other teams to actually finish second in the West behind the Lakers

Yeah, and where they are right now a little lucky for the second consecutive year at least through a lot of the year

They actually normalize pretty well at their point differential last year

But if you look at both their number of wins over their point differential and then also some of the shooting lock that they have been

Experiencing the season they may not be quite as good as their record would indicate here

At least over the course of the regular season

They've also had a lot of injuries that they've dealt with but at least in terms of the guys that they put on the floor

I think it's fair to say that they're lucky to have a scooter record as they do

Yeah, I would say that that's fair and

One reason why they've outperformed their point differential is that they have been very

Successful in crunch time MBA.com defines this as games within the last five within the last five minutes

The nuggets are 23 and 12 in those games

They have a plus 12.5 net rating, which is eighth in the NBA for those that narrow section minutes and notably

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