Clutch time's always been winning time for Nicole Yilkech's Nuggets, but this season it hasn't been.

I'll tell you the secrets of why it's been a problem, especially versus the magic coming up on Locked On Nuggets.

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fancited. Catch me on Locked on NBA Daily Monday through Friday. On today's show, we're going to talk about the loss versus the magic. Housekeeping? Recording this on a Sunday morning, I was going to do a show on Saturday night, and then I came down with basically a migraine and was just like not able to go. And I already told the guys that I was going to do it, so I didn't want to ask them to do it for me. So I was like, I'll just get in the morning. So I'm doing it here Sunday afternoon. We will still have no jinx on Sunday night at 10.30 mountain time live on YouTube.com slash locked on nuggets and then your podcast fees. this is kind of a bonus episode to kind of talk about that loss to the magic.

We'll talk about the game versus the magic is what we're going to kind of talk about,

especially the clutch time stuff and the bench stuff.

Let's start here.

This was a game. The Nuggets should have won.

Adam and said so after the game, he kind of pointed this one and the Blazers game was two games that he thinks that they should have won.

Uh, I think the, the, the identity there, the common threat is actually that's him of criticizing the officiating without criticizing the officiating because both these games were kind of decided.

Desmond Bain call late. Um don't know how I feel that. I've watched it a bunch of times.

I don't know how I feel about the Desmond Bain call where I think, you know,

defenders up on him and then he moves the ball to the other side through the guy and falls.

And it's clear that he's, like, tripping on his own feet.

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