Daily Ding: Nuggets hold on against the Ws + Lakers ground the Rockets
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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Jared Weiss and Mo Dakhil discuss the night in the NBA on Tuesday Dec. 28th including a wild finish at Golden State, the 76ers taking care of business and Center LeBron.
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| 0:00.0 | Ding ding. |
| 0:03.0 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:08.8 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:14.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show, |
| 0:18.6 | where you can find us every weekday morning. I am Jared Weiss. I'm joined by Mo DeKeele. We got Andrew Schleck on the boards. And let's get right into the Nuggets. Outlasting a Steph Curry onslaught late. They beat the Warriors 89 to 86 in Golden State. I mean, it was an unbelievable game, Jared, because this looked like a blowout in the first half. |
| 0:39.0 | Right? |
| 0:39.5 | I mean, like, when you're watching it, it's just like, wow, the nuggets are coming here, they're going to blow them out. |
| 0:44.5 | No Draymond Green in this one, still no Jordan Pool for the Warriors. |
| 0:48.8 | You're watching it going like, damn, like, Draymond really matters defensively. |
| 0:53.5 | And the Nuggets capitalized. Yeah, right, like, Draymond really matters defensively. And the Nuggets capitalized. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.1 | Right. |
| 0:57.1 | Amazing analysis there. |
| 0:59.6 | You know, the Nuggets put up 31 points in the first quarter, |
| 1:02.4 | 29 in the second quarter. |
| 1:04.0 | But then it completely flips in the second half. |
| 1:06.8 | It's like the Warriors were like, no, no, we can also defend, |
| 1:09.9 | even when Dremont's not available. |
| 1:12.3 | And they held the nuggets of 29 points in the second half and nearly came back and pulled off the miracle victory. |
| 1:18.0 | And so the nuggets were up by, I think, 24 at halftime. |
| 1:22.0 | And it was, you know, it seemed like they were going to kind of hold it together there at the beginning. |
| 1:31.5 | And then it just kind of like fell off to like two distinct cliffs. It was middle the third quarter, uh, when Gary Payton is getting it done, Andrew Wiggins is scoring. And then |
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