Well, it was a valiant effort, but it turns out the four and five nights versus the second best team in the Western Conference is a little bit much. This is Locked on Nuggets.

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On today's show, we'll recap the loss of the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night

when the Nuggets pretty much, pretty obviously ran out of gas.

I'll talk about the implications of that match of what we learned from it, what we didn't. And then we'll talk a little bit about the Philadelphia 76ers,

absolute beat down at the hands of the Brooklyn Nets and what this means for the Nets in the Eastern Conference, just a little look ahead around the league.

Some topics today include Austin Rivers, Davon Reed, and of course,

Nicole Yokic, because, you know, he's kind of important.

Adam, let's start here.

Give me a percentage. What percentage of this game was just the

four and five? 95%. I mean, like, whether things Denver could have done to overcome that, like the

margins, yes, of course. The margins just become so thin when you get tired like this. So Denver could

have played better. Yokic could have hit one or two threes, and it could have tilted this game so you could point to all that.

But why were the margins so thin?

Denver was so clearly exhausted down the stretch.

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