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We have Michael Malone's press conference from today's practice, which I thought was a really good one.

I thought Malone was great.

He's really, he's really always good. He's a good quote. But I think he's really, at least

been in agreeance with me. So I guess, yeah, it's all subjective. I think he's good because I

agree with him. But he's just been on the nose with a lot of the same stuff that I think I and

many other people are seeing with the team.

And today he spoke to the media about the team's lack of patience in the half court, which is something I've hammered on quite a bit on this show.

Denver is a great half court offensive team.

But the reason they are great is because they really exercise patience in the half court.

They get the ball popping.

That's where the phrase comes from, from how well this team can move the ball in the half court when they really get going.

But the ball was not popping in that Warriors game, and it wasn't popping in a couple of the other ugly losses over this last stretch.

So Malone kind of talked about why that is and highlighted some of the statistics that he and his

staff track that have pointed to the team just being bad. Then on Denverstiff's.com, I looked at the first

19 possessions of that Warriors game and broke down every single one and talked about the lack of

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