You're listening the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, your daily podcast on the Denver Nuggets.

Now, here is your host from Denverstiffs.com, Adam Mottes.

The sad music, because this is a sad moment for the Nuggets.

Crushing loss, soul crushing loss to the Lakers tonight.

Big game, you know, all the trash talk, all the antics leading into it.

You knew this was a big one.

You knew the stakes couldn't have been higher for the Nuggets.

But unfortunately, they just did not do nearly enough to get this win.

They fall to Lakers 112.103.

They move into sole possession of 10th place, two spots now out of the playoffs.

And, you know, it's like the old Bob Dylan Lerick. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. It feels like, uh, it feels

like the nuggets are now on the precipice of another season in which they just completely fall,

fail to meet their expectations. And, expectations, and I'm going to get into

a lot of that stuff at the end. But this episode, if you're new to the show, this episode I'm

going to share my notes, not recap the game, but share my notes on what I think the big takeaways

are from this game. And I think there are a couple important ones, including some big picture

stuff. And then also just some of the important ones, including some big picture stuff.

And then also just some of the little minutia that I really kind of geek out on with basketball.

I always like to kind of look at sort of the X and O's. Got some X's and O's stuff to talk about. But before I get into any of that, I want to tell you about our sponsor for Today Show, which is MyBooky.ag.

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