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

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

I still love this music.

I still love this song.

I didn't know if I was going to bring out the sad music or not for this one, but on

rewatch about halfway through the second quarter, not for this one, but on rewatch about

halfway through the second quarter, I thought, oh yeah, I'm definitely bringing out the sad

music because that was a sad game, a sad performance. That was a butt kicking. It was the type of

butt kicking that I think you have to be a little bit honest with yourself about Denver's

chances against Houston. You know, they got the win a couple months ago against Houston with

Clint Capella out of the lineup and you thought, okay, maybe there's something there. Let's,

you know, let's get to full strength and let's see what Denver looks like against them.

And while I think that you can make an argument, I don't know how convincing it would be,

but you can make an argument that this loss, Denver was, you know, closer, you don't want to say

closer because they spent two-thirds or three-quarters of this game kind of getting blown out. But

you could argue that there was a pivotal moment in that second quarter where Denver kind of lost hold of the rope, and maybe if that doesn't happen,

Denver has a better chance of this after all the first quarter didn't look bad. But, you know,

I think at this point, we have enough of a sample size to just say Houston does things at a really,

really high level that Denver really struggles with. Denver has weaknesses. They're

not a perfect team. And unfortunately, Houston just seems primed to exploit that. So this episode of the

show is going to be on, obviously it's going to be on the loss of the Houston Rockets. And

segments one and two, I'm going to share my notes. If you're new to the show, welcome. I always

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