Welcome to Lockdown Nuggets, your daily Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown Network, your team every day.

On this edition, we're going to break down the loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

By the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night, a disappointing affair on a back-to-back second night of a back-to-back

the dreaded Sega Baba game.

We'll get into the offenses issues about where things went wrong in that game.

And of course, we'll talk about Michael Porter Jr.

Before we preview the game against the Pelicans on Thursday night.

I'm your host, Matt Moore. senior NBA writer for the Action Network,

and Nuggets Insider for 104-3, The Fan in Denver.

So, the Nuggets played a game, and the Nuggets lost a game,

which was going to happen at some point.

And honestly, it's probably better to get out the way.

The game versus the Mavericks, second night of the back-to-back, you are at home, but it's early in the season, so that doesn't matter as much.

They put up 31 points in the first quarter.

They put up 30 points in the second quarter. They put up 30 points in the second quarter.

They put up 27 points in the third quarter.

And they were outscore 2618 in the fourth.

And that's pretty much the story of the game.

They were, the bench was just like a nightmare in this one.

Just a complete friggin nightmare.

It was something like 60 it was 60 some odd to very much not 60 some odd for the nuggets um the nuggets bench only scored 14 20

22 points that's not great that's not ideal um they were just outscored so horribly. And the plus minus kind of like registers that, you know, because Mason Plumley actually was two of three, had four rebounds. He was so good in the game in Sacramento. And then he winds up with a minus 18 and the loss to Dallas, like Malik Beasleyley minus 16, Jeremy Grant, minus 18.

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