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Remember the Lockdown Podcast Network, where it's your team every single day. And in this case, every game, every night. I'm one of the host of Lockstone Bulls. I'm joined as I am every Friday night by Swiper, one of the hosts of Locked On Nuggets. We're going to jump right into it today. We're off with your team, actually swiping the different nuggets, get a win over the Houston Rockets

112, 109.

This is a battle of the Western Conference teams. The Rockets have been really good despite not having a point guard, but the different nuggets, you know, no Aaron Gordon in this game. You had big games from Jamal Murray and Nicola Yoak, is what you need in matches like this. How did you feel about this game? Man, it's obviously really unfortunate. Aaron Gordon goes down with the hamstring injury, three minutes into the game. And, man, it's just like, Lord willing, you know, it's not anything serious. It's obviously super early in the season. So hopefully it's nothing that's going to be debilitating or, you know, something that's going to hold them back at all.

But that was a big loss, you know, because they already don't have Christian Brown. And it's not just about like him being there, you know, the shooting and the scoring and everything. It's the continuity. You know, you just, you want to have your guys out there. You know, you want to know that you've got your best foot forward and today that was a matchup that he

ideally is built for but i will say man Peyton Watson you know he's made a real mark on this

team and he had 10 rebounds today nine points coming off 12 rebound performing for the

the pelicans Kevin Durant and alpren shingoon were straight bad today they they got they up, and, you know, they've been playing really well this year,

so no take her anyway, getting credit away from them.

But what the Nuggets do have haze,

and I think a lot of people, or maybe not might be aware of,

is with Christian Brown, Aaron Gordon, Cam Johnson's defense has been really good,

and then you add in Bruce Brown.

And then off the bench, they got Spencer Jones as well.

The Nuggets have a lot of wing defenders.

They got a lot of really big body defenders.

And so Kevin Durant struggled with that size today from Peyton Watson.

And that defense that he played was so important to really turning

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