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Matt Moore has the day off today, is I'm going to provide you guys a notebook look notebook edition of the podcast going over line by line, some of the

things that stood out to me in Denver's win over the Miami Heat, their fifth straight win.

Yesterday we went over some broadstroke stuff, you know, immediate takeaways and then some

big pictures looks at where the nuggets are and some of the stuff that's happening. But I wanted to use this episode to kind of go through my notebooks

over on the DNVR Nuggets podcast. I'm going to be doing a mailbag, so I figure this is a

great chance to get in. Even though this game, you know, was a blowout win. And blowout wins

tend to have maybe fewer notes for them. I thought that this one had provided some really great

notes that only arise from games like this where there's a little bit more leeway and you get

a little bit better look at things. So without further ado, let's get into this. If you're new to

the show, you want to know that I go through chronological order. I take notes when I go back and do

a rewatch of the game, more detailed notes. I also put these clips together for the list up on the dnvr.com, which are video clips that go along with the things that I'm saying.

So if you're listening to something, you're saying, man, I really would like to take a look of what that looks like or see it.

So I can maybe look for it in the future. You're going to want to go over to the dnvr.com for that. So first, defense was great in this game early on.

Active hands.

So the things that were great about it, active hands from everybody.

Everybody just like engaged and focused on the defensive end, quick rotations and quick switches.

And along those lines, we're talking about a lineup that now has started together for three seasons.

You know, Barton at the small forward, Gary Harris, shooting guard, and then you have Paul

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