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The Denver Nuggets take down the Utah Jazz here on Wednesday evening on the road, 130 to 117, your final score in that one.

A lot to unpack here tonight in just a little bit of time on your locked on Nuggets Postcast.

Of course, we'll go over the game.

We'll do our player of the game.

We'll do our turning point.

And we'll talk about what I think is the big theme game aside, losing Tim Hardaway Jr. and Peyton Watson to injury in the middle of this one as well. So we'll have some fun here tonight. If you guys want to get involved with the program, feel free to drop a comment. Also make sure to hit that like button, smash that subscribe button. Really helps us out here

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Okay, let's get right on into it. The Nuggets, 130 to 117, your final score in this one, as I mentioned. And look, they win the game and they do it pretty convincingly, but there was multiple times throughout the course of this game where it's like, what, what is going on with this team? Right. I mean, they led by as many as 18 points in this game. It was really a, the final score, you feel pretty good about it, obviously.

You feel good about any win at this point in the season as well. But there was moments in particular in the third quarter where defense continues to be an issue for this Nuggets team in Utah, who, you know, if it wasn't for them tanking, may have beat them the last time they played before tonight as well. So a lot of moving parts. I mean, we know where Denver's at defensively as a whole and it's not very great, but the flip side of that is we know where Denver is offensively with respect to other teams in the NBA. And that is one of if not the best team in the league. And that's kind of what it feels like here because the nuggets tonight with their victory over the Utah, extend their win streak now to seven games, which is awesome.

And I can't sit here and nitpick too much.

And let me pull up this, because I'm forgetting every game in the streak.

I know Utah twice, Toronto, Portland.

Yeah, so wins against Toronto, Portland, Phoenix, Dallas, Utah, Golden State, and now Utah again.

So look, you can't sit here and complain too much about a seven-game win streak, but there has been a theme that has kind of arised throughout the course of this win streak, which is Denver's had to kind of turn the jets on offensively to kind of make up what they've been lacking defensively in some of these games. And, you know, going into the fourth quarter here tonight was 9790 at the end of the third quarter and Denver kind of turns on the afterburners and they take care of business in the fourth quarter outscoring Utah there 33 to 27. And you saw Denver offensively in the first quarter. They put up 39 points to

open up the game. Jamal Murray was absolutely on fire, made his first three, or made three straight

threes, rather I should say, to open up the game for this Nuggets team here tonight. And Jamal was

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