The rocket started off shooting the lights out, but Nicole Yolkits and Jamal Murray were just too much.

And hey, the bench played pretty well. This is Locked on Nuggets.

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Today we're going to talk about the Nuggets win over the Houston Rockets.

We'll get into where we think Jamal Murray is at after 20 games after Nicole is very, everyone was very delighted by the fact that Jamal Marie had a great game on exactly the 21st game after the first 20 games.

After Nicola said he would be, he would be bad for those first 20 games.

And in the third segment, I asked Michael Malone about defense in the pregame.

And his answer was illuminating, I thought.

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