Hello and welcome to Locked On Nuggets, your daily, Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown Network.

I'm your host, Matt Moore.

Adam Maris is out this week on vacation and hope he enjoys it. I'm sure that this won't be stressful for me at all handling locked on

during the trade deadline. Thanks, Adam. Just kidding. I'm glad that Adam's finally getting a little

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15% off your next order. Today on today's show, we will talk about the loss to the Pelicans on

Sunday. I wasn't able to get a podcast up then, so we'll go over that one and who I think was

most to blame for that one. And you guys were shocked to find out

that. In segment two, we're going to move on from that game because we know the deal with

the versus the Pelicans. It's a tough matchup. We're going to talk about the trade deadline.

I have some news that I can tell you about Aaron Gordon. I reported it on the action network.

We'll talk about that as it pertains to the Nuggets and their pursuit of Aaron Gordon, as well as what I think going into the trade deadline.

And in the third segment, we'll take a brief look ahead at the week to come and get a sense for where the Nuggets are as a trade deadline approaches on Thursday.

Let's talk about the Pelicans game.

All right.

We can surmise this game in a bunch of different ways.

Okay,

we can break this down in a whole bunch of different ways.

The Nuggets in their postgame commentary were pretty frustrated and pretty honest and pretty simple with what they felt about that game.

They tried to get around it.

They did.

They tried to talk about like,

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