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My name is Ryan Blackburn, host here at Lockdown Nuggets, also at the Pickax and Roll podcast

in Mile High Sports.

He is Matt Moore of HP basketball, Hardwood paroxysm uh the denver

dig and uh bets the the bets uh the bets uh i'm sorry buckets gosh i that you sound like my grandmother

he just does the bets thing yeah it's uh it's great. So good for you. Good for you. We're going to continue part two of an episode that we started yesterday, part one, where we went through the first 41 games of the Denver Nuggets schedule, the entirety of the Denver Nuggets schedule in the comments

section, what do you think we're going to get for a final record prediction for the Denver

Nuggets?

Can it be their best season ever?

Can they set a franchise record for wins in the 2025-26 season?

We'll see if we get there, Matt. I'm very curious. Where do you think the Nuggets should be looking for? We finished 27 and 14 through the first 41 games. What do you think should be their goal for the next 41? So they're home for the majority of this stretch, which would make you kind of think like, ooh, they could really push, but this is an opportunity for them to rest more. Like, if they were to get to this spot with 27 and 14, 13 games over 500 on track for 54 wins, they should be able to find some spots to rest. If they can increase their win percentage in the games in which they are engaged, based off of the fact that their home more often often. I think they should be able to then compensate for that by resting guys, like maybe a little bit. So that would be kind of the tradeoff here. I think anywhere between 52 and 54 wins is an accomplishment based off of this. If they rest guys, now if they just push through, then you need to hope for 60 wins and trying to get

the onesie, et cetera, et cetera. I don't know if it's worth it for this team to do that, but that

should be the expectation if they started off 2714. We've got plenty of, I think there are so many

nuances into that exact point in terms of how hard they should push, what should be the actual

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