What Happened to the Denver Nuggets? with Adam Mares | Slam N' Jam
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🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Slam N Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA basketball including the NBA Cup, Trae Young stats, Jimmy Butler fake trades, and more. Then Adam Mares of DNVR joins to discuss the Denver Nuggets, their current trajectory, and if they can become the title contenders we thought they were this season. Then the guys play a fun version of Andrew vs. The Beat!
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Adam Mares
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammon Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck. |
| 0:16.8 | Today on the show, we are talking about the NBA Cup, our favorite things, and Adam Maras of Denvr is |
| 0:23.9 | D-NV-R is going to join us to discuss the Denver Nuggets and play a little trivia before we get to any of that. |
| 0:33.4 | Alex, please tell me what were the top stories this week? |
| 0:37.4 | Well, Andrew, our top story this week was the NBA Cup elimination round. |
| 0:42.4 | On Tuesday and Wednesday, the field of eight was whittled down to four. |
| 0:46.7 | Oklahoma City and Houston in the west, Milwaukee and Atlanta. |
| 0:51.1 | The Hawks in the East. |
| 0:53.5 | Houston made it to the final four by playing a very entertaining, very disgusting game |
| 0:58.1 | against the Golden State Warriors, which they won 91 to 90. |
| 1:01.7 | If you like the idea of combining the vibes of a game from 2003 with the three-point attempt rate |
| 1:07.5 | of a game from 2024, this was the game for you. The two teams combined |
| 1:12.9 | to go 18 of 65 or 28% from three. Houston, the team that won the game, shot 22% from three. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, when was the last time the rocket shot that poorly from three and one? Well, guess what? |
| 1:27.0 | Not that long ago one month ago the |
| 1:29.0 | rockets won both games of a back-to-back while shooting under 22% from three in both games now |
| 1:36.3 | while most NBA fans seem to enjoy the energy and competitiveness of the cup games there were some |
| 1:41.8 | who reacted to the final four teams by expressing concern about the ratings for the upcoming games, there were some who reacted to the Final Four teams by expressing |
| 1:44.4 | concern about the ratings for the upcoming games, given that none of the big markets |
| 1:49.5 | made it to Vegas. |
| 1:51.3 | Imagine spending your time thinking about the television ratings of a company that just |
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