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TeamRicky wrote:Denver is a better team without Mudiay.

Couldn't agree more. We need to play more teams that are developing their talent! Too bad he got hurt against us in that last game. We may have won that one!

Except the Wolves have been known to choke away leads this entire season. Not to mention they're playing in Minny which isn't good news.

Three things:

1. What the HELL is it with other teams' cold shooters coming into Target Center and lighting us up!? It happens every damn time we play at home. Tonight it's Foye.

2. Sam Mitchell has got to stop running that dumb pin-down action that opens up one of our guys at 20 feet. We've seen it run multiple times with Martin, Wiggins, and Shabazz. It's an outdated play that was last used by the Detroit Pistons to free up Rip Hamilton a decade ago. 20-foot jumpers are the absolute worst shot to take in basketball, yet we actually run plays for them!

3. As TeamRicky mentioned earlier in the thread, the Nuggets look like a completely different team without Mudiay. The ball is moving around quickly, they are making the extra pass, and we're forced to always chase over the top of screens for fear of the 3-point shot. They shot like a gazillion percent from the field in that half.

We just dont have an identity on offense. We are not a fast break team or a 3pt shooting team. We arent running much post plays. We are basically running pin down for open 20 footers and going one on one on the perimeter. Is that our identity? A mid range jump shooting team with players with young legs and elite athletes. sheesh.

Q12543 wrote:

TeamRicky wrote:Denver is a better team without Mudiay.

Couldn't agree more. We need to play more teams that are developing their talent! Too bad he got hurt against us in that last game. We may have won that one!

Mudiay is true tank commander, he does job of multiple average troopers ..too bad he is not playing today .. however we look like we are on B2B2B, energy is not there at all

worldK wrote:We just dont have an identity on offense. We are not a fast break team or a 3pt shooting team. We arent running much post plays. We are basically running pin down for open 20 footers and going one on one on the perimeter. Is that our identity? A mid range jump shooting team with players with young legs and elite athletes. sheesh.

Don't disagree, but ultimately getting stops and then securing the ball seems to be our undoing of late.

Martin is cold tonight.

Denver is shooting 63% plus overall and 77 plus overall on 3s. We are playing D like it was last year.

Whatever impact Mitchell had on this team defensively earlier in the year has faded faster than Lebron's hairline.

I feel like Lavine needs to play the rest of this game if we're to have a chance at anything.

How can this team be so bad defending 3's? It wouldn't matter if the Wolves made 20 3's, they'd allow the other team to make 25.

TeamRicky wrote:Martin is cold tonight.

He's been cold this entire year. Time for Lavine to be handed the reigns already.