Wolves 97 Nuggets 112
- No Conley. That was the game right there. No competent PG. Anybody who has said that Edwards should be the starting PG was dead wrong. Edwards spent the game looking to start the Offense. Meant he couldn't move around the court to find space to do his thing or light up scoreboard.
- Jokic is a great, great player and the NBA lets him get away with murder by allowing him to keep raming into a defender and not calling an offensive foul. Instead often the defender is called for a foul instead.
- Only a single Denver starter shot under .500 for the game.
- Gobert was 7-7 from the field, 4-7 from the line, had 11 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and a single turnover. He was actually +2 for the game. Problem was Jokic could bang and bang into him and Gobert would end-up getting a foul. Same with Towns.
- Towns led the team with 22pts. He was 10-19 from the field. Problem was only 5 of them were from 3. Though it meant that 14 of them were pretty close range. Yet Towns was only sent to the free throw line once. Don't remember if that was after he was tripped and then went hard to the floor. That didn't help his game either.
- The back-up PGs? Anderson was out there for only 16 minutes didn't look that bad but again he looked kind of lost. Morris? His numbers don't look bad but honestly can't remember much of what he did.
When the Wolves have to play without a healthy Conley they're gonna lose. It ain't about heart, or how physical the Wolves play (code for they foul everybody) or how Jokic is the greatest player in the world. Particularly when he can bump you but no one can bump him back.
