Game Day: Nuggets (44-28) @ Suns (40-32), Tues 3/24/26

[SunsRIt]

I really don't like how Booker falls after every shot.

[djy2j]

5 on 8 every fucking night man

[djy2j]

Yeah I'd leave Jokic wide open

Not sure why you even have Green in on defense there

[The Bobster]

There's a reason he's been 1st or 2nd in the MVP voting the last 5 years.

[Mori Chu]

Dang. Book got a good look from 3, but it didn't fall.

[The Bobster]

You just knew Booker was going to shoot some low percentage shot.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Damn. Book knows he's gotta hit that one.

[djy2j]

Booker missed the shot and didn't play all that great but leaving Oso in there all 4th quarter to get abused then embarrassed at the line was certainly a choice

[Flagrant Fowl]

You just knew Booker was going to shoot some low percentage shot.

That was not low percentage. He faked Brown into a very clean look under the circumstances.

If anything, I'm upset O'Neale played hot potato with the ball. He should've driven into rotating Gordon toward the baseline and dumped off to Green in the corner.

[The Bobster]

You just knew Booker was going to shoot some low percentage shot.

That was not low percentage. He faked Braun into a very clean look under the circumstances.

If anything, I'm upset O'Neale played hot potato with the ball. He should've driven into rotating Gordon toward the baseline and dumped off to Green in the corner.

The only rotation player (excluding Oso who is 0 for 1) worse at shooting 3-ponters than Booker (.323) is Green (.304). He's just not a great 3-pooint shooter even under the best circumstances.

[Flagrant Fowl]

You just knew Booker was going to shoot some low percentage shot.

That was not low percentage. He faked Braun into a very clean look under the circumstances.

If anything, I'm upset O'Neale played hot potato with the ball. He should've driven into rotating Gordon toward the baseline and dumped off to Green in the corner.

The only rotation player (excluding Oso who is 0 for 1) worse at shooting 3-ponters than Booker (.323) is Green (.304). He's just not a great 3-pooint shooter even under the best circumstances.

This is pretty silly. Booker is a career 35% 3-point shooter. It's not a tragedy that he took the shot.

[The Bobster]

As compared to Gillespie (42%), Allen (40%) and O'Neal (39%) and Booker's shooting his career-low this year. He's a streaky perimeter shooter.

Hero ball is part of why they haven't been a good crunch time team since Chris Paul was here.

[Split T]

Booker got an open 3 point shot…that’s a great look and I would not call that hero ball.

Not sure why we decided to give Jokic an open 15 footer the possession before though

[ShelC]

Book got a good look but you wish it were a better shot, something going towards the basket. Had 10 or so seconds for the final shot. Story of the season against the top teams - close but no cigar. Nice to hang and stay close but also shows we're just not there, which maybe you live with considering the original expectations on the season.

58 points in the paint for the Nuggets is the stat of the night.

[ShelC]

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[Mori Chu]

I don't think it was a bad shot or hero ball. Book is our best player and has hit many game winners. And he got a pretty good look after faking his defender. It just didn't fall. The real problem was trying to play Oso down the stretch where he couldn't slow Jokic much on defense, and was immediately fouled and bricked most of his free throws on offense. That basically killed us. I don't know if ManMan would have been better, but with the benefit of hindsight I don't think Oso was a good choice for this matchup.

[specialsauce]

Ott has NOT coached well the last few weeks. His stubbornness in not giving his rookies extended opportunities has cost us multiple games. Oso had no business playing that much last night. He was an absolute traffic cone and killed us. Man Man has shown he is more than capable of playing and he was playing well last night.

[ShelC]

It goes both ways - rooks look good in limited minutes because there's a smaller opportunity to get exposed. Sheer went 0-6 last night and was -12. Kham played 10 minutes.

Oso showed his limitations guarding a bigger, truer center and being a liability at the FT line during a close game.

[Split T]

I think it’s easy to say we shouldn’t have played Oso, but without Mark Williams, we didn’t really have a great option.

You can say Maluach, but I think there’s a good chance Jokic just toys with him and draws 3 straight fouls…on offense we’d probably have to throw him in the corner because Denver would just trap every screen. I think it could’ve gone much worse with Maluach is what I’m saying.

All told, we had multiple injured starters and we lost by 2 to a superior team(and had a good look to win it). Pretty good performance.

[Superbone]

Huge Man Man hell yeah

We should have played him during Hack-a-Daro.