The Nuggets are the 2nd best team in the West in 2025 having 2 defeats that were both at Denver but both they were without Jokic.
Things have been going well for them with Westbrook on the lineup, having 3 guys as "creators", moving the ball a lot trying to find the open teammate. Best team in the league in field goal percentage, one of the best in 3 pointers despite shooting the least ones.
Murray, Westbrook, Jokic, Braun and MPJ is the expected lineup, Gordon is their 6th man lately (entering early in Q1) that has always caused us trouble and then they got Watson and Strawther coming for limited minutes. Their main weakness by far is the non-Jokic minutes with DeAndre Jordan taking his spot. Perhaps we will see Len going against him once more.
Jokic comes from 4 consecutive triple doubles with all of them from the 3rd quarter. The Nuggets have 11-3 recent records with all wins coming with double digits (even the one in overtime at San Antonio). They had a very unusual record at one point, 8-0 when playing on the second game of a backtoback themselves, but they lost the 9th time (without Jokic though).
Is Mike Malone planning to talk about Mike Brown in the pregame once again like Spo, Kerr and the others did in the past?
Perhaps the most painful defeat in the season was against them in G1C with DDR losing the ball at the end after Kings making a huge comeback, but both teams scoring non stop in the final minutes.
In theory with B2B and traveling and regarding how many minutes the starters played yesterday and the effort in the 2nd half it will be extra hard to perform at the same level tonight for the Kings, but this team doesn't cease to amaze us recently so who knows?
