Nikola je izjavio: „They just turned it up to another level and we weren’t even close.“

Nuggets forward Paul Millsap is out after having surgery on his left wrist. Malone explained the difference of having Faried on the floor more with Jokic.

„Nikola and Kenneth have such great chemistry because Kenneth runs the floor and puts pressure on the rim,“ Malone said. „If he’s not at the rim, he’s working the baseline. Now you have Nikola up high post, elbow, making plays for everybody.

„That was the challenge early in the season with Paul Millsap and Nikola, we had five guys on the perimeter quite a bit. Didn’t have anybody putting pressure on the rim. When you have somebody putting pressure on the rim, that forces somebody to account for that man. And therein lies an open man somewhere, and that’s where Nikola’s at his best. He finds the open man time and time again.“

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