Tag: Cooper Flagg
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Peyton Watson’s expanding offensive game gives Nuggets a unique new weapon
A five-second span of the second quarter showed the element Peyton Watson adds to the Nuggets. “We have been a pass-and-cut team. We’re not a team that travels to the paint off the dribble very much,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said after his team’s 142-135 win over the Mavericks Wednesday at Ball Arena. “It’s been…
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Murray, Jokic make case as top tandem in Denver Nuggets’ win over Dallas
Milestones were narrowly missed, but the Nuggets’ top two made their case as the league’s best duo and All-NBA selections together for the first time. With 53 points, Jamal Murray finished a bucket shy of matching his career-high in Denver’s 142-135 win over the Mavericks on Wednesday at Ball Arena. With 23 points, 21 rebounds…
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Nikola Jokic, David Adelman stand by final sequence as Nuggets lose in Dallas
DALLAS – There was only one regret from the final seconds of Denver’s 131-130 loss to the Mavericks on Tuesday at American Airlines Center. “I was really hoping that they didn’t call the shot-clock violation,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said after the team’s 11-game win streak away from home ended. “I thought we had a…
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Jokic’s triple-double wasted as Nuggets’ defense crumbles again in 131-121 loss to Mavericks
The Nuggets’ defense these days can make even the NBA’s worst offense look unstoppable. The Mavericks entered Monday’s 131-121 win over the Nuggets at Ball Arena with a 106 offensive rating, the worst mark in the league. Denver entered with the league’s best offensive rating, 123.9, but it didn’t make a difference. “We’re not physical…
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Three winners, three losers from the first round of the NBA draft
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The first round of the NBA draft started with the Dallas Mavericks drafting the future of the franchise, Cooper Flagg, and ended with the Clippers taking Penn State product Yanic Konan Niederhauser. Here are the Denver Gazette’s winners and losers from the first round: Winners 1. Hawks What a couple of days it has been…