Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets
Oct 23, 2026 · 23 min · 23 segments
The Denver Nuggets started opening night strong against the Oklahoma City Thunder, building an early lead with lockdown defense, but it all slipped away in the second half. Nikola Jokic and Jamal…
They had you feeling here in the first half, no doubt about it, where they come out defensively.
Some different decisions there from David Adam about how he wants to deploy his bench.
If I would have told you before the game started tonight that, that the Nuggets were going to hold the Oklahoma City Thunder to under 100 points and SGA's streak of consecutive games scoring over 20 plus points would be snapped.
Do you think Denver would have won the game? Because I probably would have thought that as well.
Under 100 points and holding SGA to under 20 points scoring, I would have said, oh my gosh, the Nuggets offense probably ran wild.
This is a game that you're going to always want to have back, and it's really not a great way to set the tone this season.
I think it was a combination of a couple different things, right? I think Denver's defense, obviously, in the first half was nice, but I thought OKC was absolutely putrid, which is not exactly unexpected coming off the emotional game they played in San Antonio at the opening of the season.
That was just probably not going to be the case in the second half, to be quite honest with you, right? They were going to bounce back.
This is a team that with the depth they have, I know they don't have Lou Dort and Isaiah Joe and some of these other guys.
They had you feeling here in the first half, no doubt about it, where they come out defensively.
Some different decisions there from David Adam about how he wants to deploy his bench.
If I would have told you before the game started tonight that, that the Nuggets were going to hold the Oklahoma City Thunder to under 100 points and SGA's streak of consecutive games scoring over 20 plus points would be snapped.
Do you think Denver would have won the game? Because I probably would have thought that as well.
Under 100 points and holding SGA to under 20 points scoring, I would have said, oh my gosh, the Nuggets offense probably ran wild.
This is a game that you're going to always want to have back, and it's really not a great way to set the tone this season.
I think it was a combination of a couple different things, right? I think Denver's defense, obviously, in the first half was nice, but I thought OKC was absolutely putrid, which is not exactly unexpected coming off the emotional game they played in San Antonio at the opening of the season.
That was just probably not going to be the case in the second half, to be quite honest with you, right? They were going to bounce back.
This is a team that with the depth they have, I know they don't have Lou Dort and Isaiah Joe and some of these other guys.
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