Nuggets taking steps forward | Fun Life Update

So, Ryan, why can't they do that? All the time.

And this is the thing I'm not going to give them a pass for, okay? Because I'm not known for giving passes.

That's not really my bag, my forte, per se.

Defense doesn't really take this insane amount of effort.

What it takes is communication.

What it takes is everybody being on the same page.

You know, what it takes is knowing your assignment.

And, of course, you're going to have plays where you don't do everything the right way.

And you don't cover, you know, if you're supposed to X out, you missed the mark.

Or you thought somebody else was supposed to be there.

I mean, there's all kind of stuff.

But I think the thing for me, Ryan, is that yesterday they won 38-17 in the first quarter.

They were a plus 19 in the Jokic minutes in the first quarter.

And I will say they also played really well against Golden State in the first quarter.

Then they played really well versus the Thunder in the first quarter.

But there's something that happens where they start to, it feels like, disintegrate a little bit in terms of some of their attention to details.

Ryan, why is it not more possible for them to maintain that?

So it's a good question, and I'm actually going to pinpoint the exact time in the rotation when this starts to happen.

It is not just when the bench comes in.

Because they actually have done, I think, a pretty good job all throughout the first quarter for the most part.

There's been some times where they've messed it up, but for the most part, they've been good all throughout the first quarter.

It's been at the turn of the midway point through the second quarter where the starters start to file back in for the bench and they start to blend some of those lineups together as they're getting some guys in.

And I don't know if it's the starters just not being ready when they come back in.

I don't know if it's a, like the bench guys are kind of on their last legs for the, the minutes that they're supposed to be giving.

Like they've done a really good job for the first, six minutes, and then it's the seventh, eighth, ninth minute that they're out there that that really starts to fade.