POSTCAST MORTCAST: The Nuggets lose to the Wolves and we've entered zero excuses territory

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5:14at me, looking at this, looking at this nuggets team and wanting to provide a, what you think is a valuable and salient excuse, the, the, the, the, the, the injuries would be high on that list. The nuggets having to be a fundamentally different team in January than they were in the months leading to January. The, you know, it's just, it's a valuable excuse. I need people to know this though. This nuggets team was lost steam prior to Yoke Itch coming back. People have forgotten that because Yoke Itch coming back was a big moment. I did a podcast a few days before Yoke Itch came back saying that the nuggets really need them back because they were really, they'd run out of steam. They just weren't as effective anymore. They had stopped surprising teams with who they had on the court. They had the, no one had any game plans for that version of the Denver Nuggets. So it ran its course

6:19and it was coming back to, to, to the mean, the median. But now that Yoke Itch is back, what's happened is people have, well, specifically, Cam Johnson has forgotten how to shoot or lost completely lost his confidence in shooting. And to his credit, Christian Browns had a great two couple to get games. I think he's starting to get back his confidence. I wish he would have taken him a little some more threes tonight, but I think he, that the offense and it were round Yoke Itch is not the problem the nuggets had. The problem was the bench stretch in the second quarter, which is horrific. And much like the Oklahoma City game, very specifically the two bench stints, it was horrific. And I think we all need to look ourselves at the face and in, and in the mirror, excuse me, and be honest, because there is, there's things that are deeply wrong with this team. And they are rapidly approaching, as I said,

7:28to several people in the text today, they're, they're rapidly approaching, ain't it territory. This nuggets team ain't it anymore. And I'm, I'm concerned because there could be a, a, an apocalypse happening to this nuggets team this next off season, regardless of whether they win a championship or not, but it would make certainly make people feel better if, if they've nuggets were able to do something in the playoffs. They are cascading towards the play in. Their schedule is not going to get any, they play the Utah tomorrow, but their schedule is not going to get any easier. And the nuggets need to learn how to win at home. I'm going to keep hammering this home. This nuggets team inability to win at home, regardless of whether there's home one game or two game home stands or anything like that. Their inability to win at home is no excuse. There's no excuse for the nuggets inability to win at ball arena. Who cares if it's

8:30just one off games? Who cares? This nuggets team can't win at home. They are an embarrassment at home and that goes directly to their clutch record. The clutch rush as I said in a podcast, two three podcasts ago, their clutch record and their home record go hand in hand. They're symbiotic with each other. They are things that go together like peanut butter and jelly or chocolate and peanut butter or something else without peanut butter or like wine in my mouth. It is we have reached a point where we can't separate what the nuggets do at home with what they do in the clutch. And their clutch again, once again, today was a bad clutch game, but they'll be honest with you. They were behind. This wasn't this wasn't a thing where they and they were like I think they got within five or seven and then they just stole back. This nuggets team

9:34was always in the second half 10 to 14 point deficit. This is different. This was an inability to win at home game. And I would not blame fans who play good money to go see this team at ball arena to be disgusted with them and disgusted with David Adelman for that matter. You know, some people are giving me pushback to this on Twitter and I get it. But I see a direct correlation between the nuggets clutch issues and the nuggets home issues in Adelman. He's a wet sponge. I mean, let's face it, he is not a motivate you coach. And the nuggets went from a guy who was two fiery to a guy who's not fiery at all because they owe Michael Malone 24 million for two years and you know, the players liked Adelman. But sometimes you got to go against the players. And I don't know. I don't know. I'm this last month and a half of David Adelman has deeply disappointed me.

10:40Okay. Yokech had 35 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists. That should have been enough for the nuggets to win this game. Add it to the list of games where Yokech is at a game like that and the nuggets have them won. I've no excuses now, folks. A.G. and to a lesser extent, Payton, Martin are at so what? So what? So what? Honestly, so what? And I want people to tell me on Twitter why 20 games of A.G. or less is going to fix this team. There's too many games lost. There's two little games left. Yes, the nuggets will probably get at the back end of the playoffs at this rate. But yeah, how much confidence you have that they're going to beat the top of the West.

11:46This what today wasn't a defensive issue. Today was a we they had nuggets had a catastrophic second quarter bench stint that Adelman seemed completely befuddled by in his post game press conference. I'm kind of sick of him being befuddled. I'll be honest with you. Do it. Do something, man. Do something. Banger Valentinus if you need to. But I'm kind of sick of the, oh, I don't know why these guys aren't just doing what I tell them to do. Okay. All right. But it's getting old like Malone, right? I just don't want to hear it. This nuggets team was on a role in that first quarter and they've been beating the pants off of this this this Timberwitz team this year, except for the Christmas Day game, which was a great game by Yokech. Um, and the nuggets won that in overtime. But this one, the nuggets were cruising and then they had a horrific bench stint stint stint stint stint works to stint. And uh, they lost. They

12:47fell apart. It was over over over. The roles are going to give up that lead after that. No way in hell. And the nuggets just fell apart. I'm to the point now where I'm sick, entire of the of the merry go round of excuses that has been happening. Yokech is getting better, folks. He's getting better progressively as he's been playing. And Yokech's defense has been really good. The last couple of games. Yokech's defense in the Oklahoma City game probably contributed to why he wasn't great on the offensive in that game. And why he was shooting so many threes. You do that if you're preserving energy. We've seen it all throughout NBA history. It happens guys do that. But as of right now, as of, you know, March 1st at 444 p.m. I don't have much faith in this

13:54nuggets team or a David Adelman. I just don't. They've told me they've showed me too much. They there is a kind of you are who you are thing sometimes. And there's too much of this evidence that's going on. This is not a small sample size, folks. This is not a small sample size. They is what they is, folks. And it is getting upsetting to listen to and hear the excuses and watch the lack of clutch play and watch them lose at home. It's just it's not good. And I am about as discouraged I am with a Yokech era team as I was ever been going back to last year. This this really sucks. And I hope for everyone's sake that the nuggets somehow somehow somehow some way find a way to write their own ship. This is two Sundays in a row. I've had a post game,

14:56a post cast more cast where I'm like, this is this sucks. The nuggets are broken. What can you do? All right, thank you all for joining me on this post cast more cast. I'm going to be back this week with another episode. Goodbye.