Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, left, looks to pass the ball as Los Angeles Clippers center Ivica Zubac and guard James Harden, right, defend in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, in Denver. The Nuggets tackled their awkwardly long gap in the schedule this week by traveling back in time.Michael Malone felt the team’s recent rebounding woes warranted a rewind to the preseason. But Julian Strawther was thinking in years, not months.
Whatever obscure reference Malone was attempting to make, seemingly from the 1945 John Wayne film “Back to Bataan,” there’s no chance any of his players are old enough to understand it. But they all understand the language of rudimentary basketball drills. They simply needed a reminder. With four days off between games this week, they got one.
In their previous 16 contests before Friday, the Nuggets were averaging 88 field goal attempts but allowing 94. They only out-attempted their opponent in two of those 16 games — by two shots each time. In the other 14, they were out-attempted by 10 or more shots in five games. “We definitely had a hard week of just self-reflection,” he said, “looking at ourselves and asking, ‘What can we do better to be a better ball club?'”
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