The Nuggets had to suffer. They tinkered and tweaked, built and rebuilt, and constructed their roster around two stars. Now, they're five wins away from an NBA title. How did Denver get to this point? It starts with chemistry, writes tjonesonthenba.
have comprised the perfect cast around Jokic and Murray. They’ve been timely and lethal offensively and terrific on the other end. Their collective emergence has given the Nuggets depth they haven’t had in recent years.
“We’ve been really unselfish,” Porter Jr. said. “We know that we have a team where it can be any of our nights. If Jamal has it going, we know that’s where the ball should go. We know that everything runs through Nikola. We don’t have any egos on this team, we just move the ball to the open man.” In the NBA, it’s difficult to achieve what Denver has throughout its roster, and it’s taken some tinkering this season to get it done. The midseasontrade to the Los Angeles Clippers? That was a trade to get a guy off the team who wanted more shots than he was getting. That’s how the Nuggets have been this year. If you weren’t 100 percent committed, you were deemed to be in the way of the ultimate goal, which has always been to win a title.
But Denver never panicked. The Nuggets never wilted or faltered. And after trailing 94-93 early in the fourth quarter, an 11-0 run gave them a double-digit lead and a win they came out to take from the opening tip. “I told the guys after this win, you’re fighting human nature,” Denver head coach Michael Malone said. “Up 3-0, what’s the natural inclination? We wanted to take a deep breath and relax. But we never wanted to be satisfied, and tonight we weren’t satisfied.”
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