A healthy Denver Nuggets team is trying to find chemistry after four games. On Wednesday last week the Denver Nuggets were in Utah to face the Utah Jazz in the first game of the regular season.
Unfortunately, they lost by 21 points with two-time league MVP leading all scorers with 27 points. Aaron Gordon scored 22, Michael Porter Jr. scored 15 and Jamal Murray had 12 in their 123-102 loss to Utah.
Two nights later in the Bay Area, the Denver Nuggets played the Champs, the Golden State Warriors who were coming off a win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The Nuggets dominated the first half leading the Warriors 70 – 52 heading into halftime. The Warriors made it a game in the second half pulling to within five but still wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit losing to the Nuggets 128 – 123.
Denver returned home on Saturday to host the Oklahoma City Thunder in their home debut of the sea- son, and Denver didn’t disappoint fans, by defeating the Thunder 122 – 117 in a fairly close game.
On Monday, the Nuggets were in Portland to face the Trail Blazers. In the first half the Nuggets appeared to be on track for yet another win leading the Trail Blazers 61
– 55 at the half; however, the Trail Blazers came to life in the second half outscoring the Nuggets 80 – 49, defeating the Nuggets 135 – 110.
The Nuggets are back home this week to face the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday and the Utah Jazz on Friday before heading to L.A. on Sunday to face the Lakers again.
In other sports the defending NHL Champions, your Colorado Avalanche have experienced some struggles of their own, with losses to the Winnipeg Jets last Wednesday (4-3), the Seattle Kraken on Friday (3-2), but managed to defeat the Las Vegas Golden Knights over the weekend 3-2.
While it’s much too early to have concern some fans are holding their breath in part because the Avs are expected to be one of, if not the best NHL team once again this season.
The Denver Broncos lost their fifth game and fourth straight to the visiting New York Jets on Sunday. Many believed this to be a must win for the Broncos whose offense has been struggling under Coach, Nathaniel Hackett.
Hackett has taken the blame for Denver’s poor performance but has no plans for personnel changes as the Broncos have made their way across the pond to face the Jaguars (Jags) in yet another primetime game. The Broncos have now fallen to 2 – 5 with no signs of change in the near future.
Quarterback Russell Wilson did not play on Sunday and is questionable for Sunday’s game against the Jags.
