Despite being on the last leg of a season-long five-game road trip and facing the best offense in the league in the Dallas Mavericks, the Denver Nuggets prevailed thanks to late game heroics from Nikola Jokiu0107 and the team’s defense.
Given that the two teams could certainly matchup in the playoffs in the spring, the game provided ample evidence of key matchups and personnel decisions on both sides of the ball. With Will Barton III and Paul Millsap both out for the game, Denver had to rely on second-unit players to step up and for the most part, they did in a big way.