Michael Malone needed all of five games this season to publicly demand more from his team.
Maybe it feels like a lifetime ago now, with the red-hot Nuggets (13-3) headed to Sacramento (7-10) on Saturday, but a scary Halloween night in New Orleans set the stage for Denver’s surge. The Malone quote that summed it all up after a 122-107 loss at the Pelicans: “We’re a great talk team. … It’s all (bogus). Don’t tell me about it — show me.”
Nuggets starting small forward Will Barton thinks back to those comments and that game with a new perspective.