Nuggets coach Michael Malone always warns against these games.
The games against teams with a worse record than the Nuggets. The games against teams supposedly tired, coming into Denver on the second of a back-to-back. The games where injuries severely deplete the opponents’ roster.
Those are minefield games, the games a team is “supposed” to win. On Friday night, it was the game the Nuggets did not win. Philadelphia rolled into the Pepsi Center and put on a 3-point shooting show in a 124-122 win over the Nuggets.
Both teams were productive from the arc, but the Sixers were borderline unconscious from the arc, nailing 3-pointers left and right until they reached 16 on the night.