The scouting report on Minnesota can be as technically complex as the Nuggets want it to be. But one assistant coach is struck by a more rudimentary pattern these days.
Andrew Munson, who piloted Denver’s Summer League team last year and operates as Michael Malone’s special assistant, has purportedly spotted it on film.
“He says it after every time we play them,” Malone shared Monday. “He goes, ‘I’ve watched their last five-to-seven games, and they never play as hard as they do against us.’ And you can sense that. You can notice it.