One week ago, the Nuggets didn’t treat the Washington Wizards with the proper amount of respect and were correspondingly dealt a humbling defeat. Saturday’s loss to Cleveland, a dramatic 111-103 contest that saw the Nuggets nearly pull it out, wasn’t a repeat exercise.
“This is not a good game for us, but relative to Washington or some of these other games, I thought we played the way that we want to play offensively,” said Nuggets center Mason Plumlee, who played 25 minutes, the most of any reserve. “The one thing that has to be better is the backboard (where they were outrebounded 55-42).