In the Nuggets loss to the Jazz, their defense let them down, as they allowed their division rivals to score 114 points, with 57 of those points coming from behind the 3-point line.
After the game, head coach Michael Malone spoke to reporters, saying the following:
“We just were not mentally prepared, some of us tonight. Some of us were not mentally ready to play this game, some of us were not in tune to what we were trying to do defensively, and we just had breakdown after breakdown after breakdown.