Denver Nuggets fell to the Washington Wizards 109-104 Monday night at the Pepsi Center, dropping their record to 1-2 in the early season. It was a contest with a controversial technical called on Nikola Jokic and a boatload of turnovers for Denver.
Here are six additional observations from the Nuggets’ loss:
1. To the backcourt. This was an interesting guard matchup, with Washington’s dynamic tandem of John Wall and Bradley Beal going against the Nuggets’ young combination of Jamal Murray and Gary Harris. And it yielded some strange stat lines.