One of the defining characteristics of the Nuggets is their ability to take advantage of another team's mistakes.
Those mistakes can be subtle, like somebody being a step slow in a rotation to cover an open shooter. Or they can be more obvious, like the calamitous way in which the Timberwolves closed the first half of their 115-107 Game 4 loss to the defending champions on Sunday night at Target Center.
"Yeah, that hurt," Karl-Anthony Towns said. "That hurt."
There was more to their loss than the final 20.2 seconds of the second quarter, like Nikola Jokic seeming to have figured out the Wolves defense, but the Wolves lost by eight, and they gave up eight points in this sequence, which began with an open three from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope off an assist from Jokic.