It shows.
Their defense once ranked among the NBA's best. These days, it looks awful.
The slippage on that end of the floor accelerated Saturday night. The Denver Nuggets hit one easy shot after another and beat the Magic 121-113 at Amway Center.
Denver's Danilo Gallinari broke a 106-106 tie by swishing a 3-pointer with 4:08 to play, and Darrell Arthur followed on the Nuggets' next trip down the floor with a trey from the right corner.
Those baskets gave Denver the cushion it needed on its best offensive night of the season.