On their final game of the regular season, the Denver Nuggets trailed the Minnesota Timberwolves by eleven points with just over three minutes to play. Unlike some of the other teams around the NBA, the Nuggets were trying to win. All of their rotational pieces were playing regular minutes, but they were having issues putting things together on the offensive side of the ball.
This has become a familiar trend with the Nuggets. Their True Shooting Percentage (TS%) of 52.3% over the final 11 games of the regular season was the second worst mark in the NBA, and they had a record of 5-6 during this stretch.