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Were the Nuggets Affected by Fatigue in Game 5 Loss vs. OKC_ _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: As the Oklahoma City thunder number one seed overall, Man
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  Speaker 1: they had a fight on their hands, but they prevail
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  Speaker 1: one twelve to one oh five Shay Gildess, Alexander thirty
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  Speaker 1: one to me and the other MVP hopeful Nikola Jokic
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  Speaker 1: three times forty four. Denver down three games to two,
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  Speaker 1: but going back for game six ers. David Adelman.
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  Speaker 2: Coach second straight game where shooting was an issue in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth with the lead.
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  Speaker 3: Is that fatigue? How do you explain it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can say it's fatigue. I think shot
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  Speaker 4: quality too. I thought early in the quarter we did
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  Speaker 4: get really good shots, they didn't fall, and then late
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  Speaker 4: their pressure got to us and we were up against
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  Speaker 4: the clock a lot. So if it is fatigue, that's
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  Speaker 4: on me. You know, I'm deciding who's gonna run it
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  Speaker 4: and who's gonna be out there, So you know, if
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  Speaker 4: guys retired at tired legs, that's the decisions I'm making.
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  Speaker 4: So I like the group we had. We had a
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  Speaker 4: good rhythm there going to the fourth, and I thought
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  Speaker 4: we sustained it early, you know, and I had the
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  Speaker 4: four timeouts to stop the game a couple of times
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  Speaker 4: in the first six minutes. We didn't have enough at
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  Speaker 4: the end, and the shot creation that when we did
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  Speaker 4: make it, it felt like every time we had a chance
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  Speaker 4: to go back up twelve or get back up fourteen,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we wouldn't make the shot and they'd run
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  Speaker 4: out and make a basket or score in transition. So
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  Speaker 4: it compounded itself.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It had great performances from Nicola, just you know, have
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  Speaker 4: to have a few other guys have a game, which
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  Speaker 4: we can do in Game six. Have full confidence in
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  Speaker 4: our guys, David. A little related, but I think you
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  Speaker 4: guys have lost three of the last four postseason games
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  Speaker 4: when yokis just not sit in the fourth quarter. Just
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  Speaker 4: curious what went into the choice tonight. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 4: my decision. You know, I had a conversation with him.
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  Speaker 4: He felt good and I was going back and forth
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  Speaker 4: with it. With the four timeouts, that was a big
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  Speaker 4: factor for me. You know, you get two of those
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  Speaker 4: timeouts and Mark calls won. That's seven minutes arrest the
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  Speaker 4: two three and a half you know timeouts. So I
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  Speaker 4: felt comfortable with that. You know, I felt like the
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  Speaker 4: momentum of the game was going our way and he was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, very sure of himself. I wanted to play
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  Speaker 4: through him. I'll look back on it, I'll doubt myself
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  Speaker 4: because we lost the game. But keeping a guy out
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  Speaker 4: there that was seventeen to twenty five, it was extremely
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  Speaker 4: efficient five for seven from three at forty four, fifteen
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  Speaker 4: and five, So it was it was a decision that
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  Speaker 4: I made to leave him out there. I do not
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  Speaker 4: regret it right now, you know, after a loss. But
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  Speaker 4: if I go back and watch the tape, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 4: have a different opinion tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Forty four minutes for Joker. Nobody played more minutes in
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  Speaker 1: this game. In fact, three Nuggets playing over forty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: along with Christian Brown and Jamal Murray. But I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you when you when you look back at this game,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to look at that seven minute drought without
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  Speaker 1: a field goal in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it has to be fatigue. Like everybody gets tired,
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  Speaker 5: and these guys like you got I think he could
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  Speaker 5: break it up, like, let Joker get a break, let
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  Speaker 5: Jamal run the offense. Then take Jamal out, let the
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  Speaker 5: Joker run the offense. Like, look at those numbers.
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  Speaker 3: You're tired.
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  Speaker 5: And first of all, no player are gonna say tired
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  Speaker 5: but if you're playing that.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the team one for fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, come on, man, that's just that's fatigue.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he needs he needs, he needs some help, just
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of minutes, just to give him a
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  Speaker 3: little break. I would say, throw DeAndre Jordan in there. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: just are even I know this guy hasn't played a
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  Speaker 3: lot all year, but it's Dario. Sorry, hurt or anything
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  Speaker 3: and something wrong with him. It's good, guys, Let's give
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  Speaker 3: him a couple of seconds just to get in there
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  Speaker 3: and give give Joker a chance to get it, get
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  Speaker 3: a break, and you know, so you come back ot
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  Speaker 3: Dan dominating.
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  Speaker 2: And also with some guys that did play that didn't
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  Speaker 2: give him much help. Michael Porter Junior, Russ Brown and Watson.
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  Speaker 2: They were six for twenty eight from the floor. We
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  Speaker 2: need him half of the DJ and Michael Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 2: We applaud him out there playing with a shoulder injury,
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  Speaker 2: but they need this three point shooting.
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  Speaker 3: And yes we're not clough.
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  Speaker 5: And last, even though he I throw Russ out there
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  Speaker 5: anytime because his energy level and it's just incredible, like
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  Speaker 5: he might make a mistake, but he's gonna give me everything.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know if he ever get tired. If
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  Speaker 5: you guys had fun tonight, I really enjoyed it. But
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  Speaker 5: I got a problem with you, dwiight, and I guess
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  Speaker 5: he asked me in the back, how much you way? No,
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  Speaker 5: we got to choke that this dude asked me about
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  Speaker 5: Wilt Chamberlain.
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  Speaker 1: About playing against Will?
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  Speaker 5: How old do you think I am?
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  Speaker 1: I did ask you.
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  Speaker 5: I know you did.
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  Speaker 3: I like, dude, how old.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I asked the question? I thought about it.
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  Speaker 3: I said, Chuck, ain't that old?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you? That's that's that's my bad. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I was really trying to start some
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  Speaker 1: conversation because I'm like, man, this Chuck, we were.
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  Speaker 5: Having a great conversation back then. You I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I said, because it caught me off. God, I said,
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  Speaker 5: how old this dude think I am? That he put
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  Speaker 5: in the head on man talk?
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  Speaker 1: But man, did he have some battles with George Michaels.
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  Speaker 5: I was killing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. When we come back Game five in Cleveland, Pacers
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  Speaker 1: and Calves