Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone is not at all satisfied with his team’s performance with less than a month to go before the start of the playoffs. Despite the victory achieved this Sunday against the Brooklyn Nets, those from Colorado have lost five of their last seven games.
Although it is true that these defeats do not endanger, at least for now, the position of the Nuggets at the top of the Western Conference, the bad game exhibited by the squad worries the coach. Malone shared a week ago the need to recover the strength and arrogance that has characterized the team for the rest of the season. A story that he has recovered in recent days.
“We’re not up to our standards,” Malone said of the team’s recent run, according to the Denver Post. “This may sound strange to most people, but more important than wins and losses is how we are playing. Yes, we want to win every night, but as I’ve told our players, with ten games to go, it’s all about getting back to playing and developing championship habits. And we moved away from that.”
The Nuggets currently have 48 victories, which allows them to have an advantage of three and a half games over Memphis, and five over Sacramento, second and third in the West, respectively. the last weeks of regular season It will take Malone’s team to face tough nuts like Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Phoenix and Golden State. Rivals that will undoubtedly serve to set the trend and how the Nuggets will face the first round of the playoffs.
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