Nuggets vs. Suns: A Tense Christmas Matchup Recap & Reaction

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00:00Two other teams in the West Cap the night on Christmas night, Joe, that are pretty similar

00:09standings wise to the ones we just talked about with the Lakers and Warriors, and that

00:14is the Nuggets and the Suns.

00:15I was on the Denver side in this virtual pick-em.

00:18It felt like the right side with no Devin Booker for Phoenix, but it wasn't.

00:23Credit Kevin Durant and most especially Bradley Beal, honestly, in this one.

00:29You know, made it look like the, pardon me, the Washington Days.

00:32Some had 27 points in this one, 11 of 21 shooting, matched Kevin Durant also with 27.

00:39On the other side, Joker, Nikola Jokic, 25 and 15.

00:43He was great.

00:44Michael Porter Jr.

00:45Excellent with 22 points.

00:47Some of those coming after Aaron Gordon went down, Gordon only played seven or rather had

00:54seven points, only played 19 minutes in this one before he left with an injury.

00:58But Phoenix put him away at the end.

00:59It was a 10 point win.

01:03So the Phoenix Suns are a hot mess too, but they did get, you know, Durant and Bradley

01:10Beal finally got some help with a few other guys, but more importantly, they actually

01:16played some defense there last night.

01:19And the only thing that kept me off this game, because I usually like with these home and

01:23homes, which is what this was, don't forget, Denver was coming off a game.

01:29It was the second of a back to back.

01:31They had to go home and take on the Phoenix Suns.

01:34Suns were rested a couple of nights ago, literally no, no Jamal Murray for Denver.

01:39There was no excuse for Phoenix to get blown out in that game.

01:43And that's exactly what happened.

01:45And usually I like to, I like to back the team that loses the first game there and look

01:50for the split, especially with Phoenix going home.

01:53But nothing that I saw from Phoenix in that game led me to believe that they were even

01:57capable of winning this game, which is why I stayed off of it.

02:01But you got to give them credit.

02:03Jamal Murray makes it back into the lineup.

02:05It's once again, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, but at least they brought some defense

02:10here and ended up winning the Yoka, the, the Yoka minutes, which is important 25 and 15

02:17on the board, but actually the Phoenix Suns won his minutes.

02:21And that is how you beat the Denver Nuggets.

02:24Great win for Phoenix.

02:25Now, let's see him do it again until they can get Booker back.