Denver Nuggets: Player Grades from Philadelphia

The Denver Nuggets started of strong in Philadelphia, pushing to an 8-point halftime lead before falling apart in the second and losing 123-104.

Blowout losses have a way of creating calm.  In close games, you can point to one player, one call, one set of plays that could have made a difference.

Losing by 20 alleviates all of that, they were terrible in the second half and showed their bellies to a streaking Sixers squad.  It doesn’t leave much room for hand-wringing.

What’s harder in a loss like last night is identifying which players stood out and for what reasons.  As the team faded in the third, scoring a mere 15 points, the outstanding performances in the first-half faded as well.

Without much fanfare, here is analysis of a couple of performances: