"The only comfort I can offer... is my promise that you won't remember a thing." - Denver Downs Jazz, 110-88
What went wrong in the Jazz loss to the Nuggets to start the season.
Utah
Jazz
88
Denver
Nuggets
110
Utah
Jazz
88
| Final - 10.27.2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Jazz | 20 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 88 |
| Denver Nuggets | 29 | 31 | 26 | 24 | 110 |
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Stories
Watching a victory from five feet away... (Nuggets/Jazz recap)
The last time we saw the Utah Jazz face off against our Denver Nuggets a short-handed Jazz squad ran circles around us and walked away with a playoff series victory. What a difference a little coaching makes.
This is not a preview … Game 1 vs. Denver Nuggets
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Bold & Beautiful Projections
Time to make some predictions of my own and look at how my co-authors see things shaping up in the NBA this season.
Weekly Optimism: Preview That!
The "haterade" is out, ladies and gentlemen. Masquerading as "informed opinion" from so-called experts who never cared for the Nuggets anyway. Make no mistake, the Nuggets will be good...if not potentially great this season.
The Denver Stiffs NBA Preview...
Thank you, Carmelo Anthony, for making the 2010-11 Nuggets season impossible to predict. The rest of the NBA, however, should play out according to plan.
GameThreads
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Boxscore
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 20 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 88 |
| Denver | 29 | 31 | 26 | 24 | 110 |
| Utah | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrei Kirilenko | 19 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 2 |
| Paul Millsap | 27 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 8-2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 15 |
| Al Jefferson | 30 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 7-1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2-0 | 6 |
| Raja Bell | 29 | 3-8 | 1-4 | 5-6 | 2-1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | 12 |
| Deron Williams | 27 | 3-10 | 2-3 | 9-10 | 3-0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 17 |
| C.J. Miles | 13 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4-0 | 2 |
| Gordon Hayward | 20 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 5-4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-0 | 9 |
| Jeremy Evans | 11 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 11 |
| Kyrylo Fesenko | 11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2-0 | 2 |
| Ronnie Price | 13 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2-0 | 0 |
| Earl Watson | 19 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 2-0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 6 |
| Francisco Elson | 15 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3-1 | 6 |
| Mehmet Okur | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 27-70 | 3-13 | 31-43 | 44-11 | 21 | 7 | 22 | 4 | 30-1 | 88 | |
| .386 | .231 | .721 | Team Reb: 11 | Total TO: 0 (15 pts) | |||||||
| Denver | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmelo Anthony | 36 | 7-16 | 0-0 | 9-10 | 7-2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3-1 | 23 |
| Shelden Williams | 27 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 8 |
| Nene Hilario | 23 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 4-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3-0 | 13 |
| Arron Afflalo | 34 | 8-11 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 2-1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 22 |
| Chauncey Billups | 28 | 2-7 | 0-3 | 10-11 | 2-0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2-0 | 14 |
| Al Harrington | 23 | 4-11 | 2-7 | 0-1 | 7-1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5-0 | 10 |
| Ty Lawson | 24 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4-0 | 10 |
| Melvin Ely | 10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-0 | 3 |
| J.R. Smith | 22 | 1-7 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 4 |
| Gary Forbes | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Renaldo Balkman | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-0 | 0 |
| Kenyon Martin | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Chris Andersen | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Anthony Carter | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 35-80 | 6-20 | 34-41 | 46-12 | 23 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 31-2 | 110 | |
| .438 | .300 | .829 | Team Reb: 6 | Total TO: 1 (19 pts) | |||||||
GAME NOTES
Officials: - Bill Kennedy, Bennie Adams, Nick Buchert
Duration:2:26
Officials: - Bill Kennedy, Bennie Adams, Nick Buchert
Duration:2:26
