Down two at the end of last quarter, the Charlotte Hornets have now snagged the lead. At halftime neither squad has the game in the bag, but the Hornets ...
- Mar 04, 2017 - Charlotte 112 vs. - Mar 31, 2017 - Charlotte 122 vs. - Mar 05, 2020 - Denver 114 vs. - Mar 17, 2021 - Denver 129 vs. They have emerged as the frontrunner after three quarters and are ahead of the Charlotte Hornets 93-84. Jokic now has 18 triple-doubles this year.
Did the Hornets win? The Charlotte Hornets lost to the Denver Nuggets by a score of 113-109 on Monday at Spectrum Center in NBA game.
“We want to win games that we’re supposed to win games and be in every game that we play in. They surrendered 17 offensive rebounds and that allowed the Nuggets to control the action for the bulk of the second half. The Hornets’ have enjoyed their friendly confines over the better part of the last two weeks thanks to their longest homestand of the season. “My threes that I shot, I feel like I could have drove to the basket, got a foul or something,” Bridges said. Three of those dates come against teams in the postseason hunt and Philadelphia, Miami and Chicago each are jockeying for seeding. It could have been because they were on the second night of a back-to-back and they had sea legs. And me, it’s just learning to keep driving to the basket.” The league’s reigning Most Valuable Player has a way of almost volleying the ball in the air on offensive rebounds attempts, which is an effective method of getting the Nuggets another shot or two at the bucket. “It’s playoff time, so we’ve just got to get better and learn the little things that we could have did better at the end of the game,” Miles Bridges said. We didn’t do a good job of taking care of the ball. They slipped into ninth place in the Eastern Conference, a half-game behind eighth-place Brooklyn and a game ahead of 10th-place Atlanta, with six games remaining. I stay out of that, those convos and just play basketball.”
Miles Bridges score 27 while LaMelo Ball tallied 22 points and 11 assists, but it wasn't enough to overcome Nikola Jokic's triple double as the Charlotte ...
The Hornets continued to feast on the Nuggets bench unit to start the second quarter. The Hornets won the tap, and Ball splashed a triple to pull the Hornets within one. Ball stole a pass at midcourt to get the Hornets back on the board and pull the Hornets back within three. The Hornets got the stop they needed on defense, but they couldn’t secure the rebound. The game got a little ragged on the Hornets side of things as they had a couple of sloppy offensive possessions and lost focus on the defensive end. The Hornets used free throws to close the gap down to four by quarter’s end.
James Borrego did a great job of rotating Mason Plumlee, Montrezl Harrell, P.J. Washington, and Jalen McDaniels on Denver's bigs and throwing a mixture of ...
8/30 3FG 11/26 3FG 3/11 3FG CHA: 11/22 FG 3/8 3FG DEN: 11/23 FG
The Charlotte Hornets played the second game of a back-to-back tonight and suffered a tough home loss to the Denver Nuggets. One night after notching a vi.
The rebounding advantage may not have been so impactful had Montrezl Harrell not been ejected at the 3:59 mark of the third quarter. For Denver, MVP candidate Nikola Jokic had yet another monster game with 26 points, 11 assists, and 19 rebounds and now leads the NBA with 19 triple-doubles. Jokic’s 19 rebounds is tied for his fifth-highest total this season, while Denver’s 17 offensive rebounds is tied for the sixth-most allowed by Charlotte this season.
The 19th triple-double of the season for Denver star Nikola Jokic — which consisted of 26 points, 19 rebounds and 11 assists — helped the Nuggets continue ...
“We talked to him today after lunch, just talking to him saying, ‘The way you’re playing right now, the guy guarding you is saying, How am I going to stop this guy?'” Denver coach Michael Malone said. He made both shots to make it a two-possession game and put the Hornets away. Miles Bridges had 27 points and 11 rebounds and LaMelo Ball added 22 points, 11 assists and six rebounds for Charlotte, which fell to 1-13 in the second night of back-to-backs. Denver took an 83-74 lead into the fourth quarter and quickly extended it to 13 points. “Sometimes you do everything right and it just bounces their way,” Hornets coach James Borrego said. For now, Bridges said it is time for the Hornets to continue to fight for seeding.