{"id":482463,"date":"2024-04-28T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482463"},"modified":"2024-04-28T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:49:48","slug":"malone-warming-up-without-shoes-not-why-we-lost-game-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/malone-warming-up-without-shoes-not-why-we-lost-game-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Malone: \u2018Warming up without shoes not why we lost Game 4\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> manager Michael Malone has been telling his players they need to begin playing better from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the court. That just because his team had been able to come back from double-digit trails in each of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 3 matches of the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup vs. the LA Lakers, it didn&#8217;t mean they could always triumph like that in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened in Game 4 when Los Angeles took the lead early again and kept it until the end to defeat Denver 119-108 and to avoid sweep. Nuggets basketballers had to practice before the game in slippers because of problems with the arrival of their shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it ideal? No,&#8221; Denver&#8217;s head coach admitted. &#8220;But I hope, we can figure that out and avoid it of happening ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malone added that\u2019s why not Denver lost in LA, and there were other reasons for the defeat and he won\u2019t make excuses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Malone wasn&#39;t happy with his team&#39;s interior defense tonight:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paint was a joke. Every huddle, I sounded like a broken record tonight. Every huddle was, \u2018Paint, paint, paint.\u2019 Game 3, they had 70 (points in the paint) and we found a way to win. Tonight, they had 72.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Starkand (@DStarkand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DStarkand\/status\/1784453479827984482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets manager Michael Malone has been telling his players they need to begin playing better from the 1st minute on the court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482464,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,19721,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,19722,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Nuggets head coach didn\u2019t blame the problem with shoes for the defeat.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482465,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482463\/revisions\/482465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482463"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482463"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}