Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Aaron Gordon of the Denver Nuggets shouts after catching a lob from Nikola Jokic and dunking against the Boston Celtics during the fourth quarter of the Nuggets’ 115-109 win at Ball Arena in Denver on Thursday, March 7, 2024. couldn’t tell exactly who said it, but the comment he heard from the Boston Celtics’ bench was an accurate reflection of every individual’s reaction in the building.On his own bench at the opposite end of the floor, he located a trustworthy barometer of slam-dunk absurdity.
“Tonight they were switching. So now you’re switching the pick-and-roll, which means Nikola’s got a small on him at the nail,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “So as he’s backing that guy down, the other who’s kind of roaming the baseline, he feels the need to step up sometimes. And when he does that, if we’re spaced correctly, we have Aaron roaming the sky. He’s giving the traffic report up there. And you have shooting in the corners.
“It’s crazy,” Gordon admitted. “A big-to-big lob in clutch time? It’s just a testament to how good of a passer is. How much attention he draws from the defense, and then just being ready. It’s pretty fun.” Jokic denied the notion that getting the ball off the rim to a teammate is ever part of his calculus, but he did acknowledge the comfortable margin for error he has with shots and passes when Gordon is sharing the floor with him.
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