Denver Nuggets boss Michael Malone didn't think they were 'ready to play' in their 119-108 defeat in LA
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00:00 I think the bigger issue for tonight is that we just weren't ready to play and not just
00:06 because of the scoreboard but the ease in which they scored.
00:10 The very first basket they scored was a walk-in layup that set the tone for the whole night.
00:15 It was LeBron James getting downhill to his left hand to finish.
00:21 That was kind of a, unfortunately, an ominous sign for Wallace to come because they scored
00:28 70 more points after that.
00:31 So that's what I'm more concerned about is that as the series is going on we're getting
00:36 away from understanding that this is transition, this is paint, it's not play calls.
00:43 And tonight obviously we didn't have that.
00:46 But your point is well taken because that's four games in a row where we have lost the
00:51 first quarter and we've been down at halftime.
00:55 And now you hope that to close the team out you can't play a half of basketball.
00:59 If we're going to try to win this in five games in front of our crowd it's going to
01:03 take us coming out ready to play and sustaining that for 48 minutes because that team is not
01:09 going anywhere.