Michael Malone had video made of NBA pundits saying Nuggets were already done. But did players see the video?

In the Nuggets' case this week, “that was miserable,” Michael Porter Jr. said. During that painstaking wait for Game 3 after a 106-80 collapse Monday in Denver, Nuggets coach Michael Malone got radical in his search for motivation. What he came up with might not have been seen by Denver's entire roster, but it tapped into a defining theme of this second-round series against the Timberwolves so far: To have a psychological edge is a pendulum. “I had an edit made, and I wasn't sure if I was gonna show it to the guys,” Malone said after Denver's 117-90 win Friday night.