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| (SportsNetwork. Matt Cassel Jersey .com) - The Atlanta Hawks have won five straight and will put that streak on the line Sunday afternoon when the Denver Nuggets make a stop at Philips Arena. The Hawks havent lost since a home setback to the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 26. Theyve won seven of their last eight and moved within two games of those Raptors for Eastern Conference supremacy. Atlanta started the trek with a 10-point victory in South Beach over the Miami Heat. Then, on Friday night, the Hawks completed a 2-0 trip with a 98-75 drubbing of the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center. DeMarre Carroll scored 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting to lead Atlanta. Carrolls 14 second-quarter points keyed a dominant period for the Hawks that saw them outscore the Nets 36-13. Paul Millsap contributed 17 points and nine rebounds in the winning effort, Atlantas third straight on the road, and Jeff Teague and Dennis Schroder scored 14 and 13 points, respectively. Winning on the road isnt easy and our defense put us in a position to do that, Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said. The Hawks, who have scored over 90 points in every game this season, have won three in a row at home. The Nuggets started a three-game eastern road swing with an ugly, 119-89 loss versus the Washington Wizards. Denver has dropped two straight and three of its last five. Wilson Chandler scored 20 points for the Nuggets against the Wizards. Ty Lawson gave 14 points and 10 assists in defeat. No other Denver player scored in double figures. We got killed on the boards, we got more than doubled up on the assists, said Denver head coach Brian Shaw. We turned the ball over 21 times and only shot 37 percent from the field. Every kind of way they could beat us, they beat us tonight. Denver didnt get it done defensively either, allowing the Wizards to shoot a tick under 53 percent from the field. The Nuggets rank 27th in opponents scoring. The Nuggets will close their trip Monday night against the Raptors, then its five of their next six in the Mile High City. The Nuggets have won six of the last eight meetings between the two clubs, but are just 1-5 in their last six in Atlanta. New England Patriots Gear . The veteran fighter will be squaring off with Henderson in a five-round lightweight bout as part of another network televised card at the United Center on Saturday night. Joe Thuney Jersey . -- Damian Lillard couldnt believe when he got a clear look at the rim. https://www.patriotsjerseysale.com/91p-sony-michel-jersey-patriots.html . The 24-year-old Pruneau played his CIS football with the Montreal Carabins. The six-foot, 200-pound Montreal native had 41 tackles, 3.AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Thirty years ago, the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime, a game that remains the highest scoring in NBA history. Saturday, the same teams played a game that also featured very little defence. Once again, it was Detroit coming out on top, riding a combined 65 points and 20 assists from Brandon Jennings and Josh Smith to post a 126-109 victory. Randy Foye led the Nuggets with 25 points, while Wilson Chandler scored 20 and J.J. Hickson added 15 points and 16 rebounds. Denver lost point guard Ty Lawson to a fractured rib late in the first half. Evan Fournier replaced him at the start of the second half, with Foye moving from shooting guard to the point, and Denver wasnt able to keep up the scoring pace. "You could see it take the wind out of us when Ty came out of the game," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "Hes our floor leader and hes the one who controls the pace and the tempo of the game. Hes also the best guy we have to stay in front of Jennings." Still, Detroit needed to put up its highest point total in regulation since March 18, 2008, when they scored 136 against, of course, the Nuggets. "Thats a product of the way Denver plays," Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said. "Were not used to playing at that kind of pace, but we stepped up and made the adjustments to stay with them." The win was a victory of sorts for embattled Pistons President Joe Dumars, who saw his two big off-season acquisitions put up big numbers. Jennings had a season-high 35 points and 12 assists -- the first Piston to do that since Isiah Thomas in 1988 -- while Smith had 30 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. "I think that pushing the ball and making it an up-tempo game made it easier to get the shots that weve been looking for," Smith said. "Guys were setting screens, we were communicating and talking on defence, and it was good. Its fun to be part of something when were doing it the right way." Jennings also hit six 3-pointers, something he has struggled with all season. His outside shooting was important on a night when Denver hit 15 3s and Jennings teammates only combined for two. Jakobi Meyers Jersey. Rodney Stuckey added 19 points for Detroit, while Andre Drummond had 18 points and 15 rebounds. "Were not going to win too many games when we give up 126 points," Shaw said. With both teams on the second night of back-to-back games, it was clear early that this was not going to be a defensive struggle. The Nuggets jumped out to a quick lead by hitting their first four 3-point attempts, but Detroit was able to get to the rim at will, scoring 40 points in the paint before halftime. Chandler and Foye combined for 23 points in the half -- 21 on 3-pointers -- but Denver had to adjust their attack with Lawson on the bench. The Nuggets turned the ball over twice in the opening moments of the third quarter, but Hickson pulled down six rebounds in the first three minutes of the period to keep Denver in the game. Denver was within 97-86 at quarters end, putting the pressure on a Detroit team that has struggled all season to hold fourth-quarter leads. Sure enough, even though Shaw had to go to Randolph and Jordan Hamilton, the Nuggets used an 8-0 lead to pull within 106-100 with 7:14 to play. Detroit forced enough turnovers to end Denvers surge and Jennings iced the game with a pair of late 3-pointers. "We are just being careless with the ball," Foye said. "As a team, we have to do a better job of fighting. We can make shots and we can make threes, but when it comes down to making stops, we have to do that, too." NOTES: Will Bynum did not play for the second straight game, and hasnt been on the floor since an argument with Cheeks during a loss in Orlando on Wednesday. ... Chauncey Billups, who played for the first time in a month on Friday, also sat out Saturdays game. ... John Long, who scored 41 points in the NBAs highest-scoring game, was broadcasting Saturdays shootout for Detroit radio, filling in for Rick Mahorn. ... Lawsons fractured rib showed up on a postgame X-ray, and he is doubtful to play Monday at Indiana. ' ' ' |
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