Bennett Durando is the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. Before taking on his first NHL beat, he covered SEC football and other sports for five years, first at his alma mater, Missouri, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbia Missourian, then Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser.
Denver Nuggets guard Jalen Pickett, center, fights for control of the ball with Chicago Bulls forward Onuralp Bitim, left, and guard Quenton Jackson in the seocnd half of a preseason NBA basketball game Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, in Denver. In their lone home preseason game of 2023-24, the Nuggets defeated the Chicago Bulls 116-102 on Sunday night at Ball Arena. Here are three takeaways from the win.
The Penn State grad is nowhere near the volume shooter that his fellow draft pick Julian Strawther is, but Pickett’s shot selection was generally responsible Sunday. He was 3 for 4 from the field and found open teammates when he had them. Defensively, he got caught on a couple of ball screens and committed three fouls by the end of the third quarter, but his effort and energy were high, and his close-outs were mostly solid.
“Mike looked a lot better this morning,” Adelman said. “He was moving a lot better. That ankle sprain was legit. It was fat. … He’s tough. So he’ll go through the ankle, he’ll be fine.” Keeler: CU Buffs’ Deion Sanders looked lost. Travis Hunter looked gassed. After historic collapse vs. Stanford, has clock struck midnight on Boulder’s Cinderella?
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