Malone berates Nuggets squad after Game 4 defeat to Lakers

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.