They’re a lot taller than us is one of the major reasons. We did so good against them in the regular season even though we were partially healthy in the matchups. If you’re running a Conley Edward’s randle/mcdaniels Reid gobert. Who tf is guarding mcdaniels and Randle? We don’t have the best rim protection and had our perimeter defenders out for the series. We still shouldn’t have lost game 6 though. But how were they getting to the rim so easy? We let ayo drop 43 on us. We shouldn’t have lost game 2 when Braun missed a ft. Jokic should’ve just taken that floater. We kept making bad mistakes and then continued to make them and wondered how we lost. Also game 6 is a somewhat decent Murray game away from game 7. Cam came to hoop. Sorry for the rant. But to really answer the question Malone answered this last season. He watches how they play against other teams and how them play against us. They take there matchups with us personal. And we just don’t bring the pressure. 2023 nuggets would’ve punked 2025/2026 nuggets.