Take that, Jazz fans and the entire state of Utah! You don’t have Gordon Hayward anymore, but you also don’t have Trey Lyles anymore! These 25 points are sounding pretty good, huh? 25 points could’ve really helped as Don’thavenovalue Mitchell was building a castle out of bricks last game, yeah? You want a stretch-four who can play inside as well as shoot the three and provide sick Canadian banter? Try to shoehorn Favors into that role, I guess you don’t have any choice, do you? Heh. At least you can have some coffee to ease your pain, oh wait, you can’t! Because you’re all Mormon!
Trey Lyles gets to drink coffee AND smoke weed now that he’s in Denver, but he chooses to do neither so that he can maintain peak physical performance. And, what do you know, it worked, because he’s now a beast. Confirmed beast mode activated for Lyles. The Nuggets lost this one, but the gained something much, much greater: the knowledge that Paul Millsap could die and the team would probably be better off because they wouldn’t even have to pretend to play him over Lyles.