The question lingers as the Nuggets face games that must be grabbed by the throat. Adelman, ever selfless, always focuses on the players, makes it about them. But, fair or not, these next six weeks are going to tell us a lot about him.

Nikola Jokic kept launching 3s even as his right wrist and soft touch betrayed him. Eventually, the Nuggets generated enough scoring to make a run.

“We’re trying to maintain who we are, playing the two-man game without the things that matter behind it,” David Adelman said.

An occasion Nuggets fans have waited almost four months to celebrate might finally be near.

The Nuggets are awful at stopping or even slowing 3-pointers. The numbers reveal the truth over the past 10 games.

“I’m definitely concerned, because we are losing the games,” Nikola Jokic said of Denver’s clutch struggles. “We are losing the games, and we are not creating open looks. So that’s something that we need to change. … I don’t know what it is, but we need to figure it out.”