Jamal Murray’s face winced as he trudged toward the tunnel at the United Center. His return from left ACL surgery, in just his second game back, was cut prematurely short.
His return from left ACL surgery, in just his second game back, was cut prematurely short. But before he exited the arena on Friday night, he spoke with The Denver Post and assured he was fine.
“Jamal, I get a little bit more worrisome, with the knee,” Malone said before tip-off. “He’s fine, but I want to be really careful about how we do this.”“Recovering from ACL, you don’t want to have multiple ramp-ups, play hard, cool down, ramp-up, so I’m trying to limit that,” Malone said.Aside from Murray, here’s what else mattered in Denver’s second preseason game.
His 15 first-half points and three 3-pointers slightly made up for the defensive lapses. Not that any amount of scoring will supersede defensive effort in Malone’s eyes. Porter finished the night with 20 points on 8-of-17 shooting, with four 3-pointers and seven rebounds.The focus all week was on transition defense, communicating and putting forth effort to get back. Chicago’s 23 fastbreak points undermined all of this past week’s work, even if most of it came in the first half.
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