It couldn't have been made clearer that there's levels to winning on the highest level than the product that the Denver Nuggets put on the floor, particularly on Wednesday evening versus the Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta put on a respectable display of perimeter shooting yet couldn't stave off arguably the best player in the league, Nikola Jokic, despite desperate efforts from multi-time All-Star Trae Young.

DeShaun Tate dives into what should have been ATL's mindset entering and takeaways after from their meeting with Denver. Also, what we learned about Atlanta and needed to see from the Hawks was a hot topic of discussion including how big of a defying game this was in lieu of the remaining games on the west coast road trip and the injury impact to various key contributors.

What did we learn (if anything)?

What did you need to see entering Wednesday?

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