Denver Nuggets, horseshoes, and hand grenades

"Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" - English idiom, first related to me by my father, with a few extra expletives tossed in

"If the frog woulda had a glass ass, he’d have only jumped once" – another idiom from the same gent, espousing his dislike of "if’s"

On the upside, the Denver Nuggets outscored the Brooklyn Nets by 12 points in the fourth quarter last night.

On the downside, they entered the frame down by 17, and at one point had been down by 29. Eventually, they shaved the lead to two before running out of gas. Removing all of the what-if’s, six points separated the Nuggets from a win last night, one of six close losses for the Nuggets this season. Backing up through the…