By Geoff Lepper
48minutes.net

At the 4:12 mark of the first quarter of Denver’s 129-116 not-as-close-as-all-that win over Golden State Saturday night, Warriors forward Anthony Randolph sank a pair of free throws. Twenty-seven seconds into the fourth quarter, swingman Linas Kleiza continued the uninterrupted stream of Nuggets heading to the basket with yet another layup.

In the less than 29 minutes worth of game time between those events, the Nuggets outscored the Warriors by a 97-51 count.

97. To 51.

I don’t want to belabor the pain by delving too deeply into the 3-on-nothing breakaways off turnovers, the tip jams with teammates fighting each other to get credit for the basket, Carmelo Anthony doing whatever he wanted plus six other Nuggets in double-figures.

Just consider that Denver shot 36-for-59 in that stretch (61.0 percent), with the following breakdown of baskets:

Dunk – 10
Layup – 9
3-pointer – 9
Jumper – 5
Tip – 1
Hook – 1

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