The shootaround Friday played out closer to a real practice for the Nuggets, who needed the physical work a day after they were mentally taxed from a series of meetings designed to sort out the team's issues.

"When you're going through losing stretches like seven, eight games in a row you've got to find a way to win and it seems like a lot of stuff creeps in," guard Nate Robinson said. "I just think for us it was just much-needed that everybody get whatever it is they need to get off their chest. We took care of that yesterday. Hopefully we can put that behind us and keep moving forward."

Asked if it felt like the atmosphere around the team was better Friday because of Thursday's meetings, Robinson said, "It's a new day, we've got a game. That's something that we've got to focus on. We'll continue to keep building. Everything is not perfect in life. Everybody goes through different adversities and we just have to overcome it."

Getting a win after eight consecutive losses would be a nice start.

The Memphis Grizzlies are in town, playing the second of a back-to-back after beating the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night.

"They were pretty tuned in to their game last night with Phoenix in terms of the back-and-forth," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "We know they got in here fairly late last night, so our emphasis is definitely on coming out early and trying to push the pace, especially with the bigs."

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