KAYE: These local scenes coalesce and have their own personality. RASCOE: Lenny Kaye wanted to spotlight music like this and also to highlight the different sounds being created in different parts of the country. NAZZ: (Singing) Underneath your gaze I was found in the haze I'm wandering around in. It didn't chart when it was released, four years before it landed on "Nuggets." Todd Rundgren was 19 when he recorded it. It was called "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts" - that's arty, with a Y - "From The First Psychedelic Era." Its cover was an explosion of color appropriate for the tracks on the vinyl inside, created by musicians who were sometimes just teens in their parents' garages. RASCOE: And the result was one of the most influential compilation albums of all time.
KAYE: Which would be those kind of songs that were rapidly vanishing under the radar or an album track that had been overlooked. RASCOE: So Kaye created a list of about 60 psychedelic rock tracks he loved from off the beaten path. LENNY KAYE: Would you assemble a list of songs for me? He had been with the label for a few months in 1972 when Jac Holzman, the boss, called him into his office with a proposition. RASCOE: Lenny Kaye to the rescue - Kaye was a record store clerk in New York City's West Village, a rock writer and a scout for Elektra Records. (SOUNDBITE OF THE ELECTRIC PRUNES SONG, "I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM (LAST NIGHT)") Stevie Wonder and Elton John and Carole King all have new albums out - and Miles Davis and Al Green and Dolly Parton. You're in a record store because that's how you chose your own music back then, and you're browsing the newest stuff. 1 offensive team and last in defense and expect to be a playoff team.It's October 1972. “… I also think at the root of it our guys really understand to be a playoff team, defense has to be in the equation. “Our defense has really played well and has done so consistently for the first time all year,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. Denver is giving up 106.7 points per 100 possessions in those 11 games - good for 14th in the NBA. That’s helped it go 7-4 in that time.
However, since the All-Star break they’re at least defending at an average level. They’re the second-worst defensive team in basketball this season. The Nuggets’ biggest problems have come on the defensive end. To put that in perspective, the Golden State Warriors averaged 112.5 points per 100 possessions when they won 73 games a season ago. They’re averaging 113.7 points per 100 possessions. The Nuggets have the most efficient offense in the NBA since Nikola Jokic became the starting center Dec. The Timberwolves have six such games left, while the Mavericks have eight. Only five of their final 15 games come against teams with winning records. The Trail Blazers have the easiest remaining schedule of that group. 8 seed: the Portland Trail Blazers (30-37), Dallas Mavericks (29-38) and Minnesota Timberwolves (28-39). Three teams pose a realistic threat of catching the Nuggets for the No. Denver will play the Rockets three times and the Thunder and Cavaliers once. Nine of the 15 come against teams that are above. at the Pepsi Center, which begins a stretch of 15 games in 28 days. They play the Los Angeles Clippers at 7 p.m. Tonight, the Nuggets embark on a brutal closing stretch of the season. But even with that cushion, qualifying for the postseason won’t be an easy task. Their 32-35 record has them two games ahead of the next-closest team, Portland, in the race for the Western Conference’s No. The Denver Nuggets are in position to become a playoff team for the first time in four years.
The Nuggets have 15 games remaining in their season.
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