Nuggets lose two in a row and neither game was close. Out-coached, out-played, out-classed. Regardless, if you had told me before the beginning of the season that we would be 5-2 at this time, I would have been pleased. Here's the trick though: we need to be 7-2 going into our Friday the 13th match-up against the dreaded (and very well rested) Lakers. We don't need to be 7-2 because that would make losing that game a little easier to swallow, we need to be 7-2 because - in sports and in life - winning or losing are more habit than anything else. The difference between waking up on Saturday morning the 14th 5-5 versus waking up 8-2 is tantamount to the beginning or the end of our season. We need to beat the Bulls and the Bucks. If we don't, we don't have a chance on Friday the 13th. Not a chance.