Once the Denver Nuggets started making stops and running the Houston Rockets ragged, it seemed nothing went wrong for them. A telling sequence came at the start of the fourth quarter when JaVale McGee blocked Chase Budinger's shot, Arron Afflalo saved the ball in front of the Nuggets' bench to Andre Miller, who took one step and threw a three-quarter court alley-oop pass to Corey Brewer for a slam dunk. That put an exclamation on the Nuggets' 101-86 win Sunday night in the opener of a crucial home-and-home set between playoff hopefuls.
