The Nuggets lose the first game of Summer League but the young guys look solid. Christian Braun's patience was impressive. The Nuggets' top rookie looks like he belongs. What player did Matt tell the Nuggets they need to convert immediately? Trying to find the right way to describe Payton Watson's performance is difficult because it's parsing whether you can be a disaster if you were expected to be bad. Adonis Arms looks good, Matt disagrees with consensus on Collin Gillespie, and Bruce Brown speaks to the media. All that and more on Locked on Nuggets.

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