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DENVER -- Jusuf Nurkic had 16 points and 11 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets won a home game for the second time this season, beating the Utah Jazz 105-91 on Sunday night in a matchup of struggling Western Conference teams.Rookie Jamal Murray had 16 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to help Denver improve to 2-4 at the Pepsi Center. Wilson Chandler added 17, and Danilo Gallinari had 13 points, five rebounds and eight assists.Gordon Hayward had 25 points for Utah, and Dante Exum, Rodney Hood and Joe Johnson each had 10. The Jazz have lost four straight.Will Barton started for the banged-up Nuggets after missing his previous nine games with an ankle injury. He made a 3 on his teams first attempt from the field and finished with seven points.The Nuggets led by double digits most of the night and only trailed once, 2-0. Utah stayed in touch until the fourth quarter thanks to Denvers 13-for-30 free throw shooting.The Jazz struggled early and often in their fourth back-to-back of the season, hitting just 5 of 22 shots in the opening quarter. They trailed by 19 in the second before finding any consistency.TIP-INSJazz: PF Derrick Favors missed his third straight game with a left knee bone contusion, while PG George Hill missed his eighth straight game with a sprained thumb. Hopefully the band will be back, Utah coach Quin Snyder said of his teams early season injuries. We havent really established a band so I dont even know what that sounds like. ... Veteran C Boris Diaw (rest) came off the bench after sitting out Saturdays game against Houston. 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There is no position that is untouchable on this football team. And thats the quarterback, all the way down to -- maybe the long snappers OK. Were not going to touch him. But everybody else is vulnerable.Kelly described quarterback?DeShone Kizers play as below standard and not acceptable after the redshirt sophomore threw for 381 yards and rushed for 60 but turned over the ball twice. The Irish, for the first time, featured backup quarterback Malik Zaire as a receiver on two plays, but Kelly said those packages will be scrapped after the plays netted minus-8 yards.Asked if its a possibility that sophomore quarterback Brandon Wimbush -- who had been expected to redshirt -- will play this season, Kelly said: Thats a possibility. Thats a definite possibility.Asked later about who has to be on the field for the Fighting Irish, Kelly said, Guys that have fire and grit and -- we had one guy in the entire football team that had emotion and fire. That is (running back)?Dexter Williams. Hes the only one. Hes the onlyy one that I saw.dddddddddddd. One guy.So, if you want to play for me moving forward, you better -- I dont care what your résumé says, I dont care if you were a five-star [recruit], if you had 100 tackles or 80 receptions or 30 touchdown passes -- you better have some damn fire and energy in you. We lack it. We lack it. Severely.Those personnel changes, however, will leave the coaching staff unaffected. Third-year coordinator Brian VanGorder has faced plenty of heat from the fan base, with the segments of Saturdays Notre Dame Stadium crowd chanting to fire him after the Irish gave up 35-plus points for the fifth time in their past six games dating to last season.Actually, thats probably the one area that I feel better about today, Kelly said. We did what I wanted today in terms of coaching. And coaching had nothing to do with the outcome today. I was pleased from that perspective.Kizer said Duke wanted the game more than Notre Dame did, and that he has to execute the offense better.Were always held to a higher standard, Kizer said. ... we understand that in order for to us win football games, were going to have to come out with a fire and a sense of urgency, the thing that [Kelly has] been preaching all week. ' ' '