MINNEAPOLIS — Run­ning into a Rudy Gob­ert screen can feel like col­lid­ing with a brick wall. For Jamal Mur­ray, the result was a lot of pain and a lot of bricks.

Mur­ray attrib­uted his 4‑for-18 Game 6 per­for­mance to a right elbow injury that he sus­tained on a screen two pos­ses­sions into the loss Thurs­day night at Tar­get Cen­ter. The Nuggets trailed by as many as 50 in a 115–70 defeat, their worst play­off loss in fran­chise his­to­ry by point margin.

Mur­ray nev­er exit­ed the game due to the injury, but he was shak­en up imme­di­ate­ly, flex­ing his right arm on the court dur­ing live play to test how the elbow felt. He said he put numb­ing cream on the elbow when he went to the bench, “just so I didn’t have to feel it every time I extend­ed it,” but it didn’t feel bet­ter for the rest of the game.

When asked if the injury was the type of stinger that should recov­er with two days off before Game 7, Mur­ray said, laugh­ing: “I mean, I hope. I hope for our team’s sake. I hope for my team’s sake I can get it right.”

Mur­ray has also been deal­ing with a left calf strain since the first round of the play­offs. Add this to the pile of injuries he’ll have to over­come when the Nuggets host an elim­i­na­tion game Sun­day. Sim­i­lar­ly to with his calf, Mur­ray said he can’t treat the elbow as an excuse going for­ward. He expressed con­fi­dence that Den­ver can take care of busi­ness in the win­ner-take-all game.

“Every­body gets hurt. Ant (Antho­ny Edwards) just got hurt,” Mur­ray said, refer­ring to the hard land­ing Edwards played through in Game 6. “It was just the fact that I was shoot­ing the ball. That’s what I do most. So I was nev­er real­ly get­ting into my rhythm again, and my team obvi­ous­ly need­ed me to tonight. And I didn’t. So I’m dis­ap­point­ed in myself for not being able to give them the right pro­duc­tion that I know I can.”