The Charlotte Hornets have added another chapter to their history of improbably blowing out talented Western Conference teams.

They did it first with a 27 point win over the league-best Oklahoma City Thunder, then with a 18 point win over the Los Angeles Lakers and their latest victim was the Denver Nuggets, whom they defeated 110-87 on Sunday.

The loss snapped Denver's three-game winning streak and it was notably the second-straight game where they were handedly out-rebounded. The Washington Wizards had the board advantage over the Nuggets on Saturday and the Hornets held an even bigger advantage, out-rebounding the Nuggets 52-29.

Charlotte had a massive 36 defensive boards and that disparity paired with the loss exposed a gaping hole in Denver's current play style that connects back to the injury trouble that the Nuggets have had to handle all season.

"Right now, we're undermanned physically a little bit on the boards," Denver head coach David Adelman said (via Nuggets). "I just think it's one of those things where you have to sit down and guard your own guy because if you don't and our big has to rotate to help, now you have another really small person trying to crack back."

Adelman's main observation from the Nuggets' rebounding struggles is a lack of adequate guarding from some of his players, which forces the need for extra support from someone else and leads to their post being abandoned. 

That breakdown in the scheme leaves the Nuggets susceptible to mismatches in the paint where a smaller Denver guard might have to face off against the big man of their opponents, and that kind of matchup does't tend to go well, especially from a rebounding standpoint. 

Adelman pointed out that his team had the exact same problem in their win against the Wizards, but because Aaron Gordon was dominant in that game it didn't end up affecting the end result. 

The issue on Sunday being that Gordon missed the matchup against the Hornets due to hamstring soreness, and Adelman pointed out that Gordon can't be guaranteed to play every game, and he certainly shouldn't be relied on to patch up the gaps in his team's rebounding because someone else can't guard their matchup. 

The Nuggets may not have very many flaws, but their glaring inadequacies when it comes to rebounding and by extension man-to-man guarding forced through all the momentum that the Nuggets had been building throughout their win streak.

Adelman knows what needs to change and he has a plan on how to change it, now he just needs his team to follow suit.

"Last two night's it's been just hell on the defensive boards... As a team we have to do a better job at the point of guarding the ball which will help us actually get a body at somebody and be able to compete on the defensive boards," Adelman said.